Oct 28th
TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
San Francisco, CA
The Latest
AI-generated music is fast becoming a reality. Thanks to tools like Meta’s MusicGen, it’s now possible to create halfway decent songs in a range of styles without ever having to…
Transportation
Nobody is happy with NYC’s $18 delivery worker minimum wage
9:24 am PDT • June 13, 2023
New York City has established a new minimum wage for food delivery workers who deliver for platforms like Uber Eats, DoorDash, Grubhub and Relay. It should be a historic win…
Some years ago, three former Googlers — Amr Awadallah (who previously founded Cloudera), Amin Ahmad and Tallat Shafaat — set out to build what they describe as a “conversational search”…
AI
France’s Mistral AI blows in with a $113M seed round at a $260M valuation to take on OpenAI
9:02 am PDT • June 13, 2023
AI is well and truly off to the races: a startup that is only four weeks old has picked up a $113 million round of seed funding to compete against…
Transportation
GM and partner Samsung SDI pick Indiana for $3B battery factory
8:24 am PDT • June 13, 2023
The battery belt — a region stretching from Michigan down into Georgia where the bulk of EV and battery manufacturing is concentrated — has yet another project. GM-Samsung SDI has…
Transportation
Turo’s Q1 2023 results indicate it may be a while until we see its IPO
8:08 am PDT • June 13, 2023
Given Turo’s slightly lower Q1 results, we doubt it will be racing out the door, ready to change the tenor of the IPO conversation anytime soon.
Media & Entertainment
Netflix reportedly plans first live sports event with celebrities playing golf
8:04 am PDT • June 13, 2023
Netflix could be planning to livestream a sporting event, which would feature professional golfers and Formula 1 drivers participating in a celebrity golf tournament. The potential move would mark the…
Instagram Notes is today getting its first set of new features following its December 2022 public launch. Currently, Instagram Notes allows users to leave a status message that appears for…
Security
Decrypt the complete Security Stage agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023
8:00 am PDT • June 13, 2023
A few months ago we introduced you to the brand new Security Stage, our debut space dedicated to cybersecurity at TechCrunch Disrupt. Ahead of the big day, we’re excited to…
AI-generated music is a bourgeoning and fraught topic, with artists either vocally opposing even the faintest hint of it, or some (like Grimes) more or less embracing it completely. Now,…
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Venture
The ‘AI arms race’ is about more than who will lead the industry
7:00 am PDT • June 13, 2023
How Gaingels’ investor Lorenzo Thione is navigating the latest Golden Age of artificial intelligence.
Polestar today announced the US pricing and availability of the 2024 Polestar 2, which features significant upgrades to its power and range, along with styling changes and interior improvements. The…
Space
Zero-Error Systems raises $7.5M for its radiation-hardened semiconductor integrated circuits
6:43 am PDT • June 13, 2023
Space is a tough place for electronic circuits since radiation causes short circuits that result in mission failure, said Hwai Lin Khor, vice president of Zero-Error Systems. Many companies currently…
Security
Kodem comes out of stealth with $25M to tackle application security
6:06 am PDT • June 13, 2023
A new startup is entering the fray in the market of application security: Kodem, a company out of Israel founded by a team of security veterans from none other than…
Climate
To boost greenhouse productivity, Skytree is using space station CO2 scrubbers
6:00 am PDT • June 13, 2023
The startup is betting that direct air capture can be profitable by starting with niche markets.
Social
YouTube is lowering the barrier to be eligible for its monetization program
6:00 am PDT • June 13, 2023
YouTube is lowering the requirements for creators to get access to monetization tools under the YouTube Partner Program (YPP). The company is expanding its shopping affiliate program to U.S.-based creators…
The online party planning platform Punchbowl is rebranding to create a parent organization called Sincere Corporation. Additionally, it is also acquiring the personal memory capsule app Timehop — and yes,…
Enterprise
Canonical’s Sunbeam makes OpenStack more viable for small-scale deployments
6:00 am PDT • June 13, 2023
OpenStack, the open-source infrastructure-as-a-service project that helps enterprises manage their on-premise data centers, was never known to be easy to install and operate. That meant that very few enterprises set…
Hardware
This little wearable is designed to detect blood flow to the brain
6:00 am PDT • June 13, 2023
STAT Health calls the human ear a “biometric gold mine.” The startup, which emerged out of stealth this morning, is talking specifically about cerebral blood flow (CBF). That’s pretty much…
Enterprise
Wherobots is building a data platform to treat spatial data as a ‘first-class citizen’
6:00 am PDT • June 13, 2023
Many companies collect an enormous amount of geospatial and time data, but they’re unable to unlock enormous value from that information due to a lack of an easy-to-use, dedicated geospatial…
