This humanoid robot can drive cars — sort of
Out of an abundance of caution, the car took two minutes to turn a corner. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
12 junho, 2024
Generative AI takes robots a step closer to general purpose
The push to produce a robotic intelligence that can fully leverage the wide breadth of movements opened up by bipedal humanoid design has been a key topic for researchers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
12 junho, 2024
Fintech Brex abandons co-CEO model, talks IPO, cash burn and plans for a secondary sale
Since fintech startup Brex’s inception in 2017, its two co-founders Henrique Dubugras and Pedro Franceschi have run the company as co-CEOs. But starting today, the pair told TechCrunch in an exclusive interview, the San Francisco-based corporate credit card and expense management company is shifting to...
12 junho, 2024
This Week in AI: Apple won’t say how the sausage gets made
Hiya, folks, and welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. This week in AI, Apple stole the spotlight. At the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in Cupertino, Apple unveiled Apple Intelligence, its long-awaited, ecosystem-wide push into generative AI. Apple Intelligence powers a whole host of features,...
12 junho, 2024
Helen Toner worries ‘not super functional’ Congress will flub AI policy
Helen Toner, a former OpenAI board member and the director of strategy at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, is worried Congress might react in a “knee-jerk” way where it concerns AI policymaking, should the status quo not change. “Congress right now — I...
12 junho, 2024
Layoffs Got You Down? Get a Half-Price Expo+ Pass at Disrupt 2024
Layoffs are tough. This year alone, we’ve already seen 60,000 job cuts across 254 companies according to layoffs.fyi. Looking for ways to grow your network can be even harder during uncertain times. To help those who’ve been impacted by a layoff within the last year...
12 junho, 2024
Insight Partners backs Canary Technologies’ mission to elevate hotel guest experiences
The hotel guest management technology company’s platform digitizes the hotel guest journey from post-booking through checkout. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
12 junho, 2024
VC Sheel Mohnot leads $4.3M seed in automated financial reporting fintech InScope
InScope leverages machine learning and large language models to provide financial reporting and auditing processes for mid-market and enterprises. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
12 junho, 2024
YC grad, RetailReady raises $3.3M for an AI warehouse app that hopes to save brands billions
RetailReady targets the $40 billion compliance market to help reduce the number of retail compliance losses that shippers incur annually due to incorrectly shipped packages. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
12 junho, 2024
Bonus: An extra week to apply to Startup Battlefield 200
A big shoutout to the early-stage founders who missed the application window for the Startup Battlefield 200 (SB 200) at TechCrunch Disrupt. We have exciting news just for you! You procrastinators can thank your lucky stars — we’re giving you (a little) more time to...
12 junho, 2024
Databricks expands Mosaic AI to help enterprises build with LLMs
A year ago, Databricks acquired MosaicML for $1.3 billion. Now rebranded as Mosaic AI, the platform has become integral to Databricks’ AI solutions. Today, at the company’s Data + AI Summit, it is launching a number of new features for the service. Ahead of the...
12 junho, 2024
Foresite Capital raises $900M sixth fund for investing in healthcare and life sciences companies
Venture fundraising has been a slog over the last few years, even for firms with a strong track record. That’s Foresite Capital’s experience. Despite having 47 IPOs, 28 M&As and 58 FDA-approved drugs under its belt, the 13-year-old multi-stage healthcare and life sciences firm took...
12 junho, 2024
Restate raises $7M for its lightweight workflows-as-code platform
When one of the co-creators of the popular open-source stream-processing framework Apache Flink launches a new startup, it’s worth paying attention. Stephan Ewen was among the founding team of the open source project back in 2010 and then later became the CTO of Data Artisans,...
12 junho, 2024
Civic Renewables is rolling up residential solar installers to improve quality and grow the market
With most residential solar panels installed by smaller companies, customer experience can be a mixed bag. To try to address the quality and consistency problem, Civic Renewables is buying small installers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
12 junho, 2024
Friends & Family Capital, a fund founded by ex-Palantir CFO and son of IVP’s founder, unveils third $118M fund
Small VC firms require deep trust, mutual support, and long-term commitment among the partners —a kinship that, in many ways, resembles a family dynamic. Colin Anderson (Palantir’s ex-CFO and former research VP at Peter Thiel’s Clarium Capital) and John Fogelsong (the son of IVP co-founder...
