June 13, 2025

New York passes a bill to prevent AI-fueled disasters

New York state lawmakers passed a bill on Thursday that aims to prevent frontier AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic from contributing to disaster scenarios, including the death or injury of more than 100 people, or more than $1 billion in damages. The passage of the RAISE Act represents a win for the AI […]

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As demand for real estate VR booms, Founders Fund leads $16M round into Giraffe360 platform

December 5, 2022

The property industry now requires high quality photographs, floor plans and virtual tours, so the industry for software providers in the space is booming. The whole are was accelerated during the pandemic when many property viewings migrated from physical to virtual, and this trend has continued to tick upwards. Players in the space include Walnut, […]

As demand for real estate VR booms, Founders Fund leads $16M round into Giraffe360 platform by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch

Seoul court rejects warrants for former Terraform Labs employees and investors over Luna collapse 

December 5, 2022

A Seoul court rejected a request from prosecutors for warrants to detain eight people related to Terraform Labs, including the co-founder of Terraform Labs, Daniel Shin, early investors and former engineers. It’s difficult to believe they would flee or destroy evidence as Shin and the seven other suspects have been cooperating with the investigation, Yonhap […]

Seoul court rejects warrants for former Terraform Labs employees and investors over Luna collapse  by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch

Partech raises fourth seed fund

December 5, 2022

French VC firm Partech has closed another seed fund dedicated to early-stage tech startups — the fund is called Partech Entrepreneur IV. This time, Partech has raised €120 million. It represents $124 million at today’s exchange rate. In 2020, Partech raised $100 million for Partech Entrepreneur III. At the very end of 2016, Partech raised $107 […]

Partech raises fourth seed fund by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch

Sam Bankman-Fried says unlikely to testify in Dec 13 House Committee hearing

December 4, 2022

Sam Bankman-Fried, the former chief executive of FTX, indicated on Sunday that he is unlikely to testify in the upcoming U.S. House committee’s hearing on the collapse of his crypto exchange, saying he is still “learning and reviewing what happened.” In a tweet to the Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters and the committee, Bankman-Fried, […]

Sam Bankman-Fried says unlikely to testify in Dec 13 House Committee hearing by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch