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Rabbit partners with ElevenLabs to power voice commands on its device Hardware maker Rabbit has tapped a partnership with ElevenLabs to power voice commands on its devices. Rabbit is set to ship the first set of r1 devices next month after getting a ton of attention at ...

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Rabbit partners with ElevenLabs to power voice commands on its device | TechCrunch

Hardware maker Rabbit has tapped a partnership with ElevenLabs to power voice commands on its devices.

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PayPal backs Indonesian insurance startup Qoala in $47M funding PayPal Ventures’ latest investment is in an Indonesian startup that provides personal insurance products covering a variety of risks, including accidents, phone screen damage, and ticket cancellations...

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PayPal invests in Indonesia's Qoala to tap insurance market 'ripe with opportunity' | TechCrunch

PayPal Ventures' latest investment is in an Indonesian startup that provides personal insurance products covering a variety of risks, includin...

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Discipulus Ventures mentors young founders to revive a Norman Rockwell vision of America Scores of accelerator programs run every year with the aim of identifying and cultivating founders in the earliest stages of building a company. Only a fraction seek out founders who are explicitly al...

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Discipulus Ventures mentors young founders to revive a Norman Rockwell vision of America | TechCrunch

Scores of accelerator programs run every year with the aim of identifying and cultivating founders in the earliest stages of building a company. On...

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Robinhood’s new credit card goes after Apple Card with ability to invest cash-back perks Eight months after acquiring credit card startup X1 for $95 million, Robinhood announced today the launch of its new Gold Card, with a list of features that could even give Apple Card users envy. Robi...

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Robinhood's new credit card goes after Apple Card with ability to invest cash-back perks | TechCrunch

Eight months after acquiring credit card startup X1 for $95 million, Robinhood announced today the launch of its new Gold Card.

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Elon Musk says all premium subscribers on X will gain access to AI chatbot Grok this week Following Elon Musk’s xAI’s move to open source its Grok large language model earlier in March, the X owner on Tuesday said that the company formerly known as Twitter will soon offer the Grok chatbot ...

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Elon Musk says all Premium subscribers on X will gain access to AI chatbot Grok this week | TechCrunch

Following Elon Musk's xAI's move to open source its Grok large language model earlier in March, the X owner on Tuesday said that the comp...

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In the Gundo, Discipulus Ventures is bringing together a cohort of founders to accelerate America Scores of accelerator programs run every year with the aim of identifying and cultivating founders in the earliest stages of building a company. Only a fraction seek out founders that are explicitly a...

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Discipulus Ventures mentors young founders to revive a Norman Rockwell vision of America | TechCrunch

Scores of accelerator programs run every year with the aim of identifying and cultivating founders in the earliest stages of building a company. On...

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Facebook snooped on users’ Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal In 2016, Facebook launched a secret project designed to intercept and decrypt the network traffic between people using Snapchat’s app and its servers. The goal was to understand users’ behavior and he...

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Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal | TechCrunch

A secret program called "Project Ghostbusters" saw Facebook devise a way to intercept and decrypt the encrypted network traffic of Snapchat users t...

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How to turn off Instagram’s political content filter It’s election season in the U.S., and Instagram has changed the way that it recommends political content. On both Instagram and the newer X competitor Threads, this change won’t impact what you see fr...

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How to turn off Instagram's political content filter | TechCrunch

It's election season in the U.S., and Instagram has changed the way that it recommends political content. On both Instagram and the newer X co...

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NASA’s snake robot is designed to search out life in the icy oceans of a Saturn moon The snake robot form factor has existed for decades. In addition to the diversity it adds to the world of automation, the design has several pragmatic attributes. The first is redundancy, which allows...

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NASA’s snake robot is designed to search out life in the icy oceans of a Saturn moon | TechCrunch

The snake robot form factor has existed for decades. In addition to the diversity it adds to the world of automation, the design has several pragmatic

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Vibrant Planet uses AI for land mapping and improving climate resiliency As the planet warms due to human-caused climate change, damage from wildfires has increased with it. The amount of forest area burned by wildfires increased 320% from 1996 to 2021, according to the Na...

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Vibrant Planet uses AI for land mapping and improving climate resiliency

Vibrant Planet founder and CEO Allison Wolff joined the Found podcast to talk about land mapping and how AI can improve climate resiliency.

