December 2022

Another week of layoffs, executive departures and AI-generated everything

December 10, 2022

Hello again! Greg here again with Week in Review. WiR is the newsletter where we take the most read TechCrunch stories from the last seven days and wrap them up in as few words as possible — no fluff, no nonsense,* just a quick blast of everything you probably want to know about in tech […]

Another week of layoffs, executive departures and AI-generated everything by Greg Kumparak originally published on TechCrunch

This Week in Apps: Apple App Store’s new pricing, Twitter app makers shift to Mastodon, debate over Lensa AI

December 10, 2022

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. Global app spending reached $65 billion in the first half of 2022, up only slightly from the $64.4 billion during the same period in 2021, as hypergrowth fueled by […]

This Week in Apps: Apple App Store’s new pricing, Twitter app makers shift to Mastodon, debate over Lensa AI by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Edtech’s brightest are struggling to pass

December 10, 2022

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Outschool laid off a quarter of staff, or 43 people, earlier this week, according to an e-mail obtained by TechCrunch. The edtech company, last valued […]

Edtech’s brightest are struggling to pass by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

Here’s how Audi Q4 50 E-Tron stacks up against the Tesla Model Y

December 10, 2022

After many delays, Audi has a new E-Tron on the market. It’s the Q4, a little SUV based on the same MEB platform that sits beneath the Volkswagen ID.4’s skin. That means a similar layout and, most significantly, the identical 82-kWh battery pack here wrapped with a much more premium look and feel to match […]

Here’s how Audi Q4 50 E-Tron stacks up against the Tesla Model Y by Tim Stevens originally published on TechCrunch

OpenAI’s attempts to watermark AI text hit limits

December 10, 2022

Did a human write that, or ChatGPT? It can be hard to tell — perhaps too hard, its creator OpenAI thinks, which is why it is working on a way to “watermark” AI-generated content. In a lecture at the University of Austin, computer science professor Scott Aaronson, currently a guest researcher at OpenAI, revealed that […]

OpenAI’s attempts to watermark AI text hit limits by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch