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9:16 AM PDT · June 20, 2025 African B2B e-commerce startup Sabi has laid off around 20% of its workforce (~50 employees) as it pivots from its original retail-focused platform to double down on a growing business in commodity exports. The layoffs, confirmed by the company on Thursday, are part of a broader restructuring aimed…

In Brief Posted: 8:32 AM PDT · June 20, 2025 Image Credits:David Paul Morris/Bloomberg / Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg’s AI talent hiring spree continues. In recent months, Meta tried to acquire Safe Superintelligence, the $32 billion AI startup co-founded by OpenAI’s former chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, according to a report from CNBC on Thursday. Sutskever…

Concerned citizens have turned to an app once used largely for lost deliveries to make public service announcements about ICE raids in their communities. Neighbors, an app originally designed for Ring doorbell users, is typically used by people looking for lost pets or missing packages. But last week, horrified by ICE raids in and around

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When Joe Kinvi joined Touchtech Payments in 2017 as head of finance, the Irish startup couldn’t afford his full salary. So he negotiated for stock to make up the difference. Eighteen months later, Stripe acquired the company, and that equity converted into Stripe shares, enough to let Kinvi leave his job, bootstrap a side project,…

Last year was monumental for the AI industry in the U.S. and beyond. There were 49 startups that raised funding rounds worth $100 million or more in 2024, per our count at TechCrunch; three companies raised more than one “mega-round,” and seven companies raised rounds that were $1 billion in size or larger. How will…

Tesla, Kia, and Volkswagen took six of the top 10 spots in the 2025 American-Made Index, which ranks vehicles built and bought in the U.S…

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Image Credits:Cluely 4:09 PM PDT · June 17, 2025 The latest San Francisco startup culture drama happened on Monday night. And it centered around “the most legendary party that never happened,” Cluely founder and CEO Roy Lee tells TechCrunch. Cluely had hoped to throw an after-party for a Y Combinator event occurring on Monday and…

The borders between Creators and showbiz are blurring. Edited by Steven Bertoni. Reporting by Zoya Hasan and Alexandra York. Photography by Cody Pickens for Forbes In 2025, creators continue to rewrite the script for the media and entertainment industries. MrBeast’s reality game show broke viewership records on Amazon. Alex Cooper, Matt Rife, and Jake Shane