TGIF, my TechCrunch companion. It’s that time of year again — it’s time for his week-long review that recaps the last five days of tech news. As usual, a lot has happened, so let’s dig into the sans delay.
Well, maybe a little late. I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that TechCrunch’s annual Founders Summit, where he’s on the cusp of the TechCrunch Early Stage – April 20th, to be exact. This year in Boston, Early Stage will host sessions with tips and points from top experts, giving you the chance to meet entrepreneurs who are on a great journey. Trust me, it will be worth the trek.
Disrupt, TechCrunch’s flagship conference good Well worth the trek. (And I’m not just saying that because you’ll really be attending — I swear!) This year’s Disrupt features his six It has new stages. Experts in climate, mobility, fintech, AI and machine learning, enterprise, privacy and security, hardware and robotics will join us to share their fascinating insights.
So have you signed up for both events? wonderful. Now for this week’s review!
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ChatGPT in API format: OpenAI has introduced an API that allows any business to incorporate ChatGPT technology into their apps, websites, products and services. (As a refresher, ChatGPT is a free text-generating AI that lets you write human-like code, emails, essays, and more.) Snap, Quizlet, Instacart, and Shopify are among his early adopters.
Become Human: Startup Figure emerged from stealth this week, promising a versatile bipedal humanoid robot. (Brian An alpha build of the Figure robot, completed in December, is currently being tested in our Sunnyvale office. For now, the focus is on broad manual work.
Warrantless Surveillance: Zach reports that the Secret Service and ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations Division have repeatedly failed to obtain the correct legal documents when conducting invasive cell phone surveillance. The findings were released last week by the Inspector General of Homeland Security, who is tasked with overseeing the U.S. Federal Department and its many law enforcement agencies.
Salesforce turns it around. This week, Salesforce reported its fourth quarter earnings. This includes better-than-expected earnings and better-than-expected guidance. It was a much-needed victory for the company, which faced mounting pressure from activist investors, including Elliott Management.
Hydrogen drive: Startup Universal Hydrogen flew the largest hydrogen fuel cell ever this week. His 15-minute test flight of the modified Dash-8 aircraft was brief, but mark Write — showed that hydrogen may be viable as a fuel for short-haul airliners. (However, many technical and regulatory barriers stand in the way.)
Pause the streak. Ivan Snapchat reports that it will allow users to pause Snapstreak, which sends snaps to friends every 24 hours, so you don’t have to worry about breaking your snaps even if you decide not to visit the app for a while. No need to.
New nonprofits for AI: EleutherAI, a community-driven AI research group, is setting up a non-profit foundation. The nonprofit, funded by donations and grants from backers such as AI startups Hugging Face and Stability AI, former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, Lambda Labs, and Canva, is launching a large-scale language program in line with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. I am planning to study a problem with models.
Stop “inheriting”: The official trailer for the final season of ‘Succession’ premiered this week, and it looks like the series is ending with an epic mic drop. write, the HBO series was a huge success, winning 13 Emmy Awards and five Golden Globe Awards, as well as providing interesting commentary in the media industry. Creator and showrunner Jesse Armstrong admits that Rupert draws inspiration from many places, including his Murdoch playbook.
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Like Elon Musk’s Twitter meddling, the TechCrunch podcast machine never stops. In this week’s equity, Mary Ann, Becca and Alex We’ve come together to detail the biggest startup and venture news of the week, including what’s happening in NFT country, AI vs. crypto in the venture hype cycle, Amazon’s unlikely partnerships, and more. Also on The TechCrunch Live Podcast, Matt Burns spoke to his CEO and co-founder of Tonkean, his Sagi Eliyahu, and Foundation Capital partner Joanne Chen about addressing leadership blind spots and how founders can work with the board of directors. We talked about the best ways to work together.
