Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis Want to Be Your Next Airbnb Hosts, But There’s a Catch: ‘Stay With Us at Our Beach House and Leave Like We’re Old Buds’
The couple’s Santa Barbara beach house is up for grabs for one night only.
The Download: kids outlearning AI, and space travel agents
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. Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why Teaching a computer to use human language requires an inhuman amount of data. An LLM can easily churn through a hundred thousand times…
A Bombshell Report Found at Least 18 Brands’ Ads Were Placed Next to a Verified Pro-Nazi X Account
Gilead Sciences and NCTA halted ad spending on X (formerly Twitter) because their ads were placed next to fascist content.
4 steps founders can take today to improve team recognition tomorrow
Appreciation isn’t just about gifts or praise. It’s about taking the employee — their experiences and interests — into consideration.
A bitcoin spot ETF could open the floodgates for wider crypto demand
Bringing bitcoin to the TradFi market in a manner that is already well-understood could unlock lots of demand for the cryptocurrency in the near-term.
ProjectDiscovery raises $25M to launch a cloud version of its threat-scanning platform
ProjectDiscovery, a platform that detects new, exploitable vulnerabilities in codebases, today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series A funding round led by CRV with participation from Point72, SignalFire, Rain Capital, Mango Capital, Accel and Lightspeed. ProjectDiscovery began as a collaboration between four security engineers — Rishiraj Sharma, Sandeep Singh, Nizamul Rana and […]
Amplitude’s CEO feels his company would be “in a world of hurt” if it hadn’t gone public in 2021
‘There would be all this pressure to go public, but then there wouldn’t be an appetite for it. And so [it would] be harder to get out.’
Gig Workers Are Marking the Homes of ‘Tip-Baiters’ on Google Maps. Find Out If Yours Is on Their List.
Many Americans are over excessive tipping culture — but gig workers rely on tips to get by.
How to submit a guest column to TechCrunch
To level the playing field for people who want to share tech-related knowledge and opinions, TechCrunch operates a guest contributor program.
Google’s new Transparency Center outlines its product policies, reporting tools and more
Google is launching a new Transparency Center to make it easier for users to learn more about its product policies. The central hub collects existing resources and policies to inform users on how Google creates and enforces them. With the new hub, users can learn more about Google’s policy development process, transparency reports, policies by […]
Agility Robotics’ Damion Shelton and Melonee Wise will discuss the future of warehouse automation at TC Disrupt 2023
Agility Robotics is on a steady march toward commercialization, thanks to the continued growth of robotics in warehouse fulfillment and logistics and the expanding feature set of its bipedal robot. We’re excited to announce that Digit — escorted by co-founder and CEO Damion Shelton and Melonee Wise, the company’s new CTO — will join us […]