One of the earlier SaaS adherents to generative AI has been ServiceNow, which has been able to take advantage of the data in its own platfor...
Sunday, June 30, 2024
India's top AI startups include those building LLMs and setting up the stage for AGI as well as bringing AI to cooking and serving farme...
We live in a very different world since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel. With global military ex...
Saturday, June 29, 2024
Two separate studies investigated how well Google's Gemini models and others make sense out of an enormous amount of data. © 2024 TechC...
He says that the problem is that generative AI is not human or even human-like, and it’s flawed to try and assign human capabilities to it. ...
Matrix is rebranding its India and China entities, becoming the latest venture firm to distance its international franchises. The U.S.-headq...
Friday, June 28, 2024
There are plenty of resources to learn English, but not so many for near-native speakers who still want to improve their fluency. That descr...
The remote access giant linked the cyberattack to government-backed hackers working for Russian intelligence, known as APT29. © 2024 TechCr...
We’ve poked through the many product announcements made by the biggest tech companies and product trade shows of the year, so far, and compi...
As a foreigner, navigating health insurance systems can often be difficult. German startup Feather thinks it has a solution and raised €6 mi...
The salad days of fresh grocery delivery startups are over, but those that have stayed the course, and have built businesses that are seeing...
Thursday, June 27, 2024
French startup Dust has raised a $16 million Series A funding round led by Sequoia Capital. With Dust, companies can create custom AI assist...
Google said today that it is adding support for 110 languages to its translation service. The company has used its PaLM 2 AI model to power ...
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
What is AI good for? Automating repetitive tasks for the very busy people running small businesses, reckons Berlin-based startup Synthflow, ...
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Accel, India's most successful e-commerce investor, is making a contrarian move by turning its focus to smaller towns and villages. © 2...
In the post-COVID world, VCs say it’s not as easy to get excited about investing in digital health. Deal activity in healthcare IT was relat...
Once upon a time, in a galaxy not so far away (this one, in fact), a few internet rebels decided that they were tired of the corporate overl...
Monday, June 24, 2024
Banking-as-a-service (BaaS) platforms are instrumental in driving access to digital financial services by introducing fintech capabilities t...
TechWolf has built an AI engine that ingests data from internal workflows to learn about the people doing that work. © 2024 TechCrunch. All...
The Gurugram-based startup works with Indian factories to help them manufacture fashion wear for global brands. © 2024 TechCrunch. All righ...
Sunday, June 23, 2024
Vinod Khosla is more popular than ever right now. The Sun Microsystems co-founder turned prominent investor — first at Kleiner Perkins and, ...
After a few months of testing during the general elections, Meta is making its Llama-3-powered AI chatbot available to all users in India. H...
If all goes to plan, Europeans will be able to download and use a free EU Digital Identity Wallet to access a wide range of public and priva...
Silicon Valley leaders are once again declaring ‘DEI’ bad and ‘meritocracy’ good — but they’re wrong
Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang set off another debate with an anti-DEI post. It revealed a lot about the current state of DEI in tech. © 20...
As Apple enters the AI race, it’s also looking for help from partners. During the announcement of Apple Intelligence earlier this month, App...
18-year-olds Christopher Fitzgerald and Nicholas Van Landschoot have founded APIGen, a platform to build custom APIs from natural language p...
Saturday, June 22, 2024
Journalists understand the basic structure of the deals, but they still have questions. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For person...
The human brain has long been a subject of fascination for art and science, which are now both mixed into “Brainstorms: A Great Gig in the S...
When former YouTube product manager Kevin Xu, known as “Sir Jack A Lot” on Reddit, turned $35,000 into $8 million trading stocks between 202...
The Open Source Initiative is trying to address the debate stirring around the notion of "open-source AI." © 2024 TechCrunch. All...
Friday, June 21, 2024
Venture firms raised $9.3 billion in Q1 according to PitchBook data, which means this year likely won’t match or surpass 2023’s $81.8 billio...
Google is making all your movie, TV shows, books, albums and game reviews visible under one profile page starting June 24, according to an e...
Thursday, June 20, 2024
Zepto has more than doubled its valuation to $3.6 billion from $1.4 billion in less than a year in a new funding round of $665 million as th...
Speak, the AI-powered language learning app, has raised new money from investors at double its previous valuation. © 2024 TechCrunch. All r...
Wordsmith, a fledgling Scottish legal tech startup, has somehow managed to attract the backing of two well-known venture capital firms. The ...
Wednesday, June 19, 2024
General Catalyst, a Silicon Valley venture capital group, is expanding its presence in India by joining forces with a local venture firm and...
Like it or hate it, artificial intelligence – especially generative AI – is the technology story of 2024. OpenAI, with its rollouts of viral...
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has initiated a formal “phase 1” investigation into Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) pl...
Meta AI removes restrictions in answering election-related queries in India while Google is still restricting them. © 2024 TechCrunch. All ...
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
Cheap irrigation has transformed many regions around the world into breadbaskets, but it also means that there can be little left for other ...
Suse on Tuesday is announcing its AI strategy and SUSE AI solutions, a new vendor- and LLM-agnostic generative AI platform. © 2024 TechCrun...
Monday, June 17, 2024
Google has released its dedicated AI mobile app Gemini in India — over four months after its debut in the U.S. — with support for nine India...
Finbourne, founded out of London’s financial center, has built a platform to help financial companies organize and use more of their data in...
Proton, the Swiss company behind a suite of privacy-focused apps such as ProtonMail, is following in the footsteps of Signal and Mozilla by ...
Tinybird is not so tiny anymore. The enterprise data startup TechCrunch first covered three years ago has been growing at a rapid pace and r...
Sunday, June 16, 2024
Oyo, the Indian budget-hotel chain startup, is finalizing a fresh fundraise of about $100 million to $125 million that slashes its valuation...
ChatGPT, one of the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence tools, struggles with cultural nuance. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights rese...
Holy procrastination, startup founders! Tomorrow’s your last chance to apply to the Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. Your...
YouTube continues its efforts to circumvent ad blockers. Earlier this week, ad blocker SponsorBlock posted that the Google-owned video servi...
Saturday, June 15, 2024
No one knows what AI looks like, or even is supposed to look like. It does everything, but looks like nothing. © 2024 TechCrunch. All right...
There has been a lot of bad news about social media startups lately. Multiple companies, including Twitter alternative Post News, and IRL ha...
OpenAI offers an array of plans for ChatGPT, both paid and free. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechC...
FTC Chair Lina Khan was the youngest person appointed to her position when she assumed the job in 2021. But once her term ends in September ...
Friday, June 14, 2024
For centuries, people chewed willow tree bark to relieve pain, but scientists at chemical firm Bayer didn’t isolate its active ingredient un...
Thursday, June 13, 2024
The high-profile addition is likely intended to satisfy critics who think that OpenAI is moving faster than is wise for its customers and po...
The economy remains on shaky ground in Europe, but there is some silver lining for enterprise startups: those building tools to help busines...
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Long-time Android Engineering VP Dave Burke said today that he is stepping down from the role. Burke, who spent 14 years building Android, i...
When Jordan Nathan launched his DTC nontoxic cookware company, Caraway, in 2019, he knew he was not the only founder trying to sell a new br...
Out of an abundance of caution, the car took two minutes to turn a corner. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. ...
Tuesday, June 11, 2024
The ability to pause your activity rings is a minor feature update for most, but for those of us who obsess about such things to an unhealth...
When generative AI tools started making waves in late 2022 after the launch of ChatGPT, the finance industry was one of the first to recogni...
Mistral AI has closed its much rumored Series B funding round with General Catalyst leading the round. The company has secured €600 million ...
Cognigy is helping create AI that can handle the highly repetitive, rote processes center workers face daily. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights...
Who would have thought that Raspberry Pi, the maker of cheap, single-board computers, would become a public company? And yet, this is exactl...
