Apple’s ChatGPT integration is coming in December

Also: Coatue's raising $1B to back AI startups

View this email online in your browser By Rebecca Bellan Tuesday, November 5, 2024 Welcome to TechCrunch AM! This morning, we've got notes of caution from AI safety advocates, the Apple + ChatGPT integration you've been waiting for, and a French health startup that really should launch in the U.S. We've also got another $1 billion on offer for AI startups, moves to embrace AR, the downward trend of agtech, Amazon starting drone deliveries in Arizona, and more. Let's go! — Rebecca TechCrunch Top 3 Image Credits: DBenitostock / Getty Images 1. "Move cautiously and red-team things" doesn't quite have the same ring to it as "move fast and break things." Nonetheless, that's what AI safety advocates are urging founders to do to avoid ethical issues in the long run. Hell, just look at what social media has done to all of us. Read More 2. Completing the circle: Apple products will get ChatGPT integration in December when iOS 18.2 rolls out, which should make Siri much better than it is today. Users will also get the option of upgrading to ChatGPT Plus inside the Settings app, but no one knows how the companies are sharing any revenue from purchases. Read More 3. AI hedging: Coatue Management earned itself a name for investing heavily in tech startups during the pandemic. Now it's raising $1 billion to back AI-focused companies. Quick, everybody add "AI" to the end of your startup's name! Read More   A Message from Grammarly Decode AI ROI: Measure What Matters Most leaders recognize AI's potential, but few know how to measure its value. Join Grammarly's top experts for a webinar designed to guide you through an objective, data-backed approach to AI measurement. Learn how to justify scaling with confidence—focusing on the metrics that matter most to your business. Secure Your Seat   Morning must-reads Image Credits: Romain Dillet / TechCrunch 🏥 Super-size me: French health insurance startup Alan wants to build a super app for all things related to healthcare, and it's now launching an AI chatbot that's vetted by doctors, in addition to a shop and a step-counting feature. The bot will live within Alan's chat interface that lets users ask questions to doctors and get an answer within 15 minutes. Read More 🤖 I hope AI can do my laundry and dishes one day: Caitlin Kalinowski, the former head of Meta's AR glasses efforts, is joining OpenAI to lead robotics and consumer hardware as the AI company works to bring "AI into the physical world and unlock its benefits for humanity." Read More 🌱 Agtech's trending down: Bowery Farming, an agtech unicorn, is shutting down. The New York-based startup built vertical farms that could produce crops – a category that's proven to be tough. AeroFarms and AppHarvest also filed for bankruptcy last year. Read More ☁️ Watching the clouds: Observability, or the process of collecting and understanding data and systems, is proving to be a very expensive endeavor. But the cloud is here to stay, so companies need to find a way to bring down those costs. Enter Dash0, which wants to improve pricing transparency. Read More 🛬 Prime Air: Amazon has begun making drone deliveries to certain customers in Phoenix. Products must weigh 5 pounds or less, and customers can choose the delivery location before checkout. Read More   A Message from Carta The Ultimate Fundraising Checklist, from Carta Download the tools you need to fundraise with confidence, free from Carta. Designed especially for first time founders, and anyone raising a pre-seed or seed round. Learn the steps for a successful fundraise and how to model your fundraise and its impact on ownership. Great for anyone fundraising with SAFEs. Learn More   Around the web 🚗 Schedule now, ride later: Robotaxi startup Waymo appears to be working on offering scheduled rides, per tech investigator Jane Manchun Wong. It'll need to grow its fleet to make that work, so be on the lookout for more Waymos. Read More 🧑‍⚖️ Netflix under the lens: Investigators searched the offices of Netflix in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering, reports Reuters. Read More 👓 Apple looks into smart glasses: Apple is exploring how feasible it would be to make smart glasses by doing an internal study of products on the market, reports Bloomberg. Apple is probably the only company that could really go up against Meta in this category, since it already owns popular hardware and operating systems. Read More Before you go Image Credits: Nikolas Kokovlis / NurPhoto / Getty Images 🇨🇭 India cracks down on Wikipedia: Is Wikipedia truly a non-biased and neutral encyclopedia? Or should it be classified as a publisher? That's the question the Indian government is asking as it cites concerns about concentrated editorial control and complaints about bias at the encyclopedia. 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? Click here to subscribe to this newsletter. 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Perplexity offers to help the NYT with election coverage

