Airbnb, Twilio and Amplitude’s earnings together indicate that tech growth is slowing not just for Big Tech, it’s across the board.
Yeah, tech growth is slowing down by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch
The surge of interest in e-sports, online fantasy leagues and more extensive online financial infrastructure have made the concept of real-money gaming more popular among consumers and games developers. Today a startup called Triumph — which has built an engine, and accompanying SDK, to power real-money tournaments — is announcing $14.1 million funding to continue […]
Triumph raises $14M for an SDK to add real-money tournaments into games by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
Autonomous delivery startup Nuro is in the midst of a restructuring that will result in layoffs and shift resources away from commercial operations and towards R&D. This is the second time in less than a year that Nuro — a darling of the AV world that has raised $2.13 billion — has laid off workers […]
Autonomous delivery startup Nuro to restructure, pause commercial expansion by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch
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3 days left until Disrupt prices increase by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch
Ola, an Indian ride-hailing startup, has seen its valuation trimmed by its backer Vanguard amid a weakening global economy that has significantly impacted market capitalizations across numerous public companies. Vanguard cut the valuation of Ani Technologies, Ola’s holding firm, by 35% as of the end of the February, it disclosed in its semi-annual report to […]
Vanguard trims Indian ride-hailing giant Ola’s valuation by 35% by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch
Mandopop singer Stefanie Sun has gone viral on Bilibili, China’s largest user-generated video streaming site. But the sudden revival of interest in Sun, who hasn’t released an album since 2017, comes not from the artist having another moment of genius. The songs that have attracted millions of views on Bilibili feature Sun’s voice cloned by […]
China has its DrakeGPT moment as AI singer goes viral by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch
The AI startup world may be getting hotter by the day, but there’s a difference between a startup that uses AI and an AI-first startup — and the Allen Institute for AI prides itself on fostering the latter in its AI2 Incubator. Their previous $10 million fund did so well that the backers have returned […]
AI2 Incubator’s new $30M fund triples down on early stage AI startups by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch