Category: Techcrunch
Twitter is going to show you more tweets from people you don’t follow
As new Twitter owner Elon Musk tinkers around with the social network’s feature set, more algorithmic recommendations are apparently on the way. Twitter’s support account tweeted about the change on Wednesday, noting that the platform was “expanding recommendations to all users.” This is of …
SBF says journalists are good, actually
“I’ve had a bad month,” Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) said onstage. The crowd instantly broke out in laughter. The former CEO and founder of disgraced crypto exchange FTX, SBF’s month probably got worse today. In his first public interview since his company imploded, New York Times reporter Andrew…
SBF claims massive ignorance on obvious conflicts in FTX downfall
“I didn’t ever try to commit fraud on anyone, I was shocked by what happened this month,” Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the founder and former chief executive of the fallen FTX, said at The New York Times’ annual DealBook summit in an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin. One of the biggest question…
Stability AI doubles down on AWS
Microsoft may have long had OpenAI as its trusty partner (after its sizable investment), but AWS today announced that Stability AI, one of the hottest new upstarts in the generative AI space and the company behind Stable Diffusion, is doubling down on its cloud, making it its “preferred cloud prov…
Musk at Twitter has ‘huge work’ ahead to comply with EU rules, warns bloc
European Union regulators have fired another warning shot at Elon Musk over his erratic piloting of Twitter since his takeover last month — saying he has “huge work” ahead if the social media site is to avoid falling foul of major new governance rules for digital services which entered into fo…
StartupOS launches what it hopes will be the operating system for early-stage startups
Running a startup can be a chaotic time; a million things need to be built, done, tracked, analyzed, considered, reported and validated. Keeping an overview of it all can be hard, and there’s always a threat of something (maybe something important?!) slipping through the cracks. StartupOS today la…
Proptech in Review: 3 investors explain why they’re bullish on tech that makes buildings greener
3 proptech investors explain how reducing emissions can trim a building’s carbon footprint and offer new opportunities for returns. Proptech in Review: 3 investors explain why they’re bullish on tech that makes buildings greener by Tim De Chant originally published on TechCrunch
Frequent conflict is a new requirement for startup leaders
Leadership coach Karla Monterroso talks about layoffs, conflict and management amid a downturn. Frequent conflict is a new requirement for startup leaders by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch
Dear Sophie: How should I prepare for my visa interview?
Our startup was just accepted into the winter batch of a top accelerator! How should I prepare for the B-1/B-2 visa interview? What type of questions will I be asked? Dear Sophie: How should I prepare for my visa interview? by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch
ResortPass, backed by Jessica Alba and Gwyneth Paltrow, lands $26M so you can take a daycation
Have you ever looked longingly at the website of a posh hotel or resort and thought, “Man, I wish I could hang out there.” Well, thanks to startup ResortPass, that might not be as out of reach as you might think. The six-year-old company gives people the option to purchase day passes to over 900…