Sure AI is hot, but is it an actual market or a platform piece?
AI has been has hot as it comes since the start of the year, but the question remains whether it’s a product category or a platform piece.
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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Disrupt is around the corner — Here are the fintech players taking the stage
In this week’s edition of The Interchange, we touch on the resilience of BaaS in a sometimes messy fintech space, earnings highlights, and much more. If you want to receive this in your inbox every Sunday, sign up here. It’s hard to believe it but TechCrunch Disrupt — only one of the most engaging, fun, […]
Deal Dive: This AI startup is racking up government customers
For most startups it is hard to land a government contract but IVIX has landed multiple inside the U.S. and beyond.
How the FBI goes after DDoS cyberattackers
In 2016, hackers using a network of compromised internet-connected devices — vulnerable security cameras and routers — knocked some of the then biggest websites on the internet offline for several hours. Twitter, Reddit, GitHub and Spotify all went down intermittently that day, victims of what was at the time one of the largest distributed denial-of-service […]
Okay, fine, I want Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg to fight
Elon Musk has disappointed me many times. He bought my favorite social network and made it bad. He has mistreated workers across his companies, and he has permanently ruined the enduring comedy of 420 and 69 jokes. And today, he got my hopes up that he was actually going to cage fight Mark Zuckerberg. I […]
When you gaze into the AI, the AI also gazes into you
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Fri-yay indeed. We sigh, as humans spool up to take a break, while the semi-sentient machines continue writing their poetry in their air-conditioned underground data-center homes. In my column this week, I spent a bit of time thinking about the […]
TechCrunch+ Roundup: Creator economy VC survey, B2C fintech growth strategy, web3 demo day
There are a million reasons why startups fail, and there are only a few reasons why they succeed.
US cyber board to investigate Microsoft hack of government emails
A U.S. review board tasked with investigating major cybersecurity incidents said it will begin looking at the recent intrusion of U.S. government email systems provided by Microsoft, whose handling of the incident drew ire and scrutiny from federal lawmakers and the wider security community. The Cyber Security Review Board, or CSRB, said Friday that its […]
Pitch Deck Teardown: ANYbotics’ $50M Series B deck
Growth rounds usually get a traction-forward pitch, but there are many ways to weave that narrative. Let’s see how ANYbotics does it.
11xAI closes $2 million pre-seed to create autonomous AI workers
The company builds automated digital workers that can be used in lieu of human employees.