Uber leads $100M investment in African mobility fintech Moove as valuation hits $750M

March 19, 2024

Moove, an African mobility fintech that offers vehicle financing to ride-hailing and delivery app drivers, has raised $100 million in a funding round as it plots expansion into new markets. TechCrunch learned from sources familiar with the deal that Uber led the Series B round, which includes sovereign wealth fund Mubadala and several other investors, […]

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Truecaller adds a new AI feature to detect and block more spam calls

March 19, 2024

Caller ID app Truecaller today blocks between 38 and 40 billion spam calls annually for its 374 million+ users. Now, in hopes of getting more people to sign on to its premium tiers, it’s turning up the dials on its filtering tech. A new “Max” update for Android premium subscribers uses AI to block every […]

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Decoding the TikTok ownership controversy

March 19, 2024
In the ever-evolving landscape of digital technology, a new controversy has emerged that has the potential to reshape the dynamics of social media ownership and usage. The center of this…

LACERA decreases venture capital allocation range, but experts say it doesn’t signal a trend

March 18, 2024

The Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association (LACERA) voted to decrease its allocation range to venture capital at a March 13 meeting. The board of investments voted to decrease its allocation range to venture capital and growth equity from between 15% and 30% of the pension system’s private equity portfolio, to between 5% and 25%. […]

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Mintlify says customer GitHub tokens exposed in data breach

March 18, 2024

Documentation startup Mintlify says dozens of customers had GitHub tokens exposed in a data breach at the start of the month and publicly disclosed last week. Mintlify helps developers create documentation for their software and source code by requesting access and tapping directly into the customer’s GitHub source code repositories. Mintlify counts fintech, database and […]

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Nvidia launches a set of microservices for optimized inferencing

March 18, 2024

At its GTC conference, Nvidia today announced Nvidia NIM, a new software platform designed to streamline the deployment of custom and pre-trained AI models into production environments. NIM takes the software work Nvidia has done around inferencing and optimizing models and makes it easily accessible by combining a given model with an optimized inferencing engine […]

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Nvidia enlists humanoid robotics’ biggest names for new AI platform, GR00T

March 18, 2024

It’s tough to argue with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang when he notes, “Building foundation models for general humanoid robots is one of the most exciting problems to solve in AI today.” The humanoid form factor is one of the most hotly contested topics in the world of robotics at the moment, raising venture capital by […]

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TechCrunch Space: $paceX

March 18, 2024

Welcome back to TechCrunch Space. This is an uncommonly SpaceX-heavy issue. Apologies (or you’re welcome).

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