[[{“value”:” Last decade, companies like Segment rewrote the book on how organizations used APIs to merge data from disparate apps to improve marketing strategies. Today, a startup called Hightouch — co-founded by a former engineering manager at Segment — is announcing $80 million in funding for the next chapter: a platform that lets sales, marketing, and […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Lingo.dev is an app localization engine for developers
[[{“value”:” Monolinguists wanting to communicate with the global masses have never had it so easy. Trusty old Google Translate can convert the content of images, audio, and entire websites across hundreds of languages, while newer tools such as ChatGPT also serve as handy pocket translators. On the back end, DeepL and ElevenLabs have have reached lofty […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
As US newspaper outages drag on, Lee Enterprises blames cyberattack for encrypting critical systems
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Legal AI-startup Luminance, backed by the late Mike Lynch, raises $75M
[[{“value”:” Given Generative AI is very good at interpreting dense texts, it’s been a boon for startups attacking one of the most complex sets of texts there is: the law. We’ve thus seen an explosion of legal tech, supercharged by AI, in the last year or so. Lawtech startup Eudia bagged $105 million only last week. […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Level Zero Health banks $6.9M to prove wearable medtech can take the strain out of hormone testing
[[{“value”:” Level Zero Health, a female-founded medical device startup that’s aiming to break new ground by developing a device for continuous hormone monitoring, has closed an oversubscribed $6.9 million pre-seed funding round despite being only a little over a year old. The startup wants to do away with the need for invasive blood draws and support […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
X doubles its Premium+ plan prices after xAI releases Grok 3
[[{“value”:” Hours after Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI released the latest version of its AI model, Grok 3, X has significantly hiked the price for its top Premium+ subscription plan, which gives users access to the latest model, to almost $50 per month. On the support page that lists X’s premium plans, the monthly subscription price […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, releases its latest flagship model, Grok 3
[[{“value”:” Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, released its latest flagship AI model, Grok 3, late Monday night, along with new capabilities in the Grok apps for iOS and the web. Grok, xAI’s answer to models like OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Google’s Gemini, can analyze images and respond to questions, and powers a number of features on Musk’s social network, X. […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Thousands protest Elon Musk’s DOGE in NYC on Presidents’ Day
[[{“value”:” More than 10,000 protesters gathered in New York City on Presidents’ Day to speak out against the current Trump administration and the actions in particular of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). It was one of several protests that took place Monday in major cities across the country and came during the same long […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Nextdoor’s Nirav Tolia thinks he can turn things around with AI; he has a lot riding on it
[[{“value”:” Social media is often about scale, but Nextdoor bet long ago on something different: that it could grow a big business off smaller, local communities. For years, the plan worked. The 15-year-old company has long been a dominant platform for neighborhood-based conversations, connecting users for everything from lost pet alerts to local business recommendations. Then […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Are your noise-canceling headphones messing with your head?
[[{“value”:” We all know headphones can be bad for your hearing if you listen to sounds too loudly in such close proximity to your ears. But a BBC report suggests that a new health scare could be emerging around the noise-canceling feature that’s hugely popular in modern earphones. The article considers whether the technology could essentially […] © 2024 TechCrunch….