Is Apple planning to ‘sherlock’ Arc?
With the release of iOS 18 later this year, Apple may again borrow ideas third-party apps. This time it's Arc that could be among those affected. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreMeet Visa, Mercury, Artisan, Golub Capital and more at TC Disrupt 2024
TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 will be in San Francisco on October 28–30, and we’re already excited! This is the startup world’s main event, and it’s where you’ll find the knowledge, tools and connections you need to grow a successful business. Helping startups reach their full potential takes a global village, and
Read moreMeta says it removed six influence campaigns including those from Israel and China
Illustration: Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta says it cracked down on propaganda campaigns on its platforms, including one that used AI to influence political discourse and create the illusion of wider support for certain viewpoints, according to its quarterly threat report published today. Some campaigns pushed political narratives about
Read moreMental health insurance platform ifeel raises a $20 million Series B
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Read moreGoogle Chrome becomes a ‘picture-in-picture’ app
Instead of opening the user's actual browser or a WebView, Custom Tabs let users remain in their app while browsing. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreUS arrests man allegedly behind enormous botnet that enabled cyberattacks and fraud
Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo from Getty Images It’s a scheme that “reads like it’s ripped from a screenplay,” according to one Commerce Department official. Thirty-five-year-old Chinese national YunHe Wang allegedly helped run an international botnet that deployed VPN programs to infect more than 19 million
Read moreCreator fintech Slingshot raises $2.2M
Sanil Chawla remembers the meetings he had with countless artists in college. Those creatives were looking for one thing: sustainable economic infrastructure that could help them scale rather than drown them in paperwork, filings and tracking down receipts. Chawla thought he might have a solution and launched a music monetization
Read moreFirefly forges on after co-founder murdered by Hamas
A startup called Firefly that’s tackling the thorny and growing issue of cloud asset management with an “infrastructure as code” solution has raised $23 million in funding. That comes on the heels of strong demand for its tech and increasing revenue fourfold in 2023. The firm’s latest success also comes
Read moreMistral releases Codestral, its first generative AI model for code
Mistral, the French AI startup backed by Microsoft and valued at $6 billion, has released its first generative AI model for coding, dubbed Codestral. Codestral, like other code-generating models, is designed to help developers write and interact with code. It was trained on over 80 programming languages, including Python, Java,
Read moreCreate Websites and Online Shops Quickly with WebSite X5 Pro
Incomedia announces the release of WebSite X5 Pro in Africa. WebSite X5 Pro is a simple professional tool that uses technology to empower non-expert users to create websites, online shops, blogs, and interactive educational content with remarkable ease and speed without touching a line of code. The idea behind WebSite
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