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YouTube expands its ‘likeness’ detection technolog...

techcrunch.com 4 miesięcy 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 4 miesięcy 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 4 miesięcy 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 4 miesięcy 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 4 miesięcy 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 4 miesięcy 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 4 miesięcy 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 4 miesięcy 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 4 miesięcy 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 4 miesięcy 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 4 miesięcy 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 4 miesięcy 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 4 miesięcy 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 4 miesięcy 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 4 miesięcy 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 4 miesięcy 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 4 miesięcy 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 4 miesięcy 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 4 miesięcy 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 4 miesięcy 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 4 miesięcy 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 4 miesięcy 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 4 miesięcy 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 4 miesięcy 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 4 miesięcy 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 4 miesięcy 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 4 miesięcy 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,...

IBM z17: A Mainframe Engineered with AI at its Cor...

storagereview.com 4 miesięcy temu IBM's z17 mainframe has the processing power to deliver 50% more AI inference operations daily. IBM has unveiled the IBM z17 mainframe, a leap forward in its enterprise technology portfolio, engineered with AI at its core. Built around the...

IBM Strengthens AI-Driven Business Operations From...

storagereview.com 4 miesięcy temu IBM's acquisition of data and AI solutions leader Hakkoda allows it to expand the development of streamlined, efficient, and cost-effective data estates. IBM announced it has acquired Hakkoda Inc., a leading global consultancy specializing in data an...

At last, MrBeast weighs in on the global economica...

techcrunch.com 4 miesięcy temu Your 401k is suffering. The billionaires are fighting. The gamers are imperiled. Not even the penguins on McDonald Island, where no humans reside, have been spared. But at long last, 26-year-old YouTuber and chocolatier MrBeast has weighed in on...

Generac Data Center Backup Generators Deliver Up t...

storagereview.com 4 miesięcy temu Generac data center backup generators deliver 2.25MW–3.25MW of scalable, reliable power for hyperscale, enterprise, and edge deployments. Generac has expanded its energy solutions portfolio by introducing new generator models explicitly designed for ...

Does Colossal Biosciences’ dire wolf creation just...

techcrunch.com 4 miesięcy temu On Monday, the “de-extinction” startup Colossal Biosciences announced its most ambitious results to date: the dire wolf. These are creatures that have been extinct for more than 12,000 years made celebrated by the HBO show Game of Thrones. These...

A nonprofit is utilizing AI agents to rise money ...

techcrunch.com 4 miesięcy temu Tech giants like Microsoft might be touting AI “agents” as profit-boosting tools for corporations, but a nonprofit is trying to prove that agents can be a force for good, too. Sage Future, a 501(c)(3) backed by Open Philanthropy, launched...

Tapestry’s app can now de-dupe your social feeds

techcrunch.com 4 miesięcy temu Tapestry, a fresh app designed to organize the open social web, is adding a valuable feature to aid people who are keeping up with multiple social networks: It will now remove duplicate posts from your feed. That means if...

Google fixes 2 Android zero-day bugs actively exp...

techcrunch.com 4 miesięcy temu The most severe safety bug can be exploited without user interaction, per Google.

Amazon’s Zoox begins robotaxi investigating in Lo...

techcrunch.com 4 miesięcy temu Zoox, Amazon’s autonomous vehicle unit, is deploying a tiny fleet of retrofitted test vehicles on the streets of Los Angeles starting Tuesday – a modest, yet meaningful step as the company inches toward offering public rides in Las Vegas...

Take the phase at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: Apply ...

techcrunch.com 4 miesięcy temu If you’re reading this, consider it your signal: the chance to influence the future of tech is here. TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is now accepting talker applications. Join us on phase this October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco...

Los Angeles-based Rain raised a $75M Series B in a...

techcrunch.com 4 miesięcy temu Rain, a startup offering employer-integrated earned wage access (EWA) app coupled with financial-wellness features like overdraft alerts and spending trends, has raised $75 million in an all-equity Series B round. The circular was led by Prosus at a...

Founders, TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 is ca...

techcrunch.com 4 miesięcy temu Founders, the battlefield is calling! Startup Battlefield 200 applications are now live — and the race has begun. If you’ve got a groundbreaking thought and the guts to pitch it to the world, TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is your arena....

Trump to endorse coal for data center power in the...

techcrunch.com 4 miesięcy temu An executive order will direct the national government to list coal as a critical mineral and force any coal-fired power plants to keep generating electricity.

Volunteer your time for a free ticket to TechCrunc...

techcrunch.com 4 miesięcy temu Join us for an unforgettable chance at TechCrunch Sessions: AI, happening at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall on June 5! We’re on the lookout for enthusiastic volunteers to be part of this breathtaking event. If you’ve always wondered what goes...

Waymo may usage interior camera data to train gen...

techcrunch.com 4 miesięcy temu Waymo is preparing to usage data from its robotaxis, including video from interior cameras tied to rider identities, to train generative AI models, according to an unreleased version of its privacy policy found by investigator Jane Manchun Wong, ra...

Meet the fresh Audience Choice winners to lead br...

techcrunch.com 4 miesięcy temu You voted. They rose to the top! Meet the 2 Audience Choice winners who’ll take the breakout phase at TechCrunch Sessions: AI on June 5 in Zellerbach Hall at UC Berkeley to share their insights with 1,200 AI leaders...

Mira Murati’s AI startup gains prominent ex-OpenAI...

techcrunch.com 4 miesięcy temu Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s fresh AI venture, reasoning Machines Lab, has gained 2 fresh prominent advisors: Bob McGrew, previously OpenAI’s chief investigation officer, and Alec Radford, a erstwhile OpenAI investigator behind many of the comp...

Dell PowerEdge R770 Review: Modular, Powerful, and...

storagereview.com 4 miesięcy temu Dell PowerEdge R770 review: Intel Xeon 6 CPUs, OCP DC-MHS modularity, impressive performance, flexibility, and AI-ready in a dense 2U chassis. Dell's PowerEdge R7x0 series servers have long been a cornerstone of data centers, renowned for their excep...

Amazon unveils a fresh AI voice model, Nova Sonic...

techcrunch.com 4 miesięcy temu On Tuesday, Amazon debuted a fresh generative AI model, Nova Sonic, capable of natively processing voice and generating natural-sounding speech. Amazon claims that Sonic’s performance is competitive with frontier voice models from OpenAI and Google ...

Snapchat rolls out Sponsored AI Lenses for brands

techcrunch.com 4 miesięcy temu Snapchat is introducing Sponsored AI Lenses, a fresh ad format that lets brands engage with consumers in an immersive way. While Snapchat has offered brands the chance to pay for sponsored lenses on the platform for years, now they...

Dell Updates Server, Storage, and Data Protection ...

storagereview.com 4 miesięcy temu Dell delivers significant updates to its server, storage, and data protection platforms. Dell Technologies recently announced significant updates to its server, storage, and data protection offerings, targeting organizations seeking to modernize thei...

Blackbird gobbles up $50M for its blockchain-based...

techcrunch.com 4 miesięcy temu A founder who has carved out a name for himself building products to aid restaurants connect better with would-be diners has raised $50 million for his latest startup: a fresh take on the thought of client loyalty. Blackbird Labs...

Sizl raises $3.5M to grow its cook-to-order food ...

techcrunch.com 4 miesięcy temu Dark kitchens– besides referred to as ghost kitchens, cloud kitchens, or virtual kitchens– frequently receive criticism for their food quality. Sizl, a cook-to-order transportation service based in Chicago, seeks to change this perception by deliv...