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TikTok’s longstanding COO V Pappas just announced plans to leave their executive role at the company. Pappas, who previously held positions as the global head of creative insights and audience development at YouTube, has been with TikTok for nearly five years. “Given all the successes reached at TikTok, I finally feel the time is right […] TikTok’s COO is leaving the company by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch... →

Inflection, a well-funded AI startup aiming to create “personal AI for everyone,” has taken the wraps off the large language model powering its Pi conversational agent. It’s hard to evaluate the quality of these things in any way, let alone objectively and systematically, but a little competition is a good thing. Inflection-1, as the model […] Inflection debuts its own foundation AI model to rival Google and OpenAI LLMs by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch... →

If everything seems to be going well, but you're not getting any traction, it's probably because you've run into one of these three problems. Falling into these 3 traps means you will never raise VC funding by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch... →

This follow-on investment will allow the fund to continue expanding its portfolio, offering capital and mentorship opportunities to founders. Fearless Fund raises multi-million-dollar follow-on round from Bank of America, Costco and Mastercard by Dominic-Madori Davis originally published on TechCrunch... →

Amazon, keen to avoid being left behind in the hyper-competitive AI race, is launching a new program to invest in startups and organizations focused on generative AI. Called the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, the program will put $100 million toward connecting AWS-affiliated data scientists, strategists, engineers and solutions architects with customers and partners to […] AWS launches $100M program to fund generative AI initiatives by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Learning has been a holy grail in robotics for decades. If these systems are going to thrive in unpredictable environments, they’ll need to do more than just respond to programming — they’ll need to adapt and learn. What’s become clear the more I read and speak with experts is true robotic learning will require a […] Robots learn to perform chores by watching YouTube by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch... →

Компании оценивали по нескольким критериям: актуальность, влияние, инновации, лидерство, амбиции и успех... →

Kibsi is an Irvine, California-based startup that is building a no-code computer vision platform that allows businesses to build and deploy computer vision applications. Among the things that set Kibsi apart from many other players in this space is that it lets businesses reuse their existing cameras to create insights into virtually anything they want […] Kibsi raises $9.3M for its no-code computer vision platform by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch... →

The combination of seller pessimism and modest buyer optimism has seemingly done the trick to boost secondary market activity. Warming public markets are boosting the secondary market for startup shares by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch... →

Robinhood announced on Thursday that it was acquiring X1, a no-fee credit card startup, for $95 million in cash. X1, which offers an income-based credit card with rewards, raised a total of $62 million in venture-backed funding from investors like Soma Capital, FPV, Craft Ventures and Spark Capital since its 2020 inception. The company announced […] Robinhood acquires credit card startup X1 for $95M by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch... →

Через спецпроект в «VK Знакомствах» увеличили продажи десертов и напитков... →

Кроме него ведомство добавило в перечень ещё 11 иностранных провайдеров хостинга... →

At its MongoDB.local NYC event, MongoDB today announced a slew of product releases and updates. Given the company’s focus on its fully-managed Atlas service, it’s no surprise that the majority of news focuses on that platform, with improved support for AI and semantic search workloads, dedicated search nodes to better enabled search use cases and […] MongoDB readies its Atlas database service for new workloads by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch... →

Want more fintech news in your inbox? Sign up here. Fintech startup Plaid got its start as a company that connects consumer bank accounts to financial applications, but has since been gradually expanding its offerings to offer more of a full stack onboarding experience. And today, Plaid is announcing even more new product releases that […] Plaid unveils new collaboration network aimed at sharing fraud intelligence by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch... →

DuckDuckGo’s privacy-focused browser is now available for Windows users. The Windows rollout comes nine months after the browser launched publically for Mac users. The Windows browser, which is now in public beta, includes many of the privacy protections featured in the browser’s iOS, Mac and Android versions. Users can import their passwords and bookmarks from […] DuckDuckGo’s Windows browser is now available in open beta by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch... →

Документ наделяет ФАС полномочиями по определению доминирующего положения среди агрегаторов онлайн-торговли... →

Конфликт возник из-за разработки нового приложения от Meta*, которое должно составить конкуренцию Twitter... →

YouTube TV has expanded its multiview feature beyond sports, adding options for news, business news and weather content, the company announced yesterday. The feature allows subscribers to choose from four streams at once and watch multiple videos 24/7. Users can also switch audio and captions between streams. Multiview was first announced in March and was […] YouTube TV’s multiview feature now offers non-sports content by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch... →

Omeat's process uses regenerative factors extracted humanely from cow plasma to make growth media to create beef, pork, chicken or fish. Omeat emerges from stealth with beefy tech approach to cultivated meat growth media by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch... →

With the explosion of different kinds of data, companies are struggling to realize meaningful value from their stored data. Data teams are overworked, meanwhile — forced to cater to the needs of disparate departments within an organization while trying to maintain data policies consistently. That’s the shared thesis of Shirshanka Das and Swaroop Jagadish, at […] Acryl Data raises $21M to grow its enterprise data catalog platform by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →