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The American electric vehicle carmaker will build a super battery manufacturing plant in Shanghai…

The inability to accurately assess risk for insurance purposes is costing the industry a lot of money. Earlier this year, State Farm reported that its property and casualty underwriting business took a $13 billion hit in 2022 due to “rapidly increasing claims severity and significant additions to prior accident year incurred claims.” Axle is trying…

A new state bill might move the needle for V2G charging If you have solar panels on your roof, it makes sense to add batteries, too, so you have some degree of self-sufficiency should you lose power. In fact, it might be a good idea to have such a storage system even if you don’t…

Apple has issued iOS 16.4.1, and the iPhone update comes with a warning to update now. That’s because iOS 16.4.1 fixes two security vulnerabilities—both of which are being used in real-life attacks. Apple doesn’t offer much detail about what’s fixed in iOS 16.4.1, to give iPhone users time to update to the new software. Tracked…

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. I spent quite a bit of time lately looking at the latest in insurtech. What’s great about zooming in on a sector is…

Tesla’s CEO is due to visit, according to Bloomberg News, the Tesla factory in Shanghai, China, this weekend, amid tensions between Washington and Beijing…

Anthony Cimino Contributor Anthony Cimino, head of policy at Carta, works with policymakers and innovators to drive economic opportunity through expanding equity ownership and private market liquidity. More posts by this contributor Holli Heiles Pandol Contributor With the failure of Silicon Valley Bank, the U.S. startup ecosystem lost an important business partner. But the greater…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinSoviet T-55 tanks in Poland during the 1981 martial-law crisis. Wikimedia Commons Having lost at least 2,000 tanks in its 14-month wider war on Ukraine, and struggling to source the high-tech components its needs to build new tanks, Russia has been pulling out of long-term storage hundreds of 60-year-old…

It’s that time of the week, folks: Week in Review (WiR) time. If you’re new to WiR, it’s the newsletter where TechCrunch recaps the week in tech that was. We get it — you’re a busy person. We all are. So what better way to catch up on what’s happened than in a summarized, bullet-point…

You don’t need to move to San Francisco to launch a startup, but working here does have some advantages: moderate weather, natural beauty, great food, and sure, the world’s largest concentration of venture capital. Y Combinator’s Demo Day took place this week, and although the event itself was virtual-only, 86% of the founders in YC’s…