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🚀 Read this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Apps,Media & Entertainment,audiobooks,ElevenLabs,Spotify 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Along with its AI-generated podcast tools, Spotify on Thursday introduced a new AI tool powered by ElevenLabs for self-publishing audiobooks within the Spotify for Authors platform. The company said at its Investor Day event that the feature will be launched in beta next June on an invitation-only basis, initially with English language support only. AI-powered audiobook generation will not bind authors to an exclusive contract, meaning they are free to publish their created audiobooks anywhere. The news builds on Spotify's previous partnership with…

✨ Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Transportation,autonomous vehicles,avs,robotaxis,Waymo 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Waymo has now temporarily halted service in two cities because its robo-taxis struggle to handle heavy rain and flooded roads, an issue that actually prompted the company to issue a recall last week. One of Waymo's robotaxis was spotted driving through a flooded street in Atlanta, Georgia on Wednesday before it eventually became stuck for about an hour, according to local news reports. Waymo told TechCrunch that the vehicle has been recovered and removed from the scene. Waymo says it has temporarily suspended…

💥 Discover this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Climate,Aluminum,AMP Robotics,Exclusive,recycling,Sortera 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Rising gas prices have been a recurring headline since the Trump administration began its war against Iran in late February, but it is not the only commodity affected by the conflict. About 10% of the world's aluminum is manufactured in the Gulf region, so prices for the metal have reached levels not seen in the past several decades. Even before the war in Iran, the United States government considered aluminum a critical metal. A large share of American aluminum demand is met through imports,…

💥 Check out this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,cyberattacks,cybersecurity,Microsoft,phishing,scam 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: For months, scammers have taken advantage of a vulnerability that allows them to send unsolicited emails from an internal Microsoft email address typically used to send legitimate account alerts. It's not clear how scammers are abusing the system, but they have been able to create new Microsoft accounts as if they were new customers, and use that access to send emails purporting to be from the tech giant itself, potentially fooling people into thinking these emails might be real. Microsoft does not seem to…

🚀 Check out this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Startups,Venture,SaaS 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Fresha, the beauty and wellness booking marketplace, has announced an $80 million investment from KKR's Next Generation Technology Growth fund, valuing the London-based company at more than $1 billion. This investment has the distinction of coming from KKR's growth equity arm, which targets companies with proven business models that are still in aggressive expansion mode — a sign that Fresha is seen as past the risky early stages and ready to scale. The London-based company, which was founded in 2015, has grown significantly over…