Spend time at a university, and inevitably you’ll come across someone who has a plan to save the world, or at least make some small part of it better. It might be merely the optimism of youth, but sometimes, they’re actually onto something. Critical Venture Partners is betting that young founders plucked fresh from universities can […]
New $5M deep tech fund aims to lure founders from universities Read More »
Spend time at a university, and inevitably you’ll come across someone who has a plan to save the world, or at least make some small part of it better. It might be merely the optimism of youth, but sometimes they’re actually on to something. Critical Venture Partners is betting that young founders plucked fresh from universities
New $5M fund aims to lure founders from universities Read More »
The electric vehicle transition is really a story about China. There, subsidies have helped juice not just automakers, but the entire battery supply chain behind them. Those incentives, plus decades of industrial policy focused on controlled critical mineral supply chains, has left American and European automakers flat footed. Take graphite, for example. Every lithium-ion battery
Coreshell has a plan to slash the price of American made batteries Read More »
OpenAI will soon begin testing a way for business customers to connect apps like Slack and Google Drive to ChatGPT. OpenAI plans to start beta testing a new feature called ChatGPT Connectors, according to a document viewed by TechCrunch. ChatGPT Connectors will allow ChatGPT Team subscribers to link workspace Google Drive and Slack accounts to
OpenAI to start testing ChatGPT connectors for Google Drive and Slack Read More »
Artificial intelligence continues stirring things up in chemistry. To wit: YC-backed Cambridge, U.K.-based ReactWise is using AI to speed up chemical manufacture — a key step in bringing new drugs to market. Once a promising drug has been identified in the lab, pharma firms need to be able to produce much larger amounts of the
YC-backed ReactWise is applying AI to speed up drug manufacturing Read More »
For someone who wants solar panels, the question is often: “How many?” And for a heat pump, it’s “how big?” Answering those questions typically requires a contractor to set foot on your property. Yet over the last decade, solar installers have trimmed that time consuming process considerably. Some, like Tesla, have eliminated it entirely. The
Palmetto wants software developers to electrify America using its AI building models Read More »
After Employer.com acquired bankrupt accounting startup Bench in a fire-sale late last year, CEO Jesse Tinsley pledged on LinkedIn and elsewhere to honor past customer payments. “We’re honoring all prepaid Bench services even though we will not have the revenue from that directly ourselves,” Tinsley said in an interview with founder and investor Julian Weisser.
Bench is charging people for services they already paid for, some customers say Read More »
We’ve all experienced that moment of frustration when the GPS glitches and you miss an exit on the highway. The team at Tern AI, which is building a low-cost GPS alternative, says that’s because the current technology is limited by its reliance on satellite positioning. Tern AI says it has figured out how to locate
Tern AI’s low-cost GPS alternative actually works Read More »
Amazon will not say if it plans to take action against three phone surveillance apps that are storing troves of individuals’ private phone data on Amazon’s cloud servers, despite TechCrunch notifying the tech giant weeks earlier that it was hosting the stolen phone data. Amazon told TechCrunch it was “following [its] process” after our February
Amazon is still hosting stalkerware victims’ data weeks after breach alert Read More »
Snapchat is introducing its first ever video generative AI Lenses, the company told TechCrunch exclusively. The Lenses are powered by Snap’s in-house built generative video model. The three new AI Video Lenses are available to users on the app’s premium subscription tier, Snapchat Platinum, which costs $15.99 per month. The launch comes as Snap unveiled an
Snap introduces AI Video Lenses powered by its in-house generative model Read More »
