As EV startup Fisker prepares to enter the fourth month of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy process, existing owners have received some bad news: they will have to pay labor costs to resolve two of the ...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/16/fisker-ocean-owners-stuck-paying-for-recall-repairs/
Salesforce Ventures just doubled its AI fund with another $500 million, and is helping San Francisco grow its attraction as the city for AI startups. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. Fo...
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy sent a memo to the company’s employees Monday morning, calling for a full return to office at the start of 2025. For the last 15 months, Amazon employees have been expecte...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/16/amazon-mandates-full-five-day-return-to-office/
Runway, one of several AI startups developing video-generating tech, today announced an API to allow devs and organizations to build the company’s generative AI models into third-party platform...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/16/runway-announces-an-api-for-its-video-generating-models/
Gogoro, the Taiwanese electric scooter manufacturer and battery-swapping giant, said its CEO and chairman Horace Luke has stepped down amid subsidy fraud allegations, according to a regulatory fi...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/16/gogoro-ceo-resigns-as-subsidy-fraud-investigation-continues/
Apple’s newest software update, iOS 18, is rolling out today to all iPhone users. While AI technology was heavily hyped as a key part of this upgrade, Apple Intelligence features aren’t part ...
On Monday Apple released the new version of iOS, the company’s operating system for the iPhone — iOS 18 is a free download, and it works with the iPhone XR and XS or later, as well as the sec...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/16/ios-18-is-now-available-to-download/
Speaking at an Oracle financial analysts meeting, Oracle founder Larry Ellison said he expects AI to one day power massive law enforcement surveillance networks. “We’re going to have supervis...
During last week’s GlowTime event, Apple announced that iOS 18 will include a feature allowing users with mild to moderate hearing loss to use AirPods as hearing aids. But Apple was still waiti...
The Series A comes about a year after 11xAI raised a $2 million seed round led by Project A Ventures. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/16/ai-digital-employee-startup-11xai-raises-24m-led-by-benchmark/
As TikTok heads to court on Monday to argue against a U.S. ban, parent company ByteDance’s newer social app, Lemon8, is once again surging to the top of the App Store in the U.S. The push is du...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/16/as-tiktok-ban-heads-to-court-bytedances-lemon8-surges/
This latest round of government sanctions land months after Intellexa's founder Tal Dilian was sanctioned for selling the Predator spyware. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/16/us-government-expands-sanctions-against-spyware-maker-intellexa/
It’s been three years since Life360’s $205 million acquisition of AirTag competitor Tile. The company announced Monday its new lineup of lost-item Bluetooth trackers, featuring a sleeker rede...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/16/life360-tile-bluetooth-trackers-new-lineup-since-acquisition/
Typeface, a generative AI startup focused on enterprise use cases, has acquired a pair of companies just over a year after raising $165 million at a $1 billion valuation. Typeface revealed on Mon...
Earlier this year, former NFL quarterback and civil rights activist Colin Kaepernick launched his AI startup, Lumi. Kaepernick has had thousands of stories written about him, and he knows a thing...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/16/colin-kaepernick-is-coming-to-techcrunch-disrupt-2024/
IBM today launched the Qiskit Functions Catalog, a new set of services that aims to make programming quantum computers easier by abstracting away many of the complexities of working with these ma...
Supermaven, an AI coding assistant, has raised $12 million in a funding round that had participation from OpenAI and Perplexity co-founders. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For persona...
Arjun Vora and Tito Goldstein were working on the corporate side of Uber when they realized that HR software largely wasn’t built to manage hourly staff. Many hourly workers lacked a way to com...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Monday published approval for sleep apnea detection on the Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Watch Ultra 2. The green light comes four days ahead of the S...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/16/apple-watch-sleep-apnea-detection-gets-fda-approval/
I can’t recall another consumer electronics product category becoming a commodity as quickly as Bluetooth earbuds. Apple’s AirPods played a key role in that growth, of course, recapturing a k...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/16/apple-airpods-4-with-active-noise-cancellation-review/