IVP’s Eric Liaw on the firm’s giant new fund, that Klarna kerfuffle, and why looks can be deceiving when it comes to firm succession
When IVP recently announced the closing of its 18th fund, I called Eric Liaw, a longtime general partner with the growth-stage firm, to ask a few questions. For starters, wringing $1.6 billion in capital commitments from its investors right now would seem a lot more challenging than garnering commitments during
Read MoreAre guidance documents laws?
Are guidance documents laws? Strictly speaking, no. The people who generate such documents are not legislators. Legislators delegate to agencies to make rules, and agencies delegate to other organizations to make guidelines. For example [1], Even HHS, which has express cybersecurity rulemaking authority under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
Read MoreSnapchat turns off controversial ‘Solar System’ feature by default after bad press
Less than a week after The Wall St. Journal reported on how a Snapchat feature dubbed “solar system” was adding to teens’ anxiety, the company has responded by adjusting how the feature works. The ranking system for paid subscribers today shows you how close you are to your Snapchat friends
Read MoreElon Musk says he’ll unveil a Tesla robotaxi on August 8
Just hours after Elon Musk claimed Reuters was “lying” about plans to ditch its $25,000 low cost EV and instead focus all its efforts on a robotaxi, the Tesla CEO announced on X that he would reveal said robotaxi in an event on August 8. The announcement comes as Tesla
Read MoreElon Musk says Tesla will reveal its robotaxi on August 8th
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Tesla will reveal its long-promised robotaxi on August 8th, Elon Musk just posted on X. The forthcoming autonomous vehicle is said to be built on Tesla’s next-generation vehicle platform. The announcement came on the same day that Reuters reported that the company had
Read MoreWhat a year building AI has taught Stack Overflow
We sit down with Jessica Clark, a senior data scientist at Stack Overflow, to discuss how our company approaches generative AI and data quality.
Read MoreNew U.S. ‘green bank’ aims to steer over $160B in capital into climate tech
The EPA awarded $20 billion in grants to kickstart loans and equity investing in climate technologies across the country. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read MoreThreads dropped the ball on real-time news as the NYC/NJ earthquake didn’t trend until the afternoon
That's not to say people weren't discussing the earthquake on Threads — many were. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read MoreCyber Security Today, Week in Review for week ending Friday, April 5, 2024
Welcome to Cyber Security Today. This is the Week in Review edition for the week ending Friday April 5th, 2024. From Toronto, I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. In a few minutes Terry Cutler, head of Cyology Labs will be here to
Read MoreStartups Weekly: Let’s see what those Y Combinator kids have been up to this time
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to receive the Startups Weekly newsletter in your inboxes. It’s the most wonderful tiiiiiiime of the yeaaaaaaar … That’s right, we’re back with all the you-can’t-miss companies from the current
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