What are public market investors looking for in IPOs?
IPOs today are getting outsized attention and interest — and we haven’t even broken the seal with venture-backed tech companies yet.
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Meta launches an AI research community, but devotes few resources to it
Angling to stay relevant in the exploding AI field, Meta is launching a new organization, the Open Innovation AI Research Community, to foster what it describes as “transparency, innovation and collaboration” among AI researchers. Initially, the focus of the group will be the privacy, safety and security of large language models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT; […]
Crypto is known for financial use cases, but how can it grow from there?
To help keep track of nonfinancial use cases for crypto, Polygon Labs released The Value Prop, a database of the various ways web3 can be implemented.
Instagram is making it easier to create Reels with the app’s templates
Instagram announced today that it’s introducing updates to its Reels templates to make it even easier for users to create engaging short-form videos, as the social media giant continues to compete with TikTok. The company is launching a new “Template Browser” that will let users sift through templates by categories. You can browse templates based […]
TechCrunch+ Roundup: Firing yourself as CEO, board deck basics, venture debt explained
Feeling pretty confident about the marketing slides you’ve prepared for your upcoming board meeting? If so, you may be on the wrong track.
Thousands of authors sign letter urging AI makers to stop stealing books
If you ask GPT-4 to do a passage in the style of Carmen Machado or Margaret Atwood or Alexander Chee, it will do a fair job at it, and for good reason: it likely ingested all their works in the training process, and now uses their ingenuity for its own. But these authors, and thousands […]
Twitter to support long-form articles with mixed media, Elon Musk confirms
Twitter Notes, the feature that would allow Twitter users to publish long-form content on the platform, appears to be back on track, according to a post from Twitter owner Elon Musk on Tuesday. The Twitter owner confirmed the company’s plans in response to a user’s tweet which claimed the Twitter Notes project had recently been […]
What to do when customers say yes but VCs say no with Catherine Tabor from Sparkly
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Becca and Dom are joined by Catherine Tabor, the founder and CEO of Sparkfly, a company that helps brands with marketing and customer engagement. Tabor talked about building a company fluid enough to adapt to changing technology trends over the last […]
What’s going on with Greenwood and The Gathering Spot?
The turn of events hasn’t been received well by Black professionals who were part of the TGS community.
Framework Laptop 16 now available for pre-order, starting at $1,399
Framework announced today that pre-orders for the Framework Laptop 16 are now open for customers in the US, Canada, Germany, France, UK, Netherlands, Austria, Ireland and Australia. The Laptop 16 is powered by the latest-generation AMD Ryzen and Radeon GPUs. Prices start at $1,399 for the DIY Edition and $1,699 for pre-built systems with Ryzen […]