Apple finally supports RCS in iOS 18 update
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Detroit Police Department agrees to new rules around facial recognition tech
As part of a legal settlement, the Detroit Police Department has agreed to new guardrails limiting how it can use facial recognition technology.
These...
IRS finalizes new regulations for crypto tax reporting
Crypto platforms will need to report transactions to the Internal Revenue Service, starting in 2026. However, decentralized platforms that don’t hold assets themselves...
Women in AI: Sarah Bitamazire helps companies implement responsible AI
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of...
SAP, and Oracle, and IBM, oh my! ‘Cloud and AI’ drive legacy software firms...
There’s something of a trend around legacy software firms and their soaring valuations: Companies founded in dinosaur times are on a tear, evidenced...
Iyo thinks its gen AI earbuds can succeed where Humane and Rabbit stumbled
A month after launching its first product, Humane’s co-founders have reportedly put their well-funded startup on the market. While even the firm’s biggest...
Spanish startups reached €100 billion in aggregated value in 2023, consolidating the country’s position...
If 11 figures is your attention threshold, you may be interested in learning that the combined enterprise value (EV) of Spanish startups surpassed...
LatAm startups: Apply to Startup Battlefield 200
Here’s a shoutout to LatAm early-stage startup founders! We want YOU to apply for the Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. But...
5 days left to get your early-bird Disrupt passes
The countdown to early-bird savings for TechCrunch Disrupt, taking place October 28–30 in San Francisco, continues. You have just five days left to...
EU’s ChatGPT taskforce offers first look at detangling the AI chatbot’s privacy compliance
A data protection taskforce that’s spent over a year considering how the European Union’s data protection rulebook applies to OpenAI’s viral chatbot, ChatGPT,...
