January 23, 2026

The Download: chatbots for health, and US fights over AI regulation

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. “Dr. Google” had its issues. Can ChatGPT Health do better?   For the past two decades, there’s been a clear first step for anyone who starts experiencing new medical symptoms: Look them up online.…

Cloudflare launches Observability, a tool to beef up web monitoring

June 20, 2023

Organizations increasingly see observability — the ability to measure a system’s current state based on the data it generates — as key. In a recent survey from New Relic, more than three-quarters (78%) of IT decision-makers and practitioners said that they saw observability as an enabler for achieving business goals. Website observability and analytics in […]

Cloudflare launches Observability, a tool to beef up web monitoring by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Rose Rocket, whose platform helps transportation companies communicate, raises $38M

June 20, 2023

In 2015, Justin Sky, Justin Bailie and Alexander Luksidadi — all veterans of the trucking and logistics industry — came to the realization that, in order to get to a stage of real-time collaboration, the entire trucking industry needed to come online. Shippers, carriers and brokers — the intermediaries between carriers and shippers — had […]

Rose Rocket, whose platform helps transportation companies communicate, raises $38M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Parrot AI, a transcription platform that turns speech into text, raises $11M Series A

June 20, 2023

Artificial intelligence touches many aspects of professional industries, including medicine, legal, business, information technology and more, as of late; AI-powered transcription service is one example that has become an integral part of those fields.   Parrot AI, a transcription platform offering speech-to-text depositions for the legal and insurance industry, said Tuesday it has raised $11 million […]

Parrot AI, a transcription platform that turns speech into text, raises $11M Series A by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: explaining the recent AI panic, and digital inequality in the US

June 20, 2023
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How existential risk became the biggest meme in AI Who’s afraid of the big bad bots? A lot of people, it seems. Hundreds of scientists, business leaders, and policymakers have recently made public…

Spotify’s will reportedly launch HiFi audio through a costlier premium subscription

June 20, 2023

A couple of years after its original announcement, Spotify will finally launch its HiFi tier with lossless music streaming through a “Supremium” plan later this year, which might cost more than the current premium plan of $9.99 per month. A report by Bloomberg noted that the company is launching this new plan to bolster its […]

Spotify’s will reportedly launch HiFi audio through a costlier premium subscription by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch