CoreWeave, a $19B AI compute provider, opens European HQ in London with plans for 2 UK data centers
CoreWeave has formally opened an office in London that will serve as its European headquarters and home to two new data centers.
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AI chip startup DEEPX secures $80M Series C at a $529M valuation
The Series C funding, which brings its total raise to around $95 million, will go toward mass production of the startup's inaugural products
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Apple’s ‘Crush’ ad is disgusting
The problem is not the media, but the message.
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Infighting among fintech players has caused TabaPay to ‘pull out’ from buying bankrupt Synapse
A dust-up between Evolve Bank & Trust, Mercury and Synapse has led TabaPay to abandon its acquisition plans of troubled banking-as-a-service startup Synapse.
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https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/09/tabapay-ends-plans-synapse-mercury-evolve/
Google built some of the first social apps for Android, including Twitter and others
The Twitter for Android client was "a demo app that Google had created and gave to us," says Particle co-founder and ex-Twitter employee Sara Beykpour.
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Plinky is an app for you to collect and organize links easily
Plinky lets you solve the problem of saving and organizing links from anywhere with a focus on simplicity and customization.
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https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/09/plinky-is-an-app-for-you-to-collect-links/
WhatsApp’s latest update streamlines navigation and adds a ‘darker dark mode’
WhatsApp is updating its mobile apps for a fresh and more streamlined look, while also introducing a new “darker dark mode,” the company announced on Thursday. The messaging app says that over the yea...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/09/whatsapp-streamlining-navigation-darker-dark-mode/
Triomics raises $15M Series A to automate cancer clinical trials matching
For cancer patients, medicines administered in clinical trials can help save or extend lives. But despite thousands of trials in the United States each year, only 3% to 5% of eligible patients enroll ...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/09/triomics-raises-15m-for-cancer-clinical-trials-a/
Google I/O 2024: How to watch
The keynote kicks off at 10 a.m. PT on Tuesday and will offer glimpses into the latest versions of Android, Wear OS and Android TV.
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https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/09/google-i-o-2024-how-to-watch/
Tesla drives Luminar lidar sales and Motional pauses robotaxi plans
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Fika Ventures co-founder Eva Ho will step back from the firm after its current fund is deployed
Eva Ho plans to step away from her position as general partner at Fika Ventures, the Los Angeles-based seed firm she co-founded in 2016. Fika told LPs of Ho’s intention to step back after Fund III, th...
Reddit locks down its public data in new content policy, says use now requires a contract
The newly announced "Public Content Policy" will now join Reddit's existing privacy policy and content policy to guide how Reddit's data is being accessed and used by commercial entities and other par...
Amazon’s CTO built a meeting-summarizing app for some reason
In a post on Werner Vogels' personal blog, he details Distill, an open-source app he built to transcribe and summarize conference calls.
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https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/09/amazons-cto-built-a-meeting-summarizing-app-for-some-reason/
Dell discloses data breach of customers’ physical addresses
Technology giant Dell notified customers on Thursday that it experienced a data breach involving customers’ names and physical addresses. In an email seen by TechCrunch and shared by several people on...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/09/dell-discloses-data-breach-of-customers-physical-addresses/
Groww joins the first wave of Indian startups moving domiciles back home from US
Groww, an Indian investment app, has become one of the first startups from the country to shift its domicile back home.
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Blackboard founder transforms Zoom add-on designed for teachers into business tool
When Class founder Michael Chasen was in college, he and a buddy came up with the idea for Blackboard, an online classroom organizational tool. His original company was acquired for $1.64 billion in 2...
Bumble says it’s looking to M&A to drive growth
Dating apps and other social friend-finders are being put on notice: Dating app giant Bumble is looking to make more acquisitions.
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https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/09/bumble-says-its-looking-to-ma-to-drive-growth/
Google I/O 2024: What to expect
You can expect plenty of AI, but probably not a lot of hardware.
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https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/09/google-i-o-2024-what-to-expect/
Sources: Mistral AI raising at a $6B valuation, Softbank ‘not in’ but DST is
Paris-based Mistral AI, a startup working on open source Large Language Models — the building block for generative AI services — has been raising money at a $6 billion valuation, three times its valua...
Fairgen ‘boosts’ survey results using synthetic data and AI-generated responses
The Israeli startup has raised $5.5M for its platform that uses "statistical AI" to generate synthetic data that it says is as good as the real thing.
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