Major Stripe investor Sequoia confirms $70B valuation, offers its investors a payday
Payments giant Stripe has delayed going public for so long that its major investor Sequoia Capital is getting creative to offer returns to its limited partners. The venture firm emailed LPs in funds raised between 2009 and 2011 with an offer to buy up to $861 million worth of shares
Read moreGoogle’s Kurian approached Wiz, $23B deal could take a week to land, source says
Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is in advanced talks to acquire Wiz for $23 billion, a person close to the company told TechCrunch. The deal discussions were previously reported by the Wall Street Journal. Wiz, a cybersecurity startup founded in 2020, was approached a few weeks ago by Thomas Kurian, head
Read moreBird Buddy’s new AI feature lets people name and identify individual birds
Name That Bird determines individual members of a species by identifying distinguishing characteristics that most humans would be hard-pressed to spot. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreYouTube Music is testing an AI-generated radio feature and adding a song recognition tool
YouTube Music is introducing two new ways to boost song discovery on its platform. YouTube announced on Monday that it’s experimenting with an AI-generated conversational radio feature, and rolling out a new Shazam-like tool to help users discover the name of a song by singing, humming or playing parts of
Read moreElon Musk confirms Tesla ‘robotaxi’ event delayed due to design change
Tesla had internally planned to build the dedicated robotaxi and the $25,000 car, often referred to as the Model 2, on the same platform. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreChris’ Corner: Design Shrinking
While I don’t think you should publish to Medium (at least not as the only place you publish something, you should write on your own site that you control), I get why other people do. You quickly sign up, write some words, hit publish, and the result is a pretty
Read moreFBI is working to break into the phone of the Trump rally shooter
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Investigators are working to break into the phone of the man who shot at former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally on Saturday. The shooting is being probed as an assassination attempt. The FBI said in a statement that it had obtained
Read moreTechCrunch Minute: A Google robot shows off what Gemini can do
Google found a new way to demonstrate what its Gemini AI model can do, with help from a robot. This was a robot from Google’s Everybody Robots Division, which was shut down last year. But apparently the robots are still around, so Google put a yellow bowtie on one of
Read moreThe ghost jobs haunting your career search
There’s no silver bullet for this type of ghost.
Read moreInnovative AI Partnership Transforms Healthcare Technology
BroadReach Group and BAO Systems- a US-based health IT organization, have signed a collaboration agreement that will expand how patients can benefit from ethical healthcare using artificial intelligence (AI) across continents. Chris LeGrand, CEO of BroadReach Group, said: “In the evolving landscape of global health, digital innovation emerges as a
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