Saturday, November 4, 2023

Friday, November 3, 2023

Musk says Twitter subscribers will get early access to xAI’s chatbot, Grok

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Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, is creating its own version of ChatGPT. That appears to be the case, at least, from Musk’s tweets on X late Friday evening teasing the AI model xAI has been quietly developing. Called Grok — a name xAI trademarked recently — the model answers questions conversationally, possibly drawing on a […]

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This EV startup was going to revolutionize how cars were made – now, it’s on life support

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Arrival set out eight years ago to make electric vehicle production “radically more efficient.” So far, its plan to forgo the gigafactory for local microfactories has proved anything but. Arrival trumpeted how its automated microfactories would simultaneously churn out electric vans for UPS, cars for Uber drivers, and buses for the U.K., Italy and California. […]

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Swedish fintech Klarna dodges a strike after reaching agreement with workers

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Fintech giant Klarna has reached an agreement with workers that were set to strike next week, the company told TechCrunch today. Klarna employees were planning to strike next week in the fintech’s home country of Sweden, as reported by tech.eu.  The dispute was reportedly over the lack of a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) –  a […]

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10 editor-tested travel gifts for frequent fliers in 2023

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I don’t know about you, but I’ve been traveling a lot this year. In fact, I’ve been back to my 2019 levels of travel, which has been a breath of fresh air after being pandemic-grounded for a couple of years. I like to return to this list every time TechCrunch does a gift guide. It’s […]

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Blackbird invests in Carepatron’s “radically accessible” healthcare management platform

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When TechCrunch covered Carepatron’s pre-seed last year, it was focused on serving solo practitioners and small health practices. Now the healthcare management system has scaled along with its clients, and works with medical practices that range in size from five to 100 practitioners. The platform is now used in about 50 countries and recently launched […]

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PagerDuty scoops up incident management startup Jeli.io

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PagerDuty announced this afternoon that it intends to acquire Jeli.io, an early-stage incident management startup. The companies did not share the price. Jeli was founded in 2019 by Nora Jones, a chaos engineering veteran, who had previously worked at Netflix and Slack. Jones went to work building a company that could help customers figure out […]


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Musk: SpaceX’s Starlink ‘has achieved breakeven cash flow’

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SpaceX’s Starlink has “achieved breakeven cash flow,” CEO Elon Musk said Thursday, a milestone achievement for the rocket company’s four-year-old satellite internet business unit. He announced the news in a post on X, the social media platform that he also owns. He added that Starlink “is also now a majority of all active satellites and […]


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Thursday, November 2, 2023

Norrsken22’s debut fund closes at $205M to back growth-stage startups in Africa

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It’s exciting times for growth-stage investment in Africa as Norrsken22, a Pan-African venture capital firm, achieves the final close of its debut fund, raising a total of $205 million, surpassing its initial target. This also highlights a keen interest from institutional investors in supporting African startups at an essential phase of their journey. Norrsken22, established […]

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X runs ‘timeline takeover’ ad promoting anti-trans film

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Thursday on X (Twitter), all users saw the same pinned topic under the “What’s happening?” sidebar. As part of a “timeline takeover” — which gives advertisers “priority access to logged-in users’ first impression of the day” — conservative media non-profit PragerU is promoting the hashtag “#DETRANS” to advertise its new film about “the stories of […]

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Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all seven counts

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Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder and former CEO of crypto exchange FTX and trading firm Alameda Research, has been found guilty on all seven counts related to fraud and money laundering. The defendant is “charged with a wide-ranging scheme to misappropriate billions of dollars of customer funds deposited with FTX and mislead investors and lenders to FTX […]

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