70% of HBO Max subs have moved over to rebranded Max service

In the first week of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) launching Max (formerly HBO Max), 70% of existing HBO Max subscribers transitioned to the new streaming service, which bundles Discovery+... Read more »

TechCrunch+ roundup: 10 questions to ask a VC, AI and antitrust, Japan investor survey

The nature of my work isn’t cyclical: VC activity has slowed down dramatically this year, but I still keep pretty busy. According to the National Venture Capital Association, deal... Read more »

Microsoft to pay $20M settlement for illegally collecting children’s personal data

Microsoft will pay $20 million to settle charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission accusing the tech giant of illegally collecting the personal information of children without their parents’... Read more »

Apple redesigns its Shortcuts app in iOS 17 to be easier to use

Apple is making its Shortcuts app simpler to use with iOS 17. The app, which allows power users to create automations for their favorite apps, will receive an updated... Read more »

SEC Chair Gensler lambasts crypto industry after agency charges Binance, Coinbase

The waters have been very hot in the crypto industry this week. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed two separate lawsuits against two of the largest... Read more »

Life insurance startup Getlife becomes Life5 and raises $10.7 million

Spanish startup Life5 has raised its third funding round and has been growing nicely since my previous post. The company also has a new name as it used to... Read more »

Curing physician burnout with Eli Ben-Joseph form Regard

Welcome back to Found, where we get the stories behind the startups. This week Becca and Dom are joined by Eli Ben-Joseph, the co-founder and CEO of Regard, a... Read more »

Announcing the final agenda for the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt

TechCrunch Disrupt, our flagship startup event, returns to San Francisco on September 19–21, and you can bet TechCrunch+ will be in the house. It’s going to be the biggest... Read more »

Yes, interactive widgets are coming to iPhone, too, in iOS 17

Apple is giving its widgets platform an upgrade with its latest software releases. In addition to now becoming available on Apple Watch and Mac, widgets on iPhone and iPad... Read more »

LlamaIndex adds private data to large language models

Last fall, after playing around with OpenAI’s GPT-3 text-generating AI model — the predecessor to GPT-4 — former Uber research scientist Jerry Liu discovered what he describes as “limitations”... Read more »
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