In this edition of This Week in AI, TechCrunch's AI newsletter, we look at how easy it is to create a political deepfake.

Donald Trump’s re-election as U.S. president will have massive repercussions for the technology sector.

Big players are looking at the pros and cons of releasing things like model weights in a race between “open” and “closed” ...

Meta's latest releases include the updated Segment Anything Model 2.1 (SAM 2.1) for image and video segmentation, along with ...

Earlier this year, when Figure CEO Brett Adcock referred to 2024 as the year of embodied AI, few could predict the extraordinary advancements in robotics, pushing the boundaries of what once seemed ...

Caitlin Kalinowski started a new job as a member of an OpenAI team tasked with developing robotics and consumer hardware ...

Caitlin Kalinowski, previously the head of Meta’s augmented reality (AR) Glasses Hardware division, has joined OpenAI as the ...

X's chatbot, Grok, is claiming that former president Donald Trump has already won several battleground states.

While the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are locked to using Meta AI, there are other smart glasses on the market that have ...

Meta's former AR glasses lead Caitlin Kalinowski recently announced she was joining OpenAI to support its robotics and ...

In late 2022, Facebook parent Meta saw ChatGPT go viral and went all in on developing its own version of generative ...

Meta’s former head of Orion joins OpenAI to lead its robotics efforts. This comes immediately after OpenAI also hired Pebble co-founder Gabor Cselle. The appointments could be pointing to OpenAI’s ...