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Category: Tech Crunch
Spotify adds a new, less repetitive shuffle, plus audiobook recaps
Spotify’s new default shuffle option will queue up fewer songs from your recent listening history
Microsoft’s plan to fix its chip problem is, partly, to let OpenAI do the heavy lifting
Microsoft is taking a page from OpenAI’s playbook, literally.
Milestone raises $10M to make sure AI rhymes with ROI
Israeli startup Milestone raised a $10 million seed funding round to correlate AI tool usage with engineering metrics, including code quality.
Cash App debuts a new AI assistant that answers questions about your finances
Cash App is adding a map to its app to let users discover places that accept bitcoin
Willow’s voice keyboard lets you type across all your iOS apps — and actually edit what you said
Willow’s iOS keyboard lets you type or use your voice to dictate and input text.
Teradar raises $150M for a sensor it says beats lidar and radar
Teradar’s sensor uses the terahertz part of the electromagnetic spectrum, and combines the best traits of radar and lidar sensors without some of the drawbacks.
Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs speeds up the world model race with Marble, its first commercial product
Startups like Decart and Odyssey have released free demos, and Google’s Genie is still in limited research preview. Marble differs from these — and even World Labs’s own real-time model, RTFM — because it creates persistent, downloadable 3D environments rather than generating worlds on-the-fly as you explore. This, the company says, results in less morphing...
Microsoft-backed VEIR is bringing superconductors to data centers
The Massachusetts-based startup is taking tech developed for long distance transmissions lines to solve an emerging problem for data center designers.
Australian spy chief warns Chinese hackers are ‘probing’ critical networks for espionage and sabotage
Australia’s intelligence chief warned that Chinese hackers are trying to break into its networks, sometimes successfully, to “pre-position” for sabotage ahead of an anticipated invasion of Taiwan.