Capim, a startup offering Brazilians the option to buy now, pay later (BNPL) for dental services, has raised $26.7 million in Series A funding, it tells TechCrunch exclusively. Founded in July 2021 by Marcelo Lutz and Roberto Biselli, who serve as co-CEOs, Sao Paulo-based Capim describes itself as a vertical SaaS company specializing in the … Read more
TechCrunch Sessions: AI, taking place on June 5 at Zellerbach Hall in UC Berkeley, will feature a panel discussing how startups can compete against established rivals in the AI industry. The panel, “How to Launch a Product Against Entrenched Incumbents,” will look at ways small companies are managing to stay relevant in a fast-paced and … Read more
A new startup wants to help developers create customized, contextual coding assistants that can connect with any model and integrate seamlessly with their development environments. Founded in June 2023 by CEO Ty Dunn and CTO Nate Sesti (pictured above), Y Combinator alum Continue has already garnered some 23,000 stars on GitHub and 11,000 Discord community … Read more
As part of the new Alexa+ experience Amazon introduced on Wednesday, the smart assistant will gain the ability to navigate through movies on Prime Video on your behalf. Thanks to integrations between Alexa, Prime Video, and Fire TV, Alexa+, as the upgraded assistant is called, will be able to “jump to a scene” in a … Read more
Security researchers found evidence that Cellebrite was used by Serbian police to hack into the cellphones of a local journalist and an activist. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Having served as the first chief of the SEC’s crypto unit from 2017 to 2019, I’m often asked what kind of crypto enforcement we should expect to see from the new administration. My first answer is that I do not know. My second answer is that I believe it will be different, but it will … Read more
While showing up at a protest can demonstrate your opinion to the world, you may not want your face â or the faces of other protesters â to be included, especially when there is the possibility that authorities will collect and use that information (as they did for tracking movements during COVID-19 social distancing). As … Read more
Pump.fun’s X account was compromised on Feb. 26 to promote fake tokens, according to the platform’s team.
Former U.S. House Financial Services Committee Chair Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.), who retired in January, has joined Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) as a senior advisor. McHenry announced his new role at the Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm in a Wednesday X post. McHenry was the acting Speaker of the House for a few weeks in 2023 after … Read more
At an event in NYC on Wednesday, Amazon announced an upgraded Alexa experience — Alexa+ — powered by generative AI technologies. Onstage, Amazon’s devices and services chief Panos Panay called it a “complete re-architecture” of the AI assistant. “[W]hile the vision of Alexa has been ambitious and remains incredibly compelling, until right this moment — … Read more
Have you ever thought if computers can make the internet better and faster for everyone? What if an online game was fair in that every player had an equal chance of winning because the system knew how to connect you to the best server and pair you up with other players with similar connection speeds? … Read more
Amazon is finally launching the long-awaited generative AI version of Alexa that, if all goes well, will take away much of the friction that comes with talking to a speaker to control your smart home or getting info on the fly. Some of the new abilities coming to Alexa Plus include doing things for you … Read more
In tech companies, data is often a raw material. You can think of it as an unrefined component. It gets its real value only when processed. Without data, you’re just guessing. But with the right data, you can optimize processes, improve decision-making, and create products that actually solve problems. Raw data looks like massive arrays … Read more
YouTube continues to assert its dominance in the podcasting space, presenting significant competition to both Spotify and Apple Podcasts. In an announcement on Wednesday, the company revealed YouTube has surpassed 1 billion monthly active podcast viewers. This milestone highlights YouTube’s popularity in the podcast industry and emphasizes consumer preference for video-first formats. Last year, YouTube … Read more
The GitVenom campaign targets developers—and once downloaded, can be used to deceive victims into transferring crypto.
Microsoft says that it has completed a multi-year project to allow Europe-based customers using its cloud services to store and process data in the EU. The project, the EU Data Boundary for the Microsoft Cloud, began in January 2023, went on for two more years, and finally wrapped up this February, Microsoft said. With its … Read more
Google announced on Wednesday that it’s updating its “Results about you” tool to make it easier for users to protect and remove their personal information from Search results. The company says it’s improved the sign-up process and simplified requesting removals directly from Google Search. The tool can be used to proactively monitor and delete things … Read more
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After a 200-year hiatus, a modern privateer program would protect American entrepreneurs, enhance national security interests and play an essential role in reasserting American leadership in technology and innovation.
While spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds yesterday registered their largest-ever daily outflow as investors pulled out nearly $1 billion, spot gold ETFs continue to see large inflows, a potential boon for gold-backed cryptocurrencies. Physically-backed gold ETFs last week saw their largest weekly inflow since March 2022, according to data from the World Gold Council, which showed … Read more
Peter Rawlinson will stay on as a “strategic technical advisor.” Lucid Motors founder and CEO Peter Rawlinson will step down, as the luxury EV company sets its sights on doubling production over the next year. Rawlinson won’t be leaving the company. Instead, he’ll be assuming the role of “Strategic Technical Advisor to the Chairman of … Read more
The Verge is live blogging Amazon’s big Alexa event in New York City. It kicks off at 10AM ET on February 26th, and we’re expecting the company to announce a new subscription-based version of Alexa that’s beefed up with a bunch of AI features. It seems like a good time for the company to announce … Read more
Amazon is set to announce new Alexa features beginning at 10AM ET this morning — and we hope a few devices accompany them. There isn’t a way to watch the event remotely, but our team is here in person to bring you all of the updates as they happen. We’re expecting Amazon to announce its … Read more
The disagreement over whether the SEC or the CFTC should regulate memecoins points to confusion arising from the lack of a clear regulatory framework for digital assets.