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Here are quick hits of the biggest news from the keynote as they are announced.
Fintech
Inside TabaPay’s drama-filled decision to abandon its plans to buy Synapse’s assets
18 mins ago
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we look at the drama around TabaPay deciding to not buy Synapse’s assets, as well as stocks dropping for a couple of fintechs, Monzo raising…
Online travel agency Expedia is testing an AI assistant that bolsters features like search, itinerary building, trip planning, and real-time travel updates.
Apps
Apple touts stopping $1.8BN in App Store fraud last year in latest pitch to developers
18 mins ago
Apple released new data about anti-fraud measures related to its operation of the iOS App Store on Tuesday morning, trumpeting a claim that it stopped over $7 billion in “potentially…
The person who claimed to have stolen the physical addresses of 49 million Dell customers appears to have taken more data from a different Dell portal, TechCrunch has learned. The…
If you write the words “cis” or “cisgender” on X, you might be served this full-screen message: “This post contains language that may be considered a slur by X and…
AI
TechCrunch Minute: Everything you need to know about OpenAI’s new GPT-4o model
9:00 AM PDT • May 14, 2024
If you’ve been following the news around OpenAI, you’ve probably seen reports that the company is working on a search product that was going to…
Facebook once had big ambitions to be a major player in enterprise communication and productivity, but today the social network’s parent company Meta will be closing a very significant chapter…
Social
Meta’s Oversight Board overturns takedown decision for Pakistan child abuse documentary
2 hours ago
The Oversight Board has overturned Meta’s decision to take down a documentary revealing the identities of child abuse victims in Pakistan.
The keynote kicks off at 10 a.m. PT on Tuesday and will offer glimpses into the latest versions of Android, Wear OS and Android TV.
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Adam Selipsky is stepping down from his role as CEO of Amazon Web Services, Amazon has confirmed to TechCrunch. In a memo shared internally by Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and…
Startups
David Sacks reveals Glue, the AI company he’s been teasing on his All In podcast
5 hours ago
VC and podcaster David Sacks has revealed a new AI chat app called Glue that fixes “Slack channel fatigue,” he says.
You can expect plenty of AI, but probably not a lot of hardware.
Harness isn’t founder Jyoti Bansal’s first startup. He sold AppDynamics to Cisco for $3.7 billion in 2017, the week it was supposed to go public. His latest venture has raised…
The company’s autonomous vehicles have had a number of misadventures lately, involving driving into construction sites.
The company is describing the event as “a chance to demo some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates.”
Startups
Sona, a frontline workforce management platform, raises $27.5M with eyes on US expansion
7 hours ago
Sona, a workforce management platform for frontline employees, has raised $27.5 million in a Series A round of funding. More than two-thirds of the U.S. workforce are reportedly in frontline…
Uber Technologies announced Tuesday that it will buy the Taiwan unit of Delivery Hero’s Foodpanda for $950 million in cash. The deal is part of Uber Eats’ strategy to expand…
Paris-based Blisce has become the latest VC firm to launch a fund dedicated to climate tech. It plans to raise as much as €150M (about $162M).
Maad, a B2B e-commerce startup based in Senegal, has secured $3.2 million debt-equity funding to bolster its growth in the western Africa country and to explore fresh opportunities in the…
