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Perceptron: Multilingual, laughing, Pitfall-playing and streetwise AI

Research in the field of machine learning and AI, now a key technology in practically every industry and company, is far too voluminous for anyone to read it all. This column, Perceptron, aims to collect some of the most relevant recent discoveries and papers — particularly in, but not limited to, artificial intelligence — and explain why they matter. Over the past few weeks, researchers at Google have demoed an AI system, PaLI, that can perform many tasks in over 100 languages. Elsewhere, a Ber

Startups are building businesses out of DevOps tools for existing sales platforms

The growing market for sales tools has given rise to a curious cottage industry: DevOps startups specifically targeting the software used in sales and marketing functions. (Here, “DevOps,” refers to tools that automate processes between software development and IT teams.) It’s become a blossoming sector all its own, with vendors selling DevOps platforms for software including Salesforce purporting to make sales tech easier to integrate into a company’s existing workflows. But wait, you might say

For Brazilian shareholders, Nubank’s IPO has a bitter aftertaste

Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. In 2021, we wondered whether Brazil could be in for an IPO bonanza. It hasn’t happened: Not only is Latin America’s largest economy going through the same IPO drought as the rest of the world, but also one of its highest-profile public listings, Nubank, is coming to a sudden end. Let’s explore. — An

Shield your data from a quantum attack: The path to PQC migration

Companies waiting for certainty on what kind of encryption to use can begin migrating their infrastructure to protect their data from attack.Read More

Why AI and digital twins could be the keys to a sustainable future

A sustainable future: How AI and digital twins are helping ESG and sustainability efforts in construction, industry and city planning.Read More

Minecraft Legends will test how resilient fans can be

Microsoft has to keep feeding fans with new content, and the latest thing coming in the portfolio is Minecraft Legends.Read More

Elon Musk Keeps Big Promise to Iranians Fighting for Freedom

In a world in search of leaders, Musk sees himself as filling the void and becoming one of the champions the masses turn to ...

Elon Musk’s New Baby Is This Robot

Tesla, Musk’s electric car company, is set to unveil a prototype of its humanoid robot — called Tesla Bot, or Optimus — next ...

I drove the Tesla Model Y and found 7 reasons to buy Elon Musk's $66,000 electric SUV over rivals

The Tesla Model Y is fun to drive, easy to charge, and has a roomy, minimalist interior. See the best parts of owning Elon ...

Steve Case is trying to make money with founders outside Silicon Valley; his plan is starting to work

Steve Case, the cofounder of America Online, the investment firm Revolution, and its offshoot seed-stage arm Rise of the Rest, has a new book out called Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprising Places are Building the New American Dream. In it, Case argues that Covid was a “shake the globe” moment for entrepreneurship, and that power will never again reside as it once did in cities like San Francisco and New York and Boston. We spoke earlier today with Case about the book; we also chatt

TikTok is releasing its comment dislike button to all users worldwide

TikTok is rolling out its comment dislike button globally to all users, the company announced on Friday. The short-form video app started testing the dislike button in April as a way for users to identify comments they believe to be irrelevant or inappropriate. If you click the dislike button on a comment, the dislike won’t be public and commenters won’t be notified that their comment has been disliked. Commenters and other users also won’t be able to see how many times a comment has been dislik

Volkswagen and Belgian utility giant partner on vehicle-to-grid energy storage

Volkswagen is partnering with a Belgian network operator to integrate electric vehicles into the power grid, as more EVs take to the road amid rising energy costs. Volkswagen’s charging unit Elli and re.alto, a startup owned by Brussels-based Elia, signed a memorandum of understanding on Friday to collaborate on ways to integrate EVs into the electricity system. The multiyear partnership plans to identify barriers to EV integration and explore how powering the grid with EV batteries can help sta

Declining VC investment into LatAm startups could throttle digital growth

This column is fascinated by Latin America, a region of the world rich in history, culture and, recently, a massive boom in technology company formation and financing. The period of rapidly accreting venture capital activity, however, is slowing. Fast. The declines in capital availability, as far as TechCrunch can see, will not prove lethal. However, they may slow the pace at which Latin American economies digitize and mature. Data from Atlantico — a regionally focused venture capital fund and t

TechCrunch+ roundup: LatAm startup strength, global chip shortage, Visa Bulletin update

“You had one job” might be funny when a birthday cake decoration goes wrong, but if we’re talking about executives who don’t show up for board meetings, the stakes are much higher. “Disengaged or dysfunctional boards aren’t just bad for CEOs and LPs; they’re bad for everyone,” writes Matt Blumberg, co-founder and CEO of Bolster, a realization that spurred him to revise meeting formats to include follow-up surveys and additional outreach. “That is a lot of moving pieces to manage, but I find that

The case for US venture capital outperformance

John Zic Contributor Share on Twitter John Zic is a partner and founding team member at EQUIAM. He spends most of his time wrestling with fragmented and imperfect private market data in a never-ending effort to derive market-beating investment signals. Shachi Shah Contributor Shachi Shah is director of business operations at EQUIAM. She is passionate about leading design, implementation and oversight of act

Daily Crunch: London-based spatial computing startup Hadean closes $30 million Series A

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. It’s Friday, and that means… Actually, we don’t even really know what that means anymore, other than that we’re going to sit in the sunshine and bask in the very last few days of warm weather before it becomes time to be envious of the antipodeans for the next six months. — Christine and Haje The TechCrunch Top 3 Fashionably late: Epic Games liked distributed comp

Koibanx recaudó $22 millones de dólares en su Serie A y anuncia la primera plataforma low-code

<div>La plataforma especializada en tokenización de activos y pagos blockchain de Latam celebra sus siete años en el ecosistema crypto con una exitosa ronda de inversión para seguir creciendo en la región.</div>

Atlas Navi lanza app de navegación en el nuevo modelo Drive-to-Earn

<div>La startup de navegación basada en tecnología blockchain, ha lanzado la versión beta de su aplicación de navegación y el nuevo modelo Drive-to-Earn con más de 65.000 conductores viajando con la aplicación.</div>

Report: 90% of orgs have software security checkpoints in their software development lifecycle (SDLC)

The annual Synopsys BSIMM report shows a majority of orgs have software security checkpoints in their SDLC.Read More