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Shopify last week announced that it would be the latest big tech firm to undergo mass layoffs. The company is cutting 20% of its 11,600-person staff. The news arrived during earnings that beat Wall Street expectations, shooting its stock price up as a result. Also included in the announcement was news that the Canadian e-commerce […]

Shopify sells 6 River Systems to new owner

One constant theme we’ve been hearing from the big cloud infrastructure vendors this year is helping customers increase the efficiency of their cloud spend. Cloud bills have grown enormously as companies move more workloads. Combine that with a high level of economic anxiety, and a pronounced switch from a growth to efficiency mindset, and customers […]

Antimetal is putting AI to work to root out cloud cost inefficiencies

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags, as consumer spending last year dropped for the first time by 2% to $167 billion, according to data.ai’s “State of […]

This Week in Apps: WWDC23, ByteDance pushes Lemon8 ahead of TikTok ban, T2 capitalizes on Twitter chaos

Make way for yet another headline-grabbing AI policy intervention: Hundreds of AI scientists, academics, tech CEOs and public figures — from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis to veteran AI computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton, MIT’s Max Tegmark and Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn to Grimes the musician and populist podcaster Sam Harris, to […]

OpenAI’s Altman and other AI giants back warning of advanced AI as ‘extinction’ risk

Holy procrastination, startup founders! Tomorrow’s your last chance to apply to the Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. Your last chance for a shot to stand on the Disrupt Stage and pitch to a huge audience packed with global tier-1 investors, hundreds of media outlets and plenty of other influential movers and shakers. Cut […]

Startup Battlefield 200 applications close tomorrow

A database containing the details of almost half-a-million RaidForums users has leaked online, a year after the U.S. Department of Justice seized the notorious cybercrime forum. The leaked database was posted on Exposed, described by security researchers as an up-and-coming forum “wanting to fill the void” left by the recent BreachForums shutdown. An Exposed admin, […]

RaidForums user data leaked online a year after DOJ takedown

There’s no way to create a definitive list of climate technologies to invest in, but here are three areas that deserve a closer look.

Three climate technologies every investor should have in their portfolio

Hello and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Our Monday Tuesday show covers the latest in tech news from the weekend and what’s making headlines early in the week. This week? Crypto prices are static, unlike a particular valuation, and Alex […]

AI can do everything, but can crypto do something?

For more than seven years, UpCodes has been making the complicated world of building codes easier to understand for people like industry professionals and homeowners. Its platform includes a searchable database covering regulations in all states and features like a “spellcheck” that flags code errors. Today, the startup is announcing a new AI-based tool that […]

UpCodes launches Copilot, an AI-based research assistant for building codes

In the same way that we now take pictures of receipts to expense that ‘important lunch’, construction tech startup Qflow allows the teams running construction sites to do the same for building materials. Sounds like a no-brainer, right? However, it’s more innovative and less trivial than it sounds. To date, there hasn’t been a company […]

Qflow raises $9.1M to track construction receipts, making it easier to de-carbonize

Klarna managed to nab market share in a contracting market, keeping its own growth story afloat despite stiff headwinds.

Klarna’s Q1 results show that the fintech unicorn’s turnaround is in full swing

Antimatter is an edtech company that operates under a simple, enticing premise: if a student really understands a topic, then they’ll be able to make a meme about it. “To be able to shitpost, you have to understand the subject matter really well,” Antimatter founder and CEO Jonathan Libov told TechCrunch last year. “In a […]

Antimatter uses memes to turn C students into C+ students

If mindlessly browsing the internet is your preferred way to combat boredom and waste time, the indie app makers behind to-do list app Clear and game Heads Up! have a new product you’ll want to try: Web Roulette, a mobile web browser app for iOS built for the short attention spans of the TikTok era. […]

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Shopify sells 6 River Systems to new owner

Antimetal is putting AI to work to root out cloud cost inefficiencies

This Week in Apps: WWDC23, ByteDance pushes Lemon8 ahead of TikTok ban, T2 capitalizes on Twitter chaos

OpenAI’s Altman and other AI giants back warning of advanced AI as ‘extinction’ risk

Startup Battlefield 200 applications close tomorrow

RaidForums user data leaked online a year after DOJ takedown

Three climate technologies every investor should have in their portfolio

AI can do everything, but can crypto do something?

UpCodes launches Copilot, an AI-based research assistant for building codes

Qflow raises $9.1M to track construction receipts, making it easier to de-carbonize

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OpenAI’s Altman and other AI giants back warning of advanced AI as ‘extinction’ risk

Startup Battlefield 200 applications close tomorrow

RaidForums user data leaked online a year after DOJ takedown

Three climate technologies every investor should have in their portfolio

AI can do everything, but can crypto do something?

UpCodes launches Copilot, an AI-based research assistant for building codes

Klarna’s Q1 results show that the fintech unicorn’s turnaround is in full swing

Qflow raises $9.1M to track construction receipts, making it easier to de-carbonize

Antimatter uses memes to turn C students into C+ students

Web Roulette is an addictive, ‘swipeable’ web browser for the TikTok era