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Privacy
ChatGPT’s ‘hallucination’ problem hit with another privacy complaint in EU
10:00 pm PDT • April 28, 2024
OpenAI is facing another privacy complaint in the European Union. This one, which has been filed by privacy rights nonprofit noyb on behalf of an individual complainant, targets the inability…
Featured Article
Humanoid robots are learning to fall well
The savvy marketers at Boston Dynamics produced two major robotics news cycles last week. The larger of the two was, naturally, the electric Atlas announcement. As I write this, the sub-40 second video is steadily approaching five million views. A day prior, the company tugged at the community’s heart strings when it announced that the…
1:15 pm PDT • April 28, 2024
Transportation
Tesla profits tumble, Fisker flatlines, and California cities battle for control of AVs
11:00 am PDT • April 28, 2024
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here — just click TechCrunch Mobility — to receive the newsletter every weekend…
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MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria talks AI hype and the database evolution as he crosses 10-year mark
A lot has happened since Dev Ittycheria took the reins at MongoDB, the $26 billion database company he’s led as president and CEO since September 2014. Ittycheria has taken MongoDB to the cloud, steered it through an IPO, overseen its transition from open source, launched a venture capital arm, and grown the customer base from…
8:00 am PDT • April 28, 2024
Fintech
Stripe’s big changes, Brazil’s newest fintech unicorn and the tale of a startup shutdown
7:30 am PDT • April 28, 2024
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at Stripe’s big product announcements, a bump in valuation for a Brazilian fintech startup and much more! To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s…
What’s the next big thing in enterprise automation? If you ask the tech giants, it’s agents — driven by generative AI. There’s no universally accepted definition of agent, but these…
Hardware
London’s first defense tech hackathon brings Ukraine war closer to the city’s startups
3:45 am PDT • April 28, 2024
Last week, the U.K. announced its largest ever military support package for Ukraine. The bill brings the U.K.’s total support for this financial year to £3 billion — not quite…
Social
TikTok faces a ban in the US, Tesla profits drop and healthcare data leaks
1:15 pm PDT • April 27, 2024
Welcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering this week’s noteworthy happenings in tech. TikTok’s fate in the U.S. looks uncertain after President Joe Biden signed a…
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Will a TikTok ban impact creator economy startups? Not really, founders say
President Joe Biden signed a bill on Wednesday that could ban TikTok — for real this time. After so many false starts and stops, some creator economy founders and their clients are rolling their eyes. They’ve been through this before. “I think two years ago, this would have been devastating,” Karat Financial co-founder and co-CEO…
1:15 pm PDT • April 27, 2024
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Investors won’t give you the real reason they are passing on your startup
“When an investor passes on you, they will not tell you the real reason,” said Tom Blomfield, group partner at Y Combinator. “At seed stage, frankly, no one knows what’s going to fucking happen. The future is so uncertain. All they’re judging is the perceived quality of the founder. When they pass, what they’re thinking…
11:00 am PDT • April 27, 2024
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Venture
Deal Dive: Givebutter is turning a profit making tech for nonprofits
9:00 am PDT • April 27, 2024
Givebutter recently raised $50 million for its CRM platform for nonprofits as startups building tech for that industry gain momentum.
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The ‘valley of death’ for climate lies between early-stage funding and scaling up
It’s easier for climate companies to get enough funding to get started. It’s much harder once they need money to scale.
8:00 am PDT • April 27, 2024
Featured Article
A wrestling match over who should control robotaxis is playing out in California
Cities around the country have long been crying out for more control over how autonomous vehicles are deployed on their streets. In California, they might finally get their wish. A handful of AV-related bills, which made progress this month in their long journey through the state legislature, could put more restrictions on companies like Cruise,…
7:00 am PDT • April 27, 2024
AI
Creators of Sora-powered short explain AI-generated video’s strengths and limitations
6:31 am PDT • April 27, 2024
OpenAI’s video generation tool Sora took the AI community by surprise in February with fluid, realistic video that seems miles ahead of competitors. But the carefully stage-managed debut left out…
Asheem Chandna says he was so impressed with founder Bipul Sinha’s grit and tech, he led Rubrik’s $40 million Series B in 2015.
AI
Photo-sharing community EyeEm will license users’ photos to train AI if they don’t delete them
2:08 pm PDT • April 26, 2024
EyeEm, the Berlin-based photo-sharing community that exited last year to Spanish company Freepik after going bankrupt, is now licensing its users’ photos to train AI models. Earlier this month, the…
AI
Meta AI tested: Doesn’t quite justify its own existence, but free is free
1:03 pm PDT • April 26, 2024
Meta’s new large language model, Llama 3, powers the imaginatively named “Meta AI,” a newish chatbot that the social media and advertising company has installed in as many of its…
Startups
So are we banning TikTok or what? Also: Can an influencer really tank an $800M company?
12:05 pm PDT • April 26, 2024
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Ticktock,…
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The IBM-HashiCorp coupling could be more complicated than it seems
At a quick glance, the IBM-HashiCorp deal seems like a good one for both sides, but upon closer inspection, perhaps not.
10:39 am PDT • April 26, 2024
AI may be inching its way into the newsroom, as outlets like Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, CNET and others have experimented with articles written by AI. But while most…
