Google pushes AI into flight deals as antitrust scrutiny, causing competition to heat up
On Thursday, Google announced a search tool powered by new AI to help travelers find travel deals. Called the Flight Deal, this new tool is available within Google Flights and is designed to help “flexible travelers” find cheap fares. Users can enter natural language queries into the search bar (describe how and when they want […]
AI translation technology Palabra receives support from the venture company co-founder of Reddit
A startup called Palabra AI, which develops an AI-powered voice translation engine, is tackling one of the more difficult aspects of teaching large-scale language models (LLMs) to understand multiple languages. Today, LLM makes text easier to convert from one language to another, but according to Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit, speech translation is not that […]
Cohere hires longtime metal research head Joelle Pineau as the best AI executive
Investors once poured around $1 billion into CEO Aidan Gomez as a promising candidate for Canadian AI startups to challenge Openai and humanity in the race to build frontier AI models. However, Cohere’s AI model has fallen to the forefront and its business has not expanded like its competitors. Now, the company is inviting veteran […]
Apple’s blood oxygen monitoring returns to the latest Apple Watches
On Thursday, Apple announced it will introduce redesigned blood oxygen capabilities for the Watch Series 8, Series 10 and Apple Watch Ultra. With this move, Apple is regaining blood oxygen monitoring by tweaking functionality to avoid the International Trade Commission (ITC) import ban. Blood oxygen data is measured and calculated on the user’s pair of […]
Airbnb allows users to book their stays without advance payment
Airbnb has launched a new feature called “Reserve Now, Pay Later.” This allows US users to book their property without paying in advance. This may result in the hassle of canceling your reservation if your plans change. This feature can be applied to properties with “flexible” or “medium” cancellation policies. Flexible policies allow users to […]
Elon Musk’s Xai co-founder leaves the company
Igor Babuschkin, co-founder of Elon Musk’s Xai startup, resigned from the company on Wednesday at Xa’s Engineering Engineering Team post, building the startup a few years after being founded into one of the leading AI model developers in Silicon Valley. “Today was my last day at Xai, helping me get started with Elon Musk in […]
Pebble smartwatch is back: Pebble Time 2 specifications revealed
Eric Migicovsky, the original creator of Pebble SmartWatch, showed off a new design for the upcoming watch, now known as Pebble Time 2, on Wednesday. The company originally branded the new watch as a new Core Time 2 when it first announced plans to return to the market in March, but Migicovsky says the company […]
Humanity’s nabs Humanloop team as a competition for enterprise AI talents gets hot
Anthropic has pushed to bolster its enterprise strategy and acquired the co-founders and most of the team behind Humanloop, a platform for rapid management, LLM assessment and observability. Although the terms of the transaction were not shared, it appears to follow the acquisition-employment playbook increasingly seen in the tech industry amid the war on AI […]
Women have made real progress in venture capital, and the numbers prove it
A new report from the nonprofit found that the proportion of women and nonbinary individuals in the partner roles of all major companies has doubled in the past few years despite market headwinds. Rays CEO Page Hendrix Buckner chatted with TechCrunch’s Dominic-Madori Davis about his push for the equity shift this week. “It has two […]
Tony Robbins and Peter Diamandis’s Longevity Company Fountain Living Raising $18 million
Eight years ago, orthopedic surgeon Dr. William Cup attended a medical conference that changed his professional life. He co-founded a company from a private practice doctor who built a critical care hospital and sold the company. It gave him interest in both sides of healthcare: the medication and business side, he told TechCrunch. There he […]