LatAm startups: Apply to Startup Battlefield 200
Here’s a shoutout to LatAm early-stage startup founders! We want YOU to apply for the Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. But...
Monta Vista Capital closes its largest fund to date
Seed-stage startups focused on business-to-business have another source of capital to go after. Monta Vista Capital secured $48 million in capital commitments for...
TechTaka raises $9.5M for its e-commerce fulfillment service
TechTaka, a South Korean online shopping fulfillment startup that provides third-party logistics services for e-commerce sellers, has raised $9.5 million (12.6 billion KRW)...
US chip export ban is hurting China’s AI startups, not so much the giants...
Well before Washington banned Nvidia’s exports of high-performance graphic processing units to China, the country’s tech giants had been hoarding them in anticipation...
The 20 best STEM toys to gift coders-in-training
There’s no doubt the STEM toys category has lost a bit of its magic. The hype that started about a decade ago, powering...
Proton VPN’s global domination continues with an even bigger server network
The Black Friday sales are fast approaching, and while it's great to have tons of bargains to choose from, picking out products can...
5 best Amazon Prime Video shows to watch this 4th of July weekend
After you’re done perusing the various things that are on sale on Amazon for the Fourth of July, you might decide to take...
Coinbase’s Q3 revenue beat expectations, but its shares fell as growth prospects underwhelmed
Coinbase, the second-largest crypto exchange by trading volume, released its Q3 2023 earnings on Thursday, giving shareholders and market participants an opportunity to...
OpenAI created a team to control ‘superintelligent’ AI — then let it wither, source...
OpenAI’s Superalignment team, responsible for developing ways to govern and steer “superintelligent” AI systems, was promised 20% of the company’s compute resources, according...
The SBF trial continues, Atlassian acquires Loom, and OpenAI explores making its personal chips
Happy Saturday, folks, and welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter that covers the major stories in tech over the past several...














