Few figures in the tech industry have earned the storied reputation of Vinod Khosla, founder and partner at Khosla Ventures. For over 40 years, he has been at the center of Silicon Valley, buildi...
AI has already started replacing voice agents’ jobs. Now, companies are exploring ways to replace the existing computer-generated voice models with synthetic versions of human voices. Truecalle...
Meta is updating its Ray-Ban smart glasses with new hands-free functionality, the company announced on Wednesday. Most notably, users can now share an image from their smart glasses directly to t...
Spotify launched its own font, the company announced on Wednesday. The music streaming service hopes that its new typeface, “Spotify Mix,” will help Spotify distinguish its own unique visual ...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/22/spotify-launches-own-font-typeface-spotify-mix/
In 2008, Marty Kagan, who’d previously worked at Cisco and Akamai, co-founded Cedexis, a (now-Cisco-owned) firm developing observability tech for content delivery networks. Fellow Cisco veteran...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/22/hydrolix-seeks-to-make-storing-log-data-faster-and-cheaper/
A dodgy email containing a link that looks “legit” but is actually malicious remains one of the most dangerous, yet successful, tricks in a cyber criminal’s handbook. Now, an AI startup cal...
If you’ve been looking forward to seeing Boeing’s Starliner capsule carry two astronauts to the International Space Station for the first time, you’ll have to wait a bit longer. The mission...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/22/boeing-nasa-indefinitely-delay-crewed-starliner-launch/
Gone are the days when space and defense were considered fundamentally antithetical to venture investment. Now, the country’s largest venture capital firms are throwing larger portions of their...
TikTok is the latest tech company to incorporate generative AI into its ads business, as the company announced on Tuesday that it’s launching a new “TikTok Symphony” AI suite for brands. Th...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/22/tiktok-turns-to-generative-ai-to-boost-its-ads-business/
These days every company is trying to figure out if their large language models are compliant with whatever rules they deem important, and with legal or regulatory requirements. If you’re in a ...
Link-in-bio startup Linktree has crossed 50 million users and is rolling out the beta of its social commerce program. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
For a $5.99 per month, immigrants have a bank account and debit card with fee-free international money transfers and discounted international calling. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. F...
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Granola takes a more collaborative approach to working with AI. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Response time is Aerodome’s immediate value prop for potential clients. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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When developers have a particular job that AI can solve, it’s not typically as simple as just pointing an LLM at the data. There are other considerations such as cost, speed and accuracy and fi...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/22/unify-helps-developers-find-the-best-llm-for-the-job/
DeepL, which builds automated text translation and writing tools, has raised a $300 million round led by Index Ventures. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Praktika has secured a $35.5M Series A round to apply AI-powered avatars to language-learning apps. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Humane, the company behind the hyped Ai Pin that launched to less-than-glowing reviews last month, is reportedly on the hunt for a buyer. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal u...
India's Oyo, once valued at $10 billion, has withdrawn its IPO application from the market regulator for the second time. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Where Aytac Yilmaz lives in the Netherlands, the sun might not appear for days on end, which can really crimp the output of the country’s solar panels. Wind turbines might make up some of the s...