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- Google’s X spins out Heritable Agriculture, a startup using AI to improve crop yield techcrunch.com2025-02-02 23:00:00
Google’s X “moonshot factory” this week announced its latest graduate. Heritable Agriculture is a data- and machine learning-driven startup aiming to improve how crops are grown. As the firm noted in an announcement post published Tuesday, plants are incredibly efficient and impressive systems. “Plants are solar powered, carbon negative, self-assembling machines that feed on sunlight […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- AI systems with ‘unacceptable risk’ are now banned in the EU techcrunch.com2025-02-02 22:00:00
As of Sunday in the European Union, the bloc’s regulators can ban the use of AI systems they deem to pose “unacceptable risk” or harm. February 2 is the first compliance deadline for the EU’s AI Act, the comprehensive AI regulatory framework that the European Parliament finally approved last March after years of development. The […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- Shein app returns to India via Reliance deal techcrunch.com2025-02-02 14:41:56
Chinese fast-fashion retailer Shein has relaunched in India through a partnership with Reliance Retail, nearly five years after it was banned amid diplomatic tensions between New Delhi and Beijing. The new Shein India Fast Fashion app, developed and launched by billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Retail, marks a significant return to one of Asia’s largest retail […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- Senator warns of national security risks after Elon Musk’s DOGE granted ‘full access’ to sensitive Treasury systems techcrunch.com2025-02-02 07:30:13
U.S. senator says Musk's access to Treasury systems represents a "national security risk." © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- X expands lawsuit over advertiser ‘boycott’ to include Lego, Nestlé, Pinterest, and others techcrunch.com2025-02-02 06:40:00
X is now suing more advertisers in an antitrust lawsuit focusing on what the company’s CEO Linda Yaccarino has claimed is a “systematic illegal boycott.” The company formerly known as Twitter first filed the lawsuit against the World Federation of Advertisers and its brand safety initiative known as the Global Alliance of Responsible Media in […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- Adobe exec Scott Belsky departs for indie movie studio A24 techcrunch.com2025-02-02 02:38:22
Adobe’s chief strategy officer Scott Belsky announced this week that he will be joining A24, the independent movie studio behind “Civil War,” “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” and many more titles. Belsky first joined Adobe in 2012 through the acquisition of Behance, leaving briefly in 2016 to become a VC at Benchmark but eventually returning […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- DeepSeek gets Silicon Valley talking techcrunch.com2025-02-02 02:02:00
Welcome back to Week in Review. This week we’re looking at DeepSeek’s major boost in the U.S.; Elon Musk admitting he was wrong about FSD; teens losing trust in Big Tech; and more! Let’s do it. DeepSeek went viral this week after its AI models led Wall Street analysts and technologists to question whether the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- Here are all the IPOs reported to be in the works for 2025 techcrunch.com2025-02-02 01:00:00
These companies have confidentially filed to go public in recent years. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- Here are the apps battling to be become the ‘TikTok for Bluesky’ techcrunch.com2025-02-02 00:00:00
TikTok’s potential U.S. ban has sparked a flurry of development within the open social web community. Several new applications are being built that could one day serve as a TikTok replacement for those who favor the open source, decentralized social network Bluesky and the technology that powers it, the AT Protocol. Though the TikTok ban […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- Venture debt lenders will play a big role in fire sales and startup shutdown this year, experts say techcrunch.com2025-02-02 00:00:00
When accounting startup Bench abruptly failed last month, the shutdown was forced when the company’s lenders called in the startup’s loan. In late 2023, the digital freight company Convoy faced financial challenges, leading venture lending firm Hercules Capital to assume control of the company to recover its investments. Divvy Homes, which sold for about $1 […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
