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Meta adds AI-powered features to WhatsApp Business app

Last year, during the Q3 2023 earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg talked about leveraging AI to have business accounts respond to customers for purchase and support queries. Today, Meta announced AI-powered features for WhatsApp Business apps, such as helping with the … Continue reading

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Revel’s latest pivot: Ditching all-employee ride-hail in favor of gig worker model

New York-based Revel has made a lot of pivots since initially launching in 2018 as a dockless e-moped sharing service. The BlackRock-backed startup briefly stepped into the e-bike subscription business. It launched and now operates a handful of electric vehicle … Continue reading

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Google Play cracks down on AI apps after circulation of apps for making deepfake nudes

Google says apps offering AI features will have to prevent the generation of restricted content. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies

Artists have finally had enough with Meta’s predatory AI policies, but Meta’s loss is Cara’s gain. An artist-run, anti-AI social platform, Cara has grown from 40,000 to 650,000 users within the last week, catapulting it to the top of the … Continue reading

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Google looks to AI to help save the coral reefs

Google has developed a new AI tool to help marine biologists better understand coral reef ecosystems and their health, which can aid in conversation efforts. The tool, SurfPerch, created with Google Research and DeepMind, was trained on thousands of hours … Continue reading

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SpaceX launches mammoth Starship rocket and brings it back for the first time

SpaceX achieved a key milestone in its Starship flight test campaign: returning the booster and the upper stage back to Earth. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Sirion, now valued around $1B, acquires Eigen in enterprise AI tooling consolidation play

There’s a lot of buzz right now about generative AI and what impact it might have on businesses. But look beyond the hype and high-profile deals like the one between OpenAI and PwC last week, and you’ll see that the … Continue reading

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Punk singer Shira Yevin pushes for fair pay with InPink, a women-only job marketplace for artists

It’s been 20 years since Shira Yevin, the lead singer of punk band Shiragirl drove a pink RV into the Vans Warped Tour grounds, the now-defunct punk rock festival notorious for being male-dominated. In response to the festival’s lack of … Continue reading

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Qargo raises $14M to digitize and decarbonize the trucking industry

While the transport industry does use legacy software, many of these platforms are from an earlier era. Qargo hopes its newer technologies can help it leapfrog the competition. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Robinhood acquires global crypto exchange Bitstamp for $200M

Stock-trading platform Robinhood is diving deeper into the cryptocurrency realm with the acquisition of crytpo exchange Bitstamp. Robinhood said it expects the deal to close in the first half of 2025, with the final transaction value to be in the region of … Continue reading

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