Tag: Startup

SpaceX was awarded an eight-launch, $733 million contract by the U.S. Space Force on Friday, as part of an ongoing program intended to foster competition among launch providers. The award includes seven launches for the Space Development Agency and one for the National Reconnaissance Office, all anticipated to use Falcon 9s and occur no earlier…

Acrew Capital has raised $700 million in fresh funds. The San Francisco-based venture capital firm announced in a blog post on Thursday that it raised $700 million to invest in companies building in data and security, healthcare, or fintech. This fundraise brings the firm’s assets under management to $1.7 billion…

SandboxAQ began as Alphabet’s moonshot AI and quantum computing and now has an impressive roster of projects. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only…

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Web hosting provider WP Engine has filed an injunction in a court in North California, asking it to intervene and restore its access to the WordPress.org open-source repository. After WP Engine filed a lawsuit against WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg and Automattic last month, Mulleweng — who also owns WordPress.org — blocked the company’s access to…

Former OpenAI technology chief Mira Murati to raise capital for new AI startup, sources say

Reuven (Rubi) Aronashvili, founder and CEO at CYE . For decades, the fight against cybercrime has resembled a high-stakes technological arms race. Firewalls were built, encryption protocols were tightened and new intrusion detection systems sprung up—all in an effort to stay ahead of ever-evolving hacking tools. Yet despite these advancements, cyberattacks continue to plague individuals

Byju Raveendran, the founder of the embattled edtech group Byju’s, acknowledged on Thursday afternoon that he made mistakes, mistimed the market, overestimated growth potential and that his startup, once valued at $22 billion, is now effectively worth “zero.” Speaking to a group of journalists, Raveendran said the company’s aggressive acquisition of more than two dozen…

The U.S. automotive safety regulator has opened a new investigation into Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software after four reported crashes in low-visibility situations. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only…

Tesla is facing an investigation by the NHTSA after a fatal accident involving its ‘Full Self Driving’ mode…