Tesla’s Layoffs Won’t Solve Its Growing Pains
The car company popularized EVs. Now, facing intense competition from China, it has to figure out what to do next....
18 abril, 2024
Meta releases Llama 3, claims it’s among the best open models available
Meta has released the latest entry in its Llama series of open source generative AI models: Llama 3. Or, more accurately, the company has open sourced two models in its new Llama 3 family, with the rest to come at an unspecified future date. Meta describes...
18 abril, 2024
Meta adds its AI chatbot, powered by Llama 3, to the search bar across its apps
Meta’s making several big moves today to promote its AI services across its platform. The company has upgraded its AI chatbot with its newest Large Language Model, Llama 3, and it is now running it in the search bar of its four major apps, Facebook,...
18 abril, 2024
TechCrunch Minute: NASA needs your help to bring rocks back from Mars
NASA’s decision to scrap its $11 billion, 15-year mission to Mars to bring back samples could create a startup feeding frenzy, TechCrunch reports. Describing its plans as too slow, and too expensive, NASA is going back to the drawing board, with an eye on getting...
18 abril, 2024
What If Your AI Girlfriend Hated You?
AngryGF offers a perpetually enraged chatbot intended to teach men better communication skills. WIRED took it for a spin....
18 abril, 2024
Uber, Nvidia-backed Serve Robotics hits public markets with $40M splash
Serve Robotics, the Uber and Nvidia-backed sidewalk robot delivery company, debuted publicly on the New York stock exchange Thursday, making it the latest startup to choose going public via a reverse merger as an alternative path to capital needed to fund growth. The company, which...
18 abril, 2024
Building owners are often in the dark about their carbon pollution. A new algorithm could shed light on it
Nzero developed a new algorithm that helps building owners estimate their carbon pollution down to the hour. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
18 abril, 2024
Magnus Metal wants to revamp the 4,000-year-old way metal parts are made
The startup is developing a technology it claims is as fast and energy efficient as 3D printing at a cost that can compete with sand casting. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
18 abril, 2024
For Dataplor’s data intelligence tool, it’s all about location, location, location
Dataplor’s “secret sauce” combines technology and public domain data with a human factor, employing over 100,000 people, called Explorers, to validate all the data via computer. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
18 abril, 2024
Screen Skinz raises $1.5 million seed to create custom screen protectors
There has been much evolution in the personalized phone protector market, but nothing has truly captured screens yet. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
18 abril, 2024
The Real-Time Deepfake Romance Scams Have Arrived
Watch how smooth-talking scammers known as “Yahoo Boys” use widely available face-swapping tech to carry out elaborate romance scams....
18 abril, 2024
ChatGPT is a squeeze away with Nothing’s upgraded earbuds
Nothing today announced a pair of refreshes to its earbud line. The naming conventions are a touch convoluted here, but the Nothing Ear is an update to the Nothing Ear (2), while the Nothing Ear (a) is more of a spiritual successor to the Nothing...
18 abril, 2024
Google Fires Twenty-Eight Workers for Protesting Cloud Deal with Israel
The fired workers included nine Google employees who were removed by police after occupying Google offices on Tuesday....
18 abril, 2024
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau fines BloomTech for false claims
The CFPB is permanently banning BloomTech from consumer lending activities and its CEO, Austen Allred, from student lending for a period of 10 years. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
17 abril, 2024
Ramp raises another $150 million co-led by Khosla and Founders Fund at a $7.65B valuation
Spend management startup Ramp has raised another $150 million at a post-money valuation of $7.65 billion, the company confirmed to TechCrunch today. New investor Khosla Ventures and existing backer Founders Fund co-led the raise, which also included participation from new backers Sequoia Capital, Greylock and...
17 abril, 2024
Alphabet X’s Bellwether harnesses AI to help predict natural disasters
The world is on fire. Quite literally, much of the time. Predicting such disasters before they get out of hand — or better yet, before they happen — will be key to maintaining a reasonable quality of life for the coming century. It’s a big,...
17 abril, 2024
Don’t blame MKBHD for the fate of Humane AI and Fisker
Humane AI raised more than $230 million before it even shipped a product. And when it finally released its Ai Pin – which costs $699 plus a $24 monthly subscription – pretty much every tech reviewer came to the same disappointing realization: this much-hyped product,...
