Egyptian fintech Swypex launches all-in-one financial platform for businesses, following $4M seed investment led by Accel.
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Tuesday, May 7, 2024
India urges political parties to avoid using deepfakes in election campaigns
India's Election Commission is urging political parties to refrain from using deepfakes and misinformation amid the country's ongoing general elections.
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Monday, May 6, 2024
Electricity Maps calculates the carbon intensity of electricity consumption to optimize usage at scale
If you’re an electricity nerd, chances are you’ve already spent quite a few hours looking at Electricity Maps and its mesmerizing export flow animations. This open-source data visualization project has been around since 2016. But companies like Google and Samsung are increasingly relying on this rich data set to hit their sustainability goals and empower […]
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This year’s Met Gala theme is AI deepfakes
Whether you love or hate celebrity culture, the Met Gala is an event. Those less jaded among us get to see all of the biggest stars take their boldest fashion risks of the year — unlike an award show, it’s an event that encourages avant garde extravagance. And if you find the whole thing vapid, […]
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Boeing Starliner’s first crewed mission scrubbed
Boeing’s Starliner launch tonight has been postponed “out of an abundance of caution” scarcely two hours before the historic liftoff. The scrub is reportedly due to an issue with the oxygen relief valve on the Atlas V rocket’s upper stage. There are backup launch opportunities on May 7, 10 and 11. After years of delays […]
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Wayve raises $1 billion to take its Tesla-like technology for self-driving to many carmakers
Wayve, a UK-born startup developing a self-learning rather than rule-based system for autonomous driving, has closed a $1.05 billion in Series C funding led by SoftBank Group. This is the UK’s largest AI fundraise ever and sits among the top 20 AI fundraises globally to date. Also participating in the raise was NVIDIA and existing […]
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The Kendrick-Drake feud shows how technology is changing rap battles
It’s the most chronically online rap battle the world has ever seen.
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TechCrunch Space: Launch pad decongestion
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Opera’s AI assistant can now summarize web pages on Android
Opera announced that Aria, its browser AI product built in collaboration with OpenAI, can now summarize text-based webpages on Android.
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TechCrunch Minute: Newchip, Techstars, and what happens when startup accelerators fail
Building a startup is hard. Building a company that helps startup is similarly difficult. That’s the takeaway from TechCrunch reporting on Techstars and Newchip. In the case of Newchip, the accelerator appeared to promise a bit more than it could deliver. Mix in a culture that appeared to be turbulent at best, and you have […]
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How to choose a deep tech startup program
Deep tech founders often had to go it alone. But today, there are a wealth of options from incubators to accelerators. Here's how to pick one.
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Alphabet-owned Intrinsic incorporates Nvidia tech into robotics platform
The first bit of news out of the Automate conference this year arrives by way of Alphabet X spinout Intrinsic. The firm announced at the Chicago event on Monday that it is incorporating a number of Nvidia offerings into its Flowstate robotic app platform. That includes Isaac Manipulator, a collection of foundational models designed to create […]
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Stack Overflow signs deal with OpenAI to supply data to its models
OpenAI is collaborating with Stack Overflow, the Q&A forum for software developers, to improve its generative AI models’ performance on programming-related tasks. As a result of the partnership, announced Monday, OpenAI’s models, including models served through its ChatGPT chatbot platform, should get better over time at answering programming-related questions, the two companies say. At the […]
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Sequoia’s Jess Lee explains how early-stage startups can identify product-market fit
Lee, a specialist in early-stage investing, explains how Sequioa approaches identifying product-market fit for its startups through three archetypes.
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Sunday, May 5, 2024
Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board
It sounds like Bluesky’s most prominent backer is no longer on its board. On Saturday, Jack Dorsey posted on X about grants for open protocols from his philanthropic Start Small initiative. This prompted someone to ask Dorsey if he was still on the Bluesky board, and he responded with a terse “no.” Dorsey did not […]
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