#How OpenAI’s bot crushed this seven-person company’s web site ‘like a DDoS attack’

#How OpenAI’s bot crushed this seven-person company’s web site ‘like a DDoS attack’

On Saturday, Triplegangers CEO Oleksandr Tomchuk was alerted that his company’s ecommerce site was down. It looked to be some kind of distributed denial-of-service attack.  He soon discovered the culprit was a bot from OpenAI that was relentlessly attempting to scrape his entire, enormous site.  “We have over 65,000 products, each product has a page,”…

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#Microsoft backs its B AI push in India with public and private sector deals

#Microsoft backs its $3B AI push in India with public and private sector deals

Microsoft announced a sweeping series of artificial intelligence partnerships across India’s core sectors on Wednesday, a day after pledging to invest $3 billion in the country over the next two years as it intensifies competition with rivals Google and Amazon. The tech giant’s chief executive Satya Nadella (pictured above) unveiled agreements with five major organizations…

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#How to watch CES 2025’s press conferences

#How to watch CES 2025’s press conferences

CES 2025 kicks off January 7. The annual Las Vegas event sets the tone for the year’s consumer electronics and automotive industries. As always, TechCrunch will be there, sniffing out stories from the most exciting startups and tech giants. If you really want a piece of the action without paying for the hotel and flight,…

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#Nvidia’s CES 2025 keynote: How to watch

#Nvidia’s CES 2025 keynote: How to watch

Nvidia will no doubt have the biggest CES 2025. After all, the company has pretty much the biggest everything nowadays. The chip giant is sporting a $3.4+ trillion market cap, due largely to its foundational position in the ongoing AI boom. Companies like OpenAI and Meta have purchased Nvidia processors by the boatload, and that’s…

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#Elon Musk’s xAI lands B in new cash to fuel AI ambitions

#Elon Musk’s xAI lands $6B in new cash to fuel AI ambitions

Updated December 25, 12:21 p.m. Pacific: Added details of xAI’s valuation and Kingdom Holdings’ contribution. xAI, Elon Musk’s AI company, has raised $6 billion in a Series C financing round. The company announced this week that Andreessen Horowitz , Blackrock, Fidelity, Lightspeed, MGX, Morgan Stanley, OIA, QIA, Sequoia Capital, Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Nvidia,…

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