Month: November 2023

Protection startup Epirus, Inc. is getting new management. Workers have been informed at an all-hands assembly this morning that CEO Ken Bedingfield was leaving, TechCrunch discovered. The information was later confirmed by an organization spokesperson, who informed TechCrunch that Bedingfield accepted a task at an unnamed public firm. He might be changed by COO Andy

With dubstep because the soundtrack and neon lighting because the backdrop, Elon Musk handed the primary Cybertrucks over to a choose group of consumers that included Reddit co-founder and VC fund Seven Seven Six founder Alexis Ohanian and Trousdale Ventures founder and CEO Phillip Sarofim. The livestreamed portion of the Tesla Cybertruck delivery event was

Unhealthy information: For those who had your coronary heart set on a sub-$40,000 Cybertruck, it ain’t coming subsequent 12 months, if ever. Although Tesla plans to ramp up manufacturing of its electrical pickup in 2024, the corporate clarified at present after its splashy delivery event that the most affordable Cybertruck variant will be available in

The previous program supervisor of Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engines has filed a lawsuit towards the corporate alleging whistleblower retaliation after he spoke up about questions of safety. The criticism was filed on Monday within the Los Angeles County Superior Court docket. It features a detailed narrative about program supervisor Craig Stoker’s efforts over seven

Wombo, the makers of viral AI-generated artwork app Dream by Wombo, is again with one other new AI-powered app referred to as Wombo Me. The brand new AI avatar app from the Canadian startup enables you to flip a single selfie into a number of lifelike avatars. Though there are a number of fashionable AI avatar

Welcome again to Chain Response. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s largest and most essential crypto tales delivered to your inbox each Thursday at 12 p.m. PT, subscribe here. Final week we didn’t publish a Chain Response publication, due to Thanksgiving. However we’re again at it this week and saying goodbye to November after a

Amazon’s large AWS cloud occasion has begun, with a transparent give attention to using AI to maintain its lead intact Christine Hall 17 hours Amazon Internet Providers is stay in Las Vegas for its AWS re:Invent occasion, which kicked off November 27 and runs till December 1. We count on a rapid-fire stream of bulletins

Various funding platform Yieldstreet introduced in the present day that it has agreed to accumulate Cadre, an internet real-estate-focused funding platform aimed toward institutional and excessive internet value traders. Monetary phrases of the deal weren’t disclosed. Based in 2015, Yieldstreet offers individuals a method to make investments in areas like actual property, marine/transport, authorized finance,

Instagram’s Twitter/X rival, Threads, is turning into extra aggressive with the enlargement of its key phrase search function to all markets the place the app is accessible. The function was initially tested in English-speaking markets together with Australia and New Zealand in August earlier than expanding to most other English and Spanish-speaking countries, together with

Android customers are poised to obtain practically a dozen new options within the newest launch of the cell working system, together with updates designed for smartphones, tablets, Put on OS smartwatches and even Google TV units. Alongside the launch, Google is celebrating a brand new RCS milestone of over 1 billion month-to-month lively customers of

Amini, a Kenya-based climate-tech startup bridging the environmental information hole in Africa, has raised $4 million in a seed funding spherical led by Salesforce Ventures and the Feminine Founders Fund. Local weather-tech VC Satgana additionally participated, alongside different buyers, together with Pale Blue Dot and Superorganism, which had beforehand backed the startup in its $2

Greg Waisman Contributor Greg Waisman is co-founder and COO on the world funds infrastructure platform Mercuryo. Mr. Waisman is an completed entrepreneur and enterprise chief with deep roots within the expertise market. He has a wealth of expertise in full-cycle enterprise administration, establishing fintech-related startups and growing them from the bottom up. Because the fintech

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s viral AI chatbot, turns one at present. A yr in the past, OpenAI launched ChatGPT as a “low-key analysis preview” — reportedly spurred partly by an intense rivalry with AI startup Anthropic. The purpose, OpenAI management told the OpenAI rank-and-file on the time, was to collect extra knowledge on how individuals use and

NomuPay — the funds startup that was shaped out of a number of the more healthy items of the dramatically failed fintech Wirecard — has made an acquisition because it continues on its trajectory of higher economies of scale. It has picked up Total Processing, a startup out of Manchester that builds fee processing options

Tesla is transferring ahead with the long-awaited launch of its Cybertruck electrical pickup. The boxy car is Tesla’s first new mannequin since 2020, when it started delivering the Mannequin Y. But, Cybertruck’s preliminary debut predates that second; Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed off an early model of the pickup at a memorable 2019 event, when

PDD, the agency behind the fast-growing purchasing app Temu, is shaking up China’s Large Tech membership. On Thursday, information of Alibaba’s market cap sliding under that of PDD made headlines all around the Chinese language web. This improvement marked a historic shift in China’s e-commerce house, the place for years Alibaba had held the crown

Days after Evernote started testing a free plan with access to only one notebook and 50 notes with restricted customers, the corporate has now made this its new default free plan. The notetaking app stated that this transformation shall be relevant for all new and current free customers beginning December 4. In a post on