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Ford EVs will have Tesla DNA and Waymo’s robotaxis are coming to Uber

Welcome back to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B. I’m turning the wheel over to Rebecca Bellan next week

Taking the pulse on the Northeast seed market with Techstars’ Kerty Levy

From 2021 to 2022, overall deal count in the Northeast was down around 25%. It might not be surprising, but it is quite stark.

QED Investors says pace of investing from new funds will be ‘extremely disciplined’

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3 Views on a16z’s latest reported early-stage effort

This is not the first time that we’ve seen funds try to go earlier in the investing world. Will the a16z effort pay off? Will it be ultimately good for founders? 

Startups should absolutely work with governments to support defense projects

Startups and active investors are uniquely positioned to support the defense efforts of the West and the mission to keep our societies safe.

Windows adds support for RAR, Netflix cracks down on passwords, and Meta lays off workers

Welcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular column that rounds up the week in tech news. Dunno about y’all, but it’s felt like a long one — and I’m than

Solving problems is better than fearmongering

From cybersecurity to SaaS for restaurants, the key to running a successful business is selling a product that solves your clients' real problems.

AI scares the bejesus out of me

Welcome to this week's edition of Startups Weekly.

Deal Dive: Why this startup chose to sell itself over raising a Series A

Heroes Jobs realized that its user acquisition costs were too high to be successful as a solo company and decided to partner.

This week in AI: AI heavyweights try to tip the regulatory scales

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 the last week’s stories in the world of machine learning, along with

Elon Musk takes Twitter out of the EU’s Disinformation Code of Practice

Twitter has withdrawn from the European Union’s Code of Practice on online disinformation, per the bloc’s internal market commissioner, Thierry Breton. In a tweet last night — which

Explaining Blockchain Capital’s Big Bet on an Eyeball-Scanning Orb

This week, Worldcoin, an outfit that aims to serve as proof of personhood in a world where it’s harder by the day to distinguish a human from a bot, raised $115 million in Series C funding. Led

TechCrunch+ roundup: South Korea investor survey, 1-hour board meetings, venture leasing basics

To run 60-minute startup board meetings that create value, replace your 80-slide deck with a simple three-page memo.

AI might be the least of edtech’s worries

While Chegg beat analyst expectations for the first quarter of the year, it also raised a warning that didn't fall on deaf ears.

Skyflow expands its regional footprint as it adds generative AI support to its data privacy tooling

So far, Skyflow has found notable international adoption. The company does more than 40% of its current business with non-American customers.

Sam Altman shares his optimistic view of our AI future

OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman has been touring Europe for the past few days, meeting head of governments and startup communities to talk about AI regulation, ChatGPT and beyond. In his latest on-stage app

To avert more UK antitrust woes, Meta to limit how it uses ad data to boost Facebook Marketplace

Facebook’s parent Meta has given key assurances to U.K. antitrust regulators as it looks to counter concerns over how it uses advertising data to benefit its own products. The news comes in the

Pitch Deck Teardown: Faye’s $10M Series A deck

Here's a full teardown of Faye's 19-slide pitch deck with which it raised a $10 million Series A round.

Daylight’s sunset and Meta’s year of focus

 Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Mary Ann and Alex were a dynamic duo this week, taking

Info Edge, reeling from Rahul Yadav’s startup loss, now writes off Bijnis

Info Edge, the largest shareholder in Bizcrum Infotech, the holding firm of Bijnis, has written off its entire investment in the Indian startup, citing “principles of conservatism and prudence,&
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