Khosla Ventures doubles down on Even Healthcare to challenge India’s hospital economics
Even Healthcare reaches a $300 million valuation in a Khosla Ventures-led round as it plans to expand its hospital network in India.
Is that really your banker? World brings human verification to Zoom calls
As deepfakes grow convincing enough to pass for real people on live video, World is pitching banks a new line of defense. It offers cryptographic proof that the person, or the age…
No agenda, no rush, no leaving San Francisco: Benchmark’s partners on investing in a frenzied market
Benchmark may have grown its funds and swapped out some partners, but onstage the five who are left sounded like friends who just happen to be running one of the Valley’s most sto…
Anthropic says it’s committing 5% of its shares to a ‘public benefit fund’
Anthropic said that it will commit 5% of its shares to the fund.
Everyone’s watching the Elizabeth Holmes documentary ‘You Can See Everything’
"You Can See Everything" is having the second biggest opening weekend ever for a documentary film.
Disney agrees to hire the majority of Character.AI’s workforce
After chatbot startup Character.AI filed for bankruptcy earlier this week, many of its employees will have the opportunity to take jobs at Disney. Character.AI’s former CEO Karand…
TechCrunch Mobility: Rivian’s next act
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
Microsoft reportedly quits Nscale’s UK data centre weeks before its IPO
Microsoft has pulled out of a deal to anchor Nscale’s first British data centre, the Telegraph reported. The move comes as the AI cloud startup prepares to go public. The site in …
Woodside pauses Scarborough gas work after Greenpeace boards platform
Woodside Energy has paused work on its Scarborough gas platform off Western Australia after Greenpeace protesters climbed aboard. Early start-up work at the site has stopped, Aust…
World Bank backs ‘small AI’ on phones for poorer nations, Guardian reports
The World Bank wants developing countries to build “small AI”, compact models that run on a mobile phone with a weak signal. Paschal Donohoe, the bank’s chief knowledge officer, s…
Biotech now sells pet cloning and cryonics, MIT Technology Review finds
Pet owners who cannot face losing an animal now have a growing menu of biotech options. They range from longevity drugs to cloning and cryonics. MIT Technology Review laid out the…
Supreme Court appears open to wider video privacy law in Paramount case
The US Supreme Court appeared ready to side with a man who says a Paramount website shared his video history with Facebook. The case could expose many websites to privacy lawsuits…
Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns
A Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web.
TikTok permanently bans ‘Musk’ documentary advertising account
A four-hour documentary about Elon Musk continues to meet resistance from social media platforms.
Anthropic says its workforce has become less junior and is spending more time in meetings
The composition of Anthropic’s workforce and the type of work getting done have changed significantly in the past year.
Ericsson’s organic sales rise 7% as it merges its two Asian units
Ericsson’s adjusted earnings before interest, taxes and amortisation (EBITA) came in at SEK 10.1bn ($1bn) in the third quarter. Analysts had expected SEK 7.93bn on average, accord…
Apple and Meta team up to run Meta’s Muse Spark Open model on Macs
Apple and Meta worked together so that Meta’s new open-weight model, Muse Spark Open, runs on Apple’s Mac Studio desktops. The companies revealed the work on Thursday. The two riv…
Apple CEO John Ternus calls the memory chip shortage a crisis, TIME reports
Apple chief executive John Ternus told TIME that “all options should be on the table” on memory chips, after reports that Apple tested Chinese-made memory. Ternus took over as CEO…
Meta challenges Ofcom’s fine maths in court, Courthouse News reports
Meta asked the High Court in London this week to limit how Ofcom calculates online safety fees and maximum fines, Courthouse News reported. The hearing ended late on Wednesday aft…
Microsoft disrupts Chinese-language phishing kits behind 1bn scam messages
Microsoft and Health-ISAC have seized and redirected domains behind three Chinese-language cybercrime services, YAM Store, CoGUI and Iron Man, Microsoft said on Wednesday. Since J…
Google’s AI news pilot grows to 400 publications as CNN and the FT join
More than 400 publications worldwide now take part in Google’s News AI pilot, the company said on Thursday. The programme pays publishers to license content for experimental AI fe…
Bill Gates leans on CEOs as he plans a bigger AI safety push, Axios reports
Bill Gates plans to widen his push on AI safety, Axios reported, citing unnamed sources. He is personally leaning on business leaders and considering a major deployment of his res…
Sergey Brin says Gemini now helps build the next Gemini
Google is “starting to get onto that RSI treadmill”, cofounder Sergey Brin said in a roundtable on Gemini 4 Argon, Business Insider reported. Google shared the video on Wednesday.…
Daniela Amodei warns against AI girlfriends, Business Insider reports
Anthropic president Daniela Amodei has warned that AI romantic partners risk driving people further apart, Business Insider reported. She spoke in a prerecorded interview with Ari…