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Whether it's informing customers, finding new customers, or SEO, every business with a presence on the web is, to some degree, in the content business. This means managing the creation of these texts and images, updating them, and possibly optimizing them so that search engines can index and rank them. Large-scale language models (LLMs) are very good at generating text, so it's no surprise that companies expect their content manipulation tools to also generate text and images (Freelance Copy (This is unwelcome news for writers.) AirOps, which today announced a $15.5 million Series A funding round, is focused on managing…

Google will start showing ads in AI Overviews, the AI-generated summaries it provides for specific Google search queries, and will also add links to related web pages for some of those summaries. . This week, the company is also rolling out search results pages curated by AI in the US. The increased prominence of AI in Google's core search products comes as users do not migrate to alternatives such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Perplexity, which use AI to answer many of the questions traditionally asked of Google. This is an effort to make this happen. Perplexity announced in May that…

Google is upgrading its visual search app Lens to answer questions about your surroundings in near real-time. English-speaking Android and iOS users with the Google app installed can now start capturing video via Lens and ask questions about objects of interest in the video. Lou Wang, Lens' director of product management, said the feature uses a “customized” Gemini model to understand the video and associated questions. Gemini is Google's family of AI models that powers numerous products across the company's portfolio. “Suppose you want to know more about some interesting fish,” Wang said at a press conference. “[Lens will] Create…

YouTube on Thursday announced a series of updates to its short video product, YouTube Shorts. These include the ability for creators to upload videos of up to three minutes. The company also says it will update the Shorts player, introduce templates, and add a new Shorts Trends page for mobile devices. A series of combined updates could help YouTube become more competitive with TikTok. TikTok already allows longer videos (10 minutes to record and 60 minutes to upload), making it easier for users to participate in trends. YouTube says the new Shorts player is designed to streamline the look of…

In a world where technology trends often spark investment frenzy, the temptation to follow the crowd can be overwhelming. But trend business is a dangerous game. When everyone jumps headfirst into the latest “next big thing,” without true understanding, the risk of falling off a cliff increases exponentially. We welcome Pegah Ebrahimi, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of FPV Ventures. Harry Tannenbaum, co-founder and president of Mill; They take to the Builders Stage to explore how founders and investors can discern real opportunity from hype and avoid the fate of blindly following the crowd. Disrupt 2024, taking place from October 28th…

The tech industry did a huge double take this year when a security startup called Wiz, founded in Israel just four years ago, became the subject of a record-breaking $23 billion takeover bid by Google. The start-up company boldly declined the offer, but… Really? Yes, really. We spoke with Assaf Rappaport, CEO and co-founder of Wiz, on the Disrupt stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024, taking place October 28-30 at Moscone West in San Francisco, and asked him the big questions. We plan to ask all of these questions. :Why did Rapaport pull out of the deal? What's next for Wiz?…

The global pet food market is highly competitive and continues to grow, with a market share estimated at $103.3 billion in 2023. This growth has led many companies to target pet owners who are willing to invest in high-quality food to enhance the health and longevity of their pets. Ollie, the “human-grade” pet food subscription service, is moving into new territory with AI-powered pet diagnostics to differentiate itself in a crowded market. The company announced Thursday that it has acquired DIG Labs, a pet health technology startup touting its unique dog stool image scanning and analysis capabilities, for an undisclosed…

StrictlyVC is hosting its first event within TechCrunch, and investors looking to connect with their peers won't want to miss this opportunity. The StrictlyVC series, which brings headline-grabbing people and stories directly to an audience of primarily VCs, LPs, founders, and executives, will be hosting Disrupt 2024 at San Francisco's Moscone Center on Tuesday, October 29th at 3 p.m. will appear at the center of From noon to 6pm This event marks the first time StrictlyVC is coordinating a boutique event within parent company TechCrunch's larger Disrupt show. It will also be the first time a StrictlyVC event will be…

Hackers are exploiting yet another vulnerability in one of Ivanti's widely used enterprise products, the U.S. government's cybersecurity agency CISA warned in a new alert this week. Ivanti Endpoint Manager (EPM) is a tool that helps organizations manage and secure fleets of employee devices, and the remote code execution flaw was first revealed by Trend Micro's zero-day initiative in April and by Ivanti the following month. The patch has been applied. This bug allows an unauthenticated attacker to remotely execute malicious code on affected Ivanti customers' servers. In Wednesday's advisory, CISA said hackers are currently actively exploiting this vulnerability (tracked…

AI-powered video editing app Captions is rolling out new tools for websites to manage video content publishing schedules and generate videos for that date based on topics related to the site. The tool first scans your site, extracts your site's content, keywords, offerings, and key selling points to create a content plan. At the moment, their social media strategy is primarily focused on video formats Instagram Reels and TikTok, which is not surprising given that Captions specializes in video creation and editing. The company said it would consider other formats in the future. The company believes the tool could be…