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African credit-led neobank Finclusion Group has raised an additional $2 million in equity financing as it officially rebrands to Fin, the company said in a statement shared with TechCrunch.  The news follows a January announcement that the fintech, which uses AI algorithms to provide financial services to African customers via an array of credit-centric products, […]

African credit-led fintech Finclusion raises additional capital amidst rebrand by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch

Uber and Motional, the Hyundai-Aptiv joint venture focused on commercializing self-driving technology, have launched a robotaxi service in Las Vegas — the first step in the companies’ 10-year plan to co-scale across major North American cities, which was announced in October. While Motional has already launched similar services in Las Vegas on both the Lyft […]

Uber and Motional launch robotaxi service in Las Vegas by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

Startups across Europe are on track to raise $85 billion in funding this year — a drop of $15 billion on 2021 levels when funding passed $100 billion, according to a report on the state of European tech. The figures come from London VC firm Atomico’s annual State of European Tech report, which has become […]

Atomico report: European startups on track to raise $85B this year, down from $100B+ in 2021 by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

We recently uncovered that Lensa AI can be tricked into creating NSFW images. When TechCrunch made the Prisma team aware of its findings, the company’s CEO replied with its findings. Prisma Lab’s CEO and co-founder Andrey Usoltsev told us that the behavior we observed in our article can only happen if the AI is intentionally […]

Prisma Labs, maker of Lensa AI, says it is working to prevent accidental generation of nudes by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch