IndieBios Bay Area incubator is about to debut its 15th cohort of biotech startups; here are a few we took special notice of, making some major, bordering on ludicrous, claims that could pay off in a big way. Biotech has been creeping out in recent years to touch adjacent industries, as companies find how much [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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 the feature to iPhones and iPads. The feature, which first launched in March 2023, is aimed at sports viewers who want to [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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 personal use only.

OpenAIs Superalignment team, responsible for developing ways to govern and steer superintelligent AI systems was promised 20% of the companys compute resources, according to a person from that team. But requests for a fraction of that compute were often denied, blocking the team from doing their work. That issue, among others, pushed several team members [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 is just around the corner, and the buzz is palpable. But what if we told you theres a chance for you to not just attend, but also take your brand center stage with your own event during the most anticipated tech gathering of the year? Yes, you read that right you [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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 only.

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.

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 a data breach notice published earlier this month that the company detected evidence of suspicious activity on December 28, 2023, which prompted the company [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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.

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

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 reserved. For personal use only.

The European Union has warned Microsoft that it could be fined up to 1% of its global annual turnover under the blocs online governance regime, the Digital Services Act (DSA), after the company failed to respond to a legally binding request for information (RFI) that focused on its generative AI tools. Back in March, the [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

The prospects for troubled banking-as-a-service startup Synapse have gone from bad to worse this week after a United States Trustee filed an emergency motion on Wednesday. The trustee is asking to convert the companys debt reorganization Chapter 11 bankruptcy into a liquidation Chapter 7, according to court documents. The trustee wrote that the need for [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

U.K.-based Seraphim Space is spinning up its 13th accelerator program, with nine participating companies working on a range of tech from propulsion to in-space manufacturing and space situational awareness. The intense 12-week program is designed to get seed and Series A companies investment ready, the firm says, by providing specialist mentorship, networking opportunities and intensive [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

OpenAI has reached a deal with Reddit to use the social news sites data for training AI models. In a blog post on OpenAIs press relations site, the company said that the Reddit partnership will provide it access to real-time, structured and unique content e.g. posts and replies from Reddit, allowing its tools [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

The broader goal is to connect more of X's user base with with other people, where they can post about a particular topic and comment on posts from others. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

For Mark Zuckerbergs fortieth birthday, his wife got him a photoshoot. Zuckerberg gives the camera a sly smile as he sits amid a carefully crafted recreation of his childhood bedroom. Its appropriately childish a lava lamp, a participation trophy, a white stuffed dog yet the surroundings foreshadow the culture-shifting, technological force Zuckerberg would [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Strava announced a slew of features, including AI to weed out leaderboard cheats, a new 'family' subscription plan, dark mode and more. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

We all fall down sometimes. Astronauts are no exception. You need to be in peak physical condition for space travel, but bulky space suits and lower gravity levels can be a recipe for disaster, causing them to trip over themselves. The answer to this very specific issue may well be robotic limbs. They wont prevent [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Microsoft will launch its custom Cobalt 100 chips to customers as a public preview at its Build conference next week, TechCrunch has learned. In an analyst briefing ahead of Build, Scott Guthrie, Microsofts executive VP of the Microsoft Cloud and AI group, directly compared Cobalt to AWSs Graviton chips, which have been available to developers [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

What a wild week for transportation news! It was a smorgasbord of news that seemed to touch every sector and theme in transportation. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Sony Music Group has sent letters to more than 700 tech companies and music streaming services to warn them not to use its music to train AI without explicit permission. The letter, which was obtained by TechCrunch, says Sony Music has reason to believe that the recipients of the letter have may already have made [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Winston Chi, Butter's founder and CEO, told TechCrunch that most parties, including our investors and us, are making money from the exit. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

The investor lawsuit is related to Bolt securing a $30 million personal loan to Ryan Breslow, which was later defaulted on. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, launched an enterprise version of the prominent social network in 2015. It always seemed like a stretch for a company built on a consumer product that made most of its money from ads, making a go of it in the enterprise. Perhaps the biggest surprise is that it lasted [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

X, formerly Twitter, turned TweetDeck into X Pro and pushed it behind a paywall. But there is a new column-based social media tool in the town, and its from Instagram Threads. Mark Zuckerberg announced today that the social network is testing pinned columns on the web. While the Meta CEO didnt mention what you can [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

As part of 2024s Accessibility Awareness Day, Google is showing off some updates to Android that should be useful to folks with mobility or vision impairments. Project Gameface allows gamers to use their faces to move the cursor and perform common click-like actions on desktop, and now its coming to Android. The project lets people [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

A hacker listed the data allegedly breached from Samco on a known cybercrime forum. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

A top European privacy watchdog is investigating following the recent breaches of Dell customers personal information, TechCrunch has learned. Irelands Data Protection Commission (DPC) deputy commissioner Graham Doyle confirmed to TechCrunch that the DPC has received a breach notification on this matter referring to Dell which is currently under assessment. Asked to elaborate, [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Ampere and Qualcomm arent the most obvious of partners. Both, after all, offer Arm-based chips for running data center servers (though Qualcomms largest market remains mobile). But as the two companies announced today, they are now combining forces to offer an AI-focused server that uses Amperes CPUs and Qualcomms Cloud AI100 Ultra AI inferencing chips [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

