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A fresh $100M rolls into DIG Ventures as it bids t...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu The number of “operator VCs” — erstwhile founders turned VCs — in Europe in fresh years. This is common in the U.S., where the majority of VCs are erstwhile founders. The reverse is actual in Europe, where most come...

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, launches an API for G...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu Billionaire Elon Musk might’ve just been countersued by OpenAI. But that isn’t stopping his AI company, xAI, from making its flagship Grok 3 model available via an API. It has been respective months since xAI unveiled Grok 3, the...

Wayve’s self-driving tech is headed to Nissan vehi...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu Nissan said it will usage self-driving software developed by Wayve to beef up its advanced driver assistance strategy starting in 2027, a landmark deal for the buzzy UK startup that has raised more than $1.3 billion from Nvidia, Microsoft, SoftBan...

How a hydrogen detonation led a teenage founder t...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu As Sequoia Capital’s first defence tech investment, Mach Industries is an manufacture darling, raising over $80 million since its founding in 2023. Its founder, Ethan Thornton, now 21, began Mach as a teenage MIT student before dropping out to...

Google says it’ll embrace Anthropic’s standard for...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu Just a fewer weeks after OpenAI said it would adopt rival Anthropic’s standard for connecting AI models to the systems where data resides, Google is following suit. In a post on X on Wednesday, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis...

Solid, which claimed to be the ‘AWS of fintech,’ f...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu Banking-as-a-service startup Solid (formerly called Wise) has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, according to papers filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the territory of Delaware on April 7. Founded in 2018, the fintech company...

OpenAI attorneys call for Elon Musk to be enjoined...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu The dramatic suit between OpenAI and its estranged co-founder, billionaire Elon Musk, shows no sign of letting up. In a filing Wednesday, attorneys for OpenAI and the another defendants in the case, including CEO Sam Altman, called for Musk...

A16z backs Base Power in $200M circular for home ...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu The money will fund a fast expansion, including dozens more megawatt-hours of battery retention and plans for a home battery factory.

Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams says compan...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, the erstwhile manager of Global Public Policy for Facebook and author of the late released tell-all book “Careless People,” told U.S. senators during her evidence on Wednesday that Meta actively targeted te...

A Waymo robotaxi got trapped in Chick-fil-A drive-...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu A Waymo robotaxi caused a traffic jam at a Chick-fil-A in Santa Monica, California, this week after getting stuck in the fast food restaurant’s drive-thru lane. Waymo confirmed the incident, which was first reported by local broadcast station KTLA......

Whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams accuses Meta of ...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu Sarah Wynn-Williams, Facebook’s erstwhile Head of Global Public Policy, testified before the U.S. legislature present about the company’s relation with China. According to Wynn-Williams, the company now known as Meta worked straight with the Chi...

Nvidia’s H20 AI chips may be spared from export co...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang appears to have struck a deal with the Trump administration to avoid export restrictions on the company’s H20 AI chips. The H20, the most advanced Nvidia-produced AI chip that can inactive be exported from the...

Threads is investigating a feature that lets you ...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu Meta is starting to test a fresh feature in Threads that lets users follow the same creators they follow on X, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. “We’re presently investigating a way for you to find and follow creators from...

IBM Adds Meta’s Llama 4 Models to watsonx.ai

storagereview.com 1 miesiąc temu IBM integrates two of Meta's latest Llama 4 models, Scout and Maverick, into watsonx.ai platform. IBM has integrated Meta's latest open-source AI models—Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick—into its watsonx.ai platform. This next-generation mixture of ...

Ilya Sutskever taps Google Cloud to power his AI s...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu OpenAI co-founder and erstwhile chief scientist Ilya Sutskever’s fresh AI startup, Safe Superintelligence (SSI), is utilizing Google Cloud’s TPU chips to power its AI research, part of a fresh partnership the companies announced on Wednesday in a ...

Canoo CEO can buy bankrupt EV startup’s assets, ju...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu The sale of bankrupt EV startup Canoo’s assets to its CEO has been okayed by the justice overseeing the case. After evaluating a number of limited objections to the sale, justice Brendan Shannon said in a proceeding Wednesday he...

