App developer Crowdaa raises €1.2 million and plans a U.S. expansion
Crowdaa is an app that allows non-developers to easily create and release apps on the mobile store. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
23 maio, 2024
2 days left to vote for Disrupt Audience Choice
TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 isn’t just an event for innovation; it’s a platform where your voice matters. With the Disrupt 2024 Audience Choice Program, you have the power to shape the future of tech by voting for your favorite thought leaders and sessions. But with just...
23 maio, 2024
Pocket-Sized AI Models Could Unlock a New Era of Computing
Research at Microsoft shows it’s possible to make AI models small enough to run on phones or laptops without major compromises to their smarts. The technique could open up new use cases for AI....
23 maio, 2024
Spotify experiments with an AI DJ that speaks Spanish
Spotify’s addition of its AI DJ feature, which introduces personalized song selections to users, was the company’s first step into an AI future. Now, Spotify is developing an alternative version of that DJ that will speak Spanish. References to the new AI DJ were spotted...
23 maio, 2024
US Sues to Break Up Ticketmaster and Live Nation, Alleging Monopoly Abuse
The US government has filed an antitrust suit against Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation, for allegedly abusing their dominance in the ticketing market to extinguish healthy competition....
23 maio, 2024
Arc Search’s new Call Arc feature lets you ask questions by ‘making a phone call’
Call Arc can help answer immediate and small questions, according to the company. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
23 maio, 2024
Lumos helps companies manage their employees’ identities — and access
Andrej Safundzic, Alan Flores Lopez and Leo Mehr met in a class at Stanford focusing on ethics, public policy and technological change. Safundzic — speaking to TechCrunch — says that the class drove home the point that few people, particularly in the corporate sector, have...
23 maio, 2024
Auggie’s new app helps parents find community and shop
A new startup called Auggie is aiming to give parents a single platform where they can shop for products and connect with each other. The company’s new app, which launched this week, offers parents a platform where they can share product recommendations, shop vetted products...
23 maio, 2024
Remark puts thousands of human product experts into AI form
Remark trains AI models on human product experts to create personas that can answer questions with the same style of their human counterparts. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
23 maio, 2024
ZeroPoint’s nanosecond-scale memory compression could tame power-hungry AI infrastructure
ZeroPoint claims to have solved compression problems with hyper-fast, low-level memory compression that requires no real changes to the rest of the computing system. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
23 maio, 2024
Finout lands cash to grow its cloud spend management platform
In 2021, Roi Ravhon, Asaf Liveanu and Yizhar Gilboa came together to found Finout, an enterprise-focused toolset to help manage and optimize cloud costs. (We covered the company’s launch out of stealth in 2022.) Ravhon, Finout’s CEO and previously the director of engineering at observability...
23 maio, 2024
Bugcrowd, the crowdsourced white-hat hacker platform, acquires Informer to ramp up its security chops
On the heels of raising $102 million earlier this year, Bugcrowd is making good on its promise to use some of that funding to make acquisitions to strengthen its security chops. The company — which crowdsources skills from more than half a million hackers to...
23 maio, 2024
Drivers Are Rising Up Against Uber’s ‘Opaque’ Pay System
In London, Uber drivers are protesting a new payment system that they say makes it impossible to understand the algorithms that decide how much they get paid....
23 maio, 2024
Autonomous shipping startup Orca AI tops up with $23M led by OCV Partners and MizMaa Ventures
If you thought autonomous driving was just for cars, think again. The so-called ‘autonomous navigation’ market — where ships steer themselves guided by AI, resulting in fuel and time savings — is projected to grow from $4.46 billion in 2023 to $5.33B in 2024 alone. ...
23 maio, 2024
Autonomous shipping startup Orca AI tops up with $23M led by OCV Partners and MizMaa Ventures
If you thought autonomous driving was just for cars, think again. The so-called ‘autonomous navigation’ market — where ships steer themselves guided by AI, resulting in fuel and time savings — is projected to grow from $4.46 billion in 2023 to $5.33B in 2024 alone. ...
