Women In AI: Irene Solaiman, head of global policy at Hugging Face
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch is launching a series of...
Yes, Threads is running a fact-checking program, but the system isn’t fully rolled out
Threads, Meta’s Twitter-like service and competitor to X, may be distancing itself from politics, but that doesn’t mean it won’t try to tackle...
Video game startups might be a bright spot for VC in 2024
The global video game industry makes more money each year than movies and music combined. But that doesn’t mean the sector was immune...
Can’t decide between Bluesky, Mastodon and Nostr? Nootti’s new app lets you post to...
Managing a social presence these days can be tough. It’s even tougher for those who are experimenting with the new wave of Twitter-like...
Amazon and SpaceX are quietly trying to demolish national labor law
Amazon alleged in a legal filing published Friday morning that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is unconstitutional. SpaceX and Trader Joe’s —...
A peek inside Alphabet’s $7 billion growth-stage investing arm, CapitalG
Almost a year ago, Alphabet’s growth stage venture arm, CapitalG, named partner Laela Sturdy as its new head, just as the unit’s founder,...
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Motional loses a backer, another micromobility bankruptcy and a mobility startup unicorn is born
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Secretive moon startup led by ex-Blue Origin leaders raises new tranche of funding
A stealth startup led by ex-Blue Origin leaders, focused on harvesting resources from the moon, has quietly closed a sizable new tranche of...
Perhaps this is why the bitcoin spot ETFs are yet to send crypto prices...
The long-awaited launch of bitcoin spot ETFs in the United States this year helped engender a wave of optimism that the value of...