Here’s why some investor are sitting out of YC Demo Day
TechCrunch+ heard from 15 VCs about why or why not they are tuning in to YC’s Demo Day festivities this week.
AI professors are negotiating the new realities of academic research
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last week, I headed 30 miles south of San Francisco to a hotel in Mountain View, California, to join some of the most accomplished, and some of the most promising, AI…
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A Traveler Says She and Her Friends Spent $4,000 to Get Home to the U.S. from Ireland — All Because Customs Was Closed at the Airport
It wasn’t just passengers affected — airport and hotel staff, shuttle drivers, and restaurant workers were all reportedly stressed by the influx of stuck passengers.
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It offers more than 3,000 optimized prompts across marketing, research, ideas, business planning, SEO, content creation, and more.
‘Day-Trippers’ Will Have to Pay a Fee to Visit Venice, Italy Starting Spring 2024. Here’s What You Need to Know.
Visitors 14 years or older will be charged a day-trip fee of 5 euros ($5.35) to enter.
Tech companies are finding their profitability groove
Tech companies are getting the hang of making money, or at least they’re losing far less than they used to when money was cheap and “growth” was sexy.
Tubi sees impressive growth, with over 74M monthly active users
Tubi, the Fox-owned free ad-supported TV streaming (FAST) service, announced today that it surpassed 74 million monthly active users, up from 64 million in February. The FAST service also reported nearly four billion streaming hours for the first half of this year. According to Nielsen’s July Gauge report, Tubi reached 1.4% of total TV viewing […]
The Polestar 4 will launch in China with its own smartphone
Polestar, the Swedish EV maker owned by China’s Geely Holdings, plans to launch a smartphone alongside its upcoming SUV the Polestar 4. CEO Thomas Ingenlath shared the company’s smartphone plans with CNBC during the IAA Mobility event in Germany. Polestar confirmed the news with TechCrunch, noting that this is part of the joint venture announced […]
Need to Supercharge Innovation at Your Company? Try This.
We tried everything from hackathons to Google’s “20% time.” Here’s why we landed on “Blue Sky Week” as the biggest innovation payoff.
Taking the Fight to Procrastination on September 6
On September 6, we celebrate Fight Procrastination Day. This is your chance to deal with your procrastination problems. To be fair, each of us has felt the powerful urge to…
500 Global closes $143M fund for Southeast Asia startups
500 Global, the venture firm and seed accelerator, has closed $143 million in financing for what it claims is its largest Southeast Asia early-stage fund to date. The new tranche, 500 Southeast Asia III, or “500 SEA III” for short, counts a sovereign wealth fund, public and private pension funds, a university endowment and 500 […]