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Farmblox puts the control into farmers' hands with its AI-powered sensor-reading platform

Nathan Rosenberg, the founder of farm automation platform Farmblox, said if there is one thing to know about trying to sell technology to farmers, it's that ...

Lakera, which protects enterprises from LLM vulnerabilities, raises $20M

Lakera, a Swiss startup that's building technology to protect generative AI applications from malicious prompts and other threats, has raised $20 million in ...

CIOs' concerns over generative AI echo those of the early days of cloud computing

When I attended the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium in May, it struck me that as I listened to CIOs talking about the latest technology — in this case generative AI ...

Intron Health gets backing for its speech recognition tool that recognizes African accents

Voice recognition is getting integrated in nearly all facets of modern living, but there remains a big gap: speakers of minority languages, and those with...

Arm announces an open-source graphics upscaler for mobile phones

Arm is launching its Arm Accuracy Super Resolution (ASR), a temporal upscaling technology that’s optimized for mobile devices.

Canva acquires Leonardo.ai to boost its generative AI efforts

Canva has acquired Leonardo.ai, a generative AI content and research startup, as the company looks to deepen its investments in its AI tech stack. The...

You could learn a lot from a CIO with a $17B IT budget

Lori Beer, global CIO at JPMorgan Chase, oversees a massive IT operation that's bigger than many companies. It involves a 63,000-person team worldwide and a...

Sequoia-backed Knowde raises Series C at a valuation cut

Knowde, an online marketplace for chemicals and polymers, just closed on a Series C round, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The round included new...

Sensorita uses digital twins to help waste management companies streamline construction waste

The amount of waste produced by the construction industry adds up to more than a third of the overall waste produced each year in the European Union...

Fisker scores a win, an AV startup reboots in Texas, and why Elon pushed the Tesla robotaxi reveal

Fisker has a little something to celebrate this week as it winds its way through Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. Despite one major objector, a judge has ...

Meta will soon let kids aged 10 to 12 interact with others in VR with their parents' approval

Meta announced on Wednesday that users aged 10 to 12 will soon be able to interact with others in VR if they have their parents' approval to do so. In an...

Ghost federates its first newsletter

Over the past few days, Ghost says it has achieved two major milestones in its move to become a federated service.

OpenAI endorses Senate bills that could shape America's AI policy

A lot of AI bills are flying around Congress these days, and OpenAI is throwing its weight behind some of them. OpenAI endorsed three Senate bills on...

Fertility tracking app Flo Health raises $200M at a $1B+ valuation

Femtech, or tech that leverages innovations in AI, smartphones and connected wearables to give women more insights into reproductive and menstrual health...

Andreessen Horowitz co-founders explain why they're supporting Trump

Marc Andreessen, the co-founder of one of the most prominent venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, says he's been a Democrat most of his life. In the...

OpenAI-backed legaltech startup Harvey raises $100M

Harvey, a startup building what it describes as an AI-powered "copilot" for lawyers, has raised $100 million in a Series C round led by GV, Google's...

Alphabet is abandoning its Mineral robo-agriculture startup

Alphabet has reportedly licensed its Mineral robotic agriculture tech to berry producer Driscoll’s following fierce industry competition and slim profit margins.

Vampire Survivors is coming to Apple Arcade

Vampire Survivors is coming to Apple Arcade on August 1st, Apple announced on Tuesday. There’s a new version of Temple Run hitting Apple Arcade, too.

Apple, Anthropic and other companies used YouTube videos to train AI

A dataset of YouTube video subtitles that was used by Apple, Nvidia, and Anthropic to train AI includes material from MrBeast, the BBC, and even The Verge.

How to protect your startup from email scams

Despite years of claims that the “death of email” is fast approaching, the decades-old communication method continues to thrive in business. An email...

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