17 abril, 2024
Dark Space is building a rocket-powered boxing glove to push debris out of orbit
Paris-based Dark Space is taking on the dual problems of debris and conflict in orbit with their mobile platform designed to launch, attach to, and ultimately deorbit uncooperative objects in space. Dark CEO Clyde Laheyne said the company is aiming to become the “S.W.A.T. team...
17 abril, 2024
Mastering finance essentials with Mercury’s VP of finance, Dan Kang, at TechCrunch Early Stage
TechCrunch Early Stage is gearing up for another insightful event on April 25, and one roundtable session promises to be particularly illuminating for early-stage founders. Titled “Finance Fundamentals Before Your First Finance Hire: A Founder’s Guide to Navigating Early Financial Decisions,” this roundtable will offer...
17 abril, 2024
LinkedIn testing paid Premium Company Page with AI-assisted content creation
LinkedIn — the social platform that targets the working world — has quietly started testing another way to boost its revenues, this time with a new service for small and medium businesses. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that it is working on a new LinkedIn...
17 abril, 2024
Reddit CPO talks new features — better translations, moderation and dev tools
It’s a big year for Reddit. After its IPO, the platform is planning a slew of product features for the year ahead, and — spoiler alert — most of them are powered by AI. “I think the IPO was an important milestone, but we’re just...
17 abril, 2024
Live selling startup CommentSold uses AI to generate shoppable, social-ready clips
The “AI ClipHero” feature creates short clips from livestreamed selling events, which often last for hours. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
17 abril, 2024
TechCrunch Minute: New Atlas robot stuns experts in first reveal from Boston Dynamics
This week Boston Dynamics retired its well-known Atlas robot that was powered by hydraulics. Then today it unveiled its new Atlas robot, which is powered by electricity. The change might not seem like much, but TechCrunch’s Brian Heater told the TechCrunch Minute that the now-deprecated...
17 abril, 2024
NeuBird is building a generative AI solution for complex cloud native environments
NeuBird founders Goutham Rao and Vinod Jayaraman came from PortWorx, a cloud native storage solution they eventually sold to PureStorage in 2019 for $370 million. It was their third successful exit. When they went looking for their next startup challenge last year, they saw an...
17 abril, 2024
NeuBird is building a generative AI solution for complex cloud native environments
NeuBird founders Goutham Rao and Vinod Jayaraman came from PortWorx, a cloud native storage solution they eventually sold to PureStorage in 2019 for $370 million. It was their third successful exit. When they went looking for their next startup challenge last year, they saw an...
17 abril, 2024
Andreessen Horowitz’s $7.2B new funds for a “new era”
What is worth $11 billion and wants to go to Mars to collect rocks? NASA’s mission to Mars to collect rocks that was expected to cost $11 billion and take ages. So, the U.S. space agency is throwing the doors open to get more input, and...
17 abril, 2024
Inversion Space will test its space-based delivery tech in October
Inversion Space is aptly named. The three-year-old startup’s primary concern is not getting things to space, but bringing them back — transforming the ultimate high ground into “a transportation layer for Earth.” The company’s plan — ultra-fast, on-demand deliveries to anywhere on Earth — sounds...
17 abril, 2024
Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid robot goes electric
Atlas lies motionless in a prone position atop interlocking gym mats. The only soundtrack is the whirring of an electric motor. It’s not quiet, exactly, but it’s nothing compared to the hydraulic jerks of its ancestors. As the camera pans around the robot’s back, its...
17 abril, 2024
Fintech startup Mercury, which is under regulatory scrutiny, expands into consumer banking
Business banking startup Mercury, founded in 2020, is now launching a consumer banking product. Mercury today serves more than 100,000 businesses, many of which are startups, via its B2B practice. The expansion is a natural move for the company and one that has been in...
17 abril, 2024
How Found Energy went from ‘self-cannibalizing robots’ to cleaning up heavy industry
The startup is decarbonizing heavy industry using aluminum as a fuel, an approach inspired by a future mission to Europa. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
17 abril, 2024
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