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Food VC Peakbridge has new $187M fund to transform future of food, like lab-made cocoa Peakbridge intends to invest in between 16 and 20 companies, investing around $10 million in each company. It has made eight investments so far. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal u...

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Exclusive: Food VC Peakbridge has new $187M fund to transform future of food, like lab-made cocoa

PeakBridge intends to invest in between 16 and 20 companies, investing around $10 million in each company. It has made eight investments so far.

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Accion’s new $152.5M fund will back financial institutions serving small businesses globally For over six decades, the nonprofit has been active in the financial services sector. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Accion's new $152.5M fund will back financial institutions serving small businesses globally | TechCrunch

Accion launches its digital transformation fund for financial institutions serving small businesses excluded from the financial system.

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Threads finally starts its own fact-checking program Meta’s newest social network, Threads is starting its own fact-checking program after piggybacking on Instagram and Facebook’s network for a few months. Instagram head Adam Mosseri noted that the comp...

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Threads finally starts its own fact-checking program | TechCrunch

Meta's newest social network, Threads, is starting its own fact-checking program after piggybacking on Instagram and Facebook's network f...

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Looking Glass launches new 3D displays Looking Glass makes trippy-looking mixed-reality screens that make things look 3D without the need of special glasses. Today, it launches a pair of new displays, including a 16-inch mode that runs $4,...

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Looking Glass launches new 3D displays | TechCrunch

Looking Glass makes trippy-looking mixed-reality screens where things look 3D without the need of special glasses. Today it launches a pair of new

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Intuitive Machines wants to help NASA return samples from Mars Intuitive Machines made history when it became the first private company to land a spacecraft on the moon, so it makes sense to adapt that tech for Mars. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For p...

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Intuitive Machines wants to help NASA return samples from Mars | TechCrunch

Intuitive Machines made history when it became the first private company to land a spacecraft on the moon, so it makes sense to adapt that tech for...

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Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI co-founder and longtime chief scientist, departs Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s longtime chief scientist and one of its co-founders, has left the company. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the news in a post on X Tuesday evening. pic.twitter.com/qyPMIcvcsY ...

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Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI co-founder and longtime chief scientist, departs | TechCrunch

OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever has left the company. Replacing Sutskever is Jakub Pachocki, OpenAI's director of research.

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Google adds ‘Web’ search filter for showing old-school text links as AI rolls out As Google revamps itself for the AI era, offering AI overviews within its search results, the company is introducing a new way to filter for just text-based links. With the new “Web” filter that appea...

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Google adds 'Web' search filter for showing old-school text links as AI rolls out | TechCrunch

As Google revamps itself for the AI era, offering AI overviews within its search results, the company is introducing a new way to filter for just

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Blue Origin to resume crewed New Shepard launches on May 19 Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket will take a crew to suborbital space for the first time in nearly two years later this month, the company announced on Tuesday.  The NS-25 mission will launch from Blu...

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Blue Origin to resume crewed New Shepard launches on May 19 | TechCrunch

Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket will take a crew to suborbital space for the first time in nearly two years later this month, the company announ...

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Patreon and Grammarly are already experimenting with Gemini Nano, says Google Mobile app developers, including Patreon and Grammarly, are already integrating with Gemini Nano, its smallest AI model, the company announced during the Google I/O 2024 developer keynote on Tuesday. ...

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Patreon and Grammarly are already experimenting with Gemini Nano, says Google | TechCrunch

In the coming months, Google says it will open up the Gemini Nano model to more developers.

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Reddit introduces new tools for ‘Ask Me Anything,’ its Q&A feature As part of the update, Reddit also launched a dedicated AMA tab within the web post composer. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Reddit introduces new tools for ‘Ask Me Anything,’ its Q&A feature | TechCrunch

As part of the update, Reddit also launched a dedicated AMA tab within the web post composer. Reddit launched five new tools for its Q&A feature, s...

