A bumpy road for EV manufacturers
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Rivian launched with a promise to revolutionize the way we
Treating a chatbot nicely might boost its performance — here’s why
People are more likely to do something if you ask nicely. That’s a fact most of us are well aware of. But do generative AI models behave the same way? To a point. Phrasing requests in a certain way — meanly or
Humane pushes Ai Pin ship date to mid-April
Hardware is difficult, to paraphrase a famous adage. First-generation products from new startups are notoriously so, regardless of how much money and excitement you’ve managed to drum up. Given all that, it’s likely
Arc browser’s new AI-powered ‘pinch-to-summarize’ feature is clever, but often miss the mark
The Browser company’s Arc, a browser focused on a less cluttered web experience, launched a new feature in its mobile app Arc Search that uses AI to summarize web pages. The feature involves a clever “pinching”
Reddit downplays risks of developer backlash, decentralized social media in its IPO filing
Reddit’s long-awaited IPO is nearing, promising to be the largest social media IPO since Pinterest. But in the company’s S-1 filing, Reddit fails to fully address the complications that arose from changes to its
For Redditors who treat trading like trolling, Reddit’s IPO could be the ultimate meme
As Reddit finally files to go public, the company wrote in its S-1 filing that “meme stock” schemes on r/WallStreetBets could pose a risk to investors. The subreddit r/WallStreetBets, a community of retail traders
Last call — Disrupt 2-for-1 sale ends today
Act quickly, entrepreneurs! The clock is ticking on your chance to seize a scorching deal: TechCrunch Disrupt is returning to San Francisco from October 28–30, and the 2-for-1 ticket offer ends tonight at midnight!
Mutale Nkonde’s nonprofit is working to make AI less biased
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Woman trains AI on her exes, creates a hologram and marries it. Please bring on the apocalypse soon
A woman living in Spain has found her new love in the form of a hologram which has taken on the similarities of her previous boyfriends. In the summer, artist Alicia Framis will be marrying AILex, an AI hologram,
Apple’s rumored foldable device probably won’t be an iPhone
Apple has been working on its first foldable product for quite some time — but it won’t be an iPhone.This is according to Taiwanese supply chain sources, who told DigiTimes (via MacRumors) that this product has been