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When a company raises $175M at a $3B valuation, it gets your attention. When that startup is a browser company, all the more. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Source: techcrunch.com

The savvy marketers at Boston Dynamics produced two major robotics news cycles last week. The larger of the two was, naturally, the electric Atlas announcement. As I write this, the sub-40 second video is steadily approaching five million views. A…

What’s the next big thing in enterprise automation? If you ask the tech giants, it’s agents — driven by generative AI. There’s no universally accepted definition of agent, but these days the term is used to describe generative AI-powered tools…

Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at Stripe’s big product announcements, a bump in valuation for a Brazilian fintech startup and much more! To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important fintech stories delivered to your inbox…

A lot has happened since Dev Ittycheria took the reins at MongoDB, the $26 billion database company he’s led as president and CEO since September 2014. Ittycheria has taken MongoDB to the cloud, steered it through an IPO, overseen its…

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here — just click TechCrunch Mobility — to receive the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free. Welp, Tesla earnings happened…

It’s easier for climate companies to get enough funding to get started. It’s much harder once they need money to scale. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Source: techcrunch.com

Givebutter recently raised $50 million for its CRM platform for nonprofits as startups building tech for that industry gain momentum. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Source: techcrunch.com

“When an investor passes on you, they will not tell you the real reason,” said Tom Blomfield, group partner at Y Combinator. “At seed stage, frankly, no one knows what’s going to fucking happen. The future is so uncertain. All…

President Joe Biden signed a bill on Wednesday that could ban TikTok – for real this time. After so many false starts and stops, some creator economy founders and their clients are rolling their eyes. They’ve been through this before.…

Welcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering this week’s noteworthy happenings in tech. TikTok’s fate in the U.S. looks uncertain after President Joe Biden signed a bill that included a deadline for ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company,…

EyeEm, the Berlin-based photo-sharing community that exited last year to Spanish company Freepik after going bankrupt, is now licensing its users’ photos to train AI models. Earlier this month, the company informed users via email that it was adding a…

Asheem Chandna says he was so impressed with founder Bipul Sinha’s grit and tech, he led Rubrik’s $40 million Series B in 2015. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Source: techcrunch.com

At a quick glance, the IBM-HashiCorp deal seems like a good one for both sides, but upon closer inspection, perhaps not. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Source: techcrunch.com

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Ticktock, TikTok: It’s been a wild week for TikTok. Even as…

Meta’s new large language model, Llama 3, powers the imaginatively named “Meta AI,” a newish chatbot that the social media and advertising company has installed in as many of its apps and interfaces as possible. How does this model stack…

Meta’s move into the open social web, also known as the fediverse, is puzzling. Does the Facebook owner see open protocols as the future? Will it embrace the fediverse only to shut it down, shifting people back to its proprietary…

This share price gives Rubrik a fully diluted valuation of $6.6 billion, up 88% from its last primary valuation of $3.5 billion in 2019. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Source: techcrunch.com

Google Cloud had a blockbuster quarter, driving parent company Alphabet’s revenues — and stock price — to impressive highs. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Source: techcrunch.com