Former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever has a new company called Safe Superintelligence.
Paris-based VC Breega hits first close of $75M Africa fund to back pre-seed and seed startups
Paris-based VC firm Breega has observed Africa’s tech ecosystem mature over the years. From receiving less than a billion dollars in venture capital per year to a record-high […]
‘Lawyer-in-the-loop’ startup Wordsmith wants to bring AI paralegals to all employees
Wordsmith, a fledgling Scottish legal tech startup, has somehow managed to attract the backing of two well-known venture capital firms. The startup targets in-house legal teams and law […]
France leads the pack for Generative AI funding in Europe, London has 3X the number of GenAI startups
Like it or hate it, artificial intelligence – especially generative AI – is the technology story of 2024. OpenAI, with its rollouts of viral services like ChatGPT and […]
Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s former chief scientist, launches new AI company
Ilya Sutskever, one of OpenAI’s co-founders, has launched a new company, Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), just a month after leaving OpenAI. Sutskever, who was OpenAI’s longtime chief scientist, […]
Internal SpaceX documents show the sweet stock deals offered to investors like a16z, Gigafund
Like many highly valued startups, SpaceX sometimes allows its employees to cash out some of their shares by selling to company-authorized outside investors. TechCrunch has gotten a peek […]
Juneteenth 2024: 9 black-owned banks with a special history
A list of Black banks in the U.S.
Unit and Loop lay off staff and Brex ditches co-CEO model
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at layoffs at BaaS startup Unit and car insurance company Loop, as well as Brex’s decision to abandon its co-CEO […]
Now a Series A startup, kids app and ‘digital toy’ Pok Pok is coming to Android
Pok Pok, a kids app maker focused on building play-based learning experiences for the preschool set, has made a name for itself in the iOS developer community after […]