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Ashton Kutcher’s Sound Ventures backs Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs in continued AI push

Ashton Kutcher’s VC firm, Sound Ventures, co-led by general partners Guy Oseary and Effie Epstein, is betting on AI — including with an investment in Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs, the investors confirmed onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 on Tuesday...

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How founders should hire tech talent in 2025

Gone are the days when recruiters seemed more plentiful than leaves in the wind; employees in nearly every startup function are therefore facing a more conservative labor market. How can founders capitalize on their increased labor buying power,...

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Industry leaders break down what’s next in open source as a business model

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Open source has become the default business model for many tech startups. But the success of the movement hasn’t been without challenges as businesses now try to balance the ideals of open source with the realities of running a business in an ever...

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How VCs can distinguish the difference between opportunity and hype

What’s the difference between true opportunity and hype? Answering that question correctly is the difference between success and failure in the tech industry. And it’s a far more difficult question than it might appear. When everyone is convinced...

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OpenAI reportedly planning to build its first AI chip in 2026

OpenAI is reportedly working with TSMC and Broadcom to build an in-house AI chip — and beginning to use AMD chips alongside Nvidia’s to train its AI. Reuters reports that OpenAI has — at least for now — abandoned plans to establish a network...

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How General Motors CEO Mary Barra is shaping GM’s tech future

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Over her decade-long tenure, Chairman and CEO Mary Barra has pushed to transform General Motors into a technological powerhouse — and one that will lead in electrification, software and autonomous driving though their self-driving subsidiary Cruise...

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ElevenLabs has hired the team behind Omnivore, a reader app

Generative AI company ElevenLabs has hired the team behind Omnivore, an open source read-it-later app. In a blog post, Omnivore co-founders Jackson Harper and Hongbo Wu said that joining ElevenLabs would give them “an even larger platform to create...

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Mary Barra still thinks GM will make an AV with no steering wheel

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General Motors CEO Mary Barra still believes an autonomous vehicle with no steering wheel and pedals is “definitely” in her company’s future, despite recently suspending work on the purpose-built Origin. Barra told the crowd at TechCrunch...

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Elon Musk’s xAI is reportedly trying to raise billions more

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, is in talks to raise new funding at a valuation around $40 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. xAI hopes to raise several billion dollars in the round, adding to the $6 billion in Series B funding that the...

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Actor and director Olivia Wilde launches a VC firm

Actor and director Olivia Wilde, famous for her roles in “Tron: Legacy” and “Don’t Worry Darling,” quietly launched venture firm Proximity Ventures late last year, according to Bloomberg. She launched the early- and growth-stage investment...

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2024 Startup Battlefield Top 20 Finalists: Salva Health

Julieta is a portable, AI-powered breast cancer detection device that eliminates barriers to early screening, ensuring access even in remote areas. Subscribe for more on YouTube: https://tcrn.ch/youtube Follow TechCrunch on Instagram: http://tcrn...

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2024 Startup Battlefield Top 20 Finalists: Narada AI

A generative AI assistant that identifies tasks from conversations and executes them across enterprise tools using AI orchestration. Subscribe for more on YouTube: https://tcrn.ch/youtube Follow TechCrunch on Instagram: http://tcrn.ch/instagram...

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2024 Startup Battlefield Top 20 Finalists: Luna

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An AI-driven health and wellbeing companion for teens, so they can feel empowered to make informed decisions about their health and wellbeing as they move into adulthood. Subscribe for more on YouTube: https://tcrn.ch/youtube Follow TechCrunch on...

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You’re going to get hacked. But here’s how to avoid a cybersecurity disaster

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Cyberattacks are inevitable, but disasters are avoidable.Listen as experienced security defenders Heather Gantt-Evans, CISO of Marqeta, and Darren Gruber, MongoDB’s Technical Advisor in the Office of Security and Trust, discuss what you need to...

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How to build a company while protecting your mental health

Everyone knows that it is stressful to build a company. And it’s just as commonly known that endless chronic work can lead to burnout. So, why don’t we talk more about founder mental health?Now that our culture is more comfortable discussing...

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How Slack’s CEO Denise Dresser is embracing its evolution under Salesforce

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Slack CEO Denise Dresser is approaching her one year anniversary while leading her organization through a time of AI-driven change and continued questions about the return to office. Watch as Denise Dresser and TechCrunch Hardware Editor Brian Heater...

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Building Enterprise AI Apps with Multi-Agent RAG Systems (MARS)

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Join SingleStore to explore a live Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) application that combines real-time streaming data with vast amounts of point-in-time data, achieving near-zero latency in AI interactions. We’ll discuss how Multi-Agent...

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Narada AI’s enterprise agent will use workplace tools for you

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There’s no shortage of startups trying to create enterprise AI assistants. What’s less common is an AI assistant that can actually execute tasks across several of your work apps at once. That’s the promise of Narada AI, a startup building an AI...

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Salva Health wants to lower breast cancer mortality with its affordable screening device

Six years ago, while researching for a college entrepreneurship competition, Valentina Agudelo identified a troubling gap in breast cancer survival rates between Latin America and the developed world, with women in her native Colombia and the rest of...

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How a series of opsec failures led US authorities to the alleged developer of the Redline password-stealing malware

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Prosecutors allege that Redline infected millions of computers around the world since 2020, including several hundred machines at the U.S. Dept. of Defense. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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