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Google Veo, a serious swing at AI-generated video, debuts at Google I/O 2024 Veo can capture different visual and cinematic styles, including shots of landscapes and timelapses, and make edits and adjustments to already-generated footage. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserve...

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Google Veo, a serious swing at AI-generated video, debuts at Google I/O 2024 | TechCrunch

At Google I/O, Google previewed a generative AI model that can create videos at 1080p around a minute in length.

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LearnLM is Google’s new family of AI models for education Google says it’s developed a new family of generative AI models “fine-tuned” for learning: LearnLM. A collaboration between Google’s DeepMind AI research division and Google Research, LearnLM models —...

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LearnLM is Google's new family of AI models for education | TechCrunch

LearnLM is already powering features across Google products, including in YouTube, Google's Gemini apps, Google Search and Google Classroom.

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Google is bringing AI-generated quizzes to academic videos on YouTube The official launch comes almost a year after YouTube began experimenting with AI-generated quizzes on its mobile app. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Google is bringing AI-generated quizzes to academic videos on YouTube | TechCrunch

Google is rolling out AI-generated quizzes on academic content on YouTube. These new features are rolling out to select Android users in the U.S.

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Motional cut about 550 employees, around 40%, in recent restructuring, sources say Around 550 employees across autonomous vehicle company Motional have been laid off, according to information taken from WARN notice filings and sources at the company.  Earlier this week, TechCrunch r...

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Motional cut about 550 employees, around 40%, in recent restructuring, sources say | TechCrunch

Around 550 employees across autonomous vehicle company Motional have been laid off, according to information taken from WARN notice filings and sou...

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Google mentioned ‘AI’ 120+ times during its I/O keynote It ran 110 minutes, but Google managed to reference AI a whopping 121 times during its I/O 2024 by its own count. CEO Sundar Pichai referenced the figure to wrap up the presentation, cheekily stating ...

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Google mentioned 'AI' 120+ times during its I/O keynote | TechCrunch

It ran 110 minutes, but Google managed to reference AI a whopping 121 times during Google I/O 2024 (by its own count). CEO Sundar Pichai referenced...

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Google gets serious about AI-generated video at Google I/O 2024 Google’s gunning for OpenAI’s Sora with Veo, an AI model that can create 1080p video clips around a minute long given a text prompt.  Unveiled on Tuesday at Google’s I/O 2024 developer conference, Veo...

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Google Veo, a serious swing at AI-generated video, debuts at Google I/O 2024 | TechCrunch

At Google I/O, Google previewed a generative AI model that can create videos at 1080p around a minute in length.

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Gemini on Android becomes more capable and works with Gmail, Messages, YouTube and more Soon, Android users will be able to drag and drop AI-generated images directly into their Gmail, Google Messages and other apps. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Gemini on Android becomes more capable and works with Gmail, Messages, YouTube and more | TechCrunch

Soon, Android users will be able to drag and drop AI-generated images directly into their Gmail, Google Messages and other apps.

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Google Play preps a new full-screen app discovery feature and adds more developer tools Google Play has a new discovery feature for apps, new ways to acquire users, updates to Play Points, and other enhancements to developer-facing tools. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For pers...

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Google Play preps a new full-screen app discovery feature and adds more developer tools | TechCrunch

Google Play has a new discovery feature for apps, new ways to acquire users, updates to Play Points, and other enhancements to developer-facing tools.

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Google experiments with using video to search, thanks to Gemini AI People can now search using a video they upload combined with a text query to get an AI overview of the answers they need. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Google experiments with using video to search, thanks to Gemini AI | TechCrunch

People can now search using a video they upload combined with a text query to get an AI overview of the answers they need.

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Circle to Search is now a better homework helper Google's Circle to Search feature will now be able to solve more complex problems across psychics and math word problems. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Circle to Search is now a better homework helper | TechCrunch

Google's Circle to Search feature will now be able to solve more complex problems across psychics and math word problems.