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Sequoia’s Surge reveals 15 India, SEA startups in seventh cohort
1:19 am PDT • August 22, 2022
Sequoia Capital India and Southeast Asia disclosed 15 early-stage startups it has selected for the seventh cohort of its accelerator program Surge, pushing ahead with new investments even as the…
Transportation
SoftBank-backed Socar, South Korea’s largest car-sharing startup, tumbles on market debut
12:00 am PDT • August 22, 2022
Socar, South Korea’s largest car-sharing startup, tumbled in its Seoul stock market debut Monday even after pricing shares below the bottom end of a marketed range. Shares of Socar rose…
Venture
New media venture in India helping readers discern signal from noise
11:31 pm PDT • August 21, 2022
An Indian upstart co-founded by a group of journalists, which seeks to disrupt how people follow news and what they consume, has raised funds as it prepares to accelerate its…
Transportation
Human drivers in UK won’t be liable for accidents when vehicle is self-driving
8:51 pm PDT • August 21, 2022
Manufacturers operating self-driving vehicles in the U.K. will be liable for a vehicle’s actions when in autonomous mode, according to the country’s new roadmap to achieve a widespread rollout of…
Transportation
YouTube isn’t cool with videos of Tesla FSD beta testing on kids
3:38 pm PDT • August 21, 2022
YouTube removed two videos from its platform showing Tesla drivers using their own children to conduct vehicle safety tests. The tests were meant to prove that Tesla’s Autopilot and “full…
Transportation
Tesla increases FSD beta cost to $15,000 in North America
2:34 pm PDT • August 21, 2022
Tesla will increase the price of its “full self-driving” beta software, the automaker’s advanced driver assistance system (ADAS), in North America to $15,000 on September 5, CEO Elon Musk tweeted…
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3 views: Thoughts on Flow
Neumann and Andreessen are trying to privatize the neighborhood. Here’s why we think that’s not such a great idea.
11:00 am PDT • August 21, 2022
Transportation
Polestar CEO sees value in EVs, even when they’re parked
8:39 am PDT • August 21, 2022
In its five years as a standalone automaker, Polestar has placed into production two vehicles and announced the delivery schedule of four additional vehicles. The latest, the Polestar 6, is…
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Welcome back to Chain Reaction. Last week, we talked about privacy in crypto and how it’s sometimes at odds with regulation. This week, we’re covering…
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Apple patches nasty security bugs, HBO Max suddenly removes content, and a16z backs Neumann’s next thing
1:16 pm PDT • August 20, 2022
Hello hello! We’re back with another edition of Week in Review, the newsletter where we quickly recap the top stories to hit TechCrunch across the last seven days. Want it…
A return and an ousting
11:01 am PDT • August 20, 2022
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. It’s been a week of people trying…
Media & Entertainment
This Week in Apps: Android 13 arrives, apps plan for midterms, Amazon copies TikTok
11:00 am PDT • August 20, 2022
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. Global app spending reached…
Startups
German startups could use more venture capital, but Germany’s government has a plan
10:00 am PDT • August 20, 2022
Germany’s €30 billion plan for its startups has a national goal — making sure that profits from homegrown successes stay home.
Featured Article
VTubers are making millions on YouTube and Twitch
It was the world’s largest gathering of internet celebrities. As I waited to meet Twitch streamer Code Miko in a hotel lobby at VidCon, I spotted an Instagram-famous husky, a fan favorite contestant from Netflix’s “The Circle” and a controversial beauty blogger. But when a fashionable Korean American woman approached me, I realized I was…
9:05 am PDT • August 20, 2022
The return was a white man who misled investors and employees. The ousted was a Black woman who founded a nonprofit to diversify the coding world. If that’s where the…
According to earlier reports this week, Adam Neumann, the famed, controversial co-founder of WeWork, is in the process of creating a vast network of residential real estate properties that —…
AI
John Carmack’s AGI startup raises $20M from Sequoia, Nat Friedman, Patrick Collison and others
3:40 pm PDT • August 19, 2022
John Carmack, the game developer who co-founded id Software and served as Oculus’s CTO, is working on a new venture — and has already attracted capital from some big names.…
Media & Entertainment
Mark Zuckerberg says the metaverse won’t be as cringey as his cursed selfie
3:26 pm PDT • August 19, 2022
To mark the expansion of Meta’s bland virtual reality platform, Horizon Worlds, into France and Spain, Mark Zuckerberg recently shared a selfie. The graphic, featuring the boyish CEO in front…
Startups
Daily Crunch: Ending a 4-year partnership, DoorDash will stop delivering Walmart groceries next month
3:05 pm PDT • August 19, 2022
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