Tesla’s Robotaxi reveal, Palantir owns some of Faraday Future, and the Strava for EVs
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Your usual host Kirsten is out on vacation, but she didn’t leave without writing up This Week’s Wheels. But for the rest,
Read moreLinkedIn says 10M people have signed up as freelancers on its Services Marketplace
More than 100,000 people have been laid off in the technology industry alone this year, and — either by circumstance or choice — at least some of them are not heading back into exclusively full-time work. LinkedIn launched a freelancer marketplace in 2021 to capture some of that activity. Now,
Read moreHow stuck is the startup exit market? Pretty stuck, says Pitchbook
Deal analysis outfit Pitchbook today released a new report that underscores how fewer exits are impacting the startup investing ecosystem. Among its findings? Beyond what’s commonly known – that a lot of the fundings today are insider rounds and bridge financings aimed at keeping companies alive – cash back to
Read moreUS and UK announce joint children’s online safety group to push for common fixes
The U.S. and U.K. governments announced Thursday they will set up a joint children’s online safety working group to cooperate on safeguarding efforts in the digital realm by sharing evidence and expertise, and pushing for “common solutions” to child safety challenges. A joint statement, released by U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina
Read moreNumeric grabs $28M Series A to automate accounting using AI
Just five months after it raised a $10 million seed round, Numeric has raised a $28 million Series A led by Menlo Ventures. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreSwsh’s new photo-sharing app lets Gen Zers filter out red solo cups and alcoholic drinks
When Swsh launched last year, the social app was initially designed as a poll game (similar to the “Most Likely To” game), where users can answer five daily questions with their friends. However, the company has completely switched gears, joining a very crowded market — photo album-sharing platforms. These types
Read moreAntitrust challenge to Facebook’s ‘superprofiling’ finally wraps in Germany — with Meta agreeing to data limits
A multi-year competition challenge to Facebook (aka Meta), which saw Germany’s antitrust authority become a pioneering champion for privacy rights in 2019 after it sought to block the social media giant’s ‘superprofiling’ of users on the grounds that consentless cross-site tracking of users is an “exploitative abuse” of Facebook’s monopoly
Read moreStudents and recent grads! Last call for a Student Pass discount at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 is only two weeks away, and we want to ensure that students and recent grads don’t miss out on the full Attendee Pass experience — now available at a discounted rate with a Student Pass. We get that finances can be tight for students and recent grads,
Read moreSomeone claims to have used AI to apply to 2,843 jobs
AI is spamming up job applications. 404 Media’s Jason Koebler writes about a person who claimed to have used a free tool, AI Hawk, to apply for 17 jobs in an hour — only stopping when they’d reached 2,843. The tool automatically entered the person’s bio, generated resumes, wrote customized
Read moreSouth African Consultancy Partners with Dell for AI Drone
Moyo, a South African digital business consultancy, has partnered with Dell Technologies to develop an autonomous drone using AI to detect potato leaf disease, aiding the country’s agriculture sector with advanced crop health monitoring. The innovative Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA solution combines NVIDIA’s cutting-edge AI infrastructure and NVIDIA Enterprise
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