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ChatGPT has changed the game for how ordinary people regard and interact with AI, and today its creator announced a new, major enterprise customer that it hopes will be a signal of how a similar effect could play out in the world of work. PwC, the management consulting giant, has signed on as a customer of OpenAI’s enterprise tier, the AI company’s biggest customer to date, covering 100,000 users. Alongside that, PwC will become OpenAI’s first partner for selling the enterprise edition on to other businesses.
Avendus, the top investment bank for venture deals in India, confirmed on Wednesday it is looking to raise up to $350 million for its new private equity fund. The new fund, called Future Leaders Fund III, will enable the Mumbai-headquartered firm to write larger checks and maintain a meaningful position in the startups it backs, said its managing partner Ritesh Chandra in an interview with TechCrunch. TechCrunch reported in early April that Avendus was putting together a plan to raise a new fund.
YouTube's "app store" for games is rolling out more broadly. The company announced on Tuesday that its collection of lightweight, free games dubbed "Playables" will soon start to appear in the YouTube app for all users, in addition to the YouTube Home page. Previously, the games had been made available to select users for testing before arriving for YouTube Premium subscribers last November.
Snag Vegamour's mega-popular formula for over 40% off: 'I have virtually no visibly bald areas,' says one fan.
Post-holiday haul: A Keurig hot and iced coffee maker for $89, an adorable mini projector for just $85 and a robovac-mop combo for $240 off.
MLB and the Prostate Cancer Foundation are raising awareness about the disease through the 29th annual Home Run Challenge.
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Elon Musk's AI startup, xAI, has raised $6 billion in a new funding round, it said today, as Musk shores up capital to aggressively compete with rivals including OpenAI, Microsoft and Alphabet. Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Fidelity, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and Kingdom Holding are among the backers that have invested in xAI's Series B funding, the startup wrote in a blog post.
The Birmingham-Southern baseball team will play in the Division III College World Series as the school itself is shutting down due to financial difficulties.
The bankruptcy of BaaS fintech Synapse is, perhaps, the most dramatic thing going on now. To recap: San Francisco-based Synapse operated a service that allowed others (mainly fintechs) to embed banking services into their offerings. Until last year, for example, it was providing those types of services as an intermediary between banking partner Evolve Bank & Trust and business banking startup Mercury until Evolve and Mercury decided to work directly with each other and cut out Synapse as a middleman.
Before Rick Mears won his fourth Indianapolis 500 in 1991, he already had his eye one sweet prize: The winner gets a pace car. But he got a disappointing surprise instead. Here's a look at pace cars through the ages.
The "autonomous navigation" market -- where ships steer themselves guided by AI, resulting in fuel and time savings -- is projected to grow from $4.46 billion in 2023 to $5.33 billion in 2024 alone. Orca AI is a London-based startup that claims to have powered the world’s first autonomous commercial ship voyage in congested waters.
Although British Airways credit card has plenty of solid perks, maximizing the card's value can be tricky.
College administrators are bracing for the new reality of sharing revenue directly with athletes as part of the terms of the House settlement agreement.
Google Pay is rolling out a number of updates that capitalize on its integrations with other Google products, like Android and the Chrome browser. Starting Wednesday, people who check out with Google Pay will be able to see their card benefits and perks before selecting a card, use "buy now, pay later" through partners like Affirm and Zip and fill in their card details through biometrics or a PIN, instead of by entering their security code. The changes are designed to enhance the consumer experience of using Google Pay and make it a more competitive option against other payment methods, including the developer or retailer's built-in payment system, often powered by businesses like Stripe, as well as the payment services from other tech giants, like Apple, Amazon and PayPal, for instance.
Do joint accounts for unmarried couples make sense? Here’s what to consider if you’re thinking about opening a joint bank account with your partner.
Longtime New York-based seed investor, Contour Venture Partners, is making progress on its latest flagship fund. Contour Venture Partners declined to comment. It's been a tough few years for venture funds looking to raise new vehicles.
While many climate investors focus their efforts on breakthrough, deep-tech solutions, Patrick Sheehan at ETF Partners has other ideas. “I’ve actually got nothing against carbon capture and storage, apart from the fact it’s probably going to be commercialized too late,” he told TechCrunch. Instead, Sheehan and his colleagues are diving into more software-centric companies that promise to still move the needle.
A gaggle of PC makers rolled out their first Copilot+ PCs on Monday, but they all run on Qualcomm silicon. Intel said today its first chips to support Copilot+ AI features, will arrive in the fall.
Microsoft's Windows on Arm woes may finally be over.