Uber to acquire Foodpanda’s Taiwan unit from Delivery Hero for $950M in cash
Uber Technologies announced Tuesday that it will buy the Taiwan unit of Delivery Hero’s Foodpanda for $950 million in cash. The deal is part of Uber Eats’ strategy to expand in Asia, specifically by s...
Paris-based VC firm Blisce launches climate tech fund with a target of $160M
Paris-based Blisce has become the latest VC firm to launch a fund dedicated to climate tech. It plans to raise as much as €150M (about $162M).
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Maad raises $3.2M seed amid B2B e-commerce sector turbulence in Africa
Maad, a B2B e-commerce startup based in Senegal, has secured $3.2 million debt-equity funding to bolster its growth in the western Africa country and to explore fresh opportunities in the wider Franco...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/13/maad-raises-3-2-seed-fundin/
OpenAI Startup Fund raises additional $5M
The fresh funds were raised from two investors who transferred the capital into a special purpose vehicle, a legal entity associated with the OpenAI Startup Fund.
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Cruise founder Kyle Vogt is back with a robot startup
Kyle Vogt, the former founder and CEO of self-driving car company Cruise, has a new VC-backed robotics startup focused on household chores. Vogt announced Monday that the new startup, called the Bot C...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/13/cruise-founder-kyle-vogt-is-back-with-a-robot-startup/
Accel has a fresh $650M to back European early-stage startups
Accel has invested in more than 200 startups in the region to date, making it one of the more prolific VCs in this market.
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From Miles Grimshaw to Eva Ho, venture capitalists continue to play musical chairs
When Keith Rabois announced he was leaving Founders Fund to return to Khosla Ventures in January, it came as a shock to many in the venture capital ecosystem — and not just because Rabois is a big nam...
Anthropic is expanding to Europe and raising more money
On the heels of OpenAI announcing the latest iteration of its GPT large language model, its biggest rival in generative AI in the U.S. announced an expansion of its own. Anthropic said Monday that Cla...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/13/anthropic-is-expanding-to-europe-and-raising-more-money/
TechCrunch Space: You rock(et) my world, moms
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. Happy belated Mother’s Day! Want to reach out with a tip? Email Aria at aria.techcrunch@gmail.com or send me a message on Signal at 512-937-3988. You also c...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/13/techcrunch-space-you-rocket-my-world-moms/
Apple iPad Pro M4 vs. iPad Air M2: Which is right for most?
Three years after Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPad, sales reached an all-time high. According to Canalys, iPad shipments hit 26 million in the last quarter of 2013. With those numbers, Apple secured...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/13/apple-ipad-pro-m4-vs-ipad-air-m2-which-is-right-for-most/
GV’s youngest partner has launched her own firm
Terri Burns, a former partner at GV, is venturing into a new chapter of her career by launching her own venture firm called Type Capital.
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ChatGPT’s new face is a black hole
The decision to go monochrome was probably a smart one, considering the candy-colored alternatives that seem to want to dazzle and comfort you.
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Apple and Google agree on standard to alert people when unknown Bluetooth devices may be tracking them
Apple and Google announced on Monday that iPhone and Android users will start seeing alerts when it’s possible that an unknown Bluetooth device is being used to track them. The two companies have deve...
Google I/O 2024: How to watch
The keynote kicks off at 10 a.m. PT on Tuesday and will offer glimpses into the latest versions of Android, Wear OS and Android TV.
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Google I/O 2024: What to expect
You can expect plenty of AI, but probably not a lot of hardware.
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GM’s Cruise ramps up robotaxi testing in Phoenix
A human safety operator will be behind the wheel during this phase of testing, according to the company.
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The women in AI making a difference
As a part of a multi-part series, TechCrunch is highlighting women innovators — from academics to policymakers —in the field of AI.
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https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/13/the-women-in-ai-making-a-difference/
OpenAI’s newest model is GPT-4o
OpenAI is releasing a new flagship generative AI model called GPT-4o, set to roll out “iteratively” across the company’s developer and consumer-facing products over the next few weeks. OpenAI CTO Muri...
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/13/openais-newest-model-is-gpt-4o/
White House proposes up to $120 million to help fund Polar Semiconductor’s chip facility expansion
The expansion of Polar Semiconductor’s facility would enable the company to double its U.S. production capacity of sensor and power chips within two years.
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT announcement: Watch live here
The company is describing the event as “a chance to demo some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates.”
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