6 fintech investors sound off on AI, down rounds and what’s ahead
To help TechCrunch+ readers understand what fintech investors are thinking these days, we interviewed six active investors over the last couple of weeks.
Welcome to Kenya’s Great Carbon Valley: a bold new gamble to fight climate change
The earth around Lake Naivasha, a shallow freshwater basin in south-central Kenya, does not seem to want to lie still. Ash from nearby Mount Longonot, which erupted as recently as the 1860s, remains in the ground. Obsidian caves and jagged stone towers preside over the steam that spurts out of fissures in the soil and…
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What is a liquid neural network, really?
The initial research papers date back to 2018, but for most, the notion of liquid networks (or liquid neural networks) is a new one. It was “Liquid Time-constant Networks,” published at the tail end of 2020, that put the work on other researchers’ radar. In the intervening time, the paper’s authors have presented the work […]
Wonder Brands’ pivot to acquiring e-commerce infrastructure pays off
Wonder Brands has since launched over 15 brands in the past 12 months and over 2,000 SKUs in the categories of home and garden, sports and fitness and beauty and personal care categories.
Intel’s modernization strategy could face setback with end of $5.4B Tower deal
In 2021, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger announced a comprehensive modernization strategy he dubbed IDM (integrated device manufacturing) 2.0. As part of that vision, the company announced a $20 billion investment to build two new Fabs (chip manufacturing facilities) in Arizona along with plans to increase capacity in other parts of the U.S. and Europe. In […]
Musk says X will address shadowbanning ‘soon,’ but former Trust & Safety exec explains why that will be difficult
X owner Elon Musk is promising to “soon” address the lack of transparency around “shadowbanning” on the social network formerly known as Twitter — that is, not outright banning a user, but making changes that ensure their content is no longer circulated and kept out of public view. In replies to users on X, Musk […]
4 steps founders can take today to improve team recognition tomorrow
Appreciation isn’t just about gifts or praise. It’s about taking the employee — their experiences and interests — into consideration.
Amplitude’s CEO feels his company would be “in a world of hurt” if it hadn’t gone public in 2021
‘There would be all this pressure to go public, but then there wouldn’t be an appetite for it. And so [it would] be harder to get out.’
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Agility Robotics’ Damion Shelton and Melonee Wise will discuss the future of warehouse automation at TC Disrupt 2023
Agility Robotics is on a steady march toward commercialization, thanks to the continued growth of robotics in warehouse fulfillment and logistics and the expanding feature set of its bipedal robot. We’re excited to announce that Digit — escorted by co-founder and CEO Damion Shelton and Melonee Wise, the company’s new CTO — will join us […]
Soil can store gigatons of carbon, and Yard Stick wants to measure it all
Agriculture could store 2 billion to 4 billion metric tons of CO2 annually, but first we have to know which farms have the most potential.