EVs With Built-In Camera Drones Have Already Landed in China
Still the stuff of concepts and flights of fancy in the West, automakers on the other side of the world are putting copters in their cars....
18 março, 2024
Poseidona is removing invasive algae from oceans and turning it into food
Poseidona is a Barcelona-based developer of sustainable food technology. It takes invasive seaweed and algal side-streams to make proteins. In this case, it's a soy protein alternative. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
18 março, 2024
xAI open-sources base model of Grok, but without any training code
Elon Musk’s xAI has open-sourced the base code of Grok AI model, but without any training code. The company described it as the “314 billion parameter Mixture-of-Expert model” on GitHub. In a blog post, xAI said that the model wasn’t tuned for any particular application...
18 março, 2024
VC Arjun Sethi talks a big game about selling his company-picking strategies to other investors; he says they’re buying it
Arjun Sethi speaks with the confidence of someone who knows more than other people, or else who knows that sounding highly confident can shape perception. Either way, when he tells me over Zoom that “in five years, I’ll have 50% of the world’s private data”...
17 março, 2024
This Week in AI: Midjourney bets it can beat the copyright police
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own....
16 março, 2024
AI is keeping GitHub chief legal officer Shelley McKinley busy
GitHub’s chief legal officer, Shelley McKinley, has plenty on her plate, what with legal wrangles around its Copilot pair-progammer, as well as the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act, which was voted through the European Parliament this week as “the world’s first comprehensive AI law.” Three years in...
16 março, 2024
The FCC Now Says Broadband Speed Should Be at Least 100 Mbps
The old broadband standard of 25 Mbps wasn’t cutting it anymore....
16 março, 2024
Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Investigation
The platform says it stands to make more than $200 million in coming years from Google and other companies that want user comments to feed AI projects. Regulators have questions....
15 março, 2024
India drops plan to require approval for AI model launches
India is walking back on a recent AI advisory after receiving criticism from many local and global entrepreneurs and investors. The Ministry of Electronics and IT shared an updated AI advisory with industry stakeholders on Friday that no longer asked them to take the government...
15 março, 2024
Leaked SpaceX documents show company forbids employees to sell stock if it deems they’ve misbehaved
SpaceX requires employees to agree to some unusual terms related to their stock awards, which have a chilling effect on staff, according to sources and internal documents viewed by TechCrunch. That includes a provision that allows SpaceX the right to purchase back vested shares within...
15 março, 2024
Pornhub says, ‘Bad Texas! No smut for you!’
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Pornhub has been playing a game of chicken with a bunch of state legislatures for a...
15 março, 2024
Pitch Deck Teardown: SuperScale’s $5.4M Series A deck
The company is promising to make marketing for games easier, and given that great marketing is one of the crucial differences between an OK outcome and a smash-hit success. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
15 março, 2024
Today! Final hours to save on Disrupt 2024 passes
It’s come down to this, startup fans. Today’s the last day to beat the buzzer and claim the biggest discount on passes to TechCrunch Disrupt 2024, taking place October 28–30. Here’s a simple question: What the heck are you waiting for? TechCrunch Disrupt 2024: Save...
15 março, 2024
Y Combinator’s Chief Startup Whisperer Is Demoting Himself
As the influential startup incubator downsizes—and navigates political pushback—managing director Michael Seibel is taking a new role to spend more time working with founders....
15 março, 2024
How to avoid all the IPO work without annoying investors
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Equity turns 7 years old this week, so in honor of its birthday, drop us a...
15 março, 2024
TipTop, the new app from Postmates’ founder and CEO, now lets you buy devices with trade-ins and cash
Customers can trade in an old Samsung Galaxy for a discount on an iPad, an Apple HomePod mini for a Nintendo Switch, or an iPhone for a Nothing phone. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
15 março, 2024
These 61 robotics companies are hiring
It’s extremely heartening to see our little list effectively double since the last time we did one of these. While it’s true that layoffs continue to plague the tech industry at large, there are few better fields to be expert in at the moment than...
