Technology is all about solving big thorny problems. Yet one of the hardest things about solving hard problems is knowing where to focus our efforts. There are so many urgent issues facing the world. Where should we even begin? So we asked dozens of people to identify what problem at the intersection of technology and society that they think we sho

This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. Last week, I worked with my colleague Antonio Regalado, our senior editor for biomedicine, to break a truly inspiring and honestly kind of wild story: Chinese scientists used gene therapy to res

London-based Spotted Zebra, a skills-based workforce management platform, announced that it has secured £7.7M (approximately €8.84M) in a Series A round of funding. The investment was led by the pan-European VC firm Nauta Capital with participation from Act Venture Capital and existing investors Playfair and Entrepreneur First. Capital utilisation

How much is privacy worth? Is a yearly subscription for a VPN justified? Is it better to pay with your time, changing the privacy settings on every website you visit? What is a fair price to stop data about who you are and how you behave being used to inform ads? Different companies have different answers. Yahoo offers ad-free email for $5 per mont

It’s a stormy holiday weekend, and you’ve just received the last notification you want in the busiest travel week of the year: the first leg of your flight is significantly delayed. You might expect this means you’ll be sitting on hold with airline customer service for half an hour. But this time, the process looks a little different: You have a br

This is a monthly feature that runs down the month’s top 10 funding rounds in the U.S. See last month’s top rounds here. Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2023 with our new curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Tracker. Even as the venture market continue

In the weeks since Hamas launched its October 7 surprise attack on Israel, the ensuing conflict has generated an unprecedented wave of disinformation, an “algorithmically driven fog of war” that has tripped up major new organizations and left social media companies floundering. Signals and Noise Israel’s Failure to Stop the Hamas Attack Shows the D

Editor’s note: This is part of a series in which we interview active investors in artificial intelligence. Previous interviews were with investors at General Catalyst, Bessemer Venture Partners, Accel, Insight Partners, Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital. Andy Harrison was at Google when the tech giant launched the Transformer machine learning mode

Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Our Monday show covers the latest in tech news from the weekend and what’s making headlines early in the week. Here’s what we got into today: It’s a massive earnin

Fears about potential future existential risk are blinding us to the fact AI systems are already hurting people here and now. October 30, 2023 This is an excerpt from Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines by Joy Buolamwini, published on October 31 by Random House. It has been lightly edited. The term “x-risk” is u

October has been a security flaw-fest, with Apple, Microsoft, and Google issuing patches for vulnerabilities that are being used in real-life attacks. There were also multiple enterprise fixes during the month, with Cisco, VMWare, and Citrix fixing serious security bugs. Some of the patches are more urgent than others, so read on to find out what y

The Biden administration on Monday released an executive order laying out a broad range of safety and security requirements around the use of artificial intelligence technology. The standards, which range from setting requirements for red-team testing to affixing labels on AI-generated content, could have a wide impact on how AI-focused companies,

Apple’s October event had some exciting product announcements — but don’t worry, there was nothing too spooky. Last week, the company announced a surprise “Scary Fast” event, prompting speculation that Apple would reveal new chips to power a new lineup of Macs. As our resident Apple expert Brian Heater wrote, a new 24-inch iMac and a MacBook Pro re

X has banned the account of a prominent critic after he published data that he claims exposed the site’s embrace of the far-right after Elon Musk’s takeover last year. Travis Brown, a software developer based in Berlin, alleges his account was first suspended on July 1 this year, several months after his data formed the basis of New York Times and

Jump to... Back to top Many European companies grapple with US expansion and often must navigate a variety of issues, including a competitive landscape, talent acquisition, regulatory considerations, brand awareness and cultural nuances. While investment is down from the peak days of 2021, US venture capital (VC) investment into European companies

The European Commission (EC) announced on Monday, October 30, that it has selected 47 companies to receive European Innovation Council (EIC) funding, following the third 2023 EIC Accelerator cut-off in June. According to EIC, engineering and tech-based companies performed strongly, accounting for 25 per cent of the selected companies, which is clos

Shield AI, the defense and aerospace startup creating AI pilots, raised a $200 million Series F at a $2.7 billion valuation. The round was co-led by Riot Ventures and Thomas Tull’s US Innovative Technology Fund, with participation from Ark Investment and returning investors Disruptive and Snowpoint Ventures. The round comes less than a year after t

