Git platform AllSpice now curries favor with enterprises
AllSpice shifted its strategy to bring enterprise engineers together to more easily collaborate on projects. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Meta and IBM form an AI Alliance, but to what end?
Meta, on an open source tear, wants to spread its influence further and wider in the ongoing battle for AI mindshare. This morning, the social network announced that it’s teaming up with IBM, whose audience is
Veteran life sciences firm RA Capital spins up ‘planetary health’ team to ride climate tech wave
Partners at RA Capital realized that if they didn’t try to address climate change and its health effects, their life science investments wouldn’t be as impactful. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.
Kyron Learning secures $14.6M to expand its conversational AI technology
Kyron Learning, an AI-based learning startup, announced today its $14.6 million Series A funding round plus a $850,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The new capital will further develop the
EnCharge raises $22.6M to commercialize its AI-accerating chips
Around a year ago, TechCrunch wrote about a little-known company developing AI-accelerating chips to face off against hardware from titans of industry — e.g. Nvidia, AMD, Microsoft, Meta, AWS and Intel. Its mission
Vancouver’s Fantuan raises $40M to deliver real Chinese food at your doorstep
For those who move abroad from China, one thing they miss dearly is the convenience of food delivery apps. Fantuan, a Vancouver-based company, has been working on replicating the experience of Chinese food delivery
Foretellix raises $85M to build and test scenarios for self-driving systems
On their way to building fully-autonomous vehicles, self-driving car makers are facing a tall task: training their AIs to be able to respond reliably to any and all scenarios that a car, truck or bus might encounter
GTA VI trailer reviewed – Everything we learned from the early release
GTA VI Trailer Day turned out to be a damp squib in the end. The trailer leaked, Rockstar was forced to release it officially a day early alongside a frustrated tweet and we all re-learned the internet is a
Used by only a few nerds, Facebook kills PGP-encrypted emails
In 2015, as part of the wave of encrypting all the things on the internet, encouraged by the Edward Snowden revelations, Facebook announced that it would allow users to receive encrypted emails from the company.
Meta set to discontinue cross-messaging between Instagram and Facebook
Meta has silently updated its support pages to indicate that the company won’t let users on Instagram message their Facebook contacts anymore. The company, as pointed out by 9to5Google, said the feature will shut