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AI startup Runway’s second annual AI Film Festival showcased movies that incorporated AI tech in some fashion, from backgrounds to animations.
Women in AI: Rachel Coldicutt researches how technology impacts society
Rachel Coldicutt is the founder of Careful Industries, which researches the social impact technology has on society.
SAP’s chief sustainability officer isn’t interested in getting your company to do the right thing
SAP Chief Sustainability Officer Sophia Mendelsohn wants to incentivize companies to be green because it’s profitable, not just because it’s right.
Tesla’s profitable Supercharger network is in limbo after Musk axed the entire team
Here’s what one insider said happened in the days leading up to the layoffs.
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Meesho, an Indian social commerce platform with 150M transacting users, raises $275M
Meesho, a leading e-commerce startup in India, has secured $275 million in a new funding round.
Scammers found planting online betting ads on Indian government websites
Some Indian government websites have allowed scammers to plant advertisements capable of redirecting visitors to online betting platforms. TechCrunch discovered around four dozen “gov.in” website links associated with Indian states,…
The deck included some redacted numbers, but there was still enough data to get a good picture.
Anthropic’s Claude sees tepid reception on iOS compared with ChatGPT’s debut
Unlike ChatGPT, Claude did not become a new App Store hit.
Founders Fund leads financing of composites startup Layup Parts
Scarcely five months after its founding, hard tech startup Layup Parts has landed a $9 million round of financing led by Founders Fund to transform composites manufacturing. Lux Capital and Haystack…
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Startups Weekly: Trouble in EV land and Peloton is circling the drain
Welcome to Startups Weekly — Haje‘s weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Look,…
AI startup Anthropic is changing its policies to allow minors to use its generative AI systems — in certain circumstances, at least. Announced in a post on the company’s official…
Zeekr’s market hype is noteworthy and may indicate that investors see value in the high-quality, low-price offerings of Chinese automakers.
VC fund performance is down sharply — but it may have already hit its lowest point
Venture capital has been hit hard by souring macroeconomic conditions over the past few years and it’s not yet clear how the market downturn affected VC fund performance. But recent…
Threat actor says he scraped 49M Dell customer addresses before the company found out
The person who claims to have 49 million Dell customer records told TechCrunch that he brute-forced an online company portal and scraped customer data, including physical addresses, directly from Dell’s…
TechCrunch Minute: Hinge is taking Tinder’s place as Gen Z’s favorite dating app
In its latest earnings report, Match Group acknowledged growing pains for its dating app Tinder, where the paid user base shrank for the sixth quarter…
Bluesky now lets you personalize main Discover feed using new controls
The social network has announced an updated version of its app that lets you offer feedback about its algorithmic feed so you can better customize it.
Finally, some good news! This week, we were pleasantly surprised to see that FTX’s fraud victims would be getting some money back — even if…
Microsoft will launch its own mobile game store in July, the company announced at the Bloomberg Technology Summit on Thursday. Xbox president Sarah Bond shared that the company plans to…
Smart ring maker Oura is launching two new features focused on heart health, the company announced on Friday. The first claims to help users get an idea of their cardiovascular…