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What not to do when getting your grocery startup off the ground with Abhi Ramesh from Misfits Market

SBF’s defense puts forth a 35-minute last-ditch effort to show his good will

French soccer players back African mobile video network StarNews Mobile in $3M round

Privacy will die to deliver us the thinking and knowing computer

Cruise hits the brakes on driverless, UAW makes progress and more EV backpedaling

Korean Investment Partners is the latest Korean VC firm to launch a Southeast Asia fund

Posts with misinformation on X become ‘ineligible for revenue share’ says Musk

US automakers need to make up their minds already

More than a year later, the $20B Adobe-Figma deal is still stuck in regulatory limbo

A look at how one fintech CEO’s PR decision backfired

Cruise ceases robotaxi operations, the Apple Watch gets a new feature and Carta tries to head off bad press

Tech layoffs are back with a vengeance

Elon Musk’s Twitter a year later: Everything you need to know

SBF testifying, bitcoin rises amid spot ETF speculation and Walmart’s web3 accelerator surfaces

OpenAI forms team to study ‘catastrophic’ AI risks, including nuclear threats

Apple Pay Later is now available to all users in the US

Amazon’s new generative AI tool lets advertisers enhance product images

Ask Sophie: Is it now easier for founders to get H-1B visas?

Adapting to the climate crisis with Jonas Torland from 7Analytics

TC+ Roundup: Is European venture showing signs of recovery?

FCC aims to investigate the risk of AI-enhanced robocalls

What’s behind the fresh round of tech layoffs?

Feds expand Tesla investigation to include vehicle range, personal benefits

While tech companies play with OpenAI’s API, this startup believes small, in-house AI models will win

Rivian R1T is the first EV to win the longest off-road competition in the US

Tesla ‘digs its own grave with the Cybertruck,’ Convoy collapses and Rivian scores a win at Rebelle

Why Monday.com decided to build its new database instead of buying one

Federal hydrogen hub program could give fuel a boost — or the boot

Is Plaid’s potential IPO a sign of fintech turning a corner?

Hackers leak more 23andMe data, X cracks down on porn and Andreessen writes a manifesto

Toyota hops on Tesla’s EV charging standard, leaving Stellantis and VW as holdouts

6 tax-related do’s and don’ts for SaaS startups in 2023

Waymo’s new simulator helps researchers train more realistic agents

Amazon and MIT are partnering to study how robots impact jobs

TC+ Roundup: How to capture market share in the era of AI

Reddit is killing blockchain-based Community Points

Zipcar hit with feds’ first-ever fine for renting out recalled cars

Netflix’s cloud gaming service begins tests in U.S.

General Catalyst and European early stage fund La Famiglia ‘join forces’ to invest in European startups

Australia fines X for failing to provide information about child abuse content

Asia emerges as a promising haven amid the crypto winter

London’s not calling for Par Equity, as VC firm targets £100M at UK startups in the north

How founders can cut through the noise and find events that are actually worth it

Braid shuts down, Stash marches toward an IPO and what happens when a fintech relationship fizzles out

The SBF trial continues, Atlassian acquires Loom, and OpenAI explores making its own chips

How roboticists are thinking about generative AI

Founders, are events useful?

SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launches NASA Psyche mission to metal asteroid

After warning, the EU opens investigation into X over alleged disinformation

Ford increases wages at planned EV battery factories amid UAW strike

Cruise opens robotaxi service in Houston

Creators raising venture capital: unsettling or genius?

How to fundraise when your deep tech startup sounds like sci-fi

More money won’t fix your failing startup — here’s how to get investors to back a pivot

Anysphere raises $8M from OpenAI to build an AI-powered IDE

Fearing AI, fanfiction writers lock their accounts

SumUp’s valuation falls as low as $4.1B, as Groupon and others sell off their stakes

Cash-strapped EV maker Arrival lays off yet more workers

Hackers advertised 23andMe stolen data two months ago

Federal judge throws out $32.5 million win for Sonos against Google

As misinfo circulates on X amid the Israel-Hamas war, reporters look to other platforms

Demos aren’t as important as you think for your VC pitch

Alameda Research’s ex-CEO Caroline Ellison testifies, claims SBF directed her to commit crimes

TikTok now supports direct posting from AI-powered Adobe apps, CapCut, Twitch and more

Hacktivism erupts in response to Hamas-Israel war

Waymo expands in San Francisco while Cruise feels the heat

ChatGPT’s mobile app hit record $4.58M in revenue last month, but growth is slowing

Michigan’s Grand Ventures announces $50m early stage fund

A green hydrogen unicorn is born, more problems for Cruise and inside aviation’s buzzy startup summit

Wanda Fish navigates VC waters to catch $7M for production of cultivated bluefin tuna

Accel leads $21M investment in UK care home marketplace Lottie

Singapore’s tech subscription service Circular wants to keep devices out of the landfill

European Digital insurtech startup Getsafe acquires Luko’s German portfolio, reaches 550,000 customers

To attend or not to attend: We asked 52 founders whether events are useful or a waste of time

Zendesk emerges from last year’s turbulence with strong outlook

Here’s how Rainforest, a budding Stripe rival, aims to win over software companies

Women and underrepresented founders aren’t going to wait for the VC industry to transform itself

Sam Altman backs teens’ startup, Google unveils the Pixel 8 and TikTok tests an ad-free tier

How NVIDIA became a major player in robotics

Brave lays off 9% of its workforce

Artists across industries are strategizing together around AI concerns

EV buyers can soon get the $7,500 tax credit at time of purchase

Electric seaglider startup Regent takes flight with $60M in new funding

OpenAI said to be considering developing its own AI chips

Pack away your mittens, startup winter is over

TechCrunch+ Roundup: AI investor survey, calculating TAM, inside the FTX trial

Stoke Space raises $100M Series B as it looks to reach orbit by 2025

Lawsuit alleges discriminatory pay schemes at SpaceX

How to stretch your venture dollars

Following the SBF trial, 3AC arrest and Q3 web3 funding drops

Uber still dragging its feet on algorithmic transparency, Dutch court finds

Microsoft won’t say if its products were exploited by spyware zero-days

What’s at stake in the Supreme Court’s landmark social media case

Three weeks later, investors still not terribly enthusiastic about the massive Cisco-Splunk deal

Keep Labs’ smart storage redefines medication management

Electric Hydrogen is the green hydrogen industry’s first unicorn

In latest Cruise incident, video shows pedestrian struck by human-driven car, then run over by robotaxi

7 companies to provide NASA with commercial satellite imagery under $476M contract

The Xencelabs Pen Display 24 is a terrific alternative to Wacom’s big-screen drawing tablets

US lawmakers ask TikTok about its ByteDance ties after recent exec transfers between the companies

Sam Altman backs teens’ AI startup automating browser-native workflows

Humata AI summarizes and answers questions about your PDFs

Greener for Business launches to help Australian SMBs move to net zero

Google launches $399 Chromebook Plus category

India’s national logistics portal exposed sensitive personal data, trade records

Bird loses its NYSE wings, Uber gets tight with taxis and Tesla gets sued again for racial discrimination

Procurement is painful, so Pivot wants to simplify it

How to raise a Series A in today’s market

A tale of two research institutes