15 março, 2024
Mercedes begins piloting Apptronik humanoid robots
Pilot season has officially begun for the world of humanoid robotics. Last year, Amazon began testing Agility’s Digit robots in select fulfillment centers, while this January, Figure announced a deal with BMW. Now Apptronik is getting in on the action, courtesy of a partnership with...
15 março, 2024
Abu Dhabi’s ADIA explores investment in India’s Pocket FM, sources say
Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund ADIA is in talks to back Pocket FM in a large new round of funding, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, as the Indian audio-storytelling platform makes deeper inroads in the U.S. The talks for the new round,...
15 março, 2024
Apple acquires AI startup specializing in overlooking manufacturing components
Apple has added another AI startup to its acquisition list with Canada-based DarwinAI, which specializes in vision-based tech to observe components during manufacturing to improve efficiency, Bloomberg reported. While Apple or DarwinAI haven’t announced this deal, several members of the startup’s team joined Apple’s machine...
15 março, 2024
Zscaler buys Avalor to bring more AI into its security tools
Zscaler, a cloud security company with headquarters in San Jose, California, has acquired cybersecurity startup Avalor 26 months after its founding, reportedly for $310 million in cash and equity. In a press release announcing the news, Zscaler founder and CEO Jay Chaudhry said that the deal...
14 março, 2024
WarpStream is building a cheaper, cloud-native data streaming service
When the open source streaming service Apache Kafka was created in 2011 at LinkedIn, it was a different world. Most companies were still on prem. The notion of cloud computing was just beginning to emerge. WarpStream, an early-stage startup, sees the value of streaming in...
14 março, 2024
‘AI-powered’ ad ignites creator controversy on Instagram
A new ad from Under Armour featuring boxer Anthony Joshua has come under fire from creatives on Instagram after its director claimed it as the “first Ai-powered sports commercial” — but critics in the industry say it blatantly reused others’ work without credit as part...
14 março, 2024
Blockchain tech could be the answer to uncovering deepfakes and validating content
Two months ago, media giant Fox Corp. partnered with Polygon Labs, the team behind the Ethereum-focused layer-2 blockchain, to tackle deepfake distrust. Fox and Polygon launched Verify, a protocol that aims to protect their IP while letting consumers verify the authenticity of content. And since...
14 março, 2024
Humanoid robots face continued skepticism at Modex
If your robotics startup is looking to raise, there’s close to a 100% chance you’re going to get two questions from potential investors: 1) How are you incorporating generative AI? and 2) Have you consider building a humanoid? The first is easy enough to answer....
14 março, 2024
Microbiome startups respond as industry is accused of ‘questionable practices’
The biotech sector has embraced the microbiome in recent years, a green field market powered by cheap genome sequencing and venture dollars, promising bespoke treatments for everything from gut troubles to skin problems. But a report in Science alleges that these companies lack scientific rigor...
14 março, 2024
VCs will get liquidity in 2024 from the secondary market, not IPOs
If you asked a bunch of VCs at the end of 2023 if the IPO market would finally open again in 2024, most of them would have said yes. We know because TechCrunch surveyed more than 40 of them in December and that’s what they...
14 março, 2024
TikTok fined in Italy after ‘French scar’ challenge led to consumer safety probe
Italy’s competition and consumer authority, the AGCM, has fined TikTok €10 million (almost $11M) following a probe into algorithmic safety concerns. The authority opened an investigation last year into a so-called “French scar” challenge in which users of the platform were reported to have shared...
14 março, 2024
Google’s Safe Browsing protection in Chrome goes real-time
Google announced a major change to its Safe Browsing feature in Chrome today that will make the service work in real time by checking against a server-side list — all without sharing your browsing habits with Google. Previously, Chrome downloaded a list of known sites...
14 março, 2024
48-hour dash: Race against the clock to save $1,000 on Disrupt 2024
Ticktock! Only 48 hours remain to snag your discounted tickets to Disrupt 2024! Shift into high gear and save up to a whopping $1,000 by seizing this opportunity before the clock strikes at 11:59 p.m. PT on Friday, March 15. Picture it: Come October, you’ll...
14 março, 2024
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