July 9, 2025

Inside OpenAI’s empire: A conversation with Karen Hao

In a wide-ranging Roundtables conversation for MIT Technology Review subscribers, AI journalist and author Karen Hao spoke about her new book, Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI. She talked with executive editor Niall Firth about how she first covered the company in 2020 while on staff at MIT Technology Review, and…

Getsafe expands to France starting with home insurance

January 26, 2023

German insurtech startup Getsafe is adding a fourth market with today’s product launch. In addition to Germany, Austria and the U.K., Getsafe is now going to offer insurance products in France. The company will first offer a home insurance product. Getsafe is trying to disrupt the insurance market with a focus on digital-first insurance products. […]

Getsafe expands to France starting with home insurance by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch

Supernormal raises $10M to automatically transcribe and summarize meetings

January 26, 2023

Generative AI is the tech industry’s buzzword of the moment. It’s no wonder — the VC firm Sequoia not long ago predicted that generative AI, which comprises AI that can generate text, art and more from prompts, could yield trillions of dollars in economic value over the long run. Is that simply the optimistic musing […]

Supernormal raises $10M to automatically transcribe and summarize meetings by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Welcome to the Jungle grabs $54 million for its slick job platform

January 26, 2023

French startup Welcome to the Jungle has raised a new $54 million (€50 million) Series C round. The startup helps other companies recruit new employees more easily by creating sophisticated profiles packed with a ton of information. In particular, Welcome to the Jungle sends a photo and video crew to your office so that they […]

Welcome to the Jungle grabs $54 million for its slick job platform by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch

The thing we thought was happening with robotic investments is definitely happening

January 25, 2023

There was a brief, beautiful moment for a few months in 2021 when it felt like robotic investments might be immune from broader market forces. We all fundamentally and implicitly understood this to not be the case, but it was a nice moment nevertheless. Truth is, there was a bit of insulation in there. There […]

The thing we thought was happening with robotic investments is definitely happening by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

The Dos and Don’ts of Using AI to Write Your Book

January 25, 2023
AI is here, and people are freaking out. But you can’t use it for everything — unless you want to sound like everyone else or Rosie from the Jetsons. Here’s what to use it for and what not to use it for in writing your book.

Tier Mobility and Spin lay off 100 more employees

January 25, 2023

Around a year ago, Tier Mobility was winning the shared micromobility game. Fueled by its $200 million Series D fundraise in October 2021, the company went on to acquire three other micromobility operators and a computer vision startup, giving it access to e-bikes — a reach that extended beyond Europe and into the U.S. — […]

Tier Mobility and Spin lay off 100 more employees by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

Dell has acquired cloud orchestration startup Cloudify, sources tell us for around $100M

January 25, 2023

Dell is making an acquisition to beef up its cloud services business, specifically its offerings in DevOps: the company is buying Cloudify, an Israeli startup that has built a platform for cloud orchestration and infrastructure automation. Cloudify’s tools are used by cloud architects and DevOps engineers to manage containers, workloads, and more across hybrid environments. […]

Dell has acquired cloud orchestration startup Cloudify, sources tell us for around $100M by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Meta will restore Trump’s Facebook account ‘in the coming weeks’

January 25, 2023

Two years after the company formerly known as Facebook suspended then-President Donald Trump’s account indefinitely, it’s bringing him back. Meta made the announcement of its decision to restore former president Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts on Wednesday, saying that it would do so in “the coming weeks.” As a general rule, we don’t want to […]

Meta will restore Trump’s Facebook account ‘in the coming weeks’ by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch