Category: Gaming
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Letta, one of UC Berkeley’s most anticipated AI startups, has just come out of stealth
AI memory management startup Letta just emerged from stealth with $10 million in seed led by Felicis and a bunch of big-name angels. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. A startup called Letta has just emerged from stealth with tech that helps AI models remember users and conversations. Created in…
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Boston Dynamics’ Spot can now autonomously unlock doors
The “embedded digital access credentials” work over Bluetooth. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. In a deal revealed Monday, door hardware giant Assa Abloy announced that Boston Dynamics’ Spot will be able to autonomously unlock its automated doors. “Until now,” the lock maker notes, “the word ‘autonomous’ didn’t apply to…
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Consumer, culture, and creators with Erin and Sara Foster at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
Two of the industry’s most famous sisters, Erin and Sara Foster, sit down alongside business partner Phil Schwarz at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 to talk about consumer investing, culture curation, and what it means to be a creator in the modern age. Moderated on the Disrupt main stage, the conversation will surround the creator economy, consumer…
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Rabbit’s web-based ‘large action model’ agent arrives on r1 as early as this week
The Rabbit r1 was the must-have gadget of early 2024, but the blush fell off it pretty quick when the company’s expansive promises failed to materialize. CEO Jesse Lyu admits that “on day one, we set our expectations too high” — but that an update coming to its devices this month will finally set their…
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Synex founder, once detained at the border with an 80-pound magnet, is building portable MRIs to test glucose
Synex Medical just raised $21.8 million to build a portable MRI capable of testing glucose and other important molecules without the need to extract blood. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Back in 2019, Synex Medical founder Ben Nashman spent the night detained by US customs. Nashman tried to explain…
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Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a ‘cancer to WordPress’ and urges community to switch providers
Automattic CEO and WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg unleashed a scathing attack on a rival firm this week, calling WP Engine a “cancer to WordPress.” Mullenweg criticized the company — which has been commercializing the open source WordPress project since 2010 — for profiteering without giving much back, while also disabling key features that make WordPress…
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SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son has been planning his comeback
A new Financial Times profile of Mayayoshi Son opens with SoftBank’s CEO seeming to hit bottom, staring at his “ugly” face on Zoom and telling himself, “I have done nothing I can be proud of.” Indeed, Son largely disappeared from the public eye after SoftBank’s Vision Fund took huge losses from investments like WeWork. But…
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Some startups are going ‘fair source’ to avoid the pitfalls of open source licensing
The fair source concept is designed to help companies align themselves with the “open” software development sphere, without encroaching into existing licensing landscapes. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. With the perennial tensions between proprietary and open source software (OSS) unlikely to end anytime soon, a $3 billion startup is…
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The TechCrunch Cyber Glossary
This glossary includes some of the most common terms and expressions we use in our articles, and explanations of how — and why — we use them. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Cybersecurity is a world full of technical lingo and jargon. At TechCrunch, we have been writing about…
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Linus Torvalds explains why aging Linux developers are a good thing
Linux’s luminary linchpin, Linus Torvalds, says that despite longstanding reports of burnout in the open source software development realm, Linux is as strong as ever. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Linux’s luminary linchpin, Linus Torvalds, says that despite longstanding reports of burnout in the open source software development realm,…