Fundraising may be drying up for some segments of the tech industry at the moment, but one area that continues to get a lot of attention is AI and specifically startups that are using it to build out revenue-generating businesses. Today, a startup called Zappi, which has built a market research platform that utilizes AI […]
Zappi raises $170M for its AI-based market research platform by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
Valuing startups is an established process today, but do the methods employed apply equally to pre-revenue companies using novel AI?
3 methods for valuing pre-revenue novel AI startups by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch
The company does most of the coding for merchants and delivers it via a front-end headless commerce platform for Shopify merchants for a more seamless customer experience.
Pack delivers with headless commerce approach to faster online shopping by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
Microsoft is sunsetting an experimental research project that uses audio-based technology to help visually-impaired people navigate and gain a stronger awareness of their surroundings. However, the company also revealed that it will release the code under an open source license for other developers to use. The technology giant first debuted Soundscape back in 2017, essentially […]
Microsoft to sunset Soundscape 3D audio app and open-source the code by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch
Elon Musk-led Twitter is shaking up its verification system. Instead of one checkmark, now there are multicolored checkmarks to denote different things. This could be very confusing for users to track. So here’s a handy guide to all checkmarks and badges on the social network. Checkmarks Blue checkmark: It currently means two things. 1) Account […]
A quick guide to all the checkmarks and badges on Twitter by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
California’s Department of Finance has confirmed it’s investigating a “cybersecurity incident” after the prolific LockBit ransomware group claims to have stolen confidential data from the agency. The California Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) in a statement on Monday described the threat as an “intrusion” that was “identified through coordination with state and federal security […]
California’s finance department confirms breach as LockBit claims data theft by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch
Image-generating AI models like DALL-E 2 and Stable Diffusion can — and do — replicate aspects of images from their training data, researchers show in a new study, raising concerns as these services enter wide commercial use. Co-authored by scientists at the University of Maryland and New York University, the research identifies cases where image-generating […]
Image-generating AI can copy and paste from training data, raising IP concerns by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
AI is an imperfect technology, but one task at which it excels is identifying patterns in vast amounts of data. That’s perhaps why a number of startups have sprung up in recent years offering AI-powered products aimed at automating accounting tasks, like redacting sensitive info in paperwork and filing forms across different departments. Simply put, […]
Vic.ai raises $52M, shows that automating accounting processes can be profitable by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch