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The Raspberry Pi 5, the small-but-mighty computer that has become quite popular with tech hobbyists and industrial companies, is now also an AI computer. The company just released the AI…
Fivetran’s Managed Data Lake Service aims to remove the repetitive work of managing data lakes.
Enterprise
Stacklet sees demand grow as companies take cloud cost control more seriously
46 mins ago
When Stacklet’s founders, Travis Stanfield and Kapil Thangavelu, came out of Capital One in 2020 to launch their startup, most companies weren’t all that concerned with constraining cloud costs. But…
Lance Riedel and Nigel Daley both spent decades in search discovery, but it was while working at Pinterest that they began trying to understand how to use search engines to…
AI
GetWhy, a market research AI platform that extracts insights from video interviews, raises $34.5M
2 hours ago
GetWhy helps businesses carry out market studies and extract insights from video-based interviews using AI.
AI-powered virtual physical therapy platform Sword Health has seen its valuation soar 50% to $3 billion.
Jeffrey Katzenberg and Sujay Jaswa, along with three general partners, manage $1.5 billion in assets today through their Build, Venture and Seed strategies.
AI
Storyblok raises $80M to add more AI to its ‘headless’ CMS aimed at non-technical people
3 hours ago
The startup targets the middle ground between platforms that offer rigid templates, and those that facilitate a full-control approach.
Climate
‘Star Wars’ lasers and waterfalls of molten salt: How Xcimer plans to make fusion power happen
4 hours ago
The startup has been pursuing a ground-up redesign of a well-understood technology.
Sékr, a startup that offers a mobile app for outdoor enthusiasts and campers, is launching a new AI tool for planning road trips. The new tool, called Copilot, is available…
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OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT has been down for several users across the globe for the last few hours.
Privacy
Microsoft hit with EU privacy complaints over schools’ use of 365 Education suite
4 hours ago
Microsoft’s education-focused flavor of its cloud productivity suite, Microsoft 365 Education, is facing investigation in the European Union. Privacy rights non-profit noyb has just lodged two complaints with Austria’s data…
Since the shock of Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, solar energy has been having a moment in Europe. Electricity prices have been going up while the investment required to get…
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DEI backlash: Stay up-to-date on the latest legal and corporate challenges
It’s clear that this year will be a turning point for DEI.
15 hours ago
The keynote will be focused on Apple’s software offerings and the developers that power them, including the latest versions of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, visionOS and watchOS.
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. Unfortunately, Boeing’s Starliner launch was delayed yet again, this time due to issues with one of the three redundant computers used by United…
Venture
An appeals court rules that VC Fearless Fund cannot issue grants to Black women, but the fight continues
16 hours ago
The court ruling said that Fearless Fund’s Strivers Grant likely violates the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which bans the use of race in contracts.
Instagram Threads is rolling out the ability for users to signal which sort of posts they wanted to see more or less of by swiping.
The Japanese billionaire who commissioned SpaceX for a private mission around the moon on a Starship rocket has abruptly canceled the project, citing ongoing uncertainties around when the launch vehicle…
Malicious actors are abusing generative AI music tools to create homophobic, racist, and propagandic songs — and publishing guides instructing others how to do so. According to ActiveFence, a service…
