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Netlify acquires frontend platform Gatsby

February 1, 2023

Web development platform Netlify today announced that it has acquired its competitor Gatsby, the company behind the opensource GatsbyJS framework. Gatsby, which had raised a total of $46.8 million, including a $28 million Series B led by Index Ventures in 2020, never quite got the traction that competitors like Netlify itself or Vercel saw in […]

Netlify acquires frontend platform Gatsby by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Summari pivots to AI-generated link previews that really click

February 1, 2023

Summari took a shot at making article summaries on demand a must-have tool for the overloaded reader. But a year later the startup is leaving that model in the dust for a new, and in retrospect way better, use for its summarization service: link previews. And once you give them a shot, you may find […]

Summari pivots to AI-generated link previews that really click by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

The biggest names in D&D are going independent on ‘Worlds Beyond Number’

February 1, 2023

“If you could open this article sort of Rolling Stone style…” Brennan Lee Mulligan suggests, then without changing his tone, pitches his lede: “In a Corvette, racing down the 5, [podcast producer] Taylor Moore swerves, then bites right into a massive wheel of brie cheese…” It’s what you’d expect from Mulligan, who got his start […]

The biggest names in D&D are going independent on ‘Worlds Beyond Number’ by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch

Hear how to find profitability early with Cambly and Benchmark on TechCrunch Live

February 1, 2023

TechCrunch Live is back! I’m thrilled to bring this event series back for its third season. We’re booked for months, and I’m delighted to host the upcoming guests. Join us for our first episode with Benchmark and Cambly taking place today, February 1, 2023 at 11:30am PT / 2:30pm ET. Our first guests are Sameer […]

Hear how to find profitability early with Cambly and Benchmark on TechCrunch Live by Matt Burns originally published on TechCrunch

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Plus, starting at $20 per month

February 1, 2023

Aiming to monetize what’s become a viral phenomenon, OpenAI today launched a new pilot subscription plan for ChatGPT, its text-generating AI that can write convincingly human-like essays, poems, emails, lyrics and more. Called ChatGPT Plus and starting at $20 per month, ChatGPT Pro delivers a number of benefits over the base-level ChatGPT, OpenAI says, including […]

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Plus, starting at $20 per month by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Samsung has the MacBook Pro in its sights with the $2,400 Galaxy Book 3 Ultra

February 1, 2023

The new MacBook Pros are a lot of things, but cheap isn’t one. Performance, it seems, comes at a price. It’s certainly a philosophy Samsung has long subscribed to with its highest-end products. Take the group of laptops it announced alongside the Galaxy S23 at today’s Unpacked event. There are, fittingly, three primary SKUs for […]

Samsung has the MacBook Pro in its sights with the $2,400 Galaxy Book 3 Ultra by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

Portugal’s Coverflex raises a €15M Series A to make employee benefits more flexible and engaging

February 1, 2023

In the current environment, Start-ups are having to do a couple of seemingly contradictory things at the same time. Firstly, they have to keep employees (the ones they want to keep, at least) happy. The other is attract new employees in a market where there remains fierce competition for talent. In their armoury to address […]

Portugal’s Coverflex raises a €15M Series A to make employee benefits more flexible and engaging by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch

Jetpack.io helps developers focus on applications instead of infrastructure

February 1, 2023

Jetpack.io’s founder Daniel Loreto has worked as an engineer at companies like Google, Airbnb and Twitter, companies that had lots of engineering resources to build custom tools. But when he was at his last job running engineering at Verta Health, he noticed that his developer team had to work hard deploying infrastructure, and it distracted […]

Jetpack.io helps developers focus on applications instead of infrastructure by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch