Are you going to let Sam Altman’s crypto project scan your eyeballs or not?

July 27, 2023
Welcome back to Chain Reaction. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important crypto stories delivered to your inbox every Thursday at 12 p.m. PT, subscribe here. Earlier this week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s audacious eyeball-scanning crypto startup Tools for Humanity started the global rollout of its Worldcoin product. The company wants to […]

AI builds momentum for smarter health care

July 27, 2023
The pharmaceutical industry operates under one of the highest failure rates of any business sector. The success rate for drug candidates entering capital Phase 1 trials—the earliest type of clinical testing, which can take 6 to 7 years—is anywhere between 9% and 12%, depending on the year, with costs to bring a drug from discovery…

FAA launches new committee to explore regulations on commercial human spaceflight

July 27, 2023
The Federal Aviation Administration is launching a new initiative exploring possible regulations on commercial human spaceflight, a first for a nascent industry that is rapidly increasing the number of humans that visit space. The new rulemaking committee will “help the FAA plan, conceive, and implement—when the time is right—a well-informed, thoughtful, regulatory regime for commercial […]

It’s not just Netflix’s $900K AI jobs, it’s the hypocrisy

July 27, 2023
The discovery of an AI product manager role at Netflix with a pay ceiling of $900,000 sent critics of the company and entertainment industry wild yesterday. That isn’t the only such listing, and likely not even the most lucrative. No one should be surprised that one of the biggest tech companies in the world is […]

How to Build a Culture of Learning in Startups

July 27, 2023
Startups tend to favor high productivity within short turnaround times. In such conditions, employees must be adaptable and learn new skills quickly. Therefore, training and development are crucial — a new employee needs to hit the ground running.