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An increasing number of meetings have an AI note-taker present that transcribes the call and provides action items. Siro wants to do the same for sales folks who are on the ground and talking to customers face-to-face. The company on Wednesday announced it has secured $50 million in Series B round led by SignalFire with participation from Dick Costolo and Adam Bain’s VC firm 01 Advisors. Square CPO Saumil Mehta, the founders of business management software Squint Songe LaRon and Dave Salvant, former Yelp SVP of Engineering Michael Stoppelman, and former Snap Engineering VP Ding Zhou also participated. To date, Siro has raised a total of $75 million. Founder Jake Cronin’s idea for Siro came from an experience in college. For a summer, he had the option of working at an amusement park or selling kitchen knives door to door. He chose the latter and earned good money from it. The next year, he opened an office to hire other sales reps and have them sell knives. But he realized that he couldn’t be on the ground to help coach all the junior reps. Siro founder Jake Cronin Image Credits: Siro A few years later, after working at McKinsey, Cronin started building Siro — coding the core product himself. “When I was running the knives sales office, I realized a lot of sales work is manual, and good software could have a lot of value,” he told TechCrunch in an interview. “The more I researched sales, I thought that the biggest opportunity here is not in data enrichment or customer relationship management, but it is in improving the lives of sales reps who are on the ground.” Siro transcribes sales meetings via an app. Features include a company-wide dashboard where sales folks can submit successful calls and sort them by engagement from peers, allowing other reps to listen to top calls and get insights about improving on-ground sales visits. Techcrunch event Join us at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot for our leading AI industry event with speakers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cohere. For a limited time, tickets are just $292 for an entire day of expert talks, workshops, and potent networking. Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Berkeley, CA | June 5 REGISTER NOW Image Credits: Siro Cronin said that Siro trains models for specific industry verticals — for example, for HVAC sales coaching. The company also uses a general-purpose model to gauge how a salesperson is building rapport and handling rejections. Wayne Hu, a partner at SignalFire, said that the VC firm always wants to invest in companies that have a strong business advantage in data for particular segments. “Siro’s solution is helping digitize the ‘dark matter’ of offline conversations comprising field sales engagements, which has broad extensibility across verticals and depth in downstream actions that can be instrumented from this data, such as customer and product insights,” he told TechCrunch via email.

In an era where hundreds of new venture funds have emerged, only to face a narrowing market as exits prove slippery, Elizabeth Weil’s Scribble Ventures stands out as a case study in the importance of deep networks. Defying a contraction that is sidelining many newcomers, Weil just secured $80 million for Scribble’s third fund, its largest capital raise yet. The milestone underscores market confidence in Weil, a Stanford graduate whose resume includes a partner role at Andreessen Horowitz, corporate development at Twitter (now X), and stints at Silicon Valley stalwarts IVP and Menlo Ventures. “Everybody told me it was going to be the hardest to raise,” Weil said on a call Monday, after completing a daily 5:30 a.m. run and swim that puts this editor’s coffee routine to shame. Ultimately, she said, the firm exceeded its hard cap of $75 million after extending the fundraising period by three weeks. Scribble’s success comes amid what many consider a reckoning for the venture industry, particularly for newer managers who emerged during the funding boom of 2020-2021 and have yet to establish meaningful distributed proceeds to investors (DPI). “Being a harvester is part of venture capital, too,” Weil observed. “There’s so many emerging managers that never have had to go through that part.” What sets Scribble apart is what Weil calls the “Scribble Network,” a carefully cultivated ecosystem of operators and executives who not only provide deal flow and due diligence help, but invest alongside the firm. This network includes figures like Maggie Hott, who leads go-to-market at OpenAI; Jim Everingham, VP of Engineering at Meta; and Sheila Vashee, CMO of Figma. Weil’s husband, Kevin Weil, adds another powerful dimension to the firm’s network. As Chief Product Officer at OpenAI and a Cisco board member, his technical and product expertise complements Elizabeth’s background in investment and corporate development. Techcrunch event Join us at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot for our leading AI industry event with speakers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cohere. For a limited time, tickets are just $292 for an entire day of expert talks, workshops, and potent networking. Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Berkeley, CA | June 5 REGISTER NOW “We tell our founders, ‘Who from our extended network would you like to meet?’” Weil explained. “When they look at that market list and the menu, and they say, ‘I can just text this person?’ That’s incredible.” The approach has helped Scribble make successful early bets on companies like Whatnot, a live auction platform that reached a valuation of nearly $5 billion in January; Atmo, an outfit that was founded by former Googlers and is focused on AI-driven ultra-precise weather forecasting; and Poolside.ai, a Paris-based generative AI company founded by GitHub’s former CTO that was valued by its investors at $3 billion back in October. Other portfolio companies of Scribble, which now has $216 million in assets under management, include SpaceX and Figma. Scribble typically writes checks of $750,000 to $1.5 million, avoiding rigid ownership targets that might preclude collaboration with other investors. “I think the approach of saying ‘we must be at 14% or we walk’ isn’t the way to start off a relationship,” Weil noted. The firm’s first fund, raised in 2020, is already showing strong performance with a 4x multiple, Weil said, thanks in part to early distributions to investors from crypto positions in Mysten and Aptos. With the current focus on AI transforming the startup landscape, Weil sees the clearest opportunity yet to apply Scribble’s collaborative approach. “I think this is the best time to be a startup, but it’s the hardest time because there’s so much noise,” she said. “Everyone knows how to hack the channels, and finding product-market fit and go-to-market is just harder than ever.” Pictured above, from left to right, the Scribble Ventures team, including Christen O’Brien (operating partner); John Smothers (partner); Elizabeth Weil; and Kevin Weil (operator-in-residence).

