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Humane’s AI Pin is dead, as HP buys startup’s assets for $116M
<p>Humane announced on Tuesday that most of its assets have been acquired by HP for $116 million. The hardware startup is immediately discontinuing sales of its $499 AI Pins. Humane alerted customers who have already purchased the Pin that their devices will stop functioning before the end of the month — at 12 p.m. PST […]</p><p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
Continuous Hormone Monitoring Startup Level Zero Health Raises $6.9M Pre-seed Round
Level Zero Health, a recent graduate from SOSV’s HAX hard tech program, has just secured $6.9M in a pre-seed funding round of $6.9 million led by European VC, redalpine, HAX (SOSV), Entrepreneur First (EF), and industry experts.Founded by Ula Rustamova and Irene Jia, Level Zero Health is pioneering continuous hormone monitoring—a breakthrough that could revolutionize fertility care, hormone-based treatments, and personalized medicine.“The goal is to create a whole new market. The same way CGMs [
Trump admin reverses hydropower layoffs that sparked grid stability fears
<p>The layoffs slashed between 13% to 20% of the four Power Marketing Administrations’ workforces.</p><p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
Duolingo ‘killed’ its mascot with a Cybertruck, and it’s going weirdly well
<p>Duolingo’s mascot, Duo the owl, is dead. Okay, Duo isn’t really dead (we think), but the language learning app committed so hard to this bit that its CEO, Luis von Ahn, read a eulogy for this beloved green bird on TikTok. As any fiction author could probably tell you, killing everyone’s favorite character is not […]</p><p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
Elon Musk staffer created a DOGE AI assistant for making government ‘less dumb’
<p>A senior Elon Musk staffer created a custom AI chatbot that's supposed to help DOGE "eliminate" government waste.</p><p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
Apple purges apps without contact info from EU app store, as DSA deadline hits
<p>A change requiring app developers to disclose their address, phone number, and email information to consumers has gone live on the App Store within the European Union. Apple on Tuesday announced it has removed any EU apps that haven’t yet complied with the Digital Services Act (DSA), a regulation that had added a requirement in […]</p><p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
Safe Superintelligence, Ilya Sutskever’s AI startup, is reportedly close to raising roughly $1B
<p>Safe Superintelligence, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, could be close to raising more than $1 billion at a $30 billion valuation — a higher valuation than reported just weeks ago. Bloomberg reports that VC firm Greenoaks Capital Partners is leading the deal and pledging to invest half a billion […]</p><p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
Amazon, Microsoft, and Exxon want to make scandal-plagued carbon markets more trustworthy
<p>A task force, organized by the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank, is hoping to improve credibility of voluntary carbon markets.</p><p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
Out-analyzing analysts: OpenAI’s Deep Research pairs reasoning LLMs with agentic RAG to automate work — and replace jobs
OpenAI’s Deep Research pairs advanced reasoning LLMs with agentic RAG, delivering automated reports that rival human analysts — at a fraction of the cost. This breakthrough AI tool could redefine knowledge work across industries, from finance to healthcare, while raising critical questions about job displacement. Read on to explore how OpenAI is reshaping enterprise AI workflows and setting new benchmarks for research automationRead More
Thinking Machines Lab is ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s new startup
<p>Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati has announced her new startup. Unsurprisingly, it’s focused on AI. Called Thinking Machines Lab, the startup, which came out of stealth today, intends to build tooling to “make AI work for [people’s] unique needs and goals,” and to create AI systems that are “more widely understood, customizable, and generally capable” […]</p><p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
VC giant Insight Partners confirms January cyberattack
<p>The VC firm has $90 billion in assets under management and invested in several unicorn cybersecurity startups</p><p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
Fintech fundraising is giving me 2021 flashbacks
<p>Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech!  This week we’re looking at some big valuation jumps, how Stripe is eyeing another shareholder sale, a colorful conversation with an early-stage VC, and more! To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important fintech stories delivered to your inbox every Tuesday at 8:00 a.m. PT, subscribe here. The big […]</p><p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
Fiverr wants gig workers to offload some of their work to AI
<p>Gig marketplace Fiverr wants to let freelancers train AI on their bodies of work and use it to automate future jobs. At an event on Tuesday, Fiverr announced the launch of several new efforts aimed at attracting gig workers to its platform and equipping them with generative AI tools. Perhaps the most ambitious is a […]</p><p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
Facebook now only stores live videos for 30 days, will delete old broadcasts
<p>Facebook announced on Tuesday that live videos will now only be stored on the social network for 30 days, after which they will be deleted. Previously, these videos were stored indefinitely. The change goes into effect on Wednesday. All live videos that are currently older than 30 days will be removed from the platform as […]</p><p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
Can dumbphones revive Europe’s mobile industry?
Do you remember your first phone? The thought of mine brings a tear to my eye. It was a beautiful blue Nokia 3310 — and it was borderline indestructible. Best of all, the handset had the greatest mobile feature of all time: Snake. It also offered calls and SMS, but I had little use for those extravagances. I had a pay-as-you-go contract, and money was tight back then. I also had a home phone — and Mum footed the bills. As for SMS, what was the point of that when you had the joys of MSN Messenger
Amazon kills ‘Inspire,’ its TikTok-style feed for discovering products
<p>Amazon is shutting down “Inspire,” its TikTok-like, short-form video and photo feed that was previously available in its mobile app. The feed allowed users to discover products and shop from content created by influencers, brands, and other customers. A company spokesperson confirmed the move to TechCrunch, saying “We regularly evaluate various features to better align […]</p><p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
OpenAI may give board special voting rights to ward off takeover attempts
<p>To fend off future hostile takeover attempts, OpenAI is considering giving its non-profit board special voting rights, according to a new report in the Financial Times. The rights would allow the board to overrule major investors in the company, preserving some of its powers after OpenAI completes its transition to a for-profit. OpenAI was founded […]</p><p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
Hackers planted a Steam game with malware to steal gamers’ passwords
<p>Researchers found that PirateFI was never designed to be a real game, but a vehicle to infect gamers with malware and steal their passwords with an infostealer called Vidar.</p><p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
The people in Elon Musk’s DOGE universe
<p>Meet the DOGE staffers and senior advisors in Elon Musk's inner circle, and how they got there.</p><p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p>
Elon Musk says millions in Social Security database are between ages of 100 and 159
Elon Musk indicated that a Social Security database lists millions of centenarians "with the death field set to FALSE." ...