Zack Whittaker    This simple guide helps you identify and remove common consumer grade spyware apps from your Android phone. TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Devin Coldewey    How many AI models is too many It depends on how you look at it but a week is probably a bit much. That’s how many we had in the last few days, or close to it, and it’s increasingly hard to say whether and how these models compare to one another if TechCrunch. All rights reserved....

Robert Frawley    Validating consumer demand is a crucial step for any startup, and TechCrunch Early Stage is offering a golden opportunity to learn how to do it right. Peter Gladstone, senior adviser for startups at Harvard Innovation Labs, is set to lead an engaging roundtable titled Validating Consumer Demand...

Amanda Silberling    Post was backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Scott Galloway, an NYU professor and tech commentator, but the platform never disclosed how much it raised. TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Haje Jan Kamps    Welcome to Startups Weekly your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. After years of booming growth, the AI industry is now experiencing a significant slowdown in investment, as detailed in a recent report from...

Annie Njanja    Kenyan B B e commerce company MarketForce is winding down its B B e commerce business that served informal merchants mom and pop stores after a turbulent two year period that saw it scale down operations severely. The shutdown of the B B e commerce arm dubbed RejaReja comes months after...

Ron Miller    Amid rumors that Salesforce is interested in buying Informatica, investors aren’t taking kindly to the potential pairing. TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Mike Butcher    Midas, a fintech startup that allows people in Turkey to invest in U.S. and Turkish equities, says it has raised million in a funding round led by Portage of Canada. The startup is aimed at Turkey’s retail investor market and claims to have more than million users. Its pitch is that it...

Haje Jan Kamps    While Geodesic.Life’s deck impresses with its aesthetic design, featuring a tasteful color palette, appealing illustrations and a concise text, it does have some crucial shortcomings. TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Alex Wilhelm    New AI models from Meta are making waves in technology circles. The two new models, part of the Facebook parent company’s Llama line of artificial intelligence tools, are both open source, helping them stand apart from competing offerings from OpenAI and other well known names. Meta’s new Llama...

Kirsten Korosec    It’s been more than a minute since Tesla went public, but the EV company was inescapable on TechCrunch this week. From layoffs to pricing changes and more, it was a week dyed deeply in Tesla colors so we had to chat through the latest. But that was just one element of what we got into ...

Kyle Wiggers    Webflow, a web design and hosting platform that’s raised over million at a billion valuation, is expanding into a new sector: marketing optimization. Today, Webflow announced that it acquired Intellimize, a startup leveraging AI to personalize websites for unique visitors. The terms of the...

Julie Bort    Silicon Valley powerhouse venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz just promoted Jennifer Li to general partner to help lead infrastructure investments. TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Mike Butcher    Plenty of large corporations want to join the AI revolution, but many feel it’s too early to be locked into one foundational model. That means there’s a market for a layer between companies and large language models LLMs something companies can use to pick LLMs easily without needing to commit...

Ivan Mehta    Last week, Meta started testing its AI chatbot in India across WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger. But with the Indian general elections beginning today, the company is already blocking specific queries in its chatbot. Meta confirmed that it is restricting certain election related keywords for AI in...

Natasha Lomas    Apple has removed the Meta owned end to end encrypted messaging app WhatsApp from its App Store in China following a government order citing national security concerns, the news agency Reuters reported Friday. Meta’s newer, Twitter esque text based social networking app, Threads, has also been...

Sean O'Kane    Tesla is recalling all, Cybertrucks that it has shipped to date, due to a problem where the accelerator pedal can get stuck, putting drivers at risk of a crash, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The recall caps a tumultuous week for Tesla. The company laid off...

Manish Singh    CRED has received the in principle approval for a payment aggregator license in a boost to the Indian fintech startup that could help it better serve its customers and launch new products and experiment with ideas faster. The Bengaluru headquartered startup, valued at . billion, received the in...

Ingrid Lunden    Artificial intelligence has been in the crosshairs of governments over how it might be misused for fraud, disinformation and other malicious online activity. Now, a U.K. regulator wants to explore how AI is used on the other side: in the fight against malicious content involving children. Ofcom,...

Kyle Wiggers    Hugging Face has published a new leaderboard and benchmark for evaluating generative AI models on health related tasks and questions. TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.