How Thomson Reuters is leveraging AI to enhance productivity, rather than replace jobs
Thomson Reuters has been around since the 19th century, but it’s not stuck there, embracing AI as a way to help customers and employees.
The Download: DOGE’s influences, and rescuing federal data from deletion
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. These documents are influencing the DOGE-sphere’s agenda Reports from the US Government Accountability Office on improper federal payments in recent years are circulating on X and elsewhere online, and they seem to be…
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How a frugal approach helped land Lula more runway amid a market downturn
It was an eventful week in fintech startup land, and we did our best to capture the highlights. We covered some raises, new product lines, at least one M&A deal and more. Oh, and if you want to receive this in your inbox in the future, sign up here. Lula tightens its belt and raises […]
Will the Law Commission’s digital assets final report make the UK a DeFi jurisdiction of choice?
Dr. Adam Sanitt Contributor Dr. Adam Sanitt is a knowledge director specializing in financial disputes, technology and innovation at global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright. Laws and regulations for digital assets tend to arrive either too early or too late. Too early when they include details that turn out to be awkward or irrelevant when […]
Steve Jobs’ son launches a fund, NASA debuts a streaming service, and writers protest a proposed surveillance law
Hey, folks, and welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter that highlights key developments in the tech industry over the past few days. If you missed the news this week, no biggie. That’s what WiR is for. We’ll fill you in. In this edition, we cover Reed Jobs, the son of Steve Jobs, who […]
Dan Gwak of Point72 Ventures thinks there has never been a better time for defense tech startups
Dan Gwak has had a more varied life than many investors. He grew up in Jakarta, the son of Korean parents who ran a shipping business. After high school, he headed to Cornell in the U.S., and became an associate at The Carlyle Group. Everything was moving up and to the right, so to speak. […]
Astra lays off 25% of workforce, reallocates engineers, in an effort to fight dwindling cash reserves
Astra has laid off 25% of its workforce since the beginning of the quarter and is reallocating at least 50 engineers and manufacturing staff away from its launch business to focus on spacecraft production, the company said Friday. The reallocation and layoffs are expected to delay testing of the under-development Rocket 4 and Launch System […]
Berkeley Yeast, S2G dish on the future of beer, meat and more at TC Disrupt 2023
In case you missed it, July 2023 was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth. On the bright-ish side, research shows that 69% of Americans want our nation to become carbon neutral by 2050. Achieving that goal will require changing the way we think and act about sustainability. But, when push comes to shoveling food […]
TechCrunch+ Roundup: How pitch decks fail, inside the AI hype cycle, budgeting for a downturn
It’s clear that AI is driving the latest hype cycle, but how are early-stage investors sorting the wheat from the chaff these days?
Meet Window Snyder, the trailblazer who helped secure the internet and billions of devices
After the band played Miles Davis’ Seven Steps to Heaven, and an effusive introduction from the head of the school, Window Snyder stands in front of a hall filled with around 800 students at her old high school to receive an alumni award. Some of the students have a plastic spoon stuck to their noses, […]
Health data of 1.7 million Oregon residents accessed by MOVEit hackers
Hackers behind the mass-exploitation of a vulnerability in the popular corporate file transfer tool MOVEit Transfer have accessed the protected health information of 1.7 million Oregon citizens. Performance Health Technology (PH Tech), a company that provides data management services to U.S. healthcare insurers, confirmed in a notice this week that it was impacted by the […]