SVB is a catalyst for the innovators of today, and a catalyst for the innovators of the future who will represent an increasingly diverse and expansive audience. The US population is projected to be minority white by 2045. As SVB continues to fuel the innovation economy, we are embedding our efforts to diversify the innovation economy on the front

One in five of the new billion-dollar startups to join The Crunchbase Unicorn Board this year were artificial intelligence companies, an analysis of the board shows. The 15 AI companies that joined as of Q3 2023 collectively added $21 billion in value to the board and were dominated by generative AI companies in text, translation, video, coding and

Connected devices linked to the Internet of Things (IoT) -- in association with 5G network technology -- are now everywhere. But just wait until next-generation applications, such as artificial intelligence (AI), start running within these edge devices. Meanwhile, the low latency and higher data speeds of 5G and IoT will add a new real-time dimensi

It will be hard for any startup to catch OpenAI when it comes to funding dollars, but it seems Anthropic is willing to give it a go. Previous investor Google has agreed to invest up to $2 billion in the OpenAI competitor, per a Wall Street Journal report late Friday. The deal includes $500 million upfront plus an additional $1.5 billion more over t

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, on his hopes and fears for the future of AI Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s cofounder and chief scientist, is no longer focusing on building the next generation of his company’s

Despite ChatGPT's many incredible capabilities, it has one big Achilles heel -- a lack of information on current events. However, it seems like OpenAI might be quietly working on a solution. When OpenAI first unveiled ChatGPT nearly a year ago, the AI chatbot only had knowledge of information that had occurred before September 2021 since the data i

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2023 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Tracker. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding rounds here. After a slow w

The halls of power are waking up to the potentials and pitfalls of artificial intelligence. The big question will be how much of an impact they will have on the march of progress if (and when) there are missteps. Yesterday, the United Nations announced a new AI advisory board — 39 people from across government, academia and industry — with an aim “

Generative AI has captured the general public's attention, but that sense of excitement doesn't mean executives believe it's ready to be deployed in the business Just one in ten technology leaders globally report having large-scale implementations of AI, according to Nash Squared's annual Digital Leadership Report, which is the world's largest and

Jeremy Wright was the first of five UK ministers charged with pushing through the British government’s landmark legislation on regulating the internet, the Online Safety Bill. The current UK government likes to brand its initiatives as “world-beating,” but for a brief period in 2019 that might have been right. Back then, three prime ministers ago,

Andreessen Horowitz is known for its bets on then-startups such as Facebook, Instagram and Airbnb. Firm founder Marc Andreessen is also known for his opinion pieces, from “Software Is Eating The World” to the new and much-discussed “The Techno-Optimist Manifesto” published last week. The 5,000-word “manifesto” basically says technology is the cure

The Must-See AI Tools to Massively Increase Your Productivity Deadly Passive · Follow 4 min read · Just now -- Share In this article, we will dive into the world of AI tools that are designed to revolutionise workflow and help you increase your productivity. I spend so much time researching new AI tools and nothing excites me more than a tool that

OpenAI today announced that it’s created a new team to assess, evaluate and probe AI models to protect against what it describes as “catastrophic risks.” The team, called Preparedness, will be led by Aleksander Madry, the director of MIT’s Center for Deployable Machine Learning. (Madry joined OpenAI in May as “head of Preparedness,” according to Li

GitLab CI/CD Pipelines Erwin Schleier · Follow 3 min read · 3 hours ago Listen Share GitLab CI/CD, which stands for Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment, is about automating the software delivery process. By automating steps like building, testing and deploying, it is ensured that developers can release software more rapidly and with hi

For a number of years, one of startup investors’ favorite activities involved writing checks to companies in the supply chain management sector. From 2018 till the end of 2022, investors across the globe poured more than $50 billion in seed through growth financing into supply chain-related companies, per Crunchbase data. Several startups raised bi

By Itay Sagie Strategic partnerships are formidable tools in an entrepreneur’s arsenal, capable of accelerating growth, adding credibility to your offerings, and opening doors to new horizons. However, when mishandled, they can spell the slow decline of your business. Types of strategic partnerships As a start, let’s explore the fundamental types o

When it comes to exploring the solar system, we must grapple with the hard limits of physics. The NASA probe’s retrorockets pressed desperately against the apricot afternoon skies of Mars. It was November 26, 2018, by Earth’s calendar. As the InSight lander worked its way down, slowing from 12,000 miles per hour to a graceful landing, overhead a pa

