The National Institute of Standards and Technology could fire as many as 500 staffers, according to multiple reports — cuts that further threaten a fledgling AI safety organization. Axios reported this week that the US AI Safety Institute (AISI) and Chips for America, both part of NIST, would be “gutted” by layoffs targeting probationary employees […]
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“Growth at all costs” doesn’t work when capital isn’t readily available or when it is very expensive from a dilution perspective.
The rules of VC are changing: Here’s what founders should be considering in the new era by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch
Meta has announced that it’s shutting down its Cameo-like app, Super, on February 15, 2023. The company says when it began developing Super in 2020, it had hoped to create a virtual meet and greet experience that was similar to what you experience at a real-life event like VidCon on Comic-Con. “What we found we’d […]
Meta is shutting down its Cameo-like ‘Super’ app in February by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch
Hello and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. To end the year, we are bringing back our predictions episode with the entire Equity crew: Alex, Natasha, Mary Ann, Maggie, Theresa, and Becca. Grace couldn’t make the mic but we have a […]
Equity’s 2023 predictions on the future of building, crypto and AI by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch
Dropbox today announced that it’s acquired FormSwift, a cloud-based platform designed to help businesses build, edit, approve, share and print custom personalized and documents. Under the terms of the agreement, which closed yesterday, Dropbox says that it’ll pay $95 million in cash for the San Francisco-based startup, which will soon join the Dropbox team. In […]
Dropbox buys form management platform FormSwift for $95M in cash by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Unless you’ve been circulating in the startup ecosystem for a long time, the chances are that your list of founder buddies or investor friends is pretty short. Now, you may have to do a bit more work.
Startup founders, this is how you get your first investor meeting by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch
Kuona’s tools integrate with a CPG company’s data and leverage neural networks to determine which promotions best increase sales.
This startup bagged $6M to show you which promotions bring ROI and which don’t by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
European Union lawmakers have wasted no time warning Twitter-owner Elon Musk over “arbitrary suspension of journalists” following reports late yesterday that a number of reporters who had recently written about Musk had had their Twitter accounts suspended without warning. Věra Jourová, an EU vice-president for values and transparency, took to Twitter this morning to tweet the […]
Europe wastes no time warning Musk over ‘arbitrary suspension of journalists’ by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch