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• US slams Alibaba and its challenger Pinduoduo for selling fakes (Techcrunch)
  China's biggest e-commerce company, Alibaba, was again on the U.S.
• 13 VCs talk about the state of robotics investing in 2023 (Techcrunch)
  We spoke to 13 of the top robotics VCs to discuss where the category is and what the future looks like.
• UK opts for slow reboot of Big Tech rules, touts data reform (Techcrunch)
  government has confirmed it will move forward on a major ex ante competition reform aimed at Big Tech, as it set out its priorities for the…
• Startups are building businesses out of DevOps tools for existing sales platforms (Techcrunch)
  As tools like Salesforce grow in usage, a crop of new startups is emerging to make integrating the tools into existing processes easier.
• Disney+ reaches 164.2M subscribers as it prepares for ad-supported tier launch (Techcrunch)
  Disney reported results for the final quarter of its 2022 fiscal year today, revealing a total of 164.2 million Disney+ global subscribers.
• Two years after a first close, 500 Startups wraps its Middle East fund with $33 million | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  When 500 Startups partner Hasan Haider announced the $15 million first close for the accelerator and investment firm’s Middle Eastern focus…
• France spanks Google $170M, Facebook $68M over cookie consent dark patterns | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Chalk another one up for decentralized enforcement: France’s data protection watchdog has slapped headline-grabbing fines on Facebook and G…
• Backed by David Sacks, Garry Tan and Walter Isaacson, Created by Humans helps people license their (Techcrunch)
  In 2024, it seems like no week goes by without a media organization, author group or artist suing generative AI companies for using their w…
• Perch raises $123.5M to grow its stable of D2C brands that sell on Amazon | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  While Amazon gradually builds out its own-branded line of products, third-party sellers continue to account for a significant part of the t…
• Mobileye cruises into the public market and inside the Argo AI collapse (Techcrunch)
  The Station is a weekly newsletter focused on the future of transportation. This week, Argo AI shuts down and Mobilieye goes public.
• Before Midjourney, there was NightCafe (Techcrunch)
  NightCafe, one of the first image generation platforms on the web, is growing and profitable -- and entirely bootstrapped.
• Can AI really be protected from text-based attacks? (Techcrunch)
  Language models like ChatGPT and Sydney, which powers Bing Chat, are vulnerable to malicious prompt engineering.
• North Korea’s Lazarus hackers are exploiting Log4j flaw to hack US energy companies (Techcrunch)
  The state-sponsored hacking group used a year-old Log4j vulnerability to compromise U.S., Canadian and Japanese energy company servers.
• Ford hints at shift to middle mile autonomous delivery with Argo AI (Techcrunch)
  Ford and autonomous vehicle technology company Argo AI have been partnering for years to bring high level self-driving capabilities to Ford…
• Google research makes for an effortless robotic dog trot (Techcrunch)
  As capable as robots are, the original animals after which they tend to be designed are always much, much better.
• OpenPhone raises $40M to replace your work phone and office PBX with an app | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Pam answering the phone at Dunder Mifflin became one of the most iconic refrains from “The Office,” and it’s really no wonder that it did:…
• The last decade in real estate, and a peek into the next one (Techcrunch)
  New real estate technology 2.0 entrants would do well to learn from the mistakes of their 1.0 predecessors as they scale in coming years.
• Terra’s UST crash will make life harder for crypto as regulation looms (Techcrunch)
  TerraUSD (UST) fell from grace after it depegged from its $1 value on Monday and since dropped as much as 70% to $0.2998, when it was never…
• PrimaHealth Credit offers a buy-now, pay-later lending service for elective procedures (Techcrunch)
  The Newport Beach, California-based healthcare lending service Prima Health Credit is now pitching point-of-sale lending services for elect…
• Health startup myNurse to shut down after data breach exposed health records (Techcrunch)
  The company announced it would shutter at the end of May, two months after a data breach of patients' health information.
• Oil and gas didn’t benefit from investor largesse in recent years (Techcrunch)
  For oil and gas companies, steady rates of investment should be a worrying trend.
• VC Cyan Banister on who decides what at Founders Fund (and much more) (Techcrunch)
  Cyan Banister is an American success story.
• On Meta’s ‘regulatory headwinds’ and adtech’s privacy reckoning (Techcrunch)
  What does Meta/Facebook’s favorite new phrase to bandy around in awkward earnings calls — as it warns of “regulatory headwinds” cutting int…
• Boston’s ClearMotion funded by Nio Capital to switch on in-car metaverse in China (Techcrunch)
  ClearMotion, a Boston-based company that aims to make car rides less bumpy and more fun, just raised $39 million led by Nio Capital.
• France's Mistral AI blows in with a $113M seed round at a $260M valuation to take on OpenAI (Techcrunch)
  AI is well and truly off to the races: a startup that is only four weeks old has picked up a $113 million round of seed funding to compete…
• Palantir and the great revenue mystery (Techcrunch)
  Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter.
• Ford takes $2.7B hit on Argo shutdown, shifts its bet to driver assist tech | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Ford shifts capital spend from Argo AI's L4 autonomous systems to internally developed "L2+/L3" advanced driver assistance technology.
• Databricks raises $1.6B at $38B valuation as it blasts past $600M ARR | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  The company views its market as a new technology category. Databricks calls the technology a data “lakehouse,” a mashup of data lake and da…
• Brazil's idwall raises $38M for identity validation platform | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Online fraud and identity theft is a global problem that has only been exacerbated with increased online transactions amid the COVID-19 pan…
• South African payments gateway Ozow raises $48M Series B led by Tencent | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  According to a 2019 report by Deloitte, about 80% of South Africans have a bank account but only 24% of them make more than three transacti…
• Eric Schmidt backs former Google exec’s digital family office platform in $90 million funding (Techcrunch)
  Arta Finance is building a "digital family office" to provide individuals access to alternative assets that are otherwise limited to the ul…
• Intuitive Machines taps SpaceX for second lunar lander mission (Techcrunch)
  The first commercial lunar landers are set to start making their trips to the moon as early as this year, and now another one has a confirm…
• Adobe snaps up Figma for $20B, taking out one of its biggest rivals in digital design | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Adobe today announced that it would acquire Figma for $20 billion, taking out one of its biggest rivals in the realm of digital design.
• Real estate tech startup Side raises $50M more at a $2.5B valuation as it preps for an IPO (Techcrunch)
  Side, a real estate technology company that works to turn agents and independent brokerages into boutique brands and businesses, has raised…
• LearnLM is Google's new family of AI models for education (Techcrunch)
  LearnLM is already powering features across Google products, including in YouTube, Google's Gemini apps, Google Search and Google Classroom.
• Google updates its Firebase back-end-as-a-service to make app development faster (Techcrunch)
  At its I/O developer conference, Google today announced a number of updates to Firebase, Google's popular back-end-as-a-service platform.
• Salesforce and Twitter are both lucky their purported $20B deal failed in 2016 | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  What if history gone a bit differently and Salesforce had bought Twitter in 2016? We spoke to some analysts who cover the CRM industry to g…
• Alaska Airline's bag tag let's you speed through the airport (Techcrunch)
  Checking a bag may not be the best idea right now. If you're flying Alaska Airlines, the whole process may become easier.
• Car dealership outages drag on after CDK cyberattacks (Techcrunch)
  Car dealerships and auto shops around the U.S. enter a second week of disruption following cyberattacks at software maker CDK.
• Wear OS 5 hits developer preview, offering better battery life (Techcrunch)
  This latest release, one of many announcements from the Google I/O 2024 developer conference, focuses on improved battery life and other pe…
• Hello is building a platform toward more home robots (Techcrunch)
  The road to the home robot is one fraught with peril. The number of success stories it’s delivered can be counted on a single hand.
• Michael Moritz On Klarna's $155M Round: "This Is The Public Financing Of Twelve Years Ago" (Techcrunch)
  On Friday, a little-known Swedish ecommerce payments company called Klarna raised a massive $155 million round from DST and General Atlanti…
• Led by ex-Amazonians, Acquco raises $160M to buy and scale e-commerce businesses | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  There has been a flurry of investments in startups focused on acquiring third-party sellers on Amazon and helping them build their business…
• 3 factors to consider when adding remote visual assistance software to your tech stack (Techcrunch)
  With AR solutions now projected to be a $175 billion market by 2026, a technology like remote visual assistance has the potential to seamle…
• Decrypted: Apple and Facebook's privacy feud, Twitter hires Mudge, mysterious zero-days (Techcrunch)
  This week, Trump takes a swing at cyber and Silicon Valley spars over privacy.
• Here are the fintech startups that could go public in 2024 (Techcrunch)
  Could 2024 be the year for fintech IPOs? Quite possibly, according to F-Prime Capital’s State of Fintech 2024 report.
• Google rolls out safeguards for more of its AI products ahead of the US presidential election (Techcrunch)
  Google is gearing up for the upcoming presidential election by rolling out safeguards for its generative AI products.
• Google unleashes DeepMind on energy-hungry data center, cutting cooling bill by 40% (Techcrunch)
  DeepMind may be a master at one of the most complex games on Earth, but can it handle the day-to-day energy concerns of a Google datacenter?
• Behavioural advertising is out of control, warns UK watchdog (Techcrunch)
  The online behavioural advertising industry is illegally profiling internet users.
• Android’s new Theft Detection Lock helps deter smartphone snatch and grabs (Techcrunch)
  When triggered, the AI-powered feature will automatically lock the device down.