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...
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/
For Mark Zuckerberg’s 40th birthday, his wife got him a photoshoot. Zuckerberg gives the camera a sly smile as he sits amid a carefully crafted re-creation of his childhood bedroom. It’s appr...
Strava announced a slew of features, including AI to weed out leaderboard cheats, a new 'family' subscription plan, dark mode and more. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use...
We all fall down sometimes. Astronauts are no exception. You need to be in peak physical condition for space travel, but bulky space suits and lower gravity levels can be a recipe for disaster, c...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/16/astronauts-fall-over-robotic-limbs-can-help-them-back-up/
Microsoft will launch its custom Cobalt 100 chips to customers as a public preview at its Build conference next week, TechCrunch has learned. In an analyst briefing ahead of Build, Scott Guthrie,...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/16/microsofts-custom-cobalt-chips-will-come-to-azure-next-week/
What a wild week for transportation news! It was a smorgasbord of news that seemed to touch every sector and theme in transportation. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use o...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/16/tesla-keeps-cutting-jobs-and-the-feds-probe-waymo/
Sony Music Group has sent letters to more than 700 tech companies and music streaming services to warn them not to use its music to train AI without explicit permission. The letter, which was obt...
Winston Chi, Butter's founder and CEO, told TechCrunch that "most parties, including our investors and us, are making money" from the exit. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal...
The investor lawsuit is related to Bolt securing a $30 million personal loan to Ryan Breslow, which was later defaulted on. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/16/bolt-founder-investor-lawsuit-stock-repayment-proposed-settlement/
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, launched an enterprise version of the prominent social network in 2015. It always seemed like a stretch for a company built on a consumer product that made m...
X, formerly Twitter, turned TweetDeck into X Pro and pushed it behind a paywall. But there is a new column-based social media tool in town, and it’s from Instagram Threads. Mark Zuckerberg anno...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/16/threads-testing-pinned-columns-on-the-web-like-tweetdeck/
As part of 2024’s Accessibility Awareness Day, Google is showing off some updates to Android that should be useful to folks with mobility or vision impairments. Project Gameface allows gamers t...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/16/googles-expands-hands-free-and-eyes-free-interfaces-on-android/
A hacker listed the data allegedly breached from Samco on a known cybercrime forum. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/16/hacker-claims-theft-samco-account-data/
A top European privacy watchdog is investigating following the recent breaches of Dell customers’ personal information, TechCrunch has learned. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) de...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/16/ireland-privacy-watchdog-confirms-dell-data-breach-investigation/
Ampere and Qualcomm aren’t the most obvious of partners. Both, after all, offer Arm-based chips for running data center servers (though Qualcomm’s largest market remains mobile). But as the t...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/16/ampere-teams-up-with-qualcomm-to-launch-an-arm-based-ai-server/
At Google’s I/O developer conference, the company made its case to developers — and to some extent, consumers — why its bets on AI are ahead of rivals. At the event, the company unveiled a ...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/16/google-i-o-was-an-ai-evolution-not-a-revolution/
TechCrunch Disrupt has always been the ultimate convergence point for all things startup and tech. In the bustling world of innovation, it serves as the “big top” tent, where entrepreneurs, t...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/16/meet-the-magnificent-six-a-tour-of-the-stages-at-disrupt-2024/