Here are the newly minted fintech unicorns
Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. If you want to receive The Interchange directly in your inbox every Sunday, head here to sign up! We’re looking at a bunch of news — from new unicorns, to a fintech doing
Read moreHow to push PaaS usage beyond 12-factor apps
Companies embracing the PaaS paradigm must recognize that there won't be a one-size-fits-all workload solution. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreGoogle fakes an AI demo, Grand Theft Auto VI goes viral and Spotify cuts jobs
Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that recaps the past few days in tech. AI stole the headlines once again, with tech giants from Google to X (formerly Twitter) heading off against OpenAI for chatbot supremacy. But plenty happened besides. In this edition of WiR,
Read moreEuropean political agreement paves the way for AI law
The European Union has reached agreement on the world’s first comprehensive artificial intelligence law. According to the Associated Press, negotiators from the European Parliament and the bloc’s 27 member countries signed a tentative political agreement Friday that will ease passage of the Artificial Intelligence Act. The European Parliament still has
Read moreDo you believe in job after job?
People moving on to new jobs is not a bad thing — and not only when they have been laid off. That's why it's uplifting to see employers encourage this process. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreRobotics Q&A with Boston Dynamics’ Aaron Saunders
For the next few weeks, TechCrunch’s robotics newsletter Actuator will be running Q&As with some of the top minds in robotics. Subscribe here for future updates. Part 1: CMU’s Matthew Johnson-Roberson Part 2: Toyota Research Institute’s Max Bajracharya and Russ Tedrake Part 3: Meta’s Dhruv Batra This time it’s Boston
Read moreSystem of intelligence — generative AI at the app layer
As generative AI shapes the next generation of application products, we can expect even more sweeping evolution. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreThis week in AI: Mistral and the EU’s fight for AI sovereignty
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, Google flooded the
Read moreGag City is a viral win for Nicki Minaj
Welcome to Gag City, the pink metropolis inhabited by stans and brands alike. In the days leading up to the release of “Pink Friday 2,” Nicki Minaj’s fifth studio album and sequel to her debut record “Pink Friday” that dropped on Friday, Twitter was flooded with AI-generated images of pink-toned
Read moreEU lawmakers bag late night deal on ‘global first’ AI rules
After marathon ‘final’ talks which stretched to almost three days European Union lawmakers have tonight clinched a political deal on a risk-based framework for regulating artificial intelligence. The file was originally proposed back in April 2021 but it’s taken months of tricky three-way negotiations to get a deal over the
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