Google lays off workers, Tesla cans its Supercharger team and UnitedHealthcare reveals security lapses Welcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that recaps the week that was in tech. This edition’s a tad bittersweet for me — it’ll be my last (for a while, anyway). Soon, ...
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Google lays off workers, Tesla cans its Supercharger team and UnitedHealthcare reveals security lapses | TechCrunch
In this edition of Week in Review (WiR), we recap Google's recent layoffs -- and Tesla's -- and the UnitedHealthcare hacks.
Women in AI: Tara Chklovski is teaching the next generation of AI innovators Tara Chklovski is the CEO and founder of Technovation, a nonprofit that helps teach young girls about technology and entrepreneurship. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Women in AI: Tara Chklovski is teaching the next generation of AI innovators | TechCrunch
Tara Chklovski is the CEO and founder of Technovation, a nonprofit that helps teach young girls about technology and entrepreneurship.
Deal Dive: Amae Health is building an in-person approach to mental healthcare in an increasingly digital space While many recent mental health-focused startups are digital first, Amae Health focuses on the importance of in-person care. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Amae Health is building an in-person approach to mental healthcare in an increasingly digital space | TechCrunch
While many recent mental health-focused startups are digital first, Amae Health focuses on the importance of in-person care.
Farewell, dunks? Threads launches quote controls for all users Threads users can now exert more control over who can quote their posts. This builds on a feature that already allows Threads users to limit who can reply to their posts (competing services like X and...
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Farewell, dunks? Threads launches quote controls for all users | TechCrunch
Threads users can now exert more control over who can quote their posts. This builds on a feature that already allows Threads users to limit who ca...
Why RAG won’t solve generative AI’s hallucination problem RAG is being pitched as a solution of sorts to generative AI hallucinations. But there's limits to what the technique can do. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Why RAG won't solve generative AI's hallucination problem | TechCrunch
RAG is being pitched as a solution of sorts to generative AI hallucinations. But there's limits to what the technique can do.
This Week in AI: Generative AI and the problem of compensating creators Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable resear...
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This Week in AI: Generative AI and the problem of compensating creators | TechCrunch
In this edition of This Week in AI, we take a look at research from an OpenAI scientist on compensating data set contributors.
Luminar cuts 20% of staff and outsources lidar production Lidar company Luminar is slashing its workforce by 20% and will lean harder on its contract manufacturing partner as part of a restructuring that will shift the company to a more “asset-light” busines...
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Luminar cuts 20% of staff and outsources lidar production | TechCrunch
Luminar is slashing its workforce by 20% and will lean harder on its contract manufacturing partner as part of a restructuring.
Iconiq raises $5.15B toward seventh flagship fund Iconiq Capital has raised $5.15 billion across two funds associated with the seventh growth fund family, according to SEC filings. The firm, which launched in 2011 as a private office managing capital...
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ICONIQ Growth raises $5.75B seventh flagship fund | TechCrunch
According to SEC filings, ICONIQ Growth has raised $5.21 billion across two funds affiliated with the Seventh Growth Fund Family. However, the firm...
A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs The tech layoff wave is still going strong in 2024. Following significant workforce reductions in 2022 and 2023, this year has already seen 60,000 job cuts across 254 companies, according to independe...
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A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs | TechCrunch
A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024 and 2025.
Ex-NSA hacker and ex-Apple researcher launch startup to protect Apple devices Two veteran security experts are launching a startup that aims to help other makers of cybersecurity products to up their game in protecting Apple devices. Their startup is called DoubleYou, the name ...
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Ex-NSA hacker and ex-Apple researcher launch startup to protect Apple devices | TechCrunch
Patrick Wardle and Mikhail Sosonkin want to sell specific tools to cybersecurity companies focused on protecting Apple devices.