To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved and overdue time in the spotlight, TechCrunch has been publishing aseries of interviewsfocused on remarkable women whove contributed to the AI revolution. Were publishing these pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often goes unrecognized. Read more profileshere. [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

We took the pulse of emerging fund managers about what it's been like for them during these post-ZERP, venture-capital-winter years. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Its been a busy weekend for union organizing efforts at U.S. Apple stores, with the union at one store voting to authorize a strike, while workers at another store voted against forming a union. Back in 2022, workers the Apple store in Towson, Maryland became organized the first formally recognized union at an Apple retail [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Alora Baby is not just aiming to manufacture baby cribs in an environmentally friendly way but is attempting to overhaul the whole lifecycle of a product 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Bumble founder and executive chair Whitney Wolfe Herd raised eyebrows this week with her comments about how AI might change the dating experience. During an onstage interview, Bloombergs Emily Chang brought up bots posing as real people, or real people falling in love with bots, as examples of how AI might make online dating worse. [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Welcome to Week in Review: TechCrunchs newsletter recapping the weeks biggest news. This week Apple unveiled new iPad models at its Let Loose event, including a new 13-inch display for the iPad Air, as well as Tandem OLED and a new M4 chip for the iPad Pro. But its ad for the new iPad Pro [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

The U.K. Safety Institute, the U.K.s recently established AI safety body, has released a toolset designed to strengthen AI safety by making it easier for industry, research organizations and academia to develop AI evaluations. Called Inspect, the toolset which is available under an open source license, specifically an MIT License aims to assess certain [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

AI startup Runway's second annual AI Film Festival showcased movies that incorporated AI tech in some fashion, from backgrounds to animations. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Rachel Coldicutt is the founder of Careful Industries, which researches the social impact technology has on society. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

SAP Chief Sustainability Officer Sophia Mendelsohn wants to incentivize companies to be green because it's profitable, not just because it's right. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Here's what one insider said happened in the days leading up to the layoffs. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

StrictlyVC events deliver exclusive insider content from the Silicon Valley & Global VC scene while creating meaningful connections over cocktails and canaps with leading investors, entrepreneurs and executives. And TechCrunch is excited to join forces with key players in the London investment community at our next StrictlyVC event. Were pleased to have Saul Klein, Co-Founder [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Meesho, a leading e-commerce startup in India, has secured $275 million in a new funding round. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Some Indian government websites have allowed scammers to plant advertisements capable of redirecting visitors to online betting platforms. TechCrunch discovered around four dozen gov.in website links associated with Indian states, including Bihar, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Mizoram and Telangana that were redirecting to online betting platforms. Some of those websites belong to state police and property [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Around 550 employees across autonomous vehicle company Motional have been laid off, according to information taken from WARN notice filings and sources at the company. Earlier this week, TechCrunch reported that Motional is pausing commercial operations and delaying plans to launch a robotaxi service with its next-gen Hyundai Ioniq 5 robotaxis until 2026 as it [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

The deck included some redacted numbers, but there was still enough data to get a good picture. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

The company is describing the event as a chance to demo some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Unlike ChatGPT, Claude did not become a new App Store hit. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Welcome to Startups Weekly Hajes weekly recap of everything you cant miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Look, I know this is our startups weekly newsletter, and as the most valuable company in the world, Apple is kind of the ultimate not a [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Scarcely five months after its founding, hard tech startup Layup Parts has landed a $9 million round of financing led by Founders Fund to transform composites manufacturing.Lux Capital and Haystack also participated. The breakneck pace is more than a subtle indication that investors appetite for tech-focused solutions to the woes of the American industrial base [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

AI startup Anthropic is changing its policies to allow minors to use its generative AI systems in certain circumstances, at least. Announced in a post on the companys official blog Friday, Anthropic will begin letting teens and preteens use third-party apps (but not its own apps, necessarily) powered by its AI models so long [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Zeekr's market hype is noteworthy and may indicate that investors see value in the high-quality, low-price offerings of Chinese automakers. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Venture capital has been hit hard by souring macroeconomic conditions over the past few years and its not yet clear how the market downturn affected VC fund performance. But recent data from the San Francisco Employees Retirement System (SFERS) give us something to chew on. SFERSs venture portfolio recorded a -.9% internal rate of return [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

The person who claims to have 49 million Dell customer records told TechCrunch that he brute-forced an online company portal and scraped customer data, including physical addresses, directly from Dells servers. TechCrunch verified that some of the scraped data matches the personal information of Dell customers. On Thursday, Dell sent an email to customers saying [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

The social network has announced an updated version of its app that lets you offer feedback about its algorithmic feed so you can better customize it. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Microsoft will launch its own mobile game store in July, the company announced at the Bloomberg Technology Summit on Thursday. Xbox president Sarah Bond shared that the company plans to bring its first-party portfolio, which includes titles like Candy Crush and Minecraft, to the mobile store at launch. Microsoft then plans to open up the [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Smart ring maker Oura is launching two new features focused on heart health, the company announced on Friday. The first claims to help users get an idea of their cardiovascular age, while the second feature aims to estimate their cardio capacity. Depending on a persons results, Oura will offer strategies on how to sleep, move, [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving asAIis a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, heres a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didnt cover on their own. By the way, TechCrunch plans to launch an AI newsletter [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Garena is quietly developing new India-themed games even though Free Fire, its biggest title, has still not made a comeback to the country. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

The U.S.' NHTSA has opened a fourth investigation into the Fisker Ocean SUV, spurred by multiple claims of inadvertent Automatic Emergency Braking. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

CoreWeave has formally opened an office in London that will serve as its European headquarters and home to two new data centers. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

The Series C funding, whichbrings its total raise to around $95 million, will go toward mass production of the startup's inaugural products 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

A dust-up between Evolve Bank & Trust, Mercury and Synapse has led TabaPay to abandon its acquisition plans of troubled banking-as-a-service startup Synapse. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

The Twitter for Android client was a demo app that Google had created and gave to us, says Particle co-founder and ex-Twitter employee Sara Beykpour. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

WhatsApp is updating its mobile apps for a fresh and more streamlined look, while also introducing a new darker dark mode, the company announced on Thursday. The messaging app says that over the years, it has primarily focused on adding utility to the app and that while the product continues to grow, its design needs [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Plinky lets you solve the problem of saving and organizing links from anywhere with a focus on simplicity and customization. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

The keynote kicks off at 10 a.m. PT on Tuesday and will offer glimpses into the latest versions of Android, Wear OS and Android TV. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

For cancer patients, medicines administered in clinical trials can help save or extend lives. But despite thousands of trials in the United States each year, only 3% to 5% of eligible patients enroll in investigations of new treatments. Triomics, a generative AI startup, claims it can significantly reduce the time it takes doctors to match [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free just click TechCrunch Mobility! Tap, tap. Mic check. Check 1, 2, 3. This thing on? Hey hey, yup, its the same TechCrunch Mobility newsletter you love, but on a different day. [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

The newly announced Public Content Policy will now join Reddit's existing privacy policy and content policy to guide how Reddit's data is being accessed and used by commercial entities and other partners. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Eva Ho plans to step away from her position as general partner at Fika Ventures, the Los Angeles-based seed firm she co-founded in 2016. Fika told LPs of Hos intention to step back after Fund III, the firms current fund, in an email, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. Fika confirmed the transition [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

You can expect plenty of AI, but probably not a lot of hardware. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Dating apps and other social friend-finders are being put on notice: Dating app giant Bumble is looking to make more acquisitions. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

When Class founder Michael Chasen was in college, he and a buddy came up with the idea for Blackboard, an online classroom organizational tool. His original company was acquired for $1.64 billion in 2011. Chasen later developed Class, a Zoom add-on, during the pandemic to help teachers make better use of Zoom in a classroom [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Groww, an Indian investment app, has become one of the first startups from the country to shift its domicile back home. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Technology giant Dell notified customers on Thursday that it experienced a data breach involving customers names and physical addresses. In an email seen by TechCrunch and shared by several people on social media, the computer maker wrote that it was investigating an incident involving a Dell portal, which contains a database with limited types of [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

The Israeli startup has raised $5.5M for its platform that uses statistical AI to generate synthetic data that it says is as good as the real thing. 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Hydrow, the at-home rowing machine, announced Thursday that it has acquired a majority stake in Speede Fitness, the company behind the AI-enabled strength training machine. The rowing startup also announced that CEO and founder Bruce Smith will step down, and President and CFO John Stellato will take over day-to-day operations, per CNBC. Smith is now [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Call centers are embracing automation. Theres debate as to whether thats a good thing, but its happening and quite possibly accelerating. According to research firm TechSci Research, the global market for contact center AI could grow to nearly $3 billion in 2028, from $2.4 billion in 2022. Meanwhile, a recent survey found that around [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

TikTok is starting to automatically label AI-generated content that was made on other platforms, the company announced on Thursday. With this change, if a creator posts content on TikTok that was created with a service like OpenAIs DALLE 3, it will automatically have an AI-generated label attached to it to notify viewers that it was [] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.