Bayern-based Quantum Systems, a company that develops, manufactures and sells AI-powered drone-robotics, announced on Tuesday, October 24, that it has raised €63.6M in a Series B round of funding. This brings the company’s total funding to over €100M. This milestone makes Quantum Systems the first European company to raise such a significant amount

In Boston, government technologies are run by in-house product managers who are able to make policy decisions. October 23, 2023 This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review's weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. Last week I published a story ab

Analytics unicorn Databricks is making its second large acquisition in four months. The San Francisco-based company plans to buy enterprise data startup Arcion for $100 million, CNBC first reported Monday. Databricks is one of the most valuable private companies in the world, even more so after it was valued at $43 billion in a $500 million-plus Se

Jump to... Back to top There are ways you can get access to your funds, regardless of the circumstances. Having multiple bank accounts has some advantages – but it comes with disadvantages, too. There are secure options that can help you navigate the complexities of managing liquidity risk without the need to open more than two bank accounts. You n

The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models. October 23, 2023 A new tool lets artists add invisible changes to the pixels in their art before they upload it online so that if it’s scraped into an AI training set, it can cause the resulting model to break in chaotic and u

Editor’s note: This is part of a series in which we interview active investors in artificial intelligence. Previous interviews were with investors at General Catalyst, Bessemer Venture Partners, Accel, Insight Partners and Index Ventures. A year ago, about 16% of Sequoia Capital’s new investments were in artificial intelligence startups. So far in

Microsoft wants to emphasize their strong commitment to artificial intelligence. In a world where technological giants strive to assert their dominance, Microsoft's commitment to artificial intelligence (AI) stands out prominently. CEO Satya Nadella, the guiding force behind the company's strategies, leaves no room for ambiguity – Microsoft not onl

OpenAI, the startup behind the artificial intelligence tools ChatGPT and DALL-E, will see its valuation jump at least 175% since its $300 million raise in the spring, thanks to a tender offer of employee stock. Per a report in The Information, Thrive Capital will lead a deal to buy the OpenAI shares at a price that will value the artificial intelli

The UK government, with its reversals on climate policy and commitment to oil drilling and air pollution, usually seems to be pro-apocalypse. But lately, senior British politicians have been on a save-the-world tour. Prime minister Rishi Sunak, his ministers, and diplomats have been briefing their international counterparts about the existential da

Enterprises are worried they are ill-prepared to deal with potential cybersecurity risks brought on by quantum computing. Some 61% have expressed concern their organization is not and will not be prepared to handle security implications that may surface in a post-quantum computing future, according to a survey conducted by Ponemon Institute. Commis

By Mike Whitmire Despite the tumultuous economy we’ve experienced over the past few years, the IPO market may be starting to turn a corner. While a plethora of companies went public in 2020 and 2021, the number has recently declined due to rising interest rates and inflation. However, as the economy slowly begins to stabilize, we’re seeing things s

Across the planet, roughly 1.47 billion cars and trucks already need a place to park. And each year, we add millions of new ones to the ranks. Given that reality, it’s no shocker that parking is an increasingly big business. Globally, annual revenue from the parking management industry is projected to exceed $10 billion by 2030, growing at a yearly

Good morning, and welcome to Friday! Atlassian’s purchase of Loom last week raised eyebrows, and not just because it missed unicorn status by a hair. But overall, it makes sense that Atlassian bought it. “Teaming and collaboration is moving to async video, and that was the one big piece missing for Atlassian,” Constellation Research’s Ray Wang told

This column is a look back at the week that was in AI. Read the previous one here. Perhaps the only thing rising faster than the valuations of generative AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic is the talk of regulation around the technology. We already saw the likes of Sam Altman on Capitol Hill talking about regulation in the space, and Europe see

By Dan Gray Recent coverage of private market data from Cambridge Associates has surprised many by revealing the extent to which European venture capital has outperformed American venture capital in recent history. Over the past 20 years, 10 years and 5 years, Europe led in net annual returns by 0.31%, 1.92% and 6.24%, respectively. Many in the ven

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Masayoshi Son seems very serious about getting back to playing “offense” when it comes to investing in new companies. Son’s SoftBank is looking at leading a $75 million to $100 million round for Norway-based Robotics startup 1X Technologies at a $375 million pre-investment valuation, per a report in The Information. The 9-year-old humanoid robotics

