Canva, a design platform, is increasing prices for its Teams product, citing generative AI as a factor. The price hike affects some customers in the US and Australia, with the five-person plan in the US jumping from $119.99 to $500 per year, and in Australia, the flat fee per month increasing by $40.50. The company is also introducing a minimum of three people required for a Teams plan, with single users paying $100 per person or $10 per month per person.
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Apple will reveal the iPhone 16 at its September 9 'It's Glowtime' event, which will be livestreamed at 10 a.m. PT. The event is expected to announce a bunch of hardware ahead of the holidays. Apple Intelligence and Siri were previously revealed at WWDC in June.
2024-09-03 11:28:09 PM |
Neko Health, a Swedish startup co-founded by Daniel Ek and Hjalmar Nilsonne, is expanding its preventative healthcare services to London, its first city outside of Sweden. The company offers annual full-body scans and AI-powered insights to detect conditions like heart disease and skin cancer. For £299, customers receive a series of scans and tests, generating millions of datapoints to determine their health across various conditions, including cardiovascular and metabolic issues. An in-person doctor's meeting is included to discuss the results.
2024-09-03 11:08:17 PM |
Clearview AI, a US-based facial recognition startup, has been hit with a €30.5 million fine by the Netherlands' data protection authority, Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (AP), for breaching the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The fine is the largest imposed on the company, which built a searchable database of 30 million images scraped from the internet without consent. The database contains images of Dutch citizens.
2024-09-03 10:08:01 AM |
TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 is offering a $200 discount on Student Passes until September 6 at 11:59 p.m. PT. The event will take place from October 28-30 at Moscone West in San Francisco, where over 10,000 tech leaders will attend. Students and recent graduates can snag their Student Pass at a reduced rate to make impactful connections and enhance their job prospects.
Duplicated with: 1 | 2024-09-02 03:08:17 PM |
Large organizations are struggling to implement AI due to technical debt, which requires them to evolve their tech stack to take full advantage of the new technology. This change is hard for everyone, especially at scale, and can risk messing up what already works.
AItech | Rating: 53 | 2024-08-31 02:37:44 PM |
Google is rolling out safeguards for its generative AI products, including Search AI Overviews, YouTube AI-generated summaries for Live Chat, Gems, and image generation in Gemini, to prevent misinformation around the upcoming U.S. presidential election. The restrictions will apply to election-related topics, acknowledging that generative AI is prone to making mistakes.
2024-08-30 04:57:55 PM |
Google has trained its AI model with 300 million pieces of audio to identify signs of disease, such as tuberculosis. The company has teamed up with Salcit Technologies, a respiratory healthcare AI startup, to integrate the technology into smartphones. This technology aims to help high-risk populations in geographies with poor access to healthcare.
2024-08-30 04:57:55 PM |
Devin Coldeway discussed Piramidal, a startup that raised $6 million to analyze brain scan data and help identify signs of conditions like epilepsy or stroke. Comun, a neobank, raised $21.5 million to offer financial services to Latino immigrants in the US. The fintech is seeing fast growth and a higher valuation.
2024-08-30 02:18:14 PM |
Butterflies AI, a social network, is launching a new feature called Clones that allows users to create AI characters of themselves. This feature builds on a previous feature that lets users create AI personas, called Butterflies, which can create posts on the social network. Users can take a selfie and create a Butterfly with a developing backstory, allowing them to reimagine themselves as an AI character.
2024-08-29 04:17:55 PM |