It’s critical to regulate AI within the multi-trillion-dollar API economy
Various kinds of AI have been here for a while, but it’s generative AI (and LLMs) that completely changed the risk landscape. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreFintech’s biggest hits and misses of 2023
As 2023 comes to a close, we’re here to look back at the biggest fintech stories of the year. Silicon Valley Bank’s implosion felt like a fintech story in that a number of startups (Brex, Arc and Mercury, for example) in the space leapt to fill the hole left by
Read morePitch Deck Teardown: HomeCooks’ $3.2M seed deck
Positioning itself as the "Etsy of food," HomeCooks has raised $3.2 million in seed funding. What did it do right in its crowdfunding campaign slides? © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreAkron Energy raises $110M to grow U.S. bitcoin mining capacity, launch AI cloud service in Norway
About $80 million will be used to build new data centers in Ohio, North Carolina and Texas as part of a plan to increase the company’s total megawatts by 130% by mid-2024. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreGoogle makes bid to resolve competition concerns in Germany over its automotive services bundling
Following competition objections raised on Google in Germany this summer over bundling of services including Google Maps via its Android-based in-car infotainment system software, known as Google Automotive Services (GAS), the tech giant has made an offer of some service unbundling and the removal of contractual restrictions it applies to
Read moreThese are the cybersecurity stories we were jealous of in 2023
Back in 2018, my former colleague at VICE Motherboard Joseph Cox and I started publishing a list of the best cybersecurity stories that were published elsewhere. It wasn’t just a way to tip our hats at our friendly competitors; by pointing to other publications’ stories, we were giving our readers
Read moreTwo of Africa’s largest B2B e-commerce platforms MaxAB and Wasoko in merger talks
Egyptian B2B e-commerce startup MaxAB and Wasoko, a Kenya-based e-commerce player that operates in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia, are in talks to merge operations, TechCrunch has exclusively learned from multiple sources. They say talks are still ongoing and the agreement hasn’t been finalized yet. The merger talks come
Read moreHow simplifying the production of customized merchandise led this Lisbon startup to raise $19M
The advent of the Internet combined with the ability to customise items such as clothing long ago created a revolution in marketing, especially for merchandise purposes. I think we’re all familiar with the ‘merch’ phenomena by now, no? Benefitting from that long-term trend is SME-focused, customized merchandise startup Bizay, which
Read moreWhat is UI 2.0? Netlify CEO Matt Biilmann explains
For our final episode of the year we chat with Netlify CEO Matt Biilmann about the way AI is reshaping software development and the trends he's excited about for 2024.
Read moreApple has halted Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 online sales
As promised, Apple has officially removed the Watch Series 9 from its online shop. Word on the surprise move arrived earlier this week, when the company confirmed that an on-going patent dispute has forced it to pause sales of the flagship smartwatch. Click through to the site, and you’ll find
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