Scale AI, the San Francisco-based company that uses software and people to label image, text, voice and video data for companies building machine learning algorithms, laid off 20% of its workforce this week. The decision, which was announced by founder and CEO Alexandr Wang via a company blog post, was made after rapid hiring in […]
Scale AI cuts 20% of its workforce by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch
Every founder I’ve ever worked with was absolutely, completely convinced that they could build and scale a company.
TechCrunch+ roundup: New success metrics, M&A timeline, 5 cloud trends for 2023 by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch
We’re only in the second week of 2023, but demo days have already begun as founders try to keep momentum alive in the ever-changing crypto market. Beacon, a web3-focused early-stage accelerator program, launched last year, and its flagship cohort just graduated. The teams in the first cohort, known as Cohort 0, presented their ideas on […]
Web3-focused Beacon launches flagship demo day with 13 crypto startups by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch
German-based biotech company BioNTech SE is set to acquire InstaDeep, a Tunis-born and U.K.-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup InstaDeep for up to £562 million (~$680 million) in its largest deal yet. Per The Financial Times, the German vaccine maker intends to use InstaDeep’s machine learning to “improve its drug discovery process, including developing personalised treatments tailored […]
BioNTech acquires Tunisian-born and U.K-based AI startup InstaDeep for £562M by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch
Tomorrow, January 11, is a big day in the web3 universe. It’s The Cross Chain Coalition Web3 Demo Day, a showcase of 12 boundary-pushing early-stage startups building projects across web3, DeFi, NFT and gaming. Today we’re revealing the final four startups ready to deliver their best five-minute pitch to a global audience, including some of […]
Check out the final four startups pitching tomorrow at CCC Web3 Demo Day by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch
For investors, ChatGPT’s surge isn’t just an inspiration for them to run and back the next big AI tool.
Some investors are (cautiously) implementing ChatGPT in their workflows by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch
The company’s proprietary technology creates a formula that delivers 200 milligrams of tea polyphenols in each can and sweetened by monk fruit and stevia leaf extract.
New functional tea brand, buoyed by $6.7M in new funding, debuts in Wegmans, Whole Foods by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
IonQ, the trapped ion quantum computing company that went public via a SPAC in late 2021, today announced that it has acquired Entangled Networks, a Toronto-based startup that helps industrial and academic users build and optimize multi-quantum-processor solutions, using specialized networking techniques. The two companies did not disclose the price of the acquisition. This marks […]
IonQ acquires quantum networking specialist Entagled Neworks by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch
Pour one out for Windows 7, the decade-old operating system that today reached the end of the security line. Some three years after Microsoft called time on mainstream support of Windows 7, the technology giant will no longer provide security updates, leaving the remaining users the option to upgrade to a newer operating system or […]
Microsoft ends Windows 7 security updates by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch