March 11, 2025

Everyone in AI is talking about Manus. We put it to the test.

Since general AI agent Manus was launched last week, it has spread online like wildfire. And not just in China either, where it was developed by Wuhan-based startup Butterfly Effect. It’s made  its way into the global conversation, with influential voices in tech, including Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and Hugging Face product lead Victor Mustar,…

Tesla Powerwall customers in Texas can now sell their electricity back to the grid

December 15, 2022

Elon Musk’s plan to “operate as a giant distributed utility” is creeping towards reality. First, Tesla piloted a “virtual power plant” in California, where Powerwall home battery owners were invited to sell electricity back to the grid at peak times to mitigate brownouts. Soon after, the automaker expanded the effort into Australia and Japan, and […]

Tesla Powerwall customers in Texas can now sell their electricity back to the grid by Harri Weber originally published on TechCrunch

Try ‘Riffusion,’ an AI model that composes music by visualizing it

December 15, 2022

AI-generated music is already an innovative enough concept, but Riffusion takes it to another level with a clever, weird approach that produces weird and compelling music using not audio but images of audio. Sounds strange, is strange. But if it works, it works. And it does work! Kind of. Diffusion is a machine learning technique […]

Try ‘Riffusion,’ an AI model that composes music by visualizing it by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

Juno raises millions to provide family-first healthcare from Inglewood to Harlem

December 15, 2022

Even after billions of venture capital raised and invested into the digital health space, it’s still difficult to access quality healthcare. And while that may raise questions on if a scrappy startup has a fighting chance at fixing things, to entrepreneur Akili Hinson, it just means that Juno needs to be even smarter about the […]

Juno raises millions to provide family-first healthcare from Inglewood to Harlem by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

Sun King, a provider of solar energy products in Africa and Asia, expands Series D to $330M

December 15, 2022

Sun King, a provider of off-grid solar energy products in Africa and Asia, has secured a $70 million equity investment led by LeapFrog Investments. It’s an extension of the $260 million Series D round the solar company announced this April, which was led by BeyondNetZero, the climate investing venture of General Atlantic and M&G Investments’ […]

Sun King, a provider of solar energy products in Africa and Asia, expands Series D to $330M by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch

Heartex’s Label Studio makes labeling audio for ML easier

December 15, 2022

Heartex, the well-funded machine learning data labeling startup, is launching a major update to its platform today that will open up new use cases for its tools by making annotating audio files in the commercial and open source versions of its Label Studio a lot easier for its users. These updates include a new user […]

Heartex’s Label Studio makes labeling audio for ML easier by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch