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Infinite Machine raises $9M a16z-led round to convince Americans to buy scooters

Infinite Machine turned many heads when it revealed its metallic, cyberpunk-style electric scooter in 2023. Now one of Silicon Valley’s biggest venture capital firms is backing the startup’s vision of filling the world’s cities with Infinite...

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Brightwave’s AI agent helps asset managers find signal, and it’s fundraising fast

The finance world is constantly looking for signal: indicators of a buying or selling opportunity in the markets. Brightwave says its AI agent can help. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Tabnine launches its code review agent

AI code assistant company Tabnine is launching a code review agent today that aims to help developers stick to their organization’s best practices and standards. It allows organizations to codify these rules either by providing the agent with...

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GMI Cloud secures $82M in Series A for its GPU cloud infrastructure

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The AI boom has spurred massive demand for graphics processing units (GPUs). As many enterprises seek to integrate AI technology into their systems, providers of GPU infrastructure are helping businesses get access to the chips they need. In the...

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TechCrunch Disrupt 2024: Day 2

Day 2 of TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 has arrived, and the energy from day 1 is still electrifying across San Francisco! We’re only partway through the 250+ speakers, 200+ sessions, and 350+ exhibiting startups at Disrupt. As expected, yesterday saw...

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MoneyGram replaces CEO weeks after massive customer data breach

The CEO's removal comes soon after the company confirmed it had lost an unspecified amount of personal customer information in an earlier September cyberattack. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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US finalizing rules to ban certain investments in AI tech in China

President Joe Biden’s administration says it’s finalizing rules to curb investments in AI and other tech sectors in China, Reuters reports. The rules, which were first proposed in June by the U.S. Treasury and directed by an executive order...

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Salesforce AI chatbot Agentforce hits general availability

Salesforce on Tuesday announced the general availability of its AI agent development platform called Agentforce. The offering is, in essence, a low- or no-code method for deploying chatbots for employees or customers. Salesforce says the new platform...

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Margaret Atwood’s verdict on AI poetry is in — and it’s not good

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Bestselling author Margaret Atwood isn’t worried about the indefatigable rise of generative AI — telling Reuters that she’s too old to be concerned about its impact on the arts. Her remarks follow a petition calling for an end to the unlicensed...

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Threads is testing the ‘trending now’ view in Japan

After rolling out the trending topics feature in the U.S. earlier this year, Threads is now testing out the feature in Japan. “Lots of folks outside the US have been asking for the “Trending Now” feature, and we’re working on bringing it to...

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Google, DPI back African fintech Moniepoint in $110M round

African fintech Moniepoint just closed $110 million in new financing, and it has landed Google’s Africa Investment Fund as a new investor. The Series C round was led by Development Partners International’s African Development Partners (ADP) III...

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Emidat is building a tool to clean up construction by automating environmental reporting

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Fixing the climate crisis is a vast, world-sized puzzle. But one particularly large piece of this ginormous conundrum is construction and real estate — which collectively amount for around 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Enter Munich-based...

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Infraspeak raises $19.5M to bring collaboration to facilities management

It might not be the sexiest of subjects, but facilities management is central to any business that has a physical premises — the bigger that footprint becomes, the more complex it gets. Portuguese startup Infraspeak has set out to address that with...

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Krafton backs IMM Investment’s first India fund

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The Indian arm of gaming firm Krafton has backed IMM Investment’s first India fund as an anchor limited partner. Seoul-based IMM Investment, an early backer of Krafton and an investor in roughly half of South Korea’s unicorns, has marked the...

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What’s driving the boom in national interest startups in Silicon Valley?

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One fascinating trend these days is an area that has a number of names: national-interest startups, American Dynamism, New World. These startups are creating technologies in areas that are meant to be built, used, and create jobs in the country of...

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The global future of remote work, according to three HR startup leaders

Software is eating the world, and companies are hiring global talent more frequently than ever. They want to be able to hire talent in foreign countries and retain employees who want to move abroad. That’s why a new wave of global HR startups are...

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Erin and Sara Foster from Oversubscribed Ventures talk consumer, culture and creators

Erin and Sara Foster, two of the venture industry’s most famous sisters, sit down alongside business partner Phil Schwarz at Disrupt 2024 to talk about their VC firm Oversubscribed Ventures, consumer investing, culture curation, and what it means...

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Post-Synapse meltdown, this is the state of the banking-as-a-service industry

The bankruptcy of banking-as-a-service (BaaS) fintech Synapse shows just how treacherous things are for the often-interdependent fintech world when one key player hits trouble. Synapse’s problems have hurt and taken down a number of other startups...

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Visa Everywhere Initiative: The Ultimate Fintech Pitch Competition

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Fintech startups inspire—Visa enables. Join us at the Visa Emerging Innovators (VEI) program, where we celebrate the next generation of fintech pioneers. This year, we are thrilled to announce that we are doubling the prize to an incredible $100K!...

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Google-backed Open Cloud Coalition launches to lobby European lawmakers

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Europe has a new lobbying body, one with a self-stated mission to “improve competition, transparency and resilience” in the cloud computing sector. The Open Cloud Coalition (OCC) counts 10 members at launch, the most notable of which is Google,...

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