Technology

ImagenAI, which uses AI to personalize photo editing styles, lands $30M

December 19, 2022

ImagenAI, a startup using AI to help professional photographers edit photos and automate post-production work, today announced that it raised $30 million in an all-equity growth investment from Summit Partners. The new capital brings Imagen’s total raised to $34 million, and co-founder and CEO Yotam Gil tells TechCrunch that it’ll be used to expand the […]

ImagenAI, which uses AI to personalize photo editing styles, lands $30M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Zeekr files for an IPO, Elon sells more Tesla shares and a message to readers

December 19, 2022

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Zeekr files for an IPO, Elon sells more Tesla shares and a message to readers by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

How to spot AI-generated text

December 19, 2022
This sentence was written by an AI—or was it? OpenAI’s new chatbot, ChatGPT, presents us with a problem: How will we know whether what we read online is written by a human or a machine? Since it was released in late November, ChatGPT has been used by over a million people. It has the AI…

Tech’s latest controversy? The return of the five-day, in-person work week

December 17, 2022

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. May the earnest among us rise up: Techies, it’s prediction season. It’s my favorite time of the year, not because I’m a glutton for threads […]

Tech’s latest controversy? The return of the five-day, in-person work week by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

This Week in Apps: AI Art apps top the charts, Instagram adds text-only ‘Notes,’ alternative app stores in EU

December 17, 2022

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. Global app spending reached $65 billion in the first half of 2022, up only slightly from the $64.4 billion during the same period in 2021, as hypergrowth fueled by […]

This Week in Apps: AI Art apps top the charts, Instagram adds text-only ‘Notes,’ alternative app stores in EU by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

I just watched Biggie Smalls perform ‘live’ in the metaverse

December 17, 2022
For a moment on Friday, Biggie Smalls was the only man on stage. A spotlight shone on him and his red velvet suit, and, amid pre-recorded cheers, he rapped the lyrics to “Mo Money Mo Problems,” his orange sneakers swiveling to the beat. You wouldn’t be wrong to be confused. Smalls died in 1997 when…

Cruise’s autonomous driving tech comes under scrutiny from safety regulators

December 16, 2022

U.S. safety regulators have opened a preliminary investigation into the robotaxis developed and operated by GM self-driving subsidiary Cruise. The National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration said it opened the investigation after learning of incidents when these robotaxis “may have engaged in inappropriately hard braking or became immobilized while operating on public roads.” The preliminary investigation […]

Cruise’s autonomous driving tech comes under scrutiny from safety regulators by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

Twitter is a mess, so former employees are creating Spill as an alternative

December 16, 2022

Alphonzo “Phonz” Terrell and DeVaris Brown met during orientation on their first day working at Twitter. They didn’t know that just a few years later, they’d be building a social media platform of their own. “We were the only two Black guys in there, and we were like, ‘Hey, we’ll be friends!’” said Terrell, who […]

Twitter is a mess, so former employees are creating Spill as an alternative by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch