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Get ready for an electrifying showdown as the “So You Think You Can Pitch” startup pitch competition at TechCrunch Early Stage 2024 is set to be judged by an esteemed panel of industry experts. We’ve already announced the startup finalists, and now you can meet our expert judges! Leading the charge is Edith Yeung, general […]

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The European Union and United States put out a joint statement Friday affirming a desire to increase cooperation over artificial intelligence — including in relation to AI safety and governance — as well as, more broadly, talking up an intent to collaborate across a number of other tech issues, such as developing standards for digital […]

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The engineers at Tesla are seeing their salaries increase after Elon Musk claimed that companies like Meta are trying to poach their top talent. Musk is also in the market…

Videogame trading empire GameStop has reached the financial year-end with a disappointing shortfall in expectations. The closing bell was not generous to the household name known throughout the United States…

Some small businesses are claiming they were duped by the grocer.

The project is still in its early research phase, insiders said.

Reuters reported on Thursday that Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is exploring the possibility of buying Boston-based HubSpot, a CRM and marketing automation company with a market cap of over $33 billion – a number that has been climbing on those reports. If such a deal were to happen, the cost would likely be pretty substantial, […]

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Every year, Time Magazine issues a list of the 200 best inventions of the past 12 months. Frankly, I don’t know how the editors do it. The dirty secret of this job is that true, game-changing inventions rarely cross your desk. In fact, you’re extraordinarily lucky if you average one a year. Oculus’ Rift prototype […]

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Bitkraft Ventures — a games investor based out of Denver, Colorado, but with European founders — has raised its third fund, coming in at $275 million. The fund will make seed and Series A investments in gaming studios, and platforms to support game production. The moves comes at a time when games investments have actually […]

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Even Mark Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin are reportedly making personal calls to AI researchers to scoop up new talent or convince current employees to stay.