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Synctera is the latest banking-as-a-service startup to lay off staff Banking-as-a-service startup (BaaS) Synctera has conducted a restructuring that has resulted in a staff reduction, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. While Synctera did not share how many employees ...

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Synctera is the latest banking-as-a-service startup to lay off staff | TechCrunch

The startup, which has a platform that brings together fintech companies and sponsor banks, has raised nearly $80M in funding.

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Adobe’s Firefly Services makes over 20 new generative and creative APIs available to developers Adobe today announced Firefly Services, a set of over 20 new generative and creative APIs, tools and services. Firefly Services makes some of the company’s AI-powered features from its Creative Cloud ...

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Adobe's Firefly Services makes over 20 new generative and creative APIs available to developers | TechCrunch

Adobe today announced Firefly Services, a set of more than 20 new generative and creative APIs, tools and services. Firefly Services makes some of the

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EU publishes election security guidance for social media giants and others in scope of DSA The European Union published draft election security guidelines Tuesday aimed at the around two dozen (larger) platforms with more than 45M+ regional monthly active users that are regulated under the ...

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EU publishes election security guidance for social media giants and others in scope of DSA | TechCrunch

The European Union published draft election security guidelines Tuesday aimed at larger platforms with a legal duty to mitigate systemic risks like...

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Apple WWDC 2024 set for June 10-14, promises to be ‘A(bsolutely) I(ncredible)’ Apple SVP Greg “Joz” Joswiak just confirmed via the social media platform formerly known as Twitter that the company’s annual World Wide Developer Conference is set for June 10-14. In what is no doubt...

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Apple WWDC 2024, set for June 10-14, promises to be 'A(bsolutely) I(ncredible)' | TechCrunch

Apple SVP Greg "Joz" Joswiak just confirmed via the social media platform formerly known as Twitter that the company's annual World Wide Devel...

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Evari turns to rocket science to solve problems with heat pumps The startup emerged from stealth with a goal of extending the range of EVs while also eliminating fossil fuels from home heating. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Evari turns to rocket science to solve problems with heat pumps | TechCrunch

The startup emerged from stealth with a goal of extending the range of EVs while also eliminating fossil fuels from home heating.

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With Affinity acquisition, Canva should be able to compete better with Adobe’s creative tools Canva, the high-flying Australian design and visual communication startup, announced today it was acquiring Affinity (formerly Serif), a creative tools company based in the U.K. Bloomberg reported tha...

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With Affinity acquisition, Canva should be able to compete better with Adobe's creative tools | TechCrunch

With the acquisition of U.K. design tools maker, Affinity, Canva will be able to target experienced designers and better compete with Adobe.

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Instagram co-founders’ AI-powered news app Artifact may not be shutting down after all Artifact, the well-received AI-powered news app from Instagram’s co-founders, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, may not be shutting down as planned. The company announced in January the award-winning ap...

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Instagram co-founders' AI-powered news app Artifact may not be shutting down after all | TechCrunch

Artifact, the well-received AI-powered news app from Instagram's co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, may not be shutting down as plann...

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TechCrunch Minute: What Stability AI’s CEO departure means for other AI startups What do you call an AI company that is suffering from very public gyrations regarding its business health, place in the market, and leadership structure? Well, you might call it Stability AI. And no, ...

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Watch: What Stability AI's CEO departure means for other AI startups | TechCrunch

Stability AI's latest leadership shakeup is no joke, with its CEO departing to work on AI products that are less centralized.

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Adobe’s GenStudio brings brand-safe generative AI to marketers Brands want to use generative AI to personalize their marketing efforts — but they are also deathly afraid of AI going off message and ruining their brand. At its annual Summit conference in Las Vegas...

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Adobe's GenStudio brings brand-safe generative AI to marketers | TechCrunch

Brands want to use generative AI to personalize their marketing efforts -- but they are also deathly afraid of AI going off message and ruining their

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YC-backed SigmaOS browser turns to AI-powered features for monetization Web browsers have realized they are one of the best ways for users to access the present set of AI tools, so they are working on being the first-choice containers for that. SigmaOS, a Y Combinator-bac...

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YC-backed SigmaOS browser turns to AI-powered features for monetization | TechCrunch

Web browsers have realized they are one of the best ways for users to access the present set of AI tools, so they are working on being the first-ch...