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Helium Health, the African startup that provides software-as-a-service tools, financing, and insights for healthcare providers and public health organizations, has raised $30 million in Series B funding.  The news is coming three years after the Lagos-headquartered healthtech secured a $10 million Series A and 18 months following a rare Africa-GCC deal involving UAE-based healthcare provider-patient…

A conversation with Lidiane Jones about Slack’s future In a flurry of activity at the end of last year, Salesforce announced that co-CEO Bret Taylor was stepping down. Shortly thereafter, Slack co-founder and CEO Stewart Butterfield announced his exit. We would soon learn that his replacement would be Lidiane Jones, who at the time was…

Volkswagen enters a time machine for its latest electric vehicle…

The e-commerce giant is reportedly in negotiations to offer free wireless to the subscribers of its Prime service…

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Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that recaps the week in tech. Hope the summer’s treating y’all well — it’s a balmy 90 degrees here in NYC! — and that some much-needed R&R is on the agenda. Speaking of “agenda,” mark your calendars for Disrupt, TC’s annual conference, kicking off…

W elcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. This week, I explore how one VC is feeling about a big chunk of her portfolio pivot into AI. And I have some…

AI researchers have built a Minecraft bot that can explore and expand its capabilities in the game’s open world — but unlike other bots, this one basically wrote its own code through trial and error and lots of GPT-4 queries. Called Voyager, this experimental system is an example of an “embodied agent,” an AI that…

Henry Hauser Contributor Share on Twitter Henry Hauser is counsel in Perkins Coie’s antitrust and litigation practice groups and has significant experience working on matters related to antitrust investigations and litigation under Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act and Section 7 of the Clayton Act. Shylah Alfonso Contributor Shylah Alfonso is Firmwide Chair…

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