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Drug discovery startup Pepper Bio hopes to challenge Eroom’s law with new funding

X CEO Linda Yaccarino publicly backs Musk after he says ‘f*ck yourself’ to advertisers

Elon Musk is now taking applications for data to study X — but only EU researchers need apply…

TC+ Roundup: The venture downturn isn’t the end for Australia and New Zealand

Building for Medicaid’s regulatory moment with Neil Batlivala from Pair Team

Webull leaps into Mexico with acquisition of stock trading app Flink

Amazon unveils Q, an AI-powered chatbot for businesses

Prefab home builder Veev reportedly shutting down after reaching unicorn status last year

Ransomware ‘catastrophe’ at Fidelity National Financial causes panic with homeowners and buyers

What to look out for in this week’s deluge of SaaS earnings reports

So you want to craft a killer pitch deck

PhysicsX emerges from stealth with $32M for AI to power engineering simulations

After two ambitious years, TikTok parent ByteDance starts mass layoffs in gaming

Byju’s taps Jiny Thattil as CTO following departure of Anil Goel

India’s EMotorad rides high with $20M investment for global e-bike push

Reflections on Web Summit: Out of the frying pan, and out of the fire?

TC Startup Battlefield master class with Blumberg Capital: Make the most of your investors’ expertise

What startup founders need to know about AI heading into 2024

Sam Altman returns to OpenAI, Apple adopts RCS, and Binance’s CEO pleads guilty to charges

Black Friday online buying hits a record $9.8B in the US, $70.9B globally

Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain implant startup, quietly raises an additional $43M

The fate of US venture capital in China teeters on uncertainty

Startups should consider hiring fractional AI officers

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway exits Paytm at a 40% loss

Saviu Ventures’ second fund reaches €12 million first close to back Francophone Africa startups

I’m trying so hard not to gush over Teenage Engineering’s latest gadget

How to talk about the OpenAI drama at Thanksgiving dinner

The best tech gifts under $50 to consider in 2023

Google Meet can now detect when you raise your hand IRL

Venturi Astrolab’s rovers will deploy $160M worth of payloads on the moon

OpenAI’s crisis will sow the seeds of the next generation of AI startups

Emmett Shear, the ex-Twitch CEO tasked with stabilizing OpenAI, has some spicy social history

Microsoft hires ex-OpenAI leaders Altman and Brockman to lead new AI team

Altman won’t return as OpenAI’s CEO after all

Cruise co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt resigns

Cruise’s mea culpa and everything that stood out at the LA Auto Show

OpenAI’s board is no match for investors’ wrath

OpenAI fires CEO Sam Altman, Airbnb acquires GamePlanner.AI, and Epic battles Google over antitrust

A timeline of Sam Altman’s firing from OpenAI — and the fallout

Time for moderation?

5 work from home gifts for remote workers in 2023

Fighting against AI makes me wonder what it means to be human

Inito, a startup that helps women quickly track fertility hormones at home, raises $6M

Female Founders Fund looks to raise $75 million for new fund

Amazon strikes deal with Snap to let users buy its products from ads on Snapchat

Joby, Volocopter fly electric air taxis over New York City

After six quarters of falling venture interest, crypto investors see recent price gains as positive signal

The best tech gifts under $50 to consider in 2023

Shekel Mobility, a B2B marketplace for auto dealers in Africa, raises $7M led by Ventures Platform and MaC VC

Cruise spirals and LTA’s airship breaks cover in Silicon Valley

Bose QuietComfort Ultra earn their name and maybe even their $429 price tag

Klarna’s and Affirm’s very good week

Robotics Q&A: CMU’s Matthew Johnson-Roberson

OpenAI hosts a dev day, TechCrunch reviews the M3 iMac and MacBook Pro, and Bumble gets a new CEO

Will Airbnb’s co-founder build your next home?

AI makes you worse at what you’re good at

Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg details Tumblr’s future after re-org

TC+ Roundup: Know your goals before taking the plunge

This week in AI: OpenAI plays for keeps with GPTs

OpenAI wants to work with organizations to build new AI training data sets

Snap’s latest version of its AR development tool includes a ChatGPT API, boosted productivity and more

Fakespot Chat, Mozilla’s first LLM, lets online shoppers research products via an AI chatbot

New pre-seed funds are popping up everywhere

Hugging Face has a two-person team developing ChatGPT-like AI models

Google’s AI-powered search experience expands globally to 120+ countries and territories

Astra secures new debt agreement with assets as collateral

TC+ Roundup: Many Black founders are rooting for SVB

Withings Body Scan review: A smart scale that tracks cardio health, body comp and more

23andMe data theft prompts DNA testing companies to switch on 2FA by default

Startups learn the hard way that relying on OpenAI’s tech can burn them

Dreamfarm, a startup out of Italy’s Food Valley, is setting its sights on the perfect vegan mozzarella

In Mamaearth, Peak XV finds its fourth 10x return since Sequoia separation

Flexport gobbles up Convoy’s assets, Revel pulls the plug on mopeds and UAW sets its sights on Toyota and Tesla

Valued at $1B, Kai-Fu Lee’s LLM startup unveils open source model

The circular economy promises to remake retail. Why is it so hard to trust?

Why last week felt like 2021 in fintech

Tech layoffs return with a vengeance, Gaza internet collapses and Apple hosts a Halloween event

A new breed of companies expand in San Francisco’s prime areas

Black founders still care for Silicon Valley Bank

Why Mozilla is betting on a decentralized social networking future

Unredacted FTC suit shows ‘Project Nessie’ price-raising algorithm made Amazon $1.4B

India-made iPhones to top 20% of global shipments by 2024, Kuo says

Meta’s Yann Lecun joins 70 others in calling for more openness in AI development

Subaru follows Toyota in adopting Tesla’s charging standard