Category: Enterprise
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TechCrunch Minute: The iPad was the surprising star of Apple’s sales numbers
For once, the iPad was the highlight of Apple’s latest sales numbers. The company said in its third-quarter earnings report that iPad sales increased year-over-year, from $5.8 billion to $7.2 billion. The reason for that growth is probably new versions of the iPad Air and iPad Pro, which were announced in May. Turns out that…
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YouTuber files class action suit over OpenAI’s scrape of creators’ transcripts
By collecting this data, OpenAI “profited significantly” from the creators’ work, the complaint alleges. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. A YouTube creator is seeking to bring a class action lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that the company trained its generative AI models on millions of transcripts from YouTube videos without…
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Apple’s new Safari feature removes distracting items from websites
Safari’s newest feature, Distraction Control, can remove distracting elements from a website. The feature follows Arc Browser’s addition of Boosts last year, which similarly lets users remove features from a site and further customize its appearance. Apple is rolling out the early version of the feature this week through new developer betas of iOS 18,…
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Placer.ai boosts valuation to $1.5B after quietly raising another $75M
A startup developing AI market research based on location data, and backed by a who’s who, has quietly raised, TechCrunch has learned. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Location data, for better or worse, continues to be a part of the bedrock of how apps are built. Now a startup…
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Announcing the agenda for the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
We’re so excited to announce that we’ve added a dedicated AI Stage presented by Google Cloud to TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. It joins Fintech, SaaS and Space as the other industry-focused stages — all under one big roof. We couldn’t possibly host TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 without a huge deep dive on all things artificial intelligence. So,…
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Muon Space closes $56M to scale all-in-one satellite platform
Muon Space closed a new tranche of funding for its space-as-a-service business. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Space-as-a-service startup Muon Space closed a $56.7 million fundraising round to scale its satellite platform, while also announcing a new deal with defense giant Sierra Nevada Corp. California-based Muon designs, builds and…
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OpenAI tempers expectations with less bombastic, GPT-5-less DevDay this fall
Last year, OpenAI held a splashy press event in San Francisco during which the company announced a bevy of new products and tools, including the ill-fated App Store-like GPT Store. This year will be a quieter affair, however. On Monday, OpenAI said it’s changing the format of its DevDay conference from a tentpole event into…
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Google loses massive antitrust case over search, will appeal ruling
Google will appeal a U.S. District Court judge’s opinion Monday that found the technology giant acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in online search. The decision from Judge Amit P. Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia is a major defeat for Google that could alter the way it does business…
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TechCrunch Space: I’m tired of talking about Starliner, too
Listen, I’m tired of talking about Boeing’s Starliner, too, but the spacecraft still isn’t home and questions are mounting about NASA’s transparency. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Hello, and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. Before we dive in, I wanted to quickly plug this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt, our flagship…
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Lucid pumps $1.5B from Saudi wealth fund after CEO warned relying on its ‘bottomless wealth’ was ‘dangerous’
Saudi Arabia is committing even more money to Lucid Motors as the EV startup struggles to erase its losses. Lucid announced Monday as part of its second-quarter earnings report that an affiliate of the Saudi sovereign wealth fund is committing another $1.5 billion, with half coming in the form of a private placement and the…