The European Commission has closed a Digital Services Act (DSA) investigation of a rewards feature in TikTok Lite by accepting commitments f...
Monday, August 5, 2024
Groq, a startup developing chips to run generative AI models faster than conventional processors, said on Monday that it’s raised $640 milli...
Sunday, August 4, 2024
Many safety evaluations for AI models have significant limitations
Prospero Silvério
August 04, 2024
Despite increasing demand for AI safety and accountability, today’s tests and benchmarks may fall short, according to a new report. Generati...
OpenAI says it’s taking a ‘deliberate approach’ to releasing tools that can detect writing from ChatGPT
Prospero Silvério
August 04, 2024
OpenAI has built a tool that could potentially catch students who cheat by asking ChatGPT to write their assignments — but according to The ...
Chief Product Officer Craig Saldanha says AI is already transforming the Yelp experience. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For perso...
Even after $1.6B in VC money, the lab-grown meat industry is facing ‘massive’ issues
Prospero Silvério
August 04, 2024
Any goal that puts cultivated meat in big box grocery stores or on fast food menus in the 2020s is “unrealistic,” according to experts. © 2...
Saturday, August 3, 2024
Meet the founder who built and sold a $600M enterprise software startup from Sri Lanka
Prospero Silvério
August 03, 2024
Sanjiva Weerawarana co-founded WSO2 in 2005, recently selling it for more than $600M. He sometimes drives for Uber, too. © 2024 TechCrunch....
Why Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy and other investors are scouring universities for founders
Prospero Silvério
August 03, 2024
Investors are assisting startup founders earlier than ever in an effort to help them bridge the first climate tech valley of death. © 2024 ...
DSA vs. DMA: How Europe’s twin digital regulations are hitting Big Tech
Prospero Silvério
August 03, 2024
While both the DSA and DMA aim to achieve distinct things, they are best understood as a joint response to Big Tech's market power. © 2...
Friday, August 2, 2024
How the theft of 40M UK voter register records was entirely preventable
Prospero Silvério
August 02, 2024
A scathing rebuke by the U.K. data protection watchdog reveals what led to the compromise of tens of millions of U.K. voters' informatio...
Meta’s Threads crosses 200 million active users
Prospero Silvério
August 02, 2024
A day after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg talked about his newest social media experiment Threads reaching “almost” 200 million users on the comp...
Thursday, August 1, 2024
Connect with Google Cloud, Aerospace, Qualcomm and more at Disrupt 2024
Prospero Silvério
August 01, 2024
TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 will be in San Francisco on October 28–30, and we’re already excited! Disrupt brings innovation for every stage of y...
Intel to lay off 15,000 employees
Prospero Silvério
August 01, 2024
Intel announced it would layoff more than 15% of its staff, or 15,000 employees, in a memo to employees on Thursday. The massive headcount i...


