March 14, 2025

Republican Congressman Jim Jordan asks Big Tech if Biden tried to censor AI

On Thursday, House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) sent letters to 16 American technology firms, including Google and OpenAI, asking for past communications with the Biden Administration that might suggest the former President “coerced or colluded” with companies to “censor lawful speech” in AI products. The Trump Administration’s top technology advisers previously signaled it would pick […]

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YC, Khosla-backed Atmos lands $12.5M to design custom dream homes

November 15, 2022

Atmos, a startup which has built an online marketplace that teams up homebuyers with builders and land developers to design and build custom homes, has emerged from stealth today with $12.5 million raised in Series A funding round led by Khosla Ventures. Founded in 2018, San Francisco-based Atmos touts that with its tech, homebuyers are […]

YC, Khosla-backed Atmos lands $12.5M to design custom dream homes by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch

Announcing the agenda for TechCrunch Sessions: Space in Los Angeles

November 15, 2022

TechCrunch Sessions: Space is back! Happening December 6 — our third dedicated space event. This is a live, in-person event featuring the most influential people in the space industry, across the public, private and defense sectors. This year saw the commercial space industry undergo a lot of change, including significant consolidation and new entrants in […]

Announcing the agenda for TechCrunch Sessions: Space in Los Angeles by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch

Startup founders go to war with UK government over its moves to appoint bank into key ecosystem role

November 15, 2022

Nothing less than a war has broken out between an influential swathe of the UK tech startup community and the British government, after the latter has allegedly sought to hand the curation and promotion of British startups – both inside the UK and abroad – over to a single UK bank. As we covered previously, […]

Startup founders go to war with UK government over its moves to appoint bank into key ecosystem role by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch

Yahaha raises $40M more for its user-generated, low-code immersive gaming platform

November 15, 2022

Yahaha, a Helsinki- and Shanghai-based immersive, user-generated, low-code gaming platform founded by a group of Chinese gaming vets, made a splash in January when it announced a cumulative $50 million in funding ahead of its alpha launch in April. Now, with 100,000 creators and hundreds of thousands of players, it’s raised a further $40 million […]

Yahaha raises $40M more for its user-generated, low-code immersive gaming platform by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Spotify’s video podcast publishing tools expand to creators worldwide

November 15, 2022

Spotify today is expanding its video podcasting capabilities to creators in more than 180 markets worldwide, which means the functionality is now available in nearly all the markets where Spotify’s podcast creation software, Anchor, is currently available. The feature, first entered wider testing last year, then officially launched in April to a handful of key […]

Spotify’s video podcast publishing tools expand to creators worldwide by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

TheGist taps AI to summarize Slack channels and threads

November 15, 2022

Itay Dressler and Itzik Ben Bassat, who’ve held various software engineering and executive roles at startups together over the years, are accustomed to exchanging brief messages. Ben Bassat has ADHD, and for that reason prefers to keep texts on the shorter side. But as he and Dressler were faced with wrangling an increasing number of […]

TheGist taps AI to summarize Slack channels and threads by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Payload raises $4.7M for its developer-first headless CMS

November 15, 2022

Payload, which develops a headless open-source content management system (CMS), today announced that it has raised a $4.7 million seed round led by Google’s AI-focused Gradient Ventures. Other investors include MongoDB Ventures, Y Combinator, SV Angel, Grand Ventures and Exceptional Capital, in addition to a number of angel investors. Unlike most CMS tools, Michigan-based Payload […]

Payload raises $4.7M for its developer-first headless CMS by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch