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| Good afternoon, and welcome to your Friday TechCrunch PM. Among todayâs stories is a look into how Supaglue met Stripe, an OpenAI tool you canât use yet and an update on Xâs NSFW communities. But wait, thereâs more! A fun Instagram feature is on the way, a Pitch Deck Teardown candidate gets high marks and finally an explainer on Grok. Have a great weekend! â Christine Did someone forward this to you? Sign up here to receive the TechCrunch PM newsletter in your inbox. |
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TechCrunch PM Top 3 Stripeâs latest addition: Meet Supaglue, a spunky team of four that is ready to take on the world as Stripeâs newest acquihire. The startup created an open source developer platform for user-facing integrations and will now be applying its expertise as a part of Stripeâs Revenue and Finance Automation organization. Read More OpenAI is being a tease: OpenAI previewed its Voice Engine, which Kyle writes is âan expansion of the companyâs existing text-to-speech API.â Voice Engine allows users to upload any 15-second voice sample to generate a synthetic copy of that voice. The downside? Thereâs no date yet when the public can use it. Read More Yes, X is becoming (more) not suitable for work: The company confirmed that Community admins can now set an âAdult Contentâ label in their settings to avoid having their communitiesâ content auto-filtered. Communities are smaller groups on X with their own feeds outside of the main timeline. Apparently, this is only the beginning of what Communities will do. Read More |
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Afternoon must-reads New Instagram feature: Soon, you might not have to share Reels to friends via DM on Instagram. The social network is developing what it calls âBlend,â a private feed of Reels recommended for you and a friend. Read More Pitch Deck Teardown: Meet Plantee, a company âhelping plant parents to never lose another green child ever again.â Itâs rare that a pitch deck âticks all the boxes,â Haje Jan Kamps writes. Read More What is Grok and how do you use it?: As Kyle puts it, âGrok is willing to speak to topics that are usually off-limits to other chatbots, like polarizing political theories and conspiracies. And itâll use less-than-polite language while doing so.â Read More Google Deepmindâs CEO is now a knight: All hail Demis Hassabis, who was awarded a knighthood in the United Kingdom for âservices to artificial intelligence.â Read More Why is crypto so hot?: Nine venture capital investors weigh in on why the first quarter of 2024 is throwing hot water on the crypto winter of the past few years. Read More Orbit Fab wants to build âgas stationsâ for satellites: No biggie, the startup will just need a gas cap and a mechanism for transferring propellant from an orbital tanker to the customer spacecraft. Meet RAFTI, the docking mechanism that is now flight qualified and on the market. Waitâll you check out the price tag. Read More |
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Around the web Waiting on your iPad Pro? It might take a bit longer. Hereâs why: MacRumors reports the delay is coming down to slower production on the OLED panels. Meanwhile, I havenât lived in an apartment in quite some time, but I have to admit this heat pump window unit is something I would have loved to have. Wired has more. And the Biden administration announced some new pollution rules that could have some positive effects on sales of electric trucks, The New York Times reports. |
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