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For cancer patients, medicines given in clinical trials can help save or prolong their lives. However, even though thousands of clinical trials are conducted in the United States each year, only 3% to 5% of eligible patients participate in investigations of new treatments. Generative AI startup Triomics claims it can significantly reduce the time it takes for doctors to match patients with clinical trials. A doctor's recommendation is often the key to patient enrollment. However, busy oncologists and nurses often do not have time to learn about all the clinical trials that may be appropriate for their patients. I'm not…

Reddit announced new policies Thursday aimed at balancing licensing content to big tech companies like Google with protecting user privacy. The newly announced Public Content Policy joins Reddit's existing privacy and content policies and governs how commercial entities and other partners can access and use Reddit's data. In conjunction with this, the company also announced a subreddit dedicated to researchers working with Reddit data. The announcement comes on the heels of Reddit's stock market debut, and signals that the company stands to grow revenue not only from the advertising and developer usage of its APIs that run on the platform,…

Eva Ho plans to retire from her role as general partner of Fika Ventures, the Los Angeles-based seed company she co-founded in 2016. Sources said Mr. Fika informed LPs in an email of Mr. Ho's intention to exit after the firm's current fund, Fund III, ends. Fika confirmed his transition to TechCrunch earlier this week and released a blog post mentioning the transition this morning. Fika's other founding general partner, TX Zhuo, will remain with the fund. “Eva has decided to withdraw due to personal reasons. She trusts the existing team to take it forward,” a spokesperson for the foundation…

Amazon CTO Werner Vogels, a man of immense wealth who bought up a small Airbnb in the center of Amsterdam where he lived during the COVID-19 pandemic, Are you spending your days? At first glance, it looks like you're building an AI-powered meeting summary app. Go figure. In this week's post on Vogels' personal blog, he details Distill, an open source app he built with his “OCTO'' (Office of the CTO) team to transcribe and summarize conference calls. . Distill takes audio recordings of meetings (in formats like MP3, FLAC, WAV, etc.), analyzes them, and generates summaries along with a…

Paris-based Mistral AI, a start-up working on open source large-scale language models that are the building blocks for generative AI services, has tripled its December valuation to 60% to compete more aggressively with the likes of OpenAI. The company is raising funds at a valuation of $1 billion. TechCrunch learned from multiple sources. We understand from sources close to us that DST, General Catalyst and Lightspeed Venture Partners are all considering participating in this round. DST — a leading investor led by Yuri Milner and a prominent backer of tech industry giants such as Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Spotify, WhatsApp, Alibaba…

Developer season has officially begun, and Google I/O 2024 is just days away. The short answer to the question of what to expect is two letters. It's “AI”. Google I/O? Similar to Google A/I. Almost every Google announcement in recent years has included an element of artificial intelligence/machine learning, but this time CEO Sundar Pichai will be sick of the topic by the time he leaves the stage. Things begin May 14 at 10 a.m. Pacific Time. That's the big keynote, and that's what comes to mind when you think about the event. “See how we're furthering our mission to…

Dating apps and other social friend-finding apps are in the spotlight: Dating app giant Bumble is considering more acquisitions. The company said on Wednesday's first-quarter earnings call that it plans to use M&A “opportunistically” to better prioritize inorganic growth. Unlike rival Match, which has historically dominated popular dating app brands left and right, Bumble hasn't been very aggressive in pursuing growth through M&A. Its first acquisition was French dating app Fruititz in February 2022, followed by the acquisition of couples app Official in 2023 for $10 million. Neither of them are becoming the next Tinder, to put it kindly. Bumble…

Class founder Michael Chasen was in college when he and a friend came up with the idea for Blackboard, an online classroom organization tool. His former company was acquired in 2011 for $1.64 billion. Chasen then developed Class, a Zoom add-on, to help teachers leverage Zoom more effectively in classroom environments during the pandemic, which was difficult in the early days of the pandemic. . But Chasen said people using Class continue to say their businesses need something similar, and on Thursday Class announced the release of ProFeature for Zoom, which is designed specifically for business users. did. Rather than…

Indian investment app Groww has become one of the first Indian startups to move back to India from the US, illustrating a broader trend among the local startup community. The Bangalore-based startup, which helps consumers buy stocks and mutual funds, made the transition in March, said co-founder and chief executive officer Lalit Keshre. I wrote it in the post With X. A growing number of Indian startups, particularly in the fintech space, are preparing to relocate their overseas holding companies to India in order to align with evolving local regulations and seek domestic stock listings. Many Indian startups, especially those…

Technology giant Dell on Thursday notified customers that it had experienced a data breach involving their names and addresses. In an email seen and shared by TechCrunch Several people above socializing The computer maker wrote in the media that it was investigating “an incident involving Dell's portal, which contains a database containing limited types of customer information related to purchases from Dell.” Dell wrote that the information accessed in the breach included customer names, addresses, and “Dell hardware and ordering information, including service tags, product descriptions, order dates, and related warranty information.” Masu. Dell did not say whether the incident…