Image Credits: Just_Super / Getty Images Back in 2018, LexisNexis acquired the digital identity platform ThreadMetrix for just under $820 million in cash. In 2021, ThreadMetrix co-founders Reed Taussig and Alisdair Faulkner returned to the world of startups when, together with a number of ex-ThreadMetrix engineers and execs, they launched Darwinium

In normal times, going public at a valuation of over $10 billion is both a rare occurrence and a very big deal. In 2021, however, such enormous IPOs became rather common, even for money-losing startups. More than 20 global companies made debuts on the Nasdaq and NYSE that year at initial valuations above $10 billion. The list included some of the b

On the busy streets of suburban Berlin, just south of Tempelhofer Feld, a white Kia is skillfully navigating double-parked cars, roadworks, cyclists, and pedestrians. Dan, the driver, strikes up a conversation with his passengers, remarking on the changing traffic lights and the sound of an ambulance screaming past in the other direction. But Dan i

Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $5.1 trillion in 2024, an increase of 8% from 2023, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc. While generative AI (GenAI) has not yet had a material impact on IT spending, investment in AI more broadly is supporting overall IT spending growth. “In 2023 and 2024, very little IT spending will be tie

By Marc Schröder I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Over the course of their careers, LPs have maybe two to three windows to buy at the bottom. Our current market is one of them. We’ve all seen stories about how LPs are shying away from venture in the wake of macroeconomic trends, war, interest rates — the list goes on. The saying, “Those w

If you have ever used an AI text-to-image generator, you are likely familiar with , OpenAI's model that originally sparked the image generator interest. Last month, OpenAI announced an even more advanced DALL-E, and now it's here. On Monday, OpenAI shared via its release notes that DALLE-3 is rolling out in beta, making DALL-E 3 available directly

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Why New York City is embracing low-tech solutions to hard problems It’s a reality of politics that is often overlooked: once a law is passed, it needs to evolve from an idea into a plan with a budget and a staff,

Image Credits: Nvidia It likely won’t surprise you to learn that generative AI has been a white-hot topic in the world of robotics. There are a number of different ideas floating around about the best ways to embrace the emerging technologies, from natural language commands to design. I put the question of generative AI to Deepu Talla, Nvidia’s vic

Your startup is gaining momentum and you’re ready to raise capital to scale. Great, but from whom? Not all capital is created equal and choosing the right investment partner could be critical to your next phase of growth. Chances are you’ve started to compile a list of well-known VCs to target, but how do you evaluate the investors to determine who

This is a monthly feature that runs down some of the most active investors in U.S.-based companies, looks at some of their most interesting investments, and includes some odds and ends of who spent what. Read last month’s entry here. September saw a familiar name top the list of most active U.S. investors as Andreessen Horowitz took the mantle. How

We’re in a very strange moment for the internet. We all know it’s broken. But there’s a sense that things are about to change. The stranglehold that the big social platforms have had on us for the last decade is weakening. There’s a sort of common wisdom that the internet is irredeemably bad. That social platforms, hungry to profit off your data, o

Thursday’s M&A news gave everyone yet another reminder this isn’t 2021 anymore. Video messaging startup and one-time unicorn Loom was bought for $975 million by collaborative software giant Atlassian. The San Francisco-based startup raised a $130 million Series C at a $1.5 billion valuation in May 2021 — so Atlassian’s price represents about a 35%

Venture funding to Latin America increased a bit in the third quarter of this year, as later-stage dealmaking returned to the region. However, reported seed and early-stage investment was down sharply, indicating greater wariness around backing less-established startups. Altogether, investors put roughly $699 million to work across reported seed to

While venture funding in Asia is still off even last year’s pace, it has slowly crept up from earlier in the year. In the most recent third quarter, two of the countries that helped push funding higher are the pair perhaps facing the greatest geopolitical tensions in the region — China and Israel — per Crunchbase data. Total funding in Asia fell 8%

Want to keep track of the largest startup funding deals in 2023 with our curated list of $100 million-plus venture deals to U.S.-based companies? Check out The Crunchbase Megadeals Tracker. This is a weekly feature that runs down the week’s top 10 announced funding rounds in the U.S. Check out last week’s biggest funding rounds here. For weeks it s

Auto execs in the US, Europe, and Japan never thought Chinese EVs were a threat. Now they’re coming to wipe the floor with their Western counterparts. Photograph: Huawei/Chery Automobile “You won’t believe what’s coming,” warned the title of a January 2023 video from the Inside China Auto YouTube channel. “Europe’s premium car makers aren’t ready f

Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. If you want to receive The Interchange directly in your inbox every Sunday, head here to sign up! We covered lots of happenings in the world of fintech this past week — including raises, a startup closure, some drama between a couple of fintechs

Philosophers, cognitive scientists, and engineers are grappling with what it would take for AI to become conscious. October 16, 2023 David Chalmers was not expecting the invitation he received in September of last year. As a leading authority on consciousness, Chalmers regularly circles the world delivering talks at universities and academic meetin

Two types of technologies could change the privacy afforded in encrypted messages, and changes to this space could impact all of us. October 16, 2023 This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review's weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. On October

Equinix has confirmed that a scheduled system upgrade at one of its data centers in Singapore affected the operations of several customers, including two banks. It led to hours-long disruptions that left ATM and online banking services unavailable over the weekend. Also: Asian banks are a favorite target of cybercooks, and malicious bots their pref

In the era of search wars fought between giants, it’s tough to be small. Berlin-based Ecosia offers a search engine for the climate-conscious, promising to be carbon-negative by investing all of its profits into planting trees—more than 180 million of them since it launched in 2009. It’s not likely to topple Google, but it has won a stable clientel

Eight companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in September 2023, adding more than $15 billion in value, while two unicorns finally galloped off onto the public markets. The two highly valued unicorns, grocery delivery platform Instacart and marketing email automation service Klaviyo, marked the first major venture-backed startup exits since l

Despite cybersecurity being recognised as a part of company culture for two-thirds (67 per cent) of UK tech SMBs, 57 per cent feel that support with education and training has been lacking over the past year, in the ongoing battle against security threats. The UK was the region found by enterprise software company Sage to report the fewest cybersec

Funding to European startups reached $16.4 billion in Q3 2023 — up by 28% quarter over quarter and flat year over year. While the continent’s funding is up compared to the past three quarters, that increase is concentrated in late-stage funding, based on an analysis of Crunchbase data. For seed and early-stage companies in Europe, however, both amo

Funding to startups in Asia in the third quarter of 2023 saw only a slight drop year to year, a sign that the continent’s funding market may be finding its equilibrium. Asia funding seemed to mirror global trends, with year to year being down, but with the third quarter actually representing an 8% increase from the previous quarter, per Crunchbase

Anysphere, a startup building what it describes as an “AI-native” software development environment, called Cursor, today announced that it raised $8 million in seed funding led by OpenAI’s Startup Fund with participation from former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman, Dropbox co-founder Arash Ferdowsi and other angel investors. The new cash, which brings Anys

On Tuesday, Europe’s top tech regulator called out X owner Elon Musk for losing control of his own platform. "Following the terrorist attacks carried out by Hamas against Israel, we have indications that your platform is being used to disseminate illegal content and disinformation in the EU,” Thierry Breton said in an open letter, posted on X. The

Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of collapsed crypto exchange FTX, remains on trial for alleged fraud and conspiracy as he led the company’s swift rise and implosion. We’re now in the middle of the trail’s second week, with some of the highest-profile witnesses providing their testimony on SBF’s conduct, FTX’s business practices and alleged money

After several quarters of declining activity, the most active startup investors got a little busier in the third quarter. Per Crunchbase data, the four most prolific post-seed investors all participated in the same or more deals in Q3 than they did in Q2. Among the top 20, all but four partook in an equal or greater number of rounds. For a sense of

As members of the UK’s largest opposition party gathered in Liverpool for their party conference—probably their last before the UK holds a general election—a potentially explosive audio file started circulating on X, formerly known as Twitter. The 25-second recording was posted by an X account with the handle “@Leo_Hutz” that was set up in January

The following cyber security companies vary in what services they provide, from what devices or software they cater for, to the kinds of security they offer. Some completely focus on cyber security, and others deal in multiple services, including cyber security. Looking for the right cyber security provider may depend on the size of your company, o

While no business can afford to ignore the rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI), no organization can let data-led initiatives sprout up without control. Whether it's in the form of generative AI services, such as ChatGPT or Bing, or in machine-learning-led initiatives that allow organizations to undertake large-scale data analytics, AI is a

Image Credits: Getty Images 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 b

