Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images xAI — the AI company founded by Elon Musk — seeks to raise up to $1 billion in equity investments, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (as spotted by CoinDesk). The company […]
Day: December 5, 2023
Git platform AllSpice now curries favor with enterprises
AllSpice shifted its strategy to bring enterprise engineers together to more easily collaborate on projects. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Multiple game developers announce layoffs, including EA-owned Codemasters
A trio of game developers have just announced layoffs, adding to the chaos that is the tech industry in 2023. It starts with developer New World Interactive, who are behind the Insurgency series and Day of Infamy, among others. There’s no word as to how […]
Elon Musk’s xAI company is seeking up to $1 billion in investments
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images xAI — the AI company founded by Elon Musk — seeks to raise up to $1 billion in equity investments, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (as spotted by CoinDesk). The company […]
Open-source SuperDuperDB brings AI into enterprise databases
While SuperDuperDB is just a few months old, it has already drawn significant traction from major data ecosystem players, including Snowflake, BigQuery and MongoDB.
23andMe hack now estimated to affect over half of customers
A hack that targeted DNA testing kit company 23andMe back in October is estimated to have exposed significantly more profiles than previously reported. The personal information of about 6.9 million customers is now the current projection for the number of profiles exposed in the breach, […]
Foretellix raises $85M to build and test scenarios for self-driving systems
On their way to building fully-autonomous vehicles, self-driving car makers are facing a tall task: training their AIs to be able to respond reliably to any and all scenarios that a car, truck or bus might encounter as well as, or hopefully better, than a […]
Bitcoin’s price dynamics: Unraveling the cryptocurrency’s volatility
CONTRIBUTOR CONTENT: Out of all cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin has made the greatest impact, capturing the attention of investors, traders and even the general public. This digital currency, introduced in 2009 by an anonymous entity known as Satoshi Nakamoto, has since undergone significant price fluctuations, making it […]
Twilio might actually deserve activist investor attention
Twilio’s stock has fallen from 2021 of $400 a share to somewhere in the $60s today. It’s no wonder activist investors are circling. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Halide says it will never support video, so it’s launching Kino instead
Image: Kino Halide cofounder Ben Sandofsky has a message for everyone who’s asked if video capture will be added to the popular iPhone photography app: “Never.” Lux, the development team behind Halide, is instead working on Kino — a new, dedicated video capture app for […]

