Uncaged Innovations is working with Hyundai to develop alternatives to leather with a fraction of the environmental impact.
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Exclusive: Hyundai is working with a startup on plant-based leather that smells like the real thing | TechCrunch
Uncaged Innovations' goal is to create a durable, animal- and climate-friendly material that can replace leather in cars and trucks. The compa...
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SpaceX notched some new wins with the tenth Starship test flight.
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SpaceX notches major wins during 10th Starship test | TechCrunch
This test marks a material advancement for the Starship program, which SpaceX wants to eventually use to send humans and cargo to Mars.
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The startup, now valued at $750 million, is one of three that recently raised funding to use AI agents for helping healthcare practices answer patient calls.
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Exclusive: Assort Health nabs $50M to automate patient phone calls, sources say
The company's AI voice agents are designed to take over high-volume, repetitive tasks like scheduling, cancellations, and frequently asked que...
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Alphabet's life sciences arm Verily laid off staff and eliminated its entire devices program as AI and data infrastructure takes center stage.
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Verily is closing its medical device program as Alphabet shifts more resources to AI | TechCrunch
Alphabet's life sciences arm Verily laid off staff and eliminated its entire devices program as AI and data infrastructure take center stage.
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The incident is the latest escalation by current and former employees who are demanding the company end its cloud contracts with Israel.
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Microsoft headquarters go into lockdown after activists take over Brad Smith's office | TechCrunch
The incident is the latest escalation by current and former employees who are demanding the company end its cloud contracts with Israel.
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Anthropic is the latest AI lab to offer an AI agent with the ability to view and take action in a user's Chrome browser.
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Anthropic launches a Claude AI agent that lives in Chrome | TechCrunch
Anthropic is the latest AI lab to offer an AI agent with the ability to view and take action in a user's Chrome browser.
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"Let Down" broke into the Billboard Hot 100 nearly 30 years after its release, marking just the fourth Radiohead song to enter the charts.
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A Radiohead song from 1997 is on the Hot 100 charts, thanks to TikTok | TechCrunch
"Let Down" broke into the Billboard Hot 100 nearly 30 years after its release, marking just the fourth Radiohead song to enter the charts.
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Anthropic has settled a class action lawsuit with a group of fiction and non-fiction authors, as announced in a filing on Tuesday with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Anthropic had won a partial victory in a lower court ruling, and was in the process of appealing that ruling. No details of the settlement were […]
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Anthropic settles AI book-training lawsuit with authors | TechCrunch
Called Bartz v. Anthropic, the case deals with Anthropic's use of books as training material for its large language models.
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Intel doesn't need cash. Instead, the struggling semiconductor giant needs to figure out how to drum up interest for its foundry business.
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Why the US government is not the savior Intel needs | TechCrunch
Intel doesn't need cash. Instead, the struggling semiconductor giant needs to figure out how to drum up interest for its foundry business.
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Libby launches "Inspire Me," a genAI feature that helps its users find books to borrow from local libraries.
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Libby's library app adds an AI discovery feature, and not everyone is thrilled | TechCrunch
Libby launches "Inspire Me," a genAI feature that helps its users find books to borrow from local libraries.
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