Plus: A TechCrunch Disrupt bling tracker

View this email online in your browser By Rebecca Szkutak Monday, November 4, 2024 Welcome to TC PM! Today we're wondering what Perplexity meant when it offered to help the New York Times cover the election; we are also looking at Meta's policy change regarding its AI model and the military; and we're diving into the best bling from TechCrunch Disrupt this year. It's go time! TechCrunch Top 3 Image Credits: Kimberly White for TechCrunch / Getty Images 🫤 Gee, thanks: The New York Times Tech Guild is heading out on strike today over a contract negotiation deadline set months earlier, likely timed to the election tomorrow. Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas offered to provide AI services to mitigate the effect of a strike on election coverage. Big sigh. Read more 👀 GovernMeta: Meta's policies forbid using its AI model, Llama, for projects related to the military, warfare, or espionage. The company announced today that it is making an exception for the U.S., as well as for the U.K., New Zealand, Australia, and Canada. Read more 🔎 Anduril's Arsenal-1: Defense tech company Anduril has been talking about building its first major manufacturing plant using money from its $1.5 billion funding round in September. Now we have an idea of where it will be built. Read more   A Message from Deel Prepare for your next business move with our International Hiring and Compliance Guide At Deel, we've simplified a world's worth of global hiring information. Our expert teams can help you navigate quick and compliant hiring in 150+ countries and so much more. Download our guide, grow your team   Afternoon must-reads Image Credits: Kimberly White / Getty Images 💍 Nice ice, baby: When you think of TechCrunch Disrupt, I'm sure your first question is: What did everyone wear? Even if it wasn't, we've got you covered! This year we noticed some very notable bling from our guests onstage, so we rounded up our favorites. Read more 🗯️ Series A advice: The venture market has changed so rapidly over the last few years. At TechCrunch Disrupt, panelists warned seed-stage startups in the current environment that a bigger valuation at the Series A isn't always the best idea. Read more ❗️ That's so Ohio: Columbus, Ohio, was the victim of a ransomware attack in July. At the time, officials said they had thwarted the attack, but that wasn't the case. Today it was confirmed that 500,000 people had their data stolen. Read more 🤖 New model, more money: Anthopic's newest AI model is here. Claude 3.5 Haiku is more expensive than prior models, and it can't analyze images yet, but people can use the tool through Anthropic's API or a handful of third-party platforms. Read more ☢️ Nuclear power problems: While Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta have all inked deals in recent weeks to harness nuclear energy for their data centers, regulators are saying not so fast. For now, just Microsoft will be able to proceed as planned. Read more 📚 Colorsoft conundrum: Amazon recently announced a new color Kindle, called Kindle Colorsoft, that introduced color to the e-reader. Alas, reviews haven't been great, and Amazon acknowledges there is a screen issue on a small number of devices. Read more 🗳️ Election engagement: As I'm sure you are aware, there is a U.S. presidential election tomorrow. Social media plays a big role in both informing and misinforming the public about said election. Sarah Perez takes a look at how newer entrant Bluesky is preparing for tomorrow. Read more   A Message from KPMG Private Enterprise Entrepreneurs and VCs are invited! Join the inspiring Global Tech Innovator finalist competition, organized by KPMG Private Enterprise, Wednesday, November 13. Get inspired by some of the most innovative businesses in the world as they vie for the big prize. It's going to be a wild ride. Register Now   Around the web 💬 Stop texting me: The number of political texts I've received this election season feels disproportionate to past elections. I'm not alone in this feeling. The Wall Street Journal dives into how to get them to stop, which unfortunately takes more effort than just texting back "stop." Read more 👾 To game or not to game? Netflix made a big push into gaming the last few years, scooping up top talent in that industry. But that seemed to be over when the company laid off that whole team this year. The company says it is still bullish on games, but only those that are made by generative AI. 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? 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