12 junho, 2024
The $50 Billion Musk Referendum
Tesla shareholders will decide whether to back Elon Musk’s leadership—and unprecedented 11-figure bonus—in a pivotal moment for the carmaker....
12 junho, 2024
Fabless AI chip makers Rebellions and Sapeon to merge as competition heats up in global AI hardware industry
South Korea’s fabless AI chip industry saw a slew of fundraising events over the last couple of years as demand for hardware to power AI applications skyrocketed, and it seems the space is already consolidating. Two of the country’s prominent fabless AI chip startups, Rebellions...
12 junho, 2024
Fabless AI chip makers Rebellions and Sapeon to merge as competition heats up in global AI hardware industry
South Korea’s fabless AI chip industry saw a slew of fundraising events over the last couple of years as demand for hardware to power AI applications skyrocketed, and it seems the space is already consolidating. Two of the country’s prominent fabless AI chip startups, Rebellions...
12 junho, 2024
Let there be Light! Danish startup exits stealth with $13M seed funding to bring AI to general ledgers
It’s not the sexiest of subject matters, but someone needs to talk about it: The CFO tech stack — software used by the chief financial officers of the world — is ripe for disruption. That’s according to Jonathan Sanders, CEO and co-founder of fledgling Danish...
12 junho, 2024
DC’s political class doesn’t know Y Combinator exists, but it’s trying to change that
After educating the D.C. market, YC aims to leverage its influence, particularly in areas like competition policy. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
12 junho, 2024
FTC Chair Lina Khan shares how the agency is looking at AI
With dozens of antitrust cases and close to a hundred on the consumer protection side, the agency is now turning to innovative tactics to help it fight fraud, particularly in the AI space. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
11 junho, 2024
Why Apple is taking a small model approach to generative AI
It’s a very Apple approach in the sense that it prioritizes a frictionless user experience above all. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
11 junho, 2024
Linq raises $6.6M to use AI to make research easier for financial analysts
When generative AI tools started making waves in late 2022 after the launch of ChatGPT, the finance industry was one of the first to recognize these tools’ potential for speeding up the data-gathering and research process. Speed, after all, is vital when you’re advising investors...
11 junho, 2024
Apple’s AI, Apple Intelligence, is boring and practical — that’s why it works
Some of the new Apple Intelligence features that Apple debuted at WWDC 2024 don’t even feel like AI, they just feel like smarter tools. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
11 junho, 2024
Spawning wants to build more ethical AI training datasets
Jordan Meyer and Mathew Dryhurst founded Spawning AI to create tools that help artists exert more control over how their works are used online. Their latest project, called Source.Plus, is intended to curate “non-infringing” media for AI model training. The Source.Plus project’s first initiative is...
11 junho, 2024
Light introduces its latest minimalist phone, now with an OLED screen but still no addictive apps
Unlike Light's older phones, the Light III sports a larger OLED display and an NFC chip to make way for future payment tools, as well as a camera. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
11 junho, 2024
The top AI features Apple announced at WWDC 2024
Today marked the kickoff of Apple’s WorldWide Developer Conference (WWDC), the annual event where Apple announces some of the biggest features headed to its devices, apps and software. And this year’s WWDC is a doozy. Thanks to Apple’s newfound — and heavy — investment in...
11 junho, 2024
Flow claims it can 100x any CPU’s power with its companion chip and some elbow grease
A Finnish startup called Flow Computing is making one of the wildest claims ever heard in silicon engineering: by adding its proprietary companion chip, any CPU can instantly double its performance, increasing to as much as 100x with software tweaks. If it works, it could...
11 junho, 2024
AI news reader Particle adds publishing partners and $10.9M in new funding
Particle announced it has partnered with news organization Reuters to collaborate on new business models and experiments in monetization. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
11 junho, 2024
The VC queen of portfolio PR, Masha Bucher, has raised her largest fund yet: $150M
Five years ago, Day One Ventures had $11 million under management, and Bucher and her team have grown that to just over $450 million. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
11 junho, 2024
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