Apiday leverages AI to save time for its customers. But like legacy consultants, it also offers human expertise.
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Tuesday, July 2, 2024
Google’s environmental report pointedly avoids AI’s actual energy cost
Google totally dodges the question of how much energy is AI is using — perhaps because the answer is "way more than we'd care to say."
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SpaceX wants to launch up to 120 times a year from Florida — and competitors aren’t happy about it
SpaceX’s ambitious plans to launch its Starship mega-rocket up to 44 times per year from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center are causing a stir among some of its competitors. Late last month, Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance submitted comments calling on regulators to ensure minimal disruptions to other launch providers in the area, with Blue […]
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Evolve hack fallout continues, fintech M&A heats up and Plaid talks enterprise push
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at the Evolve Bank hack, three notable acquisitions, Plaid’s enterprise customer growth and more. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important fintech stories delivered to your inbox every Tuesday at 8:00 a.m. PT, subscribe here. The big story On June 26, Evolve Bank & […]
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What You Need to Raise a Series A Today at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
Raising a Series A round in today’s competitive market can be a daunting task. To equip seed-stage founders with the insights and strategies needed for success, TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 will host a crucial session on the Builders Stage titled “What You Need to Raise a Series A Today.” This session will bring together some of […]
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TechCrunch Minute: A beginner’s guide to the fediverse
“Fediverse” is one of those terms that gets thrown around a lot, but what does it actually mean? The word comes from “federation” and “universe” being smooshed together, and it refers to a group of social networks — a federation, if you will — that can communicate with each other. This approach is pretty appealing when […]
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Meta plans to bring generative AI to metaverse games
Meta plans to bring more generative AI tech into games, specifically VR, AR and mixed reality games, as the company looks to reinvigorate its flagging metaverse strategy. According to a job listing, Meta is seeking to research and prototype “new consumer experiences” with new types of gameplay driven by generative AI, like games that “change […]
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News outlets are accusing Perplexity of plagiarism and unethical web scraping
In the age of generative AI, when chatbots can provide detailed answers to questions based on content pulled from the internet, the line between fair use and plagiarism, and between routine web scraping and unethical summarization, is a thin one. Perplexity AI is a startup that combines a search engine with a large language model […]
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Monday, July 1, 2024
Anthropic looks to fund a new, more comprehensive generation of AI benchmarks
Anthropic is launching a program to fund the development of new types of benchmarks capable of evaluating the performance and impact of AI models, including generative models like its own Claude. Unveiled on Monday, Anthropic’s program will dole out grants to third-party organizations that can, as the company puts it in a blog post, “effectively […]
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Senators urge Synapse’s owners, partners, and VC backers to restore customers’ access to their money
A group of senators has banded together to urge Synapse’s owners and bank and fintech partners to “immediately restore customers’ access to their money.” As part of their demands, the senators implicated both the partners and investors of the company as being responsible for missing customer funds. In a letter shared publicly on Monday, U.S. […]
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TechCrunch Space: Star spangled
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. I hope everyone has a fantastic July 4 this week. Go eat a hot dog. Read my story from last week on the causes of Starliner’s additional delay and what it might mean for Boeing’s Starliner program. Want to reach out with a tip? Email Aria at aria.techcrunch@gmail.com […]
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Spotify tests emergency alerts in Sweden
Music, podcasts, audiobooks…emergency alerts? Spotify’s latest test has the streaming app venturing into new territory with a test of an emergency alerts system in its home market of Sweden. According to code references found within the Spotify app, the company is considering a system that would help distribute public announcements related to things like “accidents, […]
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YouTube now lets you request removal of AI-generated content that simulates your face or voice
Simply submitting the request for a takedown doesn't necessarily mean the content will be removed, however.
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Fintech company Wise says some customers affected by Evolve Bank data breach
The news highlights that the fallout from the Evolve data breach on third-party companies — and their customers and users — is still unclear.
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Supreme Court sends Texas and Florida social media regulation laws back to lower courts
The Supreme Court on Monday vacated two judicial decisions concerning Republican-backed laws from Florida and Texas aimed at limiting social media companies’ ability to moderate content on their platforms. The Supreme Court is sending both cases back to the lower courts for further review, noting that lower courts had failed to properly analyze the First […]
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