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ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth used by more than 92% of Fortune 500 companies. That growth has propelled OpenAI itself into […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/YiN75BX

More than 100 VCs, including Reid Hoffman, Vinod Khosla and Mark Cuban have pledged to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris in the upcoming U.S. presidential election. Mobilizing under the group VCsForKamala, the VCs are also soliciting donations for Harris’ campaign. But the organizers say the effort isn’t meant to align with any one political […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/y7pd8Dl

The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) has passed in the Senate after Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) pushed the internet bill to a vote. Proposed in 2022, KOSA requires that online platforms take reasonable steps to protect users from harm, and could become the most significant children’s online safety legislation to take effect since COPPA. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/dYIoQyn

Back in May, Spotify quietly started putting lyrics behind a paywall, limiting free users to lyrics for three songs per month. The move was a bid to push more users to pay for the service. After receiving numerous complaints, the company is now expanding the monthly limit. Starting today, Spotify is raising the limit on […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/9wSCpHq

Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at Stripe’s easy-peasy acquisition, the role fintech played in Clio’s latest raise, the latest with digital banking startup Mercury, and more.  To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important fintech stories delivered to your inbox every Tuesday at 8:00 a.m. PT, subscribe here. The big […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/bBZhnX6

So-called “unlearning” techniques are used to make a generative AI model forget specific and undesirable info it picked up from training data, like sensitive private data or copyrighted material. But current unlearning techniques are a double-edged sword: They could make a model like OpenAI’s GPT-4o or Meta’s Llama 3.1 405B much less capable of answering […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/RYOKy4s

Uber is now letting riders in India to book up to three rides simultaneously. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/0KeJ36i

The promise of AI and large language models (LLMs) is the ability to understand increasingly wider amounts of context and make sense of that information easily, so it makes sense that we’re seeing a bunch of companies trying to make wearable hardware so that people can use AI in their day-to-day lives. The latest entrant […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/J0oHqmv

Critics have long argued that device searches at the U.S. border are unconstitutional and violate the Fourth Amendment. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/ofZ0TiQ

Zapp is launching its urban electric two-wheeler in India in 2025 as it plans to expand globally. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/F9eS76O

The first time I saw Google’s latest commercial, I wondered, “Is it just me, or is this kind of bad?” By the fourth or fifth time I saw it, I’d stopped wondering. It starts innocuously enough, with a father talking about how much his daughter loves Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone (she “might even be the world’s number […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/BTbGjqa

Though MatPat retired from YouTube, he’s still pretty busy. In fact, he’s been spending a lot of time on Capitol Hill. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/Bjoq2ip

Indian cryptocurrency exchange WazirX announced on Saturday a controversial plan to “socialize” the $230 million loss from its recent security breach among all its customers, a move that has sent shockwaves through the local crypto community. The Mumbai-based firm, which suspended all trading activities on its platform last week following the cyber attack that compromised […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/E2GmHRj

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. To get Startups Weekly in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. This week we are talking about Wiz’s bold decision, VC’s public feud, legal tech’s new capital and a16z’s close call. Let’s go! Most interesting startup stories […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/K54pYy8

Apple joins 15 other tech companies — including Google, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI — that committed to the White House's rules for developing generative AI. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/GWFMobx

The language is ambiguous, so it's not clear whether X is helping itself to all user data for training Grok or whether this processing refers only to user interactions with the chatbot. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/1i2JxTS

Sound Search on TikTok is somewhat similar to YouTube Music’s song detection tool that lets you find the name of a song by singing, humming or playing it.  © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/OjcaFvK

Autonomous vehicle software startup Applied Intuition has raised $300 million just four months after closing a $250 million Series E round, yet another sign of how white-hot the investment scene is for artificial intelligence companies. The secondary round adds Fidelity Management & Research Company to an already-stacked lineup of investors in the automotive AI startup, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/vyh6QtC

OpenAI may have designs to get into the search game — challenging not only upstarts like Perplexity, but Google and Bing, too. The company on Thursday unveiled SearchGPT, a search feature designed to give “timely answers” to questions, drawing from web sources. UI-wise, SearchGPT isn’t too far off from OpenAI’s chatbot platform ChatGPT. You type […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/5DLaFR3

WhatsApp has recently ramped up its marketing push in the U.S. In the past few years, WhatsApp has placed ad campaigns, placements in Times Square and TV spots emphasizing privacy and end-to-end encryption protection. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/h8uKZ1y

Microsoft this afternoon previewed its answer to Google’s AI-powered search experiences: Bing generative search. Available only for a “small percentage” of users at the moment, Bing generative search, underpinned by a combo of large and small generative AI models (mum’s the word on which models exactly), aggregates info from around the web and generates a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/mkNZBMd

Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. Last Sunday, President Joe Biden announced that he no longer plans to seek reelection, instead offering his “full endorsement” of VP Kamala Harris to become the Democratic Party’s nominee; in the days following, Harris secured support from the Democratic delegate majority. Harris has been outspoken on tech […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/Sm28LZe

But the fate of many generative AI businesses — even the best-funded ones — looks murky. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/6XiK24c

Tesla was not the first company to begin working on a humanoid form factor, but while being the first to market does carry weight in this high-tech space, we’re at the very beginning of the humanoid robot story. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/lwz8vUG

Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at Human Interest’s path toward an IPO, fintech’s newest unicorn, a slew of new fundraises, and more. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important fintech stories delivered to your inbox every Tuesday at 8:00 a.m. PT, subscribe here. The big story SMB-focused 401k provider […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/Y47Vtxs

Monarch Tractor was in a tricky spot late last year as the autonomous electric tractor startup juggled growth and an uncertain fundraising environment. Now, with $133 million in new funds, CEO Praveen Penmetsa tells TechCrunch that the startup is plowing ahead into greener pastures.  The $133 million Series C funding round was co-led by agri-food […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/PbdQgir

Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. Before we begin, a quick note: I write this newsletter on Friday and it gets delivered to you on Monday. So if I neglect to mention a world-historical event that happens over the weekend — like, say, the attempted assassination of a former President — that’s why. Now […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/Bij6WL1

Eric Zhu started building Aviato, an analytical platform for private market data, in a very typical place for an entrepreneur: the bathroom in his Carmel, Indiana, high school. Now the 17-year-old’s startup is emerging from stealth with $2.3 million in venture funding. Aviato tracks funding rounds and headcount, similar to competitors like Crunchbase and PitchBook, but […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/JqR8gsl

Choosing between New York City’s nearly 25,000 restaurants can be overwhelming. The pressure is especially high when you’re trying to impress a first date (or investor) or entertain family from out of town. A new app launched over the weekend to address precisely that. iOS-only “pocket concierge service,” The Scene, uses machine learning to match […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/Up5PE9y

As a part of TechCrunch’s ongoing Women in AI series, which seeks to give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch interviewed Lakshmi Raman, the director of AI at the CIA. We talked about her path to director as well as the CIA’s use of AI, and the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/OU7zcPX

With President Joe Biden dropping out of the race, Vice President Kamala Harris may become the Democrats’ new nominee. In announcing his plans, Biden offered his “full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year,” while Harris said her “intention is to win and earn this nomination.” That said, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/AIjWr40

Google is expected to announce four Pixel devices: the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, Pixel 9 Pro XL and Pixel 9 Pro Premium, running Android 15. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/AigLsfe

President Joe Biden just announced that he no longer plans to seek reelection. “It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President,” Biden said in a statement. “And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/aScINgT

Subject to shareholder approval, Yandex N.V. is adopting the name of one of its few remaining assets, an AI cloud platform called Nebius AI which it birthed last year. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/xvqVHrP

Employees at Bethesda Game Studios — the Microsoft-owned game developer that produces the Elder Scrolls and Fallout franchises — are joining the Communication Workers of America. Quality assurance testers at Bethesda’s parent organization ZeniMax unionized last year, becoming Microsoft’s first official union in the United States. In its announcement, the CWA calls Bethesda’s new union […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/SePbC0L

This week saw one of the most widespread IT disruptions in recent years linked to a faulty software update from popular cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. Businesses across the world reported IT outages, including Windows “blue screen of death” errors on their computers, impacting airlines, banks, retailers, brokerage houses, media companies and railway networks. OpenAI released GPT-4o […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/tuSxTfK

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is in advanced talks to acquire cybersecurity startup Wiz for $23 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. TechCrunch’s sources heard similar and added that deal discussions could last into next week. If this deal does end up getting done, it would be Alphabet’s largest acquisition yet. It […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/TY3rs1A

CrowdStrike competes with a number of vendors, including SentinelOne and Palo Alto Networks but also Microsoft, Trellix, Trend Micro and Sophos, in the endpoint security market. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/SfTVLxm

The IT outage may have an unexpected effect on the climate: clearer skies and maybe lower temperatures this evening © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/e9qafN0

