The past year and a half have witnessed multiple startups facing valuation cuts as funding from VCs waned in an environment of rising intere...
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Ahead of the AI Safety Summit starting tomorrow morning taking place outside of London in Bletchley Park, today, the U.K. government has con...
Monday, October 30, 2023
Apple just announced a (nearly) complete overhaul of its first-party silicon line, in the form of the M3, M3 Pro and M3 Max. While the new 2...
The promise and pitfall of artificial intelligence is a hot topic these days. Some say AI will save us: it’s already on the case to fix pern...
Detail, a startup with video recording and editing apps for Mac and iPhone, has released a new multiplayer feature that lets users easily re...
Shein, the fast fashion giant that has thrived on its nimble supply chain in China, is expanding its product range by scooping up competitor...
Web Summit has named a new CEO: Katherine Maher — previously CEO and executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation (between 2019 and 2021)....
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Sunday, October 29, 2023
X posts that are corrected by Community Notes, the platform’s crowd-sourced fact-checking system, will become “ineligible for revenue share,...
Ford and GM are hedging their bets on EVs. In times of transition, that can be a terrible way to run a business. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rig...
More than a year after Adobe announced it was acquiring Figma for $20 billion, the deal remains stuck in regulatory limbo. © 2023 TechCrunc...
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Saturday, October 28, 2023
Instagram head Adam Mosseri said today that a Threads API is in the works. This will give chance to developers to create different apps and ...
Friday, October 27, 2023
Catching up with Keith Rabois on the state of VC, his newest bet, and who he’s backing for president
Chances are that however busy you are, Keith Rabois is busier. He’s an active investor as a general partner at Founders Fund, the early-stag...
Though attendees grumbled about Las Vegas as a city, the community sentiment at this year’s TwitchCon was notably more optimistic than it wa...
Two of the biggest groups to oppose robotaxi expansion in California are now formally working together. Teamsters 856, which is tied to one ...
Thursday, October 26, 2023
Cruise said Thursday evening it has paused all driverless operations, a decision that comes just two days after the California Department of...
Ford is delaying about $12 billion in planned investments on EVs, including construction of a second battery plant with joint venture partne...
Twitch has had a tense year, in part due to community backlash over policy changes that affect the way creators can monetize their content. ...
The judge sent the jury home. He first wanted to review Sam Bankman-Fried's comments before determining whether that testimony could be ...
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Korean telco KT are among the investors of Moreh, which builds an AI software tool that optimizes and creat...
In an attempt at damage control, the CEO of the equity management startup Carta, Henry Ward, today emailed customers, telling them that if t...
The social commerce market size in Africa is expected to continue growing as businesses and micro-entrepreneurs embrace digital media, drive...
Whether we like it or not, the leather industry significantly contributes to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and global waste generation. The...
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Created by the founder of Thunes, global digital currency payments institution Triple-A wants to close the gap between traditional finance a...
Monday, October 23, 2023
Roblox China was once full of promise. Since its localized platform, which is a joint effort with Tencent, abruptly halted operation nearly ...
Singapore-based Qosmosys has closed an astonishing $100 million seed round to develop its lunar lander tech. The company did not disclose it...
The central processing unit (CPU) and the graphics processing unit (GPU) handle different types of data. The CPU is used in almost all devic...
Sunday, October 22, 2023
AI and other deep technologies are the prevailing themes in the new early-stage cohort from Peak XV Partners, as the largest India and South...
Motorsports and off-road competition isn’t the typical fodder over here at TechCrunch — unless, of course, there also happens to be a podium...
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When Monday.com faced the classic build vs. buy dilemma for a new database, it decided to build one, but with a decided twist. © 2023 TechC...
The federal government's approach to hydrogen is strikingly similar to the way it promoted biofuels a decade ago. That's not a good ...
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Saturday, October 21, 2023
German insurtech company Getsafe is still bullish about direct-to-consumer insurance, but others are moving away from this business model. ...
After a week of controversy surrounding comments he made about Israel and Palestine, Paddy Cosgrave has stepped down as CEO of Web Summit, t...
Tucker Carlson has raised $15 million for a new subscription-based entity. But he'll need more than name recognition for it to succeed. ...
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories...
Friday, October 20, 2023
The availability of Large Language Models (LLMs) has made it easier for developers to make chatbots. Large companies such as OpenAI, Google,...
Elon Musk today said that X (formerly Twitter) is going to soon launch two new premium tiers, confirming previous reports and code sightings...
Thursday, October 19, 2023
Earlier this year, Palestinian-American filmmaker Khitam Jabr posted a handful of Reels about her family’s trip to the West Bank. In the sho...
In-space manufacturing startup Varda Space Industries will be landing its next spacecraft in Australia as it continues working with U.S. reg...
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
Tesla CEO Elon Musk issued a warning Wednesday about the soon-to-be delivered Cybertruck that might sound familiar to those who closely foll...
Plume, a startup founded to offer essential online healthcare services to trans people across the U.S., laid off more than two dozen workers...
