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Andrew Dai, co-founder and CEO of Elorian, during a Build Mode podcast interview discussing visual AI, raising a $55 million seed round, and the future of AI.
Security

How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product | TechCrunch

Andrew Dai left Google DeepMind knowing visual AI was the frontier he wanted to stake his claim in....

AI

AI agents are flooding public services with new requests | TechCrunch

As AI makes it easier to fill forms and file complaints, public services around the world are seeing...

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Venture

How VCs and founders use inflated ‘ARR’ to crown AI startups  | TechCrunch

Last month, Scott Stevenson, co-founder and CEO of the legal AI startup Spellbook, took to X in an...

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AI

OpenAI adds a prominent AI doomer to its board of directors | TechCrunch

Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on keeping AI systems aligned with human interests and under human...

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In Brief

Hack suggests AI music generator Suno scraped YouTube for training data | TechCrunch

The AI music generator Suno was hacked, according to a report from 404 Media.The hacker told the publication...

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AI

Massachusetts hits data centers with new clean power rules | TechCrunch

Massachusetts became the latest state to force data centers to bring their own power, but this time there’s...

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Startups

Naïve raises $28.5M to automate the grunt work of setting up and running a company | TechCrunch

Developers detest drudgery. The entire field of programming is proof of how hard people will work to automate...

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In Brief

Microsoft patches record number of security vulnerabilities, citing its use of AI | TechCrunch

Microsoft released a record number of security patches for Windows, Office, and other tech product lines this week,...

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Enterprise

Jensen Huang explains why Nvidia will grow an astounding 70% next year | TechCrunch

Founder, CEO, and tireless Nvidia hype man Jensen Huang told attendees at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology...

Fundraising

Omilia raises $67M to scale its customer support platform | TechCrunch

The customer support industry has seen a massive influx of startups like Sierra, Decagon, and Parloa trying to...