While hiring freezes at Big Tech firms might be hurting certain AI investments, it’s clear that there remains a strong appetite throughout the enterprise for AI technologies — whether developed in-house or outsourced to third parties. According to a McKinsey survey from early December, AI adoption at companies has more than doubled since 2017, with…
Aztec Network, a privacy layer for web3, has raised $100 million in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), the startup’s co-founders Zac Williamson and Joe Andrews exclusively told TechCrunch. “At a high level, Aztec is an encrypted version of Ethereum,” Andrews said. “Normally on Ethereum everything is public, but we are making…
President Joe Biden took to social media recently to announce that Americans can once again order free covid-19 tests. “Covid cases are rising across America as folks gather for the holidays,” Biden tweeted on Dec. 15. “That’s why, starting today, every household can order 4 free Covid tests to be shipped straight to your door.”…
Agriculture produces what might be some of the hardest planet-warming carbon emissions to eliminate. People need to eat, and right now, the way we make food generates a lot of greenhouse gases — about a third of the total created by human activity. There are some simple ways to reduce it, like eating less meat,…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinRedwood Materials is building a $3.5 billion plant near Charleston, South Carolina, as new battery plants are being built across the Southeast. getty Redwood Materials, the battery recycling and components maker created and run by Tesla cofounder JB Straubel, is accelerating its push to build a U.S. supply base…
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© Reuters. Workers walk past a construction site near residential buildings in Beijing, China April 14, 2022. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang/Files BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s new home prices fell for a fourth month in November in monthly terms, weighed by a sluggish economy and a still-ailing property sector, official data showed on Thursday, but recent favourable policies…
Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Ahead of Avatar: The Way Of Water’s long-awaited theatrical release this weekend, many critics applauded the movie as a worthy sequel and a technical marvel, setting it up to compete with its predecessor, which remains the highest-grossing movie of all time. Ride ’em, cowboy: Jake Sully, portrayed by…
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Why, hello there, Crunchianistas! Today, Haje is waltzing around the house, candle in hand, celebrating Saint Lucia. Honestly, not because he’s that excited about the traditional Scandinavian celebration or the excitement about…