A Massachusetts student has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges relating to hacking and extorting one of the largest U.S. education tech companies, prosecutors confirmed Tuesday. Matthew D. Lane, 19, is accused of using stolen login credentials to access the network of an unnamed software company, which serves schools across North America and elsewhere, to steal the personal information of more than 60 million students and 10 million teachers. The stolen personal information included names, addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, and medical information and school grades. In some cases, the hackers stole decades of historical student data. While the company was not named, federal prosecutors described specific details matching the data breach at education software maker PowerSchool, which revealed in January that it had been hacked as far back as September 2024. The breach affected schools located mostly across the United States and Canada, which use the PowerSchool software to manage student grades, attendance, and other personal and health information. Prosecutors say Lane worked with an unnamed co-conspirator who lived in Illinois to extort the education software maker for about $2.85 million in cryptocurrency, according to the criminal complaint. PowerSchool confirmed to TechCrunch in January that it had paid the hackers to delete the stolen data, but refused to say how much it paid. Earlier this month, several school districts said that they had since faced extortion attempts from someone saying that the stolen student data had not been destroyed. PowerSchool said the extortion attempts were not related to a new incident, as the “samples of data match the data previously stolen in December.” NBC News was first to report on Lane’s plea agreement. PowerSchool spokesperson Beth Keebler said the company was aware of the filing, and deferred comment to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Massachusetts, which did not respond to an email from TechCrunch. When asked, Keebler did not dispute the ransom amount as noted by the prosecutors. Lane is also accused of hacking and extorting another company, which prosecutors said was a U.S. telecoms provider. Prosecutors did not name the company in the plea agreement. Lane’s attorney Sean Smith did not respond to a request for comment.

