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Bumble founder and executive chair Whitney Wolfe Herd raised eyebrows this week with her comments about how AI might change the dating experience. During an onstage interview, Bloomberg’s Emily Chang brought up bots posing as real people, or real people…

Alora Baby is not just aiming to manufacture baby cribs in an environmentally friendly way but is attempting to overhaul the whole lifecycle of a product © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Source: techcrunch.com

It’s been a busy weekend for union organizing efforts at U.S. Apple stores, with the union at one store voting to authorize a strike, while workers at another store voted against forming a union. Back in 2022, workers in Towson,…

We took the pulse of emerging fund managers about what it’s been like for them during these post-ZERP, venture-capital-winter years. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Source: techcrunch.com

To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch has been publishing a series of interviews focused on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. We’re publishing these pieces throughout the year…

SAP Chief Sustainability Officer Sophia Mendelsohn wants to incentivize companies to be green because it’s profitable, not just because it’s right. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Source: techcrunch.com

Rachel Coldicutt is the founder of Careful Industries, which researches the social impact technology has on society. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Source: techcrunch.com

AI startup Runway’s second annual AI Film Festival showcased movies that incorporated AI tech in some fashion, from backgrounds to animations. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Source: techcrunch.com

The U.K. Safety Institute, the U.K.’s recently established AI safety body, has released a toolset designed to “strengthen AI safety” by making it easier for industry, research organizations and academia to develop AI evaluations.  Called Inspect, the toolset — which…

Welcome to Week in Review: TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the week’s biggest news. This week Apple unveiled new iPad models at its Let Loose event, including a new 13-inch display for the iPad Air, as well as Tandem OLED and a…

Scarcely five months after its founding, hard tech startup Layup Parts has landed a $9 million round of financing led by Founders Fund to transform composites manufacturing. Lux Capital and Haystack also participated. The breakneck pace is more than a subtle…

Welcome to Startups Weekly — Haje‘s weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Look, I know this is our startups weekly newsletter, and as…

Unlike ChatGPT, Claude did not become a new App Store hit. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Source: techcrunch.com

The company is describing the event as “a chance to demo some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates.” © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Source: techcrunch.com

The deck included some redacted numbers, but there was still enough data to get a good picture. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Source: techcrunch.com

A dust-up between Evolve Bank & Trust, Mercury and Synapse has led TabaPay to abandon its acquisition plans of troubled banking-as-a-service startup Synapse. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Source: techcrunch.com

The Series C funding, which brings its total raise to around $95 million, will go toward mass production of the startup’s inaugural products © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Source: techcrunch.com

Match Group, the company that owns several dating apps, including Tinder and Hinge, released its first-quarter earnings report on Tuesday, which shows that Tinder’s paying user base has decreased for the sixth quarter in a row. On the other hand,…

As part of an investigation into people involved in the pro-independence movement in Catalonia, the Spanish police obtained information from the encrypted services Wire and Proton, which helped the authorities identify a pseudonymous activist, according to court documents obtained by…

The federal government agency responsible for granting patents and trademarks is alerting thousands of filers whose private addresses were exposed following a second data spill in as many years. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) said in an email…