Category: Enterprise
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Even after $1.6B in VC money, the lab-grown meat industry is facing ‘massive’ issues
Any goal that puts cultivated meat in big box grocery stores or on fast food menus in the 2020s is “unrealistic,” according to experts. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. When Mosa Meat served up a first-of-its-kind, lab-grown hamburger in 2013, it cost over $300,000. Eleven years later, around 200…
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Yelp’s chief product officer talks AI and authenticity
Chief Product Officer Craig Saldanha says AI is already transforming the Yelp experience. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Yelp might not be the first company that comes to mind when someone mentions artificial intelligence, but Chief Product Officer Craig Saldanha said AI is already transforming the Yelp experience. In…
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OpenAI says it’s taking a ‘deliberate approach’ to releasing tools that can detect writing from ChatGPT
OpenAI has built a tool that could potentially catch students who cheat by asking ChatGPT to write their assignments — but according to The Wall Street Journal, the company is debating whether to actually release it. In a statement provided to TechCrunch, an OpenAI spokesperson confirmed that the company is researching the text watermarking method…
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Many safety evaluations for AI models have significant limitations
Despite increasing demand for AI safety and accountability, today’s tests and benchmarks may fall short, according to a new report. Generative AI models — models that can analyze and output text, images, music, videos and so on — are coming under increased scrutiny for their tendency to make mistakes and generally behave unpredictably. Now, organizations…
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From golf to hunting, a new crop of startups want to make these experiences even better
COVID-19 pushed people to take up outdoor activities. Now, startups are helping companies and consumers keep up with demand. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. From golf to fishing to pickleball, outdoor sports and recreation saw a boom during the pandemic. But unlike some pandemic-driven trends (virtual conferences, Zoom happy…
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DSA vs. DMA: How Europe’s twin digital regulations are hitting Big Tech
While both the DSA and DMA aim to achieve distinct things, they are best understood as a joint response to Big Tech’s market power. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. It’s no accident that the European Union’s Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act have such similar-sounding names: They were…
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Why Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy and other investors are scouring universities for founders
Investors are assisting startup founders earlier than ever in an effort to help them bridge the first climate tech valley of death. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. The humble garage is so steeped in Silicon Valley lore it’s almost cliché. Yet that’s exactly how Caleb Boyd and Kevin Bush…
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Meet the founder who built and sold a $600M enterprise software startup from Sri Lanka
Sanjiva Weerawarana co-founded WSO2 in 2005, recently selling it for more than $600M. He sometimes drives for Uber, too. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Sri Lanka isn’t renowned for its startup ecosystem, but one company has been something of an outlier in the South Asian island nation these past…
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Tesla Dojo: Elon Musk’s big plan to build an AI supercomputer, explained
Dojo is Tesla’s custom-built supercomputer that’s designed to train its “Full Self-Driving” neural networks. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. For years, Elon Musk has talked about Dojo — the AI supercomputer that will be the cornerstone of Tesla’s AI ambitions. It’s important enough to Musk that he recently said…
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Trade My Spin is building a business around used Peloton equipment
Trade My Spin has pieced together a logistics network capable of offering same or next day delivery in most major cities in the continental U.S. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Peloton had one of the most turbulent half decades in tech. The home fitness firm experienced some of the…