Kickstarter requires generative AI projects to disclose additional info

August 1, 2023

As generative AI enters the mainstream, crowdfunding platform Kickstarter has struggled to formulate a policy that satisfies parties on all sides of the debate. Most of the generative AI tools used to create art and text today, including Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT, were trained on publicly available images and text from the web. But in […]

Read-it-later app Pocket to shut down its Mac app on August 15th

August 1, 2023

Mozilla’s Pocket, a popular read-it-later app that lets you save online articles to read when you have more time, announced today it’s retiring its Mac app, Pocket for Mac. The app will be replaced with the Pocket iOS app for Apple Silicon Macs instead — meaning those models introduced in late 2020 and later. The […]

Uber is now a profitable, cash-generating machine

August 1, 2023

This morning, let’s dig into Uber’s results, check how the stock market is thinking about the company, and then close with notes on what we might see from Lyft.

The No. 1 Thing Wealthy People Want in Luxury Real Estate, According to a ‘Selling Sunset’ Agent

August 1, 2023

It might come as no surprise that affluent buyers want “to have as much as they can” — but another key factor really sways their decision.

Why Being Profitable is a Business Strategy in Itself

August 1, 2023

Profitability is a part of the strategic effort to be a hyper-growth, customer-centric and commercially-minded organization. And yes, it’s a strategy.

Ford resumes F-150 Lightning production as July price cuts drive up demand

August 1, 2023

Ford said it will triple production capacity of its all-electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck following a six-week shutdown to expand and retool its Rouge Electric Vehicle Center. With the factory facelift complete, Ford said it’s scheduled to build more than 70,000 F-150 Lightning trucks in 2023 with production for U.S. customers expected to ramp in […]

Reed Jobs, son of Steve Jobs, takes the wraps off a $200 million venture fund that will fund new cancer treatments

August 1, 2023

Reed Jobs, the 31-year-old son of Steve Jobs and philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, has spent his career behind the scenes. But he’s “stepping into the spotlight,” with a new venture capital firm to invest in new cancer treatments, DealBook reported earlier this morning. Called Yosemite — after the national park where his parents were wed […]

Announcing the Space Stage agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023

August 1, 2023

We’re out-of-this-world excited to announce that we’ve added a dedicated Space Stage to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. It joins six other brand-new industry-focused stages — all under one big roof. Plus, we’ve joined forces with the Aerospace Corporation to host the Space Domain Awareness Challenge Pitch-off for startups using AI to analyze satellite data streams. Learn […]

YouTube experiments with AI auto-generated video summaries

August 1, 2023

YouTube is running a new test to auto-generate video summaries with the use of AI. As noted on the support page, the summaries have begun appearing on the watch and search pages, however are only available for a limited number of English-language videos and viewers. The video platform explains that the AI auto-generated summaries provide […]

Researchers claim US-registered cloud host facilitated state-backed cyberattacks

August 1, 2023

A little-known cloud company provided web hosting and internet services to more than two dozen different state-sponsored hacking groups and commercial spyware operators, according to researchers at cybersecurity company Halcyon. In a report released on Tuesday, Halcyon said it had identified that the U.S.-registered company Cloudzy was “knowingly or unwittingly” acting as a command-and-control provider […]

Modernizing the $10T Global Housing Market