Deal Dive: AI’s not the only sector dodging the funding slowdown
Defense tech startups raised sizable rounds in 2023, which shows VCs are interested in the sector despite market conditions. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreSam Bankman-Fried’s shadow still looms over the crypto industry
Photo Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photo by Bloomberg, Getty Images Cryptocurrency advocates might believe that FTX’s collapse was an anomaly — but they could have trouble convincing the public of the same. During Sam Bankman-Fried’s monthlong fraud trial, prosecutors presented damning evidence that the fallen crypto
Read moreGoogle DeepMind’s robotics head on general purpose robots, generative AI and office WiFi
[A version of this piece first appeared in TechCrunch’s robotics newsletter, Actuator. Subscribe here.] Earlier this month, Google’s DeepMind team debuted Open X-Embodiment, a database of robotics functionality created in collaboration with 33 research institutes. The researchers involved compared the system to ImageNet, the landmark database founded in 2009 that is
Read moreLogistic / Normal approximation
In a recent post I pointed out that a soliton, a solution to the KdV equation, looks a lot like a normal density for fixed x. As someone pointed out in the comments, one way to look at this is that the soliton is exactly proportional to the density of
Read moreEdtech giant Byju’s misses revenue projection in delayed financial account
Indian edtech giant Byju’s said on Saturday that revenue of its core business, its largest, in the financial year ending March 2022 stood at $429.18 million, making it clear that the most valuable Indian startup has missed the unaudited $1.25 billion revenue it projected for the group a year ago.
Read moreReact vs React Native: Pros, Cons, and Key Differences
Discover the key differences between React and React Native, and weigh the pros and cons of these open-source JavaScript libraries. Continue reading React vs React Native: Pros, Cons, and Key Differences on SitePoint.
Read moreMusk says X subscribers will get early access to xAI’s chatbot, Grok
Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, is creating its own version of ChatGPT. That appears to be the case, at least, from Musk’s tweets on X late Friday evening teasing the AI model xAI has been quietly developing. Called Grok — a name xAI trademarked recently — the model answers questions
Read moreThis EV startup was going to revolutionize how cars were made – now, it’s on life support
Arrival set out eight years ago to make electric vehicle production “radically more efficient.” So far, its plan to forgo the gigafactory for local microfactories has proved anything but. Arrival trumpeted how its automated microfactories would simultaneously churn out electric vans for UPS, cars for Uber drivers and buses for
Read moreSwedish fintech Klarna dodges a strike after reaching agreement with workers
Fintech giant Klarna has reached an agreement with workers that were set to strike next week, the company told TechCrunch today. Klarna employees were planning to strike next week in the fintech’s home country of Sweden, as reported by tech.eu. The dispute was reportedly over the lack of a Collective
Read moreNot many unicorns were spotted in the UK and France this year
Since France and the U.K. have both been vocal about their unicorn goals, it is these two countries we are looking at today. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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