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It's clear that this year will be a turning point for DEI. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
It's clear that this year will be a turning point for DEI. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
The keynote will be focused on Apple's software offerings and the developers that power them, including the latest versions of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS and watchOS. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Malicious actors are abusing generative AI music tools to create homophobic, racist, and propagandic songs — and publishing guides instructing others how to do so. According to ActiveFence, a service for managing trust and safety operations on online platforms, there’s been a spike in chatter...
As WWDC 2024 nears, all sorts of rumors and leaks have emerged about what iOS 18 and its AI-powered apps and features have in store. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
The company has been sued by at least seven creditors, including Wells Fargo. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
The company has been sued by at least seven creditors, including Wells Fargo. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Cloudera, the once high flying Hadoop startup, raised $1 billion and went public in 2018 before being acquired by private equity for $5.3 billion 2021. Today, the company announced that it is acquiring Verta, an AI startup that helps customers manage machine learning models, including...
The global spend management sector is experiencing a tailwind of sorts. North America is arguably the biggest market in this space, but spend management companies have seen demand rise across the world, thanks to increasing internet penetration, tech advancements and businesses’ increasing focus on making...
Neural Concept lets designers model how components will perform before they can be manufactured. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
The StrictlyVC roadtrip continues! Coming off of sold-out events in London, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, we’re heading to Washington, D.C. for a cozy-vc-packed, evening at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre on Tuesday, June 11 in partnership with Revolution. StrictlyVC events are known for delivering exclusive...
Companies like Amazon and Microsoft are racing to set up new data centers in Europe, but behind the scenes there's concern about how provide them enough power to meet AI's demands....
Ashby consolidates existing talent acquisition tools and leans heavily on AI to automate the more repetitive steps in the recruitment pipeline. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Monzo has announced its 2024 financial results, revealing its first full-year pre-tax profit. The company also confirmed that it’s in the early stages of expanding into the broader European market via a new base in Ireland. The news comes shortly after the U.K.-based neobank raised...
Last week, TechCrunch paid a visit to Apple’s Austin, Texas manufacturing facilities. Since 2013, the company has built its Mac Pro desktop about 20 minutes north of downtown. The 400,000 square foot facility sits in a maze of industry parks, a quick trip south from...
Early attempts at making dedicated hardware to house artificial intelligence smarts have been criticized as, well, a bit rubbish. But here’s an AI gadget-in-the-making that’s all about rubbish, literally: Finnish startup Binit is applying large language models’ (LLMs) image processing capabilities to tracking household trash....
While all of Wesley Chan's success has been well-documented over the years, his personal journey…not so much. Chan spoke to TechCrunch about the ways his life impacts how he invests in startups. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
With fewer than 400,000 inhabitants, Iceland receives more than its fair share of tourists — and of venture capital. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
What is AI? We've put together this non-technical guide to give anyone a fighting chance to understand how and why today's AI works. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
VCs are clamoring to invest in hot AI companies, willing to pay exorbitant share prices for coveted spots on their cap tables. Even so, most aren’t able to get into such deals at all. Yet, small, unknown investors, including family offices and high-net-worth individuals, have...
The fashion industry has a huge problem: Despite many returned items being unworn or undamaged, a lot, if not the majority, end up in the trash. An estimated 9.5 billion pounds of returns ended up in landfills in 2022 alone, according to data from return...
Generative AI improvements are increasingly being made through data curation and collection — not architectural — improvements. Big Tech has an advantage. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
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....
Jasper Health, a cancer care platform startup, laid off a substantial part of its workforce, TechCrunch has learned. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Late Friday afternoon, a time window companies usually reserve for unflattering disclosures, AI startup Hugging Face said that its security team earlier this week detected “unauthorized access” to Spaces, Hugging Face’s platform for creating, sharing and hosting AI models and resources. In a blog post,...
Google rushed out fixes after its AI search feature made errors that went viral. Fundamental limitations of generative AI mean that it will still screw up sometimes....
Google is embarrassed about its AI Overviews, too. After a deluge of dunks and memes over the past week, which cracked on the poor quality and outright misinformation that arose from the tech giant’s underbaked new AI-powered search feature, the company on Thursday issued a...
Welcome to Startups Weekly — Haje‘s weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. In a twist that shocks absolutely no one and thrills pyromaniacs who love seeing money burn,...
The RAW Dating App aims to shake up the dating scheme by shedding the fake, TikTok-ified, heavily filtered photos and replacing them with a more genuine, unvarnished experience. The app targets young professionals and students, particularly women aged 21 to 27, who seek genuine interactions....
This is not a drill! Today marks the final day to secure your early-bird tickets for TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 at a significantly reduced rate. At midnight tonight, May 31, ticket prices will increase, so act now to save up to $800 on admission to one...
Voice cloning startup ElevenLabs introduced a new tool for users to generate sound effects through prompts today after announcing the project back in February. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....