The 9,000-pound monster I don’t want to give back Before heading on a trip to Tahoe last weekend, GM offered me the use of the company’s 9,000-pound monument to excess – the new electric Escalade IQL (starting at $130,405) – for a week to test-drive. Before you continue, note that I’m not a professional car reviewer. TechCrunch has excellent transportation writers; I am not one of them. I’m...

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Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed concerns about AI’s environmental impact this week while speaking at an event hosted by The Indian Express. For one thing, Altman — who was in India for a major AI summit — said concerns about AI’s water usage are “totally fake,” though he acknowledged it was a real issue when “we used to do...

Australian pleads guilty to creating deepfake porn in landmark caseAustralian Broadcasting Corporation/Eva BlandisWilliam Hamish Yeates will return to court next monthAn Australian teenager has pleaded guilty to creating deepfake pornography, in a landmark case.William Hamish Yeates, 19, is the first person to be charged under a new national law which criminalises the manipulation of sexual...

Exclusive: Positron raises $230M Series B to take on Nvidia’s AI chips Semiconductor startup Positron has secured $230 million in Series B funding, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The outfit plans to use the capital to speed up deployment of its high-speed memory chips, a critical component for the chips used for AI workloads, sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. ...