Microsoft's AI CEO has a cozy relationship with the man who used to be his rival, he said on Tuesday. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
In the post-COVID world, VCs say it’s not as easy to get excited about investing in digital health. Deal activity in healthcare IT was relatively flat in Q1 2024 at 74 total deals, valued at about $1 billion total, up only 3% from the year-ago...
In May, when OpenAI first demoed a far more realistic, nearly-real-time conversational experience for its chatbot platform ChatGPT, called Voice Mode, the company said that the capability would roll out to paying ChatGPT users within a few weeks. Months later, OpenAI says that it needs...
You can now more easily use ChatGPT on your Mac computer. OpenAI’s popular AI chatbot is available to all macOS users, the company announced on Tuesday. The app was first announced ahead of Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in June, where the companies jointly announced...
Fearless Fund’s co-founder and COO Ayana Parsons has announced that she was stepping down. The firm is being sued by a politically conservative group. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Reddit says the update shouldn't affect the majority of users or good faith actors, like researchers and organizations, such as the Internet Archive. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Unfortunately for Udio and Suno, the RIAA has a few thousand smoking guns in the lawsuit: songs it owns that are clearly being regurgitated by the music models. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
As browsers continue to add AI features into their products, Mozilla is looking give users some choice in the matter. The company announced on Tuesday that it’s launching an opt-in experiment offering access to different AI services in Nightly, the experimental version of Firefox. The...
Stability AI, the beleaguered generative AI startup behind Stable Diffusion, has raised new cash. But it won’t reveal how much. Greycroft, Coatue Management, Sound Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, O’Shaughnessy Ventures and angel investors Prem Akkaraju, Napster founder Sean Parker, Eric Schmidt and Robert Nelsen have...
Stability AI, the beleaguered generative AI startup behind Stable Diffusion, has raised new cash. But it won’t reveal how much. Greycroft, Coatue Management, Sound Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, O’Shaughnessy Ventures and angel investors Prem Akkaraju, Napster founder Sean Parker, Eric Schmidt and Robert Nelsen have...
Popular productivity tool Notion has long allowed its users to make any of their pages public. Now, the company is expanding on this with the launch of Notion Sites, which adds several new features to its existing publishing tools. For the most part, these are...
Payabli builds the infrastructure that allows companies, specifically software companies, to embed and facilitate payments through APIs. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Google is rolling out a new Gemini AI side panel in Gmail that can help you write emails and summarize email threads. The company is also adding the Gemini side panel to Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive. The launch of the new features comes shortly...
Tengo uses AI to find, evaluate and respond to public tenders. It’s a software-as-service tool that helps companies handle public tenders at scale — a bit like Govly in the U.S. Originally created within the startup studio Hexa, the startup has raised a €3 million...
Smashing is an AI and community-powered content recommendation app, now launching into an invite-only beta. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Smashing is an AI and community-powered content recommendation app, now launching into an invite-only beta. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
The European Union has issued competition charges against Microsoft, accusing it of illegally linking Teams with Office....
Wisk Aero, a subsidiary of Boeing, has acquired Verocel, a software verification and validation company that's served the aerospace industry for 25 years. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Leveraging large languge models, Jobright created an AI agent that acts as a headhunter tailored to individual job seekers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
In 2024, it seems like no week goes by without a media organization, author group, or artist suing generative AI companies for using their work to train models without permission. The issue is, of course, that there’s still no clear framework on what constitutes copyright...
Coder's open-source software has around 1.2 million monthly active users, and Dropbox, Discord and Skydio are among the company's paying customers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
k-ID's platform makes it easy for game devs to comply with child safety and data privacy regulations. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
A relatively new startup called EvolutionaryScale has secured a massive tranche of cash to build AI models to generate novel proteins for scientific research. EvolutionaryScale today announced that it raised $142 million in a seed round led by ex-GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross and...
A relatively new startup called EvolutionaryScale has secured a massive tranche of cash to build AI models to generate novel proteins for scientific research. EvolutionaryScale today announced that it raised $142 million in a seed round led by ex-GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross and...
Don't call this company a "ghost kitchen." Since its Series A in 2021, Local Kitchens grew 5x and achieved unit-level profitability. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Ashley Beckwith spent years of her academic and professional career focused on the intersection of biology, materials and manufacturing to build medical solutions more efficiently. When she realized the tech could be applied to plants and plant-based materials, an area that desperately needed it, she...
As generative AI touches a growing number of industries, the companies producing chips to run the models are benefitting enormously. Nvidia in particular, which commands an estimated 70% to 95% of the market for AI chips, wields massive influence. Cloud providers from Meta to Microsoft...
As of today, nearly all of the world’s most popular website homepages are not compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
As generative AI touches a growing number of industries, the companies producing chips to run the models are benefitting enormously. Nvidia in particular, which commands an estimated 70% to 95% of the market for AI chips, wields massive influence. Cloud providers from Meta to Microsoft...
Rocketlane initially aimed to support customer onboarding. However, it has broadened its scope and doubled down on addressing the needs of professional services teams. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....