Rabbit’s Jesse Lyu hops into StrictlyVC LA on February 29
We’re announcing an exciting addition to our speaker lineup for StrictlyVC Los Angeles on February 29. Jesse Lyu, founder and CEO of rabbit Inc., will be joining us and showcasing rabbit r1, the pocket-sized AI hardware assistant that took CES — and the broader news cycle — by storm last
Read moreLocker organizes your shopping links into virtual wish lists and collages
After years of copying and pasting shopping links into spreadsheets and taking screenshots of products to share with her friends and family, Kristine Locker finally decided to launch a social shopping platform (which she named after herself) that could take her endless tabs and organize them into a shareable, virtual
Read moreNatural one-liners
I learned to use Unix in college—this was before Linux—but it felt a little mysterious. Clearly it was developed by really smart people, but what were the problems that motivated their design choices? Some of these are widely repeated. For example, commands have terse names because you may have to
Read moreSpotify follows Meta, YouTube and others by offering AUX, a service to connect brands and creators
Facebook, Instagram, Snap, YouTube, and other social networking companies offer programs to connect creators with brands, and now Spotify is doing the same. The company announced the launch of AUX, its new in-house “music advisory agency” for brands. While not necessarily a creator marketplace, the program has a similar aim
Read moreWomen in AI: Krystal Kauffman, research fellow at the Distributed AI Research Institute
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’ll publish several pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that
Read moreWhen is less data less private?
If I give you a database, I give you every row in the database. So if you delete some rows from the database, you have less information, not more, right? This seems very simple, and it mostly is, but there are a couple subtleties. A common measure in data privacy
Read moreGlobal Strategic Alliance to Deliver Comprehensive Cyber Resiliency
Kyndryl and Veeam Software have established a strategic alliance aimed at delivering resilient services to customers globally. This partnership integrates professional services and technical implementation with Veeam solutions, offering customers a variety of options. Comprehensive Cyber Resilience: Utilizing an integrated approach to assist customers in strengthening stakeholder confidence with strategies
Read moreAddGlow takes on Reddit, Facebook with community-building software for brands
The New York-based startup collects data via profile attributes specified by the brand in order to personalize the homepage, product description pages, emails and SMS. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreGoogle pauses AI tool Gemini’s ability to generate images of people after historical inaccuracies
Google says it’s temporarily suspended the ability of Gemini, its flagship generative AI suite of models, to generate images of people while it works on updating the model to improve the historical accuracy of outputs. In a post on the social media platform X, the company announced what it couched
Read moreMeta’s Oversight Board extends its scope to Threads
Meta’s external advisory group, its Oversight Board, announced today that it is expanding its scope to Threads along with Facebook and Instagram to scrutinize Meta’s content moderation decisions. This means if users on Threads are unsatisfied with Meta’s decision on issues like content or account takedown, they can appeal to
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