In a new regulatory filing, Netflix revealed that it paid $587 million in cash for InterPositive, a startup co-founded by actor and director Ben Affleck. The streaming company announced the acquisition in March, with a statement from Affleck saying he wanted to “protect the power of human creativity.” According to Affleck, InterPublic’s AI tools help…
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The window is almost shut. On August 19, eight startups will take the stage at Stripe Tour Sydney in front of investors, global press, and the Australian tech community. One startup walks away with automatic entry into TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco — no application, no further competition…
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It’s not just you: AI startups are taking in a huge amount of seed funding, and in the process making things harder for anyone looking for funding even at a pre-seed stage. We’ve covered the trend in detail, and at this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt event, we want to help pre-seed founders now being held to seed-stage…
Ask a chatbot whether you can afford a car, and it will give you an answer. It just won’t be very good because it cannot see your paycheck, rent, or other bills. However, your bank can see all of that. It just hasn’t done much with it…
Some Amazon customers logged on Friday to a surprise bill estimate claiming that they owed the tech and cloud giant billions in fees…
The internet map of the world is not drawn by engineers. It is drawn by lawyers, by regulators, and by whoever is willing to sign the local paperwork. A rocket can reach any patch of ground on Earth. A license cannot. That gap between what a technology can do and what a government will let…
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