Autonomous shipping startup Orca AI tops up with $23M led by OCV Partners and MizMaa Ventures If you thought autonomous driving was just for cars, think again. The so-called ‘autonomous navigation’ market — where ships steer themselves guided by AI, resulting in fuel and time savings — is projected to grow from $4.46 billion in 2023 to... #press

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Autonomous shipping startup Orca AI tops up with $23M led by OCV Partners and MizMaa Ventures | TechCrunch

If you thought autonomous driving was just for cars, think again. The "autonomous navigation" market -- where ships steer themselves guided by AI, ...

Hundreds of creators sign letter slamming Meta’s limit on political content If you haven’t been seeing much political content on Instagram lately, there’s a reason for that. Since March, Instagram and Threads have instituted a new default setting that limits political content you see from people you’re not following. Hundreds of creators, convened by... #press

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Hundreds of creators sign letter slamming Meta's limit on political content | TechCrunch

If you haven't been seeing much political content on Instagram lately, there's a reason for that. Since March, Instagram and Threads have...

Google hints that Apple is set to support RCS by this fall Google briefly showed a section on the new Google Messages page claiming that Apple is set to roll out Rich Communication Services (RCS) support for iPhones this fall. This indicates that the iPhone maker is likely to extend RCS support in with the upcoming iOS 18 update. The page, spotted first by 9to5Google,... #press

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Google hints that Apple is set to support RCS by this fall | TechCrunch

Google showed a section on the new Google Messages page claiming that Apple is set to roll out (RCS) support for iPhones this fall.

Abu Dhabi’s ADIA explores investment in India’s Pocket FM, sources say Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund ADIA is in talks to back Pocket FM in a large new round of funding, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, as the Indian audio-storytelling platform makes deeper inroads in the U.S. The talks for the new round, which have been ongoing for more... #press

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Abu Dhabi's ADIA explores investment in India's Pocket FM | TechCrunch

Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund ADIA is in talks to back Pocket FM in a large new round of funding, two sources familiar with the matter tol...

Industry Ventures, with stakes in more than 600 venture firms, just raised $1.7B to snap up more stakes — and companies Industry Ventures prides itself on trying to zig when others zag. When the outfit was first founded in San Francisco in 2000, the startup market was red hot, and its first product — a secondary... #press

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Industry Ventures has $1.7 billion more for secondary stakes and tech buyouts | TechCrunch

Industry Ventures prides itself on trying to zig when others zag. When the outfit was first founded in San Francisco in 2000, the startup market wa...

Elon Musk’s X removes general option to report misleading info about politics X (formerly Twitter) appears to have removed an option that allowed users in a handful of markets to directly report misleading information about politics. An Australian digital research group called Reset.Australia spotted the change and posted an open letter (via the Guardian), addressed to X’s country manager, in which... #press

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Elon Musk's X removes general option to report misleading info about politics | TechCrunch

X (formerly Twitter) appears to have removed an option that allowed users in a handful of markets to directly report misleading information about X...

Uber Eats and Getir ink tie-up in Europe for speedy grocery deliveries Uber Eats and quick commerce player Getir have inked a grocery delivery partnership, starting in the UK. The tie-up, which expands the range of groceries on tap for Uber Eats’ users, is slated to cover other markets where the pair operate in Europe in the coming weeks — so presumably it’ll launch in Germany and […] #press

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Uber Eats and Getir ink tie-up in Europe for speedy grocery deliveries | TechCrunch

Uber Eats and quick commerce player Getir have inked a grocery delivery partnership, starting in the U.K. The tie-up, which expands the range of gr...

Elon Musk threatens to charge for X, OpenAI launches DALL-E 3 and Cisco acquires Splunk Welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering the past few days in tech. The TC crew — including this reporter — is coming off the high of Disrupt, which hopefully some of you, dear readers, were able to attend in person. Fret... #press

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Elon Musk threatens to charge for X, OpenAI launches DALL-E 3 and Cisco acquires Splunk | TechCrunch

In this edition of Week in Review (WiR), we cover Elon Musk threatening to charge for X, OpenAI launching DALL-E 3 and Cisco acquiring Splunk.

AquaLith might have an answer to the US battery material shortage problem AquaLith looks to make new types of battery cell components that don't rely on the scarce metals normally used in lithium-ion battery packs. #press

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AquaLith might have an answer to the US battery material shortage problem | TechCrunch

AquaLith looks to make new types of battery cell components that don't rely on the scarce metals normally used in lithium-ion battery packs.

Pitch Deck Teardown: Transcend’s $20M Series B deck $20 million doesn't lie, so let's see where Transcend, er, transcends and where it remains painfully mortal. #press

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Pitch Deck Teardown: Transcend's $20M Series B deck | TechCrunch

$20 million doesn't lie, so let's see where Transcend, er, transcends and where it remains painfully mortal.

