Sequoia India’s Surge backs engineering analytics startup Hatica in $3.7M funding

February 9, 2023

Uber alums’ engineering analytics startup Hatica has raised $3.7 million in a funding round led by Sequoia India and Southeast Asia’s Surge, they said Thursday. The San Francisco-headquartered startup aims to boost the productivity and well-being of developers by helping them better understand how they are spending their time with detailed engineering analytics. “There was […]

Sequoia India’s Surge backs engineering analytics startup Hatica in $3.7M funding by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch

Twitter Blue introduces 4,000 character tweets, says half ads coming soon

February 9, 2023

Twitter announced the ability to post longer tweets for paid users Wednesday. So instead of being limited to 280 characters, Blue subscribers can post tweets that are up to 4,000 characters long. The same limit applies to quote tweets and replies. Twitter said that along with long tweets people can post media like images or […]

Twitter Blue introduces 4,000 character tweets, says half ads coming soon by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Nintendo releases trailers for new ‘Zelda’ and ‘Pikmin’ games

February 8, 2023

Nintendo hosted a forty-five minute Nintendo Direct livestream on Wednesday, revealing upcoming games and updates for the Nintendo Switch. As many players expected, Nintendo shared a trailer for the highly anticipated “The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,” the follow-up to the franchise’s beloved “Breath of the Wild.” The game will be released on […]

Nintendo releases trailers for new ‘Zelda’ and ‘Pikmin’ games by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch

AI is eating itself: Bing’s AI quotes COVID disinfo sourced from ChatGPT

February 8, 2023

One of the more interesting, but seemingly academic, concerns of the new era of AI sucking up everything on the web was that AIs will eventually start to absorb other AI-generated content and regurgitate it in a self-reinforcing loop. Not so academic after all, it appears, because Bing just did it! When asked, it produced […]

AI is eating itself: Bing’s AI quotes COVID disinfo sourced from ChatGPT by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

Hands-on with the new Bing

February 8, 2023

Yesterday, Microsoft launched the new Bing on the web and in its Edge browser, powered by a combination of a next-gen OpenAI GPT model and Microsoft’s own Prometheus model. With this, Microsoft jumped ahead of Google in bringing this kind of search experience to the mainstream, though we’ll likely see the competition heat up in […]

Hands-on with the new Bing by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch