One pretty obvious aspect of the climate emergency which may have flown under your radar is that human-driven global heating is disrupting traditional approaches to risk modelling around natural disasters since probabilistic models based on stuff that happened in the past start to come unstuck atop so much unprecedented change. Step forward Mitiga Solutions, a […]
Climate risk startup Mitiga gets $14.4M to help businesses face an uncertain future by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch
Amini, a Nairobi-based climate tech startup focused on solving Africa’s environmental data gap through artificial intelligence and satellite technology, has raised $2 million in a pre-seed funding round. Pale Blue Dot, the European climate-focused venture capital firm that announced a $100 million fund last week, led the oversubscribed round. At the same time, Superorganism, RaliCap, […]
Pale Blue Dot backs Amini, an African climate tech startup solving environmental data scarcity by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch
Amazon plans to invest $12.7 billion into its cloud infrastructure in India by 2030, the e-commerce group said Thursday, as it pushes ahead to scale up its AWS business in the key overseas market at a time when it has cut several other spendings in the region. The company, which has earlier invested $3.7 billion […]
AWS to invest $12.7 billion in India by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch
It’s no secret that Elon Musk has been deeply frustrated with OpenAI since stepping down from its board in February 2018, culminating in an open letter calling for the organization to pause work on more powerful systems. “It does seem weird that something can be a nonprofit, open source, and somehow transform itself into a […]
Elon Musk used to say he put $100M in OpenAI, but now it’s $50M: Here are the receipts by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has only been out in the wild for a few days at this point, marking a mere sliver of the time players will spend exploring Hyrule’s fresh secrets over the course of the coming months and years, if Breath of the Wild is any indication. For anyone […]
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom early impressions – a feast fit for a short king by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch
The crypto industry continues to face myriad headwinds, but there’s no shortage of startups and founders diving into the space. Alliance DAO, a web3 accelerator and builder community, had its most recent cohort, also known as ALL10, present their ideas on Wednesday during a demo day, exclusively covered by TechCrunch. Check out the previous Alliance […]
Your first look at Alliance DAO’s latest cohort of web3 startups by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch
A new study by Pew Research Center paints a picture of a pause in Twitter usage by U.S. adults, but the data doesn’t necessarily point the finger at Elon Musk’s takeover of the social media platform as the source of the blame. Instead, Pew’s survey of U.S. adults, which was conducted over a week in […]
Pew: 60% of U.S. Twitter users have ‘taken a break’ from the platform in the past year by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch