Deal Dive: Futureverse is a metaverse company that might actually get it
Startups that look to improve an industry’s outdated infrastructure are definitely welcome in sectors like financial services and healthcare. But why would a company build infrastructure for an industry that seems to have hit its prime and zoomed past it in record time? That was my question when I saw
Read moreThis week in robotics: Chinese startups net a series of fundraising successes
Before we dive into this week’s biggest news within the robotics space, there’s an announcement of our own to highlight. We’ll be hosting a number of robotics industry experts at our very first Hardware Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. The stage kicks off on day three of Disrupt on September
Read moreThis week in AI: Companies voluntarily submit to AI guidelines — for now
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 in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. This week in AI, we
Read moreRed Hat Enterprise Linux and the open source community in conflict. My interview with Greg Kurtzner, founder of Rocky Linux (and a special bonus interview – see below)
The announcement that Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code would only be available through Red Hat’s customer portal might not seem like news. But the explosion that it caused reverberated through the open source community in the past week. I’ve covered this on a couple of our daily news podcasts
Read moreTech warriors in the battle for Israel’s democracy
Erel Margalit Contributor Share on Twitter Erel Margalit is an Israeli high-tech investor, social entrepreneur, and former Knesset member. He is the founder and Executive Chairman of the Jerusalem-based VC firm Jerusalem Venture Partners, and Margalit Startup City, the international collection of thematic socioeconomic hubs. Israel is a country that
Read moreElon Musk’s best idea for stopping spambots is making you pay for extra Twitter DMs
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Twitter will “soon” implement daily limits on the number of direct messages unverified accounts will be able to send in “an effort to reduce spam,” the company announced on Friday via its Twitter Support account. In other words, to send unlimited
Read moreChatGPT comes to Android next week, but you can sign up today
Two months after launching for iOS, ChatGPT is available to “pre-order” for Android users who want to take the ubiquitous chatbot on the go. If it’s anywhere as popular as the iPhone version, expect to see some big numbers over the next few weeks. Of course any mobile user can
Read moreBolt, ex-CEO Ryan Breslow subject of SEC probe
Ryan Breslow, co-founder of the e-commerce software outfit Bolt, was subpoenaed along with the company last year by the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission. The Information reported the news first on Friday. A letter authored in April by a lawyer representing Bolt investors said the SEC was investigating whether federal
Read moreForeign visitors to China can finally go cashless like locals
Great news for those traveling to China! You can finally enjoy the seamless, cashless payment experience that you may have heard about for years and avoid the awkward interaction of asking your local friends to pay and giving them paper money that they can’t spend anywhere. This week, China’s two
Read moreThreads in decline? Don’t count out Instagram’s new Twitter rival yet
A Wall Street Journal article on Friday warns that Instagram’s new Twitter competitor Threads is already losing steam. Citing third-party data from Sensor Tower, the paper reports the number of daily active users on Threads dropped for the second week down to 13 million, a 70% decline from a July
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