Jasper Health, a cancer care platform startup, laid off a substantial part of its workforce, TechCrunch has learned. © 2024 TechCrunch. All...
Friday, May 31, 2024
Meta has been banned from launching features on Facebook and Instagram that would have collected data on voters in Spain using the social ne...
Stripe, the global fintech giant, said on Friday that it will temporarily move to an invite-only model for new account sign-ups in India, “a...
The 2024 election is likely to be the first in which faked audio and video of candidates is a serious factor. As campaigns warm up, voters s...
Thursday, May 30, 2024
When Alex Ewing was a kid growing up in Purcell, Oklahoma, he knew how close he was to home based on which billboards he could see out the c...
FintechOS competes with other companies such as Ncino, Meridian Link, Abrigo and Backbase. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For pers...
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
After two years of preparation and four delays over the past several months due to technical glitches, Indian space startup Agnikul has succ...
Struggling EV startup Fisker has laid off hundreds of employees in a bid to stay alive, as it continues to search for funding, a buyout or p...
When other firms were investing and raising eye-popping sums, Clean Energy Ventures took a different approach. It appears to be paying off. ...
ChatGPT has changed the game for how ordinary people regard and interact with AI, and today its creator announced a new, major enterprise cu...
Tech enthusiasts and entrepreneurs, the clock is ticking! With just 72 hours remaining until the early-bird ticket deadline for TechCrunch D...
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
Avendus, the top investment bank for venture deals in India, confirmed on Wednesday it is looking to raise up to $350 million for its new pr...
Infra.Market, an Indian startup that helps construction and real estate firms procure materials, has raised $50M from MARS Unicorn Fund. © ...
Monday, May 27, 2024
Small operations can lose customers by not offering financing, something the Berlin-based startup wants to change. © 2024 TechCrunch. All r...
Ledger, a French startup mostly known for its secure crypto hardware wallets, has started shipping new wallets nearly 18 months after announ...
AniML, the French startup behind a new 3D capture app called Doly, wants to create the PhotoRoom of product videos, sort of. If you’re selli...
Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, has raised $6 billion in a new funding round, it said today, in one of the largest deals in the red-hot nascent...
Sunday, May 26, 2024
Indian startup Zypp Electric plans to use fresh investment from Japanese oil and energy conglomerate ENEOS to take its EV rental service int...
Last month, one of the Bay Area’s better-known early-stage venture capital firms, Uncork Capital, marked its 20th anniversary with a party i...
Everything in society can feel geared toward optimization – whether that’s standardized testing or artificial intelligence algorithms. We’re...
Miriam Vogel, profiled as part of TechCrunch's Women in AI series, is the CEO of the nonprofit responsible AI advocacy organization Equa...
Google has been taking heat for some of the inaccurate, funny, and downright weird answers that it’s been providing via AI Overviews in sear...
Saturday, May 25, 2024
When it comes to the world of venture-backed startups, some issues are universal, and some are very dependent on where the startups and its ...
Synapse's bankruptcy shows just how treacherous things are for the often-interdependent fintech world when one key player hits trouble. ...
Sarah Myers West, profiled as part of TechCrunch's Women in AI series, is managing director at the AI Now institute. © 2024 TechCrunch....
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories...
Evan, a high school sophomore from Houston, was stuck on a calculus problem. He pulled up Answer AI on his iPhone, snapped a photo of the pr...
Friday, May 24, 2024
Google is investing nearly $350 million in Flipkart, becoming the latest high-profile name to back the Walmart-owned Indian e-commerce start...
Thursday, May 23, 2024
A Jio Financial unit plans to purchase customer premises equipment and telecom gear worth $4.32 billion from Reliance Retail. © 2024 TechCr...
Foursquare, the location-focused outfit that in 2020 merged with Factual, another location-focused outfit, is joining the parade of companie...
“Running with scissors is a cardio exercise that can increase your heart rate and require concentration and focus,” says Google’s new AI sea...
If you thought autonomous driving was just for cars, think again. The so-called ‘autonomous navigation’ market — where ships steer themselve...
Wednesday, May 22, 2024
The best known mycoprotein is probably Quorn, a meat substitute that’s fast approaching its 40th birthday. But Finnish biotech startup Enife...
President Joe Biden needs a meme manager. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/37...
India's Oyo, once valued at $10 billion, has withdrawn its IPO application from the market regulator for the second time. © 2024 TechCr...
Where Aytac Yilmaz lives in the Netherlands, the sun might not appear for days on end, which can really crimp the output of the country’s so...
Tuesday, May 21, 2024
One 97 Communications, the parent company of India’s leading digital payments platform Paytm, widened its consolidated net loss to $66.1 mil...
Government officials and AI industry executives agreed on Tuesday to apply elementary safety measures in the fast-moving field and establish...
London-based fintech Vitesse has closed a $93 million Series C round of funding led by investment giant KKR. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights ...
Monday, May 20, 2024
Zen Educate, an online marketplace that connects schools with teachers, has raised $37 million in a Series B round of funding. The raise com...
A new self-driving truck — manufactured by Volvo and loaded with autonomous vehicle tech developed by Aurora Innovation — could be on public...
The European venture capital firm raised its fourth fund as fund as climate tech "comes of age." © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights re...
Sunday, May 19, 2024
A Singapore High Court has effectively approved Pine Labs' request to shift its operations to India. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights rese...
Ahead of the AI safety summit kicking off in Seoul, South Korea later this week, its co-host the United Kingdom is expanding its own efforts...
Companies are always looking for an edge, and searching for ways to encourage their employees to innovate. One way to do that is by running ...
Women in tech still face a shocking level of mistreatment at work. Melinda French Gates is one of the few working to change that. © 2024 Te...
Blue Origin has successfully completed its NS-25 mission, resuming crewed flights for the first time in nearly two years. The mission brough...
Creative Artists Agency (CAA), one of the top entertainment and sports talent agencies, is hoping to be at the forefront of AI protection se...
Saturday, May 18, 2024
When Jeffrey Wang posted to X asking if anyone wanted to go in on an order of fancy-but-affordable office nap pods, he didn’t expect the pos...
When the founders of Sagetap, Sahil Khanna and Kevin Hughes, started working at early-stage enterprise software startups, they were surprise...
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories...
Friday, May 17, 2024
The European Union has warned Microsoft it could be fined up to 1% of its global annual turnover under the bloc’s online governance regime, ...
Thursday, May 16, 2024
U.K.-based Seraphim Space is spinning up its 13th accelerator program, with nine participating companies working on a range of tech from pro...
Private equity giant Thoma Bravo has announced that its security information and event management (SIEM) company LogRhythm will be merging w...
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Consumer protection groups around the European Union have filed coordinated complaints against Temu, accusing the Chinese-owned ultra low-co...
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
As Google revamps itself for the AI era, offering AI overviews within its search results, the company is introducing a new way to filter for...
Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket will take a crew to suborbital space for the first time in nearly two years later this month, the company a...
Monday, May 13, 2024
Kyle Vogt, the former founder and CEO of self-driving car company Cruise, has a new VC-backed robotics startup focused on household chores. ...
On the heels of OpenAI announcing the latest iteration of its GPT large language model, its biggest rival in generative AI in the U.S. annou...
Squarespace, a platform used by SMEs and individuals for building websites, blogs, and online stores, is going private in an all-cash deal t...
AI-powered tools like OpenAI’s Whisper have enabled many apps to make transcription an integral part of their feature set for personal note-...
Airtel, India's second-largest telco, is partnering with Google Cloud to develop and deliver cloud and GenAI solutions to Indian busines...
Sunday, May 12, 2024
It’s been a busy weekend for union organizing efforts at U.S. Apple stores, with the union at one store voting to authorize a strike, while ...
Alora Baby is not just aiming to manufacture baby cribs in an environmentally friendly way but is attempting to overhaul the whole lifecycle...
Bumble founder and executive chair Whitney Wolfe Herd raised eyebrows this week with her comments about how AI might change the dating exper...
Saturday, May 11, 2024
Meesho, a leading e-commerce startup in India with about 150 million transacting users, has secured $275 million in a new funding round, it ...
Friday, May 10, 2024
Some Indian government websites have allowed scammers to plant advertisements capable of redirecting visitors to online betting platforms. T...
Around 550 employees across autonomous vehicle company Motional have been laid off, according to information taken from WARN notice filings ...