At Googles I/O developer conference, the company made its case to developers and to some extent, consumers why its bets on AI are ahead of rivals. At the event, the company unveiled a revamped AI-powered search engine, an AI model with an expanded context window of 2 million tokens, AI helpers across its [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

TechCrunch Disrupt has always been the ultimate convergence point for all things startup and tech. In the bustling world of innovation, it serves as the big top tent, where entrepreneurs, tech enthusiasts, and industry leaders gather to witness the unveiling of groundbreaking technologies, engage in thought-provoking discussions, and forge invaluable connections. As we gear up [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Theres apparently a lot of demand for an on-demand handyperson. Khosla Ventures and Pear VC have just tripled down on their investment in Honey Homes, which offers up a dedicated handyman to take care of all the random tasks on a homeowners to-do list. The company raised $9 million last June in a Series A [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

TikTok is testing the ability for users to upload 60-minute videos, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Thursday. The feature is available to a limited group of users in select markets, and TikTok says it doesnt have any immediate plans to make the feature available widely. The feature, which was first spotted by social media [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Flock Safety is a multi-billion dollar startup thats got eyes everywhere. As of Wednesday, with the companys new Solar Condor cameras, those eyes are solar-powered and using wireless 5G networks to make them all that much easier to install. Adding solar power to the mix means that the companys mission to blanket the country with [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Since he was very young, Bar Mor knew that he would inevitably do something with real estate. His family was involved in all types of real estate projects, from ground-up construction to managing residential, commercial and retail properties. But unlike his parents, Mor also had a passion for technology. His interest in tech was reinforced [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Poshmark, the social commerce site that lets people buy and sell new and used items to each other, launched a paid marketing tool on Thursday, giving sellers the ability to promote their entire shop at once. Poshmarks new feature, called Promoted Closet, uses machine learning to automatically promote individual product listings from a sellers entire [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Google is launching a Gemini add-on for educational institutes through Google Workspace. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

More money for the generative AI boom: Y Combinator-backed developer infrastructure startup Recall.ai announced Thursday its raised a $10 million Series A funding round,bringing its total raised to over $12M. The startup has built infrastructure and a unified API that enables companies to access raw data from virtual meeting platforms like Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Engineers Adam Keating and Jeremy Andrews were tired of using spreadsheets and screenshots to collab with teammates so they launched a startup, Colab, to build a better way. The two met as undergraduates at Memorial University of Newfoundland, where they studied mechanical engineering together. While they were completing their last internships prior to graduating [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Reddit announced on Wednesday that it is reintroducing its awards system after shutting down the program last year. The company said that most of the mechanisms related to awards will remain the same, with some new additions. For instance, theres a new design for awards, a new award button under eligible posts, and a leaderboard [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Sigma Computing, a startup building a range of data analytics and business intelligence tools, has raised $200 million in a fresh VC round. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

European Union enforcers of the blocs online governance regime, the Digital Services Act (DSA), said Thursday theyre closely monitoring disinformation campaigns on the Elon Musk-owned social network X (formerly Twitter) following the Wednesday shooting of Slovakias prime minister, RobertFico. The bloc has been formally investigating X since last December over disinformation in civic discourse and [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Wind is the largest source of renewable energy in the U.S., according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, but wind farms come with an environmental cost as wind turbines can wreak havoc on bird populations. Meet Spoor, the startup using AI to help wind farms mitigate that risk. Spoor is a software that uses machine [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

The key to taking on legacy players in the financial technology industry may be to go where they have not gone before. Thats what Chicago-based Aeropay is doing. The provider of pay-by-bank solutions for businesses started out helping cannabis retailers and gaming companies with their payments and is now entering into Visa and Mastercards territory [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Facebook and Instagram are under formal investigation in the European Union over child protection concerns, the Commission announced Thursday. The proceedings follow a raft of requests for information to parent entity Meta since the blocs online governance regime, the Digital Services Act (DSA), started applying last August. The development could be significant as the formal [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Bedrock Materials is developing a new type of sodium-ion battery, which promises to be dramatically cheaper than lithium-ion. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Private equity giant Thoma Bravo has announced that its security information and event management (SIEM) company LogRhythm will be merging with Exabeam, a rival cybersecurity company backed by the likes of Cisco and Lightspeed Venture Partners. SIEM is the business of using real-time data gleaned from servers, network devices, and applications to flag abnormal activity [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Consumer protection groups around the European Union have filed coordinated complaints against Temu, accusing the Chinese-owned ultra low-cost e-commerce platform of a raft of breaches related to the blocs Digital Services Act (DSA). Temu only launched in the region about a year ago but recently reported blasting past 75 million monthly users. Penalties for confirmed [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

A long-running working group in the Senate has issued its policy recommendation for federal funding for AI: $32 billion yearly, covering everything from infrastructure to grand challenges to national security risk assessments. This roadmap is not a bill or detailed policy proposal, but nevertheless it gives a sense of the scale lawmakers and stakeholders are [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.