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Where is all that a16z money going? | Equity Podcast
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- Where is all that a16z money going? | Equity Podcast
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- 5 hours ago
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- On this episode of Equity, Alex Wilhelm explores the massive, gobsmackingly big $7.2 billion worth of new funds from a16z and how the venture slowdown has not managed to impede the venture firm’s golden touch when it comes to fundraising.
Equity is a show about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. New episodes drop at 7 a.m. PT every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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- OpenAI plans new Tokyo office as Tesla faces layoffs | Equity Podcast
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- 5 hours ago
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- On this episode of Equity, TechCrunch's Alex Wilhelm breaks down OpenAI's plans for an office on Tokyo and Tesla cutting more than 10% of its global workforce.
Equity is a show about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. New episodes drop at 7 a.m. PT every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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- Is fintech having a moment? | Equity Podcast
- Date posted
- 5 hours ago
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- Welcome back to Equity. On this episode, the team discusses Tesla's busy week and fundraising news at fintechs Ramp and Rippling.
Equity is a show about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. New episodes drop at 7 a.m. PT every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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- Notable Capital's Hans Tung on the state of VC and the upside to down rounds | Equity Podcast
- Date posted
- 5 hours ago
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- This week, TechCrunch's Mary Ann Azevedo talked to Hans Tung of Notable Capital about why he is is so bullish on fintech, and what sectors within fintech especially has him psyched.
Equity is a show about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. New episodes drop at 7 a.m. PT every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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- Salesforce's silly deal dies as we keep our eyes on Ibotta and Rubrik | Equity Podcast
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- 5 hours ago
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- This episode of Equity covers the latest markets news, including upcoming earnings, IPOs, and what impact — if any — the recent bitcoin halving had on its value.
Equity is a show about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. New episodes drop at 7 a.m. PT every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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- Elon Musk’s xAI shows there’s more money on the sidelines for AI startups | Equity Podcast
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- 5 hours ago
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- On today's episode of Equity, TechCrunch's Alex Wilhelm explores OpenAI's new deal with the Financial Times, xAI looking to raise $6 billion at an $18 billion valuation, and the EU handing Apple even more bad news,
Equity is a show about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. New episodes drop at 7 a.m. PT every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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- Perplexity AI continues to shake up search | Equity Podcast
- Date posted
- 5 hours ago
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- This episode of Equity breaks down the potential TikTok ban in the US, two AI startups making a bit of noise in Europe, and the latest fundraise from Perplexity AI.
Equity is a show about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. New episodes drop at 7 a.m. PT every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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- Good news for Rubrik and bad news for TikTok | Equity Podcast
- Date posted
- 5 hours ago
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- On this episode of Equity, TechCrunch's Alex Wilhelm and Mary Ann Azevedo discuss Rubrik’s strong IPO and TikTok being forced to divest from its parent company or face a ban.
Equity is a show about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. New episodes drop at 7 a.m. PT every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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- OpenAI makes a deal with the Financial Times. Who’s next? | TechCrunch Minute
- Date posted
- 6 hours ago
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- OpenAI has landed another news licensing deal with London’s Financial Times. The dirty details of the deal are under wraps but what this does tell us is media companies are not willing to let the AI company train their models on their content for free. As more of these deals pop up and the New York Times’ lawsuit against OpenAI brews in the background, we’ll soon see what the rules of engagement are between AI and content on the internet. Could this deal point to more content deals in OpenAI’s future?
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- How Midi raised millions for a menopause-focused platform with Joanna Strober from Midi
- Date posted
- 8 hours ago
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- Most OBGYNs are not specifically trained in menopause, which means that women are left to suffer through their symptoms on their own. This week’s guest on Found is looking to change that. Joanna Strober is the CEO and founder of Midi, a virtual healthcare platform (https://www.joinmidi.com/) built specifically for women in midlife staffed with healthcare providers specifically trained to care for people going through perimenopause and menopause.
