[[{“value”:” Rivian has changed 600 parts on its R1S SUV and R1T pickup truck in a bid to drive down manufacturing costs, while improving performance of its flagship vehicles. The end goal, which will play out over the coming year, is an existential one. Rivian lost about $38,784 on every vehicle it delivered in the first […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Twitch DJs will now have to pay music labels to play songs in livestreams
[[{“value”:” Twitch has come up with a solution for the ongoing copyright issues that DJs encounter on the platform. The company announced Thursday a new program that enables DJs to stream millions of tracks in a new DJ Category, giving them more clarity on which songs are safe to use in their streams. The only catch […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Google partners with RapidSOS to enable 911 contact through RCS
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Atlassian now gives startups a year of free access
[[{“value”:” Long before product-led growth became a buzzword, Atlassian offered free tiers for virtually all of its productivity and developer tools. Today, that mostly means free access for up to ten users and some other limitations. For startups, that’s a good way to get started with the company’s tools like Jira and Bitbucket, but they also […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies
[[{“value”:” Artists have finally had enough with Meta’s predatory AI policies, but Meta’s loss is Cara’s gain. An artist-run, anti-AI social platform, Cara has grown from 40,000 to 650,000 users within the last week, catapulting it to the top of the App Store charts. Instagram is a necessity for many artists, who use the platform to […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Google looks to AI to help save the coral reefs
[[{“value”:” Google has developed a new AI tool to help marine biologists better understand coral reef ecosystems and their health, which can aid in conversation efforts. The tool, SurfPerch, created with Google Research and DeepMind, was trained on thousands of hours of audio reef recordings that allow scientists studying the reef to be able to “hear […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Tektonic AI raises $10M to build GenAI agents for automating business operations
[[{“value”:” Only a few years ago, one of the hottest topics in enterprise software was ‘robotic process automation’ (RPA). It doesn’t feel like those services, which tried to automate a lot of repetitive business processes, ever quite lived up to their promise. The rise of generative AI, however, may just be the missing key to building […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
SpaceX launches mammoth Starship rocket and brings it back for the first time
[[{“value”:” SpaceX achieved a key milestone in its Starship flight test campaign: returning the booster and the upper stage back to Earth. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Sirion, now valued around $1B, acquires Eigen as consolidation comes to enterprise AI tooling
[[{“value”:” There’s a lot of buzz about generative AI and what impact it might have on businesses. But look beyond the hype and high-profile deals like the one between OpenAI and PwC last week, and you’ll see that the world is already years into using customer-facing, no-code AI tools for extracting information and working faster. Now, […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Kleiner Perkins leads $14.4M seed round into Fizz, a credit-building debit card aimed at Gen Z college students
[[{“value”:” Carlo Kobe and Scott Smith believed so strongly in the need for a debit card product designed specifically for Gen Zers that they dropped out of Harvard and Cornel at ages 19 and 21, respectively, in 2021 to build a startup called Fizz. The pair wanted to go beyond creating a debit card for the […] © 2024 TechCrunch….