Google’s latest art project recruits an animated bird — and AI — to play the cello

Google might be laser focused on generative AI these days, like the majority of its Big Tech competitors. But that hasn’t stopped the search giant from patronizing pretty out-there... Read more »

US consumers spent $6.4 billion on the first day of Amazon’s Prime Day event

The first day of Amazon’s two-day Prime Day event saw U.S. sales rise nearly 6% year-over-year to $6.4 billion, according to Adobe Analytics Data. The number represents the single... Read more »

Cooling inflation in the US brings slight relief to tech valuations

New U.S. inflation data is augmenting tech stocks listed on American exchanges, helping shares of cloud companies reach prices they haven’t been close to for nearly a year. The... Read more »

Announcing the Sustainability Stage agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023

Keeping apace of the latest trends and innovation in climate tech and sustainability — an area that touches every industry and city — is nearly impossible. It’s why we... Read more »

Clibrain joins the generative AI race with Lince, an LLM optimized for Spanish

There is a long list of Large Language Models (LLMs) out in the wild already, from OpenAI’s GPT-4 to Google’s PaLM2 to Meta’s LLaMA, to name three of the... Read more »

Tumblr is losing $30M each year, CEO says

If we’ve learned anything from this past year of Twitter clones, CEO fights, shitposting and bad, money-grabbing policies, it’s this: making a social media company profitable is hard! After... Read more »

Pipe co-founder raises $6M for CapStack, a bank-to-bank marketplace aimed at ‘de-riskifying portfolios’

CapStack, a startup formed by Pipe co-founder Michal Cieplinski, has raised $6 million toward its effort to build an integrated operating system for banks. In simpler terms, Cieplinski described... Read more »

Infant formula company Bobbie takes in $70M to acquire Nature’s One

Bobbie, an organic infant formula company, has acquired Nature’s One, a 26-year-old pediatric nutrition company, in a move that gives Bobbie end-to-end control over formula manufacturing through a new... Read more »

Tales of ESG’s death have been greatly exaggerated

Corporate executives might be making a lot of noise about ESG — some of it positive, some not — but when it comes to investors, sustainability concerns appear here... Read more »

Employee benefits startup Swile expects to become profitable next quarter

French startup Swile shared some revenue metrics just a year after merging with Bimpli, the employee benefits division of BPCE. Swile’s main product is a payment card for employee... Read more »
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