Artificial Intelligence

Meta rolls out AI-powered translations to creators globally, starting with English and Spanish

Meta rolls out AI-powered translations to creators globally, starting with English and Spanish

Meta is rolling out an AI-powered voice translation feature to all users on Facebook and Instagram globally, the company announced on Tuesday. The new feature, which is available in any market where Meta AI is available, allows creators to translate content into other languages so it can be viewed by a broader audience. The feature

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Your next customer is on the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 expo floor — will they find you or your competitor?

Your next customer is on the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 expo floor — will they find you or your competitor?

Image Credits:Eric Slomonson, The Photo Group 10:07 AM PDT · August 19, 2025 TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 lands in San Francisco from October 27-29, and the Expo Hall is already packed with early adopters, startup scouts, and enterprise buyers looking to discover what’s next. If you’re not there to show off your product, your competitors will

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Meta’s AI voice translation feature rolls out globally

Meta’s AI voice translation feature rolls out globally

On Tuesday, Meta rolled out its new voice dubbing feature globally. The Reels feature uses generative AI to translate your voice, with optional lip-syncing. Mark Zuckerberg first previewed the feature at Meta Connect 2024. At launch, the translations are only available for English to Spanish (and vice versa). The company says more languages will arrive

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Google announced the next step in its nuclear energy plans 

Google announced the next step in its nuclear energy plans 

Google is one step closer to reaching its nuclear ambitions now that it’s working with public power utility Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to purchase electricity from a next-generation reactor. It’s the first power purchase agreement for technology this advanced that a US utility has made, according to the companies. The plan is for TVA to

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Microsoft employees occupy headquarters in protest of Israel contracts

Microsoft employees occupy headquarters in protest of Israel contracts

On Tuesday, a group of current and former Microsoft employees, as well as community members, took over a plaza at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, as part of a No Azure for Apartheid protest. They declared the area a “Liberated Zone” encampment and said they had changed its name from East Campus Plaza to “The

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Microsoft Excel adds Copilot AI to help fill in spreadsheet cells

Microsoft Excel adds Copilot AI to help fill in spreadsheet cells

Microsoft Excel is testing a new AI-powered function that can automatically fill cells in your spreadsheets, which is similar to the feature that Google Sheets rolled out in June. You would use the “COPILOT” function followed by a natural language prompt and (optionally) specify the cells you want it to reference; the AI would then

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AI crawler Firecrawl raises $14.5M, is still looking to hire agents as employees

AI crawler Firecrawl raises $14.5M, is still looking to hire agents as employees

Firecrawl’s co-founder and CEO Caleb Peffer knew the exact moment he found the investor to lead his Series A.  He was in a coffee meeting with Nexus Venture Partner’s Abhishek Sharma at the Blue Bottle in San Francisco’s South Park (a favorite VC haunt). While describing the future of the company, he was gesturing so

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Eight Sleep raises $100M to expand its AI-powered sleep tech

Eight Sleep raises $100M to expand its AI-powered sleep tech

Roughly one in three adults in the U.S. regularly gets insufficient sleep, driving demand for tools that can monitor, analyze, and enhance rest. Eight Sleep, founded in 2014, offers AI-powered sleep tech products that promise to transform your bed into a preventive health device. The New York-based startup announced Tuesday that it raised a fresh

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