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Startups Weekly: It’s the dawning of the age of AI — plus, Musk is raging against the machine
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Welcome to Startups Weekly! We’ve been drowning in AI news this week, with Google’s I/O setting the pace. And Elon Musk rages against the machine.
IndieBio’s Bay Area incubator is about to debut its 15th cohort of biotech startups. We took special note of a few, which were making some major, bordering on ludicrous, claims…
YouTube TV has announced that its multiview feature for watching four streams at once is now available on Android phones and tablets. The Android launch comes two months after YouTube…
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Two Santa Cruz students uncover security bug that could let millions do their laundry for free
CSC ServiceWorks provides laundry machines to thousands of residential homes and universities, but the company ignored requests to fix a security bug.
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AI
OpenAI created a team to control ‘superintelligent’ AI — then let it wither, source says
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OpenAI’s Superalignment team, responsible for developing ways to govern and steer “superintelligent” AI systems, was promised 20% of the company’s compute resources, according to a person from that team. But…
Decks are all about telling a compelling story and Goodcarbon does a good job on that front. But there’s important information missing too.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 is just around the corner, and the buzz is palpable. But what if we told you there’s a chance for you to not just attend, but also…
Media & Entertainment
TechCrunch Minute: Here’s why the video portal between NYC and Dublin shut down
9:00 AM PDT • May 17, 2024
If you were planning to check out the Portal, we have some bad news: The 24-hour livestream installation connecting Dublin and New York City has…
Slack is making it difficult for its customers if they want the company to stop using its data for model training.
A Texas-based company that provides health insurance and benefit plans disclosed a data breach affecting almost 2.5 million people, some of whom had their Social Security number stolen. WebTPA said…
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Microsoft dodges UK antitrust scrutiny over its Mistral AI stake
Microsoft won’t be facing antitrust scrutiny in the U.K. over its recent investment into French AI startup Mistral AI.
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Startups
AI’s busy week, and why the heck are so many VCs leaving their firms?
7:10 AM PDT • May 17, 2024
If there was one thing we heard about this week, it was AI. As a matter of fact, there were so many AI updates to…
Fintech
Embedded finance is still trendy as accounting automation startup Ember partners with HSBC UK
6 hours ago
Ember has partnered with HSBC in the U.K. so that the bank’s business customers can access Ember’s services from their online accounts.
Fintech
Kudos lands $10M for an AI smart wallet that picks the best credit card for purchases
7 hours ago
Kudos uses AI to figure out consumer spending habits so it can then provide more personalized financial advice, like maximizing rewards and utilizing credit effectively.
Government & Policy
EU warns Microsoft it could be fined billions over missing GenAI risk info
7 hours ago
The EU’s warning comes after Microsoft failed to respond to a legally binding request for information that focused on its generative AI tools.
Startups
A US Trustee wants troubled fintech Synapse to be liquidated via Chapter 7 bankruptcy, cites ‘gross mismanagement’
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The prospects for troubled banking-as-a-service startup Synapse have gone from bad to worse this week after a United States Trustee filed an emergency motion on Wednesday. The trustee is asking…
U.K.-based Seraphim Space is spinning up its 13th accelerator program, with nine participating companies working on a range of tech from propulsion to in-space manufacturing and space situational awareness. The…
OpenAI has reached a deal with Reddit to use the social news site’s data for training AI models. In a blog post on OpenAI’s press relations site, the company said…
X users will now be able to discover posts from new Communities that are trending directly from an Explore tab within the section.
For Mark Zuckerberg’s 40th birthday, his wife got him a photoshoot. Zuckerberg gives the camera a sly smile as he sits amid a carefully crafted re-creation of his childhood bedroom.…
