Is Dr. Phil a Bigger Political Stage for Candidates Than CNN?
Alternative media may have officially gone mainstream for the US presidential election....
27 junho, 2024
Trump–Biden Debate Conspiracies Have Already Flooded the Internet
Republican lawmakers, right-wing media outlets and influencers, and Trump himself are pushing conspiracies about Biden’s health and the debate in general....
27 junho, 2024
Austin-based Ironspring Ventures raised $100m to invest in industrial revolution
When Ironspring Ventures launched in 2020 to back startups in industrial sectors like construction and manufacturing, it was one of very few early-stage venture firms paying attention to those capital-intensive sectors. Now, the firm is doubling down. The Austin, Texas-based firm raised $100 million for...
27 junho, 2024
‘SimCity’ Isn’t a Model of Reality. It’s a Libertarian Toy Land
Beneath its playful exterior, the beloved game that inspired a generation of real-world urban designers betrays a partisan view of social planning....
27 junho, 2024
Dust grabs another $16 million for its enterprise AI assistants connected to internal data
French startup Dust has raised a $16 million Series A funding round led by Sequoia Capital. With Dust, companies can create custom AI assistants and share them with their employees so that they can work more efficiently. But what’s interesting with Dust is the differences...
27 junho, 2024
Dust grabs another $16 million for its enterprise AI assistants connected to internal data
French startup Dust has raised a $16 million Series A funding round led by Sequoia Capital. With Dust, companies can create custom AI assistants and share them with their employees so that they can work more efficiently. But what’s interesting with Dust is the differences...
27 junho, 2024
Aging Might Not Be Inevitable
There are biological underpinnings to aging—and so researchers are investigating cell manipulations, transfusions of young blood, and chemical compounds that can mimic low-calorie diets....
27 junho, 2024
Blancpain Fifty Fathoms Bathyscaphe Quantieme Complet Phase de Lune: price, specs, availability
Shunning Swatch Group's existing solution for Omega and Rado, the patented Bathyscaphe Quantieme Complet Phase de Lune has an expertly engineered strap that is as tough as it is supple....
27 junho, 2024
Synthflow picks up $7.4M for no code voice assistance for SMEs
What is AI good for? Automating repetitive tasks for the very busy people running small businesses, reckons Berlin-based startup Synthflow, which is announcing a $7.4 million seed round for its SME-focused no code platform for AI voice assistance. Since being founded around spring last year,...
27 junho, 2024
Synthflow picks up $7.4M for no code voice assistance for SMEs
What is AI good for? Automating repetitive tasks for the very busy people running small businesses, reckons Berlin-based startup Synthflow, which is announcing a $7.4 million seed round for its SME-focused no code platform for AI voice assistance. Since being founded around spring last year,...
27 junho, 2024
Activists Disrupt Amazon Conference Over $1.2 Billion Contract With Israel
Members of the activist group No Tech for Apartheid interrupted a senior Amazon executive's speech at a conference in Washington, DC, on Wednesday over the company's Project Nimbus cloud contract....
26 junho, 2024
Sonia’s AI chatbot steps in for therapists
Can chatbots replace human therapists? Some startups — and patients — claim that they can. But it’s not exactly settled science. One study found that 80% of people who’ve used OpenAI’s ChatGPT for mental health advice consider it a good alternative to regular therapy, while...
26 junho, 2024
Sonia’s AI chatbot steps in for therapists
Can chatbots replace human therapists? Some startups — and patients — claim that they can. But it’s not exactly settled science. One study found that 80% of people who’ve used OpenAI’s ChatGPT for mental health advice consider it a good alternative to regular therapy, while...
26 junho, 2024
Persona’s founders are certain the world can use another humanoid robot
At this early stage, Persona’s pitch doesn’t stray far from the various humanoid firms with which it’s set to compete. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
26 junho, 2024
This Week in AI: The fate of generative AI is in the courts’ hands
Hiya, folks, and welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. This week in AI, music labels accused two startups developing AI-powered song generators, Udio and Suno, of copyright infringement. The RIAA, the trade organization representing the music recording industry in the U.S., announced lawsuits against the...