TechCrunch+ Roundup: Prompt engineering, web3 gaming survey, how to spend $10K on paid ads TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 ended yesterday, and out of all the events I've attended since working here, this one was my favorite. #press

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TechCrunch+ Roundup: Prompt engineering, web3 gaming survey, how to spend $10K on paid ads | TechCrunch

TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 ended yesterday, and out of all the events I've attended since working here, this one was my favorite.

Microsoft’s mobile keyboard app SwiftKey gains new AI-powered features Along with AI advances in Windows 11 and Bing, Microsoft also this week announced it’s bringing new AI-powered features to its SwiftKey mobile keyboard app for iOS and Android. This third-party app lets users replace the default keyboard on their phone with an intelligent keyboard that... #press

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Microsoft's mobile keyboard app SwiftKey gains new AI-powered features | TechCrunch

Along with AI advances in Windows 11 and Bing, Microsoft also this week announced it's bringing new AI-powered features to its SwiftKey mobile...

Cruise would join the call to ban human drivers in city centers, says CEO Cruise co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt posed a controversial question at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023: At what point does it still make sense to have human-driven cars in cities? “If you extrapolate forward and you see that [autonomous vehicles] decrease in cost, they continue to improve... #press

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Cruise would join the call to ban human drivers in city centers, says CEO | TechCrunch

Cruise co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt posed a controversial question at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023: At what point does it still make sense to have human...

Carrots&Cake wants to help parents make their kids’ screen time more beneficial and less addictive Carrots&Cake, a Kuala Lumpur-based startup, is aiming to help parents manage their kids' screen time in an automated way. #press

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Carrots&Cake wants to help parents make their kids' screen time more beneficial and less addictive | TechCrunch

Carrots&Cake, a Kuala Lumpur-based startup, is aiming to help parents manage their kids' screen time in an automated way.

European carbon accounting startup Plan A raises $27M from VC and corporate heavyweights Plan A, a carbon accounting and ESG (environmental, social, and governance) reporting platform for corporations, has raised $27 million in a Series A round of funding led by U.S. VC giant Lightspeed Venture partners. Technically the funding is an extension of a $10 million Series A round it announced nearly two... #press

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European carbon accounting startup Plan A raises $27M from VC and corporate heavyweights | TechCrunch

Plan A, a carbon accounting and ESG reporting platform, has raised $27M in a round of funding led by Lightspeed Venture partners.

Material wealth: Scrap metal trading marketplace Metaloop raises $17M European Union (EU) lawmakers this month announced plans to reduce waste and increase recycling across the bloc, with proposals to collect and process 45% of 16 identified “strategic” raw materials by 2030. These include metals such as copper, which is used in everything from computers and TVs, to domestic... #press

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Material wealth: Scrap metal trading marketplace Metaloop raises $17M | TechCrunch

European Union (EU) lawmakers this month announced plans to reduce waste and increase recycling across the bloc, with proposals to collect and proc...

Apple’s iOS 17 is now available to download Apple has just released the new version of iOS, the company’s operating system for the iPhone. iOS 17 is a free download and it works with the iPhone X or later, as well as the second- and third-generation iPhone SE. Apple is also releasing major updates to watchOS, iPadOS and tvOS today. I would say […] #press

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Apple’s iOS 17 is now available to download | TechCrunch

Apple has just released the new version of iOS, the company’s operating system for the iPhone. iOS 17 is a free download.

With iOS 17, the iPhone feels like a mature platform Just a few months before Apple launches the Apple Vision Pro with a brand new operating system, Apple is releasing iOS 17 for the iPhone. Yes, 17 feels like a big number. And in many ways, iOS has reached a point of stability and maturity that we are all looking for. If you’re updating from […] #press

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With iOS 17, the iPhone feels like a mature platform | TechCrunch

iOS 17 features many small and big changes. But iOS 17 isn’t going to be a frustrating update. And that’s a good thing.

Answering AI’s biggest questions requires an interdisciplinary approach Ethical AI requires a deep understanding of what there is, what we want, what we think we know, and how intelligence unfolds. #press

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Answering AI’s biggest questions requires an interdisciplinary approach | TechCrunch

Ethical AI requires a deep understanding of what there is, what we want, what we think we know, and how intelligence unfolds.

If you’d bought Apple shares instead of iPhones, you’d now have $145,000 What would happen if, instead of buying the newest iPhone every time Apple launches one, you bought that same amount of Apple stock? There is a tweet floating around saying that if you had bought Apple shares instead of an iPhone every time they came out, you’d have hundreds of millions of dollars. That is […] #press

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If you'd bought Apple shares instead of iPhones, you'd now have $147,000

What would happen if, instead of buying the newest iPhone every time Apple launches one, you bought that same amount of Apple stock? There is a tweet