Proxmox VE 8.4 Arrives with New Tools for Live Mig...

storagereview.com 1 miesiąc temu Proxmox VE 8.4 adds live vGPU migration, third-party backup API, virtiofs sharing, and updated core components for modern IT. Proxmox has released version 8.4 of its Virtual Environment (VE) platform—a widely used open-source tool for managing virtua...

Court paper reveals locations of WhatsApp victims...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu The list of 1,223 victims in 51 countries hints at the “true scale of the spyware problem,” per 1 researcher.

More good news for fresh York startups: Lerer Hip...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu New York’s A-list venture capital seed fund, Lerer Hippeau, announced it closed a ninth $200 million fund on Wednesday. That’s a step up from its eighth fund, which closed at $140 million, it said. With the fresh fund, Lerer...

OpenAI launches program to plan fresh ‘domain-sp...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu OpenAI, like many AI labs, thinks AI benchmarks are broken. It says it wants to fix them through a fresh program. Called the OpenAI Pioneers Program, the program will focus on creating evaluations for AI models that “set the...

Anthropic rolls out a $200-per-month Claude subscr...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu Anthropic announced on Wednesday that it’s launching a new, very costly subscription plan for its AI chatbot Claude: Max. An answer to OpenAI’s $200-a-month ChatGPT Pro tier, Max comes with higher usage limits than Anthropic’s $20-per-month Claude P...

Kalshi CEO: ‘State law doesn’t truly apply’ to us...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu Last week, prediction marketplace startup Kalshi sued fresh Jersey and Nevada after they tried to shut down its late launched sports trading operation. In the lawsuit, Kalshi claimed that, since they’re a federally regulated platform, state gaming...

MIT survey finds that AI doesn’t, in fact, have v...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu A survey went viral respective months ago for implying that, as AI becomes increasingly sophisticated, it develops “value systems” — systems that lead it to, for example, prioritize its own well-being over humans. A more fresh paper out of...

YouTube expands its ‘likeness’ detection technolog...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu YouTube on Wednesday announced an expansion of its pilot program designed to identify and manage AI-generated content that features the “likeness,” including the face, of creators, artists, and another celebrated or influential figures. The company...

Senator puts hold on Trump’s nominee for CISA dire...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu Sean Plankey's nomination to head up CISA will be blocked, for now.

US may fine TSMC $1B over chip allegedly utilized ...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) may gotta pay a fine of $1 billion or more to resolve a U.S. export control investigation related to a chip it made that was utilized in a Huawei AI processor, according to...

Tired of doing laundry? These startups want to hel...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu Doing laundry can be a chore. It takes time and is tedious. fewer of us like to do it. So it’s no surprise that startups have emerged to take that burden off your back — literally. And investors are...

Samsung’s SmartThings app gets more home automatio...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu Samsung has updated SmartThings, its app that lets users control the company’s IoT devices, with fresh home automation capabilities in an apparent bid to cross-sell more of its smart home devices and appliances to existing customers. too the automa...

Artisan, the ‘stop hiring humans’ AI agent startup...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu It’s been a tough but breathtaking year for 23-year-old Jaspar Carmichael-Jack, founder and CEO of AI sales agent startup Artisan. Artisan just raised a $25 million Series A led by Glade Brook Capital, Carmichael-Jack exclusively tells TechCrunch. Y...

WordPress.com launches a free AI-powered website b...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu Hosting platform WordPress.com on Wednesday launched a fresh AI website builder that allows anyone to make a functioning website utilizing an AI chat-style interface. The feature, which is being made available to WordPress users for free, is target...

SanDisk Extreme PRO Dual Drive Review: A Durable, ...

storagereview.com 1 miesiąc temu The SanDisk Extreme PRO Dual Drive delivers up to 1,000MB/s transfers and has USB-C and USB-A connectors for easy use across all devices. The SanDisk Extreme PRO Dual Drive is a versatile flash drive built for compatibility across various...

Instagram tests locked reels that can be accessed ...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu Instagram appears to be quietly investigating locked reels that viewers would gotta unlock with a code and a provided hint. The feature is simply a simple way to increase engagement with the creator’s content, but it could besides offer...

Nuro’s $106M rise backs its shift from transporta...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu After months of hearty marketing efforts and large-scale technology demos across the U.S., Nuro has secured $106 million in fresh backing to aid scale its autonomous driving technology and advance commercial partnerships. The Series E circular br...

The complete agenda for TechCrunch Sessions: AI un...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu It’s been a couple of years since our last topic-focused, one-day event — but with AI transforming the tech landscape, we couldn’t miss the chance to gather 1,200 founders, CEOs, entrepreneurs, investors, and anyone shaping the future of AI...

Tessell snags $60M to drive data management at sca...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu Tessell, a startup developing a multi-cloud database-as-a-service, has raised $60 million in a fresh backing circular led by WestBridge Capital ahead of its plans to grow its marketplace presence and launch an AI-powered conversational database ...

Solve Intelligence raises fresh $12M to bring AI t...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu Legal tech has come a long way, but the bulk of an intellectual property or patent lawyer’s work present is inactive done with spreadsheets, word processors and PDFs. A startup out of Delaware, Solve Intelligence, is utilizing generative AI...

Samsung adds Google’s Gemini to its home robot Bal...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu Samsung said on Wednesday that it’s adding Google’s Gemini AI to its home robot Ballie through a partnership with Google Cloud. Users will be able to ask the robot different queries to get answers from Gemini, said the companies....

Reddit’s conversational AI search tool leverages G...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu Reddit Answers, the platform’s conversational AI search tool, gets an upgrade through an integration with Google Gemini. This comes over a year after Reddit expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to access its Vertex AI platform to build AI agent...

Gemini Code Assist, Google’s AI coding assistant, ...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu Gemini Code Assist, Google’s AI coding assistant, is gaining fresh “agentic” capabilities in preview. During its Cloud Next conference on Wednesday, Google said Code Assist can now deploy fresh AI “agents” that can take multiple steps to accomplish...

Google’s enterprise cloud gets a music-generating ...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu On Wednesday, Google rolled out updates to respective of its first-party media-generating AI models available through its Vertex AI cloud platform. Lyria, Google’s text-to-music model, is now available in preview for choice customers, and the compa...

Google Workspace gets automation flows, podcast-st...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu Google is upgrading Workspace, its suite of cloud-based productivity tools, with fresh AI capabilities. The suite is gaining Workspace Flows, a tool designed to automate multi-step processes specified as updating spreadsheets and digging through pa...

Google’s newest Gemini AI model focuses on efficie...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu Google is releasing a fresh AI model designed to deliver strong performance with a focus on efficiency. The model, Gemini 2.5 Flash, will shortly launch in Vertex AI, Google’s AI improvement platform. The company says it offers “dynamic and...

Ironwood is Google’s newest AI accelerator chip

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu During its Cloud Next conference this week, Google unveiled the latest generation of its TPU AI accelerator chip. The fresh chip, called Ironwood, is Google’s seventh-generation TPU and is the first optimized for inference — that is, moving AI...

Lyst, the fashion marketplace erstwhile valued at...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu Fashion goes in and out of style, and so, it turns out, do fashion startups. Lyst — the high-end fashion marketplace with 160 million users that was erstwhile valued at $700 million — has been acquired for just $154...

Governments identify dozens of Android apps bundle...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu The advisories say the spyware apps are utilized to mark members of civilian society who may argue China’s state interests.

A 25-year-old police drone founder just raised $75...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu If you always call 911 from an area that’s hard to get to, you might hear the buzz of a drone well before a police cruiser pulls up. And there’s a good chance that it will be 1 made...

Instagram is beefing up its search to compete with...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu Instagram head Adam Mosseri says the company is looking to improve the app’s search functionality, admitting this is an area where Instagram could do more to compete. The remarks, made on a fresh episode of the “Build Your Tribe”...

Deep Cogito emerges from stealth with hybrid AI ‘r...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu A fresh company, Deep Cogito, has emerged from stealth with a household of openly available AI models that can be switched between “reasoning” and non-reasoning modes. Reasoning models like OpenAI’s o1 have shown large promise in domains like math...

No, Stripe is not becoming a bank

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu Last week, details emerged about an application that fintech giant Stripe had submitted for a U.S. banking license. There was quite a few chatter on X about whether this meant Stripe – already the largest privately valued fintech in...

Inside the EV startup secretly backed by Jeff Bezo...

techcrunch.com 1 miesiąc temu Jeff Bezos is backing a secretive EV startup based in Michigan called Slate car that could start production as shortly as next year, according to multiple sources and papers that link the billionaire’s household office to the startup. Slate,...