Category: Enterprise
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Synthflow picks up $7.4M for no code voice assistance for SMEs
What is AI good for? Automating repetitive tasks for the very busy people running small businesses, reckons Berlin-based startup Synthflow, which is announcing a $7.4 million seed round for its SME-focused no code platform for AI voice assistance. Since being founded around spring last year, the startup has now banked a total of $9.1 million,…
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Google Translate adds support for 110 languages, representing 614 million speakers
Google said today that it is adding support for 110 languages to its translation service. The company has used its PaLM 2 AI model to power translations. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Google said today that it is adding support for 110 languages to its translation service. The company…
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Kaspersky resellers deride US government ban: ‘Complete bulls—t’
“It’s just a lot of time lost for nothing,” a U.S.-based Kaspersky reseller told TechCrunch, following the news of a US sales ban. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Last week, the U.S. government announced an unprecedented ban on selling in the United States any software made by the Russian…
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Starfish spacecraft will extend the life of an expensive GEO satellite in 2026 mission
Starfish Space and aerospace giant Intelsat have signed a new satellite servicing agreement that could permanently change the paradigm for satellite operations. Under the contract, Starfish will use its Otter satellite docking spacecraft to boost the orbit of an operational Intelsat satellite in geostationary orbit (GEO), using its onboard propulsion system to potentially provide several…
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Supreme Court rejects claim that Biden administration pressured social media firms into removing misinformation
The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a Republican-led challenge to the Biden administration’s communication with social media companies to combat online misinformation on topics related to COVID-19 and the 2020 election. The ruling overturns an injunction, which was currently on hold, that would have limited contact between government officials and social media companies. The Republican…
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Apple stresses device longevity, extends self-service repair to Europe
The perfect device is one that never breaks in the first place, while still allowing for easy user repair access when needed. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. It wasn’t long ago that Apple products routinely raised the ire among repairability advocates. The iPhone maker has more fully embraced…
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Unbabel among the first AI startups to win millions of GPU training hours on EU supercomputers
Four startups will share €1 million in prize money and 8 million GPU hours to train their models on a couple of the bloc’s HPC supercomputers over the next 12 months. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. The European Union has announced the winners of a “Large AI Grand Challenge”…
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Data lakehouse Onehouse nabs $35M to capitalize on GenAI revolution
You can barely go an hour these days without reading about generative AI. While we are still in the embryonic phase of what some have dubbed the “steam engine” of the fourth industrial revolution, there’s little doubt that “GenAI” is shaping up to transform just about every industry — from finance and health care to…
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TikTok’s Instagram rival, Whee, has no traction
Like Instagram, Whee also supports the use of photo filters and includes messaging. However, the company’s plans for Whee aren’t clear. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. TikTok earlier this month launched a new social app called Whee, an Instagram-like service for taking photos to share with friends. Like Instagram,…
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This Week in AI: The fate of generative AI is in the courts’ hands
Hiya, folks, and welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. This week in AI, music labels accused two startups developing AI-powered song generators, Udio and Suno, of copyright infringement. The RIAA, the trade organization representing the music recording industry in the U.S., announced lawsuits against the companies on Monday, brought by Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music…