PagerDuty scoops up incident management startup Jeli.io
PagerDuty announced this afternoon that it intends to acquire Jeli.io, an early-stage incident management startup. The companies did not share the price. Jeli was founded in 2019 by Nora Jones, a chaos engineering veteran, who had previously worked at Netflix and Slack. Jones went to work building a company that
Read MoreMusk: SpaceX’s Starlink ‘has achieved breakeven cash flow’
SpaceX’s Starlink has “achieved breakeven cash flow,” CEO Elon Musk said Thursday, a milestone achievement for the rocket company’s four-year-old satellite internet business unit. He announced the news in a post on X, the social media platform that he also owns. He added that Starlink “is also now a majority
Read MoreSBF’s trial is coming to a close – here’s what you missed
Welcome back to Chain Reaction. It’s week five of the Sam Bankman-Fried trial and a lot has happened for the former CEO of FTX. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read MoreThe iPhone 15’s best friend is an ultra-budget, stripped down version of Apple Vision Pro
iPhone 15 got USB-C, a great upgrade just for the sake of cable management sanity, but that also brought support for native video out. That means you can connect displays to the iPhone easily with a single cable and do fun stuff like output Netflix videos to your hotel TV,
Read MoreDon’t be afraid of the ‘AI-assisted’ Beatles song, ‘Now And Then’
There’s been a bit of FUD around the decision to use a form of AI to resurrect John Lennon’s voice in what Paul McCartney called “the last Beatles record.” What they’ve done is far from the sketchy AI imitations of artists we see cluttering Soundcloud today, and has much more
Read MoreMortgage and loan giant Mr. Cooper blames cyberattack for ongoing outage
Mortgage and loan giant Mr. Cooper says a “cybersecurity incident” earlier this week was the cause of an ongoing outage, adding that the company is “working to resolve the issue.” The Texas-based company said in a statement on its website that on October 31, Mr. Cooper “became the target of a
Read MoreLos Angeles demands robotaxi rulemaking powers
Mayor Karen Bass says Los Angeles — not a state agency — should have the power to decide how robotaxi companies expand in the city. The impact of the mayor's calls may extend well beyond LA. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read MoreMantic’s robot vacuum maps spaces without sending data to the cloud
Countless startups are trying to solve hard robotics problems in industry. But few are looking to bring the tech into homes. Well, few except for Matic. A relatively new venture founded by Navneet Dalal, an ex-Google research scientist, Matic, formerly known as Matician, is developing robots that can navigate homes
Read MoreBrave’s Leo AI assistant is now available to desktop users
Brave, a company building an alternative web browser, is releasing its AI-powered assistant, Leo, to all desktop users. The company is also releasing a $15 per month paid version called Leo Premium with features like access to faster and better large language models (LLMs) and higher-rate limits. Leo has been
Read MoreBrave responds to Bing and ChatGPT with a new ‘anonymous and secure’ AI chatbot
The base version of Brave Leo is built on Meta’s Llama 2 AI model and is free for all desktop users. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Brave, the privacy-focused browser that automatically blocks unwanted ads and trackers, is rolling out Leo — a native AI assistant that
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