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Welcome back to TechCrunch’s Week in Review. This week had two major events from OpenAI and Google. OpenAI’s spring update event saw the reveal of its new model, GPT-4o, which has voice and v...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/18/openai-and-google-lay-out-their-competing-ai-visions/

Expedia says Rathi Murthy and Sreenivas Rachamadugu, respectively its CTO and senior vice president of core services product & engineering, are no longer employed at the travel booking company. I...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/18/expedia-says-two-execs-dismissed-after-violation-of-company-policy/

When Jeffrey Wang posted to X asking if anyone wanted to go in on an order of fancy-but-affordable office nap pods, he didn’t expect the post to go viral. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reser...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/18/ai-startups-nap-pods-silicon-valley-hustle-culture/

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/2024/05/18/openai-created-a-team-to-control-superintelligent-ai-then-let-it-wither-source-says/

A new crop of early-stage startups — along with some recent VC investments — illustrates a niche emerging in the autonomous vehicle technology sector. Unlike the companies bringing robotaxis ...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/18/vcs-and-the-military-are-fueling-self-driving-startups-that-dont-need-roads/

When the founders of Sagetap, Sahil Khanna and Kevin Hughes, started working at early-stage enterprise software startups, they were surprised to find that the companies they worked at were trying...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/18/deal-dive-sagetap-looks-to-bring-enterprise-software-sales-into-the-21st-century/

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/

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/