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- Nvidia’s AI empire: A look at its top startup investments techcrunch.com2025-03-16 23:05:46
Over the last two years, Nvidia has used its ballooning fortunes to invest in over 80 AI startups. Here are the giant semiconductor's largest investments. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- Photo calorie app Cal AI, downloaded over a million times, was built by two teenagers techcrunch.com2025-03-16 22:00:00
Cal AI has generated over 5 million downloads in 8 months, it says. Founders Zach Yadegari and Henry Langmack are just 18. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- VC Aileen Lee highlights how the broader investor exodus is worsening woes for unicorn companies techcrunch.com2025-03-16 09:30:47
In this week’s episode of the StrictlyVC Download podcast, veteran VC Aileen Lee was direct about a major consequence of the recent boom-and-bust cycle: many companies stuck in limbo aren’t just struggling to regain their footing after raising too much money at unsustainable valuations; they’ve also lost the champions who once backed them. Lee was […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- Joby Aviation and Virgin Atlantic partner to launch electric air taxis in the UK techcrunch.com2025-03-16 08:01:00
Joby Aviation is partnering with Virgin Atlantic to launch electric air taxis in the U.K., marking the seventh country in which the startup hopes to one day commercialize. Joby, which went public in 2021 via special purpose acquisition merger, did not provide a timeline for when it plans to launch its partnership with Virgin in […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- Amazon’s Echo will send all voice recordings to the cloud, starting March 28 techcrunch.com2025-03-16 03:47:46
Amazon Echo users will no longer have the option to process their Alexa requests locally, which means all of their voice recordings will be sent to the company’s cloud. Ars Technica reports that on Friday, Amazon sent an email to customers who have “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” enabled on their Echo smart speakers and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- How to watch Nvidia GTC 2025, including CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote techcrunch.com2025-03-16 02:59:26
GTC, Nvidia’s biggest conference of the year, will return this week, with the biggest announcements probably coming Tuesday. If you can’t make it in person, don’t sweat it. TechCrunch will be on the ground covering the major developments. Many of the biggest presentations, talks, and panels will be livestreamed as well. The conference starts Monday, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- Nvidia GTC 2025: What to expect from this year’s show techcrunch.com2025-03-16 02:57:29
GTC, Nvidia’s biggest conference of the year, begins Monday and runs till Friday in San Jose. TechCrunch will be on the ground covering the news as it happens — and we’re expecting a healthy dose of announcements. CEO Jensen Huang will give a keynote address at the SAP Center on Tuesday at 10 a.m. Pacific, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- Bluesky users debate plans around user data and AI training techcrunch.com2025-03-16 01:50:18
Social network Bluesky recently published a proposal on GitHub outlining new options it could give users to indicate whether they want their posts and data to be scraped for things like generative AI training and public archiving. CEO Jay Graber discussed the proposal earlier this week, while on-stage at South by Southwest, but it attracted […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- Week in Review: SXSW week comes to a close techcrunch.com2025-03-16 01:05:00
Welcome back to Week in Review! I’m Karyne Levy, TechCrunch’s deputy managing editor, and I’ll be writing this newsletter from here on out. Thrilled to be here! This week we’re checking out everything at SXSW; Waymo’s expansion into Silicon Valley; Intel’s new CEO; TikTok’s new suitor; and why DeepSeek isn’t taking VC money. Let’s get […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
- ‘Open’ AI model licenses often carry concerning restrictions techcrunch.com2025-03-15 03:48:24
This week, Google released a family of open AI models, Gemma 3, that quickly garnered praise for their impressive efficiency. But as a number of developers lamented on X, Gemma 3’s license makes commercial use of the models a risky proposition. It’s not a problem unique to Gemma 3. Companies like Meta also apply custom, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
