It’s no secret that the venture capital industry is facing a liquidity crisis as IPOs and other exits remain few and far between after 2020 and 2021’s record-breaking years. Now,…
French AI startup Mistral just rolled out a half dozen new features, a model update (and an entirely new model) in its bid to compete with the likes of OpenAI…
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Emails in Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI expose the startup’s rocky origins. Continue reading… Source
Chris Wright has been a big booster of oil and gas, but he's also no stranger to climate tech. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Source
Malicious commits found in Exo Labs' GitHub accountThey were submitted, and pointed to, a Texas-based security researcherThe malware does not exist, and the researcher claims someone is impersonating him Someone…
Decentralized social network Mastodon is also seeing some uplift from the X “exodus,” founder Eugen Rochko shared on the platform just ahead of the weekend. While the Twitter-like startup Bluesky…
Jessica Owens and Iana Dimkova, co-founders of Initiate Ventures, are launching their new healthcare/ life sciences-focused firm with a respectable $45 million debut fund. One of the ways they convinced…
Partiful, the New York-based event-planning app that’s taking on older solutions like Evite, Eventbrite, and Facebook Events, has been named Google’s app of the year, the tech giant announced on…
As college tuition increases and the student loan debt crisis continues, three former executives from language learning app Duolingo are building a new startup aimed at making college education more…
Play Ventures, a global venture capital firm specializing in early-stage gaming, has raised $140 million for its third gaming fund.Read More Source
Moonvalley, a new generative video startup, claims it's building models using more ethical and transparent approaches. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Source
Xiaomi will replace its app store with fintech PhonePe’s offering for customers in India starting January — a major win for the Indian startup. Xiaomi, the second largest smartphone vendor…
The Biden administration chose to target only companies developing frontier AI models in China. But Trump could take a more sweeping approach. Source
DigitalOcean's VP of AI reveals how startups can build AI solutions faster and cheaper to break down barriers in a field dominated by large corporations and hyperscalers. Source
Indian omni-channel nutrition startup HealthKart has raised $153 million in one of the country’s largest consumer startup transactions this year, valuing the business at about $500 million, according to a…
Oyo founder Ritesh Agarwal’s investment vehicle has proposed to inject another $65.1 million into the hotel management startup, according to shareholder notifications reviewed by TechCrunch. The investment, through Redsprig Innovation…
Season 3 of Dr. Stone continued its adaptation of the mangas Source of the Petrification Saga", following on from the Dr. Stone: Ryusui special, where Senku and company had to…
Hand Me Downs NASA's spacesuits, which its astronauts use to venture outside the International Space Station, are really starting to show their age. In June, NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson was…
ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, valued itself at $300 billion in a recent share buyback offer, according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal. That number…
Warehouses aren’t the only places grappling with a labor crunch. Since the start of the pandemic, restaurants around the world have been grappling with staffing shortages. A number of startups…