In this conversation they cover:
• Why there is such a wide gap in care for women’s health and the negligent studies that are partly to blame
• Working with employers and insurance companies to make sure that their services are covered under insurance
• How the Midi team has raised $100 million despite many investors not understanding the potential market for care for women in midlife
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- Elon Musk’s OpenAI rival xAI closes in on $6 billion in funding | TechCrunch Minute
- Date posted
- 1 day ago
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- Elon Musk has big plans for his AI startup, xAI. TechCrunch recently broke the news that the OpenAI rival is raising $6 billion at a pre-money valuation of $18 billion. You may be wondering: Doesn’t Musk have enough companies already? There’s Tesla, SpaceX, X, Neuralink, The Boring Company … but according to the xAI pitch, Musk’s connection to these other companies is a feature, not a bug.
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- Rabbit's R1 and Humane's Ai are rivals for a market that might not (yet) exist | TechCrunch Minute
- Date posted
- 4 days ago
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- Is hardware fun again? Two new AI gadgets — Rabbit’s R1 and Humane’s Ai Pin — are finally heading out into the world in an attempt to redefine how we interact with the digital world. But will Rabbit’s R1 and Humane’s Ai Pin truly replace our smartphones anytime soon? For Humane’s Ai Pin in particular, the critiques on its limitations have been intense, with many reviewers like MKBHD calling out its shortcomings in fulfilling its ambitious promise. And Rabbit’s R1 just arrived for those who preordered, so we’re finding its strengths and limitations in real time.
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- Thermonator's Flamethrower Robot Dog | TechCrunch
- Date posted
- 5 days ago
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- Fire extinguishers at the ready 🧯
This flamethrower-wielding robot dog is for sale and demand is crashing their site
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- Noncompete agreements banned in the U.S. by the FTC | TechCrunch Minute
- Date posted
- 5 days ago
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- It could soon be easier than ever to quit your job and work for a competitor — or start a new business altogether. This week, the FTC voted 3-to-2 to ban noncompete agreements in the US. In today’s TechCrunch Minute, Anthony Ha explores what this means for the tech industry and workers looking to make a career move.
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- Perplexity AI is raising a lot more money for a $2.5-3 billion valuation | TechCrunch Minute
- Date posted
- 6 days ago
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- Perplexity, the AI search engine startup, just announced that it raised $62.7 million at a $1.04 billion valuation. But it turns out the startup is actually raising more — a lot more. Perplexity is looking to raise at least $250M at a valuation between $2.5 billion and $3 billion. Today’s TechCrunch Minute explores the latest round attempt, the massive push by investors and big tech companies to keep their AI cadence up, and the signs of weakness in the startup AI market.
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- Founder fraud is a symptom of an overheated market l TechCrunch Minute
- Date posted
- 7 days ago
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- Are founders getting more fraudulent or are we just on the tail end of an overheated market? The latest founder fraudster, Manish Lachwani of HeadSpin, has just been sentenced to 18 months in prison and a $1 million fine. Lachwani is one of many founders who have been caught inflating numbers, misleading investors, or straight up lying about what their technology can do. TechCrunch’s Alex Wilhelm discusses why it seems like founder fraud is on the rise and why we’ll probably be seeing more of these cases in the quarters to come.
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- Bringing down sky scrapers' sky-high carbon footprint with Joselyn Lai from Bedrock
- Date posted
- 7 days ago
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- Most skyscrapers have sky-high carbon footprints due mostly to inefficient methods of heating and cooling. Today’s guest, Joselyn Lai is the co-founder and CEO of Bedrock Energy (https://bedrockenergy.com/) , a company that works with buildings to install geothermal systems. They have developed a system to drill the exact amount of boreholes at the precise depth needed to create the most efficient system per building.
Today Dom is joined by a special guest host, TechCrunch Climate reporter Tim De Chant (https://techcrunch.com/author/tim-de-chant/) .
In this conversation they cover:
• How the company has built up a customer base of urban builders
• Why it's easy to fundraise when the technology has been proven to be so effective
• Creating clean energy jobs for people who work in oil and gas
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- Tesla runs into trouble with Cybertruck recall l TechCrunch Minute
- Date posted
- 8 days ago
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- Tesla is recalling every Cybertruck shipped due to an issue with the accelerator pedals that causes them to get stuck in the footwell and putting the driver at risk. Tesla is now retooling or replacing all accelerator pedals on Cybertrucks, in what has been the second recall so far for the vehicle. The announcement came at the end of a pretty tumultuous week for Tesla, with layoffs, executive exits. And this week, we’ll see what their Q1 earnings look like. TechCrunch’s Alex Wilhelm breaks down what the recall means for the EV manufacturer and if more bad news could be coming down the pike.
