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Each year, supply chain disruptions cost the global economy trillions of dollars. In a recent McKinsey poll, nine in ten businesses said they had encountered logistics challenges over the past 12 months. Headwinds have only grown stronger as chaos reigns in key shipping corridors. Attacks on freighters continue in the Red Sea. Flooding is disrupting […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

AI-focused search startup Perplexity launched its native Mac app today to compete with other AI apps like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Quora’s Poe app — the latter aggregates different large language models. Perplexity had teased the app earlier this month and asked users to sign up for pre-orders so they get a notification when the app […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Upflow, a French startup we’ve been covering for quite a while, originally focused on managing outstanding invoices. The company is now announcing a shift in its strategy to become a B2B payment platform with its own payment gateway to complement its accounts receivable automation solution. Like many software-as-a-service products, Upflow started by building a central […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Humane on Wednesday announced a $200 price cut to its flagship product, the AI Pin. The Bay Area startup, founded by two former Apple executives, has reportedly struggled to sell the product, which launched in April for $700. In a message sent to its email list, Humane highlights its return policy in the new pitch. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Buzzy, well-funded U.K. startup Wayve is starting to test its self-learning automated driving software in San Francisco, and it’s celebrating that entry into the U.S. by also opening an office in Sunnyvale, CA. Wayve says it will start by testing a more limited version of its automated driving system — which is self-learning versus rules-based, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Police surveillance startup Flock Safety announced that it had bought drone software startup Aerodome for over $300 million. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

In only 5 short days, Moscone West in San Francisco will come alive with 10,000 startup and VC leaders for TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. It’s set to be a powerhouse event, drawing innovative minds from every corner of the globe. Time is running out to save up to $400 on individual tickets or to bring a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Granola’s notepad app has become a popular tool among venture capitalists who use it to record meetings and augment notes using AI technology. That made it easier for the startup to raise funds from a crowd of investors for its $20 million Series A — something the team managed to do in about a week. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

While Amazon Go helped pioneer the concept of the totally contactless store, others, like 7-Eleven and Walmart, have entered the territory. And the arena is growing, in part because several startups — such as  Standard Cognition, Zippin, AiFi, Grabango, Trigo — have proliferated, offering their technology to retailers.  But in Europe, Portuguese startup Sensei has […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Fintech lending startup SoLo Funds is facing a new class action lawsuit according to a copy seen by TechCrunch. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Furno’s micro-kilns promise to reduce pollution and eliminate transportation costs. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Almost exactly two years after releasing the Orba 2, Artiphon is completing the trilogy. The newly announced Orba 3 finds the Nashville-based startup baking live sampling into its clever handheld instrument. The feature arrives by way of a built-in microphone, which lets users record their voice, instruments, and other sounds. All of that can be […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Following a string of controversies stemming from technical hiccups and licensing changes, AI startup Stability AI has announced its latest family of image generation models. The new Stable Diffusion 3.5 series is more customizable and versatile than Stability’s previous-generation tech, the company claims — as well as more performant. There are three models in total: […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Interface.ai, a customer automation platform for banks and other financial institutions, today announced that it closed a $30 million funding round led by Avataar Venture Partners. $20 million of the round was equity, while the remaining $10 million was in the form of debt. It’s Interface’s first outside capital; the startup had been completely bootstrapped. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Earlier this year, Medal, a startup known for its video game clipping features, launched a cross-platform AI assistant called Highlight. Now, the company is spinning off Highlight into a new entity, which has raised $10 million in a funding round. General Catalyst led the funding round with Valor, SV Angel, and Conviction Embed participating in […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Back in 2022, João Moura was directing AI engineering efforts at Clearbit, a startup creating a unified hub for business intelligence tools. There, Moura was responsible for leading the development of AI integrations, as well as defining Clearbit’s AI product roadmap. After a year, HubSpot acquired Clearbit, and Moura had the itch to go it […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

As the creator economy is growing rapidly, brand partnerships remain one of the prime ways creators can earn money. Other services like link-in-bio apps with affiliate links or Pateron-like subscriptions become secondary ways to increase creators’ income. For platforms and startup, the biggest challenge remains to match brands and creators for collaboration. Berlin-based startup Passionfroot is […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

News Corp’s Dow Jones and the NY Post have sued growing AI startup Perplexity over what they describe as a “content kleptocracy.” In a lawsuit filed in New York on Monday, the media organization claimed that Perplexity engages in copyright violations on a “grand scale,” simultaneously duplicating and misrepresenting original content created by others: Its […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

In August, Elon Musk’s xAI promised to make Grok, the company’s flagship generative AI model powering a number of features on X, available via an API. Now, that API has arrived — albeit a barren bones at the moment. The xAI API only has one model available, “grok-beta,” priced at $5 per million input tokens […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

On TikTok, Daze’s most popular video has been viewed 8 million times. Across TikTok and Instagram, the startup behind a new messaging app aimed at Gen Z, has seen around 48 million combined views. Pre-launch, the app’s waitlist is already bursting with roughly 156,000 signups. Driving the demand for this next-generation alternative to iMessage and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →