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I’m rooting for Melinda French Gates to fix tech’s broken ‘brilliant jerk’ culture

2024-05-20 00:00:00

Women in tech still face a shocking level of mistreatment at work. Melinda French Gates is one of the few working to change that.

Blue Origin successfully launches its first crewed mission since 2022

2024-05-19 22:47:29

Blue Origin has successfully completed its NS-25 mission, resuming crewed flights for the first time in nearly two years. The mission brought six tourist crew members to the edge of space, including artist and former Air Force Captain Ed Dwight. In 1961, Dwight was selected by President John F. Kennedy to be the country’s first […]

Hollywood agency CAA aims to help stars manage their own AI likenesses

2024-05-19 22:00:00

Creative Artists Agency (CAA), one of the top entertainment and sports talent agencies, is hoping to be at the forefront of AI protection services for celebrities in Hollywood. With many stars having their digital likeness used without permission, CAA has built a virtual media storage system for A-list talent — actors, athletes, comedians, directors, musicians, […]

Expedia says two execs dismissed after ‘violation of company policy’

2024-05-19 21:30:00

Expedia says Rathi Murthy and Sreenivas Rachamadugu, respectively its CTO and senior vice president of core services product & engineering, are no longer employed at the travel booking company. In a statement shared with TechCrunch and other publications, Expedia said Murthy and Rachamadugu are “no longer employed at Expedia Group” due to an unspecified “violation […]

OpenAI and Google lay out their competing AI visions

2024-05-19 04:15:00

Welcome back to TechCrunch’s Week in Review. This week had two major events from OpenAI and Google. OpenAI’s spring update event saw the reveal of its new model, GPT-4o, which has voice and vision capabilities that can turn ChatGPT into a virtual assistant seemingly aspiring to be “Her.” Hot off OpenAI’s tail, Google’s I/O conference […]

With AI startups booming, nap pods and Silicon Valley hustle culture are back

2024-05-19 02:00:00

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 post to go viral.

OpenAI created a team to control ‘superintelligent’ AI — then let it wither, source says

2024-05-19 00:01:00

OpenAI’s Superalignment team, responsible for developing ways to govern and steer “superintelligent” AI systems, was promised 20% of the company’s compute resources, according to a person from that team. But requests for a fraction of that compute were often denied, blocking the team from doing their work. That issue, among others, pushed several team members […]

VCs and the military are fueling self-driving startups that don’t need roads

2024-05-18 23:00:00

A new crop of early-stage startups — along with some recent VC investments — illustrates a niche emerging in the autonomous vehicle technology sector. Unlike the companies bringing robotaxis to city streets, these startups are taking their tech off-road. Two recent entrants — Seattle-based Overland AI and New Brunswick-based Potential — are poised to get […]

Deal Dive: Sagetap looks to bring enterprise software sales into the 21st century

2024-05-18 22:26:59

When the founders of Sagetap, Sahil Khanna and Kevin Hughes, started working at early-stage enterprise software startups, they were surprised to find that the companies they worked at were trying to sell their innovative tech through old-school methods like repeated cold emails and calls. Khanna, a former product marketer, and Hughes, a former sales manager, […]

This Week in AI: OpenAI moves away from safety

2024-05-18 21:31:00

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 in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. By the way, TechCrunch plans to launch an AI newsletter […]

Adobe comes after indie game emulator Delta for copying its logo

2024-05-18 05:41:33

After Apple loosened its App Store guidelines to permit game emulators, the retro game emulator Delta — an app 10 years in the making — hit the top of the App Store’s charts. But the increased attention also brought the threat of legal action, as Adobe targeted Delta for sporting a logo that looked too […]

Meta’s latest experiment borrows from BeReal’s and Snapchat’s core ideas

2024-05-18 04:35:42

Meta is once again taking on its competitors by developing a feature that borrows concepts from others — in this case, BeReal and Snapchat. The company is developing a feature for Instagram called “Peek” that would allow users to post authentic pictures that can only be viewed once. While Snapchat popularized the idea of ephemeral […]

Startups Weekly: It’s the dawning of the age of AI — plus, Musk is raging against the machine

2024-05-18 03:00:00

Welcome to Startups Weekly! We've been drowning in AI news this week, with Google's I/O setting the pace. And Elon Musk rages against the machine.

IndieBio’s SF incubator lineup is making some wild biotech promises

2024-05-18 02:22:13

IndieBio’s Bay Area incubator is about to debut its 15th cohort of biotech startups. We took special note of a few, which were making some major, bordering on ludicrous, claims that could pay off in a big way. Biotech has been creeping out in recent years to touch adjacent industries, as companies find how much […]

YouTube TV’s ‘multiview’ feature is now available on Android phones and tablets

2024-05-18 00:43:33

YouTube TV has announced that its multiview feature for watching four streams at once is now available on Android phones and tablets. The Android launch comes two months after YouTube TV rolled out the feature to iPhones and iPads. The feature, which first launched in March 2023, is aimed at sports viewers who want to […]

Two Santa Cruz students uncover security bug that could let millions do their laundry for free

2024-05-18 00:05:16

CSC ServiceWorks provides laundry machines to thousands of residential homes and universities, but the company ignored requests to fix a security bug.

Harness the TechCrunch Effect: Host a Side Event at Disrupt 2024

2024-05-18 00:00:00

TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 is just around the corner, and the buzz is palpable. But what if we told you there’s a chance for you to not just attend, but also take your brand center stage with your own event during the most anticipated tech gathering of the year? Yes, you read that right — you […]

Pitch Deck Teardown: Goodcarbon’s $5.5M seed deck

2024-05-18 00:00:00

Decks are all about telling a compelling story and Goodcarbon does a good job on that front. But there's important information missing too.

Slack under attack over sneaky AI training policy

2024-05-17 23:34:34

Slack is making it difficult for its customers if they want the company to stop using its data for model training.

Healthcare company WebTPA discloses breach affecting 2.5 million people

2024-05-17 22:44:15

A Texas-based company that provides health insurance and benefit plans disclosed a data breach affecting almost 2.5 million people, some of whom had their Social Security number stolen. WebTPA said in a data breach notice published earlier this month that the company detected “evidence of suspicious activity” on December 28, 2023, which prompted the company […]

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