Syndicate One is a debut investment firm out of Belgium that has raised a €6.5 million fund to back Belgian founders and startups. While the amount is small, the significance…
Meta is open sourcing a method to watermark AI-generated videos. Called Meta Video Seal, the company says it's robust against compression and edits. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For…
Roundabouts. They trapped Clark Griswold in National Lampoon’s European Vacation and now they’ve tripped up a Waymo robotaxi. A video is circulating on social media showing a Waymo robotaxi going…
Late-stage deals in space have been on the decline this year, but one notable exception is Fleet Space Technologies’ $100 million Series D. The Adelaide, Australia-based startup raised the new…
Cap table management firm Carta is under fire from some founders who say cancelling their subscriptions is too hard. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Source
Zoox co-founder and CTO Jesse Levinson told the crowd at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 that he didn’t think Tesla would launch a robotaxi ride-hailing service in California (or anywhere else) next…
Nearly half of teens in the U.S. are online almost constantly, and the platform they’re using the most is YouTube, a new study from the Pew Research Center has found.…
Yahoo laid off around 25% of its cybersecurity team, known as The Paranoids, over the last year. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Source
ServiceTitan, which offers financial and customer management software for the trades, went public in a big way on Thursday, much to the delight of retail investors. The stock quickly popped…
Meta’s Threads is rolling out its own take on Bluesky’s “Starter Packs,” which are curated lists of suggested accounts that help new users find people to follow. Instagram head Adam…
OpenAI is making ChatGPT sound like Santa for the holidays. The startup announced on Thursday that ChatGPT users could access a new “Santa Mode” voice for the month of December.…
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! GM’s decision…
A year after initial tests began, the web blogging site Tumblr, now owned by WordPress.com parent Automattic, is launching its Communities feature out of beta. Communities offer semi-private spaces on…
OpenAI has finally released the real-time video capabilities for ChatGPT that it demoed nearly seven months ago. On Thursday during a livestream, the company said that Advanced Voice Mode, its…
Google has ended a test in which it was returning basic “blue link” search results for hotel-related searches in a handful of markets in the European Union, in response to…
The coalition, which is organized by Acadia, is seeking to invest $9 billion to build 5 gigawatts worth of renewable power. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use…
Zomato, India’s top food delivery and quick commerce platform, has been slapped with a tax bill of $94.5 million. The Indian tax authority has ordered the $32 billion firm to…
Google said that it is launching a new Android-based XR platform on Thursday to accommodate AI features. The company said the platform, called Android XR, will support app development on…
Humba Ventures is a sister-firm to Susa Ventures, the seed-stage firm that has backed companies like Robinhood, Human Interest and Flexport. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use…
Anthropic has released one its newest AI models, Claude 3.5 Haiku, for users of its AI chatbot platform, Claude. Reports of 3.5 Haiku’s launch in Claude began rolling in Thursday…