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Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notab...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/18/this-week-in-ai-openai-moves-away-from-safety/

After Apple loosened its App Store guidelines to permit game emulators, the retro game emulator Delta — an app 10 years in the making — hit the top of the App Store’s charts. But the increa...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/17/adobe-comes-after-indie-game-emulator-delta-for-copying-its-logo/

Meta is once again taking on its competitors by developing a feature that borrows concepts from others — in this case, BeReal and Snapchat. The company is developing a feature for Instagram cal...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/17/metas-latest-experiment-copies-bereal-and-snapchats-core-ideas/

Welcome to Startups Weekly! We've been drowning in AI news this week, with Google's I/O setting the pace. And Elon Musk rages against the machine. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For p...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/17/startups-weekly-its-the-dawning-of-the-age-of-ai-plus-musk-is-raging-against-the-machine/

IndieBio’s Bay Area incubator is about to debut its 15th cohort of biotech startups. We took special note of a few, which were making some major, bordering on ludicrous, claims that could pay o...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/17/indiebios-sf-incubator-lineup-is-making-some-wild-biotech-promises/

YouTube TV has announced that its multiview feature for watching four streams at once is now available on Android phones and tablets. The Android launch comes two months after YouTube TV rolled o...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/17/youtube-tvs-multiview-feature-available-android-phones-tablets/

CSC ServiceWorks provides laundry machines to thousands of residential homes and universities, but the company ignored requests to fix a security bug. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. F...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/17/csc-serviceworks-free-laundry-million-machines/

OpenAI’s Superalignment team, responsible for developing ways to govern and steer “superintelligent” AI systems, was promised 20% of the company’s compute resources, according to a person...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/17/openai-created-a-team-to-control-superintelligent-ai-then-let-it-wither-source-says/

Decks are all about telling a compelling story and Goodcarbon does a good job on that front. But there's important information missing too. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/17/sample-seed-pitch-deck-goodcarbon/

TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 is just around the corner, and the buzz is palpable. But what if we told you there’s a chance for you to not just attend, but also take your brand center stage with your...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/17/harness-the-techcrunch-effect-host-a-side-event-at-disrupt-2024/

Slack is making it difficult for its customers if they want the company to stop using its data for model training. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/17/slack-under-attack-over-sneaky-ai-training-policy/

A Texas-based company that provides health insurance and benefit plans disclosed a data breach affecting almost 2.5 million people, some of whom had their Social Security number stolen. WebTPA sa...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/17/healthcare-company-webtpa-discloses-breach-affecting-2-5-million-people/

Microsoft won't be facing antitrust scrutiny in the U.K. over its recent investment into French AI startup Mistral AI. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/17/microsoft-dodges-uk-antitrust-scrutiny-over-its-mistral-ai-stake/

Ember has partnered with HSBC in the U.K. so that the bank's business customers can access Ember’s services from their online accounts. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal u...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/17/embedded-finance-is-still-trendy-as-accounting-automation-startup-ember-partners-with-hsbc-uk/

Kudos uses AI to figure out consumer spending habits so it can then provide more personalized financial advice, like maximizing rewards and utilizing credit effectively. © 2024 TechCrunch. All...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/17/kudos-ai-smart-wallet-10m-credit-card/

The EU's warning comes after Microsoft failed to respond to a legally binding request for information that focused on its generative AI tools. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For perso...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/17/microsoft-warned-it-could-be-fined-billions-by-eu-over-missing-genai-risk-info/

The prospects for troubled banking-as-a-service startup Synapse have gone from bad to worse this week after a United States Trustee filed an emergency motion on Wednesday.  The trustee is asking...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/16/a-us-trustee-wants-troubled-fintech-synapse-to-be-liquidated-via-chapter-7-bankruptcy-cites-gross-mismanagement/

U.K.-based Seraphim Space is spinning up its 13th accelerator program, with nine participating companies working on a range of tech from propulsion to in-space manufacturing and space situational...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/16/seraphims-latest-space-accelerator-welcomes-nine-companies/

OpenAI has reached a deal with Reddit to use the social news site’s data for training AI models. In a blog post on OpenAI’s press relations site, the company said that the Reddit partnership ...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/16/openai-inks-deal-to-train-ai-on-reddit-data/

X users will now be able to discover posts from new Communities that are trending directly from an Explore tab within the section. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/16/x-pushes-more-users-to-communities/