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Welcome back to TechCrunch’s Week in Review — TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the week’s biggest news. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. OpenAI announced this week that…
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Deal Dive: Can blockchain make weather forecasts better? WeatherXM thinks so
5 hours ago
Accurate weather forecasts are critical to industries like agriculture, and they’re also important to help prevent and mitigate harm from inclement weather events or natural disasters. But getting forecasts right…
pcTattletale’s website was briefly defaced and contained links containing files from the spyware maker’s servers, before going offline.
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Synapse, backed by a16z, has collapsed, and 10 million consumers could be hurt
Synapse’s bankruptcy shows just how treacherous things are for the often-interdependent fintech world when one key player hits trouble.
6 hours ago
Sarah Myers West, profiled as part of TechCrunch’s Women in AI series, is managing director at the AI Now institute.
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world…
AI tutors are quietly changing how kids in the US study, and the leading apps are from China
8 hours ago
Evan, a high school sophomore from Houston, was stuck on a calculus problem. He pulled up Answer AI on his iPhone, snapped a photo of the problem from his Advanced…
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Startups
From Plaid to Figma, here are the startups that are likely — or definitely — not having IPOs this year
1 day ago
Last year’s investor dreams of a strong 2024 IPO pipeline have faded, if not fully disappeared, as we approach the halfway point of the year. 2024 delivered four venture-backed tech…
Federal safety regulators have discovered nine more incidents that raise questions about the safety of Waymo’s self-driving vehicles operating in Phoenix and San Francisco. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration…
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TechCrunch Disrupt takes place on October 28–30 in San Francisco. While the event is a few months away, the deadline to secure your early-bird tickets and save up to $800…
Chinasa T. Okolo researches AI policy and governance in the Global South.
AI
TechCrunch Minute: Meet Meta’s all white, all male AI advisory council
9:00 AM PDT • May 24, 2024
Meta (parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and more) announced a new AI advisory council that’s supposed to help guide the company’s decision making around…
AI
Big tech companies are plowing money into AI startups, which could help them dodge antitrust concerns
1 day ago
Another week, and another round of crazy cash injections and valuations emerged from the AI realm. DeepL, an AI language translation startup, raised $300 million on a $2 billion valuation;…
If raised, this new fund, the firm’s third, would be its largest to date.
Venture
The proposed AI ‘kill switch,’ and why it’s rough out there for emerging fund managers
7:10 AM PDT • May 24, 2024
It was an event-filled week in startup land, and the Equity crew had a blast breaking it down for you. On today’s episode of TechCrunch’s…
About half a million patients have been notified so far, but the number of affected individuals is likely far higher.
Attention, tech enthusiasts and startup supporters! The final countdown is here: Today is the last day to cast your vote for the TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 Audience Choice program. Voting closes…
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Signal’s Meredith Whittaker on the Telegram security clash and the ‘edge lords’ at OpenAI
Among other things, Whittaker is concerned about the concentration of power in the five main social media platforms.
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