ChatGPT maker OpenAI has closed the largest VC round of all time. The startup today announced that it raised $6.6 billion in a funding round that values OpenAI at $157…
Transportation and freight network giant J.B. Hunt is on the hunt for software and digital products that will fuel its business and help it adapt to the modern world —…
Are creators sleeping on Facebook? Though the social network has been more enticing for AI Shrimp Jesus than young people, Facebook is consolidating its monetization programs into a more streamlined…
Waymo has gotten one step closer to a commercial launch in Austin by early 2025. This week, the company will open its fully autonomous ride-hailing service to certain members of…
Instant wants to recapture some of the magic of the pre-Google-acquisition Firebase by building a modern, Postgres-based open source version of it. Like the original Firebase, San Francisco-based Instant focuses…
Competition in the email market is heating up. After Apple’s iOS 18 introduced a slew of Gmail-like features to Apple’s Mail app, including categorization of transactions, updates, and promotions, as…
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Transportation and warehousing are multi-trillion-dollar industries, but the technologies that power them are often outdated, inefficient and siloed. Pallet, which is announcing an $18 million Series A funding round led…
Starling Bank, a popular challenger bank based in the U.K., has received a £29 million fine from the country’s financial regulator (around $39 million at current exchange rates). The Financial…
Sometimes, you have to start from scratch to make something amazing. Sometimes, you already have most of the ingredients, but you have to do some improvising to make the thing…
Whatnot, the livestream marketplace platform for trading card collectors and sneakerheads alike, announced on Wednesday that its annual gross merchandise volume (GMV) surpassed $2 billion this year. The GMV milestone…
Whatnot, the livestream marketplace platform for trading card collectors and sneakerheads alike, is offering a bit of positive news at a time when the overall livestream shopping industry is failing…
Permanent is building a marketplace that connects commercial buyers with farms that use regenerative growing practices. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Source
Two years ago, Xiaodi Hou was ousted from his position as CEO of TuSimple, an autonomous trucking startup he co-founded that has since shut down U.S. operations and delisted from…
Juno, the popular app that brought YouTube videos to Apple’s Vision Pro, is shutting down, its developer announced on Tuesday. As YouTube had not launched its own app for Vision…
Toyota is doubling down on Joby Aviation with a $500 million investment into the California-based company that’s developing electric air taxis. Toyota’s total investment in Joby, which includes a $394…
The offices of plant-based protein startup Heura are tucked away down a narrow street a short distance from one of Barcelona’s main tourist draws. But the team of entrepreneurs and…
On Wednesday the European Union requested more information from Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube about their respective content recommendation algorithms under the bloc’s online governance rulebook, the Digital Services Act (DSA).…
Ameba takes the unstructured data in a retailer’s supply chain systems, sprinkles in some generative AI, and makes the whole thing more efficient. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For…
The past few years have seen the topic of women’s health thrown into the sociopolitical spotlight. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Source