Reddit announced Friday that it’s acquiring MeaningCloud, a natural language processing company, for an undisclosed amount. The MeaningCloud team has joined Reddit and will support machine learning projects across its product, safety and ads teams. The acquisition marks Reddit’s first office …
BMW taps Valeo for driving assistance systems in its next-gen EVs
BMW Group has tapped Valeo to provide the advanced driver assistance system for the automaker’s new electric vehicle platform due to launch in 2025. The deal, a significant win for Valeo, also holds importance for BMW. The automaker is aiming to capture a 50% market share of global EV sales b…
Databricks launches Project Lightspeed, its next-gen Spark streaming engine
At its Data + AI Summit, Databricks today made the requisite number of announcements one would expect from a company’s flagship developer events. Among those are the launch of Delta Lake 2.0, the next version of its platform for building data lakehouses, MLflow 2.0, the next generation of its…
Heyday lands $6M to build a knowledge base from the services you already use
Heyday, an app that plugs into existing services to surface relevant content alongside new web searches, has raised $6 million in a venture seed round.
Opaque Systems secures cash to keep data private while enabling collaboration
Opaque Systems, a startup developing a confidential computing platform that enables analytics and AI workloads on encrypted data sets, has raised $22 million.
Perceptron: Analyzing images in the blink of an eye and tracking the lifecycle of snow
In this week's Perceptron, TechCrunch's semiregular AI research column, we look at efforts to track the lifecycle of snow and develop speedy image processing chips.
Having a great "ask" slide can reassure investors: It shows a founder wants to raise an amount of money that unlocks the next stage of growth and knows what milestones they need to hit to get there.