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Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinPhoto by Jaap Arriens of NurPhoto via Getty Images NurPhoto via Getty Images Over the past decade, I’ve kept a close eye on the emergence of artificial intelligence in healthcare. Throughout, one truth remained constant: Despite all the hype, AI-focused startups and established tech companies alike have failed to…

Kakao Entertainment, owned by South Korean tech giant Kakao, will shut down the Korean branch of Tapas Entertainment, the U.S.-headquartered storytelling platform, next month.  Kakao Entertainment told TechCrunch that it plans to close the Korean office as part of a restructuring effort to zero in on the company’s North American and other global units. The…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Federal regulators will safeguard all deposits at Silicon Valley Bank, including money that isn’t normally covered by federal deposit insurance, the Treasury Department announced Sunday evening, a rare and sweeping move designed to prevent the tech-focused bank’s rapid collapse from infecting the rest of the U.S. financial system.…

U.K. tech founders, investors, and ecosystem leaders have been giving their reactions to the news that SVB UK will be rescued by HSBC. The bank purchased the operation for a nominal £1 overnight, averting insolvency proceedings that were due to start this morning. It said that it will be “business as usual” for its customers,…

The back-up payroll plan comes as regulators offer relief to SVB depositors Global payroll provider Deel plans to provide $120 million of its own cash off its balance sheet to support startups’ payroll operations in the wake of Silicon Valley Bank shutting down. It has teamed up with Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Y Combinator –…

Brex CEO Henrique Dubugras is currently working to raise over a billion dollars in a weekend to help fund an emergency bridge credit line that he believes will help startup customers impacted by Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse be able to make payroll next week. Dubugras declined to comment on how much capital has been committed…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk suggested Jacob Chansley—known as the “QAnon Shaman”—be freed from imprisonment in a tweet Friday evening, joining far-right figures like Marjorie Taylor Greene suddenly championing the January 6 rioter who was sentenced to over three years for storming the Capitol. Elon Musk tweeted…

Happy Friday, folks. It’s Kyle again, Greg’s stand-in for Week in Review. (He’ll be back in a few weeks’ time, not to worry.) If you’re a WiR newbie, it’s the newsletter where we recap the past five days in tech news. I might be biased, but I’d say it’s the best way for the busy…

The dust has yet to settle in the largest bank run in U.S. history, a collapse that in just 48 hours dismantled the tech startup-focused Silicon Valley Bank. But already a debate is raging in the venture capital community and investors are picking sides. On Friday, a group of more than two dozen venture capital…

Brett Adcock is the founder of Figure, an AI robotics company building a general-purpose humanoid robot. Previously, he founded Archer Aviation, an urban air mobility company that went public at $2.7B and Vettery, a machine learning-based talent marketplace that was acquired for $110M. Yesterday, the U.S. experienced its second-largest bank failure in history. In the…