TikTok looks to challenge Amazon and Shein with new e-commerce initiative

June 22, 2023

TikTok has confirmed that it’s testing a new in-app “Trendy Beat” shopping section where it is offering products for sale that are shipped and sold by a subsidiary of its parent company, ByteDance. The feature, which was first reported on by the Financial Times, is currently being tested in the UK. The shopping section offers […]

TikTok looks to challenge Amazon and Shein with new e-commerce initiative by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

Why Europe and Israel’s unicorns are producing the next generation of tech founders

June 22, 2023

Harry Nelis Contributor Share on Twitter Harry Nelis is a partner at Accel, a global venture firm that has partnered with companies from inception through all phases of private company growth for the last 40 years. More posts by this contributor To become a public company, start operating like one early on Talent is the […]

Why Europe and Israel’s unicorns are producing the next generation of tech founders by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch

Kaitlyn Glancy, long Flexport’s VP of North America, just joined the world of VC

June 22, 2023

Today, Kaitlyn Glancy, who has spent more than eight years with the logistics company Flexport — the last four of them as the outfit’s vice president of North America — is announcing that she has joined the world of VC as the newest partner at the venture firm Eclipse. On its face, it appears to […]

Kaitlyn Glancy, long Flexport’s VP of North America, just joined the world of VC by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch

Andreessen Horowitz, Shield Capital back satellite bus manufacturing startup Apex Space

June 22, 2023

Satellite bus manufacturing startup Apex Space has closed a $16 million Series A round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and new investor Shield Capital, as it prepares for its first demonstration mission early next year. In addition to the new capital, Apex also revealed some of the customers that will be flying payload on that inaugural […]

Andreessen Horowitz, Shield Capital back satellite bus manufacturing startup Apex Space by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch

India joins NASA’s Artemis Accords for collaborative lunar exploration

June 22, 2023

India has finally agreed to join the Artemis Accords, a NASA-led initiative to work together with other countries on space exploration and make a return to the Moon, after months of silence about joining the program’s 26 other signatories. On Thursday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the South Asian nation is joining the […]

India joins NASA’s Artemis Accords for collaborative lunar exploration by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch

If the ‘Secret Invasion’ title credits aren’t an ethical use of AI art, what is?

June 22, 2023

This isn’t a facetious question; it’s an unanswered one. What, if anything, is an ethical way to use current generative AI in a major, public-facing work of art? This quandary emerges from the furore regarding Marvel Studios’ use of AI to create the main title sequence of its latest show, Secret Invasion. AI generated art […]

If the ‘Secret Invasion’ title credits aren’t an ethical use of AI art, what is? by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch