Source: TechCrunch

Mistral releases Pixtral 12B, its first multimodal model

French AI startup Mistral has released its first model that can process images as well as text.
Kyle Wiggers
Sept. 11, 2024, 12:50 p.m.
5 min read
Source: TechCrunch

Chrome wants to make sure your tabs and groups are accessible across devices

Google Chrome is trying to make its browser more sticky by ensuring that you have access to your tab groups and recently opened tabs across all your devices. The company…
Ivan Mehta
Sept. 11, 2024, 11:50 a.m.
5 min read
Source: TechCrunch

Atomico backs Tem to help businesses buy renewable energy directly from sources

Tem wants to do for utilities what neobanks have done for the financial sector: disrupt an industry using tech, streamline it, and cut out the middlemen.
Paul Sawers
Sept. 11, 2024, 11:50 a.m.
5 min read
Source: TechCrunch

Paymob, started by three college friends, lands another $22 million and is profitable in Egypt

Paymob has evolved into an omnichannel gateway offering over 50 methods for offline and online payments to more than 350,000+ merchants.
Tage Kene-Okafor
Sept. 11, 2024, 8:20 a.m.
5 min read
Source: TechCrunch

InMobi secures $100 million for AI acquisitions ahead of IPO

Adtech startup InMobi has raised $100 million in debt financing as the profitable Indian firm looks to “significantly deepen” its artificial intelligence initiatives and fund potential AI acquisitions ahead of…
Manish Singh
Sept. 11, 2024, 4:20 a.m.
5 min read
Source: TechCrunch

Sergey Brin says he’s working on AI at Google ‘pretty much every day’

Google co-founder and ex-Alphabet president Sergey Brin said he’s back working at Google “pretty much every day” because he hasn’t seen anything as exciting as the recent progress in AI…
Kyle Wiggers
Sept. 11, 2024, 12:50 a.m.
5 min read
Source: TechCrunch

Beats makes iPhone 16 cases now

The $49 cases work with MagSafe and the iPhone’s new Camera Control button.
Brian Heater
Sept. 10, 2024, 11:50 p.m.
5 min read
Source: TechCrunch

Apple Watch blood oxygen detection won’t be available on the Series 10 in the US

Apple has not discussed whether the feature’s removal was a hardware change on the Series 10 or if it was simply disabled via the software, like with the Series 9.
Alyssa Stringer
Sept. 10, 2024, 10:50 p.m.
5 min read
Source: TechCrunch

Senate leaders ask FTC to investigate AI content summaries as anti-competitive

A group of Democratic senators is urging the FTC and Justice Department to investigate whether AI tools that summarize and regurgitate online content like news and recipes may amount to…
Devin Coldewey
Sept. 10, 2024, 10:50 p.m.
5 min read
Source: TechCrunch

SpaceX calls out ‘superfluous’ regulatory delays holding up Starship flights

SpaceX has launched its most public and aggressive offensive against regulators to date, with a blog post published Tuesday urging more expeditious launch licensing — lest the country lose its…
Aria Alamalhodaei
Sept. 10, 2024, 9:50 p.m.
5 min read
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