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Featured Article
For climate tech startups, the IRA is starting to pay off
The Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law by President Joe Biden in August 2022, has allocated $400 billion in federal dollars for clean energy projects as the United States aims for up to a 40% reduction in economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. And even startups are beginning to benefit. Private investment into climate tech…
5:30 am PDT • August 18, 2023
How can a generalist compete with a specialist when it comes to customer introductions, or tactical advice? We can’t, but we don’t need to.
Featured Article
Communication using thought alone? Unbabel unveils AI project to give us superhuman capabilities
Sitting in a meeting room in a startup office in Lisbon, I silently typed a question only the person opposite would know the answer to. What kind of coffee had I asked for when I’d arrived at the office? A short moment later, without even moving or opening his mouth, the reply came back via…
4:40 am PDT • August 18, 2023
Media & Entertainment
Netflix inks deal with Ambani’s Jio to expand India presence
4:15 am PDT • August 18, 2023
Netflix has inked a “first-of-its-kind” deal with Jio Platforms, India’s largest telecom operator, to bundle the streaming service with the carrier’s two pay-as-you-go plans as the American giant pushes to…
Threads hasn’t launched a web version yet, but the app has shipped a new update to give more prominence to reposts on the social network. Meta has changed two things…
Social
Twitch will let streamers block banned users from watching streams
9:41 pm PDT • August 17, 2023
Twitch’s chat ban tools have been around for ages, but the platform is about to hand streamers a way to control who can watch a stream to begin with. In…
The team behind HealthXCapital, which invested in and helped health tech startups scale up, has joined Singapore-based Jungle Ventures. Seemant Jauhari, who led HealthXCapital since it was founded eight years…
Apps
Match Group’s background check provider Garbo ends its partnership
2:00 pm PDT • August 17, 2023
Tech nonprofit Garbo announced today it’s ending its formal partnership with Match Group, the dating app giant behind Tinder, Plenty of Fish, Match and other apps. The two companies first…
Space
True Anomaly gets regulatory greenlight for first spacecraft reconnaissance mission
1:30 pm PDT • August 17, 2023
Defense-focused space technology startup True Anomaly has received key permits from regulators that will allow it to demonstrate imaging and rendezvous capabilities on-orbit for the first time. The two authorizations…
Startups
Fifteen years in and still early to the industry with Marco Zappacosta from Thumbtack
1:01 PM PDT • August 17, 2023
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Becca and Dom are joined by Marco Zappacosta, the co-founder and…
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Apps
Tumblr is rolling out a new web interface, and it looks a lot like X (formerly Twitter)
12:48 pm PDT • August 17, 2023
Tumblr is officially rolling out a new look for its web browser after testing it with select users over the past month. The new navigation interface looks a lot like…
Transportation
Cruise and Waymo see a surge in robotaxi app downloads
12:32 pm PDT • August 17, 2023
Consumer interest in Cruise and Waymo’s competing robotaxi services surged following a vote last week by the California Public Utilities Commission that allowed the two companies to expand and charge…
Apps
@Jack (Dorsey) quits Instagram, putting the first-name handle up for grabs
12:06 pm PDT • August 17, 2023
The @jack handle on Instagram is back up for grabs. Today, Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey, now Block CEO, announced he has deleted his Instagram account — the…
Crypto
Bitcoin spot ETFs heat up, SBF’s bail revoked and web3 gaming adoption grows in Asia
12:00 PM PDT • August 17, 2023
The digital asset space is still trucking along, while there were some big headlines, the week was arguably a little less chaotic (for now). Check…
Startups
Moemate’s AI avatar analyzes your whole screen, with spotty but intriguing results
11:34 am PDT • August 17, 2023
As evidenced by the slow death of Cortana, it’s clear that the AI assistants of yesteryear aren’t meeting expectations. And so they’re being remade. Amazon is building a new large…
Fintech
6 fintech investors sound off on AI, down rounds and what’s ahead
11:15 am PDT • August 17, 2023
To help TechCrunch+ readers understand what fintech investors are thinking these days, we interviewed six active investors over the last couple of weeks.
Summer is coming to an end, which means students will (hopefully) be in air-conditioned classrooms and away from this unrelenting heat wave. It also means that they’re probably on the…
Transportation
Ford aims to secure battery material supply with new Canada facility
10:12 am PDT • August 17, 2023
Ford is partnering with South Korean battery manufacturers SK On and EcoPro BM to build a cathode manufacturing facility in Quebec, Canada. The CAD $1.2 billion (USD $890 million) joint…
Transportation
San Francisco presses CPUC to halt Waymo, Cruise robotaxi expansions
10:06 am PDT • August 17, 2023
California regulators gave Waymo and Cruise the OK last week to scale up their robotaxi services in San Francisco, but now it seems the city itself won’t have it. On…
Featured Article
What is a liquid neural network, really?
The initial research papers date back to 2018, but for most, the notion of liquid networks (or liquid neural networks) is a new one. It was “Liquid Time-constant Networks,” published at the tail end of 2020, that put the work on other researchers’ radar. In the intervening time, the paper’s authors have presented the work…
10:00 am PDT • August 17, 2023
