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Neil Mehta, the VC behind the acquisition of a string of properties on San Francisco’s tony Fillmore Street, made waves earlier this week for reportedly throwing long-established local restaurants to the curb to bring in more high-end retailers. The San Francisco Chronicle talked, for example, to the owner of Ten-Ichi, a neighborhood sushi restaurant for…

360 One Asset, an investor in National Stock Exchange (NSE), has increased its valuation for India’s top stock exchange to $29.9 billion. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. ​ 360 One Asset, an investor in India’s National Stock Exchange (NSE), has increased its valuation for the stock exchange to $29.9 billion,…

Redis, the company behind the popular in-memory data store, which is often used as a cache, vector database or streaming engine, today announced the launch of Redis 8. With this release, the company is doubling down on Redis as a vector database for AI use cases and launching an AI Copilot the help developers more…

Tingit, a startup out of Lithuania, wants to help people restore their used clothing to their former glory with its newly launched repairs marketplace. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. ​ Do you have a much-loved jacket with a torn sleeve or pair of grubby kicks gathering dust at the back…

Meta and Spotify are once again teaming up — this time, on the matter of open source (or to be precise, open-weight) AI which the companies claim are being hampered by regulations. In joint statements published to both companies’ respective websites on Friday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Spotify CEO Daniel Ek complain that EU…

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The move is an effort to squeeze additional revenue from second-hand products, over concerns that cheaper, slightly used bikes, treadmills and rowers could cannibalize used sales. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. ​ In a shareholder letter released Thursday, Peloton outlined its ongoing strategy to regain its financial footing. It highlights…

Two former OpenAI researchers who resigned this year over safety concerns say they are disappointed but not surprised by OpenAI’s decision to oppose California’s bill to prevent AI disasters, SB 1047. Daniel Kokotajlo and William Saunders previously warned that OpenAI is in a “reckless” race for dominance. “Sam Altman, our former boss, has repeatedly called…

A company spokesperson for the oil drilling and fracking giant declined to name the executive overseeing cybersecurity, if any. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. ​ Oil drilling and fracking giant Halliburton said it has shut down some of its internal systems following a cyberattack earlier this week.  In a brief…

When you really probe venture capitalists about investing in AI startups, they’ll tell you that businesses are experimenting wildly but are very slow to add AI solutions into their ongoing business processes.  But there are some exceptions. And one of them appears to be an area known as AI sales development representatives, or AI SDRs.…