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Redfin has laid off 201 employees, the third time the Seattle-based real estate company has reduced its workforce since June. The layoffs, which represents about 4% of its workforce, was first reported by GeekWire. A company spokesperson confirmed the layoffs and told TechCrunch in an email that the roles were primarily in “real estate support” […]

Redfin is laying off more workers as housing downturn persists by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch

Toronto-based startup Kepler Communications closed another tranche of capital to continue building out its on-orbit data network. The new funding, which comes to $92 million, will be used to launch a constellation of optical communications satellites next year. Those satellites will join Kepler’s existing network of 19 radio-frequency satellites operating in sun-synchronous orbits (SSO). Two […]

Kepler Communications closes $92M Series C to grow real-time satellite data relay network by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch

No matter what the year brings, the percentage of funding to women has been stagnant for so long that to harp on about it feels rather fruitless.

At just 2.1% of all VC investment, funding for women remains ‘meh’ in Q1 2023 by Dominic-Madori Davis originally published on TechCrunch

About 10 months ago, Solana announced the launch of Saga, an web3-focused Android smartphone. The phone is now being rolled out, and we got to test one ahead of its launch.

Call me, beep me, if you wanna reach me by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch

In a sign that the seed-stage AI segment is still alive and kicking, Betaworks, the startup studio and VC firm, is launching a new program that’ll award around ten companies working on AI $500,000 in funding. Scheduled to run from mid-June until mid-September, Betaworks’ program — the ninth of its kind — will provide startups […]

Betaworks’ new ‘camp’ aims to fund transformative early-stage AI startups by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

PBS and a handful of other news organizations have joined NPR in stepping away from Twitter, the social media platform once synonymous with breaking news. A PBS spokesperson confirmed to Axios that PBS had “no plans to resume tweeting” after Twitter gave it a murky “government-funded media” label over the weekend. A few other news […]

More newsrooms bail on Twitter as Musk meddles with account labels by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch

Spain’s data protection authority, the AEPD, has followed Italy’s lead and announced a preliminary investigation of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI over suspected breaches of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). At the end of last month, Italy’s DPA ordered OpenAI to stop processing locals’ data — over a range of suspected breaches of the GDPR […]

Spain’s privacy watchdog says it’s probing ChatGPT too by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch