Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Outschool laid off a quarter of staff, or 43 people, earlier this week, according to an e-mail obtained by TechCrunch. The edtech company, last valued […]
Edtech’s brightest are struggling to pass by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch
Could Lensa AI’s hybrid pricing be an example of a new path that more mobile app developers will follow?
Hybrid pricing can help app developers better monetize their apps by Anna Heim originally published on TechCrunch
Kite’s failure doesn’t bode well for the many other companies pursuing — and attempting to commercialize — generative AI for coding.
With Kite’s demise, can generative AI for code succeed? by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
After many delays, Audi has a new E-Tron on the market. It’s the Q4, a little SUV based on the same MEB platform that sits beneath the Volkswagen ID.4’s skin. That means a similar layout and, most significantly, the identical 82-kWh battery pack here wrapped with a much more premium look and feel to match […]
Here’s how Audi Q4 50 E-Tron stacks up against the Tesla Model Y by Tim Stevens originally published on TechCrunch
Did a human write that, or ChatGPT? It can be hard to tell — perhaps too hard, its creator OpenAI thinks, which is why it is working on a way to “watermark” AI-generated content. In a lecture at the University of Austin, computer science professor Scott Aaronson, currently a guest researcher at OpenAI, revealed that […]
OpenAI’s attempts to watermark AI text hit limits by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch