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Bitsening raises $25M for its high-resolution radar in autonomous driving
Self-driving vehicles rely on many sensors to detect objects and the world around them. The conventional approach is to work with cameras and...
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SoftBank ties up with Perplexity
After announcing a strategic partnership with SoftBank in April, Perplexity — the AI search engine that has ambitions to take on Google...
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Privacy app maker Proton transitions to non-profit foundation structure
Proton, the Swiss company behind a suite of privacy-focused apps such as ProtonMail, is following in the footsteps of Signal and Mozilla by...
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Tempus rises 9% on the first day of trading, demonstrating investor appetite for a health tech with a promise of AI
Tempus, a genomic testing and data analysis company started by Eric Lefkofsky, who previously founded Groupon, debuted on Nasdaq on Friday, rising...
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We’re about to learn a whole lot more about how the human body reacts to space
We could be entering a renaissance for human spaceflight research, as a record number of private citizens head to space — and as scientists...
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Why Apple is taking a small-model approach to generative AI
It’s a very Apple approach in the sense that it prioritizes a frictionless user experience above all. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved....
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Linq raises $6.6M to use AI to make research easier for financial analysts
When generative AI tools started making waves in late 2022 after the launch of ChatGPT, the finance industry was one of the first to recognize...
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Flow claims it can 100x any CPU’s power with its companion chip and some elbow grease
A Finnish startup called Flow Computing is making one of the wildest claims ever heard in silicon engineering: by adding its proprietary companion...
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AI news reader Particle adds publishing partners and $10.9M in new funding
Particle announced it has partnered with news organization Reuters to collaborate on new business models and experiments in monetization. © 2024...
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The VC queen of portfolio PR, Masha Bucher, has raised her largest fund yet: $150M
Five years ago, Day One Ventures had $11 million under management, and Bucher and her team have grown that to just over $450 million. © 2024...
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Raspberry Pi is now a public company
Raspberry Pi priced its IPO on the London Stock Exchange on Tuesday morning at £2.80 per share, valuing it at £542 million, or $690 million at...
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Apple brings its GenAI ‘Apple Intelligence’ to developers, will let Siri control apps
Apple's SDKs (software development kits) have been updated with a variety of new APIs and frameworks. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved....
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Sources: Wasoko-MaxAB e-commerce merger faces delays amid headwinds in Africa
The merger has yet to close due to extended due diligence amid ongoing restructuring and macroeconomic headwinds across multiple countries. ©...
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Amazon slammed with £1.1B data abuse lawsuit from UK retailers
The British retailers association also takes aim at Amazon’s “Buy Box,” claiming that Amazon manipulated which retailers were selected for the...
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Cube is building a ‘semantic layer’ for company data
A growing number of businesses are embracing data models — abstract models that organize elements of data and standardize how they relate to...
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Greptile raises $4M to build an AI-fueled code base expert
When you look at how generative AI is being implemented across developer tools, the focus for the most part has been on generating code, as with...
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Study finds that AI models hold opposing views on controversial topics
The models tended to answer questions inconsistently, which reflects biases embedded in the data used to train the models. © 2024 TechCrunch....
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Robinhood acquires global crypto exchange Bitstamp for $200M
Stock-trading platform Robinhood is diving deeper into the cryptocurrency realm with the acquisition of crytpo exchange Bitstamp. Robinhood said...
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Fintech Torpago has a unique way to compete with Brex and Ramp: turning banks into customers
Torpago's Powered By product is geared for regional and community banks, with under $20 billion in assets, to launch their own branded cards and...
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Eyebot raised $6M for AI-powered kiosks that provide 90-second eye exams without optometrist
Over half of Americans wear corrective glasses or contact lenses. While there isn’t a shortage of low-cost and luxury frames available...
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Starting in war-torn Sudan, YC-backed Elevate now provides fintech to freelancers globally
Inflation and currency devaluation have always been a growing concern for Africans with bank accounts. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved....
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Hundreds of Snowflake customer passwords found online are linked to info-stealing malware
Snowflake is the latest company in a string of high-profile security incidents and sizable data breaches caused by the lack of MFA. © 2024...
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Google acquires Cameyo to bring Windows apps to ChromeOS
The buy will benefit ChromeOS, Google's lightweight Linux-based operating system, by giving ChromeOS users greater access to Windows apps "without...
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Alphabet’s new CFO is Eli Lilly’s Anat Ashkenazi
Alphabet has announced who its new chief financial officer (CFO) will be, revealing today that it has hired pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and...
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Sword Health raises $130M and its valuation soars to $3B
AI-powered virtual physical therapy platform Sword Health has seen its valuation soar 50% to $3 billion. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved....