Category: Enterprise
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Cognigy lands cash to grow its contact center automation business
Cognigy is helping create AI that can handle the highly repetitive, rote processes center workers face daily. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Philipp Heltewig, who was CIO at marketing firm Sitecore before it was sold to private equity group EQT in 2016, joined forces with Sascha Poggemann and Benjamin…
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Paris-based AI startup Mistral AI raises $640 million
Mistral AI has closed its much rumored Series B funding round with General Catalyst leading the round. The company has secured €600 million (around $640 million at today’s exchange rate) in a mix of equity and debt. As TechCrunch previously reported, the startup is now valued at $6 billion following this funding round. As a…
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Here’s everything Apple announced at the WWDC 2024 keynote, including Apple Intelligence, Siri makeover
The TechCrunch team runs down all of the biggest news from the Apple WWDC 2024 keynote in an easy-to-skim digest. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. It’s WWDC 2024 keynote time! Each year Apple kicks off its Worldwide Developers Conference with a few hours of just straight announcements, like the…
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AI news reader Particle adds publishing partners and $10.9M in new funding
Particle announced it has partnered with news organization Reuters to collaborate on new business models and experiments in monetization. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Traffic is down, newsrooms are undergoing layoffs, and publishers fear that AI technologies will only make matters worse. Entering the fray, news reader startup Particle…
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The VC queen of portfolio PR, Masha Bucher, has raised her largest fund yet: $150M
Five years ago, Day One Ventures had $11 million under management, and Bucher and her team have grown that to just over $450 million. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Masha Bucher knows what she likes and goes for it. After all, venture capitalism is about taking bold risks —…
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Flow claims it can 100x any CPU’s power with its companion chip and some elbow grease
A Finnish startup called Flow Computing is making one of the wildest claims ever heard in silicon engineering: by adding its proprietary companion chip, any CPU can instantly double its performance, increasing to as much as 100x with software tweaks. If it works, it could help the industry keep up with the insatiable compute demand…
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The top AI features Apple announced at WWDC 2024
Today marked the kickoff of Apple’s WorldWide Developer Conference (WWDC), the annual event where Apple announces some of the biggest features headed to its devices, apps and software. And this year’s WWDC is a doozy. Thanks to Apple’s newfound — and heavy — investment in generative AI tech, the company had loads to showcase on…
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Apple brings ChatGPT to its apps, including Siri
Soon, Siri will be able to tap ChatGPT for “expertise” where it might be helpful, Apple says. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Apple is bringing ChatGPT, OpenAI’s AI-powered chatbot experience, to Siri and other first-party apps and capabilities across its operating systems. The tech giant announced the news during…
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Apple Intelligence features will be available on iPhone 15 Pro and devices with M1 or newer chips
Older iPhones or iPhone 15 users won’t be able to use these features. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Apple announced a ton of new AI features under the new Apple Intelligence moniker at WWDC 2024. While the features are free to use, only a limited number of devices will…
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Apple brings its GenAI ‘Apple Intelligence’ to developers, will let Siri control apps
Apple’s SDKs (software development kits) have been updated with a variety of new APIs and frameworks. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Apple Intelligence, Apple’s new generative AI offering, won’t just be a consumer-facing feature; developers will be able to take advantage of the latest technology, too. In Apple’s keynote…