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Lithuania is vying to become one of the major European tech hubs, bolstered by a growing number of so-called “unicorn” startups and governmental efforts to attract a high-profile accelerator to the country. At the same time, a new €100 million private initiative announced today is setting out to create what would be Europe’s largest tech […] Lithuania’s capital Vilnius to get ‘Europe’s largest tech campus,’ costing €100M by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch... →

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Rocket Lab’s next Electron mission will include another marine recovery attempt of the rocket’s booster, the latest step by the company to advance its reusability program. The mission, called “Baby Come Back,” will take off from Rocket Lab’s Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula. The launch window opens no earlier than July 14. […] Rocket Lab doubles down on marine booster recovery with next Electron launch by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch... →

Space mission management is a complicated beast, too often characterized by complicated workflows and information siloes that cost organizations time and money. Continuum Space Systems, a two-year old startup based in Pasadena, is looking to change that with its unified platform to support the entire lifecycle of a space mission. To further that goal, Continuum […] Continuum Space Systems wants to make space mission management easy by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch... →

TikTok has confirmed that it’s testing a new in-app “Trendy Beat” shopping section where it is offering products for sale that are shipped and sold by a subsidiary of its parent company, ByteDance. The feature, which was first reported on by the Financial Times, is currently being tested in the UK. The shopping section offers […] TikTok looks to challenge Amazon and Shein with new e-commerce initiative by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch... →

Harry Nelis Contributor Share on Twitter Harry Nelis is a partner at Accel, a global venture firm that has partnered with companies from inception through all phases of private company growth for the last 40 years. More posts by this contributor To become a public company, start operating like one early on Talent is the […] Why Europe and Israel’s unicorns are producing the next generation of tech founders by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch... →

Today, Kaitlyn Glancy, who has spent more than eight years with the logistics company Flexport — the last four of them as the outfit’s vice president of North America — is announcing that she has joined the world of VC as the newest partner at the venture firm Eclipse. On its face, it appears to […] Kaitlyn Glancy, long Flexport’s VP of North America, just joined the world of VC by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch... →

Satellite bus manufacturing startup Apex Space has closed a $16 million Series A round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and new investor Shield Capital, as it prepares for its first demonstration mission early next year. In addition to the new capital, Apex also revealed some of the customers that will be flying payload on that inaugural […] Andreessen Horowitz, Shield Capital back satellite bus manufacturing startup Apex Space by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch... →

India has finally agreed to join the Artemis Accords, a NASA-led initiative to work together with other countries on space exploration and make a return to the Moon, after months of silence about joining the program’s 26 other signatories. On Thursday, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the South Asian Nation is joining the […] India joins NASA’s Artemis Accords for collaborative lunar exploration by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch... →

Most people still think of crypto as an asset class that's traded and speculated on, but there are many more use cases than meets the eye, Armstrong said. Brian Armstrong thinks Coinbase could become a ‘superapp’ by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch... →

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This isn’t a facetious question; it’s an unanswered one. What, if anything, is an ethical way to use current generative AI in a major, public-facing work of art? This quandary emerges from the furore regarding Marvel Studios’ use of AI to create the main title sequence of its latest show, Secret Invasion. AI generated art […] If the ‘Secret Invasion’ title credits aren’t an ethical use of AI art, what is? by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch... →

Earlier this week, EDX Markets launched its digital asset platform. But what made this launch catch a lot of attention? Its founding investors. Fidelity, Schwab, Citadel backing new crypto exchange EDX signals TradFi’s deeper dive into digital assets by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch... →

You’ll have to forgive me, as this is going to be one of those in-between Actuator weeks. I finally took a couple of days off last week after working through the last few weekends, and today I’ve been rewarded with a throbbing migraine. Isn’t the human body magical? Either way, it’s an exciting week for […] Life after logistics by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch... →

Andreessen Horowitz, the storied venture firm known for being an early investor in some of the biggest tech companies including Airbnb, Coinbase and GitHub, has created a new fund to continue growing its business despite the slowdown in traditional VC funding. The evergreen fund is titled a16z Perennial Venture Capital Fund, according to a filing […] Andreessen Horowitz creates ‘Perennial’ evergreen fund amid market slowdown by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch... →

TikTok’s longstanding COO V Pappas just announced plans to leave their executive role at the company. Pappas, who previously held positions as the global head of creative insights and audience development at YouTube, has been with TikTok for nearly five years. “Given all the successes reached at TikTok, I finally feel the time is right […] TikTok’s COO is leaving the company by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch... →

Inflection, a well-funded AI startup aiming to create “personal AI for everyone,” has taken the wraps off the large language model powering its Pi conversational agent. It’s hard to evaluate the quality of these things in any way, let alone objectively and systematically, but a little competition is a good thing. Inflection-1, as the model […] Inflection debuts its own foundation AI model to rival Google and OpenAI LLMs by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch... →

If everything seems to be going well, but you're not getting any traction, it's probably because you've run into one of these three problems. Falling into these 3 traps means you will never raise VC funding by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch... →