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On-demand startups in Asia raised hundreds of millions of dollars from investors over the last several years to scale and compete heavily in ride-sharing, alternative transport, delivery, and a supersized range of related and unrelated services. Now comes the reckoning.  This week, Southeast Asian supper app ride-hailing and food delivery app operator Grab laid off […]

Singapore’s ride-hailing firm Grab lays off over 1,100 employees  by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch

Google introduced new accessibility and learning features on Tuesday at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) expo. These features included expansion of the reading mode, pairing with a sign language interpreter in Google Meet, and AI-powered question suggestions in a class. The company has been experimenting with AI-powered tools in its consumer products […]

Google introduces new accessibility and collaboration features for classrooms by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Despite macroeconomic concerns, demand for technology products and services is expected to remain robust. Also, given the solid long-term prospects of the industry, fundamentally sound tech stocks Concentrix (CNXC), Indra…

Sophie Purdom is an experienced early-stage climate investor, with investments in Remora, WeaveGrid, Amogy, Sinai, and Patch under her belt. Today, she announced Planeteer Capital, focusing on startups that want to work on challenges related to climate change. The firm won’t comment how big the fund will be, but suggests it had a first close […]

Planeteer launches new pre-seed and seed-stage climate fund by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch

This article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, sign up here. This week, Antonio Regalado, senior editor for biomedicine is filling in for Jess Hamzelou. Something journalists and scientists have in common is that they hate getting scooped. And it’s especially annoying when the…

When we talk about computing these days, we tend to talk about software and the engineers who write it. But we wouldn’t be anywhere without the hardware and the physical sciences that have enabled it to be created—disciplines like optics, materials science, and mechanical engineering. It’s thanks to advances in these areas that we can…

In some San Francisco neighborhoods, at certain hours of the night, it seems as if one in 10 cars on the road has no driver behind the wheel.  These are not experimental test vehicles, and this is not a drill. Many of San Francisco’s ghostly driverless cars are commercial robotaxis, directly competing with taxis, Uber…

India’s corporate affairs ministry ordered an investigation into edtech startup Byju’s last week, television news channel CNBC-TV18 reported Friday, further complicating matters at the most Indian valuable startup that lost both its auditor and three board members on Thursday. The ministry has taken cognizance of “various corporate governance lapses” at Byju’s, the television channel reported, […]

India ordered an investigation into Byju’s days before auditor and board members resigned, report says by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

Earlier today at a Bloomberg conference in San Francisco, some of the biggest names in AI turned up, including, briefly, Sam Altman of OpenAI, who just ended his two-month world tour, and Stability AI founder Emad Mostaque. Still, one of the most compelling conversations happened later in the afternoon, in a panel discussion about AI […]

Get a clue, says panel about generative AI: it’s being “deployed as surveillance devices” by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch