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OpenAI is collaborating with Stack Overflow, the Q&A forum for software developers, to improve its generative AI models’ performance on programming-related tasks. As a result of the partnership, announced Monday,…
Hardware
Biden administration plans $285M in CHIPS Act funding for digital twins
3:00 am PDT • May 6, 2024
President 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…
Startups
Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo talks about AI, chatbot platform Poe and why OpenAI is not a competitor
3:00 am PDT • May 6, 2024
Last November, Adam D’Angelo found himself at the epicenter of one of the biggest controversies in the tech industry. The board of OpenAI — the $80 billion startup leading the…
Growth
Sequoia’s Jess Lee explains how early-stage startups can identify product-market fit
1:31 am PDT • May 6, 2024
Founders at the early stages of building their startups may have already created a strong solution, identified a gap in the market, or may simply have an inescapable and driving…
Bluesky’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…
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Hyundai antes up $1B for AV startup Motional and Elon unplugs the Tesla Supercharger team
Welcome 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…
12:00 pm PDT • May 5, 2024
Catherine Breslin is the founder and director of Kingfisher Labs, where she helps companies develop AI strategies.
NASA’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…
AI
CoreWeave’s $1.1B raise shows the market for alternative clouds is booming
6:30 am PDT • May 5, 2024
The 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…
AI
Alternative clouds are booming as companies seek cheaper access to GPUs
6:30 am PDT • May 5, 2024
The 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…
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I 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…
Social
Google lays off workers, Tesla cans its Supercharger team and UnitedHealthcare reveals security lapses
1:15 pm PDT • May 4, 2024
Welcome, 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…
Venture
Human composting and timber marketplaces: Talking ‘industrial’ VC with investor Dayna Grayson
12:23 pm PDT • May 4, 2024
While 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…
AI
Women in AI: Tara Chklovski is teaching the next generation of AI innovators
10:00 am PDT • May 4, 2024
Tara Chklovski is the CEO and founder of Technovation, a nonprofit that helps teach young girls about technology and entrepreneurship.
Threads 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…
Biotech & Health
Deal Dive: Amae Health is building an in-person approach to mental healthcare in an increasingly digital space
9:00 am PDT • May 4, 2024
While many recent mental health-focused startups are digital first, Amae Health focuses on the importance of in-person care.
RAG is being pitched as a solution of sorts to generative AI hallucinations. But there’s limits to what the technique can do.
AI
This Week in AI: Generative AI and the problem of compensating creators
6:31 am PDT • May 4, 2024
Keeping 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…
According to SEC filings, ICONIQ Growth has raised $5.21 billion across two funds affiliated with the Seventh Growth Fund Family. However, the firm’s original fundraising was $5.75 billion, according to…
Lidar 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…