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- Mobile ALOHA | Zipeng Fu, Tony Z. Zhao, Chelsea Finn | TechCrunch
- Date posted
- 9 days ago
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- Mobile ALOHA is a low-cost and whole-body teleoperation system for data collection from PhD students at Stanford University
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- Meta claims Llama 3 is the most advanced open source AI yet l TechCrunch Minute
- Date posted
- 11 days ago
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- Meta is advancing its AI, and putting AI products in more and more places across Facebook and Instagram. Meta has added two more models into their generative AI family: Llama 3 8B and Llama 3 70B. These generative AI models are notable because they are trained on a massive data set which should make them smarter, quicker, and all around better for the user. At least that is what Meta’s messaging is pushing. TechCrunch’s Alex Wilhelm discusses how Llama 3 stands up against the competition and where Meta users may see them put to use.
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- NASA calls it quits for Mars mission, seeks help from startups l TechCrunch Minute
- Date posted
- 12 days ago
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- NASA is scrapping their $11 billion, 15-year Mars Sample Return Mission. The agency is shopping for a commercial partner to take on the challenge at a lower cost and on a quicker time frame—space startups are clamoring to throw their hat in the ring.
While the situation could be read as an admission by NASA that it's no longer feasible to take on these massive missions on its own, the move to preemptively opt for a leaner Mars program fueled by commercial ambitions seems to have no obvious downside. TechCrunch’s Alex Wilhelm discusses what this means for the space industry and the players—big and small—who are focusing on planetary research.
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- Boston Dynamics debuts stunning new Atlas humanoid robot l TechCrunch Minute
- Date posted
- 13 days ago
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- What makes for an impressive humanoid robot? Boston Dynamics has a new Atlas model that ditches the hydraulics and is electrically powered. The new Atlas robot is leaner, but not meaner — it’s actually designed to be more approachable and less industrial. But its improved range of motion is still intended to help it perform those industrial tasks, and with its compact size and ability to maneuver fairly gracefully, it can unlock new use cases and possible work environments. TechCrunch’s Alex Wilhelm discusses what this could mean for robots entering the workplace.
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- Tesla layoffs are just one of many challenges facing the EV pioneer | TechCrunch Minute
- Date posted
- 14 days ago
- Description
- Tesla’s layoffs and executive departures could spell out financial trouble for the EV manufacturer after a long run of success. After laying off at least 10 percent of its staff, the company is shifting its focus in the face of declining demand of EVs and declining margins after a spree of cost cutting. And this comes after an already tough year for Tesla, as its market cap has dropped 35 percent, the Cybertruck’s release has been met with a muted response, and its rivals in China are picking up market share. TechCrunch’s Alex Wilhelm explores what Tesla’s investors are hopeful for in the future.
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- Building EV charging infrastructure that lasts with Louis Tremblay from FLO
- Date posted
- 14 days ago
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- In order to get drivers to convert from gas-powered cars to electric, there needs to be reliable charging infrastructure. Today on Found, Dom and Becca are joined by Louis Tremblay, the CEO and founder of FLO (https://www.flo.com/) , a company that manufactures electric vehicle charging stations and has been creating charging infrastructure in the US and Canada for the last 15 years. Tremblay also talked about how he intentionally built this company to be a rewarding and fun place to work and what advice he has for new founders trying to do the same.
In this conversation they cover:
• The components that go into creating superchargers for public use and why these isn’t just one kind of EV plug
• The process of working with cities to design charging stations that reflect the character of the city
• The importance of developing the hardware alongside the software to create the best customer experience possible
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- Whatever happened to the Apple Vision Pro? | TechCrunch Minute
- Date posted
- 15 days ago
- Description
- What happened to the Apple Vision Pro? When it launched in February, hype around the spatial computing headset was inescapable…until it wasn’t. From the hefty $3,500 price tag, to returns due to headaches or poor fit, and a general lack of convenience, TechCrunch’s Alex Wilhelm explores why the device doesn’t fit our needs today, and what would need to change for consumers to get on board.
