I know at least one TC staffer who is gutted by the inevitable second death of Google Glass. I won’t call them out by name, but will say that I empathize with seeing a tech giant reverse the truck to drive over a beloved piece of technology once again. Is it possible to be ahead […]
Goodbye Google Glass, we knew you well by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch
There’s nothing more romantic than having an AI-powered bot write your vows for you. Earlier this month, wedding planning platform Joy launched a new OpenAI-powered “Wedding Writer’s Block” tool that uses AI technology to generate a draft for one of the most important speeches of your life. The AI assistant is designed to help write […]
Wedding platform Joy will let you outsource your vows to OpenAI by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch
A year or two before launching Actuator, someone on staff floated the idea of my writing a weekly robotics newsletter. I balked at the suggestion. Surely, I suggested, we would be struggling to fill the pages by week two. It’s not so much that I doubted whether there was enough robotics content to keep the […]
Mistaking performance for competence by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch
Spanish upskilling startup StudentFinance used this deck to raise a $41 million Series A.
Pitch Deck Teardown: StudentFinance’s $41M Series A deck by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch
The technology industry continues to rack up an ever-longer list of layoffs — which now stand at nearly 139,000 according to Layoffs.fyi — but taking the wider job market, the overall pace of recruiting engineers and other technical talent has not let up. Now, one of the bigger players in the area of technical recruitment […]
Technical recruitment platform Karat snaps up Triplebyte to add AI-based quizzes for engineers by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
During an AI-focused press event today, Microsoft unveiled Microsoft 365 Copilot, its latest push to embed its suite of productivity and enterprise apps with AI. Currently in testing with select commercial customers, Copilot combines the power of models similar to OpenAI’s recently announced GPT-4 with business data and Microsoft 365 apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, […]
Microsoft 365 gets a host of new AI-powered features by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
The U.K. has become the latest jurisdiction to ban social video app TikTok from Government devices, confirming reports that surfaced earlier this week. The ban follows a security review ordered by U.K. ministers looking to establish whether Government data could be compromised from social networks installed on work devices. Indeed, the review did include other […]
The UK joins other countries in banning TikTok from Government devices by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch
Warp, a fast-growing startup that is working on building a better terminal, today announced that it has added a new chat feature (unsurprisingly based on ChatGPT) that will help its user with using the command line and troubleshooting errors. We’ve obviously seen a flood of ChatGPT-enabled services lately, with some more interesting than others, but […]
Warp brings an AI bot to its terminal by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch