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Deal Dive: How (Re)vive grew 10x last year by helping retailers recycle and sell returned items

​[[{“value”:” The fashion industry has a huge problem: Despite many returned items being unworn or undamaged, a lot, if not the majority, end up in the trash. An estimated 9.5 billion pounds of returns ended up in landfills in 2022 alone, according to data from return logistics software company Optoro. New York-based (Re)vive wants to help […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

You can no longer use Tumblr’s tipping feature 

​[[{“value”:” Tumblr officially shut down “Tips,” an opt-in feature where creators could receive one-time payments from their followers.  As of today, the tipping icon has automatically disappeared from all posts and blogs with the feature enabled. Creators that use the feature should note that June 15 is the last day they can withdraw money they received […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

This Week in AI: Can we (and could we ever) trust OpenAI?

​[[{“value”:” Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. By the way, TechCrunch plans to launch an AI newsletter […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

Inside EV startup Fisker’s collapse: how the company crumbled under its founders’ whims

​[[{“value”:” An autonomous pod. A solid-state battery-powered sports car. An electric pickup truck. A convertible grand tourer EV with up to 600 miles of range. A “fully connected mobility device” for young urban innovators to be built by Foxconn and priced under $30,000. The next Popemobile. Over the past eight years, famed vehicle designer Henrik Fisker […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

Hugging Face says it detected ‘unauthorized access’ to its AI model hosting platform

​[[{“value”:” Late Friday afternoon, a time window companies usually reserve for unflattering disclosures, AI startup Hugging Face said that its security team earlier this week detected “unauthorized access” to Spaces, Hugging Face’s platform for creating, sharing and hosting AI models and resources. In a blog post, Hugging Face said that the intrusion related to Spaces secrets, […] © 2024 TechCrunch….