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MIT’s soft robotic system is designed to pack groceries

AI-powered scams and what you can do about them

Identity.vc is bringing capital and community to Europe’s LGBTQ+ venture ecosystem

Robot cats, dogs and birds are being deployed amid an ‘epidemic of loneliness’

Apple finally supports RCS in iOS 18 update

SAP, and Oracle, and IBM, oh my! ‘Cloud and AI’ drive legacy software firms to record valuations

Women in AI: Sarah Bitamazire helps companies implement responsible AI

IRS finalizes new regulations for crypto tax reporting

The White House will host a conference for social media creators

Google Gemini: Everything you need to know about the new generative AI platform

TechCrunch Minute: Reddit is taking a stand against AI crawlers

Dream Chaser spaceplane is off the manifest for ULA’s second Vulcan launch

Google improves search experience in the Chrome mobile app

Persona’s founders are certain the world can use another humanoid robot

VW to invest up to $5B into Rivian in software deal

Reddit’s upcoming changes attempt to safeguard the platform against AI crawlers

The RIAA’s lawsuit against generative music startups will be the bloodbath AI needs

India’s Zyod raises $18M to expand its tech-enabled fashion manufacturing to more countries

TechCrunch Space: Building (and testing) for the future

A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs

Experts say Telegram’s ’30 engineers’ team is a security red flag

What Vinod Khosla Says He’s ‘Worried About the Most’

Meta makes its AI chatbot available to all users in India

Streaming execs think TV’s future looks a lot like its past

Women in AI: Anika Collier Navaroli is working to shift the power imbalance

X still has a Verified bot problem — this time they came for TechCrunch writers

OmniAI transforms business data for AI

Women in AI: Charlette N’Guessan is tackling data scarcity on the African continent

Dot’s AI really, really wants to get to know you

Fisker faced financial distress as early as last August

Influencer shopping app LTK gets an automatic direct message tool

YouTube confirms crackdown on VPN users accessing cheaper Premium plans

France leads the pack for Generative AI funding in Europe, London has 3X the number of GenAI startups

C12, the French quantum computing startup founded by two twin brothers, raises $19.4 million

Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s former chief scientist, launches new AI company

Internal SpaceX documents show the sweet stock deals offered to investors like a16z, Gigafund

FTC refers TikTok child privacy case to Justice Department

iOS 18 could ‘sherlock’ $400M in app revenue

Snap previews its real-time image model that can generate AR experiences

Security bug allows anyone to spoof Microsoft employee emails

Apple kills Pay Later feature ahead of Affirm integration

Astroscale’s space junk inspection satellite snaps a close-up photo of a discarded rocket stage

DeepMind’s new AI generates soundtracks and dialogue for videos

YC-backed Hona looks to reduce the communication friction between law firms and their consumer clients

Tinybird raises another $30 million to transform data into real-time APIs

India’s Oyo, once valued at $10B, finalizes new funding at $2.5B valuation

YouTube is testing another way to combat ad blockers

Subscription vitamin company Care/of is shutting down

Apple ushers in a new era with Apple Intelligence

Apple joins the race to find an AI icon that makes sense

Albedo takes Earth observation up close and personal from very low Earth orbit

Startups Weekly: Clash of the AI titans, and Europe is firing on all cylinders

Apple gives developers a way to nominate their apps for editorial consideration on the App Store

Spotify announces an in-house creative agency, tests generative AI voiceover ads

Tesla shareholders sue Musk for starting competing AI company

Generative AI takes robots a step closer to general purpose

Fintech Brex abandons co-CEO model, talks IPO, cash burn and plans for a secondary sale

TikTok comes for Google as it quietly rolls out image search capabilities in TikTok Shop

At last, Apple’s Messages app will support RCS and scheduling texts

Apple revamps its Photos app for iOS 18

After hits like Reddit and Scopley, Collaborative Fund easily raised a $125M fund to tackle climate, health and food

Sources: Wasoko-MaxAB e-commerce merger faces delays amid headwinds in Africa

With €50 million to invest, Italian Founders Fund looks for entrepreneurs with global ambitions

William Anders, astronaut who took the famous ‘Earthrise’ photo, dies at 90

Cat-sitting startup Meowtel clawed its way to profitability despite trouble raising from dog-focused VCs

Anterior grabs $20M from NEA to expedite health insurance approvals with AI

How India’s most valuable startup ended up being worth nothing

Bereave wants employers to suck a little less at navigating death

NASA puts $10M down on Mars sample return proposals from Blue Origin, SpaceX and others

Watch Apple kick off WWDC 2024 right here

Startups Weekly: Ups, downs, and silver linings

Apple’s Design Awards winners highlight indies and startups

TikTok is testing Snapchat-like streaks

Fearless Fund’s Arian Simone coming to Disrupt 2024

Bluesky and Mastodon users can now talk to each other with Bridgy Fed

Stability AI releases a sound generator

A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs

What to expect from WWDC 2024: iOS 18, macOS 15 and so much AI

The votes are in: Meet the Disrupt 2024 audience choice roundtable winners

TikTok acknowledges exploit targeting high-profile accounts

After raising $100M, AI fintech LoanSnap is being sued, fined, evicted

Sonos Ace review: A high-priced contender

Inside Apple’s efforts to build a better recycling robot

Binit is bringing AI to trash

Temasek and Fidelity value Lenskart at $5 billion in $200 million stake purchase

French startup ten ten finds viral success and controversy in reinventing walkie-talkies

WTF is AI?

President Biden vetoes crypto custody bill

Industries may be ready for humanoid robots, but are the robots ready for them?