Month: January 2025

AI voice startup ElevenLabs raises $250m at a $3bn valuation, reports say Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/elevenlabs-250m-raise-news/

What do I do with my money, and with my life? The club helping founders deal with post-exit blues Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/founders-exit-club-interview/

How to support middle managers Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/how-to-support-middle-managers/

Wayves power players: the leadership team behind the Nvidia-backed autonomous vehicle unicorn Powered by WPeMatico https://sifted.eu/articles/wayve-power-players/

Google Maps will soon rename Gulf of Mexico to ‘Gulf of America’ Google will rename the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Denali mountain in Google Maps once a federal mapping database reflects changes ordered by the Trump Administration, the company announced Monday. Google is complying with an executive order issued

Reid Hoffman’s Manas AI raises $24.6M, a fraction of other AI drug discovery startups LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and Siddhartha Mukherjee, cancer researcher and author of the book “The Emperor of All Maladies,” have co-founded an AI-powered drug discovery startup, Manas AI. The company, which will initially focus on breast

Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is already using DeepSeek instead of OpenAI at his startup, Gloo The tech industry’s reaction to AI model DeepSeek R1 has been wild. Pat Gelsinger, for instance, is elated and thinks it will make AI better for everyone. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal

SonicWall says hackers are exploiting a new zero-day bug to breach customer networks SonicWall said the bug is “confirmed as being actively exploited in the wild” by malicious hackers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Powered by WPeMatico https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/27/sonicwall-says-hackers-are-exploiting-a-new-zero-day-bug-to-breach-customer-networks/

Quartz has been quietly publishing AI-generated news articles Quartz, the international business news outlet, has been quietly aggregating reporting from other outlets, including TechCrunch, in order to publish AI-generated articles under the byline “Quartz Intelligence Newsroom.”   Quartz started publishing simple AI-generated earnings reports months ago, but beginning last week, the

Perplexity submits a new bid for TikTok Perplexity AI has submitted a revised proposal to merge with TikTok, in an arrangement that would give the U.S. government up to 50 percent ownership of the new entity. The Associated Press first reported on the new proposal. A source with knowledge of