Cruise recalls robotaxi fleet to resolve federal safety probe
The recall and the conclusion of the probe takes one worry off of Cruise's plate at a time when the company is under great scrutiny. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreCache Energy’s mysterious white pellets could help kill coal and natural gas
The pellets can be stored in piles or silos, moved around using conveyor belts, and transported via rail cars. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreCreatopy, which automates ad creation using AI, raises a $10M Series A
The startup — which was developed in Romania but has a U.S. TopCo — now considers more than 5,000 brands and agencies as its clients. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreFeds charge alleged negotiator for Russian ransomware group
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The US government has charged a member of a Russian ransomware group known as Karakurt, as reported earlier by BleepingComputer. In a press release on Tuesday, the Department of Justice claims 33-year-old Deniss Zolotarjovs of Moscow, Russia, conspired to commit money laundering,
Read moreMeta lets you cross-post from Instagram and Facebook to Threads. Here’s how to do it.
Connecting Threads more closely to Meta's larger app ecosystem and its billions of users could also help boost Threads' app — which recently surpassed 200 million active users — even more. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreHarmonyze wants to build AI agents to help franchisors make sense of unstructured data
For some businesses, there is a clear path to growth that doesn’t involve acquiring other companies or expanding organically: franchising. The U.S. has more than 800,000 franchise businesses, according to Statista, and that number is predicted to keep growing year over year. But franchising a business — licensing a business
Read moreLux Capital made its first investment in Brazil, a $4M seed for AI fintech Magie
Brazil fintech Magie raised $4 million in a seed round led by Lux Capital, marking the firm’s first investment in Brazil. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreGoogle Cloud & Prudential Forge AI-Powered Partnership
Prudential plc (Prudential) and Google Cloud have announced an expanded strategic relationship to develop breakthrough AI-powered products and apps that will improve the customer, agent, and staff experience. Prudential’s new AI Lab, the first of its type for the Asian and African insurance industries, will be supported by Google Cloud.
Read moreDropbox acquires Index Ventures-backed AI scheduling tool Reclaim.ai
Dropbox has acquired AI-powered scheduling tool Reclaim.ai, which counts Calendly and Index Ventures among its backers. The development was revealed in a blog post on Reclaim.ai’s website Tuesday. Dropbox hasn’t disclosed the terms of the deal. Reclaim.ai, which was founded in 2019 by Henry Shapiro and Patrick Lightbody, said the
Read moreOpkey, an AI-based ERP testing platform, raises $47M
Companies are experimenting with services like ChatGPT to help workers write memos, answer questions, and much more, yet one of the clearest signs of how much traction AI is really getting in the world of enterprise IT is how often it figures in the more routine applications that organizations use.
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