Megan Crouse

About

Megan Crouse has a decade of experience in business-to-business news and feature writing, including as first a writer and then the editor of Manufacturing.net. Her news and feature stories have appeared in Military & Aerospace Electronics, Fierce Wireless, TechRepublic, and eWeek. She copyedited cybersecurity news and features at Security Intelligence. She holds a degree in English Literature and minored in Creative Writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Expertise

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Enterprise Software
  • Cybersecurity
  • Aerospace
  • Defense Technology
  • Manufacturing
  • Automotive

Education

Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from Fairleigh Dickinson University


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Highlights

The ChatGPT cheat sheet was included in Washington State’s Department of Enterprise Services list of technical resources: https://lnkd.in/e4jv3Wbd


Favorite Technology

My LG NanoCell 85 TV makes relaxing with a video game after work feel like going to a movie theater in the best way.


Perplexity 1776 Model Fixes DeepSeek-R1’s “Refusal to Respond to Sensitive Topics”

The modifications change the model’s responses to Chinese history and geopolitics prompts. DeepSeek-R1 is open source.

OpenAI Hits 400M Weekly Active Users for ChatGPT: “Like Cloud Services”

ChatGPT saw 400 million weekly active users as of February, OpenAI chief operating officer Brad Lightcap told CNBC. Of all users, 2 million pay for enterprise accounts, which Lightcap attributed to consumer customers suggesting ChatGPT to their companies. Developer traffic has also increased. ChatGPT sees increased enterprise and developer adoption  ChatGPT’s weekly active users increased […]

Preorder Apple’s Budget iPhone 16e on Feb. 21: Get Generative AI for $599

Preorder the iPhone 16e on Feb. 21 for $599. Get Apple Intelligence, a 48MP camera, and a C1 5G modem in a budget-friendly device with premium AI features.

OpenAI SWE-Lancer Research: “Frontier Models are Still Unable to Solve the Majority of Tasks”

OpenAI created SWE-Lancer, a benchmark test of how much LLMs could earn from doing software engineering gig work.

Meta Dives Into the Undersea Cable Business

Meta’s latest undersea cable projects expands digital infrastructure, enhancing global data transfer speeds and supporting the growing demand for AI-driven applications.

AI Companies Reassess Their Subscriptions After DeepSeek Released Advanced Model for Free

Baidu and OpenAI announced premium models at no cost over the next few months after DeepSeek’s generative AI caused a lot of buzz.

Snowflake Data Retrieval Now Includes Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 AI

Claude 3.5 expands Snowflake’s Cortex AI retrieval services, including processing and retrieving structured and unstructured data.

Musk Doesn’t Want OpenAI if it Remains a Nonprofit

A court filing stated that, if OpenAI stops its restructuring, Elon Musk will withdraw his $97.4 billion proposal to buy the company. OpenAI alleges Musk wants to boost his own AI business.

Sam Altman says OpenAI o3 Is Now Part of a GPT-5 Package

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed on February 12 that ChatGPT’s next model upgrade will be GPT-4.5. Following that, the company will release the much-anticipated GPT-5 as a mixture of models including OpenAI o3—a slightly different form than expected—in a timeframe Altman described as “weeks/months” in a post on X (formerly Twitter). eWeek reached out to […]

Thomson Reuters Wins Major AI Copyright Case

After reconsidering the case, the judge issued a partial summary judgement, which asks whether a non-generative AI system’s content counts as original work.