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After reaching profitability, carpooling platform BlaBlaCar secures $108 million debt lineBlaBlaCar is an iconic name in the French startup ecosystem. The carpooling and bus ticketing company has been around for so long that it’s hard...
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Indian government’s cloud spilled citizens’ personal data online for yearsThe Indian government has finally resolved a years-long cybersecurity issue that exposed reams of sensitive data about its citizens. A security...
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HD raises $5.6M to build a Sierra AI for healthcare in Southeast AsiaChatbots have come a long way. For years, they were limited to responding with predetermined replies that followed a simple logic structure. But...
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Photoncycle targets low-cost energy storage with a clever hydrogen solutionFor years, the solar energy sector has grappled with interseasonal energy storage. The ability to harness the surplus solar energy of summer...
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@Potus just joined the fediverse via Instagram ThreadsThe fediverse — the name for the social network made of interconnected servers, like Mastodon and others — just got another boost of...
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Anthropic researchers wear down AI ethics with repeated questionsHow do you get an AI to answer a question it’s not supposed to? There are many such “jailbreak” techniques, and Anthropic...
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Rubrik’s IPO filing hints at thawing public markets for tech companiesRubrik initially presents as a moderately growing software business with net losses that stretched to $354 million in its most recent fiscal year....
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Thrive Market’s Nick Green talks building a billion-dollar grocery companyNick Green, one of the company's co-founders, stopped by Found to chat about his company and the market's evolution since he first launched it....
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Meta (again) denies that Netflix read users’ private Facebook messagesThe document alleges that Facebook even cut spending on original programming for its Facebook Watch video service so as not to compete with...
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Open source foundations unite on common standards for EU’s Cyber Resilience ActSeven open source foundations are coming together to create common specifications and standards for Europe’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA),...
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Nicki Minaj, Billie Eilish, Katy Perry and other musicians sign letter against irresponsible AIA group of 200 musicians signed an open letter calling on tech companies and developers to not undermine human creativity with AI music generation...
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Apple Vision Pro’s Persona feature gets collaborativeMuch like the headset for which they were designed, Apple’s Personas are very much a work in progress. The original version of the beta avatars...
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AWS unveils new service for cloud-based rendering projectsOn Tuesday Amazon launched a new service called Deadline Cloud that lets customers set up, deploy and scale up graphics and visual effects...
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Y Combinator’s Garry Tan chastises a San Francisco lawmaker again — this time about an email billGarry Tan expressed his displeasure at California State Assembly member Matt Haney over a proposed late-night email bill he authored. © 2024...
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A new games-focused VC in Turkey shows the industry there continues to gain steamTurkey has gained a well-earned reputation as being a veritable cauldron of mobile games startups, leading to the rise of VCs dedicated to the...
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Spotify brings its audiobooks perk for Premium users to Canada, Ireland and New ZealandSpotify announced on Tuesday that it’s bringing its free audiobooks perk to Canada, Ireland and New Zealand. Users in these markets will be...
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OctoAI wants to make private AI model deployments easier with OctoStackOctoAI (formerly known as OctoML), announced the launch of OctoStack, its new end-to-end solution for deploying generative AI models in a...
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TechCrunch Minute: AT&T data breach prompts millions of passcodes to be resetDeath, taxes, and regular, terrifying cybersecurity leaks. Those are the facts of life, as the latest AT&T data breach is teaching us yet...
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Meta now requires users to verify their age to use its Quest VR headsetsDuring the congressional online safety hearing in January, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg argued that mobile app store providers like Apple and Google...
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‘Reverse’ searches: The sneaky ways that police tap tech companies for your private dataReverse searches cast a digital dragnet over a tech company's store of user data to catch the information that police are looking for. © 2024...
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Women in AI: Kristine Gloria of the Aspen Institute tells women to enter the field and ‘follow your curiosity’To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a...
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Rivian started a tough year on a flat footRivian has a challenging year ahead — and the first quarter is off to a tepid start. The EV startup announced Tuesday that it built 13,980...
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Read AI expands its AI-powered summaries from meetings to messages and emailsAvailable in "soft launch," Read's new capability connects to Gmail, Outlook and Slack as well as videoconferencing platforms to learn topics that...
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Yahoo is acquiring Instagram co-founders’ AI-powered news startup ArtifactYahoo is acquiring Artifact, the AI-powered news app from Instagram’s co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the company announced on...
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Your cut out & keep guide to Big Tech talking points in a new age of antitrustWith tech giants facing new laws and enforcements aimed at cutting their empires down to size, a lobbying frenzy replete with wildly binary claims...
