In this week’s episode of StrictlyVC Download, TechCrunch Editor in Chief Connie Loizos is joined by Kevin Rose, who founded Digg. The news aggregator changed the way people engaged with…
Summarize this content to 3 bullet points Two trailblazing computer scientists have won the 2024 Turing Award for their work in reinforcement learning, a discipline in which machines learn through…
Summarize this content to 3 bullet points Are you a leader in the AI space? Make your voice heard as a TechCrunch Sessions: AI speaker. At TechCrunch Sessions: AI, you…
Summarize this content to 3 bullet points A weekend hackathon project that lets AI agents talk on the phone with each other in a robotic language, one that’s incomprehensible to…
Summarize this content to 3 bullet points Last month, Google announced the “AI co-scientist,” an AI the company said was designed to aid scientists in creating hypotheses and research plans.…
Foreign exchange fluctuations can make or break a business that trades across borders, but trying to respond to that can be tricky if you’re anything smaller than the world’s largest…
Summarize this content to 3 bullet points The SoftBank-backed chipmaker has signed an agreement with the Malaysian government to bolster the country's chip design ecosystem. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights…
Darwinbox, an Indian startup building a SaaS platform for hiring, onboarding and employee administration, has raised $140 million to take on the likes of Rippling and Deel as it seeks…
A U.K. startup, originating from founder Jacob Nathan’s high school science project on using enzymes to break down plastic waste, has secured an oversubscribed $18.3 million in Series A funding.…
Summarize this content to 3 bullet points Nvidia-backed data center company CoreWeave has acquired AI developer platform Weights & Biases for an undisclosed sum. According to The Information, CoreWeave spent…
Defense tech startup Epirus has raised a $250m Series D to expand its counter-drone solutions. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Source
London startup Quantexa has made its name over the years with an enterprise platform that employs AI and data analytics to fight money laundering and fraud. Today, it is announcing…
Minecraft has filled its blocky world with many kinds of mobs and will only keep adding more. Certain mobs have unique variants that are rare to spawn naturally. While many…
Summarize this content to 3 bullet points Alec Radford, a researcher who helped develop many of OpenAI’s key AI technologies, has been subpoenaed in a copyright case against the AI…
Do the words "mammoth mice" sound a little oxymoronic to you? Well, in our modern age of gene editing, they simply represent a new reality. That's because scientists at Colossal…
The fintech startup has been under federal scrutiny for years for questionable financial and carbon accounting practices. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Source
Mark Okerstrom, CFO of Fortive. (LinkedIn Photo) Former Expedia CEO Mark Okerstrom is taking the role of chief financial officer for Everett, Wash., manufacturing conglomerate Fortive. Okerstrom is a longtime…
In late 2013, the Spike Jonze film Her imagined a future where people would form emotional connections with AI voice assistants. Nearly 12 years later, that fictional premise has veered…
Summarize this content to 3 bullet points Amazon has formed a new group within AWS dedicated to creating AI agents, systems that help people automate parts of their lives, Reuters…
One of Africa’s most active investors, known for early bets on unicorns like Flutterwave, Andela, and Wave, has secured fresh capital to invest in startups across the continent. This comes…