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Fisker loses customers’ money, Robinhood launches a credit card, and Google generates travel itineraries
1:15 pm PDT • March 30, 2024
Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the notable happenings in tech over the past few days. This week, TC’s auto reporter Sean O’Kane revealed how…
Climate
MIT tool shows climate change could cost Texans a month and a half of outdoor time by 2080
11:00 am PDT • March 30, 2024
Finally, something that makes climate change relatable.
Featured Article
TikTok ban could harm Amazon sellers looking for alternatives
In March, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill that could force ByteDance to divest TikTok or face a ban in U.S. app stores. Much of the related discussion and debate has centered around American data security and speech rights, but a potential move also highlights something else: TikTok is growing its focus…
10:00 am PDT • March 30, 2024
Startups
Deal Dive: Iron Sheepdog is fixing short-haul trucking from the bottom up
9:00 am PDT • March 30, 2024
Iron Sheepdog credits its ability to gain traction with truck brokers because it got the truckers themselves to sign on first.
AI
Women in AI: Kate Devlin of King’s College is researching AI and intimacy
8:00 am PDT • March 30, 2024
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of interviews focusing on remarkable women who’ve contributed to…
Featured Article
AT&T resets account passcodes after millions of customer records leak online
A security researcher told TechCrunch that leaked AT&T customer data contained encrypted account passcodes that can be easily unscrambled.
7:10 am PDT • March 30, 2024
Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of recent stories in the world…
Apps
Google Podcasts is shutting down soon, users urged to move to YouTube Music
12:49 pm PDT • March 29, 2024
Google is shutting down its Podcasts app in the U.S. in a matter of days. The company has begun warning the app’s users they will need to migrate their subscriptions…
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. There’s…
Orbit Fab wants to build “gas stations” for satellites — which means it needs the gas cap, a mechanism for transferring propellant from an orbital tanker to the customer spacecraft.…
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Nine crypto VCs on why Q1 investments were so hot and how it compares to previous bull market
If the 2023 crypto venture landscape was an ice-cold pot of water, the first quarter of 2024 is the part where the bubbles start to form right before water boils, Tom Schmidt, a partner at Dragonfly Capital, said to TechCrunch. And he’s not wrong: $2.52 billion in total capital has been raised across the crypto…
11:28 am PDT • March 29, 2024
AI
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis gets UK knighthood for ‘services to artificial intelligence’
11:24 am PDT • March 29, 2024
Demis Hassabis, CEO and one of three founders of Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) subsidiary DeepMind, has been awarded a knighthood in the U.K. for “services to artificial intelligence.” Ian Hogarth,…
Apps
Instagram is developing ‘Blend,’ recommended Reels for you and a friend
10:37 am PDT • March 29, 2024
Instagram is developing a “Blend” feature that creates a private feed of Reels recommended for you and a friend. The company told TechCrunch on Friday that the feature is an…
As deepfakes proliferate, OpenAI is refining the tech used to clone voices — but the company insists it’s doing so responsibly. Today marks the preview debut of OpenAI’s Voice Engine,…
Crypto
The AI world needs more data transparency and web3 startup Space and Time says it can help
10:00 AM PDT • March 29, 2024
As AI proliferates and things on the internet are easier to manipulate, there’s a need more than ever to make sure data and brands are…
The changes appear to confirm the earlier tests of NSFW communities spotted by various researchers and reverse engineers.
It’s rare that I come across a pitch deck that ticks almost all the boxes. It’s so good, in fact, that I fed Plantee’s deck into an AI tool I…
Crypto
TechCrunch Minute: Sam Bankman-Fried’s sentencing marks an end to the FTX saga
9:00 am PDT • March 29, 2024
After a lengthy trial and conviction, we finally learned how long former crypto baron Sam Bankman-Fried will be behind bars: up to 25 years. It’s a lengthy sentence, but one…
Startups
Databricks’ GPT rival and who’s investing in ‘underdog’ founders
7:05 AM PDT • March 29, 2024
Hello, and welcome to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Friday…
Supaglue’s team will accelerate the work Stripe’s been working on real-time analytics and reporting across its platform.
