July 28, 2025

Meet the minds shaping AI: TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 AI Stage revealed

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, the AI Stage comes alive with the voices shaping the future of technology, creativity, and security. Top VCs reveal what it takes to win funding in a rapidly evolving landscape, as they place bets on the next wave of AI founders. Hear groundbreaking insights from leaders at visionary startups like Apptronik, […]

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This startup wants to train art-generating AI strictly on licensed images

April 13, 2023

Generative AI, particularly text-to-image AI, is attracting as many lawsuits as it is venture dollars. Two companies behind popular AI art tools, Midjourney and Stability AI, are entangled in a legal case that alleges they infringed on the rights of millions of artists by training their tools on web-scraped images. Separately, stock image supplier Getty Images […]

This startup wants to train art-generating AI strictly on licensed images by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

With Bedrock, Amazon enters the generative AI race

April 13, 2023

Amazon is throwing its hat into the generative AI ring. But rather than build AI models entirely by itself, it’s recruiting third parties to host models on AWS. AWS today unveiled Amazon Bedrock, which provides a way to build generative AI-powered apps via pretrained models from startups including AI21 Labs, Anthropic and Stability AI. Available […]

With Bedrock, Amazon enters the generative AI race by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Otterize raises $11.5M to help developers securely connect software services

April 13, 2023

Tomer Greenwald, Uri Sarid and Ori Shoshan, software developers by trade, found themselves building and configuring software authentication and authorization mechanisms repeatedly — each time with a different tech stack. Frustrated with the process, they sought to create a platform that enables developers to focus on writing code rather than on constantly configuring server permissions. […]

Otterize raises $11.5M to help developers securely connect software services by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

What’s underneath a great digital commerce solution?

April 13, 2023
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” The technology architecture of future businesses will comprise a headless and flexible design, seamless flow of data across systems, actionable insights derived from those systems, and smooth payments. Click here to continue.

What’s next in the metaverse: From science fiction to reality

April 13, 2023
Thank you for joining us on “The cloud hub: From cloud chaos to clarity.” What is the metaverse, and how will it shape the future of business? Mukul Pandya, founding editor in chief of Knowledge at Wharton, interviews Kevin Werbach, professor of legal studies and business ethics at The Wharton School, and Prasad Joshi, senior…

How heat could solve climate problems

April 13, 2023
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. It’s finally springtime in New York. The skies are clearing up, the trees are blooming, and I’m already wishing I could bottle up all this sunshine to save for when winter comes around…

As tech slumps, SoftBank sells VC unit to Singapore-based firm led by Masayoshi Son’s brother

April 13, 2023

SoftBank is selling one of its venture capital arms, South Korea-based SoftBank Ventures Asia (SBVA), to The Edgeof, a Singaporean investment firm, according to the two companies.   The deal’s financial terms have not been disclosed, but the Singaporean VC firm aims to complete the acquisition this year.  Last month, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son’s younger brother […]

As tech slumps, SoftBank sells VC unit to Singapore-based firm led by Masayoshi Son’s brother by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch

LMS365, a learning management system built into Microsoft 365 and Teams, raises $20M

April 13, 2023

Danish company LMS365, an online learning management system (LMS) built for use inside Microsoft products, has raised $20 million in its first institutional round of funding. Used by companies including logistics giant Hellmann and soda bottling franchise G&J Pepsi, LMS365 allows users to create their own courses from scratch or import them from a third-party such […]

LMS365, a learning management system built into Microsoft 365 and Teams, raises $20M by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

EVs just got a big boost. We’re going to need a lot more chargers.

April 12, 2023
The US government is pushing for a massive wave of electric vehicles to hit the roads in the next few years, but the country doesn’t have nearly enough chargers installed to power them all.  The Environmental Protection Agency released proposed standards today that set limits for companies on total carbon dioxide emissions from fleets of…