NYT's Wordle to become a TV game show | TechCrunch
…Wordle began its life as a popular online word puzzle game after being released in October 2021 by Josh Wardle, a software engineer in Brooklyn. In January of the following year, The…
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Meta quietly launches a new Reddit-like app called Forum | TechCrunch
Meta has quietly released a new standalone app for Facebook Groups, called “Forum.” The company seems to be positioning Forum as a platform that functions similarly to Reddit, describing the app as…
Exclusive: Ouster's new color lidar is coming to replace cameras | TechCrunch
…OS1 Max." Other new lidars built on the Rev8 platform will include the OS0, OS1, and OSDome, according to a press release. Ouster isn't the only company that has started talking…
Adaption aims big with AutoScientist, an AI tool that helps models train themselves | TechCrunch
…Russell Brandom Russell Brandom has been covering the tech industry since 2012, with a focus on platform policy and emerging technologies. He previously worked at The Verge and Rest of World, and…
China's Moonshot AI raises $2B at $20B valuation as demand for open source AI skyrockets | TechCrunch
…The company’s latest model, Kimi K2.6, is currently the second-most used LLM on distribution platform OpenRouter . The fundraising comes as investor appetite for open-weight AI models made by…
Google adds Gemini-powered dictation to Gboard, which could be bad news for dictation startups | TechCrunch
…Google itself released AI Edge Eloquent , an offline-first dictation app powered by its on-device Gemma AI models, on iOS last month. Rambler is Google’s clearest move yet to close…
Hark raises $700M Series A for its secretive "universal" AI interface | TechCrunch
…Hark expects to release its first multi-modal models this summer, which it says will power a personal AI platform that works with existing products and services. The company expects to follow…
Airbnb gets into hotels, expands AI for host onboarding and customer support | TechCrunch
…The company is now introducing hotels to its platform to drive new revenue and offer more options for travelers to book stays. The company has been testing out hotel listings for a…
Ferrari is using IBM's AI to create F1 superfans | TechCrunch
…F1 released stats last year showing that 75% of new fans were women, many of whom were Gen Z. A particular draw for women is the F1 Academy, an all-female racing…
Who decides what AI tells you? Campbell Brown, once Meta's news chief, has thoughts | TechCrunch
…Brown traces the origin of Forum AI, founded 17 months ago in New York, to specific moment. “I was at Meta when ChatGPT was first released publicly,” she recalled, “and I remember…