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Building a startup is hard. Building a company that helps startups is similarly difficult. That’s the takeaway from TechCrunch reporting on Techstars and Newchip. In the case of Newchip, the…

TechCrunch Minute: Newchip, Techstars and what happens when startup accelerators fail

An international coalition of police agencies have resurrected the dark web site of the notorious LockBit ransomware gang, which they had seized earlier this year, teasing new revelations about the…

Police resurrect LockBit’s site and troll the ransomware gang

Plenty of founders have a difficult decision to make early in their journey: where to set up shop. For deep tech founders, the decision is complicated by the fact that…

How to choose a deep tech startup program

News that Jack Dorsey is out at Bluesky caused a stir this weekend. After all, Dorsey is a former Twitter co-founder and CEO, so his investment of…

Dorsey leaves Bluesky, tech giants do more with less, and the next IPO

The first bit of news out of the Automate conference this year arrives by way of Alphabet X spinout Intrinsic. The firm announced at the Chicago event on Monday that it…

Alphabet-owned Intrinsic incorporates Nvidia tech into robotics platform

OpenAI is collaborating with Stack Overflow, the Q&A forum for software developers, to improve its generative AI models’ performance on programming-related tasks. As a result of the partnership, announced Monday,…

Stack Overflow signs deal with OpenAI to supply data to its models

President Joe Biden’s administration is looking to fund efforts that improve semiconductor manufacturing by using digital twins. Digital twins are virtual models used to test and optimize physical objects and…

Biden administration plans $285M in CHIPS Act funding for digital twins

Last November, Adam D’Angelo found himself at the epicenter of one of the biggest controversies in the tech industry. The board of OpenAI — the $80 billion startup leading the…

Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo talks about AI, chatbot platform Poe and why OpenAI is not a competitor

Founders at the early stages of building their startups may have already created a strong solution, identified a gap in the market, or may simply have an inescapable and driving…

Sequoia’s Jess Lee explains how early-stage startups can identify product-market fit

Bluesky’s most prominent backer has left its board. On Saturday, Jack Dorsey posted on X about grants for open protocols from his philanthropic Start Small initiative. This prompted someone to…

Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board

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Hyundai antes up $1B for AV startup Motional and Elon unplugs the Tesla Supercharger team

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Before I jump into the all the news — and boy there was a lot! — I have an important update for all of you lovely readers. TechCrunch Mobility is moving to Thursdays! It will be the same…

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Hyundai antes up $1B for AV startup Motional and Elon unplugs the Tesla Supercharger team

Catherine Breslin is the founder and director of Kingfisher Labs, where she helps companies develop AI strategies.

Women in AI: Catherine Breslin helps companies develop AI strategies

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is making strides in astronomy with its 122-megapixel primarily infrared photos taken 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth. Impressive stuff. The space agency’s newest sky-peeper…

Why NASA is betting on a 36-pixel camera

The appetite for alternative clouds has never been bigger. Case in point: CoreWeave, the GPU infrastructure provider that began life as a cryptocurrency mining operation, this week raised $1.1 billion…

CoreWeave’s $1.1B raise shows the market for alternative clouds is booming

The appetite for alternative clouds has never been bigger. Case in point: CoreWeave, the GPU infrastructure provider that began life as a cryptocurrency mining operation, this week raised $1.1 billion…

Alternative clouds are booming as companies seek cheaper access to GPUs

I finally received the rabbit r1 (the company insists on this lowercase styling) I’ve been writing about since its debut at CES in January. And I was able to tell within about 30…

The Rabbit r1 shipped half-baked, but that’s kind of the point

Welcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that recaps the week that was in tech. This edition’s a tad bittersweet for me — it’ll be my last…

Google lays off workers, Tesla cans its Supercharger team and UnitedHealthcare reveals security lapses

While the venture world is abuzz over generative AI, Dayna Grayson, a longtime venture capitalist who five years ago co-founded her own firm, Construct Capital, has been focused on comparatively…

Human composting and timber marketplaces: Talking ‘industrial’ VC with investor Dayna Grayson

Tara Chklovski is the CEO and founder of Technovation, a nonprofit that helps teach young girls about technology and entrepreneurship.

Women in AI: Tara Chklovski is teaching the next generation of AI innovators

Threads users can now exert more control over who can quote their posts. This builds on a feature that already allows Threads users to limit who can reply to their…

Farewell, dunks? Threads launches quote controls for all users