…Turns out, people don't want AI messing with every aspect of human life. Across the industry, dating apps are experimenting with AI. Bumble introduced a dating assistant named Bee, and Tinder is spending so much on AI tools that it's slowed its hiring process. Meanwhile, Hinge's CEO stepped down last year to launch a m…
…has been sued over allegations that the EV maker made false claims about the autonomous driving capabilities of its R1T truck and R1S SUV models. The class-action complaint, which was filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, focuses on the first-generation models of the R1T and…
…translated into larger rounds and massive price tags for some of these companies. Just when we thought YC valuations couldn't get any higher, they surpassed all expectations. This batch had at least two startups fetching valuations of $175 million or more. Investors were also clearly willing to pay a premium for proven…
…to its public debut: Google DeepMind AI legend Noam Shazeer and former Trump White House AI policy official Dean Ball. Shazeer, a co-lead at Gemini and the founder of AI role-playing startup Character AI, announced his departure from Google on Wednesday. He had been at the company since 2000, leaving only for a three-y…
…AI video team into a separate company. The new company - dubbed Dotmo - will focus on developing AI models that can create interactive gaming experiences, Snap told TechCrunch. Snap cited the high costs of conducting such work internally as one of the reasons for the spinoff. While technically a separate company, Dotmo…
…$1.5 billion funding round at a $13 billion valuation, the Wall Street Journal reports. Just five months ago, the startup announced that it had raised a $300 million Series E at a $5 billion valuation. And that round was just nine months after raising a $150 million Series D. If finalized, this latest round would repre…
Deductive AI, a startup that uses AI to catch and resolve bugs in software, has agreed to be sold to enterprise software company Elastic for up to $85 million, according to a person with knowledge of the deal. Deductive, which was founded in 2023, came out stealth last November when it announced a $7.5 million seed rou…
…off access to messaging app Telegram for a week over concerns about exam-related fraud, users turned to virtual private networks (VPNs) and alternative messaging apps in unusually large numbers. App intelligence firm Appfigures told TechCrunch that Tuesday, the day India announced the Telegram restriction, marked the b…
…barred ASML from selling EUV to China since the first Trump administration. It's a serious claim. Senior administration officials told Bloomberg they have evidence that ASML shipped EUV-related components and transport equipment to China, though they've declined, repeatedly, to show it - to Bloomberg or, apparently, to…
…stock price as retail investors pile in. Well, it worked. The company sold its shoe business for $43 million, raised another $100 million from the stock market, and now it's called Smartbird. Now Nadia Carlsten has to make it work. A former AWS executive with an engineering PhD, Carlsten most recently led the European…
Reliance is weaving AI into telecom services used by more than 500 million people.
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Add us on Google The Milan court that acquitted Eni and Shell in 2021 had criticised the prosecution for failing to include a video recorded by a former external lawyer for Eni among the trial documents, which it considered relevant to the case. Under Italy's judicial system, the Brescia court has jurisdiction over cas…