Google is building its Gemini Nano AI model into Chrome on the desktop
This will enable developers to use the on-device model to power their own AI features. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
This will enable developers to use the on-device model to power their own AI features. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Google's Circle to Search feature will now be able to solve more complex problems across psychics and math word problems. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
People can now search using a video they upload combined with a text query to get an AI overview of the answers they need. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Online travel agency Expedia is testing an AI assistant that bolsters features like search, itinerary building, trip planning, and real-time travel updates. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Alexey Pertsev, cofounder of the crypto-anonymizing tool, has been sentenced to over five years behind bars....
VC and podcaster David Sacks has revealed a new AI chat app called Glue that fixes "Slack channel fatigue," he says. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
VC and podcaster David Sacks has revealed a new AI chat app called Glue that fixes "Slack channel fatigue," he says. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Harness Lab isn’t founder Jyoti Bansal’s first startup. He sold AppDynamics to Cisco for $3.7 billion in 2017, the week it was supposed to go public. His latest venture has raised $425 million, per Crunchbase. On Tuesday, Harness announced $150 million in debt financing, essentially...
The best thing about brain-melting software like ChatGPT? It doesn’t feel remorse....
Sona, a workforce management platform for frontline employees, has raised $27.5 million in a Series A round of funding. More than two-thirds of the U.S. workforce are reportedly in frontline jobs, which might be anything from customer service and healthcare to retail environments and hospitality....
Sona, a workforce management platform for frontline employees, has raised $27.5 million in a Series A round of funding. More than two-thirds of the U.S. workforce are reportedly in frontline jobs, which might be anything from customer service and healthcare to retail environments and hospitality....
Maad, a B2B e-commerce startup based in Senegal, has secured $3.2 million debt-equity funding to bolster its growth in the western Africa country and to explore fresh opportunities in the wider Francophone region. The seed round was led by Ventures Platform, with participation from Seedstars...
The fresh funds were raised from two investors who transferred the capital into a special purpose vehicle, a legal entity associated with the OpenAI Startup Fund. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Accel has invested in more than 200 startups in the region to date, making it one of the more prolific VCs in this market. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
On the heels of OpenAI announcing the latest iteration of its GPT large language model, its biggest rival in generative AI in the U.S. announced an expansion of its own. Anthropic said Monday that Claude, its AI assistant, is now live in Europe with support...
PauseAI protests are underway in London, New York, San Francisco, and across the globe. Its members have wildly different opinions on what the group should do next....
The decision to go monochrome was probably a smart one, considering the candy-colored alternatives that seem to want to dazzle and comfort you. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Prepare for ChatGPT to get more emotional. OpenAI demonstrated upgrades that make the chatbot capable of snappier conversations, and showed the AI helper picking up on and expressing emotional cues...
OpenAI announced a new flagship generative AI model on Monday which they call GPT-4o — the “o” stands for “omni,” referring to the model’s ability to handle text, speech, and video. GPT-4o is set to roll out “iteratively” across the company’s developer and consumer-facing products...
In 2021, Google kicked off work on Project Starline, a corporate-focused teleconferencing platform that uses 3D imaging, cameras and a custom-designed screen to let people converse with someone as if they were in the same room — more or less. Now, after years of testing...
Tuesday’s verdict in the trial of Alexey Pertsev, a creator of crypto-privacy service Tornado Cash, is the first in a string of cases that could make it much harder to skirt financial surveillance....
Four-year-old Mexican BNPL startup Aplazo facilitates fractionated payments to offline and online merchants even when the buyer doesn't have a credit card. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Co-founder and CEO Bowie Cheung, who previously worked at Uber Eats, said the company now has 200 customers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
We received countless submissions to speak at this year’s Disrupt 2024. After carefully sifting through all the applications, we’ve narrowed it down to 19 session finalists. Now we need your help to choose who will actually speak at the conference! Vote for the sessions you...
Wearable AI gadgets from Rabbit and Humane were panned by reviewers, including at WIRED. Their face-plants show that it’s still tough to compete with big tech in the age of ChatGPT....
It's spooky. It's esoteric. It's also the key to understanding the rise and relevance of functional programming....
A small band of collectors is finding and collecting rare fragments of bitcoin worth many times the face value. But their window of opportunity is closing....
AI-powered tools like OpenAI’s Whisper have enabled many apps to make transcription an integral part of their feature set for personal note-taking, and the space has quickly flourished as a result. Apps like AudioPen, Cleft Notes, and TalkNotes have proliferated across app stores and the...
Airtel, India's second-largest telco, is partnering with Google Cloud to develop and deliver cloud and GenAI solutions to Indian businesses. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch has been publishing a series of interviews focused on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’re publishing these pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues,...