March 2024

Accenture to acquire Udacity to build a learning platform focused on AI

March 5, 2024

Accenture announced today that it would acquire the learning platform Udacity as part of an effort to build a learning platform focused on the growing interest in AI. While the company didn’t specify how much it paid for Udacity, it also announced a $1 billion investment in building a technology learning platform it’s calling LearnVantage. […]

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Amazon’s new Rufus chatbot isn’t bad — but it isn’t great, either

March 5, 2024

Last month, Amazon announced that it’d launch a new AI-powered chatbot, Rufus, inside the Amazon Shopping app for Android and iOS. After a few weeks’ delay, the company began to roll out Rufus to early testers today — including some of us at TechCrunch — to help find and compare products as well as provide […]

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Waymo launches driverless rides for employees in Austin

March 5, 2024

Waymo will start letting its autonomous vehicles traverse Austin without a safety operator behind the wheel as of tomorrow, a crucial step before the company opens the program up to the public. The company announced Tuesday that it will begin shuttling employees around 43 square miles of the Texas capital, including the Barton Hills, Riverside, […]

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Harness Wealth wants to bring sophisticated tax planning to the masses

March 5, 2024

Harness Wealth, which started in 2018 primarily offering financial advice to startup founders and employees, has expanded into the tax advisory space and raised a $17 million extension to its Series A round, bringing that financing to $32 million. It is offering its clients a new tax advisory platform that, it says, will connect them […]

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Underscore’s Lily Lyman will break down venture relationships at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024

March 5, 2024

Venture capital is sometimes called a sales job by folks in the industry, as investors have to pitch LPs to raise their own funds and then pitch founders to pick their check over other offered term sheets. Founders might feel similarly, given how much time it takes to fundraise for their own businesses. Hell, raising […]

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Agility Robotics’ new CEO is ‘focused on the here and now’

March 5, 2024

There was nothing else like Digit on the ProMat floor last year. The manufacturing supply chain event has gradually morphed into a tech show in recent years. Many of the biggest names in the space were present, showcasing autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), bin picking arms and automated storage and retrieval systems. But Agility’s small army […]

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