In August, we reported that a four-year-old, venture-backed remodeling startup called Made Renovation was failing its customers, by their ow...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Nvidia and Foxconn are working together to build so-called “AI factories,” a new class of data centers that promise to provide supercomputin...
X, formerly Twitter, announced today that is starting a new experiment to charge a $1 per year fee for “new unverified” users to interact wi...
Amazon’s 10,000 Rivian-made all-electric van are delivering packages throughout the United States, the ecommerce company revealed Tuesday ev...
Monday, October 16, 2023
Snapchat has relied on people consuming content on its own app. But now, the social network is allowing websites to embed public content inc...
Sam Bankman-Fried and other FTX executives spent $8 billion worth of customer funds on real estate, venture capital investments, campaign do...
Agnikul, an Indian space tech startup developing small-lift launch vehicles, has raised $26.7 million in fresh investment as it looks to beg...
Bandcamp has officially changed hands from its old new owner, Epic, to its new new owner, Songtradr, and lost half its employees in the proc...
eSafety, the Australian regulator for online safety, issued a $386,000 fine against X (formerly Twitter) Monday for failing to answer “key q...
Sunday, October 15, 2023
Walking through Token2049, it was hard to tell that the crypto industry was going through a “winter” phase. The crypto conference held in Si...
Any conversation centered on the U.K. tech scene often has a strong center of gravity around the south of the country — to many, “the U.K.” ...
Induction cooking has the potential to liberate us to rethink the kitchen, but new designs have been slow to arrive. © 2023 TechCrunch. All...
Founders get bombarded with invitations to events, and not all of them are worth it, but there are ways to figure out which will provide val...
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Saturday, October 14, 2023
Why would a VC firm want to own its own healthcare system? Why would it want that stress or such a costly asset when it could just continue ...
In India, few events garner as much attention as a cricket game. A high-profile match between neighbors India and Pakistan delivered a much-...
Palestine’s growing tech industry has been literally blown apart by the war between Israel and Hamas
Gaza, despite being one of the most economically challenged regions in the world, has ironically always been a tech hub — not only for Pales...
Friday, October 13, 2023
When X (formerly Twitter) launched paid subscription verification, Mistress Rouge, a professional dominatrix, hoped that it would help her a...
Devialet isn’t like any other tech company — its products are at the intersection of audio engineering and luxury. That’s why its new wirele...
Thursday, October 12, 2023
It has been a long time coming, but Microsoft’s near-two year attempt to buy gaming giant Activision is finally happening, after the U.K.’s ...
A security researcher says a bug on an Indian state government website inadvertently revealed documents containing residents’ Aadhaar number...
The European Union announced today it is opening an investigation into X for allegedly spreading illegal content and disinformation, includi...
Charging infrastructure startup EVPassport says its charging stations are designed to pass the grandma test. “When you arrive, you don’t nee...
CRED is in talks to acquire Kuvera, a startup that operates an online wealth management platform, a source familiar with the matter told Tec...
X, the social platform formerly known as Twitter, came under fire earlier this week in Europe, when European Commissioner Thierry Breton sen...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Lyon, France-based precision fermentation startup Bon Vivant, which is using biotech techniques to reprogram yeast microorganisms to produce...
Access to education in Bangladesh is filled with inequalities, say the founders of edtech 10 Minute School. Many rural areas don’t have good...
Twitch streamers can finally block banned users from watching their streams, thanks to a recent update to the platform’s anti-harassment fea...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
The most popular apps suck us into the technological equivalent of couch lock, but it’s easy to imagine how things might have gone different...
Chinese electric vehicle startup WM Motor has filed for bankruptcy, an example of yet another once-promising EV upstart that has been pushed...
Mojave, California-based Evolution Space has a new deal with NASA to begin building a solid propulsion center and solid rocket motor testing...
InsuranceDekho, the insurer that was incubated within the automobile marketplace group CarDekho, has raised $60 million in a new funding rou...
A Japanese fund focused on early-stage, Asian deep tech startups is doubling down on the opportunity, despite a wider slowdown investing in ...
In a very swift test of the European Union’s newly updated content moderation rulebook, the bloc has fired a public warning at Elon Musk-own...
To ease the burden of maintaining their IT infrastructure, many companies, especially SMBs, turn to third-party IT providers. Called managed...
Investors have an appetite for databases, it seems. Today, ScyllaDB, a startup developing database tech for high-throughput, low-latency wor...
French startup Orus has raised an $11.6 million Series A funding round (€11 million). The startup offers insurance products specifically des...
Monday, October 9, 2023
UAE-based Zest Equity, a startup digitizing private market dealings, has raised $3.8 million seed funding to build more tools for enabling f...
Several Indian startups, along with venture capital funds and private equity investors, are scrambling to build investment strategies as the...
When I reviewed the Espresso Display last year, I concluded that it would be a great addition to a mobile office setup for workers who neede...
Braid, a four-year-old startup that aimed to make shared wallets more mainstream among consumers, has shut down. Founded in January 2019 by ...
Sunday, October 8, 2023
Onsurity, an Indian startup that offers monthly subscription-based insurance solutions to micro, small and medium enterprises, startups and ...