23 maio, 2024
Meet the Finnish biotech startup bringing a long lost mycoprotein to your plate
The best known mycoprotein is probably Quorn, a meat substitute that’s fast approaching its 40th birthday. But Finnish biotech startup Enifer is cooking up something even older: Its proprietary single-cell fungus-based protein, branded Pekilo, was originally developed in the 1960s and ’70s — by, of...
23 maio, 2024
Food supply chain software maker Silo lays off ~30% of staff amid M&A discussions
Silo, a Bay Area food supply chain startup, has hit a rough patch. TechCrunch has learned that the company on Tuesday laid off roughly 30% of its staff, or north of two dozen employees. Silo has confirmed the headcount reductions, clarifying the cuts were across...
22 maio, 2024
Meta’s new AI council is comprised entirely of white men
Meanwhile, women and people of color are disproportionately impacted by irresponsible AI. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
22 maio, 2024
Garry Tan has revealed his ‘secret sauce’ for getting into Y Combinator
If you’ve ever wanted to apply to Y Combinator, here’s some inside scoop on how the iconic accelerator goes about choosing companies. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
22 maio, 2024
FCC proposes all AI-generated content in political ads must be disclosed
Under the envisioned framework, both candidate and issue ads would be required to include an on-air and filed disclosure that AI-generated content was used. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
22 maio, 2024
Refer a founder to Startup Battlefield 200 at Disrupt 2024
Want to make a founder’s day, week, month, and possibly career? Refer them to Startup Battlefield 200 at Disrupt 2024! Applications close June 10 at 11:59 p.m. PT. TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield 200 is the world’s preeminent competition for early-stage startups. It’s also the absolute best...
22 maio, 2024
Techstars CEO Maëlle Gavet is out
Gavet has had a rocky tenure at Techstars and her leadership was the subject of much controversy. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
22 maio, 2024
HoundDog.ai helps developers prevent personal information from leaking
HoundDog actually looks at the code a developer is writing, using both traditional pattern matching and large language models to find potential issues. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
22 maio, 2024
Vinod Khosla is coming to Disrupt to discuss how AI might change the future
Few figures in the tech industry have earned the storied reputation of Vinod Khosla, founder and partner at Khosla Ventures. For over 40 years, he has been at the center of Silicon Valley, building or backing some of the biggest, most influential tech companies. His...
22 maio, 2024
Vinod Khosla is coming to Disrupt to discuss how AI might change the future
Few figures in the tech industry have earned the storied reputation of Vinod Khosla, founder and partner at Khosla Ventures. For over 40 years, he has been at the center of Silicon Valley, building or backing some of the biggest, most influential tech companies. His...
22 maio, 2024
Truecaller partners with Microsoft to let its AI respond to calls in your own voice
AI has already started replacing voice agents’ jobs. Now, companies are exploring ways to replace the existing computer-generated voice models with synthetic versions of human voices. Truecaller, the widely known caller ID service, is the latest to take this approach with its announcement that it...
22 maio, 2024
Hydrolix seeks to make storing log data faster and cheaper
In 2008, Marty Kagan, who’d previously worked at Cisco and Akamai, co-founded Cedexis, a (now-Cisco-owned) firm developing observability tech for content delivery networks. Fellow Cisco veteran Hasan Alayli joined Kagan at Cedexis in 2012 as a technical lead, and the two worked together for a...
22 maio, 2024
Bolster, creator of the CheckPhish phishing tracker, raises $14M led by Microsoft’s M12
A dodgy email containing a link that looks “legit” but is actually malicious remains one of the most dangerous, yet successful, tricks in a cyber criminal’s handbook. Now, an AI startup called Bolster that has built a novel approach to tackle that trick has raised...
22 maio, 2024
TikTok turns to generative AI to boost its ads business
TikTok is the latest tech company to incorporate generative AI into its ads business, as the company announced on Tuesday that it’s launching a new “TikTok Symphony” AI suite for brands. The tools will help marketers write scripts, produce videos, and enhance current assets. The...
22 maio, 2024
Teslas Can Still Be Stolen With a Cheap Radio Hack—Despite New Keyless Tech
Ultra-wideband radio has been heralded as the solution for “relay attacks” that are used to steal cars in seconds. But researchers found Teslas equipped with it are as vulnerable as ever....
22 maio, 2024
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