Garena is quietly developing new India-themed games even though Free Fire, its biggest title, has still not made a comeback to the country. ...
The U.S.' NHTSA has opened a fourth investigation into the Fisker Ocean SUV, spurred by multiple claims of "inadvertent Automatic E...
CoreWeave has formally opened an office in London that will serve as its European headquarters and home to two new data centers. © 2024 Tec...
Thursday, May 9, 2024
The Series C funding, which brings its total raise to around $95 million, will go toward mass production of the startup's inaugural prod...
Uber plans to deliver more perks to Uber One members, like member-exclusive events, in a bid to gain more revenue through subscriptions. “Y...
TikTok is starting to automatically label AI-generated content that was made on other platforms, the company announced on Thursday. With thi...
India’s mobile payments regulator is likely to extend the deadline for imposing market share caps on the popular UPI payments rail by one to...
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Line Man Wongnai, an on-demand food delivery service in Thailand, is considering an initial public offering on a Thai exchange or the U.S. i...
Ofcom is cracking down on Instagram, YouTube and 150,000 other web services to improve child safety online. A new Children’s Safety Code fro...
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
The French startup's AI assistant is aimed at helping obstetricians and gynecologists with the evaluation and documentation of ultrasoun...
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 — dependin...
Insempra plans to turn oil yeast in lipids on an industrial scale using yeast fermentation factories. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserve...
Monday, May 6, 2024
Whether you love or hate celebrity culture, the Met Gala is an event. Those less jaded among us get to see all of the biggest stars take the...
Boeing’s Starliner launch tonight has been postponed “out of an abundance of caution” scarcely two hours before the historic liftoff. The sc...
It’s the most chronically online rap battle the world has ever seen. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from T...
OpenAI is collaborating with Stack Overflow, the Q&A forum for software developers, to improve its generative AI models’ performance on ...
Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo talks about the challenges and opportunities in AI today, how to build and support a developer community, and mo...
Lee, a specialist in early-stage investing, explains how Sequioa approaches identifying product-market fit for its startups through three ar...
Sunday, May 5, 2024
Catherine Breslin is the founder and director of Kingfisher Labs, where she helps companies develop AI strategies. © 2024 TechCrunch. All r...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is making strides in astronomy with its 122-megapixel primarily infrared photos taken 1.5 million kilomete...
The appetite for alternative clouds has never been bigger. Case in point: CoreWeave, the GPU infrastructure provider that began life as a cr...
I finally received the rabbit r1 (the company insists on this lowercase styling) I’ve been writing about since its debut at CES in January. ...
Saturday, May 4, 2024
Threads users can now exert more control over who can quote their posts. This builds on a feature that already allows Threads users to limit...
While many recent mental health-focused startups are digital first, Amae Health focuses on the importance of in-person care. © 2024 TechCru...
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories...
Friday, May 3, 2024
Y Combinator's founder matching tool has quietly become one of most powerful offerings. That's how medical records AI startup Hona w...
The downturn in venture capital funding that the world has seen since the bust of the 2021-era bubble has impacted startups, VC firms, and a...
The new filing, along with Epic's proposal, will help to inform Judge James Donato in a hearing scheduled on May 23 about what actions t...
Thursday, May 2, 2024
Apple’s chief financial officer Luca Maestri challenged investor worries over an 8% drop in China revenue, by noting that sales in other eme...
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
The tech-wide reckoning that began in 2022 and ran throughout into 2023 has continued into this year. And while 2024’s losses are not at tha...
At the 2024 IAB NewFronts event on Wednesday, Snapchat announced a series of new augmented reality (AR) and machine learning (ML) tools desi...
Audible to test using Prime Video data for audiobook recommendations as Spotify competition heats up
Amazon has historically operated audiobook marketplace Audible as a separate entity, unconnected to the retailer’s broader goals and ambitio...
Appointment scheduling service Calendly has redesigned its browser extension in a bid to improve schedule management and make scheduling fas...
In 2017, Jyoti Bansal co-founded San Francisco-based security company Traceable alongside Sanjay Nagaraj, a former investor. With Traceable,...
Hyde Park Venture Partners is known for having visibility into more than 90% of mid-continent startups and being early backers of companies ...