After a dramatic upswing and then a sharp descent, North American startup funding is exhibiting a new trendline: a flat one. In the third quarter of 2023, investors put $31.4 billion to work across all stages in U.S. and Canadian startups, per Crunchbase data. That represents a drop of just 3% from the prior quarter, indicating that while investors

[Promoted content] The Fourth Industrial Revolution is powered through myriad ways but all roads lead back to IoT. KORE and a panel of experts present on the influences and opportunities in Industrial IoT (IIoT), as well as the challenges and how to overcome them. The APAC IIoT market is expected to reach $198.5 million by 2029 diverse and widespre

Why Every Tech Entrepreneur Should Start with an MVP? Metricoid technology · Follow 4 min read · 21 hours ago 3 Listen Share Entrepreneur Should Start with an MVP Elevating Tech Startups with MVPs The path from a simple idea to a physical product is strewn with both excitement and hurdles for digital entrepreneurs on the verge of realizing their am

Image Credits: Carsten Koall/Getty Images / Getty Images Following preliminary objections over Google’s data terms, set out back in January by Germany’s antitrust watchdog, the tech giant has agreed to make changes that will give users a better choice over its use of their information, the country’s Federal Cartel Office (FCO) said today. The commi

Image Credits: JOSH EDELSON/AFP / Getty Images Uber has been found to have failed to comply with European Union algorithmic transparency requirements in a legal challenge brought by two drivers whose accounts were terminated by the ride-hailing giant, including with the use of automated account flags. Uber also failed to convince the court to cap d

With Amazon and Microsoft estimated to hold a combined 70-80 per cent cloud market share in the UK, the investigation aims to consider what can be done to improve the supply of cloud services for businesses. Such services are rapidly being adopted by organisations, allowing for realisation of benefits such as scalability, added security, and remote

Global venture funding in the third quarter of 2023 reached $73 billion — up a bit quarter over quarter and down 15% from the $86 billion invested in Q3 2022, Crunchbase data shows. Despite the uptick quarter over quarter, this is the second lowest quarter since funding started to slide in 2022. The startup world is now five to six quarters into th

Gesturing Towards the Future: Apple Leads the Way Tomas Haffs · Follow 3 min read · 4 hours ago 56 Listen Share Poorly illustrated by me Since we rolled out of the womb, humans have been gesturing. Long before we master language, pointing at stuff is our most significant communication tool. It also never leaves our sides as we continue to employ a

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Innovation Explore the AI revolution within software engineering, including its coding advancements, sweeping impact on diverse sectors -- and ethical implications. Table of Contents What is software engineering? What is the difference between AI and software?How can AI be applied in software engineering?What are the pressing ethical questions in A

Hans Swildens is convinced the tech and startup market downturn of the past few quarters is missing one crucial element: a name. Twenty-three years ago, we had the Dot-Com Bubble. In 2008-2009, it was The Great Recession. But what do we call the steep reversal in valuations that followed the late-2021 market peak? “The Unicorn Collapse?” proposes S

By Mikhail Taver Recently, I was reading Crunchbase News’ analysis of the declining volume of M&A deals involving VC-backed companies, which are still technically referred to as startups. This led me to ask myself: When we talk about startups, what do we really mean? Is a startup still a startup after it has acquired enough capital to buy another c

Venture capital may have slowed, but that doesn’t mean some VC firms aren’t still raising big. Greylock — famous for bets on companies such as Airbnb, Coinbase and then-Facebook, now Meta — announced its 17th fund, a $1 billion vehicle focused on pre-seed, seed and Series A founders. The firm will look to fund AI-first companies across a variety of

Neural network AI programs that are reduced by 75% of their functionality can achieve the same power as programs twice their size. A major pursuit in the science of artificial intelligence (AI) is the balance between how big a program is and how much data it uses. After all, it costs real money, tens of millions of dollars, to buy Nvidia GPU chips

Defense and security firm Anduril is looking to raise between $400 million and $500 million from investors, possibly in a convertible note, per a Bloomberg report. The Costa Mesa, California-based startup is said to be looking for a $10 billion valuation. In a convertible note deal, that debt would be converted to equity at a $10 billion valuation,

What would you do with the world’s biggest camera? Take the greatest Instagram selfie ever? Capture a stunning wildlife scene? What about probing the very structure of the universe ? That’s what astronomers at the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile have opted for. Under construction at the peak of the 9,000-foot-tall Cerro Pachón in the Chilean Andes,