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....
Mistral AI has closed its much rumored Series B funding round with General Catalyst leading the round. The company has secured €600 million (around $640 million at today’s exchange rate) in a mix of equity and debt. As TechCrunch previously reported, the startup is now...
Mistral AI has closed its much rumored Series B funding round with General Catalyst leading the round. The company has secured €600 million (around $640 million at today’s exchange rate) in a mix of equity and debt. As TechCrunch previously reported, the startup is now...
Cognigy is helping create AI that can handle the highly repetitive, rote processes center workers face daily. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Who would have thought that Raspberry Pi, the maker of cheap, single-board computers, would become a public company? And yet, this is exactly what’s happening this week as Raspberry Pi priced its IPO this morning at £2.80 per share, which values the company at £542...
Danish media outlets want a group deal with OpenAI amid fears that smaller countries will become marginalized as chatbots become prolific. If they don’t get one, they are threatening to sue....
Apple Intelligence will make apps and services smarter. But Apple’s most notable innovations focus on ensuring the technology doesn't disappoint, annoy, or offend....
Elon Musk is threatening to ban iPhones from all his companies over the newly announced OpenAI integrations Apple announced at WWDC 2024 on Monday. In a series of posts on X, the Telsa, SpaceX and xAI exec wrote that “if Apple integrates OpenAI at the...
Following a keynote presentation that both introduced Apple Intelligence and confirmed a partnership that brings GPT access to Siri through an deal with OpenAI, SVP Craig Federighi confirmed plans to work with additional third-party models. The first example given by the executive was one the...
When Urvashi Barooah applied to MBA programs in 2015, she focused her applications around her dream of becoming a venture capitalist. She got rejected from every school, and was told she was being unrealistic about her prospects in the venture industry, but she didn’t let...
The TechCrunch the team runs down all of the biggest news from the Apple WWDC 2024 keynote in an easy-to-skim digest. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Apple's SDKs (software development kits) have been updated with a variety of new APIs and frameworks. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Apple announced a ton of new AI features under the new Apple Intelligence moniker. While the features are free to use, only a limited number of devices will get access to them. These devices include on iPhone 15 Pro along with iPad and Mac with...
Apple is bringing ChatGPT, OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot experience, to Siri and other first-party apps and capabilities across its operating systems. The tech giant announced the news during a keynote at its annual WorldWide Developer Conference (WWDC) in Cupertino this morning. Soon, Siri will be able...
At its Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple introduced its first serious foray into generative AI, with a focus on app integrations and data privacy—and a ChatGPT integration....
Apple Intelligence will have an understanding of who you're talking with in a messaging conversation. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Siri is now more natural, more relevant and more personal — and it has new look. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
The company has been pushing the feature as integral to all of its various operating system offerings, including iOS, macOS and the latest, VisionOS. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
iOS' perennial tips calculating app is finally coming to the larger screen. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Apple is sharing the first details for the upcoming major release of iOS, its operating system specifically designed for the iPhone. The company is holding its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) this week, and it starts with an online conference focused on software releases. As expected,...
Apple today kicked off what it promised would be a packed WWDC 2024 with a handful of VisionOS announcements. At the top of the list, is the ability to turn existing images into spatial photos. The new feature utilizes machine learning to build out additional...
French startup Kelvin, which uses computer vision and machine learning to make it easier to audit homes for energy efficiency, has raised $5.1M. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
A last call and a major shoutout to any and all early-stage founders. It’s time to dig deep and take advantage of an unparalleled opportunity at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 — the Startup Battlefield 200. Applications to Startup Battlefield 200 close today The Startup Battlefield 200...
Dubai-based fractional property investment platform Stake has raised $14 million in Series A funding. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
While funding for Italian startups has been growing, the country still ranks eighth in Europe by VC investment, according to Dealroom. Newly created Italian Founders Fund (IFF) hopes to help with the catching up, both in quantity and in quality. With €50 million to invest...
A popular AI training dataset is “stealing and weaponizing” the faces of Brazilian children without their knowledge or consent, human rights activists claim....
You’re running out of time to join the Startup Battlefield 200, our curated showcase of top startups from around the world and across multiple industries. This elite cohort — 200 companies strong — absolutely owns (and slays) the exhibition floor at TechCrunch Disrupt. Tomorrow is...
Dogs are the most popular pet in the U.S.: 65.1 million households have one, according to the American Pet Products Association. But while cats are not far off, with 46.5 million households with one, a lot of innovation in the pet category has focused exclusively...
Researchers are drawing on ideas from game theory to improve large language models and make them more correct, efficient, and consistent....
From the Digital Services Act to the AI Act, in five years Europe has created a lot of rules for the digital world. Implementing them, however, isn’t always easy....