GM and partner Samsung SDI pick Indiana for $3B battery factory
The battery belt — a region stretching from Michigan down into Georgia where the bulk of EV and battery manufacturing is concentrated — has yet...
Turo’s Q1 2023 results indicate it may be a while until we see its IPO
Late last week, car rental marketplace Turo dropped an updated S-1 filing featuring its first-quarter results. TechCrunch+ previously covered the company’s full-year 2022 results, noting...
The ‘AI arms race’ is about more than who will lead the industry
The conversations around AI and sustainability have centered around two fronts, according to Lorenzo Thione, a managing director at Gaingels. On the one hand, AI’s...
Paul McCartney used AI to make a new Beatles song
AI-generated music is a bourgeoning and fraught topic, with artists either vocally opposing even the faintest hint of it, or some (like Grimes) more or...
Kodem comes out of stealth with $25M to tackle application security
A new startup is entering the fray in the market of application security: Kodem, a company out of Israel founded by a team of security...
Spotify fined in Sweden over GDPR data access complaint
Music streaming giant Spotify is facing a fine of around €5 million ($5.4M) in Sweden years after it was accused of breaching the data access...
Striveworks snaps up first funding of $33M to build tools for machine learning operations
MLOps, or DevOps for those working with machine learning models, has seen a boom of interest in the last year, and that should come as...
US intelligence confirms it buys Americans’ personal data
A newly declassified government report confirms for the first time that U.S. intelligence and spy agencies purchase vast amounts of commercially available information on Americans,...
How to pitch me: 10 investors discuss what they’re looking for in June 2023
Let’s explode a few myths. For starters: the tech industry is not a meritocracy. There’s a direct correlation between the size and strength of your...
Hong Kong eyes stablecoin regulatory regime by 2024
While the Western world debates how to regulate stablecoins, Hong Kong is forging ahead with a regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies pegged to traditional financial assets....