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Thursday, March 2, 2023

Daily Crunch: Stealth startup Figure releases first photos of its all-purpose humanoid robot

Hello, friends, and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.

Daily Crunch: Stealth startup Figure releases first photos of its all-purpose humanoid robot by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

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Indent raises $8.1M funding for its AI-powered customer video review tool

According to a recent report, 92.4% of consumers use reviews when deciding to purchase products. It’s understandable. They want confidence in their purchase choice before buying a product online.   A Seoul-based startup called Indent wants to help these shoppers through access to video reviews and product ratings, while also helping to drive sales for e-commerce merchants […]

Indent raises $8.1M funding for its AI-powered customer video review tool by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch

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Universal Hydrogen takes to the air with the largest hydrogen fuel cell ever to fly

As a Universal Hydrogen-branded plane, equipped with the largest hydrogen fuel cell ever to power an aircraft, made its maiden test flight in eastern Washington, co-founder and CEO Paul Eremenko declared the moment the dawn of a “new golden age of aviation.” The 15-minute test flight of a modified Dash-8 aircraft was short, but it […]

Universal Hydrogen takes to the air with the largest hydrogen fuel cell ever to fly by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

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Secret Service and ICE conducted warrantless stingray surveillance, says watchdog

A government watchdog has found that the Secret Service and ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) unit repeatedly failed to obtain the correct legal paperwork when carrying out invasive cell phone surveillance. The findings were published last week by Homeland Security’s inspector general, tasked with oversight of the U.S. federal department and its many law enforcement […]

Secret Service and ICE conducted warrantless stingray surveillance, says watchdog by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch

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Adobe’s Scott Belsky talks generative AI – and why it’s not going to end up like web3

Scott Belsky, chief product officer and executive vice president for Adobe’s Creative Cloud, believes there’s a big difference between the hype cycle around web3 last year, and what we’re seeing this year with ChatGPT and other generative AI models. Belsky, who was interviewed by Forbes reporter Alex Konrad at the Upfront Summit in Los Angeles […]

Adobe’s Scott Belsky talks generative AI – and why it’s not going to end up like web3 by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

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Stability AI, Hugging Face and Canva back new AI research nonprofit

Developing cutting-edge AI systems like ChatGPT requires massive technical resources, in part because they’re costly to develop and run. While several open source efforts have attempted to reverse-engineer proprietary, closed-source systems created by commercial labs such as Alphabet’s DeepMind and OpenAI, they’ve often run into roadblocks — mainly due to a lack of capital and […]

Stability AI, Hugging Face and Canva back new AI research nonprofit by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

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Brinc’s Lemur 2 straps on blue strobes and is ready for action

Drone developer Brinc today showed off its newest drone, designed to help cops and others who care about public safety do their jobs from a safe distance. The new quadcopter is called Lemur 2 and is tooled up and ready to go into areas that otherwise would be too dangerous for humans. The new drone […]

Brinc’s Lemur 2 straps on blue strobes and is ready for action by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch

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Brave Search launches an AI-powered summarization feature

It is raining AI-powered features all across search engines. Today, Brave Search launched a new “Summarizer” feature, which is powered by different large langue models (LLMs) — OpenAI’s GPT tech isn’t one of them. Just like the name suggests, its job is to provide a synopsis of a search query using different sources. The summary […]

Brave Search launches an AI-powered summarization feature by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

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Felicis funded 50% more deals last year than in 2021, some as prices were still rising — and it says it has no regrets

Felicis, a now 17-year-old, San Francisco- and Menlo Park-based venture firm, is announcing today that it has closed its ninth flagship fund with $825 million, compared with the $600 million core fund that it announced in the summer of 2021. The vehicle brings the firm’s total assets under management to exactly $3 billion, and it […]

Felicis funded 50% more deals last year than in 2021, some as prices were still rising — and it says it has no regrets by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch

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Chamath Palihapitiya: It could take three years for the market to ‘accurately’ reprice late-stage cos

Former Facebook exec turned VC Chamath Palihapitiya has long been a controversial figure in the investing world. Both brilliant and combative, Palihapitiya came to be known most widely by ushering in the era of special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, beginning in the fall of 2019, when he helped Virgin Galactic become a publicly traded […] Chamath Palihapitiya: It could take three years for the market to ‘accurately’ reprice late-stage cos by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch
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Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Tweetbot and Twitterific ask customers to decline refunds in rare App Store exception

Twitter last month officially banned third-party clients putting a sudden end to popular apps including Tweetbot, Twitterific, and others. Now, in an unusual turn of events, two developers this week have updated their shuttered apps with new functionality: they’re asking their subscribers to decline to receive a refund by clicking a new “I don’t need […]

Tweetbot and Twitterific ask customers to decline refunds in rare App Store exception by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

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Daily Crunch: Chase and DoorDash deliver new co-branded credit card with loyalty rewards

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Daily Crunch: Chase and DoorDash deliver new co-branded credit card with loyalty rewards by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

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