Over the last two years, Nvidia has used its ballooning fortunes to invest in over 80 AI startups. Here are the giant semiconductor's la...
Sunday, March 16, 2025
Saturday, March 15, 2025
VC Aileen Lee highlights how the broader investor exodus is worsening woes for unicorn companies
Prospero Silvério
March 15, 2025
In this week’s episode of the StrictlyVC Download podcast, veteran VC Aileen Lee was direct about a major consequence of the recent boom-and...
Joby Aviation and Virgin Atlantic partner to launch electric air taxis in the UK
Prospero Silvério
March 15, 2025
Joby Aviation is partnering with Virgin Atlantic to launch electric air taxis in the U.K., marking the seventh country in which the startup ...
Social network Bluesky recently published a proposal on GitHub outlining new options it could give users to indicate whether they want their...
Week in Review: SXSW week comes to a close
Prospero Silvério
March 15, 2025
Welcome back to Week in Review! I’m Karyne Levy, TechCrunch’s deputy managing editor, and I’ll be writing this newsletter from here on out. ...
SpaceX launches astronauts for long-awaited International Space Station crew swap
Prospero Silvério
March 15, 2025
SpaceX successfully launched four people into space on Friday, beginning a mission that will give the International Space Station enough cre...
After 23 years of connecting people around the world, Skype, the popular video-calling service, is shutting down. Microsoft, the parent comp...
Friday, March 14, 2025
SoftBank buys $676M old Sharp plant for its OpenAI collab in Japan
Prospero Silvério
March 14, 2025
SoftBank is marching ahead on its ambitions to build out a major AI operation in its home market of Japan, on its own steam and in strategic...
Thursday, March 13, 2025
Waymo was slapped with nearly 600 parking tickets last year in SF alone
Prospero Silvério
March 13, 2025
Waymo now has more than 300 driverless vehicles zipping passengers around San Francisco, but while they follow traffic laws, parking is anot...
Anti-aging zealot Bryan Johnson wants to start ‘foodome sequencing’
Prospero Silvério
March 13, 2025
In the same way that genome sequencing determines the genetic makeup of an organism, Bryan Johnson — the investor and founder behind the Don...
Sesame, the startup behind the viral virtual assistant Maya, releases its base AI model
Prospero Silvério
March 13, 2025
AI company Sesame has released the base model that powers Maya, the impressively realistic voice assistant. The model, which is 1 billion pa...
Estonia-based Blackwall raises €45 million Series B to protect SMBs from malicious online traffic
Prospero Silvério
March 13, 2025
A huge chunk of online traffic now comes from bots, both good and bad — but AI is boosting the latter. From DDoS attacks to scraping, there’...
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Vento rolls out new €75M fund for Italian founders, no matter where they live
Prospero Silvério
March 12, 2025
Over the last 15 years or so, as European venture capital shifted into a higher gear, one way to help a nation’s ecosystem flourish was to i...


