January 23, 2026

The Download: chatbots for health, and US fights over AI regulation

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. “Dr. Google” had its issues. Can ChatGPT Health do better?   For the past two decades, there’s been a clear first step for anyone who starts experiencing new medical symptoms: Look them up online.…

Apple touts $1.1 trillion in App Store commerce in 2022, with $104B in digital sales

May 31, 2023

Ahead of Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference next week, the company is offering an update on its app ecosystem with the release of a new report detailing app earnings over the course of last year. In the analysis, released today, Apple says its App Store ecosystem generated $1.1 trillion in developer billings and sales in 2022, […]

Apple touts $1.1 trillion in App Store commerce in 2022, with $104B in digital sales by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

SellerX acquires US e-commerce roll-up rival Elevate Brands in an all-share deal, raises $64M+

May 31, 2023

E-commerce aggregators have collectively raised hundreds of millions of dollars over the last several years to push ahead on strategies to consolidate a number of smaller online retailers. Now, the aggregators themselves are the ones getting swallowed up. Today, SellerX, a Berlin-based roll-up play that has raised nearly $900 million in equity and debt and […]

SellerX acquires US e-commerce roll-up rival Elevate Brands in an all-share deal, raises $64M+ by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Low-code ML platform Predibase raises another $12.2M

May 31, 2023

End-to-end machine learning platform Predibase today announced a $12.2 million expansion to its $16.25 million Series A funding round from last year. The company also announced that its low-code, declarative ML platform for developers is now generally available. During the beta period, which launched when the company came out of stealth last year, users have […]

Low-code ML platform Predibase raises another $12.2M by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch