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Accion’s new $152.5M fund will back financial institutions serving small businesses globally
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Threads finally starts its own fact-checking program
[[{“value”:” Meta’s newest social network, Threads, is starting its own fact-checking program after piggybacking on Instagram and Facebook’s network for a few months. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Looking Glass launches new 3D displays
[[{“value”:” Looking Glass makes trippy-looking mixed-reality screens that make things look 3D without the need of special glasses. Today, it launches a pair of new displays, including a 16-inch mode that runs $4,000. There’s also a 32-inch display, with a ‘if you have to ask how much it costs you can’t afford it’ price tag. The […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI co-founder and longtime chief scientist, departs
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Intuitive Machines wants to help NASA return samples from Mars
[[{“value”:” Intuitive Machines made history when it became the first private company to land a spacecraft on the moon, so it makes sense to adapt that tech for Mars. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Google adds ‘Web’ search filter for showing old-school text links as AI rolls out
[[{“value”:” As Google revamps itself for the AI era, offering AI overviews within its search results, the company is introducing a new way to filter for just text-based links. With the new “Web” filter that appears at the top of the results page, users will be able to filter for text links the way they can […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Blue Origin to resume crewed New Shepard launches on May 19
[[{“value”:” Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket will take a crew to suborbital space for the first time in nearly two years later this month, the company announced on Tuesday. The NS-25 mission will launch from Blue’s launch site in West Texas on May 19. The launch window opens at 8:30 a.m. The six-person crew includes Ed […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Google is building its Gemini Nano AI model into Chrome on the desktop
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Google mentioned ‘AI’ 120+ times during its I/O keynote
[[{“value”:” It ran 110 minutes, but Google managed to reference AI a whopping 121 times during Google I/O 2024 (by its own count). CEO Sundar Pichai referenced the figure to wrap up the presentation, cheekily stating that the company was doing the “hard work” of counting for us. No surprise, of course, that the topic took […] © 2024 TechCrunch….