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Boost your startup’s growth with a ScaleUp package at TC Disrupt 2024 Hey there, Series A to B startups with $35 million or less in funding — we’ve got an exciting opportunity that’s tailor-made for your growth journey! If you’re looking to elevate your presence at Tech...

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Boost your startup's growth with a ScaleUp package at TC Disrupt 2024 | TechCrunch

Hey there, Series A to B startups with $35 million or less in funding — we've got an exciting opportunity that's tailor-made for your g...

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French AI startup H raises $220 million seed round It’s not often that you hear about a seed round above $10 million. H, a startup based in Paris and previously known as Holistic AI, has announced a $220 million seed round just a few months after the ...

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French AI startup H raises $220M seed round | TechCrunch

It’s not often that you hear about a seed round above $10 million. H, a startup based in Paris and previously known as Holistic AI, has announced...

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WitnessAI is building guardrails for generative AI models Generative AI makes stuff up. It can be biased. Sometimes, it spits out toxic text. So can it be “safe”? Rick Caccia, the CEO of WitnessAI, believes it can. “Securing AI models is a real problem, and ...

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WitnessAI is building guardrails for generative AI models | TechCrunch

WitnessAI, a new startup, is building tech to give companies greater control over the generative AI models they're deploying.

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UK data protection watchdog ends privacy probe of Snap’s GenAI chatbot, but warns industry The UK’s data protection watchdog has closed an almost year-long investigation of Snap’s AI chatbot, My AI — saying it’s satisfied the social media firm has addressed concerns about risks to children’...

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UK data protection watchdog ends privacy probe of Snap's GenAI chatbot, but warns industry | TechCrunch

The U.K.'s data protection watchdog has closed an almost year-long investigation of Snap's AI chatbot, My AI -- saying it's satisfie...

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Microsoft upgrades its AI app-building platforms Microsoft’s big focus at this year’s Build conference is generative AI. And to that end, the tech giant announced a series of updates to its platforms for building generative AI-powered apps and exper...

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Microsoft upgrades its AI app-building platforms | TechCrunch

Microsoft has rolled out upgrades for Azure AI Studio and Copilot Studio, its bot- and agent-building platforms for enterprise customers.

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Microsoft intros a Copilot for teams Microsoft wants to make its brand of generative AI more useful for teams — specifically teams across corporations and large enterprise organizations. This morning at its annual Build dev conference, M...

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Microsoft intros a Copilot for teams | TechCrunch

At its annual Build developer conference, Microsoft launched a new variant of its Copilot generative AI tech aimed at teams.

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GitHub Copilot gets extensions Build is Microsoft’s largest developer conference and of course, it’s all about AI this year. So it’s no surprise that GitHub’s Copilot, GitHub’s “AI pair programming tool,” is taking center stage for...

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GitHub Copilot gets extensions | TechCrunch

Build is Microsoft's largest developer conference and of course, it's all about AI this year. So it's no surprise that GitHub's...

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Microsoft’s Power Automate no-code platform adds AI flows Microsoft wants to put its Copilot everywhere. It’s only a matter of time before Microsoft renames its annual Build developer conference to Microsoft Copilot. Hopefully, some of those upcoming events ...

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Microsoft's Power Automate no-code platform adds AI flows | TechCrunch

Microsoft wants to put its Copilot everywhere. It's only a matter of time before Microsoft renames its annual Build developer conference to Mi...

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As a U.S. ban looms, TikTok announces a $1M program for socially driven creators TikTok is pulling out all the stops to prevent its impending ban in the United States. Aside from initiating legal challenges against the government, that means shaping up its public image. On Tuesday...

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As a US ban looms, TikTok announces a $1M program for socially driven creators | TechCrunch

TikTok is pulling out all the stops to prevent its impending ban in the United States. Aside from initiating legal action against the U.S. government,

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Spotify’s ‘Listening Party’ feature falls short of expectations It’s been three years since Spotify acquired live audio startup Betty Labs, and yet the music streaming service isn’t leveraging the technology to its fullest potential—at least not in our opinion.  B...

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Spotify's 'Listening Party' feature falls short of expectations | TechCrunch

It’s been three years since Spotify acquired live audio startup Betty Labs, and yet the music streaming service isn’t leveraging the technology...

