Monday, November 20, 2023

Cruise’s mea culpa and everything that stood out at the LA Auto Show

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Inside Brex and Ramp’s AI ambitions

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Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. If you want to receive The Interchange directly in your inbox every Sunday, head here to sign up! This week, we dig into spend management companies’ AI aspirations, and one U.K. fintech’s recent growth. AI ambitions At one […]

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ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

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ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth used by more than 92% of Fortune 500 companies for more wide-ranging needs. While there is a more…nefarious side to ChatGPT, it’s […]

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Cruise co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt resigns, GM execs take over

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Kyle Vogt, the serial entrepreneur who co-founded and led Cruise from a startup in a garage through its acquisition and ownership by General Motors, has resigned, according to an email sent to employees Sunday evening. In another email, also viewed by TechCrunch, GM Chair and CEO Mary Barra announced that Mo Elshenawy, who is executive […]

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Cruise’s mea culpa and everything that stood out at the LA Auto Show

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India and Australia World Cup final shatters streaming records on Hotstar

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In India, few events garner as much attention as a cricket game. And there’s no match for a World Cup final. The Sunday game has already topped 59 million concurrent viewers, shattering the 53 million milestone that was set just earlier this week. With no high-profile cricket game any time soon, Hotstar is likely to […]

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With Amo, the founder of Zenly wants to make social apps social again

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In 2018, I wrote a TechCrunch article stating that 2018 was “the year social networks were no longer social.” Reflecting on that article, I’m not sure that 2018 was the turning point. But the premise of the article still holds up well. At some point, social networks were no longer about connecting with your closest […]

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India and Australia World Cup final shatters streaming records on Hotstar

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In India, few events garner as much attention as a cricket game. And there’s no match for a World Cup final. The Sunday game, which began just half an hour ago, has already topped 54 million concurrent viewers, shattering a record that was set just earlier this week. With no high-profile cricket game anytime soon, […]

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A timeline of Sam Altman’s firing from OpenAI — and the fallout

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In a dramatic turn of events late Friday, ex-Y Combinator president Sam Altman was fired as CEO of AI startup OpenAI, the company behind viral AI hits like ChatGPT, GPT-4 and DALL-E 3, by OpenAI’s board of directors. Then, the company’s longtime president and co-founder, Greg Brockman, resigned — as did three senior OpenAI researchers. […]

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Time for moderation?

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Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen made it clear that while he was keen on buying Convoy because of the "incredible tech stack" it built, he wasn't buying its strategy.

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Deal Dive: An AI application that isn’t just marginally better

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Pippin Title uses AI to help its customers navigate the fragmented world of property titles into one digital space.

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Robotics Q&A with Toyota Research Institute’s Max Bajracharya and Russ Tedrake

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For the next few weeks, TechCrunch’s robotics newsletter Actuator will be running Q&As with some of the top minds in robotics. Subscribe here for future updates. Part 1: CMU’s Matthew Johnson-Roberson This week, we’ve got a two-fer. Toyota Research Institute’s Russ Tedrake and Max Bajracharya split the job. Tedrake is TRI’s vice president of Robotics […]

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OpenAI’s board is no match for investors’ wrath

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On Friday, the board of OpenAI, the AI startup behind ChatGPT and other viral AI-powered hits, did something unexpected but seemingly well within its right: removed the company’s CEO, Sam Altman. But judging by how the situation’s unfolded, it seems that OpenAI’s investors and partners — and many of its employees — were more comfortable […]

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SpaceX launches Starship for the second time, going farther than ever before

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Watch Starship’s second integrated flight test →
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https://t.co/cahoRQ72lm — SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 18, 2023 SpaceX flew Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, for the second time ever today – and even though both the Super Heavy booster and the Starship upper stage had to be blown up in mid-air, it was still a […]

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