Relying on vanity metrics are like attending a Little League awards dinner: Everyone goes home a winner!
TechCrunch+ roundup: Vanity metric dangers, planning for failure, Black founders survey by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch
Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Darrell and Becca caught up with Alice Albrecht about her early-stage AI startup re:collect. Alice talked about why she founded the company that uses machine learning algorithms to help creatives brainstorm and recall information without breaking focus. She also talked about […]
Augmenting creativity with Alice Albrecht from re:collect by Rebecca Szkutak originally published on TechCrunch
The next breakthrough to take the AI world by storm might be 3D model generators. This week, OpenAI open-sourced Point-E, a machine learning system that creates a 3D object given a text prompt. According to a paper published alongside the code base, Point-E can produce 3D models in 1 to 2 minutes on a single […]
OpenAI releases Point-E, an AI that generates 3D models by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Solo GP Nichole Wischoff told TechCrunch that she is hoping to fund “American dynamism … the real one.
This VC is bullish about American dynamism – ‘the real one’ by Anna Heim originally published on TechCrunch
Vercel, the popular front-end development platform, now allows you to comment directly on preview deployments, using a highly visual commenting system that is similar to Figma’s. The company had been testing this feature since September and it’s now generally available to all users. As Vercel co-founder and CEO Guillermo Rauch told me, the idea here […]
Vercel makes it easier to collaborate on preview deployments by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch
It’s been a year. This roundup is never a particularly fun one to write. No one wants to see startups fail, but we’re all keenly aware that most ultimately do. A commonly cited figure suggest that 90% of these companies will ultimately fail. But even with that in mind, 2022 just hit different. The previous […]
Remembering the startups we lost in 2022 by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch
Microsoft says a vulnerability it discovered in a core macOS security feature, Gatekeeper, could have allowed attackers to compromise vulnerable Macs with malware. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-42821, was first uncovered by Microsoft principal security researcher Jonathan Bar Or, and dubbed the “Achilles” vulnerability. Bar Or said the bug could allow malware to skirt Gatekeeper’s […]
Apple fixes bug that let malicious apps skirt macOS’ security protections by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch