December 20, 2024

Pairing live support with accurate AI outputs

A live agent spends hours each week manually documenting routine interactions. Another combs through multiple knowledge bases to find the right solution, scrambling to piece it together while the customer waits on hold. A third types out the same response they’ve written dozens of times before. These repetitive tasks can be draining, leaving less time…

May 2023

Hippocratic is building a large language model for healthcare

May 16, 2023

AI, specifically generative AI, has the potential to transform healthcare. At least, that sales pitch from Hippocratic Health, which emerged from stealth today with a whopping $50 million in seed financing behind it and a valuation in the “triple digit millions.” The tranche, co-led by General Catalyst and Andreessen Horowitz, is a big vote of […]

Hippocratic is building a large language model for healthcare by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Read-it-later app Pocket now you lets you create article lists

May 16, 2023

Mozilla-owned read-it-later app Pocket unveiled several new features across platforms including rolling out the redesigned app to iOS and better article-jumping features for Android. However, the standout feature of this release is the ability to create lists of articles. Pocket said it will now let users add articles to their own lists — think of […]

Read-it-later app Pocket now you lets you create article lists by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Bonus: An extra week to apply to Startup Battlefield 200

May 16, 2023

A big shoutout to the early-stage founders who missed the application window for the Startup Battlefield 200 (SB 200) at TechCrunch Disrupt. We have exciting news just for you! You procrastinators can thank your lucky stars, we’re giving you (a little) more time to get your application together. Pro tip: Applying to and participating in […]

Bonus: An extra week to apply to Startup Battlefield 200 by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch

Visual Layer helps enterprise manage the massive visual data sets they need to build AI models, raises $7M

May 16, 2023

Training machine learning models for computer vision use cases takes massive amounts of images. Often, those images are mislabeled, broken or duplicated, leading to sub-par model performance. But with millions of images in many datasets, it’s virtually impossible to catch these issues. Visual Layer, a Tel Aviv-based startup that wants to enable data scientists and […]

Visual Layer helps enterprise manage the massive visual data sets they need to build AI models, raises $7M by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: corporate climate action, and killer asteroids

May 16, 2023
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. Inside the little-known group setting the corporate climate agenda As thousands of companies trumpet their plans to cut carbon pollution, a small group of sustainability consultants has emerged as the go-to arbiter of…

Apple reveals new accessibility features, like custom text-to-speech voices

May 16, 2023

Apple previewed a suite of new features today to improve cognitive, vision and speech accessibility. These tools are slated to arrive on the iPhone, iPad and Mac later this year. An established leader in mainstream tech accessibility, Apple emphasizes that these tools are built with feedback from disabled communities. Assistive Access, coming soon to iOS […]

Apple reveals new accessibility features, like custom text-to-speech voices by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch

ANYBotics raises $50 million to help deploy its robot dog

May 16, 2023

ANYbotics this week announced a $50 million Series B. The round, led by Walden Catalyst and NGP Capital, comes as the firm is pushing to deploy its ruggedized four-legged robot, ANYmal X. That follows a $22 million round raised in December 2020. The startup says it’s already clocked $150 million in preorders/reservations from gas/oil and […]

ANYBotics raises $50 million to help deploy its robot dog by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch