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This Week in AI: AI isn’t world-ending — but it’s still plenty harmful


In this edition of TechCrunch's This Week in AI newsletter, we look at a new study that suggests that AI models aren't, in fact, world-threatening.

Analytics and AI giant Databricks reportedly paid nearly $2 billion when it acquired Tabular in June, a startup that was only doing $1 million in annual recurring revenue, according to… EliseAI employs an army of chatbots to text with, email, and respond to calls from renters about things such as apartment tours, maintenance requests, lease renewals and delinquencies. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have acquired a screenplay called “Killing Gawker,” which presumably delves into billionaire VC Peter Thiel’s campaign to bury the media outfit for posting excerpts from…

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