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- Apple changes its tune on the right to repair movement | TechCrunch Minute
- Date posted
- 18 days ago
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- For years, Apple opposed the right to repair movement by limiting what you can actually do to fix your broken iPhone. But now, the company is opening the market to used iPhone parts. Components that don’t require configuration, like volume buttons, were already capable of being harvested from used devices. But now all components — including the battery, display and camera — will be able to be used for repairs.
With this rollout, iPhones can last longer and customers can save money on expensive repairs or outright replacements. And if iPhones are lasting longer, the amount of e-waste created by the yearly iPhone buying cycle is reduced.
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- LG's mini portable printer Imprintu | TechCrunch
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
- Description
- With vegan temporary tattoo ink and an image resolution of 600 DPI, is Imprintu worth its $399 price tag?
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- TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook can’t stop copying each other | TechCrunch Minute
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
- Description
- When did every social media site start to feel — and look — the same? TikTok has recently been developing a photo sharing app, rumored to be called TikTok Notes, that appears to take direct inspiration from Instagram.
From Instagram making its own version of Snapchat Stories to LinkedIn implementing vertical video, TechCrunch’s Alex Wilhelm explores why social media platforms can’t stop copying off one another.
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- Why Google’s Gemini Code Assist needs devs to pick it over Copilot | TechCrunch Minute
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
- Description
- Google’s new coding assistant underscores how quickly AI is improving at helping developers write code — but how far can it really go? At its Cloud Next conference, Google announced Gemini Code Assist, an enterprise-focused AI code completion and assistance tool. While the tool is expected to be a direct competitor to GitHub’s Copilot Enterprise, it also signals how big tech companies clearly want to apply AI to helping developers write code and other programming tasks.
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- Spotify’s launching AI playlists…will you listen? | TechCrunch Minute
- Date posted
- 21 days ago
- Description
- Spotify wants to help you make more customized playlists with AI. Following the popularity of its AI DJ feature, Spotify is now testing the ability to create AI-generated playlists with text prompts. Rather than just basing a playlist off of genre or decade, you can guide the AI with specific feelings, colors and other associations for a more personalized experience. The feature is only available to users in the UK and Australia to start, though that’s not too uncommon for testing new products before taking them to a global audience.
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- Giving old wood new life with Ben Christensen from Cambium
- Date posted
- 21 days ago
- Description
- If you’re not in construction or in the middle of a renovation, you might not think much about wood waste but in 2018 alone landfills in the US received 12.2 million tons of wood. Most of this is useful material that could be reused, but the lack of infrastructure means the wasted wood can't always reach the developers, woodworkers, and creators who need it. This week on Found, we're talking to a founder who has a SaaS solution for this broken supply chain. Ben Christensen is the founder and CEO of Cambium (https://cambiumcarbon.com/) , a company that is reimagining the wood supply chain and reallocating previously wasted wood to be used in new building projects.
In this conversation they cover:
• Learning to navigate the logistics of sourcing, selling, and shipping wood to customers
• Building a team culture based on the individual and avoiding a one size fits all approach
• Onboarding customers who may be adverse to tech...
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- Quantum computing’s next era could be led by Microsoft and Quantinuum | TechCrunch Minute
- Date posted
- 22 days ago
- Description
- Microsoft has joined forces with Quantinuum to move quantum computing into its next phase. Last week, the teams announced they were able to run more than 14,000 experiments without a single error. This shows exponential growth in quantum computing from just a few years ago — and promises some incredibly powerful computers coming in the not so distant future. In this episode of TechCrunch Minute, TechCrunch’s Alex Wilhelm dives into the recent breakthrough and how it could exponentially accelerate our ability to solve extremely complex problems.
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- Boston Dynamics' Spot | TechCrunch
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
- Description
- Watch Boston Dynamics' Spot showcase its ability to adjust to disturbances as it opens a door 🤖
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- YC’s Demo Day shows we’re in an AI startup bubble | TechCrunch Minute
- Date posted
- 25 days ago
- Description
- Y Combinator’s Demo Day is back with a new crop of startups. The startup accelerator invests in hundreds of companies each year, putting them through a program that helps them focus, grow, and raise capital. This time around, there was a clear focus on AI for most of the companies, highlighting the AI startup bubble we seem to be in these days. In this video, Alex Wilhelm highlights some of the standout startups that participated in this cycle.
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- Anthropic researchers find a way to jailbreak AI | TechCrunch Minute
- Date posted
- 26 days ago
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- Researchers at Anthropic just found a new way to trick AI into giving you information it’s not supposed to. AI companies have attempted to keep chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Google’s Gemini from sharing dangerous information with a varying degree of success.
But Anthropic researchers found a new way around current AI guardrails: a new approach they’re calling “many-shot jailbreaking.” It works by asking a chatbot simple questions to trick it into giving you information it normally wouldn’t later the conversation. As with many things with AI, it’s unclear why it works — but what we do know is that something within the latest language learning models allows them to home in on what a user wants.
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- Yahoo buys Artifact news app from Instagram’s co-founders | TechCrunch Minute
- Date posted
- 27 days ago
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- Yahoo is buying Artifact, the news startup launched by Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. The company’s personalization technology will be integrated across Yahoo, including the Yahoo News app, in the coming months. At this point, the app will no longer exist in its original form.
The acquisition comes months after the company said it would be winding down operations. During the transition, Systrom and Krieger say they will work with Yahoo in an “advisory capacity,” though it's unclear what their roles will be in the future.
Disclosure: Yahoo is TechCrunch’s parent company.
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- Making healthy food accessible to everyone with Nick Green from Thrive Market
- Date posted
- 28 days ago
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- Between the rising cost of groceries and the all too common food desert, access to healthy and affordable food in America is getting harder to find. Today’s guest, Nick Green is the co-founder and CEO of Thrive Market (https://thrivemarket.com/) , a membership-based online grocery store that focuses on natural and organic food and household products. Thrive Market isn’t just focused on offering healthy options, they want to ensure everyone has access to them so they’ve become the first online grocer to accept SNAP and EBT (https://www.specialtyfood.com/news-media/news-features/specialty-food-news/thrive-market-accepts-snap-ebt/) benefits. In this episode, Green discusses how it’s possible to build a business that is a shareholder-driven business and a business that cares about the stakeholders.
They also talked about:
• The logistics of running a grocery company sustainably from the beginning
• Their unusual path to funding
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- AT&T data breach affects over 70 million current, former customers | TechCrunch Minute
- Date posted
- 28 days ago
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- A new AT&T data breach has reset millions of customer account passcodes after a huge trove of customer records leaked online. After TechCrunch alerted the company to the cybersecurity issue, AT&T said it has launched an investigation.
According to AT&T, the data set so far appears to be from 2019 or earlier, impacting approximately 7.6 million current AT&T customers and approximately 65.4 million former customers and includes AT&T customer names, home addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and Social Security numbers. We break down what this means for you and how you can protect your information.
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- Amazon doubles down on AI with another investment in Anthropic | TechCrunch Minute
- Date posted
- 29 days ago
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- Amazon invested another $2.75 billion into AI company Anthropic last week. The flush of cash completes a planned $4 billion deal between the companies. The move signifies the sheer amount of capital in the AI arms race from big tech companies: Microsoft has invested $10 billion in OpenAI, Volkswagen invested $2.6 billion in Argo AI, and Anthropic received another $2 billion from Google.
Essentially, big tech companies are competing via their checkbooks in a space where they can’t take majority stakes – so we end up with each betting that their investments can develop the future of AI.
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- Nike's Back to the Future self-lacing shoes | TechCrunch
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Would you wear Nike's Back to the Future self-lacing shoes?
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- Sam Bankman-Fried’s sentencing ends a chapter of the FTX saga | TechCrunch Minute
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after being found guilty on all seven counts related to fraud and money laundering. It’s a lengthy sentence, but it’s certainly shorter than the potential maximum of 110 years.
As a reminder, the DOJ’s 2022 indictment stated Bankman-Fried knowingly defrauded FTX customers by misusing their deposits to invest in other companies and pay off lenders and expenses. SBF’s sentencing marks the end of one of the most interesting sagas in crypto as the industry as a whole sees greater gains.
