The Brutalist Report - techcrunch
- Orange Charger thinks a $750 outlet will solve EV charging for apartment dwellers [16m]
- Embedded accounting startup Layer secures $2.3M toward goal of replacing Quickbooks [16m]
- Weka raises $140M as the AI boom bolsters data platforms [16m]
- Meet PayHOA, a profitable and once-bootstrapped SaaS startup that just landed a $27.5M Series A [2h]
- Restaurant365 orders in $175M at a $1B+ valuation to supersize its food service software stack [2h]
- Portuguese VC firm Shilling launches €50M opportunity fund to back growth-stage startups [3h]
- LanceDB, which counts Midjourney as a customer, is building databases for multimodal AI [3h]
- Berlin-based trawa raises €10M to use AI to make buying renewable energy easier for SMEs [4h]
- Lydia, the French payments app with 8 million users, launches mobile banking app Sumeria [4h]
- Shipping logistics startup Harbor Lab raises $16M Series A led by Atomico [6h]
- AWS confirms European ‘sovereign cloud’ to launch in Germany by 2025, plans €7.8B investment over 15 years [6h]
- Indian insurance startup Go Digit raises $141M from anchor investors ahead of IPO [7h]
- Food VC Peakbridge has new $187M fund to transform future of food, like lab-made cocoa [8h]
- Accion’s new $152.5M fund will back financial institutions serving small businesses globally [9h]
- Threads finally starts its own fact-checking program [9h]
- Looking Glass launches new 3D displays [12h]
- Intuitive Machines wants to help NASA return samples from Mars [13h]
- Google adds ‘Web’ search filter for showing old-school text links as AI rolls out [13h]
- Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI co-founder and longtime chief scientist, departs [14h]
- Blue Origin to resume crewed New Shepard launches on May 19 [14h]
- Patreon and Grammarly are already experimenting with Gemini Nano, says Google [16h]
- Reddit introduces new tools for ‘Ask Me Anything,’ its Q&A feature [16h]
- LearnLM is Google’s new family of AI models for education [17h]
- Google is bringing AI-generated quizzes to academic videos on YouTube [17h]
- Motional cut about 550 employees, around 40%, in recent restructuring, sources say [18h]
- Google mentioned ‘AI’ 120+ times during its I/O keynote [18h]
- Google Play preps a new full-screen app discovery feature and adds more developer tools [19h]
- Gemini on Android becomes more capable and works with Gmail, Messages, YouTube and more [19h]
- Google gets serious about AI-generated video at Google I/O 2024 [19h]
- Google Veo, a serious swing at AI-generated video, debuts at Google I/O 2024 [19h]
- Gemini comes to Gmail to summarize, draft emails, and more [19h]
- Google is bringing Gemini capabilities to the Google Maps platform [19h]
- Project IDX, Google’s next-gen IDE, is now in open beta [19h]
- Google will use Gemini to detect scams during calls [19h]
- Google announces Gemma 2, a 27B-parameter version of its open model, launching in June [19h]
- Google TalkBack will use Gemini to describe images for blind people [19h]
- Google launches Firebase Genkit, a new open source framework for building AI-powered apps [19h]
- Google is building its Gemini Nano AI model into Chrome on the desktop [19h]
- Circle to Search is now a better homework helper [19h]
- Google experiments with using video to search, thanks to Gemini AI [19h]
- Google will soon start using GenAI to organize some search results pages [19h]
- Google is adding more AI to its search results [19h]
- Google’s next-gen TPUs promise a 4.7x performance boost [19h]
- Google reveals plans for upgrading AI in the real world through Gemini Live at Google I/O 2024 [19h]
- Google’s image-generating AI gets an upgrade [19h]
- Google’s generative AI can now analyze hours of video [19h]
- Google Photos introduces an AI search feature, ‘Ask Photos’ [19h]
- Google I/O 2024: Everything announced so far [19h]
- Apple touts stopping $1.8BN in App Store fraud last year in latest pitch to developers [20h]
- Expedia starts testing AI-powered features for search and travel planning [20h]
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