November 21, 2025

Roundtables: How AI Is Changing the Economy

There’s a lot at stake when it comes to understanding how AI is changing the economy at large. What’s the right outlook to have? Join Mat Honan, editor in chief, for a special conversation with David Rotman, editor at large, and Richard Waters, Financial Times columnist, exploring what’s happening across industries and the market. Going live on December…

Senate Banking chair urges FDIC to look into Tellus, a fintech backed by Andreessen Horowitz

May 4, 2023

Tellus, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed fintech company that claims it can offer people higher yields on their savings balances by using that money to fund certain U.S. single-family-home loans, is under scrutiny by the U.S. government. On May 2, as first reported by Barron’s, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs […]

Senate Banking chair urges FDIC to look into Tellus, a fintech backed by Andreessen Horowitz by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch

WhatsApp now lets you create single-vote polls and forward media with captions

May 4, 2023

WhatsApp is adding a few new updates around polls and sharing on its platform, the company announced on Thursday. Most notably, you can now create single-vote polls and forward media with captions. You now have the option to create single-vote polls, which means you can run a poll where people are only allowed to vote […]

WhatsApp now lets you create single-vote polls and forward media with captions by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

Slash aims to corner the Gen Z market with business-focused banking features

May 4, 2023

Around two years ago, Victor Cardenas and Kevin Bai — college dropouts from Stanford University and the University of Waterloo, respectively — built a fintech platform called Slash that lets users create shareable virtual cards to split recurring expenses. Slash quickly became popular with teenagers because its virtual cards were debit-based, available to people 13 […]

Slash aims to corner the Gen Z market with business-focused banking features by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Europe’s top court clarifies GDPR compensation and data access rights

May 4, 2023

The European Union’s top court has handed down a couple of notable rulings today in the arena of data protection. One (Case C-300/21) deals with compensation for breaches of the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR); and the second (Case C-487/21) clarifies the nature of information that individuals exercising GDPR rights to obtain a copy […]

Europe’s top court clarifies GDPR compensation and data access rights by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

Mozilla expands its Mastodon investment with private beta launch of its own highly-moderated server

May 4, 2023

Mozilla is expanding its investment in the decentralized social media ecosystem Mastodon with today’s announcement it’s opening up its own server — or “instance,” in Mastodon lingo — into private beta testing. The company announced last year its plans to create and begin testing a publicly accessible instance at Mozilla.social, with the goal of focusing […]

Mozilla expands its Mastodon investment with private beta launch of its own highly-moderated server by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch