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Women in AI: Tara Chklovski is teaching the next generation of AI innovators Tara Chklovski is the CEO and founder of Technovation, a nonprofit that helps teach young girls about technology and entrepreneurship. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Women in AI: Tara Chklovski is teaching the next generation of AI innovators | TechCrunch

Tara Chklovski is the CEO and founder of Technovation, a nonprofit that helps teach young girls about technology and entrepreneurship.

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Deal Dive: Amae Health is building an in-person approach to mental healthcare in an increasingly digital space While many recent mental health-focused startups are digital first, Amae Health focuses on the importance of in-person care. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Amae Health is building an in-person approach to mental healthcare in an increasingly digital space | TechCrunch

While many recent mental health-focused startups are digital first, Amae Health focuses on the importance of in-person care.

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Farewell, dunks? Threads launches quote controls for all users Threads users can now exert more control over who can quote their posts. This builds on a feature that already allows Threads users to limit who can reply to their posts (competing services like X and...

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Farewell, dunks? Threads launches quote controls for all users | TechCrunch

Threads users can now exert more control over who can quote their posts. This builds on a feature that already allows Threads users to limit who ca...

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Why RAG won’t solve generative AI’s hallucination problem RAG is being pitched as a solution of sorts to generative AI hallucinations. But there's limits to what the technique can do. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Why RAG won't solve generative AI's hallucination problem | TechCrunch

RAG is being pitched as a solution of sorts to generative AI hallucinations. But there's limits to what the technique can do.

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This Week in AI: Generative AI and the problem of compensating creators 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 resear...

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This Week in AI: Generative AI and the problem of compensating creators | TechCrunch

In this edition of This Week in AI, we take a look at research from an OpenAI scientist on compensating data set contributors.

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Luminar cuts 20% of staff and outsources lidar production Lidar company Luminar is slashing its workforce by 20% and will lean harder on its contract manufacturing partner as part of a restructuring that will shift the company to a more “asset-light” busines...

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Luminar cuts 20% of staff and outsources lidar production | TechCrunch

Luminar is slashing its workforce by 20% and will lean harder on its contract manufacturing partner as part of a restructuring.

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Iconiq raises $5.15B toward seventh flagship fund Iconiq Capital has raised $5.15 billion across two funds associated with the seventh growth fund family, according to SEC filings. The firm, which launched in 2011 as a private office managing capital...

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ICONIQ Growth raises $5.75B seventh flagship fund | TechCrunch

According to SEC filings, ICONIQ Growth has raised $5.21 billion across two funds affiliated with the Seventh Growth Fund Family. However, the firm...

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A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs 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 independe...

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A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs | TechCrunch

A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024 and 2025.

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X launches Stories on X delivering news summarized by Grok AI X's Premium subscribers will be able to read a summary of posts on X associated with each trending story featured on the "For You" tab in Explore. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal...

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X launches Stories, delivering news summarized by Grok AI | TechCrunch

X's Premium subscribers will be able to read a summary of posts on X associated with each trending story featured on the For You tab in Explore.

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Match-owned Archer hits over half a million installs amid dating app slump It’s been almost one year since Match Group announced the launch of Archer, the online dating giant’s first app for gay, bi, and queer men. Since rolling out to New York last June, Archer has been dow...

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Exclusive: Match-owned Archer hits over half a million installs amid dating app slump

Since launching, Archer has been downloaded over 685K times, according to Sensor Tower estimates.

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Musk raises $6B for AI startup. Also, is TikTok dodging Apple’s commissions? Welcome to Startups Weekly — Haje’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. Musk’s 10-month-old baby, xAI, is closing i...

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Musk raises $6B for AI startup. Also, is TikTok dodging Apple's commissions? | TechCrunch

Welcome to Startups Weekly — Haje’s weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbo...

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Fisker stiffed the engineering firm developing its low-cost EV and pickup truck, lawsuit claims Henrik Fisker stood on a stage last August and proudly debuted two prototypes designed to catapult his eponymous EV startup Fisker into the mainstream. There was the Pear, a low-cost EV meant for the ...

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Fisker stiffed the engineering firm developing its low-cost EV and pickup truck, lawsuit claims | TechCrunch

Bertrandt AG is claiming it suffered $13 million in damages, as lawsuits against the struggling EV startup begin to pile up.

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Three things we learned about Apple’s AI plans from its earnings Despite spending more than $100 billion on R&D over the last five years, Apple isn't planning to spin up too many new data centers to run or train AI models. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. F...

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Three things we learned about Apple's AI plans from its earnings | TechCrunch

Despite spending more than $100 billion on R&D over the last five years, Apple isn't planning to spin up too many new data centers to run or t...

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Instagram now lets you post a secret Story that viewers can uncover with a DM Instagram is adding a handful of new features for Stories to give users more creative ways to share content and engage with each other, the company announced on Friday. Most notably, the social networ...

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Instagram now lets you post a secret Story that viewers can uncover with a DM | TechCrunch

Instagram is adding a handful of new features for Stories to give users more creative ways to share content and engage with each other.

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Despite recent successes, IPO market still won’t fully open until 2025 Experts say macroeconomic factors including the upcoming election and the current state of the economy will deter too many IPOs this year. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use onl...

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Despite recent successes, IPO market still won't fully open until 2025 | TechCrunch

Experts say macroeconomic factors including the upcoming election and the current state of the economy will deter too many IPOs this year.

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Sprinklr lays off more than 100 employees The new job cuts come over a year after the company cut about 4% of its headcount in February last year. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Exclusive: Sprinklr lays off more than 100 employees

Customer experience management firm Sprinklr has laid off about 3% of its workforce — around 116 people worldwide.

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How to play Pokémon and other Game Boy games on your iPhone Apple finally updated its App Store guidelines to allow global developers to host retro game emulators on iOS. Now, you don’t need to jailbreak your iPhone or download any sketchy software — you can g...

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How to play Pokémon and other Game Boy games on your iPhone | TechCrunch

After decades of jailbreaking and sideloading, Apple finally will let you download emulators from the iOS App Store.

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EQT snaps up API and identity management software company WSO2 for more than $600M WSO2, a company that provides API and identity management services for enterprises, has been acquired by EQT for more than $600M. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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EQT snaps up API and identity management software company WSO2 for more than $600M | TechCrunch

WSO2, a company that provides API and identity management services for enterprises, has been acquired by EQT for more than $600M.

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Climate tech investment roars back with an $8.1B start to 2024 Companies focused on reducing CO2 emissions raised big sums, second only to Q3 2023. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Climate tech investment roars back with an $8.1B start to 2024 | TechCrunch

Companies focused on reducing CO2 emissions raised big sums, second only to Q3 2023.

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10 years in the making, retro game emulator Delta is now #1 on the iOS charts Video game emulator Delta’s decade-long struggle against the iOS app store began with a school-issued TI-84 calculator. When Riley Testut was a sophomore in high school, he showed his friends how to l...

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10 years in the making, retro game emulator Delta is now No. 1 on the iOS charts | TechCrunch

Video game emulator Delta’s decade-long struggle against the iOS App Store began with a school-issued TI-84 calculator. When Riley Testut was a s...