There’s a man in Florida right now who wants to propose to his girlfriend while they’re on a beach vacation. He couldn’t get the engagement ring before he flew down from New England, but it didn’t seem like that big of an issue — his girlfriend’s daughter Nicole was planning to join them in Florida […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/0bDELOl

When Tade Oyerinde first set out to fundraise for his startup, Campus, a fully-accredited online community college, it was incredibly difficult. VCs have backed for-profit education companies in the past, including Coursera and Udacity, but backing a more traditional two-year college is different. Plus, he was looking for funds a few years ago when higher […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/WMDITPK

Canadian private equity firm PartnerOne paid $28.2 million for HeadSpin, a mobile app testing startup whose founder has been sentenced for fraud earlier this year, according to documents viewed by TechCrunch. The fire sale was reported by TechCrunch last week. HeadSpin’s 2023 revenue was $21 million and its Q1 2024 revenue stood at $5 million, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/f6LewG4

Meta has suspended the use of its AI assistant after Brazil’s National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) banned the company from training its AI models on personal data from Brazilians. The move puts a dent in Facebook’s attempt to build out its AI products in Brazil, a market with more than 200 million people. As cited […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/XkIKfEU

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth used by more than 92% of Fortune 500 companies. That growth has propelled OpenAI itself into […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/o2wtALJ

Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, issued a warning on Wednesday against choosing a candidate purely based on whether they claim to be “pro-crypto.” In a blog post, Buterin said it’s more important to scrutinize a candidate’s broader policies to ensure they support cryptocurrency’s underlying goals, including internationalism and protection for private communications. “If a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/j6qQecx

Adtech startup InMobi is eyeing a valuation of about $10 billion in an initial public offering it is planning for next year. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/CRBD3uZ

The tech layoff wave is still going strong in 2024. Following significant workforce reductions in 2022 and 2023, this year has already seen 60,000 job cuts across 254 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. Companies like Tesla, Amazon, Google, TikTok, Snap and Microsoft have conducted sizable layoffs in the first months of 2024. Smaller-sized […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/ZrL9FJB

Andrej Karpathy, former head of AI at Tesla and researcher at OpenAI, is launching Eureka Labs, an “AI native” education platform. In tech speak, that usually means built from the ground up with AI at its core. And while Eureka Labs’s AI ambitions are lofty, the company is starting with a more traditional approach to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/D6tgGBQ

Apple initially added a new flashlight UI in iOS 18’s third developer beta, and with iOS 18 now available in public beta, you can try one of the most underrated additions to your iPhone right now. The company had already introduced a new way to control True Tone Flashlights on iPhone 14 Pro and 15 […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/s4Bic1h

Using stalkerware is creepy, unethical, potentially illegal, and puts your data and that of your loved ones in danger. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/Ezh1Txq

Payments giant Stripe has delayed going public for so long that its major investor Sequoia Capital is getting creative to offer returns to its limited partners. The venture firm emailed LPs in funds raised between 2009 and 2011 with an offer to buy up to $861 million worth of shares in Stripe, Axios reported. Sequoia […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/7TWGhKS

YouTube Music is introducing two new ways to boost song discovery on its platform. YouTube announced on Monday that it’s experimenting with an AI-generated conversational radio feature, and rolling out a new Shazam-like tool to help users discover the name of a song by singing, humming or playing parts of it. The new AI-generated conversational […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/0hmrbgK

Mitti Labs aims to transform rice farming in India and other South Asian markets by reducing methane emissions by 50% and water consumption by 30%. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/TIdeuQ3

This is a guide on how to check whether someone compromised your online accounts. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/FbRne7K

Google’s parent company Alphabet might be on the verge of making its biggest acquisition ever. The Wall Street Journal reports that Alphabet is in advanced talks to acquire Wiz for around $23 billion. While the deal isn’t finalized, the WSJ says it could come together soon. Wiz offers an all-in-one approach to cloud security, ingesting […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/q0NifBO

India is struggling to get new smartphone buyers, and Jio is eying a 5G feature phone to milk the situation. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/lrnJMOK

Roboticists at The Faboratory at Yale University have developed a way for soft robots to replicate some of the more unsettling things that animals and insects can accomplish — say, a reptile self-amputating a limb, or ants building bridges by temporarily fusing their bodies. In one demo video, we see a soft quadruped robot crawling […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/ejzl1SC

This week, AT&T confirmed it will begin notifying around 110 million AT&T customers about a data breach that allowed cybercriminals to steal the phone records of “nearly all” of its customers. The stolen data contains phone numbers and AT&T records of calls and text messages during a six-month period in 2022, the company says. If […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/Pbo4H6d

