Apple has let loose their new iPads and the biggest surprise is the price. Are people swapping out their MacBooks for iPads?

alex (tired) breaks down the promised updates for the new iPads and whether or not it will be enough for people to get over their sticker shock.

The rabbit r1 might be a little half-baked, but what can we expect from experimental AI tech?

TechCrunch Minute: When did iPads get as expensive as MacBooks? tcrn.ch/4aee2VZ

Bye-bye bots: Altera’s game-playing AI agents get backing from Eric Schmidt tcrn.ch/3QDRhDP

$450M for Noname, two billion-dollar rounds, and good news for crypto startups tcrn.ch/4ad3IgI

Google Deepmind debuts huge AlphaFold update and free proteomics-as-a-service web app tcrn.ch/3WsUxpm

Uber promises member exclusives as Uber One passes $1B run-rate tcrn.ch/3y3HwIA

AI image generation tools are known to have bias. Meta AI has a peculiar bias of generating images of Indian men with turbans.

Even some of the nongendered promotes resulted into the AI tool generating images of Indian men with turban.

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Checkfirst raises $1.5M pre-seed, applying AI to remote inspections and audits tcrn.ch/3QYOndd

Controversial drone company Xtend leans into defense with new $40M round tcrn.ch/3UuOvlv

Mycocycle uses mushrooms to upcycle old tires and construction waste tcrn.ch/3ydshgn

UK challenger bank Monzo nabs another $190M as US expansion beckons tcrn.ch/3QAV3xY

iRobot names former Timex head Gary Cohen as CEO tcrn.ch/3JRiwqF

Reddit tests automatic, whole-site translation into French using LLM-based AI tcrn.ch/3QA07T4

Meati Foods bites into another $100M amid growth to 7,000 retail locations tcrn.ch/4bxiAYF

Lucid Bots secures $9M for drones to clean more than your windows tcrn.ch/4bLDBir

Israeli startup Panax raises a $10M Series A for its AI-driven cash flow management platform tcrn.ch/3UA1Dpy

EU grills Elon Musk’s X about content moderation and deepfake risks tcrn.ch/3wt1gVD

Atlan scores $105M for its data control plane, as LLMs boost importance of data tcrn.ch/4bo2vnK

Axmed raises $2M from Founderful to streamline drug supply chains in underserved markets tcrn.ch/3UQDM6o