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

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 ci...

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

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 s...

This Week in AI: OpenAI moves away from safety

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 re...

Adobe comes after indie game emulator Delta for copying its logo

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 a...

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

AI Chatbots Are Promising but Limited in Promoting Healthy Behavior Change

In recent years, the healthcare industry has witnessed a significant increase in the use of large language model-based chatbots, or generative conversational agents. These AI-powered tools have been e...

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

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. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal...

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

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...

Unveiling the Control Panel: Key Parameters Shaping LLM Outputs

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a transformative force, significantly impacting industries like healthcare, finance, and legal services. For example, a recent study by McKinsey found that...

Fostering Trust: How Interactive AI Builds Trust Between Doctors and AI Diagnostics

Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds great promise for healthcare, offering improvements in diagnostic accuracy, reducing workloads, and enhancing patient outcomes. Despite these benefits, there is hesi...

BrushNet: Plug and Play Image Inpainting with Dual Branch Diffusion

Image inpainting is one of the classic problems in computer vision, and it aims to restore masked regions in an image with plausible and natural content. Existing work employing traditional image inpa...

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

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 th...

Willson Cross, CEO & Co-Founder of Borderless AI – Interview Series

Willson Cross is the CEO and Co-Founder of Borderless AI, an enterprise at the forefront of pioneering the application of artificial intelligence in global human resources. Under his leadership, Borde...

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

CSC ServiceWorks provides laundry machines to thousands of residential homes and universities, but the company ignored requests to fix a security bug. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For pers...

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

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...

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

Decks are all about telling a compelling story and Goodcarbon does a good job on that front. But there's important information missing too. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use on...

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

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 ...

Slack under attack over sneaky AI training policy

Slack is making it difficult for its customers if they want the company to stop using its data for model training. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

OpenAI’s Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded

The entire OpenAI team focused on the existential dangers of AI has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups, WIRED has confirmed.

Healthcare company WebTPA discloses breach affecting 2.5 million people

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...

Microsoft dodges UK antitrust scrutiny over its Mistral AI stake

Microsoft won't be facing antitrust scrutiny in the U.K. over its recent investment into French AI startup Mistral AI. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Embedded finance is still trendy as accounting automation startup Ember partners with HSBC UK

Ember has partnered with HSBC in the U.K. so that the bank's business customers can access Ember’s services from their online accounts. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only...

It’s Time to Believe the AI Hype

Some pundits suggest generative AI stopped getting smarter. The explosive demos from OpenAI and Google that started the week show there’s plenty more disruption to come.

Kudos lands $10M for an AI smart wallet that picks the best credit card for purchases

Kudos uses AI to figure out consumer spending habits so it can then provide more personalized financial advice, like maximizing rewards and utilizing credit effectively. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights...