Maintaining Snap Streaks — where you send a snap to your friend once every 24 hours — is really important to a lot of Snapchat users. To bank on that fact, the company is now allowing users to pause their Snap streaks, so they don’t have to worry about breaking them if they decide to […]
Snapchat will now let you pause your Snap Streaks by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
Android was, predictably, everywhere at Mobile World Congress. At a show where Apple has no public-facing presence, Google’s mobile operating system is almost entirely ubiquitous. As in past years, the company also set up a sprawling outdoor booth between halls. This time, the focus was on interoperability and ecosystem. You’d be hard-pressed to find a […]
Google’s Sameer Samat on ecosystems, regulation and competition by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch
Former Facebook exec turned VC Chamath Palihapitiya has long been a controversial figure in the investing world. Both brilliant and combative, Palihapitiya came to be known most widely by ushering in the era of special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, beginning in the fall of 2019, when he helped Virgin Galactic become a publicly traded […]
Chamath Palihapitiya: it could take three years for the market to “accurately” reprice late-stage cos by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch
Alphabet’s Waymo has issued its second round of layoffs this year, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. Combined with the initial cuts in January, the self-driving technology company has let go of 8% or 209 employees of its workforce. The layoffs — mostly engineering roles — are part of a broader organizational restructure that follows a […]
Waymo cuts 200 employees after second round of layoffs by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch
Roku struck a deal with creator company Jellysmack to launch new content featuring 17 popular YouTube and TikTok creators like Brad Mondo, Lauren Riihimaki (LaurDIY), Emmy Cho (Emmymade), Karina Garcia and more. The company announced yesterday that it’s launching two free, ad-supported TV (FAST) channels, “Hello Inspo” and “Mysteria,” to The Roku Channel’s Live TV […]
Free, ad-supported creator content comes to The Roku Channel by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch
Sometime in November, someone walked into a U.S. post office and filled out a change of address form, just as tens of millions do each year to route their mail to a new address. The person signed the form, handed it in, and walked out. That was enough to set in motion a domino effect […]
The life-upending flaw that USPS won’t fix by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch
To coincide with the rollout of the ChatGPT API, OpenAI today launched the Whisper API, a hosted version of the open source Whisper speech-to-text model that the company released in September. Priced at $0.006 per minute, Whisper is an automatic speech recognition system that OpenAI claims enables “robust” transcription in multiple languages as well as […]
OpenAI debuts Whisper API for text-to-speech transcription and translation by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
To call ChatGPT, the free text-generating AI developed by San Francisco-based startup OpenAI, a hit is a massive understatement. As of December, ChatGPT had an estimated over 100 million monthly active users. It’s attracted major media attention and spawned countless memes on social media. It’s been used to write hundreds of ebooks in Amazon’s Kindle […]
OpenAI launches an API for ChatGPT, plus dedicated capacity for enterprise customers by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Sesamm, a French startup that helps financial firms and corporates adhere to their ESG goals by using natural language processing (NLP) to generate insights from digital content, has raised €35 million ($37 million) in a round of funding to expand internationally. Despite a growing backlash against ESG efforts from some politicians and vocal executives, companies […]
Sesamm bags $37M to give corporates ESG insights using natural language processing by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch