Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes that sovereign AI — where countries and companies hang on to their own data used in AI models — will remake data centers everywhere. Venturebeat
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House staging is a significant part of the real estate industry, and while Realtors have traditionally staged houses physically before posting a listing, TechCrunch
Google has apologized (or come very close to apologizing) for another embarrassing AI blunder this week, an image-generating model that injected diversity TechCrunch
A court filing in the U.S. Department of Justice's case against Google over its alleged monopoly in the search market has revealed a few notable tidbits TechCrunch
Jasper will integrate the entire set of capabilities Clipdrop has on offer into its AI copilot, creating a much better experience for designing campaigns. Venturebeat
The company is further expanding the marketplace to include user ratings and more builder profile information — but no revenue sharing yet. Venturebeat
Well-known accelerator group Techstars announced a slew of changes to its operations this week, including the shuttering of some of its city-based programs. Criticism from former members of its decisions lit social media channels who argued that the famed startup accelerator has lost focus on the very thing that historically made it so successful. TechCrunch
Allocations, an AI-powered alternative investing platform, just crossed $2 billion in assets as it transforms private capital fundraising with machine learning. Venturebeat
Intuitive Machines' spacecraft touched down yesterday on the lunar surface . . . sideways. CEO Steve Altemus confirmed during a press conference Friday TechCrunch
Today Salesforce announced the general availability of its Tableau Pulse technology, bringing the power of multiple forms of AI, including generative AI to help organizations get more business intelligence insights from their data. Venturebeat
Riot has renamed its upcoming League of Legends 2v2 team-based fighting game 2XKO, hinting at its esports ambitions ahead of its 2025 launch. Venturebeat
In this edition of Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch's weekly news roundup, we cover OpenAI's new Sora model, a credit score-based dating app, and more. TechCrunch
Few categories are as ripe for automation-fueled disruption as construction. The industry is valued at around $2 trillion a year, in the U.S. alone. Much TechCrunch
Menlo Security's latest report reveals urgent cybersecurity challenges and strategies for businesses integrating generative AI like ChatGPT into their daily operations. Venturebeat
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech (formerly The Interchange)! This week, we’re looking at a new finance-based dating app, Robinhood's earnings results and the TechCrunch
Enterprises working with Rasa in the banking and financial sectors have built assistants to help their end-users with tasks like managing accounts, sending money, checking balances and replacing cards. Venturebeat
With Twilio under pressure from activist investors, it's looking at whether to sell Segment, the company it bought in 2020 for $3.2 billion. TechCrunch
The company made advancements in its proprietary dairy seed system to leverage interactions between recombinant dairy casein and native plant proteins. TechCrunch
Vectara's platform takes a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) approach with its Boomerang vector embeddings to provide the most up-to-date information and reduce the risk of hallucination. Venturebeat
It's every parent's worst nightmare. Earlier this week, the 19-year-old son of former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki, was found dead at UC Berkeley of an TechCrunch
Over 150 investors, including Singapore's sovereign fund Temasek and Malaysia's Khazanah, gathered at Mumbai's five-star Trident Oberoi hotel on a recent In wide-ranging interviews, Lightspeed partners examine right-sizing VC funds in India, spectrum of startup investing and the country's prospects in the global AI race. TechCrunch
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The European Union is formally investigating TikTok's compliance with the bloc's Digital Services Act (DSA), the Commission has announced. Areas the TechCrunch
All signs indicate that Apple is creating the grounds for a platform shift that will enable it to become a major player in on-device generative AI. Venturebeat
SoftBank Group's Masayoshi Son has made no secret of his intent to double down on red-hot artificial intelligence industry. Now, he's fundraising for his TechCrunch
Feeding the widespread hunger for Nvidia GPU access is big business — minting new unicorns and even inspiring a new Craiglist for clusters. Venturebeat
Bret Taylor's new startup, Sierra, is building autonomous AI agents that can help customers resolve issues and complete tasks without human help. TechCrunch
HiOperator introduces QAScout, a cutting-edge AI quality assurance tool designed to revolutionize customer service by providing real-time, comprehensive interaction scoring, enhancing customer satisfaction and agent performance. Venturebeat
While Zocks has just come out of stealth, the CEO of the company says it has already seen significant traction with more than 150 companies joining its early adopter program. Venturebeat
Xbox revealed in a podcast today that it's planning to release only four games on other consoles, but exclusives are less important than before. Venturebeat
In November, Airbnb acquired a stealth AI firm launched by Siri's co-founder, called GamePlanner.AI. The deal valued the secretive startup at around $200 TechCrunch
In the wake of 1,900 layoffs at Microsoft's game businesses and more layoffs across the industry, Phil Spencer offered his thoughts on the Xbox business update. Venturebeat
Currently, over 5,000 companies use LangChain's LLMOps platform every month, including known industry names such as Rakuten, Elastic, Moody’s and Retool. Venturebeat
Germany-based Earlybird Health announced the final closing of its second fund of €173 million (around $185 million). This is more than twice the size of Earlybird's first healthcare-focused fund. TechCrunch
The London-based wellness brand uses functional mushrooms and nootropics to create a line of powder blends that it touts enhances energy and relaxation. TechCrunch
Google is launching a new Gemini app for Android smartphones and mobile devices, while Apple iOS users can find it in the existing Google app. Venturebeat
KTrust, a Tel Aviv–based security startup, is taking a different approach to Kubernetes security from many of its competitors in the space. Instead of TechCrunch
Brilliant Labs, the developer of AI glasses, has launched Frame, the world's first glasses featuring an integrated multimodal AI assistant. Venturebeat
TikTok will launch localized election resources in its app to reach users in each of the European Union's 27 Member States next month and direct them TikTok will launch localized election resources in its app to reach users in each of the European Union's 27 Member States next month and direct them towards “trusted information”,…
Before the world became fixated on artificial intelligence, thanks to generative AI's advances, cryptocurrency was the darling of many investors. So when TechCrunch
While the AI copilot will hit GA in Q2, Acceldata says that some of its largest customers are already using it in preview to streamline data observability. Venturebeat
Multiple shocks to global supply chains brought about first by the pandemic and more recently by Iran-backed Houthis targeting cargo ships in the Red Sea TechCrunch
Samsung this morning announced that the Galaxy Watch line has received FDA approval for sleep apnea detection. The move is a big one for the smartwatch TechCrunch
2023 was the year social networks realized that they were sitting on massive troves of data. And some companies, such as Twitter (now X) and Reddit, TechCrunch
CodeSignal Learn is a new platform that offers practice-based, mastery-oriented learning experiences for tech skills, powered by CodeSignal’s skill assessment engine. Venturebeat
Meta doesn't want its new app Threads to become another Twitter, full of heated political debates and the resulting toxicity that entails. In an TechCrunch
Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here. When Disney shut down its metaverse division on March 28, 2023, the end of the 50-person division was interpreted as doom for the metaverse, the over-hyped universe of virtual worlds that are […]…
Twitter/X alternative Bluesky is gearing up for one of the biggest weekends in social media with the launch of custom feeds prepped for Super Bowl fans. TechCrunch
Oregon may soon become the latest state to pass right-to-repair legislation. Last month, Google lent its support in an open letter, calling Senate Bill TechCrunch
Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here. A jury has awarded Skillz a $42.9 million judgment in its patent infringement lawsuit against rival AviaGames. The jury found that Skillz provided a preponderance of evidence that AviaGames willfully infringed one […]…
A casino app's database containing customers' personal data was left on the internet without a password, until a security researcher found it. TechCrunch
Every company or organization putting out an AI model has to make a decision on what, if any, boundaries to set on what it will and won't discuss. Goody-2 TechCrunch
The class-action copyright case filed by artists against companies providing AI art generators and their underlying models takes a new turn. Venturebeat
In March 2008, a roboticist in winter wear gave Big Dog a big kick for the camera. The buzzing DARPA-funded robot stumbled, but quickly regained its TechCrunch