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Gogoro CEO resigns as subsidy fraud investigation continues
Gogoro, the Taiwanese electric scooter manufacturer and battery swapping giant, said its CEO and chairman Horace Luke has stepped down amid subsidy fraud allegations, according to a regulatory filing....
View the articleiOS 18 is out: Here’s what’s new
Apple’s newest software update, iOS 18, is rolling out today to all iPhone users. While AI technology was heavily hyped as a key part of this upgrade, Apple Intelligence features aren’t part of th...
View the articleApple’s iOS 18 is now available to download
On Monday Apple released the new version of iOS, the company’s operating system for the iPhone. iOS 18 is a free download and it works with the iPhone XR & XS or later, as well as the second- an...
View the articleOracle CEO Larry Ellison says that AI will someday track your every move
Speaking at an Oracle financial analysts meeting, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said he expects AI to one day power massive law enforcement surveillance networks. “We’re going to have supervision,” h...
View the article11xAI raises $24M led by Benchmark to build AI digital employees
The Series A comes about a year after 11xAI raised a $2 million seed round led by Project A Ventures. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
View the articleTechCrunch Minute: FDA approval sets the stage for Apple’s AirPod hearing aids
During last week’s GlowTime event, Apple announced that iOS 18 will include a feature allowing users with mild to moderate hearing loss to use AirPods as hearing aids. But Apple was still waiting on...
View the articleAs TikTok ban heads to court, ByteDance’s Lemon8 surges
As TikTok heads to court on Monday to argue against a U.S. ban, parent company ByteDance’s newer social app, Lemon8, is once again surging to the top of the App Store in the U.S. The push is due, in...
View the articleU.S. government expands sanctions against spyware maker Intellexa
This latest round of government sanctions land months after Intellexa's founder Tal Dilian was sanctioned for selling the Predator spyware. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use on...
View the articleColin Kaepernick is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
Earlier this year, former NFL quarterback and civil rights activist Colin Kaepernick launched his AI startup, Lumi. Kaepernick has had thousands of stories written about him, and he knows a thing or t...
View the articleGenerative AI startup Typeface acquires two companies, Treat and Narrato, to bolster its portfolio
Typeface, a generative AI startup focused on enterprise use cases, has acquired a pair of companies just over a year after raising $165 million at a $1 billion valuation. Typeface revealed on Monday t...
View the articleLife360’s Tile introduces its first new Bluetooth trackers since its acquisition
It’s been three years since Life360’s $205 million acquisition of AirTag competitor Tile. The company announced Monday its new lineup of lost-item Bluetooth trackers, featuring a sleeker redesign ...
View the articleRunway announces an API for its video-generating AI models
Runway, one of several AI startups developing video-generating tech, today announced an API to allow devs and organizations to build the company’s generative AI models into third-party platforms, ap...
View the articleTop 10 Data Integration Tools in 2024
Data is the core component of effective organizational decision-making. Today, companies generate more data – over 145 zettabytes in 2024 – through sources like social media, Internet-of-Things (I...
View the articleIBM makes developing for quantum computers easier with the Qiskit Functions Catalog
IBM today launched the Qiskit Functions Catalog, a new set of services that aims to make programming quantum computers easier by abstracting away many of the complexities of working with these machine...
View the articleAI coding assistant Supermaven raises cash from OpenAI and Perplexity co-founders
Supermaven, an AI coding assistant, has raised $12 million in a funding round that had participation from OpenAI and Perplexity co-founders. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use o...
View the articleTeamBridge, founded by former Uber execs, raises $28M to build HR software for hourly workers
Arjun Vora and Tito Goldstein were working on the corporate side of Uber when they realized that HR software largely wasn’t built to manage hourly staff. Many hourly workers lacked a way to complete...
View the articleApple Watch sleep apnea detection gets FDA approval
The US Food and Drug Administration Monday published approval for sleep apnea detection on the Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Watch Ultra 2. The green light comes four days ahead of the Series 1...
View the articleApple AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation review
I can’t recall another consumer electronics product category becoming a commodity as quickly as Bluetooth earbuds. Apple’s AirPods played a key role in that growth, of course, recapturing a kind o...
View the articleOpenAI Messed With the Wrong Mega-Popular Parenting Forum
Mumsnet CEO Justine Roberts spoke to WIRED about why licensing talks with OpenAI broke down and why her company is planning legal action.
View the articleMyntra bets on 4-hour delivery amid India’s quick commerce boom
Myntra, India’s largest fashion e-commerce platform, is trialling a four-hour delivery service in four Indian cities, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, a dramatic acceleration fr...
View the articleIntroducing OpenAI o1: A Leap in AI’s Reasoning Abilities for Advanced Problem Solving
OpenAI's new model, OpenAI o1 or Strawberry, represents a significant advancement in Artificial Intelligence. It builds on the legacy of previous models, such as OpenAI's GPT series, and introduces en...
View the articleAnnie Chechitelli, Chief Product Officer at Turnitin – Interview Series
Annie Chechitelli is the Chief Product Officer at Turnitin, where she oversees the Turnitin suite of applications, including academic integrity, grading and feedback, and assessment capabilities. Turn...
View the articleHow Autonomous Mobile Robots Are Transforming Retail Customer Experience
Currently, the market size for AI in the retail market is estimated to be worth about $9 billion and is expected to reach $40 billion by 2029. At GroceryTech 2024, a retail food industry event, CEOs a...
View the articleHow AI Helps Map the Universe
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a vital tool for understanding the world. Now, as interest in space exploration regains steam, it could do the same for other worlds. Despite decades of researc...
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