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Tech Crunch – Okta lays off 400 employees — almost exactly a year after last staff cuts
U.S. access and identity management giant Okta has said it is laying off approximately 400 employees, or 7% of its global workforce. The layoffs come almost exactly a year to the day…
Tech Crunch – AI2 open sources text-generating AI models — and the data used to train them
The Allen Institute for AI (AI2), the nonprofit AI research institute founded by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is releasing several GenAI language models it claims are more “open” than others —…
Tech Crunch – Cast your votes for TC Early Stage Audience Choice Roundtables
A not-so-humble brag here, so brace yourself. The programming at TechCrunch Early Stage — April 25 in Boston, Massachusetts — is gonna be off the proverbial hook. How do we know? We…
Tech Crunch – MessageBird rebrands as Bird, and slashes prices by 90% on SMS to take on Twilio
No, don’t think Bird Scooters. Think Bird, formerly MessageBird. For the Amsterdam-based unicorn is now re-branding as such after reportedly acquiring the Bird.com domain name a couple of years ago, allegedly for…
KTSM News – Thursday 9-hour Forecast: Warm winter continues in the borderland
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM)-Happy Friday Eve! We’re forecasting mostly sunny to partly cloudy today with a 10 percent chance of rain. 🌤 While we’re forecasting mid 60’s at 11 a.m. we’re predicting…
Tech Crunch – AI and blockchains might need one another to evolve, according to new report
Even though the two sectors are reaching different levels of mainstream adoption, they are also facing challenges that the other could potentially help alleviate. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal…
Tech Crunch – Signalling more consolidation may come, smart-bus startup Zeelo acquires Kura, a smaller player
A small UK startup which combined a school bus service with a software platform to safeguard pupils has been acquired by ‘Smart buses’ startup Zeelo, which last year raised a $14 million…
Tech Crunch – Byju’s investors seek to remove edtech group’s founder
A group of large investors in Byju’s has called for an extraordinary general meeting where they seek to change the leadership at Byju’s days after the edtech group launched a rights issue…
Tech Crunch – CARPL guides healthcare providers through the growing market of radiology AI apps
There’s an acute shortage of radiologists around the world, which means it is harder for medical teams to get imaging studies done. As a result, more than 200 companies have sprung up…