Wednesday, September 4, 2024

The Cosmos Institute, whose founding fellows include Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark, launches grant programs and an AI lab

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The Cosmos Institute, a nonprofit whose founding fellows include Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark and former Defense Department technologist Brendan McCord, has announced a venture program and research initiatives to — in the organization’s words — “cultivate a new generation of technologists and entrepreneurs equipped with deep philosophical thinking to navigate the uncharted territory of our […]

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TechCrunch Minute: X lost 40 million monthly active users after Brazil ban

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Bluesky has gained 2 million new users over the last week, which can only mean one thing: something fishy is going on at X. And, indeed, X was banned in Brazil, which means the platform will lose an estimated 40 million monthly active users. The dispute between X and the Brazilian government started in April, […]

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Spotify launches its evolving playlist, daylist, globally

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Spotify is launching daylist globally. It’s a personalized playlist that evolves throughout the day depending on your listening habits. This rollout comes after the company introduced it first to English-speaking markets last year. The playlist will be available to both free and premium users. The company said it is also adding support for 14 additional […]

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Neko Health, the body-scanning AI health startup from Spotify’s Daniel Ek, opens in London

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Prevention is better than cure, as the saying goes. Today, a splashy startup that has taken that concept to heart — literally and figuratively — is expanding. Neko Health was co-founded by Spotify’s Daniel Ek and Hjalmar Nilsonne with a mission to improve preventative healthcare with annual full body scans and AI-powered insights that can […]

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Bitcoin ATMs are a hotbed for scams, FTC says

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a report about increasing fraud at Bitcoin ATMs. These ATMs allow people to turn their cash into crypto, but they’ve become a tool for scammers to perpetrate fraud. Since 2020, the FTC says, fraud at Bitcoin ATMs has ballooned nearly tenfold, and just in the first half of 2024, […]

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Volkswagen is rolling out its ChatGPT assistant to the US

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Volkswagen is taking its ChatGPT voice assistant experiment on the road. Or more specifically, to vehicles it sells in the United States. The German automaker announced in January at CES 2024 plans to add an AI-powered chatbot into all Volkswagen models equipped with its IDA voice assistant. But the U.S. was excluded in that initial […]

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Learn startup best practices with MongoDB, Venture Backed, InterSystems and others at Disrupt 2024

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From idea to IPO, Disrupt charts startups at every stage on the roadmap to their next breakthrough. TechCrunch will gather some of the startup world’s leading companies — but our partners provide more than just financial support. Their presence at Disrupt gives new and prospective founders the tools, knowledge and community they need to build […]

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PharmEasy still 92% below its peak $5.6 billion valuation, investor estimates

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Indian online pharmacy startup PharmEasy, once valued at $5.6 billion, is still about 92% below its peak valuation, according to estimates by its investor Janus Henderson. According to the British-American global asset firm, which disclosed how it values its shares in the Indian startup in a securities filing, PharmEasy’s implied valuation at the end of […]

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Impact investors FMO and BlueOrchard back Ghana’s digital lender Fido in $30M Series B round

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Digital lending platforms have become an easy and swift alternative source of credit for microenterprises and individuals overlooked by traditional banking institutions. These platforms have turned into a lifeline for millions of underbanked and demand will keep growing, pushing the value of the digital lending platform market in the Middle East and Africa to reach […]

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From their experiences at Uber and PayPal, Palm founders want to make moving cash easier for big companies

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Palm launched in 2023 with the goal of making cash management for enterprise treasury teams easier.

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Canva has increased prices for its Teams product

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Canva, the design platform, is increasing prices steeply for some customers. And it’s blaming the move in part on generative AI. In the U.S., some Canva Teams subscribers on older pricing plans are seeing the sticker price for a five-person plan jump from $119.99 per year to $500 per year (with a 40% discount for […]

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Snap CEO says the company is testing a ‘simplified’ Snapchat

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Snap is testing a “simplified version of Snapchat,” CEO Evan Spiegel wrote in a letter to employees published on Snap’s website Tuesday. The CEO says the simplified version aims to improve the platform’s accessibility and usability. For those that remember Snapchat’s 2018 redesign, this news may do little to stoke confidence. Spiegel attempted to rally […]

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Apple Event 2024: iPhone 16, Apple Intelligence and all the other expected ‘Glowtime’ reveals

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Apple's Glowtime iPhone event will include the iPhone 16, but may also feature new AirPods, a new Apple Watch and possibly even new Macs.

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Neko Health, the body-scanning AI health startup from Spotify’s Daniel Ek, opens in London

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Volkswagen is rolling out its ChatGPT assistant to the US

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Volkswagen is taking its ChatGPT voice assistant experiment on the road. Or more, specifically to vehicles it sells in the United States. The German automaker announced in January at CES 2024 plans to add an AI-powered chatbot into all Volkswagen models equipped with its IDA voice assistant. But the U.S. was excluded in that initial […]

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