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- SBF's sentencing, Robinhood's new credit card, and more woes for Fisker | Equity Podcast
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- On today's episode, TechCrunch's Alex Wilhelm, Mary Ann Azevedo, and Kirsten Korosec dive into SBF's 25 year prison sentence, Robinhood's new credit card, and Fisker's latest woes.
Equity is a show about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. New episodes drop at 7 a.m. PT every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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- Why a16z-backed Wonderschool is acquiring EarlyDay | Equity Podcast
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- On this episode of Equity, Alex Wilhelm sits down with Emma Harris, Melissa Tran, and Chris Bennet about Wonderschool acquisition of EarlyDay, what’s ahead for the education sector, and more.
Equity is a show about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. New episodes drop at 7 a.m. PT every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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- Instagram is distancing itself (and you) from political content | TechCrunch Minute
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Meta’s Instagram and Threads apps now filter out political content from people you don’t follow by default. During a U.S. election year, Instagram's billions of users now won’t be able to see anything the algorithm deems political unless they purposefully change their settings.
Some users find the changes alarming as Instagram has become a key tool for community organizing and disseminating information. Instagram’s definition of political content is broad, including "laws, elections or social topics," and the change is just one of many recent content decisions by Instagram and Meta to distance itself from politics and reduce user exposure to news.
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- Robinhood’s first credit card is here to compete with Apple | TechCrunch Minute
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Robinhood is looking to catch up to the Apple Card. The consumer trading service announced its long-anticipated credit card, the Gold Card, to compete with Apple’s offering. Open only to subscribers of Robinhood Gold, the Gold Card features 3% cash back on all purchases and the ability for users to transfer cash earned to their brokerage accounts.
As Apple expands into more fintech services, Robinhood is racing to eat a portion of the same market — users who prefer a tech-first option over a traditional banking relationship.
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- The departure of Stability AI’s CEO is a message to AI startups | TechCrunch Minute
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Why would the CEO of a billion-dollar AI startup jump ship? Last week, Stability AI founder and CEO Emad Mostaque announced he is leaving the company to work on decentralized AI. Despite raising a lot of capital thus far, the maker of AI image generator Stable Diffusion has been faced with departures and other issues. The company’s hurdles reveal that while the costs of building AI models are clear – the revenue side is much less so.
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- Only AI can prevent forest fires with Allison Wolff from Vibrant Planet
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Every wildfire season seems to be getting more intense than the last but today’s guest is here to tell us that wildfires actually have a good side. Today on Found, we’re joined by Allison Wolff (https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/05/vibrant-planet-series-a/) , the co-founder and CEO of Vibrant Planet (https://www.vibrantplanet.net/) , a cloud-based planning and monitoring tool for adaptive land management. Wolff discusses why the wildfires we’re seeing today are hotter and spreading more quickly than we can contain and how proper land management can help create the environment needed for the lower, slower burning fires forrest need.
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• How Wolff’s previous experience working with leaders at tech giants like Facebook and Netflix helped shape her leadership style
• The importance of working with indigenous groups to learn how people have been managing the land for centuries
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- Palma e-reader from Boox | TechCrunch
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Boox’s latest e-reader combines a quiet, compact style with big customization.
Boox has a wide array of devices to choose from, but the Palma makes a good case for a powerful, compact alternative to Kindle and Kobo.
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- Spotify tests video courses to throw its hat in the edtech ring | Equity Podcast
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- On this episode, TechCrunch's Alex Wilhelm discusses how stocks around the world are in retreat while crypto prices have themselves given back some recent gains, the exit of Stability AI’s CEO, and why Spotify’s next push is another non-musical effort.
Equity is a show about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. New episodes drop at 7 a.m. PT every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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- The company behind Truth Social is now a public entity | TechCrunch Minute
- Date posted
- 1 month ago
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- Trump Media and Technology Group, the social media company behind Truth Social, has merged with its chosen SPAC and started to trade. Trump Media as a company is not a super great business, according to SEC filings, but with that and great debuts from Reddit and Astera Labs in the same week, it could signal good news for the IPO window.
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