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Mirelo raises $41M from Index and a16z to solve AI video's silent problem | TechCrunch

AI lets anyone create videos, but many AI video creation tools lack support for audio. Mirelo is building AI that adds soundtracks to match the video’s action. Earlier this year, the Berlin-based star

发布时间:2025-12-14来源:TechCrunch
Grok got crucial facts wrong about Bondi Beach shooting | TechCrunch

Grok, the chatbot built by Elon Musk’s xAI and popularized on his social media platform X, appears to have repeatedly spread misinformation about today’s mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Australia. Giz

发布时间:2025-12-13来源:TechCrunch
First Voyage raises $2.5M for its AI companion that helps you build habits | TechCrunch

In a world that’s rapidly filling up with AI-generated content, a startup called First Voyage wants to help people avoid all the AI slop blasted their way and instead build the habits they want. And i

发布时间:2025-12-14来源:TechCrunch
Nvidia reportedly weighs ramping up H200 production to meet surging demand in China | TechCrunch

After successfully lobbying the Trump administration to approve the sale of its H200 chips to China, Nvidia is now thinking of ramping up production of the chips as Chinese companies rush to place ord

发布时间:2025-12-14来源:TechCrunch
Lightspeed raises record $9B in fresh capital | TechCrunch

After a surge of VC investments from the 2021 bubble failed to yield strong returns from many venture firms, limited partners, such as endowments, pension plans, and sovereign wealth funds began to fu

发布时间:2025-12-14来源:TechCrunch
Merriam-Webster names 'slop' the word of the year | TechCrunch

AI’s impact on our social media feeds has not gone unnoticed by one of America’s top dictionaries. Amidst the onslaught of content that has swept the web over the past 12 months, Merriam-Webster annou

发布时间:2025-12-14来源:TechCrunch
Nvidia bulks up open source offerings with an acquisition and new open AI models  | TechCrunch

Nvidia continues to expand its footprint in open source AI on two fronts: an acquisition and a new model release. The semiconductor giant announced Monday it acquired SchedMD, the leading developer of

发布时间:2025-12-14来源:TechCrunch
Creative Commons announces tentative support for AI 'pay-to-crawl' systems | TechCrunch

After announcing earlier this year a framework for an open AI ecosystem, the nonprofit Creative Commons has come out in favor of “pay-to-crawl” technology — a system to automate compensation of websit

发布时间:2025-12-14来源:TechCrunch
OpenAI-backed biotech firm Chai Discovery raises $130M Series B at $1.3B valuation | TechCrunch

Chai Discovery, a biotech startup with backing from OpenAI, announced a $130 million Series B round at a $1.3 billion valuation on Monday. The round was led by General Catalyst and Oak HC/FT, the comp

发布时间:2025-12-14来源:TechCrunch
Disney's OpenAI deal is exclusive for just one year -- then it's open season | TechCrunch

Disney’s three-year licensing partnership with OpenAI includes just one of exclusivity, Disney CEO Bob Iger told CNBC. The company signed the partnership with OpenAI last week that will bring its icon

发布时间:2025-12-14来源:TechCrunch
VCs discuss why most consumer AI startups still lack staying power | TechCrunch

Even three years after the generative AI boom started, most AI startups are still making money by selling to businesses, not individual consumers. Although consumers quickly adopted general-purpose LL

发布时间:2025-12-14来源:TechCrunch
Exclusive: Everbloom built an AI to turn chicken feathers into cashmere | TechCrunch

Cashmere sweaters are everywhere these days, often at unbelievably low prices. The appeal is obvious: If you’ve ever worn cashmere, you know it’s soft, light, and warm — an impressive fiber that’s har

发布时间:2025-12-15来源:TechCrunch
Adobe Firefly now supports prompt-based video editing, adds more third-party models | TechCrunch

Adobe is updating its AI video-generation app, Firefly, with a new video editor that supports precise prompt-based edits, as well as adding new third-party models for image and video generation, inclu

发布时间:2025-12-15来源:TechCrunch
Databricks raises $4B at $134B valuation as its AI business heats up | TechCrunch

The IPO window may have cracked open, but it seems some former startups have no intention of going public. Makes sense, in a way: IPOs were traditionally a way to raise money, and if you can manage to

发布时间:2025-12-15来源:TechCrunch
Google tests an email-based productivity assistant | TechCrunch

Productivity is one space where companies keep wanting to experiment with AI assistants in the hope that they will save time for users, and as a result, they will want to use those assistants more. Go

发布时间:2025-12-15来源:TechCrunch