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Women in AI: Catherine Breslin helps companies develop AI strategiesCatherine Breslin is the founder and director of Kingfisher Labs, where she helps companies develop AI strategies. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.Catherine Breslin is the founder and director of Kingfisher Labs, where she helps companies develop AI strategies. © 2024 TechCrunch. […]

Why NASA is betting on a 36-pixel cameraNASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is making strides in astronomy with its 122-megapixel primarily infrared photos taken 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth. Impressive stuff. The space agency’s newest sky-peeper takes a different approach, however, performing groundbreaking space science with 36 pixels. It’s not a typo—36 pixels, not […]

Alternative clouds are booming as companies seek cheaper access to GPUsThe appetite for alternative clouds has never been bigger. Case in point: CoreWeave, the GPU infrastructure provider that began life as a cryptocurrency mining operation, this week raised $1.1 billion in new funding from investors including Coatue, Fidelity and Altimeter Capital. The round brings its […]

The Rabbit r1 shipped half-baked, but that’s kind of the pointI finally received the rabbit r1 (the company insists on this lowercase styling) I’ve been writing about since its debut at CES in January. And I was able to tell within about 30 seconds of turning it on that it was shipped a couple months […]

Google lays off workers, Tesla cans its Supercharger team and UnitedHealthcare reveals security lapsesWelcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that recaps the week that was in tech. This edition’s a tad bittersweet for me — it’ll be my last (for a while, anyway). Soon, I’ll be shifting my attention to a […]

Human composting and timber marketplaces: talking “industrial” VC with investor Dayna GraysonWhile the venture world is abuzz over generative AI, Dayna Grayson, a longtime venture capitalist who five years ago co-founded her own firm, Construct Capital, has been focused on comparatively boring software that can transform industrial sectors. Her mission doesn’t exclude AI, but it […]

Women in AI: Tara Chklovski is teaching the next generation of AI innovatorsTara Chklovski is the CEO and founder of Technovation, a nonprofit that helps teach young girls about technology and entrepreneurship. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.Tara Chklovski is the CEO and founder of Technovation, a nonprofit that helps teach […]