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Bumble founder and executive chair Whitney Wolfe Herd raised eyebrows this week with her comments about how AI might change the dating experience. During an onstage interview, Bloomberg’s Emily Chang brought up bots posing as real people, or real people falling in love with bots, as examples of how AI might make online dating worse. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Welcome to Week in Review: TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the week’s biggest news. This week Apple unveiled new iPad models at its Let Loose event, including a new 13-inch display for the iPad Air, as well as Tandem OLED and a new M4 chip for the iPad Pro. But its ad for the new iPad Pro […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The U.K. Safety Institute, the U.K.’s recently established AI safety body, has released a toolset designed to “strengthen AI safety” by making it easier for industry, research organizations and academia to develop AI evaluations. Called Inspect, the toolset — which is available under an open source license, specifically an MIT License — aims to assess certain […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Обзавелся вертикальной мышью — Logitech Lift, которая представляет из себя младшую версию Logitech Vertical. Думал, что она будет мне мала — в описании сказано, что она среднего размера, а я привык к MX Master 3s, которая описывается как “большая”, — но вроде бы в руке помещается. Откровенно непривычное положение руки, но надеюсь привыкнуть. в любом случае, будет про что написать.... →

AI startup Runway's second annual AI Film Festival showcased movies that incorporated AI tech in some fashion, from backgrounds to animations. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Rachel Coldicutt is the founder of Careful Industries, which researches the social impact technology has on society. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

SAP Chief Sustainability Officer Sophia Mendelsohn wants to incentivize companies to be green because it's profitable, not just because it's right. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Here's what one insider said happened in the days leading up to the layoffs. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

StrictlyVC events deliver exclusive insider content from the Silicon Valley & Global VC scene while creating meaningful connections over cocktails and canapés with leading investors, entrepreneurs and executives. And TechCrunch is excited to join forces with key players in the London investment community at our next StrictlyVC event. We’re pleased to have Saul Klein, Co-Founder […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Meesho, a leading e-commerce startup in India with about 150 million transacting users, has secured $275 million in a new funding round, it disclosed in a securities filing. The new funding is part of a larger financing round, which is likely to include secondary transactions and balloon to over $500 million, people familiar with the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Some Indian government websites have allowed scammers to plant advertisements capable of redirecting visitors to online betting platforms. TechCrunch discovered around four dozen “gov.in” website links associated with Indian states, including Bihar, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Mizoram and Telangana that were redirecting to online betting platforms. Some of those websites belong to state police and property […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Around 550 employees across autonomous vehicle company Motional have been laid off, according to information taken from WARN notice filings and sources at the company. Earlier this week, TechCrunch reported that Motional is pausing commercial operations and delaying plans to launch a robotaxi service with its next-gen Hyundai Ioniq 5 robotaxis until 2026 as it […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The deck included some redacted numbers, but there was still enough data to get a good picture. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The company is describing the event as “a chance to demo some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates.” © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google says site reputation abuse is not about links...... →

Unlike ChatGPT, Claude did not become a new App Store hit. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Scarcely five months after its founding, hard tech startup Layup Parts has landed a $9 million round of financing led by Founders Fund to transform composites manufacturing. Lux Capital and Haystack also participated. The breakneck pace is more than a subtle indication that investors’ appetite for tech-focused solutions to the woes of the American industrial base […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Welcome to Startups Weekly — Haje‘s weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Look, I know this is our startups weekly newsletter, and as the most valuable company in the world, Apple is kind of the ultimate “not a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

AI startup Anthropic is changing its policies to allow minors to use its generative AI tools — in certain circumstances, at least.  Announced in a post on the company’s official blog Friday, Anthropic will begin letting teens and preteens use third-party apps — not its own apps, necessarily — powered by its generative AI models […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Zeekr's market hype is noteworthy and may indicate that investors see value in the high-quality, low-price offerings of Chinese automakers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →