How to Stop Your Data From Being Used to Train AI
Some companies let you opt out of allowing your content to be used for generative AI. Here’s how to take back (at least a little) control from ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and more....
10 abril, 2024
Guesty snaps up $130M at $900M valuation to help property managers list on Airbnb and beyond
Travel and tourism are very much back on the map for consumers and the business world. Now, to underscore that surge, one of the startups building software in the space has closed a big round of funding. Guesty — which has built a platform for...
10 abril, 2024
Yoshi Mobility has come a long way since gassing up cars on the side of the road
Today, Yoshi Mobility settled into three business lines: preventative maintenance, virtual vehicle inspections and electric vehicle charging. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
10 abril, 2024
Proton picks up Standard Notes to deepen its pro-privacy portfolio
By adding Standard Notes to its portfolio of apps, Proton will deepen its reach with an engaged community of pro-privacy users. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
10 abril, 2024
Sarcophagus Is a Dead Man’s Switch for Your Crypto Wallet
By combining a century-old idea with cryptocurrency tech, Sarcophagus aims to create a foolproof way to send messages from beyond the grave....
10 abril, 2024
The Honeybees Versus the Murder Hornets
Under threat from murder hornets, climate change, and habitat loss, UK honeybees are getting help from AI-enabled apiculturists tracking everything from foraging patterns to foreign invaders....
10 abril, 2024
Cambium is building a recycled wood supply chain
The global demand for wood could grow by 54% between 2010 and 2050, according to a study by the World Resources Institute. While some building materials like steel get consistently recycled back into the supply chain, wood does not. Cambium hopes to fix that. Cambium...
09 abril, 2024
Poe introduces a price-per-message revenue model for AI bot creators
Bot creators now have a new way to make money with Poe, the Quora-owned AI chatbot platform. On Monday, the company introduced a revenue model that allows creators to set a per-message price for their bots so they can make money whenever a user messages...
09 abril, 2024
Check out the complete roundtable lineup at TC Early Stage 2024
Among the highlights of Early Stage are its fan-favorite roundtable sessions. These intimate gatherings, guided by experts, delve into targeted subjects crafted to enlighten, invigorate, and enhance your entrepreneurial endeavors. Moreover, they serve as prime opportunities to forge connections with like-minded individuals. Networking, anyone? Take...
09 abril, 2024
eBay adds an AI-powered ‘shop the look’ feature to its iOS app
EBay on Tuesday launched a new generative AI-powered feature to appeal to fashion enthusiasts: a “shop the look” section within its iOS mobile app that will suggest a carousel of images and ideas, based on the customer’s shopping history. The company says its recommendations will...
09 abril, 2024
TechCrunch Minute: Spotify rolls out an AI-powered playlist feature
Starting in just a few countries, the new AI playlist feature will roll out to more markets over time. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
09 abril, 2024
As AI accelerates, Europe’s flagship privacy principles are under attack, warns EDPS
The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has warned key planks of the bloc’s data protection and privacy regime are under attack from industry lobbyists and could face a critical reception from lawmakers in the next parliamentary mandate. “We have quite strong attacks on the principles...
09 abril, 2024
Meta confirms that its Llama 3 open source LLM is coming in the next month
Meta's Llama families, built as open-source products, represent a different philosophical approach to how AI should develop as a wider technology. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
09 abril, 2024
Beeper Took On Apple’s iMessage Dominance. Now It’s Been Acquired
The app that turned green chat bubbles blue has been acquired by Automattic, the parent company of Wordpress and Tumblr....
09 abril, 2024
WordPress.com owner Automattic acquires multi-service messaging app Beeper for $125M
The deal, which was for $125 million according to sources close to the matter, is Automattic's second acquisition of a cross-platform messaging solution. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
09 abril, 2024
Pan-African VC Verod-Kepple closes its first fund at $60M
Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures (VKAV) plans to back up to 21 growth-stage companies across the continent after closing its first fund at $60 million. The pan-African VC hit the milestone following fresh backing from Nigeria’s SCM Capital formerly Sterling Capital Markets Limited, and the only non-Japanese...
09 abril, 2024
Metalab goes from quietly building the internet to investing in it
With Metalab Ventures, the venture arm will play the role of a long-term value investor, essentially “putting our money where our mouth is,” CEO Luke Des Cotes said. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
09 abril, 2024
Symbolica hopes to head off the AI arms race by betting on symbolic models
In February, Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google‘s DeepMind AI research lab, warned that throwing increasing amounts of compute at the types of AI algorithms in wide use today could lead to diminishing returns. Getting to the “next level” of AI, as it were, Hassabis...
09 abril, 2024
Students Are Likely Writing Millions of Papers With AI
Turnitin, a service that checks papers for plagiarism, says its detection tool found millions of papers that may have a significant amount of AI-generated content....
09 abril, 2024
Google Cloud Next 2024: Everything announced so far
Don’t have time to be in Las Vegas? That’s OK: We’ve summed up the most important parts of this year's Google Cloud Next. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
09 abril, 2024
Watch the Google Cloud Next Keynote live right here
It’s time for Google’s annual look up to the cloud, this time with a big dose of AI. At 9 a.m. PT, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian will kick off the opening keynote for this year’s Google Cloud Next event, and you can watch it...
09 abril, 2024
Kiki World, a beauty brand that uses web3 for customer co-creation and ownership, raises $7M from a16z
If you think that choosing a nail polish color or which ingredients go into your face cream cannot have anything to do with blockchain, think again. Kiki World, a beauty startup launched last year, wants consumers to co-create products and co-own the company with the...
09 abril, 2024
Google open-sources tools to support AI model development
Google is launching Jetstream, a new engine to run generative AI models, and MaxDiffusion, a collection of reference implementations of various diffusion models. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
09 abril, 2024
New Google Vids product helps create a customized video with an AI assist
All of the major vendors have been looking at ways to use AI to help customers develop creative content. On Tuesday at the Google Cloud Next customer conference in Las Vegas, Google introduced a new AI-fueled video creation tool called Google Vids. The tool will...
09 abril, 2024
Google’s Gemini Pro 1.5 enters public preview on Vertex AI
Its headlining feature is the amount of context that it can process: 1 million tokens, which is equivalent to around 700,000 words or around 30,000 lines of code. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
09 abril, 2024
With Vertex AI Agent Builder, Google Cloud aims to simplify agent creation
AI agents are the new hot craze in generative AI. Unlike the previous generation of chatbots, these agents can do more than simply answer questions. They can take actions based on the conversation, and even interact with back-end transactional systems to take actions in an...
09 abril, 2024
Google looks to monetize AI with two new $10 Workspace add-ons
The jury is still out on how much AI increases individual productivity, but companies are now trying to monetize it as they build more advanced AI features into their software. Last year, Microsoft made waves when it announced Copilot would add $30 per user per...
09 abril, 2024
Google releases Imagen 2, a video clip generator
Imagen 2 can now create short, four-second videos from text prompts, along the lines of AI-powered clip generation tools like Runway, Pika and Irreverent Labs. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
09 abril, 2024
Nvidia’s next-gen Blackwell platform will come to Google Cloud in early 2025
In addition to the new custom Arm-based Axion chips, most of this year's announcements are about AI accelerators, whether built by Google itself or from Nvidia. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
09 abril, 2024
Google Workspace users will soon get voice prompting in Gmail and tabs in Docs
Google is also launching a new feature in Gmail for Workspace that can instantly turn rough email drafts into a more polished email. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
09 abril, 2024
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