How to enable Apple Intelligence on your iPhone
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Read moreThis Week in AI: Companies are growing skeptical of AI’s ROI
Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. This week in AI, Gartner released a report suggesting that around a third of generative AI projects in the enterprise will be abandoned after the proof-of-concept phase by year-end 2025. The reasons are many — poor data quality, inadequate risk controls, escalating
Read moreOver 100 VCs pledge support for Kamala Harris
More than 100 VCs, including Reid Hoffman, Vinod Khosla and Mark Cuban have pledged to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris in the upcoming U.S. presidential election. Mobilizing under the group VCsForKamala, the VCs are also soliciting donations for Harris’ campaign. But the organizers say the effort isn’t meant to
Read moreTechCrunch Minute: Investors pour money into non-alcoholic beverages
Startups are attracting serious funding to provide fun, alcohol-free drink options at the bar and in other social contexts. Earlier this year, canned water company Liquid Death announced that it has raised $67 million in new funding at a $1.4 billion valuation. And Athletic Brewing Company, which describes itself as
Read moreMatch Group cuts 6% of staff as it shifts focus from livestreaming to AI
Match Group announced Tuesday that it has discontinued livestreaming services in its dating apps, resulting in a 6% reduction in workforce. The news was delivered during the dating app giant’s second quarter earnings report. The move finds Match shifting its focus to other offerings, including generative AI. The decision to end
Read moreNeura shows off humanoid robot 4NE-1
This week’s video shows 4NE-1 doing a lot; in some sense, it’s doing more than we’ve seen from other humanoids in the space. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreBending Spoons acquires file transfer service WeTransfer
Italy-based company Bending Spoons, which owns apps such as Evernote and Meetup, said today it has acquired file transfer service WeTranfer. WeTransfer CEO, Alexandar Vassilev, said that in the last decade the platform development resulted into 600,000 subscribers and 80 million monthly active users. “Nnurturing creative communities and amplifying their
Read moreA Strategic Collaboration to Accelerate Smart Buildings
Planon, one of the global leaders in smart sustainable building management software, is pleased to announce the expansion of its strategic partnership with Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation. Initial minor investment On December 17, 2020, Schneider Electric made a strategic minority investment
Read moreSynctera, Unit, and Treasury Prime execs discuss the future of BaaS at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
The serious, long-term negative impact of the bankruptcy of banking-as-a-service (BaaS) fintech Synapse will be significant “on all of fintech, especially consumer-facing services,” one observer has said. In the wake of that company’s collapse, other startups in the space are working hard to prove that not all BaaS are created
Read moreEnterprise 2024.5: Encouraging and growing community contributions
The latest Stack Overflow for Teams release makes it easier to encourage and grow contributions to your community through the use of flexible bounties, more user search options, Slack thread summarization, and more.
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