Ready Player One creator debuts ‘Open,’ a metaverse battle royale experience
Earlier this year, Readyverse Studios – co-founded by blockchain tech company Futureverse and Ernest Cline, the mind behind the sci-fi franchise Ready Player One – announced “The Readyverse,” an inter...
$1,000 Disrupt pass savings end Friday
TechCrunch Disrupt, the premier early-stage startup conference, takes place on October 28–30 in San Francisco. Sure, that’s months from now. But if you want the best price, you gotta take action befor...
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Watch: Elon Musk, Sam Altman and the rest of the billionaires are fighting over the future of AI
The scrap over who should run OpenAI, and how it should be managed is still the hottest topic in tech. Most recently, former co-founder and backer Elon Musk sued the AI company best known for ChatGPT ...
Airbnb is banning indoor security cameras inside its listings
Airbnb is banning the use of indoor security cameras in all of its listings, the company announced on Monday. Previously, Airbnb has allowed hosts to have indoor security cameras in common areas, such...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/11/airbnb-is-banning-indoor-security-cameras-inside-its-listings/
Stell helps engineers focus on building, not paperwork
“Hard tech” is the latest buzz in venture capital, but all hard tech industries still rely on software infrastructure to ensure machines run properly, parts are shipped on time, and that they are buil...
Twitter’s former head of Trust & Safety, Yoel Roth, joins Tinder owner Match Group
Twitter’s former head of trust and safety Yoel Roth announced today that he is joining Match Group, the parent company of several popular dating apps, including Tinder and Hinge. Yoel, who shared the ...
Bluesky is funding developer projects to give its Twitter/X alternative a boost
Would-be Twitter/X rival Bluesky is looking to more directly invest in its developer community in order to foster growth. The company last week announced “AT Protocol Grants,” a new program that will ...
Pinterest rolls out its ‘body type ranges’ tool to the US
Pinterest announced today that its tool for filtering searches by different body types has officially rolled out to users in the U.S. The platform started experimenting with the feature last year and ...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/11/pinterest-rolls-out-its-body-type-ranges-tool-to-the-us/
Musk’s Grok goes open-source and Reddit updates its IPO filing
Today we took a look at Reddit's new IPO filing, the potential impact of Grok being open sourced, and why Bobby Kotick wants to buy TikTok.
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Alphabet spin-off SIP launches Verrus, a data center concept built around battery ‘microgrids’
Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners — the Alphabet spinout that focuses on building and backing new approaches to complicated infrastructure problems in areas like power, broadband and waste management —...
Potential ‘meme stock’ Reddit to raise ~$748M in IPO, will let Redditors sell shares immediately
Reddit’s IPO should be interesting to watch — and not just because the business remains unprofitable, but also because of how the company has chosen to bring in its community of active users and moder...
Covariant is building ChatGPT for robots
Covariant this week announced the launch of RFM-1 (Robotics Foundation Model 1). Peter Chen, the cofounder and CEO of the U.C. Berkeley artificial intelligence spinout tells TechCrunch the platform, “...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/11/covariant-is-building-chatgpt-for-robots/
Telegram founder says the company will become profitable next year
Telegram founder Pavel Durov said that the company expects to hit profitability next year with eyes on going public in the future. The chat app, which crossed 900 million users, is making “hundreds of...
SuperAGI snags funding from Jan Koum’s Newlands VC to fuel its full-stack AGI ambitions
SuperAGI wants to build a full-stack Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) platform based on Large Agentic Models (LAMs) — seen by some as the next stage in development for Large Language Models. Now,...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/11/jan-koum-newlands-vc-superagi-funding-agi-agent-model/
EU’s use of Microsoft 365 found to breach data protection rules
A lengthy investigation into the European Union’s use of Microsoft 365 has found the Commission breached the bloc’s data protection rules through its use of the cloud-based productivity software. Anno...
Feeeed is a reader app that goes beyond tracking RSS feeds
In the last 12 months, reader apps have adopted AI to change how users consume news. Instagram co-founders’ now discontinued Artifact introduced AI-powered summaries and headlines. Newer apps like Bul...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/11/feeeed-is-a-reader-app-that-goes-beyond-tracking-rss-feeds/
Elon Musk says xAI will open-source Grok this week
Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI will open-source Grok, its chatbot rivaling ChatGPT, this week, he said, days after suing OpenAI and complaining that the Microsoft-backed startup had deviated from its open...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/11/elon-musk-says-xai-will-open-source-grok-this-week/
‘Banking as a Service’ startup Griffin raises $24M as it attains full banking license
Founded by former Silicon Valley engineers, UK-based Griffin Bank, an API-driven banking-as-a-service platform, just attained a banking license, roughly one year after starting the application process...
Rivian’s big bet, Waymo goes driverless in Austin and the Chevy Blazer EV returns
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The women in AI making a difference
As a part of a multi-part series, TechCrunch is highlighting women innovators — from academics to policymakers —in the field of AI.
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