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Conservative cell carrier Patriot Mobile hit by data breach U.S. cell carrier Patriot Mobile experienced a data breach that included subscribers’ personal information, including full names, email addresses, home zip codes, and account PINs, TechCrunch has lear...

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Conservative cell carrier Patriot Mobile hit by data breach | TechCrunch

Patriot Mobile, a conservative-focused cell phone provider, was hit by a data breach impacting subscribers' personal information.

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Kickstarter now lets you pledge after a campaign closes “Late Pledge” allows campaign creators to continue collecting money even after the campaign has closed. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Kickstarter now lets you pledge after a campaign closes | TechCrunch

“Late Pledge” allows campaign creators to continue collecting money even after the campaign has closed.

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Alchemist’s latest batch puts AI to work as accelerator expands to Tokyo, Doha Alchemist Accelerator has a new pile of AI-forward companies demoing their wares today, if you care to watch, and the program itself is making some international moves into Tokyo and Doha. Read on for...

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Alchemist's latest batch puts AI to work as accelerator expands to Tokyo, Doha | TechCrunch

Alchemist Accelerator has a new pile of AI-forward companies demoing their wares today, if you care to watch, and the program itself is making some

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Stack AI wants to make it easier to build AI-fueled workflows Stack AI’s co-founders, Antoni Rosinol and Bernardo Aceituno, were PhD students at MIT wrapping up their degrees in 2022 just as large language models were becoming more mainstream. ChatGPT would be r...

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Stack AI wants to make it easier to build AI-fueled workflows | TechCrunch

Stack AI, an early stage startup from a couple of former MIT PhD students, looking to simplify creating AI-fueled workflows.

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Adobe brings Firefly AI-powered Generative Remove to Lightroom Adobe says the feature is up to the task, regardless of how complex of a background the object is set against. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Adobe brings Firefly AI-powered Generative Remove to Lightroom | TechCrunch

Adobe says the feature is up to the task, regardless of how complex of a background the object is set against.

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Sonos finally made some headphones The market play is clear from the outset: The $449 headphones are firmly targeted at an audience that would otherwise be purchasing the Bose QC Ultra or Apple AirPods Max. © 2024 TechCrunch. All righ...

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Sonos finally made some headphones | TechCrunch

Sonos' over-ear Ace headphones are $449 and will be released in June. The Sonos Ace look like a standard set of premium headphones on paper.

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Special mud helps XGS Energy get more power out of geothermal wells Young geothermal energy wells can be like budding prodigies, each brimming with potential to outshine their peers. But like people, most decline with age. In California, for example, the amount of ele...

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Special mud helps XGS Energy get more power out of geothermal wells | TechCrunch

Young geothermal energy wells can be like budding prodigies, each brimming with potential to outshine their peers. But like people, most decline wi...

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Pinecone launches its serverless vector database out of preview Pinecone, the vector database startup founded by Edo Liberty, the former head of Amazon’s AI Labs, has long been at the forefront of helping businesses augment large language models (LLMs) with their ...

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Pinecone launches its serverless vector database out of preview | TechCrunch

Pinecone, the vector database startup founded by Edo Liberty, the former head of Amazon's AI Labs, has long been at the forefront of helping b...

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Porsche invests in battery startup South 8 to boost cold-weather EV performance All cars suffer when the mercury drops, but electric vehicles suffer more than most as heaters draw more power and batteries charge more slowly as the liquid electrolyte inside thickens. Drivers in Ch...

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Porsche Ventures invests in battery startup South 8 to boost cold-weather EV performance | TechCrunch

All cars suffer when the mercury drops, but electric vehicles suffer more than most as heaters draw more power and batteries charge more slowly as the

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Data-labeling startup Scale AI raises $1B as valuation doubles to $13.8B Scale AI, a company that provides data-labeling services for training machine learning models, has raised a $1 billion Series F round from a slew of big-name institutional and corporate investors incl...

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Data-labeling startup Scale AI raises $1B as valuation doubles to $13.8B | TechCrunch

Scale AI has raised a $1 billion Series F round from a slew of big-name institutional and corporate investors including Amazon and Meta.