Month: October 2024

Discover insights from Gmail using the Gmail connector for Amazon Q Business

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A number of organizations use Gmail for their business email needs. Gmail for business is part of Google Workspace, which provides a set of productivity and collaboration tools like Google Drive, Gmail, and Google Calendar. Google Drive supports storing documents such as Emails contain a wealth of information found in different places, such as within … Read more

Accelerate custom labeling workflows in Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth without using AWS Lambda

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Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth enables the creation of high-quality, large-scale training datasets, essential for fine-tuning across a wide range of applications, including large language models (LLMs) and generative AI. By integrating human annotators with machine learning, SageMaker Ground Truth significantly reduces the cost and time required for data labeling. Whether it’s annotating images, videos, or … Read more

Carl Pei says Nothing could build its own operating system

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Two mobile operating systems currently comprise nearly 100% of the global smartphone market. Building one is hard, and for most phone makers, there are better uses of resources, especially when Android is right there for the taking. While it’s a potential differentiator, these companies have largely opted to maintain Google’s mobile OS, customized by skins and … Read more

Microsoft just delayed Recall again

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Image: Microsoft Microsoft is once again delaying the roll out of its controversial Recall feature for Copilot Plus PCs. The software giant had planned to start testing Recall, which creates screenshots of mostly everything you see or do on a Copilot Plus PC, with Windows Insiders in October. Now, Microsoft says it needs more time … Read more

Chevy’s BrightDrop electric vans will be in Walmart’s fleet by the end of the year

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A Walmart-branded BrightDrop 400 electric van. | Image: GM GM moved its electric van company BrightDrop into Chevy in August to save some money, and today, the newly branded version of the vehicle is reaching one of BrightDrop’s earliest customers: Walmart. After piloting BrightDrop 400 vehicles for customer deliveries, Walmart is officially adding them into … Read more

Kalshi secures tens of millions in loans from VCs, eyes $50M+ round amid election betting boom, source says

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Investors are rushing to throw millions at a hot startup called Kalshi as loans or even as unusual we’ll-figure-it-out later cash. Kalshi is an exchange that allows people to bet, as official commodity trading contracts, on the outcomes of cultural events, from election results to how long Taylor Swift’s latest album will top the charts.  … Read more

Ford pauses F-150 Lightning production as Tesla Cybertruck heats up

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Ford will pause production of its F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck starting in mid-November for almost two months as it struggles with decreased demand, increased competition, and losses in its electric vehicle business.  “We continue to adjust production for an optimal mix of sales growth and profitability,” a Ford spokesperson told TechCrunch. The news was … Read more

Zoox robotaxis are finally rolling out, Waymo snags more cash, and Aurora delays its self-driving truck launch

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Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 is wrapped! And what a whirlwind it was. Some highlights? Zoox co-founder and CTO Jesse Levinson weighed in on whether Tesla robotaxis will launch next … Read more

Trump is planning a crackdown on legal immigration, too

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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Former President Donald Trump has made immigration a centerpiece of his campaign: he’s promised mass deportations, a crackdown on asylum at the border, and a ban on mortgages for undocumented immigrants. But while Trump rails against illegal immigration, his allies and advisors are also preparing to sharply … Read more

From Code to Intelligence: How Yeager.ai is Building Internet-Native Smart Contracts

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Blockchain technology and artificial intelligence are rapidly converging, creating new possibilities for decentralized applications. At the forefront of this intersection is Yeager.ai, a startup developing internet-connected smart contracts through their GenLayer technology. Following their recent $7.5 million funding round, we spoke with Yeager.ai founder Edgars about the company’s vision to transform traditional smart contracts. With … Read more

Meta is making a robot hand that can ‘feel’ touch

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Meta says it’s partnering with sensor firm GelSight and Wonik Robotics, a South Korean robotics company, to commercialize tactile sensors for AI. GelSight will work with Meta to bring to market Digit 360, which Meta describes as a “a tactile fingertip with human-level multimodal sensing capabilities.” The successor to Meta’s Digit sensor, Digit 360 digitizes … Read more