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AI
TechCrunch Minute: YouTube makes it easier to report and take down AI deepfakes
9:00 AM PDT • July 3, 2024
It’s easier than ever to make a deepfake of another person’s voice or face, but at least YouTube is making some small changes that make…
Cloudflare, the publicly-traded cloud service provider, has launched a new, free tool to prevent bots from scraping websites hosted on its platform for data to train AI models. Some AI…
Twilio says “threat actors were able to identify” phone numbers of people who use the two-factor app Authy.
The news brings closure to more than two years of volleying back and forth between some of the biggest names in additive manufacturing.
Planning to attend TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 with your team? Maximize your team-building time and your company’s impact across the entire conference when you bring your team. Groups of 4 to…
As more music streaming apps and creation tools emerge to compete for users’ attention, social music-sharing app Popster is getting two new features to grow its user base: an AI…
Meta’s Threads now has more than 175 million monthly active users, Mark Zuckerberg announced on Wednesday. The announcement comes two days away from Threads’ first anniversary. Zuckerberg revealed back in…
What’s the common thread between Tesla, building startups, General Motors, venture capital and Lyft? Jon McNeill, co-founder and partner of DVx Ventures, joins TechCrunch editor…
Transportation
From burritos to biotech: How robotics startup Cartken found its AV niche
3 hours ago
Cartken and its diminutive sidewalk delivery robots first rolled into the world with a narrow charter: carrying everything from burritos and bento boxes to pizza and pad thai that last…
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Biotech & Health
Granza Bio grabs $7M seed from Felicis and YC to advance delivery of cancer treatments
3 hours ago
Ashwin Nandakumar and Ashwin Jainarayanan were working on their doctorates at adjacent departments in Oxford, but they didn’t know each other. Nandakumar, who was studying oncology, one day stumbled across…
Hardware
LG acquires smart home platform Athom to bring third-party connectivity to its ThinQ ecosytem
3 hours ago
LG has acquired an 80% stake in Athom, a Dutch smart home company and maker of the Homey smart home hub. According to LG’s announcement, it will purchase the remaining…
Fisker has a willing buyer for its remaining inventory of all-electric Ocean SUVs, and has asked the Delaware Bankruptcy Court judge overseeing its Chapter 11 case to approve the sale.…
CoinDCX, India’s leading cryptocurrency exchange, is expanding internationally through the acquisition of BitOasis, a digital asset platform in the Middle East and North Africa, the companies said Wednesday. The Bengaluru-based…
Security
In a major update, Proton adds privacy-safe document collaboration to Drive, its freemium E2EE cloud storage service
7 hours ago
Collaborative document features are being made available inside Proton Drive, further extending the company’s trademark pitch of robust security.
Telegram launched a digital currency called Stars for in-app use last month. Now, the company is expanding its use cases to paid content. The chat app is also allowing channels…
For the past couple of years, innovation has been accelerating in new materials development. And a new French startup called Altrove plans to play a role in this innovation cycle.…
The Indian social media platform Koo, which positioned itself as a competitor to Elon Musk’s X, is ceasing operations after its last-resort acquisition talks with Dailyhunt collapsed. Despite securing over…
Apiday leverages AI to save time for its customers. But like legacy consultants, it also offers human expertise.
Google totally dodges the question of how much energy is AI is using — perhaps because the answer is “way more than we’d care to say.”
