TikTok ban could harm Amazon sellers looking for alternatives
In March, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill that could force ByteDance to divest TikTok or face a ban in U.S. app stores. Much of the related discussion and debate has cen...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/30/tiktok-ban-implication-amazon/
Deal Dive: Iron Sheepdog is fixing short-haul trucking from the bottom up
Iron Sheepdog credits its ability to gain traction with truck brokers because it got the truckers themselves to sign on first.
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https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/30/iron-sheepdog-is-fixing-short-haul-trucking-from-the-bottom-up/
Women in AI: Kate Devlin of King’s College is researching AI and intimacy
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed ...
AT&T resets account passcodes after millions of customer records leak online
Security researcher told TechCrunch that leaked AT&T customer data contained encrypted account passcodes that can be easily unscrambled.
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https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/30/att-reset-account-passcodes-customer-data/
This Week in AI: Let us not forget the humble data annotator
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 notable resear...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/30/this-week-in-ai-let-us-not-forget-the-humble-data-annotator/
Google pushes Podcasts users in U.S. to move to YouTube Music by April 2
Google is shutting down its Podcasts app in the U.S. in a matter of days. The company has begun warning the app’s users they will need to migrate their subscriptions to YouTube Music by April 2 to fol...
Startups Weekly: Big shake-ups at the AI heavyweights
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. There’s not that much news from me this week,...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/29/startups-weekly-ai-shakeups/
Nine crypto VCs weigh in on why Q1 investments were so hot and how it compares to the previous bull market
If the 2023 crypto venture landscape was an ice cold pot of water, the first quarter of 2024 is the part where the bubbles start to form right before water boils, Tom Schmidt, a partner at Dragonfly C...
Orbit Fab unveils $30K port to refuel satellites
Orbit Fab wants to build “gas stations” for satellites – which means it needs the gas cap, a mechanism for transferring propellant from an orbital tanker to the customer spacecraft. That docking mecha...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/29/orbit-fab-unveils-30k-port-to-refuel-satellites/
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis gets UK knighthood for ‘services to artificial intelligence’
Demis Hassabis, CEO and one of three founders of Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) subsidiary DeepMind, has been awarded a knighthood in the U.K. for “services to artificial intelligence.” Ian Hog...
Instagram is developing ‘Blend,’ recommended Reels for you and a friend
Instagram is developing a “Blend” feature that creates a private feed of Reels recommended for you and a friend. The company told TechCrunch on Friday that the feature is an internal prototype and is ...
The AI world needs more data transparency and web3 startup Space and Time says it can help
As AI proliferates and things on the internet are easier to manipulate, there’s a need more than ever to make sure data and brands are verifiable, said Scott Dykstra, CTO and co-founder of Space and T...
OpenAI built a voice cloning tool, but you can’t use it… yet
As deepfakes proliferate, OpenAI is refining the tech used to clone voices — but the company insists it’s doing so responsibly. Today marks the preview debut of OpenAI’s Voice Engine, an expansion of ...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/29/openai-custom-voice-engine-preview/
TechCrunch Minute: Sam Bankman-Fried’s sentencing marks an end to the FTX saga
After a lengthy trial and conviction, we finally learned how long former crypto baron Sam Bankman-Fried will be behind bars: up to 25 years. It’s a lengthy sentence, but one that given the scale of th...
Pitch Deck Teardown: Plantee Innovations’ $1.4M seed deck
It’s rare that I come across a pitch deck that ticks almost all the boxes. It’s so good, in fact, that I fed Plantee’s deck into an AI tool I built, and it determined there was a 97.7% chance that Pla...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/29/sample-seed-pitch-deck-plantee-innovations/
X confirms plans for NSFW Communities
The changes appear to confirm the earlier tests of NSFW communities spotted by various researchers and reverse engineers.
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https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/29/x-confirms-plans-for-nsfw-communities/
Databricks’ GPT rival and who’s investing in “underdog” founders
Hello, and welcome to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Friday episode, in which we dig through the most critic...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/29/databricks-gpt-rival-and-whos-investing-in-underdog-founders/
How a tiny 4-person startup, Supaglue, caught Stripe’s eye
Supaglue's team will accelerate the work Stripe's been working on real-time analytics and reporting across its platform.
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https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/29/supaglue-stripe-acquire-acquisition/
What is Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot and how does it work?
You might’ve heard of Grok, X’s answer to OpenAI’s ChatGPT. It’s a chatbot and, in that sense, behaves as you’d expect — answering questions about current events, pop culture and so on. But unlike oth...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/29/what-is-elon-musks-grok-chatbot-and-how-does-it-work/
The final countdown: Early Stage 2024 ticket savings end tonight
The final countdown is on! Today, March 29, marks the final opportunity to grab your early-bird savings for TechCrunch Early Stage 2024 — a one-day event set to ignite your entrepreneurial journey on ...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/29/the-final-countdown-early-stage-2024-ticket-savings-end-tonight/