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Light introduces its latest minimalist phone, now with an OLED screen but still no addictive apps
13 mins ago
Unlike Light’s older phones, the Light III sports a larger OLED display and an NFC chip to make way for future payment tools, as well as a camera.
Since April, a hacker with a history of selling stolen data has claimed a data breach of billions of records — impacting at least 300 million people — from a…
Diversity Spotlight is a feature on Crunchbase that lets companies add tags to their profiles to label themselves.
Perhaps it is not surprising to hear that even many of the pots and pans we use are coated in a poisonous chemical called Teflon…
Today marked the kickoff of Apple’s WorldWide Developer Conference (WWDC), the annual event where Apple announces some of the biggest features headed to its devices, apps and software. And this…
Hardware
Flow claims it can 100x any CPU’s power with its companion chip and some elbow grease
2 hours ago
A Finnish startup called Flow Computing is making one of the wildest claims ever heard in silicon engineering: by adding its proprietary companion chip, any CPU can instantly double its…
Particle announced it has partnered with news organization Reuters to collaborate on new business models and experiments in monetization.
AI
Here’s everything Apple announced at the WWDC 2024 keynote, including Apple Intelligence, Siri makeover
2 hours ago
The TechCrunch team runs down all of the biggest news from the Apple WWDC 2024 keynote in an easy-to-skim digest.
Venture
The VC queen of portfolio PR, Masha Bucher, has raised her largest fund yet: $150M
2 hours ago
Five years ago, Day One Ventures had $11 million under management, and Bucher and her team have grown that to just over $450 million.
Mistral AI has closed its much-rumored Series B funding round, raising €600 million (around $640 million) in a mix of equity and debt.
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Cognigy is helping create AI that can handle the highly repetitive, rote processes center workers face daily.
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved…
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Raspberry Pi is now a public company
Raspberry Pi priced its IPO on the London Stock Exchange on Tuesday morning at £2.80 per share, valuing it at £542 million, or $690 million at today’s exchange rate.
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Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. What a week! In the same seven-day period, we watched Boeing’s Starliner launch astronauts to space for the first time, and then we…
AI
Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices from his companies over Apple’s ChatGPT integrations
17 hours ago
Elon Musk’s posts seem to misunderstand the relationship Apple announced with OpenAI at WWDC 2024.
“We’re looking forward to doing integrations with other models, including Google Gemini, for instance, in the future,” Federighi said during WWDC 2024.
When Urvashi Barooah applied to MBA programs in 2015, she focused her applications around her dream of becoming a venture capitalist. She got rejected from every school, and was told…
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Slack CEO Denise Dresser is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt this October
19 hours ago
Slack CEO Denise Dresser is speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024.
Apple kicked off its weeklong Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2024) event today with the customary keynote at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT. The presentation focused on the company’s software offerings…
Apps
Apple brings its GenAI ‘Apple Intelligence’ to developers, will let Siri control apps
20 hours ago
Apple’s SDKs (software development kits) have been updated with a variety of new APIs and frameworks.
