Category : Technology

Bitcoin spot ETFs heat up, SBF’s bail revoked and web3 gaming adoption grows in Asia

Welcome back to Chain Reaction. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important crypto stories delivered to your inbox every Thursday at 12 p.m. PT, subscribe here. The digital asset space is still trucking along, while there were so...

Moemate’s AI avatar analyzes your whole screen, with spotty but intriguing results

As evidenced by the slow death of Cortana, it’s clear that the AI assistants of yesteryear aren’t meeting expectations. And so they’re being remade. Amazon is building a new large language model akin to OpenAI’s GPT-4 to power its Alexa voice as...

6 fintech investors sound off on AI, down rounds and what’s ahead

At the height of the funding boom in 2021, no single sector enjoyed as much VC money as fintech startups did. But in 2023, it appears that fintech companies have to work harder to get funding. Global funding in the space hit a six-year low in th...

Back to school: The best apps for students

Summer is coming to an end, which means students will (hopefully) be in air-conditioned classrooms and away from this unrelenting heat wave. It also means that they’re probably on the hunt for mobile apps that can help prepare them for the long...

Back to school: Our favorite student apps

Ford aims to secure battery material supply with new Canada facility

Ford is partnering with South Korean battery manufacturers SK On and EcoPro BM to build a cathode manufacturing facility in Quebec, Canada. The CAD $1.2 billion (USD $890 million) joint investment will provide battery materials to supply future...

San Francisco presses CPUC to halt Waymo, Cruise robotaxi expansions

California regulators gave Waymo and Cruise the OK last week to scale up their robotaxi services in San Francisco, but now it seems the city itself won’t have it. On Wednesday, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu filed motions with the Calif...

What is a liquid neural network, really?

The initial research papers date back to 2018, but for most, the notion of liquid networks (or liquid neural networks) is a new one. It was “Liquid Time-constant Networks,” published at the tail end of 2020, that put the work on other researcher...

Wonder Brands’ pivot to acquiring e-commerce infrastructure pays off

Wonder Brands, an acquirer of e-commerce brands in Latin America, announced today the closing of $15.5 million in Series A funding. This enables the Mexico City–based company to expand into South America. Nazca and IDB Invest, the private sector...

Intel’s modernization strategy could face setback with end of $5.4B Tower deal

In 2021, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger announced a comprehensive modernization strategy he dubbed IDM (integrated device manufacturing) 2.0. As part of that vision, the company announced a $20 billion investment to build two new Fabs (chip manufacturi...

Musk says X will address shadowbanning ‘soon,’ but former Trust & Safety exec explains why that will be difficult

X owner Elon Musk is promising to “soon” address the lack of transparency around “shadowbanning” on the social network formerly known as Twitter — that is, not outright banning a user, but making changes that ensure their content is no longer ci...

4 steps founders can take today to improve team recognition tomorrow

Conrad Egusa Contributor More posts by this contributor Canada is North America’s up-and-coming startup center Brazil: A look into Latin America’s largest startup ecosystem...

A bitcoin spot ETF could open the floodgates for wider crypto demand

Years after it got initial approval, Jacobi Asset Management’s bitcoin spot exchange traded fund (ETF) went live this week, making the product the first of its kind in Europe. This is only the latest sign that Europe is making steady progress to...

ProjectDiscovery raises $25M to launch a cloud version of its threat-scanning platform

ProjectDiscovery, a platform that detects new, exploitable vulnerabilities in codebases, today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series A funding round led by CRV with participation from Point72, SignalFire, Rain Capital, Mango Capital,...

Amplitude’s CEO feels his company would be ‘in a world of hurt’ if it hadn’t gone public in 2021

The CEO of Amplitude is glad that his company went public in 2021, despite a sharp contraction in the value of tech shares since its IPO. In a wide-ranging conversation on TechCrunch’s Equity Podcast, Spenser Skates, who also co-founded Amplitud...