Tornado Victim Funeral Held
A funeral service was held on Friday for the only confirmed fatality from the tornado outbreak on April 26.
A funeral service was held on Friday for the only confirmed fatality from the tornado outbreak on April 26.
Greenfield, Iowa, was hit with massive tornadoes on Tuesday — as well as other parts of the Midwest — continuing the streak of severe weather storms across the country.
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Indian ride-hailing startup BluSmart has started operating in Dubai, TechCrunch has exclusively learned and confirmed with its executive. The move to Dubai, which has been rumored for months, could help counter the likes of Careem, Uber and Hala in the United Arab Emirates' most populous city. The Gurugram-based startup quietly enabled the new Dubai service through its app earlier this week and has created a separate subdomain for Dubai on its website.
Bluesky has finally added direct messaging capabilities more than a year after it started onboarding new users.
Dad will use these products from Uncommon Goods, Mark & Graham and Amazon for years to come.
AI has already started replacing voice agents' jobs. Now, companies are exploring ways to replace the existing computer-generated voice models with synthetic versions of human voices. Truecaller, the widely known caller ID service, is the latest to take this approach with its announcement that it will now allow customers to use its AI-powered Assistant to answer phone calls in their own voice.
Bonds will join his former manager Jim Leyland as a member of the Pirates' Hall of Fame.
Microsoft's big focus at this year's Build conference is generative AI. Azure AI Studio is a toolset within Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service that lets customers combine an AI model like OpenAI’s recently announced GPT-4o with their own data and build a chat assistant or another type of app that "reasons over" that data. Copilot Studio, meanwhile, provides tools to connect Copilot for Microsoft 365 -- the AI-powered "copilot" in apps like Excel, Word and PowerPoint as well as Microsoft’s Edge browser and Windows -- to third-party data.
It’s been three years since Spotify acquired live audio startup Betty Labs, and yet the music streaming service isn’t leveraging the technology to its fullest potential — at least not in our opinion. Betty Labs-owned Locker Room launched in 2020 as a sports-focused social audio app where sports fans could engage in live conversations, create watch parties and react to games in real time. When Spotify bought the app, it rebranded it as Greenroom, a Clubhouse clone that catered to all types of fans, whether they’re interested in sports, fantasy football, music or other topics.
For people who want a compact machine to make all sorts of frozen treats, the Creami delivers much more than its $200 price tag might suggest.
Scale AI, which provides data-labeling services to companies that want to train machine learning models, has raised a $1 billion Series F round from a slew of big-name institutional and corporate investors that include Amazon and Meta. The fundraise is a mix of primary and secondary funding, and is the latest in a slew of big venture capital investments in AI. Amazon recently closed a $4 billion investment in OpenAI rival Anthropic, and the likes of Mistral AI and Perplexity are also in the process of raising more billion-dollar rounds at lofty valuations.
For those who haven't heard, the first crewed launch of Boeing's Starliner capsule has been pushed back yet again to no earlier than May 25. From NASA: "The additional time allows teams to further assess a small helium leak in the Boeing Starliner spacecraft’s service module traced to a flange on a single reaction control system thruster." Scheduling note: TechCrunch Space will be off on May 27 in observance of Memorial Day.
The nation's largest bank boosted expectations for a key revenue source in 2024 due partly to fewer rate cuts expected from the Federal Reserve.
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Indiana Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton took one last dig at the New York Knicks with a sweatshirt sporting an infamous Reggie Miller photo.
Wall Street pros say there's more room to grow with stock markets around record highs.
Creative Artists Agency (CAA), one of the top entertainment and sports talent agencies, is hoping to be at the forefront of AI protection services for celebrities in Hollywood. With many stars having their digital likeness used without permission, CAA has built a virtual media storage system for A-list talent -- actors, athletes, comedians, directors, musicians and more -- to store their digital assets, such as their names, images, digital scans, voice recordings and so on. The new development is a part of "theCAAvault," the company’s studio where actors record their bodies, faces, movements and voices using scanning technology to create AI clones.