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ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth used by more than 92% of Fortune 500 companies. That growth has propelled OpenAI itself into becoming one of the most-hyped companies in recent memory. And its latest partnership with Apple for its upcoming generative AI offering, Apple Intelligence, has given the company another significant bump in the AI race. 2024 also saw the release of GPT-4o, OpenAI’s new flagship omni…
Flo Crivello was monitoring the output of the AI assistant his company Lindy makes when he noticed something odd: a new customer was asking the Lindy AI assistant for a video tutorial to better understand how to use the platform, and Lindy responded. That's when Crivello realized something was wrong: there was no video tutorial. “We saw this and we were like, 'Okay, what kind of video did they send us?' And we were like, 'Oh no, this is a problem,'” Crivello told TechCrunch. The video the AI sent to the client was the music video for Rick Astley's 1987…
The Startup Battlefield is the centerpiece of Disrupt, and we can't wait to see who will be selected from the thousands of applicants to pitch to a panel of top VCs at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024, taking place in San Francisco from October 28-30. The event is always epic, with all applicants hoping to make a major impact on the world. We're excited to announce our first group of investors who will be evaluating startups and holding engaging, revealing Q&As after each presentation. Stay tuned for more names to be announced soon. Judges' feedback provides insight into the criteria they use…
AI video creation platform D-ID is the latest company to release a tool that uses AI technology to translate videos into other languages, except in this case, D-ID replicates the speaker's voice and changes their lip movements to match the translated words as part of the AI editing process. The technology grew out of D-ID's previous efforts. You may remember the viral trend a few years ago where users animated old family photos that later started talking. Following this success, the startup is looking to raise $25 million in Series B funding in 2022 to cater to the growing number…
A newly discovered bug causes iPhones and iPads to temporarily crash, and all it takes is four letters to trigger it. On Wednesday, a security researcher discovered that typing ” could cause Apple's mobile user interface, known as Springboard, to crash. TechCrunch confirmed that typing these characters into the search bar in the Settings app also crashes Springboard when you swipe all the way right on the home screen and type them into the search bar in the App Library. As others have pointed out, all you actually need is “” and some other character. Triggering the bug causes Springboard…
It took 16 weeks to get there, but Anthropic's AI app Claude has hit a notable milestone: It has surpassed $1 million in total mobile app revenue across iOS and Android, with nearly half of that revenue generated by U.S. users, according to new data from app intelligence firm Appfigures. However, Claude still lags far behind top rival ChatGPT, which is #1 in total downloads and #26 in revenue in the U.S. on iOS. Claude only ranks 95th in downloads and 68th in revenue in the Productivity category. Image credit: Appfigures Earlier this year, we reported that Claude's mobile app…
Hey everyone, welcome to TechCrunch's regular AI newsletter. A survey released this week shows that Gen Z, a group that regularly receives attention in mainstream media, has very mixed opinions about AI. Samsung recently surveyed more than 5,000 Gen Zers in France, Germany, South Korea, the UK and the US about their opinions on AI and technology in general, and found that around 70% consider AI to be a “go-to” resource not only for work-related tasks like summarizing documents, meetings and conducting research, but also for non-work-related tasks like finding inspiration and brainstorming. But a report released earlier this year…
Meet Starpath, a startup that aims to make life on Mars possible one day. Starpath is developing a robot that can autonomously mine liquid oxygen from the moon, which could be used to develop fuel for spacecraft, potentially allowing humans to travel farther into space than ever before. The plan is pretty bold — no government or company has ever harvested water ice from the moon before — but the company has raised $12 million in seed funding to back its efforts, plus an $800,000 grant from NASA. Founder Saurav Shroff told TechCrunch: “Life can spread to multiple planets in…
FireHydrant, a New York-based incident management startup founded in 2019, said on Wednesday it had acquired former competitor Blameless. The companies did not disclose the purchase price. Both companies help Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) with the difficult job of keeping software and websites up and running. When an issue occurs, they help the SRE team find it and solve it. When it's over, they help perform a postmortem to understand what happened and what processes should be put in place to prevent similar incidents in the future. FireHydrant founder and CEO Robert Ross said the company has been building out…
Tick tock! You have three days left to save up to $600 on tickets to TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. Make sure you secure this low price by August 23rd at 11:59PM PST. More than 10,000 innovators, founders, and investors will gather at Moscone West in San Francisco from October 28-30. Disrupt 2024 is your chance to scale your startup or, if you're an investor, discover promising ventures that need your investment. What to expect at Disrupt 2024 Disrupt 2024 offers an unparalleled opportunity to network with connections in the startup and venture capital space. Not only will you be able to…