Binance Founder Changpeng Zhao Sentenced to 4 Months in Prison
A US judge has sentenced crypto kingpin Changpeng Zhao, also known as CZ, to four months in prison for breaking anti-money-laundering rules....
30 abril, 2024
Amazon CodeWhisperer is now called Q Developer and is expanding its functions
Pour one out for CodeWhisperer, Amazon’s AI-powered assistive coding tool. As of today, it’s kaput — sort of. CodeWhisperer is now Q Developer, a part of Amazon’s Q family of business-oriented generative AI chatbots that also extends to the newly-announced Q Business. Available through AWS,...
30 abril, 2024
EU watchdog questions secrecy around lawmakers’ encryption-breaking CSAM scanning proposal
The European Commission has again been urged to more fully disclose its dealings with private technology companies and other stakeholders, in relation to a controversial piece of tech policy that could see a law mandate the scanning of European Union citizens’ private messages in a...
30 abril, 2024
How European disability tech startups are leveraging AI
Making life better for people with disabilities is a laudable goal, but accessibility tech hasn’t traditionally been popular among VCs. In 2022, disability tech companies attracted around $4 billion in early-stage investments, which was a fraction of fintech’s intake, for example. One reason is that...
30 abril, 2024
TechCrunch Minute: OpenAI’s media deal rush continues with FT deal
OpenAI has landed a new content deal with the FT. But instead of being a merely simple deal in which OpenAI gets words, and FT gets money, the two are teaming up a bit more deeply. Look to see FT.com links in ChaptGPT in the...
30 abril, 2024
Productive solar technologies draw investors as global off-grid solar sector funding slumps
Productive Use of Renewable Energy (PURE) technologies, especially those in the solar irrigation and cold chain segment, saw increased investor interest last year, despite a 43% funding slump recorded in the global off-grid solar sector. The global association for the off-grid solar energy industry, GOGLA,...
30 abril, 2024
Shinkei’s humane, quality-preserving fish-harvesting tech could upend the seafood industry
Shinkei raised $6 million to help it go from pilot to production, with a goal of 10 machines in actual use by the end of the year. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
30 abril, 2024
Sam’s Club’s AI-powered exit tech reaches 20% of stores
Sam's Club customers who pay either at a register or through the Scan & Go mobile app can now walk out of the store without having their purchases double-checked. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
30 abril, 2024
Seam wants to make customer data accessible to every business user
As data access becomes increasingly tied to business success, making data available to all business users, regardless of their data wrangling skills has grown in importance. The founders of Seam, an early stage startup, experienced the need to make data more accessible first hand when...
30 abril, 2024
Notable Capital’s Hans Tung on why founders need to play the long game
Hans Tung, a managing partner at Notable Capital, formerly GGV Capital, has a lot of thoughts on the state of venture capital today. With $4.2 billion in assets under management, Notable evolved from 24-year-old cross-border VC firm GGV Capital, and Tung has been around while GGV...
30 abril, 2024
The Browser Company releases Arc for Windows
The Browser Company, makers of the Arc web browser, released its Windows version today. The company started testing the Windows client in December, and it said that more than 150,000 people have been using it. The startup, which aims to replace your current browser, recently...
30 abril, 2024
A pair of Airbnb alums is bringing intelligence and automation to data protection
When Julie Trias and Elizabeth Nammour were working together at Airbnb on the company’s data team, they had to deal with data spread across a variety of sources, and that growing sprawl led to challenges in keeping data safe. The founders’ own frustration with the...
30 abril, 2024
‘Wallet-as-a-service’ startup Ansa raises $14 million with female investors leading the way
Ansa, a startup that helps merchants develop and offer branded virtual wallets, has raised a $14 million Series A round of funding, the company has told TechCrunch exclusively. Renegade Partners led Ansa’s latest financing, which included participation from existing backers Bain Capital Ventures, BoxGroup and...
30 abril, 2024
SafeBase taps AI to automate software security reviews
Security review automation platform SafeBase has raised new cash from investors including Zoom's corporate VC arm. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
30 abril, 2024
SafeBase taps AI to automate software security reviews
Security review automation platform SafeBase has raised new cash from investors including Zoom's corporate VC arm. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
30 abril, 2024
Beehiiv attracts $32M to make its newsletter publishing platform more sticky
With the number of people using e-mail globally approaching 5 billion, newsletters delivered regularly into people’s inboxes continue to look like a sticky way of getting attention for whatever it is that you’re writing. Now, in a signal of the popularity of the medium, one...
30 abril, 2024
Yelp is launching a new AI assistant to help you connect with businesses
Yelp announced a new AI-powered chatbot today for consumers that helps them connect with relevant businesses for their tasks. The company joins a long list of organizations leaning into AI chatbots as an assistive medium. The company is rolling out the AI assistant on its...
30 abril, 2024
AI Detectors for ChatGPT: Everything You Need to Know
Is whatever you’re reading written by a human, or is it generated by artificial intelligence? This list of articles will help you understand AI text detection....
30 abril, 2024
Devastated by his image being posted to a porn site, this founder hit on an AI startup idea
Realising that a former partner had, unbeknownst to him, put previously private, intimate videos of them onto a porn site, tech founder Dan Purcell felt devastated. He resolved to come up with a solution to help prevent such violations happening again. His Ceartas startup has...
30 abril, 2024
Nigeria’s YC-backed Chowdeck hopes to scale food delivery, a notoriously tough market, with $2.5M funding
Food is significant to Nigerians, with households spending nearly 60% of their income on it, the highest globally, according to official reports. This strong affinity for food, coupled with the rise of online shopping, sets the stage for Nigeria’s food delivery market to potentially reach...
30 abril, 2024
neuroClues wants to put high speed eye tracking tech in the doctor’s office
The eyes aren’t just a window into the soul; tracking saccades can help doctors pick up a range of brain health issues. That’s why French-Belgian medtech startup neuroClues is building accessible, high-speed eye-tracking technology that incorporates AI-driven analysis. It wants to make it easier for...
30 abril, 2024
neuroClues wants to put high speed eye tracking tech in the doctor’s office
The eyes aren’t just a window into the soul; tracking saccades can help doctors pick up a range of brain health issues. That’s why French-Belgian medtech startup neuroClues is building accessible, high-speed eye-tracking technology that incorporates AI-driven analysis. It wants to make it easier for...
30 abril, 2024
As VC firms invest more in B2B startups, Intuition is a new VC fund focusing on consumer tech
In 2024, it’s hard to wake up without reading about yet another large funding round in an enterprise AI company. Intuition, a new VC firm based in Paris, is doing something radical and betting on consumer tech exclusively. Behind the scenes, Hugo Amsellem (pictured left)...
30 abril, 2024
Carbonfact is a carbon management platform designed specifically for the fashion industry
French startup Carbonfact believes that the best carbon accounting solutions will focus on one vertical. That’s why the company has decided to provide a carbon management and reporting tool for the fashion industry exclusively. And Carbonfact recently raised a $15 million funding round led by...
30 abril, 2024
NIST launches a new platform to assess generative AI
NIST, the U.S. government agency charged with testing emerging tech, has created a new platform to evaluate generative AI. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
29 abril, 2024
Apple iPad event 2024: Watch Apple unveil new iPads right here
We’re still well over a month out from WWDC, but Apple went ahead and snuck in another event. On Tuesday, May 7 at 7 a.m. PT/10 a.m. ET, the company is set to unveil the latest additions to the iPad line. According to the rumor...
29 abril, 2024
Elon Musk Can’t Solve Tesla’s China Crisis With His Desperate Asia Visit
Tesla's deal with Baidu isn't new, the mapping data Tesla will collect likely can't leave China, and Full Self Driving can't compete with the more advanced Chinese alternatives....
29 abril, 2024
Fisker starts new round of layoffs to ‘preserve cash’
EV startup Fisker Inc. is laying off more employees to “preserve cash,” one week after warning investors it would have to make cuts to stave off impending bankruptcy, according to an internal email viewed by TechCrunch. Founder and CEO Henrik Fisker told employees Monday morning...
29 abril, 2024
Copilot Workspace is GitHub’s take on AI-powered software engineering
GitHub's new Copilot Workspace brings AI-powered assistive software engineering tools front and center. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only....
29 abril, 2024
TechCrunch Minute: Elon Musk’s big plans for xAI include raising $6 billion
TechCrunch recently broke the news that Elon Musk’s xAI is raising $6 billion at a pre-money valuation of $18 billion. The deal hasn’t closed yet, so the numbers could change. But it sounds like Musk is making an ambitious pitch to investors about his 10-month-old...
29 abril, 2024
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