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Exclusive: Assort Health nabs $50M to automate patient phone calls, sources say

Assort Health, a startup that uses AI to automate patient communication for specialty healthcare practices, has raised about $50 million in a Series B round at a valuation of $750 million, according t

发布时间:2025-08-25来源:TechCrunch
Microsoft headquarters go into lockdown after activists take over Brad Smith's office | TechCrunch

Protesters stormed Microsoft’s Redmond headquarters on Monday and made it into president Brad Smith’s office in Building 34, forcing a temporary lockdown. The “No Azure for Apartheid” group livestream

发布时间:2025-08-25来源:TechCrunch
Plaud launches a new AI hardware notetaker, the $179 Note Pro | TechCrunch

Hardware company Plaud.ai released its new physical notetaker, the Plaud AI Pro, on Wednesday. The notetaker, priced at $179, comes two years after the original Plaud Note was released, and a year aft

发布时间:2025-08-26来源:TechCrunch
From streaming to healthcare to AI, Mark Cuban reveals his 'disruption formula'

Steve Jobs once said, “Everything’s a remix.” And that’s a philosophy that Mark Cuban has taken to heart, building an entire entrepreneurial and investment career on that simple belief. The real oppor

发布时间:2025-08-27来源:TechCrunch
Malaysia's SkyeChip unveils the country's first edge AI processor | TechCrunch

Malaysia has developed its first domestic edge AI processor. Malaysian chip design company SkyeChip announced its MARS1000 processor at an industry event on Monday, Bloomberg reported. While an edge p

发布时间:2025-08-26来源:TechCrunch
OpenAI co-founder calls for AI labs to safety-test rival models | TechCrunch

OpenAI and Anthropic, two of the world’s leading AI labs, briefly opened up their closely guarded AI models to allow for joint safety testing — a rare cross-lab collaboration at a time of fierce compe

发布时间:2025-08-26来源:TechCrunch
Google and Grok are catching up to ChatGPT, says a16z's latest AI report | TechCrunch

ChatGPT rivals like Google’s Gemini, xAI’s Grok, and, to a lesser extent, Meta AI, are closing the gap to ChatGPT, OpenAI’s popular AI chatbot, according to a new report focused on the consumer AI lan

发布时间:2025-08-26来源:TechCrunch
911 centers are so understaffed, they're turning to AI to answer calls | TechCrunch

When Max Keenan joined Y Combinator’s summer 2022 batch, he was working on Aurelian, a company that automated appointment bookings for hair salons. But less than a year later, a conversation with one

发布时间:2025-08-26来源:TechCrunch
Nvidia reports record sales as the AI boom continues | TechCrunch

Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, reported another quarter of sustained sales growth in its earnings statement Wednesday, with $46.7 billion in revenue, a 56% increase compared to the same pe

发布时间:2025-08-26来源:TechCrunch
Maisa AI gets $25M to fix enterprise AI's 95% failure rate | TechCrunch

A staggering 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing, according to a recent report published by MIT’s NANDA initiative. But rather than giving up on the technology altogether, the most ad

发布时间:2025-08-26来源:TechCrunch
How a 16-year-old company is easing small businesses into AI | TechCrunch

Amid all the “is this a bubble?” talk about artificial intelligence, the supply chain and logistics industries have become breeding grounds for seemingly genuine uses of the technology. Flexport, Uber

发布时间:2025-08-27来源:TechCrunch
MathGPT.ai, the ‘cheat-proof’ tutor and teaching assistant, expands to over 50 institutions | TechCrunch

As AI becomes more prevalent in the classroom — where students use it to complete assignments and teachers are uncertain about how to address it — an AI platform called MathGPT.ai launched last year w

发布时间:2025-08-27来源:TechCrunch
Investors are loving Lovable | TechCrunch

Investors are clambering to get onto Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable’s cap table, making unsolicited offers of investment that value the company at more than $4 billion, reports Financial Times. L

发布时间:2025-08-27来源:TechCrunch
AI or not, Will Smith's crowd video is fresh cringe | TechCrunch

Will Smith posted a video on social media that shows oceans of fans cheering him on during his recent European tour. “My favorite part of the tour is seeing you all up close,” the caption says. “Thank

发布时间:2025-08-27来源:TechCrunch
Anthropic users face a new choice – opt out or share your chats for AI training | TechCrunch

Anthropic is making some big changes to how it handles user data, requiring all Claude users to decide by September 28 whether they want their conversations used to train AI models. While the company

发布时间:2025-08-27来源:TechCrunch