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Meesho, an Indian social commerce platform with 150M transacting users, raises $275M
[[{“value”:” Meesho, a leading e-commerce startup in India, has secured $275 million in a new funding round. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Scammers found planting online betting ads on Indian government websites
[[{“value”:” Some Indian government websites have allowed scammers to plant advertisements capable of redirecting visitors to online betting platforms. TechCrunch discovered around four dozen “gov.in” website links associated with Indian states, including Bihar, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Mizoram and Telangana that were redirecting to online betting platforms. Some of those websites belong to state police and property […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Motional cut about 550 employees, around 40%, in recent restructuring, sources say
[[{“value”:” Around 550 employees across autonomous vehicle company Motional have been laid off, according to information taken from WARN notice filings and sources at the company. Earlier this week, TechCrunch reported that Motional is pausing commercial operations and delaying plans to launch a robotaxi service with its next-gen Hyundai Ioniq 5 robotaxis until 2026 as it […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
OpenAI’s ChatGPT announcement: What we know so far
[[{“value”:” The company is describing the event as “a chance to demo some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates.” © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Pitch Deck Teardown: Cloudsmith’s $15M Series A deck
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Anthropic’s Claude sees tepid reception on iOS compared with ChatGPT’s debut
[[{“value”:” Unlike ChatGPT, Claude did not become a new App Store hit. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. “}]]
Founders Fund leads financing of composites startup Layup Parts
[[{“value”:” Scarcely five months after its founding, hard tech startup Layup Parts has landed a $9 million round of financing led by Founders Fund to transform composites manufacturing. Lux Capital and Haystack also participated. The breakneck pace is more than a subtle indication that investors’ appetite for tech-focused solutions to the woes of the American industrial base […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Startups Weekly: Trouble in EV land and Peloton is circling the drain
[[{“value”:” Welcome to Startups Weekly — Haje‘s weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Look, I know this is our startups weekly newsletter, and as the most valuable company in the world, Apple is kind of the ultimate “not a […] © 2024 TechCrunch….
Anthropic now lets kids use its AI tech — within limits
[[{“value”:” AI startup Anthropic is changing its policies to allow minors to use its generative AI systems — in certain circumstances, at least. Announced in a post on the company’s official blog Friday, Anthropic will begin letting teens and preteens use third-party apps (but not its own apps, necessarily) powered by its AI models so long […] © 2024 TechCrunch….