2024

Archer Aviation and Southwest Airways are teaming up to determine what it is going to take to construct out a community of electrical air taxis at California airports. Southwest’s buyer information is on the coronary heart of it.  The 2 firms signed a memorandum of understanding Friday, which units the muse for Archer to faucet Southwest’s buyer base. It additionally provides Archer entry to...

When Keith Rabois introduced he was leaving Founders Fund to return to Khosla Ventures in January, it got here as a shock to many within the enterprise capital ecosystem — and never simply because Rabois is an enormous title within the business. It was shocking as a result of not like in lots of different fields, enterprise capitalists don’t historically transfer round very a lot — particularly...

A bipartisan group of senators has launched a brand new invoice that seeks to guard artists, songwriters and journalists from having their content material used to coach AI fashions or generate AI content material with out their consent. The invoice, known as the Content material Origin Safety and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media Act (COPIED Act), additionally seeks to make it simpler to...

Canadian non-public fairness agency PartnerOne has acquired HeadSpin in a hearth sale, TechCrunch has discovered solely. And most of its former staff obtained nothing for his or her choices, in accordance with a number of sources. HeadSpin is the cell app testing firm whose founder was sentenced to jail for fraud earlier this yr. In complete, HeadSpin raised $117 million since its 2015 inception from...

A brand new research examines whether or not AI might be an automatic helpmeet in inventive duties, with combined outcomes: It appeared to assist much less naturally inventive individuals write extra unique brief tales — however dampened the creativity of the group as an entire. It’s a trade-off that could be more and more widespread as AI instruments impinge on inventive endeavors. The research is...

Expertise acquisition platform Making Area, based in 2023 by famous incapacity activist Keely Cat-Wells, introduced at this time that it has closed on an oversubscribed $2 million pre-seed spherical led by Beta Increase.  The startup seeks to assist firms from all sectors rent, practice and retain disabled expertise. Potential staff can join free to search for open jobs, whereas on the corporate facet,...

A Castro Valley resident was charged Thursday for allegedly slashing the tires of 17 Waymo robotaxis in San Francisco between June 24 and June 26, in line with town’s district legal professional. Prosecutors say the tire slashings have been captured by cameras put in on the outside of Waymo’s robotaxis. That is the most recent incident of Waymo vandalism within the Bay Space, the place some residents...

Meta introduced former President Donald Trump’s Fb and Instagram accounts will now not be topic to heightened suspension penalties, based on an up to date weblog submit on Friday. The corporate says it made the choice to make sure all Presidential nominees had been on equal footing on their platform forward of the 2024 Presidential election. When Meta reinstated Trump’s social media profiles in...

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of all the pieces you possibly can’t miss from the world of startups. Enroll right here to get it in your inbox each Friday. This week we’re an AI startup that desires to assist individuals get artistic with video; Kudos, which raised $3 million to assist do away with diaper rash; and VCs backing different VCs. Most attention-grabbing startup tales...

(Bloomberg) -- ByteDance and Broadcom have mentioned a possible collaboration on an AI processor to assist bolster the TikTok mother or father’s improvement of that expertise.The US chip designer and Beijing-based ByteDance have talked a couple of 5-nanometer purpose-built chip, in response to an individual acquainted with the discussions. No deal has but been reached between the 2 corporations, and...