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Startups should absolutely work with governments to support defense projects

Maëlle Gavet Contributor Maëlle Gavet is the CEO of Techstars and was previously a senior executive at numerous large tech companies around the world. In these times of heightened tensions and global v...

Windows adds support for RAR, Netflix cracks down on passwords, and Meta lays off workers

Welcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular column that rounds up the week in tech news. Dunno about y’all, but it’s felt like a long one — and I’m thankful for the extended weekend. For those observing Memorial Day, do enjoy....

Solving problems is better than fearmongering

Welcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. From cybersecurity to SaaS for restaurants, t...

AI scares the bejesus out of me

Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Saturday morning. Something really scary is happening. It’s an internet-powered horror story unfolding in front of us in three interwoven acts: (1) AI technology is improvin...

Deal Dive: Why this startup chose to sell itself over raising a Series A

Heroes Jobs was recently acquired after realizing its company was better off not alone Rebecca Szkutak 1 day Not all startups are built for a billion-dollar exit — or to grow as a...

This week in AI: AI heavyweights try to tip the regulatory scales

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 the last week’s stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover o...

Elon Musk takes Twitter out of the EU’s Disinformation Code of Practice

Twitter has withdrawn from the European Union’s Code of Practice on online disinformation, per the bloc’s internal market commissioner, Thierry Breton. In a tweet last night — which confirmed earlier reports of Twitter’s impending exit from the...

Explaining Blockchain Capital’s Big Bet on an Eyeball-Scanning Orb

This week, Worldcoin, an outfit that aims to serve as proof of personhood in a world where it’s harder by the day to distinguish a human from a bot, raised $115 million in Series C funding. Led by the 10-year-old venture firm Blockchain Capital,...

TechCrunch+ roundup: South Korea investor survey, 1-hour board meetings, venture leasing basics

After sales software startup TigerEye closed its Series A and established a board of directors, its co-founders put them on notice: One thing we’d like to never do is the three-hour, too-in-the-weeds, non-strategic board meeting. “Every board de...

AI might be the least of edtech’s worries

Shares of edtech company Chegg still haven’t recovered from their dive earlier this month. As you may recall, its stock fell off a cliff after the company reported its Q1 results. While Chegg beat analyst expectations for the first quarter of th...

Skyflow expands its regional footprint as it adds generative AI support to its data privacy tooling

Skyflow, a data-privacy startup, announced Friday that it has expanded the number of markets where it offers data residency support for companies that need to keep certain information inside defined borders. In today’s market, you probably can’t...

Sam Altman shares his optimistic view of our AI future

OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman has been touring Europe for the past few days, meeting head of governments and startup communities to talk about AI regulation, ChatGPT and beyond. In his latest on-stage appearance at Station F in Paris, Altman answered...

To avert more UK antitrust woes, Meta to limit how it uses ad data to boost Facebook Marketplace

Facebook’s parent Meta has given key assurances to U.K. antitrust regulators as it looks to counter concerns over how it uses advertising data to benefit its own products. The news comes in the same week as Meta revealed it was selling GIF platf...

Pitch Deck Teardown: Faye’s $10M Series A deck

A year ago, Mike Butcher reported that Faye hopes to do for travel insurance what Lemonade did for general insurance, and that’s as good a summary of what Faye does as anything. The company was kind enough to share its (lightly redacted) pitch d...

Daylight’s sunset and Meta’s year of focus

Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Mary Ann and Alex were a dynamic duo this week, taking on a blizzard of tech news, startup updates, and qu...