<p>American streets are incredibly dangerous for pedestrians. A San Carlos, California-based startup called Obvio thinks it can change that by installing cameras at stop signs &#8212; a solution the founders also say won’t create a panopticon. </p>

<p>Tomorrow, the doors open at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall. What happens next isn’t just another AI conference — it’s the one you need to be at. TechCrunch Sessions: AI gathers the most influential builders, investors, and researchers in artificial intelligence for a day of clarity in an industry clouded by hype. If you&#8217;re leading a [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Journaling app Rosebud has raised $6 million in seed funding as it seeks to flesh out its app as an AI mentor for self-reflection and personal growth. </p>

<p>Deel alleges that one of Rippling’s employees &#8220;spent six months impersonating a legitimate Deel customer to gain unauthorized access to Deel’s systems to meticulously analyze, record, and copy Deel’s global products and the way Deel does business for Rippling’s own benefit and use.” </p>

<p>The company is working on a bio-acoustic project, which will map out the different types of dire wolf howls. </p>

<p>The company said the cyberattack destroyed its servers and customer data. </p>

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<p>A startup called Wispr Flow feels it can outdo the bigwigs with its dictation tech that supports more than 100 languages.</p>

<p>Speedata, a Tel Aviv-based startup developing an analytics processing unit (APU) designed to accelerate big data analytic and AI workloads, has raised a $44 million Series B funding round, bringing its total capital raised to $114 million. The Series B round was led by its existing investors, including Walden Catalyst Ventures, 83North, Koch Disruptive Technologies, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Nomupay makes it easier for merchants to process cross-border payments across the fragmented payment system in Asia, as well as for merchants and their customers in Europe, MENA, and the U.S., and has raised a $40 million Series C.</p>

<p>Even for someone with a cushy tech job, the prospect of going against their company is daunting. That bothered Shell so much that in 2022, she launched Valla, which seeks to make legal support more accessible to workers.</p>

<p>Console&#8217;s mission is to help IT teams reduce mundane, repetitive tasks, thereby freeing up time for help desk professionals to work on more strategic and sophisticated projects.</p>

<p>The rebooted version of social site Digg aims to bring back the spirit of the old web.</p>

<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s brain computer interface startup Neuralink closed a $650 million funding round, the company announced in a blog post on Monday. The Series E fundraise included investors such as ARK Invest, Founders Fund, Sequoia Capital, and Thrive Capital, among others. Neuralink last raised a $280 million Series D funding round in 2023, with an [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Updated 1:13 p.m. Pacific: A Salesforce spokesperson told TechCrunch that Moonhub has not, in fact, been acquired (by the company&#8217;s definition of the term). Rather, Moonhub is shutting down, and only some of the company&#8217;s team — not the whole team, as MoonHub implied in its post about the news — will be joining Salesforce. [&hellip;]</p>

<p>IBM on Monday said that it has acquired Seek AI, an AI platform that allows users to ask questions about enterprise data using natural language, for an undisclosed sum.</p>