To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved ā and overdue ā time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviewsĀ focusing on remarkable women whoāve contributed to the AI revolution. Weāll publish several pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often goes unrecognized. Read more profilesĀ here. […]
Phone giant AT&T has reset millions of customer account passcodes after a huge cache of data containing AT&T customer records was dumped online earlier this month, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The U.S. telco giant initiated the passcode mass-reset after TechCrunch informed AT&T on Monday that the leaked data contained encrypted passcodes that could be used […]
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving asĀ AIĀ is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, hereās a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didnāt cover on their own. This week in AI, Iād like to turn the spotlight […]
Google is shutting down its Podcasts app in the U.S. in a matter of days. The company has begun warning the appās users they will need to migrate their subscriptions to YouTube Music by April 2 to follow and stream their favorite shows going forward. Users who donāt make the move immediately will still have […]
Welcome to Startups Weekly ā your weekly recap of everything you canāt miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Thereās not that much news from me this week, but Iāve been doing a ton of prep for TechCrunch Early Stage taking place in Boston on […]
Orbit Fab wants to build āgas stationsā for satellites ā which means it needs the gas cap, a mechanism for transferring propellant from an orbital tanker to the customer spacecraft. That docking mechanism, called RAFTI, is now flight qualified and on the market. The price tag for each port? Just $30,000. The Colorado-based startup (and […]
If the 2023 crypto venture landscape was an ice-cold pot of water, the first quarter of 2024 is the part where the bubbles start to form right before water boils, Tom Schmidt, a partner at Dragonfly Capital, said to TechCrunch. And heās not wrong: $2.52 billion in total capital has been raised across the crypto […]
Demis Hassabis, CEO and one of three founders of Googleās artificial intelligence (AI) subsidiary DeepMind, has been awarded a knighthood in the U.K. for āservices to artificial intelligence.ā Ian Hogarth, chair of the U.K. governmentās recently launchedĀ AI Safety Institute and previously founder of music startup Songkick, was awarded Commander of the Order of the British […]
Instagram is developing a āBlendā feature that creates a private feed of Reels recommended for you and a friend. The company told TechCrunch on Friday that the feature is an internal prototype and is not being tested externally. The feature was first spotted by reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi, who regularly discovers social media features in […]
As deepfakes proliferate, OpenAI is refining the tech used to clone voices ā but the company insists itās doing so responsibly. Today marks the preview debut of OpenAIās Voice Engine, an expansion of the companyās existing text-to-speech API. Under development for about two years, Voice Engine allows users to upload any 15-second voice sample to […]