Getsafe, a German-based digital insurtech startup, has acquired the German portfolio of Luko, a French insurtech startup that recently neare...
There are many founder-focused events but are they actually helpful or just a distraction? Founders need to strike a balance. from TechCrunc...
After some recent turbulence, it would be easy to think that Zendesk's overall financial performance suffered as a result, but that real...
Fast-fashion startup Virgio, founded by former Myntra chief, is shutting down its operations less than a year after raising funds at a valua...
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Saturday, October 7, 2023
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"Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall" by investigative reporter Zeke Faux has several chapters on FTX'...
While many startups are looking to be the next Twitter, those targeting specific communities may find a better outcome. from TechCrunch http...
[A version of this post appeared in TechCrunch’s robotics newsletter, Actuator. Subscribe here.] The last time I’d spoken with the NVIDIA at...
Friday, October 6, 2023
Brave Software, the maker of Brave Browser and Search, confirmed that it has laid off 9% of its staff across departments. The company didn’t...
As creative industries grapple with AI’s explosion into every artistic medium at once, separate calls from artists warning the world to take...
The startup has developed software for lithium-ion batteries to endow them with either faster charging speeds or greater longevity. from Tec...
Ohm’s Quest is a steampunk-inspired cubical device that acts as a sort of escape game console. You can scan an NFC-enabled card on a side of...
A number of venture investors and startups are engaging with Bank of Baroda to acquire a stake in the lender’s subsidiary Nainital, accordin...
Thursday, October 5, 2023
Netflix has “not succeeded” in scaling up its business in India despite the global streaming giant consistently lowering the subscription co...
The testimony of Matt Huang, co-founder and managing partner of crypto investment firm Paradigm, at Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial may help the p...
Hyundai and Kia have finally announced their plans to adopt Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) ports for their electric vehicle...
X, formerly Twitter, has started cutting headlines from link cards on the iOS app and on the web. This means you will see just an image with...
CRED grew its operating revenue by a staggering 255% to $168.1 million in the financial year ending March as the fintech startup, which garn...
Cowboy, the e-bike startup that creates innovative electric bikes for city riders, has announced that Karim Slaoui, co-founder (pictured abo...
Amazon has shut down its Clubhouse competitor’s live radio app Amp almost 18 months after its launch. The app allowed users to play DJ and p...
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Meet Kestra, a startup that has been working on an open-source project focused on data orchestration across several services, databases, fil...
The criminal trial of former cryptocurrency magnate Sam Bankman-Fried completed its second day on Wednesday. The prosecution and defense bot...
The second day for Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial was filled with jury selection, opening statements and testimonies from the first two witnesses...
ElectraMeccanica, former maker of three-wheeled electric vehicles, said on Wednesday that it has “terminated” its plan to merge with Tevva, ...
Bird, the shared micromobility company that was delisted from the New York Stock Exchange last week, is issuing another round of layoffs, ac...
Recent incidents, such as the breach at MGM Resorts, serve as stark reminders of the potential consequences of inadequate security measures....
Uber is expanding its peer-to-peer package delivery service, Uber Connect. Now, customers who don’t want to schlep a package to the post off...
Indian unicorn fintech Slice is merging with North East Small Finance Bank, they said Wednesday after receiving the approval from the centra...
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
Krafton India has launched a gaming incubator in the South Asian nation as it seeks to expand the local ecosystem and support the domestic t...
The San Francisco Police Department is investigating an October 2 incident that left a woman stuck underneath a Cruise robotaxi after being ...
Ford is launching another version of its all-electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck that prioritizes tech and battery range over other premiu...
HMD Global, the phone maker and marketer behind the Nokia mobile phone brand, has launched its very first smartphone manufactured in Europe....
Monday, October 2, 2023
Open banking, in which traditional banks release their data via application programming interfaces (APIs) to enable the development of new f...
Content moderation continues to be a contentious topic in the world of online media. New regulations and public concern are likely to keep i...
Elon Musk has been on something of a suing spree lately, but on Monday Twitter’s new owner was hit with a fresh inbound lawsuit. The lawsuit...
In a victory for Tesla, a California federal judge ruled over the weekend that a group of Tesla owners cannot pursue in court claims that th...
Cyrus Khajvandi, a Stanford biology graduate and two-time entrepreneur, often found it challenging to stay on top of scientific research whi...
Progress Software, the company behind the recently hacked MOVEit file-transfer software, has released fixes for two more critical-rated vuln...
Google this morning launched a new category of Chromebooks called Chromebooks Plus. The laptps are productivity-focused devices with minimum...
The multi-stage venture capital firm uses a research-driven approach and invests at the intersection of the physical and digital worlds. fro...
India’s state-owned logistics portal has fixed misconfigurations and vulnerabilities that exposed sensitive personal data and various state ...
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Sunday, October 1, 2023
Earlier this year, a big French tech company started requiring an email to the CEO for every purchase above €1,000. That’s because they didn...
Three investors shared their perspectives on what’s changed, what’s working today, and what advice they’re giving founders at this year’s Te...
If you’re lucky, once a year you get to put together a panel built on pure kismet. Pairing Gill Pratt with Marc Raibert was exactly that for...
