The French startup's AI assistant is aimed at helping obstetricians and gynecologists with the evaluation and documentation of ultrasound exams. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Kyle Kuzma is a lot of things. He’s a forward for the Washington Wizards NBA team and a 2020 NBA champion. He’s also a style icon — depending on who you ask — and an angel investor. Now he’s an adviser at a venture fund...
Ofcom is cracking down on Instagram, YouTube and 150,000 other web services to improve child safety online. A new Children’s Safety Code from the U.K. Internet regulator will push tech firms to run better age checks, filter and downrank content, and apply around 40 other...
Tesla’s gigafactory in Germany has temporarily paused production as protests ramp up....
Meta claims that it has strong guardrails in place to prevent its system from generating inappropriate ad content or low-quality images. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
The pandemic ushered in an e-bike boom. But like so many other pandemic trends, that boom didn’t last. The last year has seen e-bike startups VanMoof and Cake file for bankruptcy amid a backdrop of micromobility doom and gloom. Tier and Dott merged. Superpedestrian closed...
ChatGPT developer OpenAI says that artists and other content owners will be able to request that their work be excluded from use in AI development. Many details of the scheme remain unclear....
Robert Kahn has been a consistent presence on the Internet since its creation — obviously, since he was its co-creator. But like many tech pioneers his resumé is longer than that and in fact his work prefigured such ostensibly modern ideas as AI agents and...
Amazon is launching a new tool, Bedrock Studio, designed to let organizations experiment with generative AI models, collaborate on those models, and ultimately build generative AI-powered apps. Available in public preview starting today, the web-based Bedrock Studio — a part of Bedrock, Amazon’s generative AI...
Oyo, the Indian budget-hotel chain startup, is negotiating with investors to raise a new round of funding that could cut the Indian firm’s valuation to $3 billion or lower, three sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The startup is engaging with investors, including Malaysia’s...
AI is coming for audiobooks, and that is not an entirely bad thing. But it is a cause of concern in the realm of audio titles and the folks who make them today. Audible is making it easy for authors to generate AI-narrated audiobooks, and...
GitHub is betting that there are quite a few use cases for Copilot Chat on mobile that make this a worthwhile effort. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Tuesday's theme focused on the new hardware devices themselves — devices like new iPads and an updated Apple Pencil — not on the AI advances Apple is making under the hood. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
OpenAI says that it’s developing a tool to let creators better control how their content’s used in training generative AI. Called Media Manager, the tool — once it’s released — will allow creators and content owners to identify their works to OpenAI and specify how...
Einsfrats sat down with Found to discuss building this company and medical testing for it. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Researchers at MIT CSAIL and Project CETI believe that they have unlocked a kind of sperm whale alphabet with the aid of machine learning technologies. Results from the study, which were published under the title, “Contextual and Combinatorial Structure in Sperm Whale Vocalizations,” point to...
UK-based autonomous vehicle startup Wayve started life as a software platform loaded into a tiny electric ‘car’ called a Renault Twizy. Festooned with cameras, the company’s co-founders and PhD graduates, Alex Kendall and Amar Shah, tuned the deep-learning algorithms powering the car’s autonomous systems until...
While taking a long road trip across the U.S. years ago, Sanish Mondkar realized that there were stark, problematic disconnects between employers and the staff they employ. To critics of late-stage capitalism, that might sound like an obvious observation. But Mondkar, who has a master’s...
While taking a long road trip across the U.S. years ago, Sanish Mondkar realized that there were stark, problematic disconnects between employers and the staff they employ. To critics of late-stage capitalism, that might sound like an obvious observation. But Mondkar, who has a master’s...
Digital banking startup Mercury is layering software onto its bank accounts, giving its business customers the ability to pay bills, invoice customers and reimburse employees, the company has told TechCrunch exclusively. The additional features puts the company in even more direct competition with the likes...
In 2017, Vinod Khosla told CNBC that the job “of the radiologist will be obsolete in five years.” While the founder of Khosla Ventures later revised that timeline to as long as 15 years, he maintained that AI image recognition could soon diagnose disease on...
Bias in AI image generators is a well-studied and well-reported phenomenon, but consumer tools continue to exhibit glaring cultural biases. The latest culprit in this area is Meta’s AI chatbot, which, for some reason, really wants to add turbans to any image of an Indian...
Daloopa, a startup building AI to extract info from financial reports and investor presentations, has raised cash in a new funding round. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Daloopa, a startup building AI to extract info from financial reports and investor presentations, has raised cash in a new funding round. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
Microsoft and OpenAI have launched a $2 million fund to combat the growing risks of AI and deepfakes in elections. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
When Itai Ben-Zaken’s first startup failed in 2018, the former BCG consultant and Wharton MBA spent months trying to understand what he could have done differently during the five years he ran the company. After analyzing most of his major decisions, he concluded that while...
A couple of weeks ago, TechCrunch broke the news that Akamai was in discussions to acquire Noname Security, a specialist in API security, for around $500 million. Today the deal is official, albeit at a lower price. Akamai has confirmed that it is buying the...
Musi’s free music streaming app is a hit with thrifty teens. The app claims to tap content on YouTube, but some in the music industry question the legitimacy of that model....
Amazon’s newest delivery drones will take off from just outside Phoenix but don't count on rush ordering a fan on a hot day. The fleet can't fly when the temperature exceeds 104 degrees Fahrenheit....
India's Election Commission is urging political parties to refrain from using deepfakes and misinformation amid the country's ongoing general elections. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....