Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Apple announces new accessibility features for iPhone and iPad users

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Apple is bringing new accessibility features to iPads and iPhones, designed to cater to a diverse range of user needs.

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Startup Blueprint: TC Disrupt 2024 Builders Stage agenda sneak peek!

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TechCrunch Disrupt, our flagship startup event held annually in San Francisco, is back on October 28-30 — and you can expect a bustling crowd of thousands of startup enthusiasts. Exciting news! We’re thrilled to unveil the near-complete agenda for the Builders Stage, the culmination of months of hard work. This is just one of six […]

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Venture firms form alliance to standardize data collection

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Seven firms so far have signed on to standardize the way data is collected and shared.

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Anthropic hires Instagram co-founder as head of product

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Mike Krieger, one of the co-founders of Instagram and, more recently, the co-founder of personalized news app Artifact (which TechCrunch corporate parent Yahoo! recently acquired), is joining Anthropic as the company’s first chief product officer. As CPO, Krieger will oversee Anthropic’s product engineering, management and design efforts, Anthropic says, as the company works to expand […]

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Berlin-based trawa raises €10M to use AI to make buying renewable energy easier for SMEs

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Trawa simplifies energy purchasing and management for SMEs by leveraging an AI-powered platform and downstream data from customers.

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Lydia, the French payments app with 8 million users, launches mobile banking app Sumeria

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Lydia is splitting itself into two apps — Lydia for P2P payments and Sumeria for those looking for a mobile-first bank account.

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Shipping logistics startup Harbor Lab raises $16M Series A led by Atomico

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Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI co-founder and longtime chief scientist, departs

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Replacing Sutskever is Jakub Pachocki, OpenAI's director of research.

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Intuitive Machines wants to help NASA return samples from Mars

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Intuitive Machines made history when it became the first private company to land a spacecraft on the moon, so it makes sense to adapt that tech for Mars.

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Google adds ‘Web’ search filter for showing old-school text links as AI rolls out

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As Google revamps itself for the AI era, offering AI overviews within its search results, the company is introducing a new way to filter for just text-based links. With the new “Web” filter that appears at the top of the results page, users will be able to filter for text links the way they can […]

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AWS confirms European ‘sovereign cloud’ to launch in Germany by 2025, plans €7.8B investment over 15 years

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Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud computing infrastructure business, has confirmed further details of its European “sovereign cloud” which is designed to enable greater data residency across the region. The company said that the first AWS sovereign cloud region will be in the German state of Brandenburg, and will go live by the end of […]

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Indian insurance startup Go Digit raises $141M from anchor investors ahead of IPO

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Go Digit, an Indian insurance startup, has raised $141 million from investors including Goldman Sachs, ADIA, and Morgan Stanley as part of its IPO.

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Food VC Peakbridge has new $187M fund to transform future of food, like lab-made cocoa

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Peakbridge intends to invest in between 16 and 20 companies, investing around $10 million in each company. It has made eight investments so far.

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Accion’s new $152.5M fund will back financial institutions serving small businesses globally

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For over six decades, the nonprofit has been active in the financial services sector.

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Threads finally starts its own fact-checking program

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Meta’s newest social network, Threads is starting its own fact-checking program after piggybacking on Instagram and Facebook’s network for a few months. Instagram head Adam Mosseri noted that the company “recently” rolled out the ability for fact-checkers to rate and mark false content on Threads. However, Mosseri didn’t share any details about when exactly the […]

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