Tag: Startup

As the fervor around generative AI grows, critics have called on the creators of the tech to take steps to mitigate its potentially harmful effects. In particular, text-generating AI in particular has gotten a lot of attention — and with good reason. Students could use it to plagiarize, content farms could use it to spam…

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important crypto stories delivered to your inbox every Thursday at 12 p.m. PT, subscribe here. Welcome back to Chain Reaction. The past few weeks in crypto land have been focused on the latest craze: Ordinals. What are Ordinals, you might ask? They’re NFT-like Bitcoin digital artifacts…

There’s still a surprising number of open jobs When you lose 100,000 jobs in one month, as happened in tech in January, it’s easy to think that the bottom is falling out of the tech jobs market. The torrent of big company layoffs has been swift and brutal, with Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Salesforce, among…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinSurrounded by Monterrey defenders, Cruz Azul’s Augusto Lotti, second left, looks at the ball as he … [+] try’s to score during a Mexican Soccer League match at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Tomas Stargardter) Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved TOCA…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinFRANKFURT, GERMANY – JUNE 13: A huge euro logo is seen in front of the headquarters of the European … [+] Central Bank (ECB) on June 13, 2005 in Frankfurt, Germany. The German economy was suffering due to the dollar’s rise against most major currencies on Monday, especially the…

The importance of KYC and identity verification in an increasing fintech landscape like Africa’s cannot be overemphasized. As thousands of financial institutions serve millions of Africans, stringent regulatory requirements are needed to keep hackers and fraudsters at bay, which is why investor interest in startups offering KYC and identity verification services is intensifying. Smile Identity,…

The legendary financier continued to buy Tesla shares in the fourth quarter despite the electric vehicle maker’s stock market rout…

Oligo Security, a Tel Aviv-based startup that focuses on runtime application security and observability to detect and prevent open-source vulnerabilities, is coming out of stealth today and announcing that it has raised a total of $28 million in seed and Series A funding. The company’s investors include Lightspeed Venture Partners, Ballistic Ventures and TLV Partners,…

There are as many link-in-bio tools available for creators as the number of links they typically display on their pages. But there is one more addition to it. Sequoia-backed startup Bento is launching its tool to let users display their work in an elegant way across both desktop and mobile. Bento, which has been under…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinZeekr’s flagship model, the Zeekr 001, on display in Shanghai, China. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg Zeekr, an electric vehicle brand of Chinese billionaire Li Shufu’s Geely Holding Group, announced on Monday it raised $750 million from investors including Chinese billionaire Robin Zeng’s Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), the world’s largest EV battery…