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Alphabet has announced who its new chief financial officer (CFO) will be, revealing today that it has hired pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Company’s CFO Anat Ashkenazi. Ashkenazi will start…
Tobiko aims to reimagine how teams work with data by offering a dbt-compatible data transformation platform.
Space
DARPA and Slingshot build system to detect ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’ adversary satellites
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The number of satellites on low Earth orbit is poised to explode over the coming years as more mega-constellations come online, and it will create new opportunities for bad actors…
Biotech & Health
Eko Health scores $41M to detect heart disease earlier and more accurately
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In 1816, French physician René Laennec invented an instrument that allowed doctors to listen to human hearts and lungs. That device — a stethoscope — eventually evolved from a simple…
SAP sees WalkMe’s focus on automating contextual, in-app support as bringing value to its own enterprise customers.
Government & Policy
Modi-led coalition’s election win signals policy continuity in India – but also spending cuts
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The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has emerged victorious in India’s 2024 general election, but with a smaller majority compared to 2019. According to post-election analysis by Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan,…
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A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs
The tech layoff wave is still going strong in 2024. Following significant workforce reductions in 2022 and 2023, this year has already seen 60,000 job cuts across 254 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. Companies like Tesla, Amazon, Google, TikTok, Snap and Microsoft have conducted sizable layoffs in the…
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What to expect from WWDC 2024: iOS 18, macOS 15 and so much AI
Apple is hoping to make WWDC 2024 memorable as it finally spells out its generative AI plans.
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We just announced the breakout session winners last week. Now meet the roundtable sessions that really “rounded” out the competition for this year’s Disrupt 2024 audience choice program. With five…
The malicious attack appears to have involved malware transmitted through TikTok’s DMs.
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It’s unusual for three major AI providers to all be down at the same time, which could signal a broader infrastructure issues or internet-scale problem.
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at LoanSnap’s woes, Nubank’s and Monzo’s positive milestones, a plethora of fintech fundraises and more! To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest…
Databricks, the analytics and AI giant, has acquired data management company Tabular for an undisclosed sum. (CNBC reports that Databricks paid over $1 billion.) According to Tabular co-founder Ryan Blue,…
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…
The next few weeks could be pivotal for Worldcoin, the controversial eyeball-scanning crypto venture co-founded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, whose operations remain almost entirely shuttered in the European Union following…
Social
TechCrunch Minute: How misinformation gets amplified on social media
9:00 AM PDT • June 4, 2024
As election season sneaks up on us in the U.S., the journal Science published two studies that help us understand what happened online during the…
OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT has been down for several users across the globe for the last few hours.
Commerce
True Fit leverages generative AI to help online shoppers find clothes that fit
20 hours ago
True Fit, the AI-powered size-and-fit personalization tool, has offered its size recommendation solution to thousands of retailers for nearly 20 years. Now, the company is venturing into the generative AI…
Media & Entertainment
Discord and TuneIn partner to bring live radio to the social platform
21 hours ago
Audio streaming service TuneIn is teaming up with Discord to bring free live radio to the platform. This is TuneIn’s first collaboration with a social platform and one that is…
The early victors in the AI gold rush are selling the picks and shovels needed to develop and apply artificial intelligence. Just take a look at data-labeling startup Scale AI…
