January 7, 2025

The Download: how AI is changing internet search, and the future of privacy in the US

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI means the end of internet search as we’ve known it We all know what it means, colloquially, to google something. You pop a few words in a search box and in return…

April 2023

Microsoft integrates Bing into its keyboard SwiftKey app on Android and iOS

April 13, 2023

Microsoft is integrating its Bing chatbot into its smartphone keyboard app SwiftKey on Android and iOS, the company announced on Thursday. The new integration lets users chat with the bot directly from their mobile keyboard and search for things without having to switch between apps. Bing boasts three major features on Swiftkey: Chat, Tone and […]

Microsoft integrates Bing into its keyboard SwiftKey app on Android and iOS by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

Ampersand helps SaaS companies build their customer-facing integrations, raises $4.7M

April 13, 2023

Ampersand, a startup that helps SaaS companies build user-facing integrations into their products, today announced that it has raised a $4.7 million seed funding round led by Matrix Partners. Base Case Capital, Flex Capital and 2.12 Angels also invested, along with numerous prominent angel investors. Today’s SaaS products, Ampersand co-founders Lauren Long and Ayan Barua […]

Ampersand helps SaaS companies build their customer-facing integrations, raises $4.7M by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Three brothers quit SpaceX to build spacecraft powered by moon water

April 13, 2023

A new startup founded by a trio of SpaceX veterans — who happen to be brothers — aims to build an in-space transportation network, using reusable spacecraft propelled by water harvested from the Moon. Argo Space Corporation, founded by Robert Carlisle, Ryan Carlisle and Kirby Carlisle, is betting that lunar propellant will untether space activities […]

Three brothers quit SpaceX to build spacecraft powered by moon water by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch

Stability AI’s new model is slightly better at generating hands

April 13, 2023

Stability AI, the startup funding a range of generative AI experiments, has released a new version of Stable Diffusion, the text-to-image AI system that was among the first to rival OpenAI’s DALL-E 2. Called Stable Diffusion XL, or SDXL, the new system — which is available in beta through DreamStudio, Stability AI’s generative art tool […]

Stability AI’s new model is slightly better at generating hands by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch