TechCrunch 2024-04-12 11:14:24 It’s tough out there — and yet, doing my semi-regular jobs post always gives me hope. Seems every time I post one of these, the number increases. At 74 companies, this is undoubtedly the largest list we’ve made, by a wide margin. That means more work for me in putting this post…
TechCrunch 2024-04-11 08:00:12 Patlyticsan AI-powered patent analytics platform, wants to help enterprises, IP professionals and law firms speed up their patent workflows, from discovery, analytics, comparisons and prosecution to litigation. The fledgling startup secured $4.5 million in seed funding, oversubscribed and closed in a few days, led by Google’s AI-focused VC arm, Gradient Ventures. Patlytics…
TechCrunch 2024-04-02 10:05:48 U.S. police departments are increasingly relying on a controversial surveillance practice to demand large amounts of users’ data from tech companies, with the aim of identifying criminal suspects. So-called “reverse” searches allow law enforcement and federal agencies to force big tech companies, like Googleto turn over information from their vast stores of…
TechCrunch 2024-03-26 10:04:16 Dan Laufer swore off ever founding a startup again after he sold apartment rental platform RentLingo in 2021, but Laufer also couldn’t ignore the potential to solve a problem he saw unfolding as the head of growth and product marketing at Nextdoor. “The top use of Nextdoor is people looking for providers,…
NYT > Top Stories 2024-03-18 14:33:20 A majority of the Supreme Court seemed wary on Monday of a bid by two Republican-led states to limit the Biden administration’s interactions with social media companies, with several justices questioning the states’ legal theories and factual assertions. Most of the justices appeared convinced that government officials should be…
TechCrunch 2024-03-15 07:20:58 It’s extremely heartening to see our little list effectively double since the last time we did one of these. While it’s true that layoffs continue to plague the tech industry at large, there are few better fields to be expert in at the moment than Robotics and AI. With more than 60…
GameSpot – All Content 2024-02-29 10:05:00 Saber Interactive, the developer behind the remake of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, is reportedly splitting off from Embracer Group. Borderlands developer Gearbox is also reportedly following in the same steps of being sold as well. According to BloombergSaber Interactive is going to become a privately owned…
TechCrunch 2024-02-29 08:00:00 As streaming apps and services are gradually showing more ads to viewers, adtech startup Vibe plans to help small businesses take advantage of that trend by letting them access that ad inventory with a self-serve ad platform like the ones small businesses use to run ads on Google’s or Meta’s services. The…
TechCrunch 2024-02-15 08:00:08 There’s a lot that can go wrong with GenAI — especially third-party GenAI. It makes stuff up. It’s biased and toxic. And it can run afoul of copyright rules. According to a recent survey from MIT Sloan Management Review and Boston Consulting Group, third-party AI tools are responsible for over 55% of…
TechCrunch 2024-02-02 09:33:58 It was a rough week. There are rarely good weeks for my industry, but this one felt especially dire. Perhaps because it hit close to home. Not that many publications, however, have been through the scale of what iRobot is facing. After a year-and-a-half of waiting, Amazon dropped its bid to purchase…
