[[{“value”:” On stage at Nvidia’s GTC 2025 conference in San Jose on Tuesday, CEO Jensen Huang announced a slew of new GPUs coming down the company’s product pipeline over the next few months. Perhaps the most significant was Vera Rubin. Vera Rubin, which is set to be released in the second half of 2026, will feature […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Tesla and Rivian charging networks have fewest problems by far, according to Consumer Reports
[[{“value”:” The most problem-free EV charging networks in the U.S. right now are the ones built by Tesla and Rivian, according to a new survey from Consumer Reports. The publication surveyed 1,230 owners on their EV charging experiences between March 2024 and February 2024, and just 4% of the respondents said they experienced problems at Tesla’s […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Bolt’s former CEO is launching a new e-commerce startup
[[{“value”:” Maju Kuruvilla, who left the CEO role of controversial one-click checkout startup Bolt last year, is back. He’s launching his own startup, focused on a different problem for online shoppers: what he calls “check-in.” When you click on an ad for something like a t-shirt, the experience afterwards can feel a little clunky. The website […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Pebble creator unveils the first new Pebble-inspired smartwatches
[[{“value”:” It looks like a Pebble, it works like a Pebble, but don’t call it a Pebble. Eric Migicovsky, the original creator of the Pebble smartwatch, just unveiled two new smartwatches — the Core 2 Duo and the Core Time 2. Those spiritual successors to the Pebble smartwatches are available for pre-orders for $149 and $225 […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Stability AI’s new AI model turns photos into 3D scenes
[[{“value”:” Stability AI has released a new AI model, Stable Virtual Camera, that the company claims can transform 2D images into “immersive” videos with realistic depth and perspective. Virtual cameras are tools often used in digital filmmaking and 3D animation to capture and navigate scenes in real-time. With Stable Virtual Camera, Stability sought to add generative […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Google brings a ‘canvas’ feature to Gemini, plus Audio Overview
[[{“value”:” They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and Google seems to agree. On Tuesday, the company added a feature to its AI-powered Gemini chatbot that the company is calling Canvas. Similar in concept to OpenAI’s identically-named Canvas tool for ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Artifacts, Canvas provides Gemini users with an interactive space where they […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
CISA scrambles to contact fired employees after court rules layoffs ‘unlawful’
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Al Gore’s Just Climate fund raises $175M from Microsoft and CalSTRS for nature-based climate investments
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Arcade raises $12M from Perplexity co-founder’s new fund to make AI agents less awful
[[{“value”:” Arcade, an AI agent infrastructure startup founded by former Okta exec Alex Salazar and former Redis engineer Sam Partee, has raised $12 million from Laude Ventures. Laude is the new fund launched in 2024 by Perplexity co-founder Andy Konwinski, the UC Berkeley computer scientist who also co-founded Databricks. This isn’t the only check Laude has cut. But it […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Anthropic-backed AI-powered code review platform Graphite raises cash
[[{“value”:” AI coding assistants are becoming wildly popular, with the vast majority of respondents in GitHub’s latest poll saying that they’ve adopted AI tools in some form. Y Combinator partner Jared Friedman recently claimed that a quarter of YC’s W25 startup batch have 95% of their codebases generated by AI. Sensing an opportunity, VCs are rushing to back startups developing […] © 2024 TechCrunch….