Category: Enterprise
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Emergence thinks it can crack the AI agent code
Emergence on Monday emerged from stealth with $97.2 million in funding. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Yet another generative AI venture has raised a bundle of money. And, like the others before it, it’s promising the moon. Emergence, whose co-founders include Satya Nitta, the former head of global AI…
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Women in AI: Anika Collier Navaroli is working to shift the power imbalance
Anika Collier Navaroli is working to shift the power imbalance. She is known for her research and advocacy work within technology. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of…
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Streaming execs think TV’s future looks a lot like its past
We’re at a transitional moment in streaming — user growth is slowing and major players are looking to consolidate, but the long-promised dream of profitability finally seems within reach (especially if you’re Netflix). The perfect time, then, for The New York Times to interview many of the industry’s big names — including Netflix co-CEO Ted…
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Meta makes its AI chatbot available to all users in India
After a few months of testing during the general elections, Meta is making its Llama-3-powered AI chatbot available to all users in India. However, Meta AI currently only supports English and no other local languages. The company started testing Meta AI in India across WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, and Facebook in April by rolling it out…
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How 2 high school teens raised a $500K seed round for their API startup (yes, it’s AI)
18-year-olds Christopher Fitzgerald and Nicholas Van Landschoot have founded APIGen, a platform to build custom APIs from natural language prompts. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Just a few weeks ago, 18-year-old best friends Christopher Fitzgerald and Nicholas Van Landschoot graduated from high school. While most teens their age would…
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Apple might partner with Meta on AI
As Apple enters the AI race, it’s also looking for help from partners. During the announcement of Apple Intelligence earlier this month, Apple said it would be partnering with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT into the revamped version of Siri. Now, the Wall Street Journal reports that Apple and Facebook’s parent company Meta are in talks…
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Silicon Valley leaders are once again declaring ‘DEI’ bad and ‘meritocracy’ good — but they’re wrong
Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang set off another debate with an anti-DEI post. It revealed a lot about the current state of DEI in tech. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Who’s afraid of the Big Bad DEI? The acronym is near-poisonous now — a word that creates almost instant…
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The EU Digital Identity Wallet: Everything you need to know about the EU’s plans for a universal digital identity system
If all goes to plan, Europeans will be able to download and use a free EU Digital Identity Wallet to access a wide range of public and private services. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. The EU Digital Identity Wallet is an ambitious project by the European Union that’s still…
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Women in AI: Charlette N’Guessan is tackling data scarcity on the African continent
Charlette N’Guessan is the Data Solutions and Ecosystem Lead at Amini, a deep tech startup leveraging space technology and artificial intelligence to tackle environmental data scarcity in Africa and the global South. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue…
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OmniAI transforms business data for AI
OmniAI is a set of tools that transform unstructured enterprise data into a something that data analytics apps and AI can understand. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. The majority of companies struggle to extract value from their data. Several years ago, Forrester reported that between 60% and 73% of data belonging…