With Kite’s demise, can generative AI for code succeed? • TechCrunch
Kite, a startup developing an AI-powered coding assistant, abruptly shut down last month. Despite securing tens of millions of dollars…
Is ChatGPT a ‘virus that has been released into the wild’? • TechCrunch
More than three years ago, this editor sat down with Sam Altman for a small event in San Francisco soon…
Nigerian startup Taeillo raises funding to scale its online furniture e-commerce platform • TechCrunch
Individuals or businesses buying furniture in Africa can purchase from local furniture stores or global furniture retailers like IKEA. But…
Tesla Powerwall customers in Texas can now sell their electricity back to the grid • TechCrunch
Elon Musk’s plan to “operate as a giant distributed utility” is creeping toward reality. Tesla first piloted a “virtual power…
Hybrid pricing can help app developers better monetize their apps • TechCrunch
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Robco links up with $14M led by Sequoia to bring modular robotics to industrial SMBs • TechCrunch
After years of outsourcing and offshoring manufacturing to countries with cheaper labour and bigger production ecosystems, the U.S. and Europe…
Try ‘Riffusion,’ an AI model that composes music by visualizing it • TechCrunch
AI-generated music is already an innovative enough concept, but Riffusion takes it to another level with a clever, weird approach…
Twitter just banned prominent journalists who cover Elon Musk with no warning • TechCrunch
On Thursday evening, Twitter suspended a number of prominent journalists on the platform without warning or explanation. The situation followed…
Twitter suspends Mastodon’s account and bans links to Mastodon servers • TechCrunch
A day after Twitter crafted a new policy to explain its decision to ban an account that tracks Elon Musk’s…
Major tech firms partner with Linux Foundation to support open map data development • TechCrunch
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