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08:36 07.10.2023

Brave lays off 9% of its workforce

Brave Software, the maker of Brave Browser and Search, confirmed that it has laid off 9% of its staff across departments. The company didn’t specify how many people were affected, but it corroborated the development and said the decision was driven by the tough economic climate. “Brave eliminated some positions as part of our cost […]... →

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02:04 07.10.2023

Creatives across industries are strategizing together around AI concerns

As creative industries grapple with AI’s explosion into every artistic medium at once, separate calls from artists warning the world to take action before it’s too late are starting to converge. From fake Drake songs to stylized Instagram profile pictures, art conjured with newly sophisticated AI tools is suddenly ubiquitous — and so are conversations […]... →

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01:10 07.10.2023

a16z-backed fintech Synapse lays off 40% of its staff

Banking-as-a-service startup Synapse confirmed today that it has laid off 86 people, or about 40% of the company. The San Francisco-based company, which operates a platform enabling banks and fintech companies to easily develop financial services, has been open about past layoffs. In June, CEO Sankaet Pathak wrote in a blog post that the company […]... →

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00:42 07.10.2023

EV buyers can soon get the $7,500 tax credit at time of purchase

Starting in January, the IRS will make the $7,500 federal EV tax credit available immediately via dealers. The Treasury Department announced the update on Friday, noting that dealers will have the option to “reduce the purchase price of the vehicle or provide cash to the buyer.” The update also applies to buyers taking advantage of […]... →

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23:00 06.10.2023

Electric seaglider startup Regent takes flight with $60M in new funding

The promise of electric aviation has been weighed down by the limited range of batteries and the long certification process. Regent co-founder and CEO Billy Thalheimer, who previously worked at Aurora Flight Sciences, has looked to maritime — and more specifically, electric seagliders — for the answer to these two challenges. “How can we do […]... →

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23:00 06.10.2023

Daily Search Forum Recap: October 6, 2023

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google shocked us by releasing the October 2023 core update...... →

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22:31 06.10.2023

OpenAI said to be considering developing its own AI chips

OpenAI, one of the best-funded AI startups in business, is exploring making its own AI chips. Discussions of AI chip strategies within the company have been ongoing since at least last year, according to Reuters, as the shortage of chips to train AI models worsens. OpenAI is reportedly considering a number of strategies to advance […]... →

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22:00 06.10.2023

Pack away your mittens, startup winter is over

Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. As I sat down to write this week’s Startups Weekly, I do what I do every week: Read every story on TechCrunch. This week, that meant reading 212 stories on the site, and you know what I’m left with? An […]... →

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21:00 06.10.2023

TechCrunch+ Roundup: AI investor survey, calculating TAM, inside the FTX trial

If you haven’t found traction with customers and aren’t generating revenue, you should be in fundraising mode already.... →

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20:22 06.10.2023

SBF Trial: The latest updates from the FTX collapse’s courtroom drama

Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of collapsed crypto exchange FTX, is on trial for alleged fraud and conspiracy as he led the company’s swift rise and implosion. Over the course of several weeks, his attorneys will try to maintain his innocence against a wide-ranging series of accusations ranging from securities fraud to money laundering, to […]... →

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20:12 06.10.2023

AI app EPIK hits No. 1 on the App Store for its viral yearbook photo feature

Another week, another AI app going viral. This time around, the AI app that has surged to the top of the App Store is EPIK, an photo editing app that lets users generate nostalgic, 90s-inspired “yearbook” photos of themselves as one of its many templates. Similar to other recently popular AI apps, EPIK works by […]... →

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20:10 06.10.2023

Google, Apple face fines in South Korea for breaching in-app billing rules

South Korea’s telecommunication regulator, the Korea Communications Commission (KCC), said Friday that it plans to levy fines on Google and Apple, which could total up to $50.5 million, for violating the country’s in-app payment law. According to the KCC statement, the two Big Tech giants abused market dominance to force local app developers to use […]... →

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20:06 06.10.2023

A comprehensive list of 2023 tech layoffs

Last year’s techwide reckoning continues. In 2023, layoffs have yet again cost tens of thousands of tech workers their jobs; this time, the workforce reductions have been driven by the biggest names in tech like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo, Meta and Zoom. Startups, too, have announced cuts across all sectors, from crypto to enterprise SaaS. […]... →

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20:00 06.10.2023

Bolt CEO discusses moving on after SEC probe

The investigation was a challenging period to manage client expectations, and CEO Maju Kuruvilla said he even got on sales calls himself.... →

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19:51 06.10.2023

Humans can’t resist breaking AI with boobs and 9/11 memes

The AI industry is progressing at a terrifying pace, but no amount of training will ever prepare an AI model to stop people from making it generate images of pregnant Sonic the Hedgehog. In the rush to launch the hottest AI tools, companies continue to forget that people will always use new tech for chaos. […]... →

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19:23 06.10.2023

Wisk Aero starts flight testing electric autonomous aircraft in Los Angeles

Electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle company Wisk Aero has started flight testing a version of its autonomous air taxi aircraft in Los Angeles, according to CEO Brian Yutko. The flight test of its fifth-generation aircraft, also known as Cora, out of the Long Beach Airport near Los Angeles doesn’t necessarily mean that Wisk will […]... →

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19:17 06.10.2023

Abu Dhabi sovereign-wealth fund invests nearly $600M in Reliance Retail at $100B valuation

Abu Dhabi Investment Authority is investing $597 million in Reliance Retail, valuing the largest Indian retail chain at a whopping $100 billion. The investment follows KKR and Qatar Investment Authority together investing $1.7 billion in the Indian firm, which is part of Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. Abu Dhabi sovereign-wealth fund’s investment will fetch it a […]... →

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19:09 06.10.2023

Adobe запустит инструмент на базе искусственного интеллекта для редактирования фотографий

Его предварительно назвали Project Stardust... →

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18:50 06.10.2023

Exclusive: Y Combinator beefs up with a string of new lieutenants

Y Combinator continues to change shape under CEO Garry Tan, a founder-turned-investor and online influencer. While Tan and his colleagues have attracted media attention lately for quarrelsome social media posts that take on rivals and San Francisco city officials, Tan has more quietly been turning the dials inside the popular accelerator program since taking it […]... →

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18:21 06.10.2023

Some gen AI vendors say they’ll defend customers from IP lawsuits. Others, not so much

A person using generative AI — models that generate text, images, music and more given a prompt — could infringe on someone else’s copyright through no fault of their own. But who’s on the hook for the legal fees and damages if — or rather, when — that happens? It depends. In the fast-changing landscape […]... →

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