OpenAI to remove ChatGPT’s Scarlett Johansson-like voice
OpenAI is removing one of the voices used by ChatGPT after users found that it sounded similar to Scarlett Johansson, the company announced on Monday. The voice, called Sky, is now being paused after ...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/20/openai-to-remove-chatgpts-scarlett-johansson-like-voice/
ChatGPT’s mobile app revenue saw biggest spike yet following GPT-4o launch
Consumer demand for the latest AI technology is heating up. The launch of OpenAI’s latest flagship model, GPT-4o, has now driven the company’s biggest-ever spike in revenue on mobile, despite the mode...
Bumble buys community building app Geneva to expand further into friendships
Dating app maker Bumble has acquired Geneva, an online platform built around forming real-world groups and clubs. The company said that the deal is designed to help it expand its focus from “one-to-on...
CyberArk snaps up Venafi for $1.54B to ramp up in machine-to-machine security
More cybersecurity consolidation coming your way, with bigger players picking up startups that will help them bolt on tech to meet the ever-expanding attack surface for enterprises as they move more a...
OpenseedVC, which backs operators in Africa and Europe starting their companies, reaches first close of $10M fund
Founder-market fit is one of the most crucial factors in a startup’s success, and operators (someone involved in the day-to-day operations of a startup) turned founders have an almost unfair advantage...
Pine Labs gets Singapore court approval to shift base to India
A Singapore High Court has effectively approved Pine Labs' request to shift its operations to India.
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https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/19/pine-labs-gets-singapore-court-approval-to-shift-base-to-india/
UK opens office in San Francisco to tackle AI risk
Ahead of the AI safety summit kicking off in Seoul, South Korea later this week, its co-host the United Kingdom is expanding its own efforts in the field. The AI Safety Institute – a U.K. body set up ...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/19/uk-opens-office-in-san-francisco-to-tackle-ai-risk/
Why companies are turning to internal hackathons
Companies are always looking for an edge, and searching for ways to encourage their employees to innovate. One way to do that is by running an internal hackathon around a theme and having employees at...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/19/why-companies-are-turning-to-internal-hackathons/
I’m rooting for Melinda French Gates to fix tech’s broken ‘brilliant jerk’ culture
Women in tech still face a shocking level of mistreatment at work. Melinda French Gates is one of the few working to change that.
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https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/19/melinda-french-gates-fixing-tech-bro-culture-brilliant-jerk/
Hollywood agency CAA aims to help stars manage their own AI likenesses
Creative Artists Agency (CAA), one of the top entertainment and sports talent agencies, is hoping to be at the forefront of AI protection services for celebrities in Hollywood. With many stars having ...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/19/creative-artists-agency-veritone-ai-digital-cloning-actors/
Blue Origin successfully launches its first crewed mission since 2022
Blue Origin has successfully completed its NS-25 mission, resuming crewed flights for the first time in nearly two years. The mission brought six tourist crew members to the edge of space, including a...
Expedia says two execs dismissed after ‘violation of company policy’
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. In a s...
OpenAI and Google lay out their competing AI visions
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 vision cap...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/18/openai-and-google-lay-out-their-competing-ai-visions/
OpenAI created a team to control ‘superintelligent’ AI — then let it wither, source says
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 from that te...
Expedia says two execs dismissed after ‘violation of company policy’
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. In a s...
With AI startups booming, nap pods and Silicon Valley hustle culture are back
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.
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https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/18/ai-startups-nap-pods-silicon-valley-hustle-culture/
VCs and the military are fueling self-driving startups that don’t need roads
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 to city s...
Deal Dive: Sagetap looks to bring enterprise software sales into the 21st century
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 to s...
This Week in AI: OpenAI moves away from safety
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/2024/05/18/this-week-in-ai-openai-moves-away-from-safety/
Adobe comes after indie game emulator Delta for copying its logo
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 increased attenti...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/17/adobe-comes-after-indie-game-emulator-delta-for-copying-its-logo/