Raspberry Pi announces its next model

Plus: Pony AI's Nasdaq debut

View this email online in your browser By Rebecca Szkutak Wednesday, November 27, 2024 Welcome to TC PM! Today we've got the details on Raspberry Pi's new single-board device; we see just how easy it is to scrape user posts off of Bluesky; and we learn about TuSimple's latest drama.  This is the last TC PM this week because of the Thanksgiving holiday. We'll be back in your inboxes on Monday and will be logging off in the meantime. Have a great week! TechCrunch Top 3 Image Credits: Raspberry Pi 🥧 More Pi, please: Single-board computer company Raspberry Pi announced a new model today — Compute Module 5, which comes without any traditional ports and is well suited to embedded applications. Read more 🫢 Social media is public, people: Unlike many other social media sites, Bluesky isn't looking to use its users' posts to train its own AI model. However, Bluesky's API means that other companies can easily scrape users' posts for the same purpose. Read more 🐴 Pony AI ponies up nice valuation: Chinese autonomous driving technology company Pony AI started trading on the Nasdaq today. The company debuted with a share price of $13 and a valuation of $4.55 billion. Read more   A Message from Radar Radar: All-in-one geolocation platform Geofencing and maps together in a modern, cost-effective platform. Businesses like yours are consolidating geolocation vendors and cutting costs by 50% or more with Radar. Learn More   Afternoon must-reads Image Credits: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto / Getty Images 😼 Copycat starter pack: One of Bluesky's nicest features is its starter packs, which are essentially lists of people to follow if you are interested in a certain topic. Naturally, Meta's Threads is working to develop the same feature. Read more ™️ Trademark time: OpenAI filed a trademark application to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for "OpenAI o1," the name of the "reasoning" AI model the company released a few months ago. Read more 🎭 The drama! Xiaodi Hou, co-founder and former CEO of self-driving truck company TuSimple, is demanding that the board liquidate the company and return all remaining funds to shareholders. Hou is also suing the company and his former co-founder. Read more 🎤 Podcast production: Have you ever consumed a piece of media and thought, "Wow, I wish I could hear this in the form of a multispeaker podcast?" If so, Voice AI company ElevenLabs built a feature called GenFM to do just that. Read more 😎 TikTok sets limits: She's beauty, she's grace, she's under 18 so she can't use that filter on her face. TikTok is limiting the use of some of its appearance-altering filters for users under 18 as the company continues to get slammed for its impact on minors' mental health. Read more 📈 Searching for scale: European Union president Ursula von der Leyen told Parliament members in a speech that to remain competitive, the EU will need to close the "innovation gap." Read more   A Message from SPIN Analytics RISKROBOT™ Empowers Banks to Innovate, Comply, and Scale RISKROBOT by SPIN Analytics helps banks transform their credit risk modeling with AI-driven solutions that are fully compliant with global regulatory standards. By automating model creation, ensuring transparency, and offering scalable, cloud-native infrastructure, RISKROBOT accelerates innovation, compliance, and operational efficiency for financial institutions. Learn More   Around the web 🚫 Gotta make it easier than that: The FTC is investigating Uber's subscription service, Uber One, after customers complained that they were signed up unwillingly and that Uber made it hard to cancel. Read more 📝 Applicants flock to DOGE: The Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, is looking to hire 100 people. Apparently quite a few are gunning for those roles, including students and startup executives. Forbes offers a look at why they want these jobs. Read more Before you go Image Credits: Google ♟️ AI we can all get behind: Google Labs introduced a new online project called GenChess that allows users to use Gemini Imagen 3 to create their own virtual chess pieces. A great reminder that tech can just be for fun sometimes! Read more Featured jobs from Crunchboard Senior Data Warehouse SQL Developer, Washington Dept. of Natural Resources (Olympia, WA) Pharmacy Epic Application Analyst, OFFSITE (Toppenish, WA) Chief Technology Officer, Mary McDowell Friends School (Brooklyn, NY) Senior Software Engineer, Dyna Robotics (San Francisco, CA) IT Technology Analyst, Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (Middletown, PA) See more jobs on CrunchBoard Post your tech jobs and reach millions of TechCrunch readers for only $349 per month.   Check out some of our other newsletters: Startups Weekly TechCrunch AI TechCrunch Mobility Got a tip? Get in touch securely. Want to advertise on TechCrunch? advertise@techcrunch.com Has this been forwarded to you? 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Musk wants to block the Onion from buying InfoWars’ X account

Also: How common are dirty term sheets?

View this email online in your browser By Rebecca Bellan Wednesday, November 27, 2024 Welcome to TechCrunch AM! This morning, we've got some more X-related drama, what to look for at AWS' re:Invest 2024 event, and the unexpected upside of all the new IPOs. We've also got a win for SpaceX, a true open-source AI model, Roblox taking a stand, Figure's humanoid robot, and a darkly funny depiction of the future. We'll be off the rest of the week for Thanksgiving, and I wish you all a happy day of carb-fueled side dishes, family arguments, and laying on the couch watching football. On to the news! — Rebecca TechCrunch Top 3 Image Credits: ALLISON ROBBERT/POOL/AFP / Getty Images 1. New world order: Elon Musk is defending conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, the guy who claimed the grieving parents of the Sandy Hook shooting victims were paid actors. Musk has filed an objection to block the Onion from acquiring the X account of InfoWars, Jones' conspiracy theory website that the satirical paper won in a bid. Read More 2. What to expect from AWS re:Invest 2024: All signs point to AWS' conference in Las Vegas this Sunday being an eventful one. CEO Matt Garman told TechCrunch last month that it wouldn't be "just an AI conference," promising "innovations across the stack." Read More 3. Enter the dirty term sheet: ServiceTitan filed documents last week for its IPO, which revealed a potential harbinger not of the IPO market reopening at last, but rather the prevalence of "dirty term sheets" at startups that raised a lot of money during the zero interest rate policy era of 2021. Read More   A Message from FoodTech Challenge Applications for the FoodTech Challenge close December 12 The FoodTech Challenge is awarding $2M equity-free to early-stage start-ups with solutions poised to transform food systems in arid, hot environments. Join the competition to gain access to a robust network of industry experts, accelerators, and partners to help scale your Agri-FoodTech solution in the UAE and to markets in the Global South. Apply Now   Morning must-reads Image Credits: Getty Images ⭐ Starlight, starbright: The FCC has granted SpaceX permission to offer a direct-to-phone version of Starlink with T-Mobile as its provider. It'll take some time to get the infrastructure set up, but it looks like "no signal" will soon be a thing of the past. Read More 👑 Trump might create an AI czar for the White House who would be charged with helping coordinate federal regulation and governmental use of AI, Axios reports. They reportedly won't require Senate confirmation, allowing them to work on the administration's goals faster. Read More ✂️ Cut out the middleman: Roblox is offering users who buy Robux on its website and via gift cards 25% more than they would if they purchased the in-game currency from an app store instead. It's a route that other app and game publishers have taken to avoid paying Apple and Google a cut for in-app purchases. Read More 👪 There's a new AI model family in town: Meet OLMo2, the second family of models to come from nonprofit AI research organization Ai2. OLMo2 is a true open source AI that competes with Meta's Llama and "reduces a growing concentration of power, creating more equitable access," per Ai2 engineer Dirk Groeneveld. Read More 👓 Who knew that a direct-to-consumer eyewear company could be a venture-backed business? The founders of Eyewa, apparently. The Dubai and Riyadh-based startup just closed a $100 million Series C. The two relied on their background in scaling food delivery to achieve unprecedented levels of growth. Read More   A Message from SPIN Analytics RISKROBOT™ Empowers Banks to Innovate, Comply, and Scale RISKROBOT™ by SPIN Analytics helps banks transform their credit risk modelling with AI-driven solutions that are fully compliant with global regulatory standards. By automating model creation, ensuring transparency, and offering scalable, cloud-native infrastructure, RISKROBOT™ accelerates innovation, compliance, and operational efficiency for financial institutions. Learn More   Around the web 👽 Imagine Black Mirror, but funny: That's what these influencers succeeded in doing with an Instagram skit that describes a world in which Elon Musk can transfer his consciousness into multiple bodies ("but this one's kind of hot"), influencers are sent to Mars to "bridge the gap between humans and aliens," and baristas can't serve you your "water buffalo milk latte with a pump of the Lexapro anti-radiation syrup." Watch Now ✍️ It begins: Over 54% of longer English-language posts on LinkedIn are likely AI-generated. While I usually cringe at the idea of relying on AI to write, LinkedIn might be the ideal laboratory for it. As Wired writes, "It's the place where people strive to be the most anodyne versions of themselves, pleasant and inoffensive. Artificiality, in other words, is what everyone is expecting." Read More Before you go Image Credits: Figure 🤖 Check out Figure's humanoid robot, Figure 02, as it performs tasks autonomously at HQ for a BMW use case. There aren't any remote operators, as far as we can tell. Watch Now Featured jobs from Crunchboard Senior Data Warehouse SQL Developer, Washington Dept. of Natural Resources (Olympia, WA) Pharmacy Epic Application Analyst, OFFSITE (Toppenish, WA) Chief Technology Officer, Mary McDowell Friends School (Brooklyn, NY) Senior Software Engineer, Dyna Robotics (San Francisco, CA) IT Technology Analyst, Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (Middletown, PA) See more jobs on CrunchBoard Post your tech jobs and reach millions of TechCrunch readers for only $349 per month.   Check out some of our other newsletters: Startups Weekly TechCrunch AI TechCrunch Mobility Got a tip? Get in touch securely. Want to advertise on TechCrunch? advertise@techcrunch.com Has this been forwarded to you? Click here to subscribe to this newsletter. Update your preferences here at any time Copyright © 2024 TechCrunch, All rights reserved.Yahoo Inc. 110 5th St,San Francisco,CA Privacy Policy