Meta won’t say whether it trains AI on smart glasses photos
Meta’s AI-powered Ray-Bans have a discreet camera on the front, for taking photos not just when you ask them to, but also when their AI features trigger it with certain keywords such as “look.” That means the smart glasses collect a ton of photos, both deliberately taken and otherwise. But
Read moreY Combinator is being criticized after it backed an AI startup that admits it basically cloned another AI startup
A Y Combinator startup named PearAI launched with a tweet thread and YouTube video on Saturday and caused an immediate backlash. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read more11x.ai, a developer of AI sales reps, has raised $50M Series B led by A16Z, sources say
11x.ai, a startup that develops AI-powered sales development bots, has secured roughly $50 million in Series B funding, TechCrunch has learned. The new round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, valuing the company at around $350 million, multiple sources told TechCrunch. The recent deal follows the company’s $24 million Series A,
Read moreTechCrunch Space: The dawn of the space age
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. Flagging again that the final agenda for the Space Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt is now live. I’ll be pushing this event for the next few weeks, given that we’re just a bit over a month away! We’d love for you to join us.
Read moreTrump’s crypto platform is now open to the public — kind of
Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Brandon Bell, Getty Images The people behind World Liberty Financial — former President Donald Trump, his sons, and his business associates — have made a lot of promises about the cryptocurrency platform’s revolutionary potential. It will liberate “the average American”
Read moreThe VC buying up prized real estate in SF says not to ‘listen to agitators’
VC Neil Mehta, the Greenoaks Capital co-founder tied to a growing number of building purchases across several blocks of San Francisco’s once-glittering Fillmore Street, defended himself on Monday via an op-ed in The San Francisco Standard, saying the moves are solely about revitalizing a “city that has given me more
Read moreSnapchat’s new Footsteps feature tracks your location history
Snapchat is quietly rolling out a new “Footsteps” feature to all iOS users this week, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday. The new feature, which was previously only available to Snapchat+ subscribers, uses Snap Map to let you see how much of the world you’ve explored and track where
Read moreAfter delivering astronauts to ISS, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 grounded after third anomaly in three months
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is grounded again after the vehicle’s second stage did not come down in the expected area of the ocean, following an otherwise successful mission that delivered a Dragon capsule and its crew to orbit. “We will resume launching once we better understand root cause,” the company
Read moreAfter delivering astronauts to ISS, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 grounded after 3rd anomaly in 3 months
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is grounded again after the vehicle’s second stage did not come down in the expected area of the ocean, following an otherwise successful mission that delivered a Dragon capsule and its crew to orbit. “We will resume launching once we better understand root cause,” the company
Read moreiOS 18 Control Center: 18 apps that add useful actions to your iPhone
We’ve compiled a list of iOS 18 apps that users can try in order to take advantage of the redesigned Control Center. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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