Apple plays catch-up at WWDC | TechCrunch
…In a subtle acknowledgment that people are holding onto their phones longer these days, Apple said it extended performance improvements to all models back to iPhone 11, a phone released in 2019…
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YouTube will now automatically label AI videos | TechCrunch
…The move follows Google’s release of Gemini Omni, a new family of multimodal AI models at its Google I/O developer conference last week that can output high-quality videos that…
Apple's foldable iPhone could be just around the corner | TechCrunch
…As a foldable, two iPhone Air screens would be about 11.2 millimeters deep, which is thinner than any Samsung foldable other than its newest two-screen model, the Galaxy Z Fold7…
Audio generation app Huxe, founded by former NotebookLM developers, shuts down | TechCrunch
…The announcement comes a day after Spotify released a personal podcast feature that works similarly. The company said that it is removing the app from App Store and Play Store, and if…
Strava declares war on scrapers ahead of IPO | TechCrunch
AI companies have grown into data-hungry entities as their models require ever-larger datasets to train on. To meet that need, many AI startups defy long-standing internet conventions — like respecting…
Scoop: Former Tesla exec and Heron Power CEO Drew Baglino has founded a heat pump startup
…The patent lays out some of the design principles that form the basis of Tesla’s “octovalve” system that first appeared in the Model Y. The heat pump in that vehicle manages…
Spotify launches an ElevenLabs-powered audiobook creation tool | TechCrunch
…However, it may have wanted authors to access newer voice models that sound more expressive and human-like, like those offered by ElevenLabs. Notably, ElevenLabs had released its own self-publishing platform…
Focused Energy raises whopping $240M Series A for laser-powered fusion tech | TechCrunch
…When atoms inside the fuel finally fuse, they release significant amounts of energy. The company is basing its design on the experiment at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore…
This chip startup just raised $135M on a bet that AI's biggest bottleneck isn't compute -- it's memory | TechCrunch
…The company claims that what used to require 10 servers could potentially run on just one. “While GPUs excel at matrix multiplication — the heavy math behind AI model training — much of the…
This startup is betting India's gig economy can train the world's robots | TechCrunch
…The company said it is developing ways to fine-tune AI models with its own data and test them on robots to evaluate task effectiveness. By doing this, the startup can demonstrate…