Alaska Airlines Is Rolling Out a New Coffee That’s Meant to Taste Better At 30,000 Feet
The West Coast airline has teamed up with Stumptown Coffee Roasters to create a new blend.
AI professors are negotiating the new realities of academic research
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last week, I headed 30 miles south of San Francisco to a hotel in Mountain View, California, to join some of the most accomplished, and some of the most promising, AI…
More money won’t fix your failing startup — here’s how to get investors to back a pivot
If your company isn’t seeing strong growth with customers eager to use the product, it might be time to pivot the company in a new direction.
Investors suggest funds prepare for the fallout of the Fearless Fund lawsuit, not worry about it
To find out how the industry is reacting to this decision, TechCrunch+ spoke with one founder and four fund managers at venture firms that back women or founders of color.
Is Your Business Built to Last? These 5 Leadership Practices Could Put It on the Right Track
For any company, durability means the difference between success and failure. Here are five ways leaders can build with it in mind.
Tim Cook’s Daily Routine: The Schedule of the Apple CEO Who Wakes Up at 3:45 a.m. and Reads Hundreds of Customer Emails a Day
In meetings, he reportedly has no problem “sitting in silence” until he gets a suitable answer.
‘We Think It’s Overhyped’: AI Is in For a Humble Reality Check in 2024, Analysts Say
Analyst firm CCS Insight predicts the generative artificial intelligence (AI) space is poised for a “cold shower” in 2024.
Yepic fail: This startup promised not to make deepfakes without consent, but did anyway
U.K.-based startup Yepic AI claims to use “deepfakes for good” and promises to “never reenact someone without their consent.” But the company did exactly what it claimed it never would. In an unsolicited email pitch to a TechCrunch reporter, a representative for Yepic AI shared two “deepfaked” videos of the reporter, who had not given […]
Indian startups were not spared in the global venture slowdown of Q3
Indian startup ecosystem had a lackluster third-quarter in fundraising terms; total capital raised by Indian startups in the Q3 2023 was off more than 50% compared to the year-ago period.
Anysphere raises $8M from OpenAI to build an AI-powered IDE
Anysphere, a startup building what it describes as an “AI-native” software development environment, called Cursor, today announced that it raised $8 million in seed funding led by OpenAI’s Startup Fund with participation from former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, Dropbox co-founder Arash Ferdowsi and other angel investors. The new cash, which brings Anysphere’s total raised to […]
Google’s Pixel Watch 2 offers solid upgrades
There are a couple of parallels to be drawn between the Pixel 8 and Pixel Watch 2. One is obvious, the other a bit more subtle. The first is the addition of temperature sensors — though I would argue that the addition makes a lot more sense on a wearable than a handset. The second […]