Plus: Microsoft's Copilot gets some new features
Welcome to TC PM! Today we have a fascinating read on how the FBI caught a serial hacker; we dive into all the features Microsoft announced today for its Copilot AI tool; and we look at an interesting personnel change in the AI world. It's go time! | | | Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch | 🚔 To catch a serial hacker: Jesse Kipf was a serial hacker known for hacking into organizations and then selling the information to other cybercriminals. He was also sloppy. Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai has the story on how the FBI caught him. Read more 🙋 More Microsoft: Today Microsoft released a bunch of features for its Copilot AI productivity tool, including a tool that can understand and answer questions on what you have on your screen. The company also announced it would be paying customers for their Copilot content. Read more 👀 From OpenAI to Anthropic: Durk Kingma, one of the original founders of OpenAI, is joining one of its biggest rivals: Anthropic. It's unclear what Kingma's role will be at Anthropic. He left OpenAI in 2018. Read more | | | Image Credits: Cris Cantón / Getty Images | | | 🥐 Mmm, craving a croissant: Croissant is a new app that allows people to cross-post on the open social web on platforms — including Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads — in a single post. While there are other companies doing this, Croissant looks to be a cheaper option. Read more 🧵 Speaking of the fediverse: Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced today that Instagram users who have connected their accounts to the open social web will now be able to see who follows and likes their posts on other fediverse platforms. Read more 🛍️ Drone delivery: Drones and small robots have not revolutionized last-mile delivery as some may have predicted a few years ago, but there's a good reason to keep trying. Serve Robotics and Wing are teaming up for a trial in Dallas. Read more 🎙️ Today on Found: Motorway was the fifth startup Harry Jones started with his two co-founders. Jones came on the Found podcast to talk about how they've built the company that connects car owners with dealers, and why the founding team has stuck together. Read more 📍 Pinterest AI: Pinterest is the latest company to unveil generative AI features for its advertisers. The tech allows advertisers to change product images from having plain backgrounds to ones with Pinterest's aesthetic. Read more 🛠️ More dev tools: Happy OpenAI DevDay to all who observe. Today the company announced a whole host of new features, including a public beta of its "Realtime API" and some new tweaks to its API. Read more | | | Image Credits: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images | 🏎️ AI you can drive my car: Numa started as a conversational AI product, but it didn't stay that way. The company pivoted to selling customer service automation tools for car dealerships and just raised $32 million. Read more 🔬 Funding for fusion: Fusion startups have been gobbling up funds lately. Acceleron Fusion, a cold-fusion-focused startup, just raised $15 million of a targeted $27.5 million round. Read more 📓 Bazel bucks: Bazel is an internal build and test tool that Google developed and made open source in 2015. The tool is tough to use, though. Aspect just raised $3.5 million to help people better understand how to use it. Read more | | | 🚙 Whoa, Waymo: Self-driving taxi company Waymo's cars are supposed to stop if something is in front of them. But what if that thing is a man harassing the woman in the car? 404 Media unpacks a recent incident that left a woman trapped in a Waymo. Read more 🤖 Yay, more AI startups: Barret Zoph, a former VP of research at OpenAI who left the startup last week amid a wave of departures, is launching an AI startup of his own. It's not clear if he'll be teaming up with any of the other recently departed OpenAI execs. Read more | | | 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 | | | | |
No comments:
Post a Comment