Enhancing Performance with NETSCOUT’s New Solutions
NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. announced enhancements to its nGenius Enterprise Performance Management solution, which includes a new notification center that helps streamline and automate alerts and contextual workflows to identify and resolve problems faster. Secured Reliable Transport (SRT) was added to support live video streaming, and additional supervisory control and data
Read moreAudible experiments with new AI features for tailored audiobook recommendations
Audible, the Amazon-owned audiobook service, continues to experiment with AI to improve audiobook discovery and offer customized recommendations. Recent tests involve AI-powered tags, which analyze customer feedback to offer tailored suggestions according to individual preferences, and topic pages that recommend tags to help you find closely related subjects. The experiments
Read moreMeta acquires the Threads.com domain name
Meta has acquired the Threads.com domain name, according to Whois records of the URL that were updated on September 24. Users on domain-related forums pointed out this transfer, and TechCrunch confirmed the Whois records of Threads.com separately, which list Meta’s Instagram as the registrant. TechCrunch reached out to Meta to
Read moreEarly sign-ups to EU’s AI Pact include Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI — but Apple and Meta are missing
The European Commission has revealed a list of the first 100-plus signatories to the AI Pact — an initiative focused on getting companies to publish “voluntary pledges” on how they approach and deploy artificial intelligence. While the bloc’s legally binding risk-based AI rulebook (the AI Act) entered into force last
Read moreAI2’s Molmo shows open source can meet, and beat, closed multimodal models
The common wisdom is that companies like Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, with bottomless cash reserves and hundreds of top-tier researchers, are the only ones that can make state-of-the-art foundation model. But as one among them famously noted, they “have no moat” — and AI2 showed that today with the release
Read moreSupabase, a Postgres-centric developer platform, raises $80M Series C
With this, Supabase has now raised a total of $196 million, including a Series B round in 2022, which was also an $80 million round. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreRaycast raises $30M to bring its Mac productivity app to Windows and iOS
At its core, Raycast all about bringing a little order to the chaos with what it calls a "shortcut to everything." © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreTomasz Tunguz’s Theory Ventures bets $12M on Initia, the ‘iOS for web3’
The promise of blockchain to change the world hasn’t materialized. For the most part, the technology has instead enabled people to speculate on a new asset class. A big hurdle to realizing blockchain’s full potential, web3 proponents argue, is that decentralized services are incredibly hard to build. Tomasz Tunguz, best
Read moreUber will soon offer WeRide robotaxis in Abu Dhabi
The ride-hail and delivery giant announced a new deal to bring WeRide’s robotaxis to the Uber platform starting in Abu Dhabi. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreWhy did Caroline Ellison do it?
Photo Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by Bloomberg, Agustina Torres, Getty Images The story of Sam Bankman-Fried was obvious enough: a Shakespearean level of arrogance that led to tragedy. But I have been puzzled for some time by Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research
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