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Sequoia leads $1.5B tender offer for sales automation startup Clay | TechCrunch

It took seven years of hard work for Kareem Amin, co-founder and CEO of sales automation startup Clay, to see the company’s product finally take off in 2022. Since then, the startup has experienced ex

发布时间:2025-05-07来源:TechCrunch
OpenAI launches a data residency program in Asia | TechCrunch

OpenAI is introducing a new data residency program in Asia, the company announced Thursday, following the rollout of its data residency program in Europe in February. The new program, which is availab

发布时间:2025-05-07来源:TechCrunch
Meta taps former Google DeepMind director to lead its AI research lab | TechCrunch

Meta has chosen Robert Fergus to lead its Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) lab, according to Bloomberg. Fergus had been working at Google DeepMind as a research director for roughly five years, per his

发布时间:2025-05-07来源:TechCrunch
Google launches 'implicit caching' to make accessing its latest AI models cheaper | TechCrunch

Google is rolling out a feature in its Gemini API that the company claims will make its latest AI models cheaper for third-party developers. Google calls the feature “implicit caching” and says it can

发布时间:2025-05-07来源:TechCrunch
Microsoft employees are banned from using DeepSeek app, president says  | TechCrunch

Microsoft employees aren’t allowed to use DeepSeek due to data security and propaganda concerns, Microsoft Vice Chairman and President Brad Smith said in a Senate hearing today. “At Microsoft we don’t

发布时间:2025-05-07来源:TechCrunch
ChatGPT's deep research tool gets a GitHub connector to answer questions about code | TechCrunch

OpenAI is enhancing its AI-powered “deep research” feature with the ability to analyze codebases on GitHub. On Thursday, OpenAI announced what it’s calling the first “connector” for ChatGPT deep resea

发布时间:2025-05-07来源:TechCrunch
Ex-Synapse CEO reportedly trying to raise $100M for his new humanoid robotics venture | TechCrunch

Sankaet Pathak’s last startup, fintech Synapse, filed for bankruptcy in 2024 amid issues with partner Evolve Bank & Trust. Tens of millions of dollars in deposits made by consumers, mostly customers o

发布时间:2025-05-07来源:TechCrunch
CoreWeave reportedly looks to raise $1.5B in debt as IPO disappoints | TechCrunch

Data center operator CoreWeave is reportedly seeking a $1.5 billion debt deal after a disappointing IPO. According to the Financial Times, CoreWeave is holding a roadshow this week with bankers at JPM

发布时间:2025-05-08来源:TechCrunch
This is your last chance to exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI — don’t miss out | TechCrunch

Applications are almost closed, and you have until 11:59 p.m. PT tonight to reserve your exhibitor table at TechCrunch Sessions: AI, our premiere industry event that’s happening at UC Berkeley’s Zelle

发布时间:2025-05-08来源:TechCrunch
SoundCloud changes policies to allow AI training on user content | TechCrunch

SoundCloud appears to have quietly changed its terms of use to allow the company to train AI on audio that users upload to its platform. As spotted by tech ethicist Ed Newton-Rex, the latest version o

发布时间:2025-05-08来源:TechCrunch
Meta's speeding up the 'Mad Men to Math Men' pipeline

At Stripe’s Sessions conference this week, Mark Zuckerberg pitched what he calls the “ultimate business machine”: a fully automated, end-to-end AI ad engine promising to replace agencies, creatives, a

发布时间:2025-05-09来源:TechCrunch
OpenAI's enterprise adoption appears to be accelerating, at the expense of rivals | TechCrunch

OpenAI appears to be pulling well ahead of rivals in the race to capture enterprises’ AI spend, according to transaction data from fintech firm Ramp. According to Ramp’s AI Index, which estimates the

发布时间:2025-05-09来源:TechCrunch
分析师:内存涨价潮中苹果按兵不动,十年内Mac用户有望翻番

【环球网科技综合报道】4月15日消息,据9to5Mac 报道,分析人士认为,苹果公司为了追求加速增长,可能正在采取一项非常反常的策略。该公司历来注重维护其行业领先的利润率,但现在似乎愿意在一定程度上牺牲利润,以优先提升市场份额。分析师认为,这为扩大Mac用户群创造了巨大的机会,尤其是一位知名人士表示,未来十年内用户数量翻一番“肯定可以实现”。 外媒称,整个科技行业都受到了内存成本大幅上涨的冲击。虽

发布时间:2026-04-15来源:环球网科技
The US is reviewing Benchmark’s investment into Chinese AI startup Manus  | TechCrunch

Manus AI is one of the hottest AI agent startups around, recently raising $75 million at a half-billion-dollar valuation in a round led by Benchmark. But two unnamed sources told Semafor that the inve

发布时间:2025-05-08来源:TechCrunch
Amazon offers peek at new human jobs in an AI bot world | TechCrunch

The tech industry seems to have two thoughts when it comes to where human workers fit into the AI-powered world they are creating: Either they think that all the jobs, except perhaps their own, will b

发布时间:2025-05-10来源:TechCrunch