Category: Enterprise
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Trump campaign hack-and-leak appears like a rerun of 2016. This time, media outlets are responding differently
Faced with a new hack-and-leak operation targeting the Trump presidential campaign, journalists and media outlets are taking a different approach to their reporting. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. This weekend, Politico dropped a news bombshell: A person who only goes by “Robert” had shared with the news organization documents…
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A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs
The tech layoff wave is still going strong in 2024. Following significant workforce reductions in 2022 and 2023, this year has already seen 60,000 job cuts across 254 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. Companies like Tesla, Amazon, Google, TikTok, Snap and Microsoft have conducted sizable layoffs in the first months of 2024. Smaller-sized…
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NEA led a $100M round into Fei-Fei Li’s new AI startup, now valued at over $1B
World Labs, a stealthy startup founded by renowned Stanford University AI professor Fei-Fei Li, has raised two rounds of financing two months apart, according to multiple reports. The latest financing was led by NEA and valued the company at over $1 billion, TechCrunch has learned from several people with knowledge of the investments. This was a…
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Biden tells creators they have something traditional media does not: ‘You’re trusted’
At the first ever White House Creator Economy Conference, the most popular man to drop by was not a TikTok superstar or a YouTube sensation. It was President Joe Biden, who emphasized social media creators’ role in shaping public opinion. “Until about three, four months ago, I didn’t pay very much attention, following you guys,”…
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Filmmakers say AI will change the art — perhaps beyond recognition
One of the first topics tackled was the impractical nature of today’s video generators. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. The latest generative models make for great demos, but are they really about to change how people make movies and TV? Not in the short term, according to filmmaking and…
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Meet Black Forest Labs, the startup powering Elon Musk’s unhinged AI image generator
Elon Musk’s Grok released a new AI image-generation feature on Tuesday night that, just like the AI chatbot, has very few safeguards. That means you can generate fake images of Donald Trump smoking marijuana on the Joe Rogan show, for example, and upload it straight to the X platform. But it’s not really Elon Musk’s…
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Video of Eric Schmidt blaming remote work for Google’s woes mysteriously vanishes
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who has since moved on to greener and perhaps more dangerous pastures, told an audience of Stanford students recently that “Google decided that work-life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning.” Evidently this hot take was not for wider consumption, as Stanford —…
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Zepto raises $340M at a $5B valuation as India’s quick-commerce market heats up
General Catalyst and Mars Growth Capital are co-leading the Series G round, which will be closed within a few days, sources familiar with the deal told TechCrunch. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Indian instant delivery startup Zepto has finalized a $340 million round that values it $5 billion, up…
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Google faces headwinds as it brings Pixel 9 to India
Google Pixel 9 series India launch coincides with the expansion of its sales channels and after-sales support in the country. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. On Tuesday at its Made by Google event, Google announced that the new Pixel 9 line is coming to India. The news also finds…
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xAI releases Grok-2, adds image generation on X
Elon Musk-owned launched Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini in beta today with improved reasoning. The new Grok AI model can now generate images on the X social network, though Grok access is currently limited to Premium and Premium+ users on X. xAI said that both Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini are available to users on X in…