Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, walked into the sunlight-lit hotel conference room in Brooklyn on Thursday to meet with a dozen youth leaders working in tech safety, policy, and innovation. The young adults chatted away at black circular tables, many unaware of his presence until he plopped down at a table and started talking with […]
Chinese AI startup Manus reportedly gets funding from Benchmark at $500M valuation
Chinese startup Manus AI, which works on building tools related to AI agents, has picked up $75 million in a funding round led by Benchmark at a roughly $500 million valuation, according to Bloomberg. The company will use the money to expand to new markets, including the U.S., Japan, and the Middle East, Bloomberg noted, […]
Data breach at Connecticut’s Yale New Haven Health affects over 5 million
Yale New Haven Health is Connecticut’s largest healthcare provider.
Data breach at Connecticut’s Yale New Haven Health affects over 5 million
Yale New Haven Health is Connecticut’s largest healthcare provider.
TechCrunch StrictlyVC in Athens in May will feature a special guest: the Greece Prime Minister
We’re thrilled to announce that Greece Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be joining us at our upcoming StrictlyVC event in Athens, co-hosted with Endeavor, on Thursday night, May 8, at the stunning Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center. For those who might not be familiar with his background, Mitsotakis brings a fascinating blend of experiences to […]
Bezos-backed Slate Auto debuts analog EV pickup truck that is decidedly anti-Tesla
A new American electric vehicle startup called Slate Auto has made its debut, and it’s about as anti-Tesla as it gets. It’s affordable, deeply customizable, and very analog. It has manual windows and it doesn’t come with a main infotainment screen. Heck, it isn’t even painted. It can also transform from a two-seater pickup to […]
Faraday Future founder named co-CEO three years after being sidelined by internal probe
Troubled electric vehicle startup Faraday Future’s board of directors has appointed founder Jia Yueting as the company’s co-CEO, three years after he was sidelined following an internal probe into allegations of fraud — a probe that led to a investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission that remains ongoing. Jia will serve alongside current CEO […]
Wait, how did a decentralized service like Bluesky go down?
Apparently, decentralized social networks can go down, too. On Thursday evening, the decentralized social network Bluesky experienced a significant outage, leaving users unable to load the app on both the web and mobile devices for roughly an hour. According to a message on Bluesky’s status page, the company was aware of the outage, which it […]
Valuing vaccines for World Immunisation Week
[[{“value”:” Valuing vaccines for World Immunisation Week In February, the tragic death of a child in Texas marked the first person to die of measles in the US in 10 years. Since then, a further two children have died from the disease. Even though a safe and effective measles vaccine is available, 96% of the more than 800 people who…
Anthropic CEO wants to open the black box of AI models by 2027
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay Thursday highlighting how little researchers understand about the inner workings of the world’s leading AI models. To address that, Amodei set an ambitious goal for Anthropic to reliably detect most AI model problems by 2027. Amodei acknowledges the challenge ahead. In “The Urgency of Interpretability,” the CEO says Anthropic has […]