26 junho, 2024
Data lakehouse Onehouse nabs $35M to capitalize on GenAI revolution
You can barely go an hour these days without reading about generative AI. While we are still in the embryonic phase of what some have dubbed the “steam engine” of the fourth industrial revolution, there’s little doubt that “GenAI” is shaping up to transform just...
26 junho, 2024
Unbabel among first AI startups to win millions of GPU training hours on EU supercomputers
The European Union has announced the winners of a “Large AI Grand Challenge” it kicked off earlier this year in a bid to accelerate the pace of homegrown innovation by large-scale AI model makers. Four startups will share €1 million in prize money and —...
26 junho, 2024
Unbabel among first AI startups to win millions of GPU training hours on EU supercomputers
The European Union has announced the winners of a “Large AI Grand Challenge” it kicked off earlier this year in a bid to accelerate the pace of homegrown innovation by large-scale AI model makers. Four startups will share €1 million in prize money and —...
26 junho, 2024
Formation Bio raises $372M to boost drug development with AI
Formation Bio, a startup focused on applying AI to drug discovery with backing from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, has raised over a quarter-billion dollars to support its ambitious product roadmap. Formation today announced that it raised $372 million in a Series D funding round led...
26 junho, 2024
Retool expands its low-code platform for creating internal apps to support external apps, too
Retool's focus is on business apps, not the next social network. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
26 junho, 2024
Dappier is building a marketplace for publishers to sell their content to LLM builders
When Napster emerged in the late 1990s, it made it easy for people to grab music files without compensating the content owners.The iPod and the iTunes music store changed that by allowing artists or publishers to get paid for reusing their content in a digital...
26 junho, 2024
Nubank acquires AI-for-banks startup Hyperplane
Hyperplane focused on allowing banks to train their own models to power tools across their risk, collections and marketing departments. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
26 junho, 2024
Dappier is building a marketplace for publishers to sell their content to LLM builders
When Napster emerged in the late 1990s, it made it easy for people to grab music files without compensating the content owners.The iPod and the iTunes music store changed that by allowing artists or publishers to get paid for reusing their content in a digital...
26 junho, 2024
Temasek, Main Sequence back enzymatic recycling tech startup Samsara Eco in $65M
As consumers increasingly demand environmentally friendly and sustainable products, companies strive to seek alternative solutions, which creates a market ripe for growth for some environmental tech companies’ offerings. One example is Samsara Eco, an Australia-based startup that makes and sells fossil-free polymer resins to its...
26 junho, 2024
Video editing app Captions releases AI edit feature that automatically adds effects to your video
Video editing app Captions, which is backed by a16z, Kleiner Perkins, and Sequoia Captial, has launched a new feature that takes an existing unedited video and adds custom graphics, zooms, music, sound effects, transitions, and motion backgrounds based on the content. There are a few...
26 junho, 2024
Rainforest lands $20M to challenge Stripe with embedded payments for SaaS providers
Rainforest, a startup that embeds payment processing into other software platforms, has raised $20 million in Series A funding — less than a year after announcing the close of its seed financing. Raising back-to-back rounds was more common in 2021 but we don’t see it...
26 junho, 2024
CData, which helps orgs use data across apps and to build AI models, snaps up $350M
Artificial intelligence startups continue to dominate the headlines when it comes to VC mega-rounds, but there’s also an interesting opportunity out there for those building tools that enable working with data-heavy apps like AI in the first place – especially for organizations that may still...
26 junho, 2024
Creatio raises $200M at a $1.2B valuation for its no-code CRM and workflow platform
Creatio CEO Katherine Kostereva argues that what sets her company apart is that it was always architected to work at an enterprise scale. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
26 junho, 2024
Fetcherr lands $90M to get airlines on board with dynamic pricing
In a push to bolster profits, more airlines are turning to controversial dynamic pricing tech, which prices fares and amenities variably based on a traveler's willingness to pay for them. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
26 junho, 2024
Fetcherr lands $90M to get airlines on board with dynamic pricing
In a push to bolster profits, more airlines are turning to controversial dynamic pricing tech, which prices fares and amenities variably based on a traveler's willingness to pay for them. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
26 junho, 2024
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