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- Biden administration plans $285M in CHIPS Act funding for digital twins
par Anthony Ha le mai 6, 2024President Joe Biden’s administration is looking to fund efforts that improve semiconductor manufacturing by using digital twins. Digital twins are virtual models used to test and optimize physical objects and systems. For example, auto manufacturers are looking to use digital twins of their factories to experiment with new manufacturing processes without disrupting production. The Biden © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo talks about AI, chatbot platform Poe, and why OpenAI is not a competitor
par Ivan Mehta le mai 6, 2024Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo talks about the challenges and opportunities in AI today, how to build and support a developer community, and more. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- Sequoia’s Jess Lee explains how early-stage startups can identify product-market fit
par Ingrid Lunden le mai 6, 2024Lee, a specialist in early-stage investing, explains how Sequioa approaches identifying product-market fit for its startups through three archetypes. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board
par Anthony Ha le mai 5, 2024Bluesky’s most prominent backer has left its board. On Saturday, Jack Dorsey posted on X about grants for open protocols from his philanthropic Start Small initiative. This prompted someone to ask Dorsey if he was still on the Bluesky board, and he responded with a terse “no.” Dorsey did not answer any of the follow-up © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- Hyundai antes up $1B for AV startup Motional and Elon unplugs the Tesla Supercharger team
par Kirsten Korosec le mai 5, 2024Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Before I jump into the all the news — and boy there was a lot! — I have an important update for all of you lovely readers. TechCrunch Mobility is moving to Thursdays! It will be the same © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- Women in AI: Catherine Breslin helps companies develop AI strategies
par Dominic-Madori Davis le mai 5, 2024Catherine Breslin is the founder and director of Kingfisher Labs, where she helps companies develop AI strategies. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- Why NASA is betting on a 36-pixel camera
par Haje Jan Kamps le mai 5, 2024NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is making strides in astronomy with its 122-megapixel primarily infrared photos taken 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth. Impressive stuff. The space agency’s newest sky-peeper takes a different approach, however, performing groundbreaking space science with 36 pixels. It’s not a typo—36 pixels, not 36 megapixels. The X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- Alternative clouds are booming as companies seek cheaper access to GPUs
par Kyle Wiggers le mai 5, 2024The appetite for alternative clouds has never been bigger. Case in point: CoreWeave, the GPU infrastructure provider that began life as a cryptocurrency mining operation, this week raised $1.1 billion in new funding from investors including Coatue, Fidelity and Altimeter Capital. The round brings its valuation to $19 billion post-money, and its total raised to © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- The Rabbit r1 shipped half-baked, but that’s kind of the point
par Devin Coldewey le mai 5, 2024I finally received the rabbit r1 (the company insists on this lowercase styling) I’ve been writing about since its debut at CES in January. And I was able to tell within about 30 seconds of turning it on that it was shipped a couple months too soon — but honestly…that’s fine? This AI gadget is © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- Google lays off workers, Tesla cans its Supercharger team and UnitedHealthcare reveals security lapses
par Kyle Wiggers le mai 4, 2024Welcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that recaps the week that was in tech. This edition’s a tad bittersweet for me — it’ll be my last (for a while, anyway). Soon, I’ll be shifting my attention to a new AI-focused newsletter, which I’m super thrilled about. Stay tuned! Now, on with © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- Human composting and timber marketplaces: talking “industrial” VC with investor Dayna Grayson
par Connie Loizos le mai 4, 2024While the venture world is abuzz over generative AI, Dayna Grayson, a longtime venture capitalist who five years ago co-founded her own firm, Construct Capital, has been focused on comparatively boring software that can transform industrial sectors. Her mission doesn’t exclude AI, but it also doesn’t depend on it. Construct recently led a seed-stage round, © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- Women in AI: Tara Chklovski is teaching the next generation of AI innovators
par Dominic-Madori Davis le mai 4, 2024Tara Chklovski is the CEO and founder of Technovation, a nonprofit that helps teach young girls about technology and entrepreneurship. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- Farewell, dunks? Threads launches quote controls for all users
par Anthony Ha le mai 4, 2024Threads users can now exert more control over who can quote their posts. This builds on a feature that already allows Threads users to limit who can reply to their posts (competing services like X and Bluesky offer similar reply controls). Threads outlined its plans for quote controls last month, and last night Adam Mosseri © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- Deal Dive: Amae Health is building an in-person approach to mental healthcare in an increasingly digital space
par Rebecca Szkutak le mai 4, 2024While many recent mental health-focused startups are digital first, Amae Health focuses on the importance of in-person care. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- Why RAG won’t solve generative AI’s hallucination problem
par Kyle Wiggers le mai 4, 2024RAG is being pitched as a solution of sorts to generative AI hallucinations. But there's limits to what the technique can do. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- This Week in AI: Generative AI and the problem of compensating creators
par Kyle Wiggers le mai 4, 2024Keeping up with an industry as fast moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. By the way — TechCrunch plans to © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- ICONIQ Growth raises $5.75B seventh flagship fund
par Marina Temkin le mai 3, 2024ICONIQ Growth has raised $5.21 billion across two funds associated with the seventh growth fund family, according to SEC filings. However, the firm’s actual fundraise was $5.75 billion, according to a source familiar with the firm. The late-stage investment unit is a part of ICONIQ Capital, which launched in 2011 as a private office managing © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- Luminar cuts 20% of staff and outsources lidar production
par Sean O'Kane le mai 3, 2024Lidar company Luminar is slashing its workforce by 20% and will lean harder on its contract manufacturing partner as part of a restructuring that will shift the company to a more “asset-light” business model, as it aims to scale production. The cuts will affect around 140 employees, and are starting immediately. Luminar is also cutting © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- X launches Stories, delivering news summarized by Grok AI
par Sarah Perez le mai 3, 2024X's Premium subscribers will be able to read a summary of posts on X associated with each trending story featured on the For You tab in Explore. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- Match-owned Archer hits over half a million installs amid dating app slump
par Lauren Forristal le mai 3, 2024With Match and other online dating companies facing a downturn, Archer’s growth is certainly notable. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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