The tech layoff wave is still kicking in 2025. Last year saw more than 150,000 job cuts across 549 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. So far this year, more than 22,000 workers have been the victim of reductions across the tech industry, with a staggering 16,084 cuts taking place in February alone. We’re tracking layoffs in the tech industry in 2025 so you can see the trajectory of the cutbacks and understand the impact on innovation across all types of companies. As businesses continue to embrace AI and automation, this tracker serves as a reminder of the human impact of layoffs — and what could be at stake with increased innovation. Below you’ll find a comprehensive list of all the known tech layoffs that have occurred in 2025, which will be updated regularly. If you have a tip on a layoff, contact us here. If you prefer to remain anonymous, you can contact us here. May 2025 April 2025: More than 23,400 employees laid off — see all April 2025 tech layoffs March 2025: 8,834 employees laid off — see all March 2025 tech layoffs February 2025: 16,234 employees laid off — see all February 2025 tech layoffs January 2025: 2,403 employees laid off — see all January 2025 tech layoffs May Amazon Is reportedly laying off around 100 employees from its devices and services division, including those working on the Alexa voice assistant, Echo smart speakers, Ring video doorbells, and Zoox robotaxis. The company has reduced its workforce by approximately 27,000 since the start of 2022 to cut costs. Microsoft Will cut over 6,500 jobs, affecting 3% of its worldwide workforce. As of June, the Seattle-headquartered company had a total of 228,000 employees globally. It would be one of the company’s biggest layoffs since it cut 10,000 employees in 2023. Chegg Reportedly plans to let go of 248 employees, or about 22% of its workforce, to reduce expenses and improve efficiency, it said. The San Francisco-based edtech startup, which offers textbook rentals and tutoring services, has seen a drop in web traffic for months as students opt for AI tools instead of traditional edtech platforms. Techcrunch event Join us at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot for our leading AI industry event with speakers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cohere. For a limited time, tickets are just $292 for an entire day of expert talks, workshops, and potent networking. Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Berkeley, CA | June 5 REGISTER NOW Match Is reducing its workforce by 13% as part of a reorganization that aims to reduce costs, shore up margins, and streamline its organizational structure. CrowdStrike Is laying off 5% of its global workforce, or around 500 people. The company said the layoffs were part of “a strategic plan (the ‘Plan’) to evolve its operations to yield greater efficiencies as the Company continues to scale its business with focus and discipline to meet its goal of $10 billion in ending [Annual Recurring Revenue]” in its 8-K filing. General Fusion Has cut roughly 25% of its current workforce. The Vancouver-based company, which is developing a technology to generate fusion energy, has raised $440 million from investors, including Jeff Bezos, Temasek, and BDC Capital. Deep Instinct Reduced its headcount by 20 employees, accounting for 10% of its total workforce. In April 2023, the Israeli cybersecurity startup had previously laid off a similar number of employees during a round of layoffs. Beam Has shut down its operations months after announcing major expansion plans, per Sifted. The British climate startup has let go of approximately 200 employees, according to a LinkedIn post by James Reynolds, the head of talent. April NetApp Is reportedly eliminating 700 jobs, affecting 6% of its total workforce, as it reorganizes for its operational efficiency. The company, based in San Francisco, provides data storage, cloud services, and CloudOps solutions for businesses. Electronic Arts Is reportedly letting go of approximately 300 to 400 employees, including around 100 at Respawn Entertainment, to focus on its “long-term strategic priorities,” according to Bloomberg. Expedia Is laying off around 3% of its employees as part of its restructuring. The job cuts will mainly affect midlevel positions in the product and technology teams. The latest round of layoffs comes after the company let go of hundreds of employees from its marketing team globally in early March. Cars24 Has reduced its workforce by about 200 employees in its product and technology divisions as part of a restructuring measure. The India-based e-commerce platform for pre-owned vehicles provides a range of services like buying and selling pre-owned cars, financing, insurance, driver-on-demand, and more. In 2023, the SoftBank-backed startup raised $450 million at a valuation of $3.3 billion. Meta Is letting go of over 100 employees in its Reality Labs division, which manages virtual reality and wearable technology, according to The Verge. The job cuts affect employees developing VR experiences for Meta’s Quest headsets and staff working on hardware operations to streamline similar work between the two teams. Intel Announced its plan to lay off more than 21,000 employees, or roughly 20% of its workforce, in April. The move comes ahead of Intel’s Q1 earnings call helmed by recently appointed CEO Lip-Bu Tan, who took over from longtime chief Pat Gelsinger last year. GM Is laying off 200 people at its Factory Zero in Detroit and Hamtramck facility in Michigan, which produces GM’s electric vehicles. The cuts come amid the EV slowdown and is not caused by tariffs, according to a report. Zopper Has reportedly let go of around 100 employees since the start of 2025. Earlier this week, about 50 employees from the tech and product teams were let go in the latest round of job cuts. The India-based insurtech startup has raised a total of $125 million to date. Turo Will reduce its workforce by 150 positions following its decision not to proceed with its IPO, per Bloomberg. The San Francisco-based car rental startup, which had about 1,000 staff in 2024, said the layoffs will bolster its long-term growth plans during economic uncertainty. GupShup Laid off roughly 200 employees to improve efficiency and profitability. It’s the startup’s second round of layoffs in five months, following the job cuts of around 300 employees in December. The conversational AI company, backed by Tiger Global and Fidelity, was last valued at $1.4 billion in 2021. The startup is based in San Francisco and operates in India. Forto Has reportedly eliminated 200 jobs, affecting around one-third of its employees. The German logistics startup reduced a significant number of sales staff. Wicresoft Will stop its operations in China, affecting around 2,000 employees. The move came after Microsoft decided to end outsourcing after-sales support to Wicresoft amid increasing trade tensions. Wicresoft, Microsoft’s first joint venture in China, was founded in 2022 and operates in the U.S., Europe, and Japan. It has over 10,000 employees. Five9 Plans to cut 123 jobs, affecting about 4% of its workforce, according to a report by MarketWatch. The software company prioritizes key strategic areas like artificial intelligence for profitable growth. Google Has laid off hundreds of employees in its platforms and devices division, which covers Android, Pixel phones, the Chrome browser, and more, according to The Information. Microsoft Is contemplating additional layoffs that could happen by May, Business Insider reported, citing anonymous sources. The company is said to be discussing reducing the number of middle managers and non-coders in a bid to increase the ratio of programmers to product managers. Automattic The WordPress.com developer is laying off 16% of its workforce across departments. Before the layoffs, the company’s website showed it had 1,744 employees, so more than 270 staff may have been laid off. Canva Has let go of 10 to 12 technical writers approximately nine months after telling its employees to use generative AI tools wherever possible. The company, which had around 5,500 staff in 2024, was valued at $26 billion after a secondary stock sale in 2024. March Northvolt Has laid off 2,800 employees, affecting 62% of its total staff. The layoffs come weeks after the embattled Swedish battery maker filed for bankruptcy. Block Let go of 931 employees, around 8% of its workforce, as part of a reorganization, according to an internal email seen by TechCrunch. Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and CEO of the fintech company, wrote in the email that the layoffs were not for financial reasons or to replace workers with AI. Brightcove Has laid off 198 employees, who make up about two-thirds of its U.S. workforce, per a media report. The layoff comes a month after the company was acquired by Bending Spoons, an Italian app developer, for $233 million. Brightcove had 600 employees worldwide, with 300 in the U.S., as of December 2023. Acxiom Has reportedly laid off 130 employees, or 3.5% of its total workforce of 3,700 people. Acxiom is owned by IPG, and the news comes just a day after IPG and Omnicom Group shareholders approved the companies’ potential merger. Sequoia Capital Plans to close its office in Washington, D.C., and let go of its policy team there by the end of March, TechCrunch has confirmed. Sequoia opened its Washington office five years ago to deepen its relationship with policymakers. Three full-time employees are expected to be affected, per Forbes. Siemens Announced plans to let go of approximately 5,600 jobs globally in its automation and electric-vehicle charging businesses as part of efforts to improve competitiveness. HelloFresh Is reportedly laying off 273 employees, closing its distribution center in Grand Prairie, Texas, and consolidating to another site in Irving to manage the volume in the region. Otorio Has cut 45 employees, more than half of its workforce, after being acquired by cybersecurity company Armis for $120 million in March. ActiveFence Will reportedly reduce 22 employees, representing 7% of its workforce. Most of those affected are based in Israel as the company undergoes a streamlining process. The New York- and Tel Aviv-headquartered cybersecurity firm has raised $100 million at a valuation of about $500 million in 2021. D-ID Will cut 22 jobs, affecting nearly a quarter of its total workforce, following the announcement of the AI startup’s strategic partnership with Microsoft. NASA Announced it will be shutting down several of its offices in accordance with Elon Musk’s DOGE, including its Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy and the DEI branch in the Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity. Zonar Systems Has reportedly laid off some staff, according to LinkedIn posts from ex-employees. The company has not confirmed the layoffs, and it is currently unknown how many workers were affected. Wayfair Announced plans to let go of 340 employees in its technology division as part of a new restructuring effort. HPE Will cut 2,500 employees, or 5% of its total staff, in response to its shares sliding 19% in the first fiscal quarter. TikTok Will cut up to 300 workers in Dublin, accounting for roughly 10% of the company’s workforce in Ireland. LiveRamp Announced it will lay off 65 employees, affecting 5% of its total workforce. Ola Electric Is reportedly set to lay off over 1,000 employees and contractors in a cost-cutting effort. It’s the second round of cuts for the company in just five months. Rec Room Reduced its total headcount by 16% as the gaming startup shifts its focus to be “scrappier” and “more efficient.” ANS Commerce Was shut down just three years after it was acquired by Flipkart. It is currently unknown how many employees were affected. February HP Will cut up to 2,000 jobs as part of its “Future Now” restructuring plan that hopes to save the company $300 million before the end of its fiscal year. GrubHub Announced 500 job cuts after it was sold to Wonder Group for $650 million. The number of cuts affected more than 20% of its previous workforce. Autodesk Announced plans to lay off 1,350 employees, affecting 9% of its total workforce, in an attempt to reshape its GTM model. The company is also making reductions in its facilities, though it does not plan to close any offices. Google Is planning to cut employees in its People Operations and cloud organizations teams in a new reorganization effort. The company is offering a voluntary exit program to U.S.-based People Operations employees. Nautilus Reduced its headcount by 25 employees, accounting for 16% of its total workforce. The company is planning to release a commercial version of its proteome analysis platform in 2026. eBay Will reportedly cut a few dozen employees in Israel, potentially affecting 10% of its 250-person workforce in the country. Starbucks Cut 1,100 jobs in a reorganizing effort that affected its tech workers. The coffee chain will now outsource some tech work to third-party employees. Commercetools Laid off dozens of employees over the last few weeks, including around 10% of staff in one day, after failing to meet its sales growth targets. The “headless commerce” platform raised money at a $1.9 billion valuation just a few years ago. Dayforce Will cut roughly 5% of its current workforce in a new efficiency drive to increase profitability and growth. Expedia Laid off more employees in a new effort to cut costs, though the total number is unknown. Last year, the travel giant cut about 1,500 roles in its Product & Technology division. Skybox Security Has ceased operations and has laid off its employees after selling its business and technology to Israeli cybersecurity company Tufin. The cuts affect roughly 300 people. HerMD Is shutting down its operations amid “ongoing challenges in healthcare.” It’s unclear the number of employees affected. In 2023, the women’s healthcare startup raised $18 million to fund its expansion. Zendesk Cut 51 jobs in its San Francisco headquarters, according to state filings with the Employment Development Department. The SaaS startup previously reduced its headcount by 8% in 2023. Vendease Has cut 120 employees, affecting 44% of its total staff. It’s the Y Combinator-backed Nigerian startup’s second layoff round in just five months. Logically Reportedly laid off dozens of employees as part of a new cost-cutting effort that aims to ensure “long-term success” in the startup’s mission to curb misinformation online. Blue Origin Will lay off about 10% of its workforce, affecting more than 1,000 employees. According to an email to staff obtained by CNN, the cuts will largely have an impact on positions in engineering and program management. Redfin Announced in an SEC filing that it will cut around 450 positions between February and July 2025, with a complete restructuring set to be completed in the fall, following its new partnership with Zillow. Sophos Is laying off 6% of its total workforce, the cybersecurity firm confirmed to TechCrunch. The cuts come less than two weeks after Sophos acquired Secureworks for $859 million. Zepz Will cut nearly 200 employees as it introduces redundancy measures and closes down its operations in Poland and Kenya. Unity Reportedly conducted another round of layoffs. It’s unknown how many employees were affected. JustWorks Cut nearly 200 employees, CEO Mike Seckler announced in a note to employees, citing “potential adverse events” like a recession or rising interest rates. Bird Cut 120 jobs, affecting roughly one-third of its total workforce, TechCrunch exclusively learned. The move comes just a year after the Dutch startup cut 90 employees following its rebrand. Sprinklr Laid off about 500 employees, affecting 15% of its workforce, citing poor business performance. The new cuts follow two earlier layoff rounds for the company that affected roughly 200 employees. Sonos Reportedly let go of approximately 200 employees, according to The Verge. The company previously cut 100 employees as part of a layoff round in August 2024. Workday Laid off 1,750 employees, as originally reported by Bloomberg and confirmed independently by TechCrunch. The cuts affect roughly 8.5% of the enterprise HR platform’s total headcount. Okta Laid off 180 employees, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. The cuts come just over one year after the access and identity management giant let go of 400 workers. Cruise Is laying off 50% of its workforce, including CEO Marc Whitten and several other top executives, as it prepares to shut down operations. What remains of the autonomous vehicle company will move under General Motors. Salesforce Is reportedly eliminating more than 1,000 jobs. The cuts come as the giant is actively recruiting and hiring workers to sell new AI products. January Cushion Has shut down operations, CEO Paul Kesserwani announced on LinkedIn. The fintech startup’s post-money valuation in 2022 was $82.4 million, according to PitchBook. Placer.ai Laid off 150 employees based in the U.S., affecting roughly 18% of its total workforce, in an effort to reach profitability. Amazon Laid off dozens of workers in its communications department in order to help the company “move faster, increase ownership, strengthen our culture, and bring teams closer to customers.” Stripe Is laying off 300 people, according to a leaked memo reported by Business Insider. However, according to the memo, the fintech giant is planning to grow its total headcount by 17%. Textio Laid off 15 employees as the augmented writing startup undergoes a restructuring effort. Pocket FM Is cutting 75 employees in an effort to “ensure the long-term sustainability and success” of the company. The audio company last cut 200 writers in July 2024 months after partnering with ElevenLabs. Aurora Solar Is planning to cut 58 employees in response to an “ongoing macroeconomic challenges and continued uncertainty in the solar industry.” Meta Announced in an internal memo that it will cut 5% of its staff targeting “low performers” as the company prepares for “an intense year.” As of its latest quarterly report, Meta currently has more than 72,000 employees. Wayfair Will cut up to 730 jobs, affecting 3% of its total workforce, as it plans to exit operations in Germany and focus on physical retailers. Pandion Is shutting down its operations, affecting 63 employees. The delivery startup said employees will be paid through January 15 without severance. Icon Is laying off 114 employees as part of a team realignment, per a new WARN notice filing, focusing its efforts on a robotic printing system. Altruist Eliminated 37 jobs, affecting roughly 10% of its total workforce, even as the company pursues “aggressive” hiring. Aqua Security Is cutting dozens of employees across its global markets as part of a strategic reorganization to increase profitability. SolarEdge Technologies Plans to lay off 400 employees globally. It’s the company’s fourth layoff round since January 2024 as the solar industry as a whole faces a downturn. Level The fintech startup, founded in 2018, abruptly shut down earlier this year. Per an email from CEO Paul Aaron, the closure follows an unsuccessful attempt to find a buyer, though Employer.com has a new offer under consideration to acquire the company post-shutdown. This list updates regularly. On April 24, 2025, we corrected the number of layoffs that happened in March.

Robert Falck, the founder of electric and autonomous trucking startup Einride, is stepping down from the role of CEO as the company works towards scaling its technology, raising more funds, and exploring the possibility of an IPO. Falck will transition to the role of executive chairman of the board where he will focus on Einride’s long-term strategy. Einride’s CFO, Roozbeh Charli, will take over the role of chief executive effective immediately. The company said in a statement that Charli has helped build Einride’s operational infrastructure and commercial momentum across Europe and North America over the past five years. Falck founded Einride, his seventh company, in 2016 with a mission to transform the carbon emitting trucking industry. His background is diverse. In a previous life, he founded a nightclub guest list startup and also served as the director of manufacturing engineering assembly at Volvo GTO Powertrain. Falck has spoken to TechCrunch at length about his goals for Einride to disrupt the freight industry – first with electric trucks, then with electric autonomous pods, which are purpose-built without a steering wheel or pedals for self-driving. “After nearly a decade of building as CEO, it’s time to shift my focus to where I can create the most long-term value,” Falck said in a statement. “As executive chairman, I will focus on the overall company strategy, including ensuring that Einride can go public when we find the time is right.” Charli said that he intends to further Falck’s mission and help the company scale responsibly beyond its current market. The company currently operates one of the largest fleets of heavy-duty electric trucks in Europe, North America, and the Middle East servicing companies like PepsiCo, Carlsberg Sweden, DP World, and more. Techcrunch event Join us at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot for our leading AI industry event with speakers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cohere. For a limited time, tickets are just $292 for an entire day of expert talks, workshops, and potent networking. Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Berkeley, CA | June 5 REGISTER NOW Einride has raised $654.26 million to date, per PitchBook. The company last publicly announced its $500 million round in 2022. In an October conversation with TechCrunch, Falck said that the company would need to raise more working capital – another $100 million would put it “in a good path forward – to reach the scale necessary to hit profitability. He also noted at the time that Eirnide hit roughly $5 billion in contracted revenue and was running at about $50 million annual recurring revenue for 2024.

AI startup Mistral on Wednesday announced a new AI model focused on coding: Devstral. Devstral, which Mistral says was developed in partnership with AI company All Hands AI, is openly available under an Apache 2.0 license, meaning it can be used commercially without restriction. Mistral claims that Devstral outperforms other open models like Google’s Gemma 3 27B and Chinese AI lab DeepSeek’s V3 on SWE-Bench Verified, a benchmark measuring coding skills. “Devstral […] is trained to solve real GitHub issues,” writes Mistral in a blog post provided to TechCrunch. “[I]t runs over code agent scaffolds such as OpenHands or SWE-Agent, which define the interface between the model and the test cases […] Devstral is light enough to run on a single [Nvidia] RTX 4090 or a Mac with 32GB RAM, making it an ideal choice for local deployment and on-device use.” Mistral’s benchmarking results for Devstral.Image Credits:Mistral Devstral arrives as AI coding assistants — and the models powering them — grow increasingly popular. Just last month, JetBrains, the company behind a range of popular app development tools, released its first “open” AI model for coding. In recent months, AI outfits including Google, Windsurf, and OpenAI have also unveiled models, both openly available and proprietary, optimized for programming tasks. AI models still struggle to code quality software — code-generating AI tends to introduce security vulnerabilities and errors, owing to weaknesses in areas like the ability to understand programming logic. Yet their promise to boost coding productivity is pushing companies — and developers — to rapidly adopt them. One recent poll found that 76% of devs used or were planning to use AI tools in their development processes last year. Mistral previously waded into the assistive programming space with Codestral, a generative model for code. But Codestral wasn’t released under a license that permitted devs to use the model for commercial applications; its license explicitly banned “any internal usage by employees in the context of [a] company’s business activities.” Devstral, which Mistral is calling a “research preview,” can be downloaded from AI development platforms including Hugging Face and also tapped through Mistral’s API. It’s priced at $0.1 per million input tokens and $0.3 per million output tokens, tokens being the raw bits of data that AI models work with. (A million tokens is equivalent to about 750,000 words, or roughly 163,000 words longer than “War and Peace.”) Techcrunch event Join us at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot for our leading AI industry event with speakers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cohere. For a limited time, tickets are just $292 for an entire day of expert talks, workshops, and potent networking. Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Berkeley, CA | June 5 REGISTER NOW Mistral says it’s “hard at work building a larger agentic coding model that will be available in the coming weeks.” Mistral, founded in 2023, is a frontier model lab, aiming to build a range of AI-powered services, including a chatbot platform, Le Chat, and mobile apps. It’s backed by VCs including General Catalyst, and has raised over €1.1 billion (roughly $1.24 billion) to date. Mistral’s customers include BNP Paribas, AXA, and Mirakl. Devstral is Mistral’s third product launch this month. A few weeks ago, Mistral launched Mistral Medium 3, an efficient general-purpose model. Around the same time, the company rolled out Le Chat Enterprise, a corporate-focused chatbot service that offers tools like an AI “agent” builder and integrates Mistral’s models with third-party services like Gmail, Google Drive, and SharePoint.

We’re ecstatic to announce that Kisson Lin, founder and CEO of Tanka, will be joining us at TechCrunch Sessions: AI for a provocative — and instructive — interview titled “Your Next Co-Founder Will Be AI.” She’s among the many excellent speakers joining the AI conference on June 5 at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall, and there’s still plenty of time to register to get your seat at the table to learn from their expertise — with up to $600 in savings. If you don’t already know Lin, her company powers an AI messenger with long-term memory that self-learns and evolves with teams. Before founding Tanka, Lin worked at several tech giants, including Meta, where she was based in Singapore, and at TikTok, where from Beijing she helped lead the company’s e-commerce and ads monetization strategies. She’s also a repeat entrepreneur, having previously co-founded Mindverse AI, where as the company’s COO, she helped developed products, including Me.bot, an AI note-taking app with memory capabilities, and MindOS, an AI agent operating system. Indeed, Lin — who has a master’s degree in data science and business statistics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong — has built an impressive career at the intersection of AI, memory systems, and team collaboration tools. A self-described “longtime neuroscience enthusiast and amateur sci-fi writer,” she is particularly fascinated by how memory shapes intelligence, a passion that directly informs Tanka’s approach to AI. At TechCrunch Sessions: AI, Lin will discuss how Tanka’s AI memory technology can make teams far more efficient — a model that has powerful implications for solo founders looking to compete with larger organizations. (Since its beta launch in October 2024, Tanka says users have already saved the equivalent of 111 workdays through the platform’s AI-generated smart replies.) But she’ll also be talking more broadly about some of the tools and processes that are now making it possible for solopreneurs to build big businesses without massive teams — and also without excessive amounts of venture funding. The interview is part of our broader program featuring top AI leaders, including Anthropic co-founder Jared Kaplan, Databricks co-founder and UC Berkeley professor Ion Stoica, and DeepMind senior product manager Logan Kilpatrick. Techcrunch event Join us at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot for our leading AI industry event with speakers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cohere. For a limited time, tickets are just $292 for an entire day of expert talks, workshops, and potent networking. Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Berkeley, CA | June 5 REGISTER NOW With approximately 1,000 attendees expected, TechCrunch Sessions: AI is a must-attend event for AI developers and founders navigating the rapidly evolving AI ecosystem. If you’re building an AI startup — or planning to launch one — this event offers crucial insights that will shape your strategic direction. Lin’s session should be particularly high on your priority list. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from the industry’s brightest minds about what your priorities should be in this new era of AI-powered entrepreneurship. Register today for TechCrunch Sessions: AI, and secure your spot at what promises to be one of the most influential AI gatherings of the year.

For the last two decades, Google has brought people a list of algorithmically-selected links from the web for any given search query. At I/O 2025, Google made clear that the concept of Search is firmly in its rearview mirror. On Tuesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and his executives presented new ways to bring users the web, this time intermediated through a series of AI agents. “We couldn’t be more excited about this chapter of Google search where you can truly ask anything […] your simplest and hardest questions, your deepest research, your personalized shopping needs,” said Google’s VP of Search, Liz Reid, onstage at I/O. “We believe AI will be the most powerful engine for discovery that the web has ever seen.” The largest announcement of I/O was that Google now offers AI mode to every Search user in the United States. This gives hundreds of millions of people a button to converse with an AI agent that will visit web pages, summarize them any way they’d like, or even help them shop. With Project Mariner, Google is delivering an even more hands-off AI agent to its Ultra subscribers. That agent will handle 10 different tasks simultaneously, visiting web pages and clicking around on those pages while users are free to plug away on something else altogether. Google is also making its Deep Research agent, which visits dozens of relevant websites and generates thorough research reports, more personalized and is connecting it to your Gmail and Drive. In a parallel development, the company is further integrating Project Astra — the company’s multimodal, real-time AI experience — into Search and Gemini, giving users more ways to verbally speak with an AI agent and let it see what they see. I could go on, but you get the idea — AI agents dominated I/O 2025. The rise of ChatGPT has forced an AI reckoning at Google, causing the company to rethink how it brings users information from the web. This reckoning really started at last year’s I/O, when Google introduced AI overviews into Search, a launch that was overshadowed by its embarrassing hallucinations. The rollout of AI overviews made it seem as if AI was not ready for primetime, and that Search as we know it was here to stay. Techcrunch event Join us at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot for our leading AI industry event with speakers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cohere. For a limited time, tickets are just $292 for an entire day of expert talks, workshops, and potent networking. Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Berkeley, CA | June 5 REGISTER NOW But at I/O 2025, Google presented a more compelling, fleshed-out approach to how AI would reshape Search, and thus, the web. The company’s new vision suggests that the future of the web, and the company, involves AI agents fetching information from the web and presenting it to users in whatever way they’d like. The idea that Google’s AI agents could replace Search is a compelling one, especially because Google is trying to lay an infrastructure for AI agents. Google announced on Tuesday that the SDK for Gemini models will now natively support Anthropic’s MCP, an increasingly popular standard for connecting agents to data sources across the internet. Google isn’t alone in this shift. At a different tech conference this week, Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott laid out his own vision for an “open agentic web,” in which agents take actions on users’ behalf across the internet. Scott noted that a key feature to make this possible would be the plumbing that connects these agents to each other and data sources — namely, Google’s Agent2Agent protocol and Anthropic’s MCP. Despite the enthusiasm, as Ben Thompson notes in Stratechery, the agentic web has its problems. For instance, Thompson notes that if Google sends AI agents to websites instead of people, that largely breaks the ad-supported model of the internet. The impacts could vary across industries. Agents may not be a problem for companies that sell goods or services on the internet, such as DoorDash or Ticketmaster — in fact, these companies are embracing agents as a new platform to reach customers. However, the same can’t be said for publishers, which are now fighting with AI agents for eyeballs. During I/O, a Google communications leader told me that “human attention is the only truly finite resource,” and the company’s launch of AI agents aims to give users more of their time back. That may all pan out, but AI summaries of articles seem likely to take dollars away from publishers — and potentially devastate the very content creation on which these AI systems depend. Further, there’s a lingering problem with AI systems around hallucinations — their tendency to make stuff up and present it as fact — which became embarrassingly clear with Google’s launch of AI overviews. Speaking onstage Tuesday, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis even raised concerns about the consistency of AI models. “You can easily, within a few minutes, find some obvious flaws with [AI chatbots] — some high school math thing that it doesn’t solve, some basic game it can’t play,” said Hassabis. “It’s not very difficult to find those holes in the system. For me, for something to be called AGI, it would need to be much more consistent across the board.” The consequences could be far-reaching. Widespread hallucinations could lead users to be more distrustful of information they encounter on the web. They could also sow misinformation among users. Either outcome is not ideal. Google doesn’t seem to be waiting for ad-supported businesses or AI models to catch up — the company is pushing ahead with AI agents anyway. Google has likely done more than any other company to steward the web as we know it. But in what could prove a major turning point, the company’s conception of the web seems to be reorienting around AI agents.

Shopify is giving its merchants a slew of new AI-powered tools designed to help them enhance the online shopping experience for their customers. This includes an AI store builder for users to set up storefronts using a single prompt, as well as an AI generator for creating elements (such as banners) without knowing how to code. The platform also upgraded Sidekick, its AI commerce assistant, with new voice chat and screen sharing capabilities. These updates were announced on Wednesday during Shopify’s Edition launch day, the company’s biannual announcement that showcases recent changes to the platform. Image Credits:Shopify The goal of the AI store builder is to create the foundation of a website quickly, so there’s more time for personalization. To use the tool, users first have to enter a prompt that describes their brand. For example, “tennis gear and stylish athleisure.” Shopify’s AI then generates a ready-to-launch storefront, and merchants can then manually customize their store within the editor. Shopify also introduced a new public theme called “Horizon” in its Theme Store, a marketplace for downloading pre-designed templates. Horizon includes a built-in AI to assist merchants in adjusting their designs as they wish. It’s also the first theme to include “Theme Blocks,” which are essentially building blocks that merchants can use to customize how their online store looks without touching any code. These theme blocks can also be further customized with the help of AI. For example, if the merchant wants a banner with text and an animation, they can describe it or share an image for inspiration, and it generates the code for them to copy into the editor. They can also generate images. Techcrunch event Join us at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot for our leading AI industry event with speakers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cohere. For a limited time, tickets are just $292 for an entire day of expert talks, workshops, and potent networking. Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Berkeley, CA | June 5 REGISTER NOW Image Credits:Shopify Additionally, users can now engage in voice chat with Sidekick, which responds audibly to questions. For example, if merchants are confused about tariffs—a hot topic for retailers right now—Sidekick will direct them to a tariff guide that provides U.S. rates for different types of products. Users can also screen share with Sidekick to navigate features, such as finding the settings. Alongside these new capabilities, Sidekick is now available in the Shopify mobile app. Sidekick was rolled out widely to all merchants in December 2024. According to the company, monthly users have more than doubled since the beginning of 2025, a spokesperson told TechCrunch. Shopify’s continued investment in AI shouldn’t be unexpected. In CEO Tobi Lütke’s recent memo to staff, he suggested that AI may help the company maintain a smaller workforce.

The early bird sees the future first — and saves the most. The old saying goes, “the early bird gets the worm.” But in tech — and in life — it’s not really about the worm. It’s about spotting what’s next before the crowd rushes in and the price goes up. TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is happening October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco. And for the next five days, you can claim your spot — not just ahead of the noise, but at a serious discount. Early Bird rates save you up to $900 — and your plus-one gets 90% off. This deal ends on May 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. No gimmicks. Just real savings for people who actually show up early. Register here to secure your massive savings. What you should be at Disrupt 2025 Tech powerhouses to share their insights You’ll hear from big names you may already know — like Astro Teller (X), Raquel Urtasun (Waabi), Ryan Petersen (Flexport), David George (a16z), and plenty more you’ll want to know. Check out the growing lineup on the Disrupt 2025 speaker page. Hands-on interactive sessions You don’t go to Disrupt to collect lanyards. You go to listen in on the real conversations — the ones happening on the main stage between the people actually building what’s next. Founders, VCs, operators, the contrarians, and the visionaries — all in one place, asking better questions and not afraid of complex answers. Breakout Session at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 at Moscone West in San Francisco.Image Credits:Slava Blazer Photography Powerful networking But the magic is in the mix — in who you sit next to, who challenges your assumptions, who reminds you why you’re doing this in the first place. It’s quality networking, in 1:1s or small groups, built to spark real connections and fresh inspiration. Ultimate startup pitch competition The iconic Startup Battlefield 200 is the global pitch competition that happens live in front of a hungry audience. It’s your chance to witness thrilling pitches from pre-Series A startups, see how they present their innovations, and hear honest, unfiltered feedback from top VC judges on what makes a viable startup. Techcrunch event Join us at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot for our leading AI industry event with speakers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cohere. For a limited time, tickets are just $292 for an entire day of expert talks, workshops, and potent networking. Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Berkeley, CA | June 5 REGISTER NOW Think your pre-Series A startup has what it takes to shine on the global stage and win a $100,000 equity-free prize? Apply before the June 9 deadline. SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – OCTOBER 18: (L-R) Founding Managing Partner of Freestyle VC Dave Samuel, Co-founder & Managing Partner of BBG Ventures Nisha Dua, and TechCrunch Startup Battlefield contestant speak onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 on October 18, 2022 in San Francisco, California.Image Credits:Kimberly White / Getty Images Go to Disrupt 2025 with Early Bird rates You have until May 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT to lock in Early Bird savings for the tech epicenter of the year. Make your move before the moment passes. Secure your early bird ticket now.

Christian Selig, the iOS developer who ran the beloved third-party Reddit client Apollo, is joining the new iteration of Digg as an advisor. Earlier this year, Digg’s original founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian acquired what was left of Digg in an attempt to revitalize what was formerly known as “the internet’s homepage.” Rose and Ohanian were already a fascinating pairing — the two had previously seen each other as rivals, since Digg and Reddit were fierce competitors. By adding Selig to the mix, Rose and Ohanian are further signaling that the new Digg wants to shake things up. Selig played a prominent role in the backlash against Reddit’s increased API pricing in 2023, which made free apps like Apollo — which offered an enhanced browsing experience for Reddit users — impossible to run. In a Reddit post that went viral, Selig told users that in order to keep Apollo running as-is under the new API pricing, he would need to pay about $1.7 million per month. Needless to say, Apollo shut down, much to the Reddit community’s disappointment. “We’re excited to have Selig bring that same craft and community-first thinking to Digg, helping us build something that feels good to use and even better to be a part of,” said Digg CEO Justin Mezzell in a statement. Digg is embarking on a quest to make the social internet feel fun again, as opposed to its current state, where AI shrimp Jesus and other artificially generated slop have taken over our feeds. But Digg isn’t quite ready to open to the public just yet. Last month, Digg opened signups for an early-access program that it’s calling “Groundbreakers,” which asks for a one-time $5 fee to keep bots out. (The proceeds from the program are being donated to nonprofits chosen by the Digg community.) In the announcement of Selig’s role, Mezzell included a cheeky reference to the API drama at Reddit. “I simply won’t comment on that. We’re charting our own course here at Digg,” Mezzell said. “But if I did comment, I would probably say ‘[redact] me sideways, what a fumble.’ But that would only be if I did say something publicly.” Techcrunch event Join us at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot for our leading AI industry event with speakers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cohere. For a limited time, tickets are just $292 for an entire day of expert talks, workshops, and potent networking. Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Berkeley, CA | June 5 REGISTER NOW

Coinbase said at least 69,461 customers had personal and financial information stolen during a months-long data breach that it disclosed last week. The crypto giant confirmed the number of affected customers in a filing with Maine’s attorney general on Wednesday, as required by the state’s data breach notification law. Coinbase’s filing said the breach dates back to December 26, 2024, and continued until earlier this month, when the company said it received a “credible” ransom note from the hacker claiming it had stolen customer data. In a blog post, Coinbase said the hacker demanded $20 million in a ransom payment to delete the data, which Coinbase refused to pay. The company said the hacker bribed Coinbase customer support workers into accessing customers’ data over a period of several months. The hacker stole customer names, email and postal addresses, phone numbers, government-issued identity documents, account balances, and transaction histories, amid fears that wealthy customers could be targeted.

Three years ago, as the pandemic caused chaos for companies big and small, Colgate-Palmolive’s chief supply chain officer Luciano Sieber orchestrated a “logistics blitz.” The result gave Sieber a better understanding of how Colgate-Palmolive moves its products around the world. But it stuck Sieber with another problem: too much data. About a year ago, Sieber says he found a solution to that problem with Uber Freight. The ride-hailing service’s long-running logistics and analytics arm has been developing new ways to wrangle large amounts of data by using artificial intelligence. Colgate-Palmolive became one of the first companies to use one of its newest products, a a logistics-focused LLM Uber Freight calls Inisights AI. Now, Uber Freight is more formally launching a suite of AI features to shippers around the world as part of its existing supply chain software. That includes an expansion of Insights AI, which Uber Freight quietly launched in 2023, as well as more than 30 AI agents built to “execute key logistics tasks throughout the freight lifecycle.” Uber Freight is not alone in trying to tame unruly supply chains with modern artificial intelligence tools. Flexport announced its own suite of AI tools in February, and there are myriad startups trying to help companies wrangle data, reduce inventory stockpiles, and better predict supply and demand. But Uber Freight is betting its AI solutions can make an immediate impact on the bottom line of both its blue-chip customers and the nearly 10,000 other shippers it works with. That’s largely because of the knowledge base and relationships it has established in the eight years since it was created to match long-haul truckers with shippers. “Supply chain is inherently a data-rich problem. It’s complex, it’s nuanced, and AI can serve a fundamental role in shaping it and accelerating it,” Uber Freight founder Lior Ron said in an interview with TechCrunch. Techcrunch event Join us at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot for our leading AI industry event with speakers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cohere. For a limited time, tickets are just $292 for an entire day of expert talks, workshops, and potent networking. Exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI Secure your spot at TC Sessions: AI and show 1,200+ decision-makers what you’ve built — without the big spend. Available through May 9 or while tables last. Berkeley, CA | June 5 REGISTER NOW ‘We’ve been building towards this moment’ Uber Freight began as a more straightforward brokerage business model when it launched in 2017. But the Uber subsidiary has steadily evolved over the years into more of a service provider to companies that ship goods around the world. Many modern companies are trying to find ways to incorporate artificial intelligence (often to mixed results); it should come as no surprise that Uber Freight is putting the technology front and center. After all, both Ron’s undergraduate work and his master thesis were centered around AI – way back “in the dark ages when it was called ‘neural networks,’” he joked. Ron continued to work with machine learning technology when he was running Google Maps from 2007 until 2016. It was there, he said, that he saw “the potential of digitizing the physical universe.” “That sort of led me to the foundational belief, nine years ago, that supply chain is fundamentally a data-first, technology-first challenge that could be accelerated with data connectivity, and over time, AI,” he said. “We’ve been building towards this moment, I think, since I started Uber Freight.” Ron said Uber Freight has used machine learning in its work since the beginning. But it was around two years ago that the team started trying to work with more advanced generative AI capabilities. That “hasn’t been an easy road,” Ron said. Uber Freight’s initial attempts at building a sort of “co-pilot for logistics” were riddled with hallucinations and returned accurate answers only around 60% to 70% of the time. Now that technology has been “battle tested” and is “driving real business outcomes,” with an accuracy rate of 98%, according to Ron. The company says the Insights AI model has been trained on internal and external data related to the $20 billion worth of freight that it helps move every year. It also leverages multiple undisclosed AI models “providing optimal combinations of price, precision and performance,” according to Uber Freight. Ron said this AI push creates new ways for customers to work with the data related to their supply chain. They can ask Insights AI to quickly pull up, say, the worst-performing origin points for particular shipments. Or they can ask to be shown “all shipments to CVS in 2023.” Ron stressed that the queries can be far more complex than this, too, and the model always keeps up. Insights AI is presented to customers much like other popular LLM interfaces; it will also show its work and make clear where all the data is coming from, just like other reasoning models. All of this lets a customer “gain insights on your network much faster, at close to 100% accuracy instantly, versus formulating what you want to know, sending it to some analysts, and waiting for two weeks for the PowerPoint presentation to come back to have a discussion,” Ron said. ‘What do you want to know?‘ Uber Freight works with a lot of Fortune 500 companies, but it found a particularly willing partner in Colgate-Palmolive to trial Insights AI and its other new tools. The conglomerate already makes a suite of AI models available to all of its employees, according to Sieber. It also makes those workers take a mandatory training on AI ethics that was developed in-house. “I think it’s great, because it turns the conversation from fear into, ‘how that makes me more efficient, and how [do] I become a better professional and deliver more by having access and using those new technologies,’” Sieber said. For instance, Sieber said his company has used Insights AI to easily identify carriers who are accepting fewer shipments than they’re contractually obligated to to move. From there, they can work out why those levels are low, and either come up with a solution to get the carrier back in compliance or drop them in favor of another. This was previously a challenge to solve in real time, Sieber said, because companies like Colgate-Palmolive work with thousands of carriers. Each of those might work with different systems and workflows, and all of that resulting information was never really centrally managed. The next step with AI, both Sieber and Ron said, has been finding ways to create more proactive solutions. Ron said this is another place Uber Freight can flex its data strengths. “We know the facilities, we know the lanes, we know the prices,” he said. “What do you want to know?” These more proactive integrations come in the form of alerts that tell a customer like Colgate-Palmolive they’re overpaying on certain routes, or that there are faster options available for a particular shipment. Any single suggestion like that may only save a few hundred, or perhaps a few thousand dollars. But aggregated over an entire network, it could make a big difference. That’s why, when asked, Sieber was quick to answer that Colgate-Palmolive’s chief financial officer is the executive who’s most pleased with what Uber Freight’s enabled. “He loves to see logistics costs coming down,” Sieber laughed.

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View File Zomox v2.1 - Grocery, Food, Pharmacy Courier & Service Provider + Backend + Driver App Zomox is a Multi Vendor supported Grocery, Pharmacy, Fruits or vegetable or Store product delivery management system that comes with the user website and delivery man app. With this powerful product, you will get a powerful admin panel built with Laravel that will help you manage the whole system smartly which accelerates your business. Submitter CodeCanyon Submitted 05/21/25 Category Android Demo link https://codecanyon.net/item/zomox-grocery-food-pharmacy-courier-service-provider-backend-driver-app/34463567  

View File Superio - Job Board WordPress Theme Superio is a complete Job Board WordPress theme that allows you to create a useful and easy to use job listing website. Using the Superio theme, you can create a complete and fully responsive job portal, career platform for HR management, recruiting or posting job vacancies. Superio isn't just a job board theme, it's the best choice of WordPress job portal template for anyone looking for a simple job script that makes money. Submitter CodeCanyon Submitted 05/21/25 Category Wordpress Templates Demo link https://themeforest.net/item/superio-job-board-wordpress-theme/32180231  

View File B2BKing - The Ultimate WooCommerce B2B & Wholesale Plugin B2BKing is the complete solution for running a Wholesale, B2B, hybrid B2B+B2C, or Private Membership store with WooCommerce. B2BKing takes care of everything, from basic B2B aspects such as hiding prices for guest users, to complex features such as tiered pricing structures, tax exemptions, VAT handling, and multiple buyers on account. From an extended business registration and separate B2B/B2C registration forms, to custom billing fields, an invoice payment gateway and negotiated price offers, B2BKing does it all. 137+ FEATURES. INCREDIBLE VALUE. B2BKing is a simple to use, yet incredibly powerful plugin, with probably the richest feature set of any b2b plugin. Submitter CodeCanyon Submitted 05/21/25 Category Wordpress Plugins Demo link https://codecanyon.net/item/b2bking-the-ultimate-woocommerce-b2b-plugin/26689576