How 2 high school teens raised a $500K seed round for their API startup (yes, it’s AI)

June 23, 2024

18-year-olds Christopher Fitzgerald and Nicholas Van Landschoot have founded APIGen, a platform to build custom APIs from natural language prompts.

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June 23, 2024

Get great versions of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and other beloved programs.

Ilya Sutskever isn’t done working on AI safety

June 22, 2024

Welcome back to TechCrunch’s Week in Review — TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the week’s biggest news. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. This week, Ilya Sutskever launched a new AI company, Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), just one month after formally leaving OpenAI. Sutskever, alongside Jan Leike, was integral to OpenAI’s efforts to […]

X still has a Verified bot problem — this time they came for TechCrunch writers

June 22, 2024

Really, X should have learned its lesson by now.

OmniAI transforms business data for AI

June 22, 2024

OmniAI is a set of tools that transform unstructured enterprise data into a something that data analytics apps and AI can understand.

Women in AI: Charlette N’Guessan is tackling data scarcity on the African continent

June 22, 2024

Charlette N’Guessan is the Data Solutions and Ecosystem Lead at Amini, a deep tech startup leveraging space technology and artificial intelligence to tackle environmental data scarcity in Africa and the global South.

‘What’s in it for us?’ journalists ask as publications sign content deals with AI firms

June 22, 2024

Journalists understand the basic structure of the deals, but they still have questions.

This is your brain on Pink Floyd

June 22, 2024

The human brain has long been a subject of fascination for art and science, which are now both mixed into “Brainstorms: A Great Gig in the Sky,” a new live interactive experience to the tune of Pink Floyd. Interactivity is optional, but memorable. Exhibition visitors can opt in (and pay extra) to have their brain […]

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June 22, 2024

Skill Success features a wide variety of e-learning courses on business, finance, and more.

Deal Dive: Sir Jack A Lot returns with a startup for retail traders

June 22, 2024

When former YouTube product manager Kevin Xu, known as “Sir Jack A Lot” on Reddit, turned $35,000 into $8 million trading stocks between 2020 and 2022, many people thought his fortunes, and his way of investing, had peaked, just like 2021’s memestock craze had. Xu doesn’t agree, though, and he’s now building a startup for […]

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