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OpenAI could reportedly increase its valuation to $100 billion. Nvidia and Apple are apparently in talks to contribute to the company’s next fundraising round, and Thrive Capital would lead the…

Is OpenAI worth $100B?

Amazon announced Friday evening that it has hired Covariant’s founders — Pieter Abbeel, Peter Chen, and Rocky Duan — along with “about a quarter” of the startup’s employees. It’s also…

Amazon hires the founders of AI robotics startup Covariant

The rise of AI has consumed the arts, just as it has Silicon Valley. Everyone is pondering: Will AI replace me?

Grammy CEO says music industry also has AI concerns

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Before Midjourney, there was NightCafe — and it’s still kicking

Learn about NightCafe’s origins, some of the challenges the platform faces, and where NighCafe will evolve from here.

Before Midjourney, there was NightCafe — and it’s still kicking

Organizations are people and people are messy, and you have to look beyond the tech to the end goal: implementing new software that could transform the business.

AI brings a whole new dimension to the challenge of organizational transformation

Most of the biggest South Korean tech startups intend to pursue public offerings in either South Korea or the United States as part of their exit strategy.

Watch out for these 10 hot startups from South Korea

A top court in Brazil ordered an immediate, country-wide suspension of the X platform on Friday after a months-long legal battle with Elon Musk’s social media company over content moderation,…

Top court orders ban on Elon Musk’s X in Brazil

OpenAI is in talks to raise a new round of funding at an eye-popping $100 billion-plus valuation, sources told The Wall Street Journal this week. It turns out investors have…

Investors are already valuing OpenAI at over $100B on the secondaries market

SB 1047 has drawn the ire of Silicon Valley players large and small, including venture capitalists, big tech trade groups, researchers and startup founders.

California’s legislature just passed AI bill SB 1047; here’s why some hope the governor won’t sign it

Stock-trading startup Public has acquired the brokerage accounts of Carta’s secondaries business, TechCrunch has confirmed.

Carta’s ill-fated secondaries business finally found a buyer

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Redfin is responding to a new startup that is hoping to upend the way people search for and buy homes by offering a flat-fee service. On August 29, TechCrunch reported…

Redfin is already trying to defend against a new flat-fee real estate startup

Apple moved to terminate the Appstun developer account after multiple rejections of its app that Apple says violates its App Store guidelines.

Apple stands by decision to terminate account belonging to WWDC student winner

By Rotation has a partnership with Airbnb to let those who’ve booked an Airbnb receive a complimentary outfit rental.

Airbnb and fashion app By Rotation partner for free destination wedding outfits

LAION, the German research org that created the data used to train Stable Diffusion, among other generative AI models, has released a new dataset that it claims has been “thoroughly…

The org behind the dataset used to train Stable Diffusion claims it has removed CSAM

The North Korean hackers’ attack started by tricking a victim into visiting a web domain under the hackers’ control.

North Korean hackers exploited Chrome zero-day to steal crypto

Some stories emerge and die in a matter of days. Others require us to stay tuned for more, and this week brought us several of these.

Fundraising is a lot easier when you have traction

Google is gearing up for the upcoming U.S. presidential election by rolling out safeguards for more of its generative AI products. Although the company already previously announced that it would…

Google rolls out safeguards for more of its AI products ahead of the US presidential election

Across the world, regulators have ramped up their efforts to try and increase the safety of kids on the internet. Major social networks are facing scrutiny, and as a countermeasure,…

Hello Wonder is building an AI-powered browser for kids

Startups aren’t giving up on the idea of AI-powered pins, with the latest device from Plaud focused on just one task: taking notes. A few…

TechCrunch Minute: Plaud’s NotePin is a wearable, AI-powered note taker

Jam & Tea Studios is the latest gaming startup implementing generative AI to transform the way players interact with non-playable characters (NPCs) in video games.  Traditionally, video game NPCs are…

Former Riot Games employees leverage generative AI to power NPCs in new video game