Uber has introduced daily fees for auto rickshaw drivers in India to move away from its typical commission-based model.
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Brand new women’s focused Swizzle Ventures skyrockets past its fundraising target
Swizzle Ventures has closed its Fund I at $6.6 million, bypassing its initial $3 million target, Jessica Kamada, the firm’s founder, told TechCrunch. Back in December, TechCrunch previously reported that the firm, which quietly launched in 2023, was raising and has already bypassed $5 million, per its SEC filing. The thesis of Fund I will […]
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Spanish spyware startup Mollitiam Industries shuts down
The little-known surveillance vendor filed for bankruptcy in January, after years of peddling spyware to countries like Colombia.
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Karman+ digs up $20M to build an asteroid-mining autonomous spacecraft
Investors on the lookout for startups working at the frontiers of technology are casting their nets ever further into unchartered territory, sometimes literally as well as figuratively. In one of the latest examples, a startup called Karman+ with ambitions to build autonomous spacecraft that can travel to asteroids and then mine them for materials has […]
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Google’s ‘Career Dreamer’ uses AI to help you explore job possibilities
Google is launching a new experiment that uses AI to help people explore more career possibilities. The company announced on Wednesday that a new “Career Dreamer” tool can find patterns between your experiences, educational background, skills, and interests to connect you with careers that might be a good fit. With Career Dreamer, you can use […]
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ElectronX is building a stock market for electricity trading
ElectronX has raised $10 million to build an exchange for electricity derivatives trading.
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Sanas taps AI to change call center workers’ accents in real time
The demand for voice and speech recognition technologies is massive — and growing. An analysis by market research firm Markets and Markets found that the sector could be worth over $28.1 billion by 2027. There’s no shortage of vendors providing voice and speech recognition solutions, but some newer upstarts have managed to carve out niches. […]
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Mistral’s Le Chat tops 1M downloads in just 14 days
A couple of weeks after the initial release of Mistral’s AI assistant, Le Chat, the company told Le Parisien that it has reached one million downloads. In particular, Le Chat quickly reached the top spot for free downloads on the iOS App Store in the company’s home country, France. “Go and download Le Chat, which […]
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Apple’s $599 iPhone 16e adds AI, launches February 28
As anticipated, Apple revealed the long-awaited iPhone SE refresh Tuesday. The fourth generation device arrives three years after the last major update to the budget-minded smartphone. This one arrives with a twist, however. The SE branding has been dropped to keep the device more inline with the company’s flagships. The new iPhone 6e starts at […]
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Instagram upgrades DMs with music-sharing, message scheduling, translation and more
Instagram is upgrading its direct messages, also known as DMs, with a handful of new features that make its messaging system more competitive with alternatives, like Apple’s iMessage and other third-party apps. On Wednesday, Instagram users globally will gain access to tools to translate messages across 99 languages, tools to schedule and pin messages to […]
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