In the first half of 2024 alone, more than $35.5 billion was invested into AI startups globally. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/A8pV53G

Cat-Wells said she started this platform because traditional hiring processes are exclusionary and often overlook skilled, talented disabled people. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/DUyms0e

In total, HeadSpin raised $117 million since its 2015 inception and was last valued at $1.1 billion in 2020. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/bzIPoOa

A bipartisan group of senators has introduced a new bill that seeks to protect artists, songwriters, and journalists from having their content used to train AI models or generate AI content without their consent. The bill, called the Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media Act (COPIED Act), also seeks to make […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/3dWHki0

Kudos founder says her company makes a disposable diaper lined with 100% cotton, unlike the major competitors. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/fK1EcYN

The latest round of language models, like GPT-4o and Gemini 1.5 Pro, are touted as “multi-modal,” able to understand images and audio as well as text — but a new study makes clear that they don’t really see the way you might expect. In fact, they may not see at all. To be clear at […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/V0MYisy

Visual effects (VFX) have emerged as essential in filmmaking and have transformed storytelling and creativity in the film industry with its diverse digital techniques. However, the high cost of VFX tools often leaves independent filmmakers and content creators working with modest budgets struggling to compete with larger productions. A new company, Beeble AI, is turning […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/rDNa0ci

As venture capitalists continue to pour money into defense tech startups, they’re turning to a new hiring pool: ex-military officials.   © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/Banpwoe

Dark patterns refer to a range of design techniques that can subtly encourage users to take some sort of action or put their privacy at risk. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/csneXvg

Elon Musk faces several lawsuits for firing more than 6,000 Twitter employees, including then-CEO Parag Agrawal, following Musk’s 2022 takeover of the social media platform. On Tuesday, Musk defeated one of those lawsuits, as a federal judge ruled X Corp. doesn’t owe the ex-employees any more severance. The lawsuit, filed by Twitter’s former head of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/Xwxa0yP

Fast food chain Whataburger’s app has gone viral in the wake of Hurricane Beryl, which left around 1.8 million utility customers in Houston, Texas without power. Hundreds of thousands of those people may remain without power for days as Houston anticipates a heat wave, with temperatures climbing into the mid-90s. Amid frustrations with the local […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/DbOw8us

Here is a timeline of the events that led fledgling automaker Fisker to file for bankruptcy. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/4jdLTYm

Europe’s next-generation launch vehicle, the Ariane 6, is poised to lift off for the first time tomorrow, as the continent looks to build out sovereign access to space and ensure European missions are launched by European rockets.  The heavy-lift rocket will launch from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana, with a four-hour launch window […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/POZ0pcJ

The Samsung event will feature updates to the Galaxy Z Fold, Galaxy Z Flip, as well as more details on the Galaxy Ring and Galaxy AI. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/ZgC6KOh

Berlin-based food delivery giant Delivery Hero has warned investors it may “ultimately” face an antitrust fine of up to €400 million. The development, reported earlier by Reuters, follows unannounced raids by European Union authorities on the offices of Delivery Hero and its Spanish subsidiary Glovo back in July 2022 and November 2023. The EU did […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/P6EzOHQ

Investors are betting on Indian wealthtech startups as a growing middle class turns to diversify investments and startups challenge traditional financial advisors for high-net-worth clients. Premji Invest is in advanced stages of talks to lead a funding round of $30 million to $40 million in Dezerv, an app offering a suite of investment solutions to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/GlFC3UM

Three companies with new funds deploy capital to support seed and Series A VCs looking to exercise their pro rata rights. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/k5RCF3W

Here are the latest companies venturing into the gaming scene and details about each offering, including pricing, examples of titles and supported devices.  © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/Po2HMz8

Welcome back to TechCrunch’s Week in Review — TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the week’s biggest news. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. This week, Figma CEO Dylan Field said the company will temporarily disable its “Make Design” AI feature after it was accused of “heavily” training the tool on existing apps. The […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/R8UBCG0

We’ve created this guide to help parents navigate the controls offered by popular social media companies. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/3KGeopy

Lori Beer's work is a case study for every CIO out there, most of whom will never come close to JP Morgan Chase’s scale, but who can still learn from how it goes about its business. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/mkq9tLS

For the first time, Chinese government workers will be able to purchase Tesla’s Model Y for official use. Specifically, officials in eastern China’s Jiangsu province included the Model Y in a government procurement list, which was also reported in the state-owned publication The Paper. As the only foreign-owned electric vehicle company on the list, Tesla’s […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/9cpnjuH

