Sizable Energy has a plan to store excess renewable energy in flexible reservoirs out at sea. The startup has raised $8 million to test prototypes.
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Exclusive: One startup’s quest to store electricity in the ocean | TechCrunch
Sizable Energy has a plan to store excess renewable energy in flexible reservoirs out at sea. The startup has raised $8 million to test prototypes.
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Netflix is using AI for special effects and pre-production, but CEO Ted Sarandos that Netflix "not worried about AI replacing creativity."
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Netflix goes ‘all in’ on generative AI as entertainment industry remains divided | TechCrunch
Netflix isn't planning to use generative AI as the backbone of its content but believes the technology has potential as a tool to make creativ...
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As TechCrunch previously reported, the maker of a popular open source framework for building AI agents has officially become a unicorn.
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Open source agentic startup LangChain hits $1.25B valuation | TechCrunch
As TechCrunch previously reported, the maker of a popular open source framework for building AI agents has officially become a unicorn.
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Former Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe’s new startup, Sesame, is building AI-powered smartglasses with natural, humanlike voice interaction. Backed by Sequoia and Spark, the company also launched an invite-only iOS beta to preview its conversational AI.
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Sesame, the conversational AI startup from Oculus founders, raises $250M and launches beta | TechCrunch
Former Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe’s new startup, Sesame, is building AI-powered smart glasses with natural, humanlike voice interaction. Backed by ...
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OpenAI's new browser announcement made it clear exactly how much Google has to lose in the AI era.
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OpenAI’s new browser is a broadside shot at Google  | TechCrunch
OpenAI's new browser announcement made it clear exactly how much Google has to lose in the AI era.
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Fal.ai announced its previous round at a $1.5 billion valuation in July.
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Exclusive: Sources: Multimodal AI startup Fal.ai already raised at $4B+ valuation
Fal provides developers with over 600 image, video, audio, and 3D models, it says, and boasts that its cloud has thousands of Nvidia H100 and H200 ...
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Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is urging regulators to rein in Google’s AI practices, arguing the tech giant’s dominance in search gives it an unfair edge in the AI race.
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Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is pushing UK regulator to unbundle Google's search and AI crawlers | TechCrunch
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is urging regulators to rein in Google’s AI practices, arguing the tech giant’s dominance in search gives it an u...
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Members of Breakthrough Energy's policy team are back with a new organization, the Clean Economy Project, aimed at nudging lawmakers toward clean energy.
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Bill Gates’ old climate lobbyists launch a new firm | TechCrunch
Members of Breakthrough Energy's policy team are back with a new organization, the Clean Economy Project, aimed at nudging lawmakers toward cl...
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Casio’s Moflin, a hamster-like robot pet, uses AI to develop a personality over time.
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I spent a month living with a $430 AI pet, the Casio Moflin | TechCrunch
Casio’s Moflin, a hamster-like robot pet, uses AI to develop a personality over time.
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The tech giant says calls will now use AI-enhanced audio to reduce background noise and improve voice clarity, even when speaking to someone on a landline or older device.
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Google Fi to add AI-enhanced audio and RCS web messaging | TechCrunch
The tech giant says calls will now use AI-enhanced audio to reduce background noise and improve voice clarity, even when speaking to someone on a l...
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