StealthMole raises $7M Series A for its AI-powered dark web intelligence platform
StealthMole, an AI-powered dark web intelligence startup that specializes in monitoring cyber threats and detecting cybercrime, announced Thursday that it has raised a $7 million Series A funding roun...
Accel earnestly rethinks early-stage startup investing in India
By any benchmark, Accel is among the top venture firms in India. With nearly two dozen Indian unicorn startups, including several category leaders, Accel’s track record speaks for itself. But yet, the...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/27/accel-earnestly-rethinks-early-stage-startup-investing-in-india/
Understanding humanoid robots
Robots made their stage debut the day after New Year’s 1921. More than half-a-century before the world caught its first glimpse of George Lucas’ droids, a small army of silvery humanoids took to the s...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/27/understanding-humanoid-robots/
Oregon signs right to repair into law
Oregon Governor Tina Kotek on Tuesday signed Senate Bill 1596 into law, joining California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts and Minnesota in a growing list of states embracing a right to repair for cit...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/27/oregon-signs-right-to-repair-into-law/
Amazon doubles down on Anthropic, completing its planned $4B investment
Amazon invested a further $2.75 billion in growing AI power Anthropic on Wednesday, following through on the option it left open last September. The $1.25 billion it invested at the time must be produ...
LinkedIn is experimenting with a TikTok-like video feed in its app
LinkedIn is testing a new TikTok-like short-form video feed, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Wednesday. With this new test, LinkedIn joins numerous other popular apps that have launched their o...
The UK threw a splashy event in New York this week to woo more American VCs
UK officials unveiled a hologram statue and threw a big party to celebrate the UK as the third $1 trillion tech economy.
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https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/27/uk-unicorn-new-york-hologram-venture-capital/
Fisker lost track of millions of dollars in customer payments for months
Fisker temporarily lost track of millions of dollars in customer payments as it scaled up deliveries, leading to an internal audit that started in December and took months to complete, TechCrunch has ...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/27/fisker-misplaced-payments-internal-audit-bankruptcy/
Google will let you swipe right or left on clothes to get better fashion recommendations
Google is rolling out a new update that makes it easier for users to find personalized shopping results, the company announced on Wednesday. The new feature lets users rate different products in order...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/27/google-swipe-clothes-better-fashion-recommendations/
Google wants to use generative AI to build travel itineraries for your vacations
As we inch towards the summer holidays, Google is announcing a slate of travel updates that place it squarely in the travel planning process and give it a lot more insight into purchasing intent in th...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/27/google-generate-travel-itineraries-for-your-vacations/
NewRetirement wants to simplify financial planning for retirement
NewRetirement builds software to help people create financial retirement plans.
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https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/27/newretirement-wants-to-simplify-financial-planning-for-retirement/
TechCrunch Minute: Robinhood’s credit card has arrived to take on Apple and any upcoming challengers
Robinhood’s new credit card was revealed Tuesday, and though it’s only available for Robinhood Gold members, the Gold Card does have a feature that’s spurring headlines: the ability to invest cash bac...
Musical toy startup Playtime Engineering wants to simplify electronic music making for kids
Troy Sheets began making music at 15 years old in his home studio with a keyboard synthesizer, drum machine, and 4-track cassette recorder—an impressive setup for a high school sophomore. However, it’...
A comprehensive list of 2023 & 2024 tech layoffs
The tech-wide reckoning that began in 2022 and ran throughout into 2023 has continued into this year. And while 2024’s losses are not at that scale, they’re still significant, driven by big names like...
Cyvl.ai is bringing data-driven solutions to transportation infrastructure
In the summer after his freshman year at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, an engineering school in Worcester, Massachusetts, Cyvl.ai co-founder and CEO Daniel Pelaez needed a job. He went home and wor...
Orchard vision system turns farm equipment into AI-powered data collectors
Agricultural robotics are not a new phenomenon. We’ve seen systems that pick apples and berries, kill weeds, plant trees, transport produce and more. But while these functions are understood to be the...
Robinhood’s new credit card goes after Apple Card with ability to invest cash-back perks
Eight months after acquiring credit card startup X1 for $95 million, Robinhood announced today the launch of its new Gold Card, with a list of features that could even give Apple Card users envy. Robi...
Century Health, now with $2M, taps AI to give pharma access to good patient data
Century Health is applying AI to clinical data to uncover new applications for drugs.
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https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/27/century-health-2m-ai-pharma-patient-data/
Observe, the data observability platform, raises $115M with Snowflake investing
Enterprises today store and use data across an ever-growing number of applications and locations — making it challenging — if not impossible — to manage and query that data in a holistic way. That spe...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/27/observe-snowflake-data-observability/
Amazon will have to publish an ads library in EU after all
Amazon will have to provide information about the ads running on its platform in a publicly accessible online archive after all, following a decision by the European Union’s highest court Wednesday. T...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/27/amazon-dsa-ads-library-cjeu/