Gift Business Travel Stories with Autio for $150 Through Memorial Day
This platform features more than 23,000 location-based audio stories, which make for great travel content.
The Download: shaking up neural networks, and the rise of weight-loss drugs
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. The next generation of neural networks could live in hardware Networks programmed directly into computer chip hardware can identify images faster, and use much less energy, than the traditional neural networks that underpin…
What are Google’s AI Overviews good for?
Google has been taking heat for some of the inaccurate, funny, and downright weird answers that it’s been providing via AI Overviews in search. AI Overviews are the AI-generated search results that Google started rolling out more broadly earlier this month, with mixed results — apparently, a user looking for help in getting cheese to […]
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The ups and downs of investing in Europe, with VCs Saul Klein and Raluca Ragab
When it comes to the world of venture-backed startups, some issues are universal, and some are very dependent on where the startups and its backers are located. It’s something we talked about this week in London, when TechCrunch took its StrictlyVC series of more intimate, more investor-focused events on the road. Sitting down with Saul […]
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Scarlett Johansson brought receipts to the OpenAI controversy
Welcome back to TechCrunch’s Week in Review — TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the week’s biggest news. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. OpenAI announced this week that it’s removing Sky, one of the voices used by its new GPT-4o model, after users found it sounded eerily similar to Scarlett Johansson’s AI character […]
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Save on Business Travel for Life This Memorial Day with an $80 Deal
OneAir Elite uses AI to search the web around the clock for flight deals.
Keep Business Private with a Second Phone Number for $20
Hushed offers users a virtual number that can take calls and messages privately from their personal number.
Deal Dive: Can blockchain make weather forecasts better? WeatherXM thinks so
Accurate weather forecasts are critical to industries like agriculture, and they’re also important to help prevent and mitigate harm from inclement weather events or natural disasters. But getting forecasts right is extremely difficult. That’s why the founders of WeatherXM have been looking to make weather forecasts more accurate for the past 12 years. In 2012, […]
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Spyware app pcTattletale was hacked and its website defaced
pcTattletale’s website was briefly defaced and contained links containing files from the spyware maker’s servers, before going offline.
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With a16z-backed Synapse’s collapse, BaaS fintech is a mess and 10 million consumers could be hurt
Synapse’s bankruptcy shows just how treacherous things are for the often-interdependent fintech world when one key player hits trouble.
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Women in AI: Sarah Myers West says we should ask, ‘Why build AI at all?’
Sarah Myers West, profiled as part of TechCrunch’s Women in AI series, is managing director at the AI Now institute.
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