Meta won’t say whether it trains AI on smart glasses photos
Meta’s AI-powered Ray-Bans have a discreet camera on the front, for taking photos not just when you ask them to, but also when their AI features trigger it with certain…
Y Combinator is being criticized after it backed an AI startup that admits it basically cloned another AI startup
A Y Combinator startup named PearAI launched with a tweet thread and YouTube video on Saturday and caused an immediate backlash. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use…
11x.ai, a developer of AI sales reps, has raised $50M Series B led by A16Z, sources say
11x.ai, a startup that develops AI-powered sales development bots, has secured roughly $50 million in Series B funding, TechCrunch has learned. The new round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, valuing…
TechCrunch Space: The dawn of the space age
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. Flagging again that the final agenda for the Space Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt is now live. I’ll be pushing this event for the…
The VC buying up prized real estate in SF says not to ‘listen to agitators’
VC Neil Mehta, the Greenoaks Capital co-founder tied to a growing number of building purchases across several blocks of San Francisco’s once-glittering Fillmore Street, defended himself on Monday via an…
Snapchat’s new Footsteps feature tracks your location history
Snapchat is quietly rolling out a new “Footsteps” feature to all iOS users this week, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday. The new feature, which was previously only available…
After delivering astronauts to ISS, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 grounded after third anomaly in three months
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is grounded again after the vehicle’s second stage did not come down in the expected area of the ocean, following an otherwise successful mission that delivered…
iOS 18 Control Center: 18 apps that add useful actions to your iPhone
We’ve compiled a list of iOS 18 apps that users can try in order to take advantage of the redesigned Control Center. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal…
Cruise gets $1.5 million penalty for keeping pedestrian crash details from safety regulator
General Motors’ self-driving subsidiary Cruise must pay a $1.5 million penalty to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, after its initial reports to the safety regulator about last year’s pedestrian…
A Waymo robotaxi stalled in front of VP Harris’ motorcade
A Waymo robotaxi got stuck making a U-turn in front of Vice President Kamala Harris’ motorcade Friday evening in San Francisco. ABC 7 reported that a San Francisco police officer…