Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Today, we’re celebrating Equity’s 6th birthday! Thankfully, it fell during the easiest, slowest news cycle we’ve had since the beginning of the grocery delivery wars and WeWork. Just kidding. Alex and Natasha […]
Don’t use Sam Altman and AI hype in the same sentence by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch
“Nobody does creature work the way Wētā does,” Craig Mazin, co-creator of HBO’s “The Last of Us,” said in the official podcast for the video game adaptation series. If you’d had a chance to watch the bloater scene from episode five, then you most likely agree with him. It makes sense that HBO approached Wētā […]
Wētā FX talks all things ‘The Last of Us,’ including the iconic bloater and giraffe scenes by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch
Let’s take a closer look at how nonprofit FORGE helps founders manufacture on the other side of town instead of the other side of the world.
You can probably manufacture closer to home than you think by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch
One week after trading was halted for SVB Financial and regulators took control of the holding company for Silicon Valley Bank and other subsidiaries, SVB Financial has taken the next inevitable step: today it announced that it has formally filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of […]
SVB Financial files for Ch. 11 bankruptcy protection, says it has $2.2B in liquidity by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
ChatGPT Plus, the subscription service to access OpenAI’s text-generating AI, is now available in India. ChatGPT Plus features GPT-4, the refined AI model that OpenAI launched earlier this week. The paid tier provides customers with early access to new features including GPT-4. Introduced in the U.S. in February after being in an early preview for […]
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Plus subscription launches in India by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch
PhonePe has raised another $200 million as part of an ongoing round, a deliberation that has now helped it pull $650 million in recent weeks despite the market slump, as the Indian fintech giant bulks up its war chest following the recent separation from the parent firm Flipkart. Walmart, which owns the majority of PhonePe, […]
Walmart invests $200 million in Indian mobile payments giant PhonePe by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch