Anthropic releases Claude app for Android
- July 16, 2024
Anthropic launched its Claude Android app on Tuesday to bring its AI chatbot to more users. This is Anthropic’s latest effort to convince users to ditch ChatGPT by making Claude…
Microsoft faces UK antitrust probe after hiring Inflection AI founders and employees
- July 16, 2024
U.K. authorities have until early September to decide whether the hiring is tantamount to a merger. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Perplexity’s Aravind Srinivas on accelerating everyday AI at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
- July 16, 2024
As AI competition heats up, Perplexity has proven resilient due to its focus on using the technology strictly as a tool to let people “learn anything in their own way.”…
A company building Wordle for chess raises money from a16z Speedrun, Mark Pincus and Eric Wu
- July 16, 2024
Echo Chunk, a company that is building Wordle-styled daily chess puzzle game Echo Chess, has raised $1.4 million in pre-seed from a16z Speedrun (Andreessen Horowitz’s early stage games accelerator), founder…
Exa raises $17M from Lightspeed, Nvidia, Y Combinator to build a Google for AIs
- July 16, 2024
While there’s no shortage of startups aiming to replace Google with AI-powered search, a startup called Exa has a different idea. Search for the AIs. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights…
Presti is using GenAI to replace costly furniture industry photo shoots
- July 16, 2024
If you’ve ever bought a sofa online, have you thought about the homes you can see in the background of the product shots? When it’s time to release a new…
TechCrunch Minute: A Google robot shows off what Gemini can do
- July 15, 2024
Google found a new way to demonstrate what its Gemini AI model can do, with help from a robot. This was a robot from Google’s Everybody Robots Division, which was…
Google’s talks to buy Wiz, and the gap between AI spending and AI revenue
- July 15, 2024
On today’s episode of Equity, Rebecca Bellan explored Google’s reported talks to acquire Wiz, a cloud security company, for around $23 billion. Wiz provides an “all-in-one approach to cloud security,”…
YouTube Music is testing an AI-generated radio feature and adding a song recognition tool
- July 15, 2024
YouTube Music is introducing two new ways to boost song discovery on its platform. YouTube announced on Monday that it’s experimenting with an AI-generated conversational radio feature, and rolling out…
Bird Buddy’s new AI feature lets people name and identify individual birds
- July 15, 2024
Name That Bird determines individual members of a species by identifying distinguishing characteristics that most humans would be hard-pressed to spot. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use…