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Remote ropes in Carta to simplify equity grants for distributed teams

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A few months after acquiring equity management company Easop, Remote, an HR platform for managing geographically distributed teams, is doubling down on its focus on managing equity compensation with a new product, Remote Equity. Remote already makes...

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We finally have an ‘official’ definition for open source AI

There’s finally an “official” definition of open source AI. The Open Source Initiative (OSI), a long-running institution aiming to define and “steward” all things open source, today released version 1.0 of its Open Source AI Definition...

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Elon Musk’s xAI adds image understanding capabilities to Grok

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Elon Musk-owned xAI has added image-understanding capabilities to its Grok AI model. This means that paid users on his social platform X, who have access to the AI chatbot, can upload an image and ask the AI questions about it. An xAI employee and...

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The WordPress vs. WP Engine drama, explained

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This story has been updated throughout with more details as the story has developed. We will continue to do so as the case and dispute are ongoing. The world of WordPress, one of the most popular technologies for creating and hosting websites, is...

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Filigran secures $35M for its cybersecurity threat management suite

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Paris-based startup Filigran is fast becoming the next cybersecurity rocketship to track: The company just raised a $35 million Series B round, only a few months after it raised $16 million in a Series A round. Filigran’s main product is OpenCTI,...

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Indian fintech Slice seals bank merger

Indian fintech startup Slice said it has completed its merger with North East Small Finance Bank, marking a rare instance of a startup successfully entering India’s tightly regulated banking sector. The merger, first proposed last year, transforms...

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Instagram is lowering video quality for unpopular videos

The popularity of an Instagram video can affect its actual video quality: According to Adam Mosseri (the Meta executive who leads Instagram and Threads), videos that are more popular get shown in higher quality, while less popular videos get shown in...

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Founders and VCs back a pan-European C corp, but an ‘EU Inc’ has a rocky road ahead

It’s become a common refrain in political discourse: Europe needs to take radical action to remain competitive. On the long list of potential reforms, one that’s gaining particular traction is a new, EU-wide corporate status for innovative...

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The next Mac mini might be nearly as small as an Apple TV

The Mac mini will be getting an upgrade this week, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The mini is Apple’s desktop computer (really just a small gray box) positioned between the consumer iMac and the company’s professional-grade desktops. The...

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Meta releases an ‘open’ version of Google’s podcast generator

Meta has released an “open” implementation of the viral generate-a-podcast feature in Google’s NotebookLM. Called NotebookLlama, the project uses Meta’s own Llama models for much of the processing, unsurprisingly. Like NotebookLM, it can...

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Merlin Solar bets twisty panels will help it land on rooftops everywhere

The startup uses standard silicon solar cells but connects them using bendy materials, giving them better durability and more flexibility. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Arcade, a new AI product creation platform, designed this necklace

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Mariam Naficy, the founder of cosmetics retailer Eve and design marketplace Minted, has a long history of supporting independent artists and helping them sell their products. Her latest venture, Arcade AI, is a new type of marketplace that puts...

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Get Ready! TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 kicks off tomorrow and ticket prices increase

We’re just 24 hours away from one of the most highly anticipated tech events of the year! Excitement is building as we prepare to welcome the global tech community to TechCrunch Disrupt 2024! Brace yourself for a week of vibrant energy lighting up...

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Jon McNeill’s insights on Tesla’s robotaxi and why EV startups fail

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Jon McNeill — a former Tesla and Lyft executive and current CEO at DVx Ventures — spread the word last week at the World Business Forum on what he calls the “Tesla innovation method” of radical simplification. After his presentation, we sat...

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NASDAQ CEO Adena Friedman isn’t surprised we haven’t seen a resurgence in startup IPOs yet

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While many venture investors, and likely their LPs, were hoping IPOs were going to come back in 2024, that hasn’t happened and isn’t likely to in the next two months. NASDAQ CEO Adena Friedman isn’t surprised. Friedman said at Axios’s BFD...

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OpenAI denies it’s releasing a model called ‘Orion’ this year

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Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re looking at OpenAI’s reported plans for its next AI model; a buzzy new messaging app that’s a hit with Gen Z; and Tim Cook discovering that you can name a group chat in iMessage. Let’s get into...

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OpenAI’s Whisper transcription tool has hallucination issues, researchers say

Software engineers, developers, and academic researchers have serious concerns about transcriptions from OpenAI’s Whisper, according to a report in the Associated Press. While there’s been no shortage of discussion around generative AI’s...

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Apple wins $250 from Masimo in watch patent trial

A federal jury ruled Friday that Masimo smartwatches infringed Apple patents, but Apple isn’t getting a big payday. Bloomberg Law reports that the company was only seeking the statutory minimum of $250, and that’s all it was awarded. Apple’s...

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VC megadeals are booming — and AI is surprisingly not the top category

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Ask any VC if we’re still in a venture capital bear market and that investor will almost certainly tell you no, that funding is still flowing for good companies. That might sound like spin, because anecdotes abound about how rough it still is for...

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Final Countdown: 2 days until TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 begins and ticket prices increase

We are a mere 2 days away from one of the most anticipated tech events of the year! San Francisco is about to be electrified by the global tech community. Join the crowd at Moscone West from October 28-30 (and all week) as Silicon Valley’s finest...

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