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Cadana, an emerging markets payroll services provider for global hiring platforms, banks $7.1M seedThe global freelancer market, a $1.3 trillion industry fueled by over 200 million knowledge workers, drives demand for solutions that automate...
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Amazon extends generative AI-powered product listings to EuropeAmazon is bringing its generative AI listing smarts to more sellers, revealing today that those in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K. can...
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Kenya closes its probe of Worldcoin, opening the door to a relaunch of its orbs after a year-long suspensionWorldcoin — the crypto startup co-founded by OpenAI’s Sam Altman — has been given the green light to resume iris-scanning and other...
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Paris-based VC Breega hits first close of $75M Africa fund to back pre-seed and seed startupsParis-based VC firm Breega has observed Africa’s tech ecosystem mature over the years. From receiving less than a billion dollars in venture...
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PQShield secures $37M more for ‘quantum resistant’ cryptographyMalicious hacking is getting increasingly sophisticated, and that’s leading to a very clear trend in security technology. To keep people and...
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Hero wants to save the day for companies facing a working capital crunchHero, a new fintech startup based in Paris, is announcing an €11.3 million all-equity funding round led by Valar Ventures ($12.2 million at...
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‘Lawyer-in-the-loop’ startup Wordsmith wants to bring AI paralegals to all employeesWordsmith, a fledgling Scottish legal tech startup, has somehow managed to attract the backing of two well-known venture capital firms. The...
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General Catalyst merges with Venture Highway in India pushGeneral Catalyst is linking up with Venture Highway to make a deeper push into India, where it plans to invest over $500 million in coming years....
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France leads the pack for Generative AI funding in EuropeLike it or hate it, artificial intelligence – especially generative AI – is the technology story of 2024. OpenAI, with its rollouts of viral...
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C12, a French quantum computing startup founded by twin brothers, raises $19.4 millionC12 is announcing that it recently raised an €18 million funding round ($19.4 million at today’s exchange rate). Originally founded in 2020 as a...
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Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s former chief scientist, launches new AI companyIlya Sutskever, one of OpenAI’s co-founders, launches Safe Superintelligence (SSI), just a month after leaving OpenAI. © 2024 TechCrunch. All...
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Internal SpaceX documents show the sweet stock deals offered to investors like a16z, GigafundLike many highly valued startups, SpaceX sometimes allows its employees to cash out some of their shares by selling to company-authorized outside...
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This Week in AI: Generative AI is spamming up academic journalsHiya, folks, and welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. This week in AI, generative AI is beginning to spam up academic publishing —...
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In spite of hype, many companies are moving cautiously when it comes to generative AICompanies are extremely interested in generative AI as vendors push potential benefits, but turning that desire from a proof of concept into a...
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The fall of EV startup Fisker: A comprehensive timelineHere is a timeline of the events that led fledgling automaker Fisker to file for bankruptcy. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For...
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Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck on reshaping the space economy at Disrupt 2024The future of the space industry may look a lot like its past, or so believes Peter Beck, founder and CEO of Rocket Lab. At TechCrunch Disrupt...
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Société Générale to sell its freelancer challenger bank Shine to AgerasFour years after acquiring Shine, a French fintech startup that offers bank accounts to freelancers and very small companies, Société Générale has...
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UK probes HPE’s planned $14B Juniper Networks acquisitionThe U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has initiated a formal “phase 1” investigation into Hewlett Packard...
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Meta AI removes block on election-related queries in India while Google still applying limitsMeta AI removes restrictions in answering election-related queries in India while Google is still restricting them. © 2024 TechCrunch. All...
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How Abridge became one of the most talked about healthcare AI startupsAsk any of the health-focused VCs to name one of the top AI startups and one name comes up over and over again: a company based in...
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Kilimo helps farmers save water and get paid for itCheap irrigation has transformed many regions around the world into breadbaskets, but it also means that there can be little left for other uses....
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Fisker failed because it wasn’t ready to be a car companyTwo years ago, an employee at Fisker Inc. told me that the most pressing concern inside the EV startup was not whether its Ocean SUV would get...
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FTC refers TikTok child privacy case to Justice DepartmentThe agency was investigating the company over potential violations of the Children's Online Privacy Act. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved....
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iOS 18 could ‘sherlock’ $400M in app revenueApple's changes may affect apps that today have an estimated $393 million in revenue and have been downloaded roughly 58 million times over the...
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Snap previews its real-time image model that can generate AR experiencesAt the Augmented World Expo on Tuesday, Snap teased an early version of its real-time, on-device image diffusion model that can generate vivid AR...