Monday, June 10, 2024
Dubai-based fractional property investment platform Stake has raised $14 million in Series A funding. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserve...
“We were motivated to fundraise because we think the ’24 vintage is going to be a good one,” founder Craig Shapiro said. © 2024 TechCrunch....
The merger has yet to close due to extended due diligence amid ongoing restructuring and macroeconomic headwinds across multiple countries. ...
Sunday, June 9, 2024
While funding for Italian startups has been growing, the country still ranks eighth in Europe by VC investment, according to Dealroom. Newly...
William A. Anders, the astronaut behind perhaps the single most iconic photo of our planet, has died at the age of 90. On Friday morning, An...
You’re running out of time to join the Startup Battlefield 200, our curated showcase of top startups from around the world and across multip...
New York’s state legislature has passed a bill that would prohibit social media companies from showing so-called “addictive feeds” to childr...
Dogs are the most popular pet in the U.S.: 65.1 million households have one, according to the American Pet Products Association. But while c...
Saturday, June 8, 2024
Before Wazer came along, “water jet cutting” and “affordable” didn’t belong in the same sentence. That changed in 2016, when the company lau...
Friday, June 7, 2024
Former Autonomy chief executive Dr Mike Lynch issued a statement Thursday following his acquittal of criminal charges, ending a 13-year lega...
As another Snowflake customer confirms a data breach, the cloud data company says its position "remains unchanged." © 2024 TechCr...
Investor demand has been so strong for Rippling's shares that it is letting former employees particpate in its tender offer. With one ex...
Cloud-based education software vendor PowerSchool is being taken private by investment firm Bain Capital in a $5.6 billion deal. The announc...
Shopify has acquired Threads.com, the Seqiuoa-backed Slack alternative, Threads said on its website. The companies didn’t disclose the terms...
Thursday, June 6, 2024
Two senior police officials in Bangladesh are accused of collecting and selling citizens' personal information to criminals on Telegram....
Carta, a once-high-flying Silicon Valley startup that loudly backed away from one of its businesses earlier this year, is working on a secon...
Amazon has agreed to acquire Indian video streaming service MX Player from the local media powerhouse Times Internet, the latest step by the...
Dealt is now building a service platform for retailers instead of end customers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use o...
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
The buy will benefit ChromeOS, Google's lightweight Linux-based operating system, by giving ChromeOS users greater access to Windows app...
The number of satellites on low Earth orbit is poised to explode over the coming years as more mega-constellations come online, and it will ...
Enterprise software giant SAP is acquiring “digital adoption” platform provider WalkMe in an all-cash transaction worth $1.5 billion. SAP’s ...
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has emerged victorious in India’s 2024 general election, but with a smaller majority compared...
Microsoft’s education-focused flavor of its cloud productivity suite, Microsoft 365 Education, is facing investigation in the European Union...
Since the shock of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, solar energy has been having a moment in Europe. Electricity prices have been going up...
Monday, June 3, 2024
It's clear that this year will be a turning point for DEI. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCru...
Monzo has announced its 2024 financial results, revealing its first full-year pre-tax profit. The company also confirmed that it’s in the ea...
Last week, TechCrunch paid a visit to Apple’s Austin, Texas manufacturing facilities. Since 2013, the company has built its Mac Pro desktop ...
Temasek has previously invested in Lenskart, and this new funding follows a $500 million investment by the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority la...
Sunday, June 2, 2024
With fewer than 400,000 inhabitants, Iceland receives more than its fair share of tourists — and of venture capital. © 2024 TechCrunch. All...
Kobo put out a handful of new e-readers a few weeks back: color versions of the excellent Libra 2 and Clara, as well as an updated monochrom...
In an interview at his home near Reykjavík, the entrepreneur-turned-VC shared thoughts on his ventures and the journey that led him from Uni...
Saturday, June 1, 2024
Tumblr officially shut down “Tips,” an opt-in feature where creators could receive one-time payments from their followers. As of today, the...
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...
