Innovation
What ClickUp’s mass layoff tells us about the future of work | TechCrunch
AI’s biggest champions have argued for some time that the technology will usher in an era of unprecedented productivity gains, richly rewarding workers who harness it while displacing those...
Everyone is navigating AI security in real time — even Google | TechCrunch
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Francis de Souza, COO of Google Cloud, backstage at an event in Los Angeles. Amid the din around us, de...
SolarSquare in talks to raise up to $60M as India’s rooftop solar market draws major VC interest | TechCrunch
SolarSquare, an Indian rooftop solar startup that helps households and housing societies adopt solar power, is in advanced talks to raise fresh capital after securing India’s largest solar venture...
AI is being used to resurrect the voices of dead pilots | TechCrunch
In the latest sign of these AI-heavy times, the National Transportation Safety Board temporarily removed access to its docket system after discovering that voices of pilots who were killed...
Finnish phone-maker HMD bundles Indian AI chatbot onto new smartphone in push to reach local market | TechCrunch
Finnish phone maker HMD today launched its first smartphone, called the Vibe 2 5G, which comes preloaded with Indian AI company Sarvam’s chatbot Indus. Both companies had first announced...
Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links | TechCrunch
For months, scammers have been taking advantage of a loophole that allows them to send spammy emails from an internal Microsoft email address typically used for sending legitimate account...
Stability AI releases a new audio model that can create six-minute songs | TechCrunch
Stability AI, the company behind Stable Diffusion, is releasing a new family of audio models, called Stability Audio 3.0. The top model can generate professional-grade music of more than...
Google’s Genie world model can now simulate real streets with Street View | TechCrunch
We’ve all pulled up Street View on Google Maps to show a friend what our childhood home looked like, or dropped that little person icon onto the streets of...
Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare | TechCrunch
Anthropic announced Monday it has acquired Stainless, a startup founded by former Stripe engineer Alex Rattray whose software is widely used by rival AI labs, including OpenAI and Google....
Apple’s Siri revamp could include auto-deleting chats | TechCrunch
Privacy will be a major theme when Apple unveils a new version of Siri at the Worldwide Developers Conference in June, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The Siri relaunch...