June 13, 2025

Powering next-gen services with AI in regulated industries 

Businesses in highly-regulated industries like financial services, insurance, pharmaceuticals, and health care are increasingly turning to AI-powered tools to streamline complex and sensitive tasks. Conversational AI-driven interfaces are helping hospitals to track the location and delivery of a patient’s time-sensitive cancer drugs. Generative AI chatbots are helping insurance customers answer questions and solve problems. And agentic…

If Rowy has its way, if you can use Excel, you can build software

December 5, 2022

Low and no-code application building continues apace. Gently hum “Rowy rowy rowy your software, gently down the streams,” as we talk with the founder behind Rowy, the company that’s like Airtable on a lot of steroids, or Excel on a lot of steroids and a couple of lines of illegal substances. Of course, low-code solutions […]

If Rowy has its way, if you can use Excel, you can build software by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch

Confirmed: Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield stepping down in January

December 5, 2022

Just days after co-CEO Bret Taylor announced his resignation, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield announced that he will be stepping down in January. Business Insider first reported the news. Salesforce has confirmed the news with Salesforce by email. The company also announced that Lidiane Jones, who has been the executive VP & GM for digital experiences […]

Confirmed: Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield stepping down in January by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

Zenly was the best social app and it will (sadly) shut down on February 3rd

December 5, 2022

Zenly, the popular social mapping app that Snap acquired five years ago, is going to shut down on February 3rd, 2023. This is going to be a sad day as there is nothing quite like Zenly. The team based in Paris managed to create an app that was at the intersection of a utility app […]

Zenly was the best social app and it will (sadly) shut down on February 3rd by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch

Facebook to now test age verification tech on Facebook Dating in the US

December 5, 2022

Meta is bringing its age verification technologies to another of its products, Facebook Dating. Though the service has not taken off as a significant Tinder rival, it will now serve as the testing grounds for further experimentation with new age verification technologies, including video selfies and ID uploads, Facebook announced this morning. The company will […]

Facebook to now test age verification tech on Facebook Dating in the US by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Check out what’s happening tomorrow at TC Sessions: Space

December 5, 2022

Happy TC Sessions: Space 2022 Eve! Tomorrow’s the big day in L.A. for everyone involved with or interested in pushing the boundaries of what’s possible and forging humanity’s future in space. There’s still time to get on board this mission, but the countdown clock is ticking. Ticket to the flight deck: Buy your pass and […]

Check out what’s happening tomorrow at TC Sessions: Space by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch

Twelve Labs lands $12M for AI that understands the context of videos

December 5, 2022

To Jae Lee, a data scientist by training, it never made sense that video — which has become an enormous part of our lives, what with the rise of platforms like TikTok, Vimeo and YouTube — was difficult to search across due to the technical barriers posed by context understanding. Searching the titles, descriptions and […]

Twelve Labs lands $12M for AI that understands the context of videos by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch