Category: Apps
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Carta settles two more lawsuits that alleged sexual harassment and discrimination
Carta, which previously faced scrutiny over its workplace environment, has settled two lawsuits filed by women who used to work there. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Carta, which previously faced scrutiny over its workplace environment, has settled two lawsuits filed by women who used to work there. © 2024…
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OpenAI spoke to government officials about its DeepSeek probe
OpenAI says it has spoken to government officials about its ongoing investigation into DeepSeek. The ChatGPT-maker previously claimed to have evidence that DeepSeek trained its AI models using improperly obtained data from OpenAI’s API. During a Bloomberg TV interview on Monday, OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer, Chris Lehane, said the company has talked with government…
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Bird cuts 120 jobs as part of ‘strategic realignment’
Bird, formerly MessageBird, has cut 120 jobs — roughly one-third of its workforce — as the startup plans to realign its global operations. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Bird, formerly MessageBird, has cut 120 jobs — roughly one-third of its workforce — as the startup plans to realign its global operations.…
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Apple fixes iPhone and iPad bug used in an ‘extremely sophisticated attack’
Unknown attackers may have exploited a zero-day bug to access data on locked phones, according to Apple. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Unknown attackers may have exploited a zero-day bug to access data on locked phones, according to Apple. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.…
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TikTok wants Android users to sideload its app
With TikTok’s fate in the U.S. uncertain — its ban in the country has been paused, but only temporarily, thanks to an executive order from President Donald Trump — the ByteDance-owned company is now encouraging Android device owners to sideload its video app onto their phones and tablets. The company announced in a Friday X…
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Rivian opens commercial van sales to all businesses
Rivian will sell its commercial electric vans to any U.S. business that wants one — more than a year since ending an exclusivity deal with backer Amazon. The company will sell two vans — the smaller 500 and the larger 700 — but buyers will have to be registered businesses, according to the company. That…
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Macron urges Europe to simplify its regulations to get back into the AI race
All eyes were on French President Emmanuel Macron Sunday at the end of the first day of the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris after he announced a €109 billion investment package (around $112 billion at current exchange rates) in the French AI ecosystem. He reiterated this financial commitment from private partners willing to build…
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Mistral gets down to business
Hundreds of heads of states, tech CEOs and nonprofits have flocked to Paris for the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit. So far, the winner of this week’s diplomatic and business parade seems to be Mistral. In business lingo, we would say that the French AI unicorn is experiencing tailwinds. Mistral has been one of the leading…
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Perplexity’s Super Bowl ‘tweet’ increased app installs by 50%
Perplexity’s Super Bowl contest managed to move the needle on its app’s downloads. Unlike OpenAI and Google, the AI search engine chose to forgo an expensive Super Bowl ad in favor of a tweet — sorry, an X post — encouraging users to download its app and enter a contest that could result in a…
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Google-backed public interest AI partnership launches with $400M+ for open ecosystem building
Make room for yet another partnership on AI: Current AI, which is being billed as a “public interest” initiative focused on fostering and steering development of artificial intelligence in societally beneficial directions, was announced at the French AI Action summit on Monday — with an initial $400 million in pledges from backers and a plan…