TechCrunch+ Roundup: AI investor survey, calculating TAM, inside the FTX trial
If you haven’t found traction with customers and aren’t generating revenue, you should be in fundraising mode already.
Read moreSBF Trial: The latest updates from the FTX collapse’s courtroom drama
Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of collapsed crypto exchange FTX, is on trial for alleged fraud and conspiracy as he led the company’s swift rise and implosion. Over the course of several weeks, his attorneys will try to maintain his innocence against a wide-ranging series of accusations, from securities fraud
Read moreAI app EPIK hits No. 1 on the App Store for its viral yearbook photo feature
Another week, another AI app going viral. This time around, the AI app that has surged to the top of the App Store is EPIK, an photo editing app that lets users generate nostalgic, 90s-inspired “yearbook” photos of themselves as one of its many templates. Similar to other recently popular
Read moreGoogle, Apple face fines in South Korea for breaching in-app billing rules
South Korea’s telecommunication regulator, the Korea Communications Commission (KCC), said Friday that it plans to levy fines on Google and Apple, which could total up to $50.5 million, for violating the country’s in-app payment law. According to the KCC statement, the two Big Tech giants abused market dominance to force
Read moreExclusive: Y Combinator beefs up with a string of new lieutenants
Y Combinator continues to change shape under CEO Garry Tan, a founder-turned-investor and online influencer. While Tan and his colleagues have attracted media attention lately for quarrelsome social media posts that take on rivals and San Francisco city officials, Tan has more quietly been turning the dials inside the popular
Read moreSome gen AI vendors say they’ll defend customers from IP lawsuits. Others, not so much
A person using generative AI — models that generate text, images, music and more given a prompt — could infringe on someone else’s copyright through no fault of their own. But who’s on the hook for the legal fees and damages if — or rather, when — that happens? It
Read moreDon’t miss this online event for devs, engineers and architects
Developers, engineers and architects, lend me your ears! Whether you’re focused on the cloud or infrastructure, whether you’re ensuring site reliability, or whether you’re a full-stack or platform developer, this opportunity slides right into your wheelhouse. Invest an hour of your time — on Wednesday, October 11 at 1:00 p.m.
Read moreSpotify spotted prepping a $19.99/mo ‘Superpremium’ service with lossless audio, AI playlists and more
It looks like Spotify’s rumored “Superpremium” offering is gearing up for a launch. According to references discovered in the Spotify app’s code by Chris Messina, the Superpremium service now has a flashy logo and a longer list of features beyond the 24-bit lossless audio we’ve been anticipating. In fact, the
Read moreHow founders should approach TAM when venture capital is scarce
We’re definitely in a down market, but for entrepreneurs eager to build and scale, venture capital is always scarce.
Read moreHyperbolic tangent sum
In the previous post I said I was trying remember where I’d seen the tangent sum applied. I mentioned a couple near misses, and it turns out that what I was trying to remember was another near miss. What I’d seen before was not the tangent sum but the hyperbolic
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