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For the last two decades, Raquel Urtasun, founder and CEO of autonomous trucking startup Waabi, has been developing AI systems that can reason as a human would.  The AI pioneer had previously se...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/18/waabis-genai-promises-to-do-so-much-more-than-power-self-driving-trucks/

Fisker Inc., the EV startup founded by famed designer Henrik Fisker, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection —  a capstone to months of problems with its Ocean SUV that included recalls and...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/18/ev-startup-fisker-files-for-bankruptcy/

Meta said today that it finally launched its much-awaited API for Threads so developers can build experiences around it. This will allow-third party developers to create new experinces around Mar...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/18/threads-finally-launches-its-api-for-developers/

Suse on Tuesday is announcing its AI strategy and SUSE AI solutions, a new vendor- and LLM-agnostic generative AI platform. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/18/suse-wants-a-piece-of-the-ai-cake-too/

The company says its platform functions like a search engine for materials, enabling the fast evaluation of a “vast number of novel structures.” © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/18/cuspai-raises-30m-to-create-a-gen-ai-driven-search-engine-for-new-materials/

Google has released its dedicated AI mobile app Gemini in India — over four months after its debut in the U.S. — with support for nine Indian languages alongside English. The Gemini mobile a...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/google-brings-gemini-mobile-app-to-india-with-nine-indian-language-support/

Finbourne, founded out of London’s financial center, has built a platform to help financial companies organize and use more of their data in AI and other models. © 2024 TechCrunch. All right...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/finbourne-taps-70m-for-tech-that-turns-financial-data-dust-into-ai-gold/

Even as quick commerce startups are retreating, consolidating or shutting down in many parts of the world, the model is showing encouraging signs in India. Consumers in urban cities are embracing...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/can-quick-commerce-leapfrog-e-commerce-in-india/

Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. We’ll have to wait a little longer for the return of Boeing’s Starliner capsule from the International Space Station — the capsule and its two as...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/techcrunch-space-a-new-era-for-human-spaceflight-research/

Loop, the car insurance company co-founded by Harlem Capital co-founder John Henry, has laid off staff as the company struggles with fundraising.  Henry took to Instagram to post the email his c...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/insurance-startup-loop-cuts-staff-fundraising-struggles/

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/chatgpt-everything-to-know-about-the-ai-chatbot/

Apple announced at last week's WWDC 2024 that users would be able to access loans through third-party app Affirm through Apple Pay. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use onl...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/apple-kills-pay-later-feature-ahead-of-affirm-integration/

Astroscale’s space junk observation satellite has moved within striking distance to a discarded rocket upper stage that’s been floating around Earth for nearly 20 years, taking close-up pictu...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/astroscales-space-junk-inspection-satellite-snaps-a-close-up-photo-of-a-discarded-rocket-stage/

DeepMind says that it sees the tech, V2A (short for "video-to-audio"), as an essential piece of the AI-generated media puzzle. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/deepminds-new-ai-generates-soundtracks-and-dialog-for-videos/

In the complaint filed on Monday, the DOJ wrote that "Adobe has harmed consumers by enrolling them in its default, most lucrative subscription plan without clearly disclosing important plan terms...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/us-sues-adobe-for-hiding-termination-fees-and-making-it-difficult-to-cancel-subscriptions/

Perplexity could already fetch this data from the web and display results in a descriptive way, but the company is adding some visual flair to these results to make them more prominent and quick....

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/perplexity-now-displays-results-for-temperature-currency-conversion-and-simple-math-so-you-dont-have-to-use-google/

Finaloop’s solution is a platform that uses automation in the background to track transactions covering three different functions in one. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/from-sperm-freezing-to-accounting-tools-finaloops-founder-scores-35m-to-solve-e-commerce-retailers-bookkeeping-headaches/

The race to high-quality, AI-generated videos is heating up. On Monday, Runway, a company building generative AI tools geared toward film and image content creators, unveiled Gen-3 Alpha. The co...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/runways-new-video-generating-ai-gen-3-offers-improved-controls/

Its technology involves spinning plant protein fibers, including soy proteins, similar to the way cotton candy is made, to create structured cuts of meat. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserve...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/tender-food-plant-based-alternative-protein/

YouTube is introducing a new experimental feature that will allow viewers to add “Notes” to provide more context and information under videos, the company told TechCrunch exclusively. If the ...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/youtube-is-experimenting-with-notes-a-crowdsourced-feature-that-lets-users-add-context-to-videos/