Category: Enterprise
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Bumble users can now report profiles that use AI-generated photos
Bumble’s new reporting option arrives at a time when, unfortunately, AI-generated photos on dating apps are common © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Bumble is asking its users to help keep the dating app free from AI-generated profiles. On Tuesday, the company introduced a new reporting option that enables members…
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Whataburger app becomes unlikely power outage map after Houston hurricane
Fast-food chain Whataburger’s app has gone viral in the wake of Hurricane Beryl, which left around 1.8 million utility customers in Houston, Texas without power. Hundreds of thousands of those people may remain without power for days as Houston anticipates a heat wave, with temperatures climbing into the mid-90s. Amid frustrations with the local utility…
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Uber for Teens has reignited an old debate over fingerprinting drivers
Seven years ago, Uber and Lyft blocked an effort to require ride-hailing app drivers to get fingerprinted in California. But by launching Uber for Teens earlier this year, the company inadvertently resurfaced the issue. Now a broader debate is underway as startups, Uber, and California regulators hash out when a transportation service should be required…
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NovoNutrients tweaks its bugs to turn CO2 into protein for people and pets
NovoNutrients has raised a $18 million Series A round from investors to build a pilot-scale facility to prove that its fermentation process works at scale. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. The easiest way for a person to eat carbon dioxide is by consuming vegetables. David Tze wants his startup’s…
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AI startup Hebbia raised $130M at a $700M valuation on $13 million of profitable revenue
Hebbia, a startup that uses generative AI to search large documents and respond to large questions, has raised a $130 million Series B at a roughly $700 million valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Index Ventures, Google Ventures and Peter Thiel. And its funding demonstrates that 50x annual recurring revenue (ARR) is becoming…
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Anthropic’s Claude adds a prompt playground to quickly improve your AI apps
Prompt engineering became a hot job last year in the AI industry, but it seems Anthropic is now developing tools to at least partially automate it. Anthropic released several new features on Tuesday to help developers create more useful applications with the startup’s language model, Claude, according to a company blog post. Developers can now…
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How We Created Hyve, an AI Chatbot for WordPress – First Version Now Free
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in AI, Apps, Climate, Cloud Computing, Crypto, Cybersecurity, Enterprise, EV, FinTech, Gadgets, Gaming, SaaS, Software, StartupsFor the past few months, we’ve been experimenting with AI to create innovative tools for WordPress. One of our recent projects, QuickWP, an AI-powered WordPress site builder, was one such project. Building on the things that we learned while making QuickWP, we are excited to introduce something totally new, but related! In this post, I…
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OpenAI Startup Fund backs AI healthcare venture with Arianna Huffington
Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are throwing their weight behind a new venture, Thrive AI Health, that aims to build AI-powered assistant tech to promote healthier lifestyles. Backed by Huffington’s mental wellness firm Thrive Global and the OpenAI Startup Fund, the early-stage venture fund closely associated with OpenAI, Thrive AI…
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Indian game firms want to distance themselves from fantasy sports
For over a decade, real-money gaming companies and fantasy sports startups have marketed themselves as video game companies. But as these businesses face increasing regulatory scrutiny, a coalition of more than 70 video game companies in India is urging the government to create a clear distinction between their industries. In a letter to Prime Minister…
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Quora’s Poe now lets users create and share web apps
Poe, Quora’s subscription-based, cross-platform aggregator for AI-powered chatbots like Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s GPT-4o, has launched a feature called Previews that lets users create interactive apps directly in chats with chatbots. Previews allows Poe users to build data visualizations, games and even drum machines by typing things like “Analyze the information in this report and…