Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Welcome to TC PM! Today we have a little bit of everything: Mark Zuckerberg swears off apologizing on a recent podcast episode; an update on Fearless Fund's legal woes; and an acquisition in the health tracking sector. It's go time.

TechCrunch Top 3

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🎙️ No more saying sorry: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during a live episode of the Acquired podcast that his company has had to apologize for a lot of things and that he won't be apologizing anymore. Read more

🔒 Fearless but defeated: VC Fearless Fund was sued last year by the AAER on grounds that its small business grant program for Black women was discriminatory. Fearless Fund has now reached a settlement with AAER and is winding down the program. Read more

🏥 Health tracking apps unite! Oura, the maker of a health tracking ring, announced today that it has acquired Veri, a company that helps people track their metabolic health. The details of the deal have not been disclosed. Read more

Afternoon must-reads

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💃 Swift on AI: Taylor Swift endorsed Kamala Harris for president last night on Instagram. Her post also expressed concern about the rise of AI and how it was recently used to create a deepfake of her inaccurately endorsing Donald Trump. Read more

🎥 Adobe AI: Adobe's AI video generation tools, powered by Adobe's Firefly Video model, will be available by the end of the year. The company didn't disclose the price of these AI video features. Read more

😁 AI moodboard: Verse is a new startup, launched by the founders of Discz, designed to help users create hyper-visual creative content with the help of AI. Verse is giving me big 2011 Tumblr vibes, and I am here for it. Read more

🗣️ Say it again? Today Google announced that NotebookLM, its AI note-taking app, is adding an audio overview layer so users can listen to their own notes or to documents they have uploaded to the app. Read more

🙏 Baby, come back: Apple announced "win-back offers," which allow app developers to send special offers to former customers of auto-renewable subscription apps. Read more

📽️ Video time: Decentralized social media platform Blusky announced today that it is rolling out video on the platform. Users can upload videos up to 60 seconds long, and they autoplay on people's feeds. Read more

✋ Curtain close: Hollywood networking and job search app HUSSLUP will be taking an "indefinite hiatus" among a challenging job market in the entertainment industry. The company just launched out of beta in January. Read more

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🚕 Almost autonomous: Autonomous vehicles are already a technological breakthrough, but they aren't perfect just yet. New York Times transportation reporter Cade Metz gives an interesting firsthand account of covering the industry over the last 10 years. Read more

🎭 Tech on Broadway: The Verge caught up with Max Wolf Friedlich, the playwright behind "Jobs," a new production that talks about the harrowing world of online content moderation. This could be good. Read more