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Black founders are creating tailored ChatGPTs for a more personalized experience
Sun, 16 Jun 2024 17:05:00 +0000

<p>ChatGPT, one of the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence tools, struggles with cultural nuance.</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>


Startup Battlefield 200 applications close tomorrow
Sun, 16 Jun 2024 16:00:00 +0000

<p>Holy procrastination, startup founders! Tomorrow’s your last chance to apply to the Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. Your last chance for a shot to stand on the Disrupt stage and pitch to a huge audience packed with global tier-1 investors, hundreds of media outlets and plenty of other influential movers and shakers. Cut [&#8230;]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>


Hands-on with the BlackBerry-style Clicks keyboard for iPhone
Sun, 16 Jun 2024 15:00:00 +0000

<p>The Clicks keyboard case has arrived, and it’s delightful, if not entirely practical for everyday use — at least, not without weeks of practice. </p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>


YouTube is testing another way to combat ad blockers
Sun, 16 Jun 2024 14:53:58 +0000

<p>YouTube continues its efforts to circumvent ad blockers. Earlier this week, ad blocker SponsorBlock posted that the Google-owned video service is testing out server-side ad injection with a limited number of users. Essentially, this means that both the ad is injected into the video before it arrives on your device (in contrast to client-side ad [&#8230;]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>


Subscription vitamin company Care/of is shutting down
Sat, 15 Jun 2024 21:55:58 +0000

<p>Care/of, a company offering personalized subscription vitamin packs, says it will be canceling all subscriptions as of Monday, June 17 and will no longer be accepting new orders. The news doesn&#8217;t come completely out of the blue, as Care/of had previously disclosed in a New York Department of Labor filing that it planned to lay [&#8230;]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>


Apple ushers in a new era with Apple Intelligence
Sat, 15 Jun 2024 20:15:00 +0000

<p>Welcome back to TechCrunch’s Week in Review — TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the week’s biggest news. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference had a sizable focus on AI. Apple unveiled its generative AI offering, Apple Intelligence, which will be available in iOS later this year. iOS 18 will [&#8230;]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>


Apple joins the race to find an AI icon that makes sense
Sat, 15 Jun 2024 18:01:00 +0000

<p>No one knows what AI looks like, or even is supposed to look like. It does everything, but looks like nothing.</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>


Deal Dive: BeReal got its best-case scenario exit
Sat, 15 Jun 2024 16:00:00 +0000

<p>There has been a lot of bad news about social media startups lately. Multiple companies, including Twitter alternative Post News, and IRL have shut down. And ShareChat&#8217;s valuation has dropped more than 50% after a recent funding round. But amid the negative headlines, the recent exit of French social network BeReal looks like a bright [&#8230;]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>


How much does ChatGPT cost? Everything you need to know about OpenAI’s pricing plans
Sat, 15 Jun 2024 15:00:00 +0000

<p>OpenAI offers an array of plans for ChatGPT, both paid and free.</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>


FTC Chair Lina Khan on startups, scaling, and ”innovations in potential lawbreaking”
Sat, 15 Jun 2024 07:17:00 +0000

<p>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 –&#160; after which she’ll stay until a successor is named – her age might be the last thing that people remember about her reign. It’s more likely that Khan’s [&#8230;]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>


Albedo takes Earth observation up close and personal from very low Earth orbit
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 22:14:45 +0000

<p>Satellite imagery startup Albedo is preparing for its up-close-and-personal debut. Albedo’s first satellite will take to orbit next spring as the company looks to turn the commercial Earth observation industry upside down with its novel approach and ultra-high-resolution cameras.&#160; The satellite, called Clarity, will hitch a ride to very low Earth orbit (VLEO) on SpaceX’s [&#8230;]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>


Tempus rises 9% on the first day of trading, demonstrating investor appetite for a health tech with a promise of AI
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 19:29:26 +0000

<p>Tempus, a genomic testing and data analysis company started by Eric Lefkofsky, who previously founded Groupon, debuted on Nasdaq on Friday, rising about 15% on the opening.  The company priced its IPO on Thursday at $37 apiece, at the top of its $35 to $37 price range, raising nearly $411 million at a fully diluted [&#8230;]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>


A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 19:20:00 +0000

<p>The tech layoff wave is still going strong in 2024. Following significant workforce reductions in 2022 and 2023, this year has already seen 60,000 job cuts across 254 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. Companies like Tesla, Amazon, Google, TikTok, Snap and Microsoft have conducted sizable layoffs in the first months of 2024. Smaller-sized [&#8230;]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>


Startups Weekly: Clash of the AI titans, and Europe is firing on all cylinders
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 19:01:00 +0000

<p>Welcome to Startups Weekly — Haje&#8217;s weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Hold on to your Apple Watches, folks! At WWDC 2024, Apple finally decided to give Siri a brain transplant with something they&#8217;re calling &#8220;Apple Intelligence&#8221; (AI—get [&#8230;]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>


Pitch Deck Teardown: Kinnect’s $250K angel deck
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 17:00:00 +0000

<p>How well did the company do telling its own story in the form of its angel pitch deck? Let's take a look.</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>


Arc now features a live calendar button to help you stay punctual for meetings
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 15:41:07 +0000

<p>The Browser Company&#8217;s Arc, a web browser that aims to have a less cluttered user interface, launched a “Live Calendar” feature to ensure you never miss a call or run late to a meeting. The feature rolled out yesterday on Mac and is available in the latest Arc update with version 1.47.1. The new feature [&#8230;]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>


Meta pauses plans to train AI using European users’ data, bowing to regulatory pressure
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 15:33:47 +0000

<p>Meta has confirmed that it will pause plans to start training its AI systems using data from its users in the European Union and U.K. The move follows pushback from the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), Meta&#8217;s lead regulator in the EU, which is acting on behalf of several data protection authorities across the bloc. [&#8230;]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>


Brave integrates its own search results with its Leo AI assistant
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 10:10:13 +0000

<p>Privacy-focused search engine and web browser company Brave Software is integrating search results into its Leo chatbot. Search results are based on the Brave Search API and Leo is integrated into the company&#8217;s browser. The company said that this integration will help users find more up-to-date information. People can use this integration to fetch information [&#8230;]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>


Enveda raises $55M to combine ancient remedies with AI for drug discovery
Fri, 14 Jun 2024 10:00:00 +0000

<p>For centuries, people chewed willow tree bark to relieve pain, but scientists at chemical firm Bayer didn&#8217;t isolate its active ingredient until the 1800s and eventually patented its modified version as Aspirin. Aspirin is just one example of a medicine derived from natural sources. In fact, the World Health Organization estimates that around 40% of [&#8230;]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>


We’re about to learn a whole lot more about how the human body reacts to space
Thu, 13 Jun 2024 22:35:39 +0000

<p>We could be entering a renaissance for human spaceflight research, as a record number of private citizens head to space — and as scientists improve techniques for gathering data on these intrepid test subjects.&#160; A sign that the renaissance is imminent appeared earlier this week, when the journal Nature published a cache of papers detailing [&#8230;]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>