Generative AI models don’t process text the same way humans do. Understanding their “token”-based internal environments may help explain some of their strange behaviors — and stubborn limitations. Most models, from small on-device ones like Gemma to OpenAI’s industry-leading GPT-4o, are built on an architecture known as the transformer. Due to the way transformers conjure […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/9RaJw01

There’s no need to worry that your secret ChatGPT conversations were obtained in a recently reported breach of OpenAI’s systems. The hack itself, while troubling, appears to have been superficial — but it’s reminder that AI companies have in short order made themselves into one of the juiciest targets out there for hackers. The New […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/8wkLRcK

Welcome to Startups Weekly — TechCrunch’s weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Most interesting startup stories from the week Even seemingly crowded categories can see newcomers climb up the ranks. This includes social media: A new app called […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/K85SUd7

Elon Musk’s X is exploring more ways to integrate xAI’s Grok into the social networking app. According to a series of recent discoveries, X is developing new features like the ability to ask Grok about X accounts, use Grok by highlighting text in the app, and access Grok’s chatbot through a pop-up on the side […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/2XsfB0n

Quantum Rise, a Chicago-based startup which does AI-driven automation for companies like dunnhumby (a retail analytics platform for the the grocery industry), has raised a $15 million seed round from Erie Street Growth Partners. Its approach is somewhat akin to UIPath’s, a company famous for bringing robotic process automation to the enterprise, but with a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/tYcU2rR

On July 4, YouTube released an updated eraser tool for creators so they can easily remove any copyrighted music from their videos without affecting any other audio such as dialogues or sound effects. YouTube chief Neal Mohan posted about the tool on X and said, “Good news, creators: our updated Erase Song tool helps you […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/b0pEiXH

Airtel, India’s second-largest telecom operator, on Friday denied any breach of its systems following reports of an alleged security lapse that has caused concern among its customers. The telecom group, which also sells productivity and security solutions to businesses, said it had conducted a “thorough investigation” and found that there has been no breach whatsoever […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/SBOCI50

Teddy Solomon just moved to a new house in Palo Alto, so he turned to the Stanford community on Fizz to furnish his room. “Every time I show up to buy something from somebody, I grill them about the marketplace, because I’m really curious about their experience,” Solomon, a co-founder of Fizz, told TechCrunch. He’s […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/AlONnbd

Amazon has decided to discontinue its Astro for Business device, a security robot for small—and medium-sized businesses, just seven months after launch.  In an email sent to customers and employees on Wednesday, provided to TechCrunch, the reason for putting Astro for Business on the shelf is a simple one: Amazon wants to focus on its […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/hPw2BA1

SpaceX’s ambitious plans to launch its Starship mega-rocket up to 44 times per year from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center are causing a stir among some of its competitors. Late last month, Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance submitted comments calling on regulators to ensure minimal disruptions to other launch providers in the area, with Blue […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/6J5yhf9

The situation around a data breach that’s affected an ever-growing number of fintech companies has gotten even weirder. Evolve Bank & Trust announced last week that it was hacked and confirmed the stolen data has been posted to the dark web. Now Evolve has sent a cease and desist letter to the writer of a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/axw9tUP

Mastodon, the open source, decentralized alternative to X (formerly Twitter), is today rolling out a new feature meant to make the app more appealing to those who use it to keep up with news and information from writers and journalists. Starting today, the company is adding clickable author bylines on link posts that can direct […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/bulM7Yv

code references found in the X iOS app indicate that the company could be considering adding downvotes for replies only to improve how they're ranked. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/vH92PZh

A group of senators has banded together to urge Synapse’s owners and bank and fintech partners to “immediately restore customers’ access to their money.” As part of their demands, the senators implicated both the partners and investors of the company as being responsible for missing customer funds. In a letter shared publicly on Monday, U.S. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/4ARbmnh

Music, podcasts, audiobooks…emergency alerts? Spotify’s latest test has the streaming app venturing into new territory with a test of an emergency alerts system in its home market of Sweden. According to code references found within the Spotify app, the company is considering a system that would help distribute public announcements related to things like “accidents, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/DNE5xbQ

Meta is not the only company grappling with the rise in AI-generated content and how it affects its platform. YouTube also quietly rolled out a policy change in June that will allow people to request the takedown of AI-generated or other synthetic content that simulates their face or voice. The change allows people to request […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/ygaqb0d