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Open Banking led to a FinTech boom — As Brite raises $60M, account-to-account payment grows

The move towards Open Banking payments, especially in the EU, effectively kicked-off the FinTech boom. Open Baking standards meant that FinTech startups could create Wallets and effectively become Ban

Indian fintech unicorn Slice secures rare approval to merge with bank

Indian unicorn fintech Slice is merging with North East Small Finance Bank, they said Wednesday after receiving the approval from the central bank, in an extremely rare feat that has eluded many tech

Krafton India launches gaming incubator to expand local ecosystem

Krafton India has launched a gaming incubator in the South Asian nation as it seeks to expand the local ecosystem and support the domestic talent looking to enter the fast-growing gaming market. Calle

Electric Hydrogen is the green hydrogen industry’s first unicorn

Investors have historically been skeptical of green hydrogen. High production costs, expensive infrastructure builds, competition with batteries and minimal government support have made the green hydr

In latest Cruise incident, video shows pedestrian struck by human-driven car, then run over by robotaxi

The San Francisco Police Department is investigating an October 2 incident that left a woman stuck underneath a Cruise robotaxi after being hit by a human-driven vehicle. Video captured by Cruise and

Spotify to include a selection of 150K audiobooks with its Premium subscription

Spotify today unveiled what’s next for the future of its audiobooks service. At an event hosted in its New York offices on Tuesday afternoon, the company announced a new business model where it

How an AI deepfake ad of MrBeast ended up on TikTok

AI deepfakes are getting so good that a fraudulent MrBeast ad slipped past TikTok’s ad moderation technology to end up on the platform. In the ad, the massively influential creator appeared to b

7 companies to provide NASA with commercial satellite imagery under $476M contract

Umbra, Capella Space and GHGSat are among the seven companies that will provide NASA with commercial satellite imagery, part of an acquisition program that has a maximum potential value of $476 millio

You can now add PayPal and Venmo credit or debit cards to your Apple Wallet

PayPal announced today that users can now add their PayPal and Venmo credit or debit cards to their Apple Wallet. With this new integration, you can now make payments in-store, online or on apps using

The Xencelabs Pen Display 24 is a terrific alternative to Wacom’s big-screen drawing tablets

For a long time, if you wanted something like the Wacom Cintiq Pro 24 but didn’t want to spend quite so much money, you were pretty much out of luck. The Xencelabs Pen 24, released earlier this

US lawmakers ask TikTok about its ByteDance ties after recent exec transfers between the companies

U.S. lawmakers have written a letter to TikTok questioning its independence from its Chinese parent company ByteDance, in the wake of a recent report from The Wall St. Journal that noted that several

Sam Altman backs teens’ AI startup automating browser-native workflows

Sam Altman, Peak XV, and Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman’s AI grant are among backers of an AI startup, founded by two teenagers, that’s aiming to assist businesses in automating numerous wo

US government confirms it didn’t offer any plea deals to Sam Bankman-Fried

It was a slow start to the six-week-long trial.

TechCrunch+ Roundup: SBF’s trial opens, Series A tips, how to roll out AI features

If someone wants to advise you on “storytelling,” you have my permission to skip that meeting and work on your data room instead.

Arc browser’s new AI-powered features combine OpenAI and Anthropic’s models

The Arc browser is “finally” launching its AI-powered features under the “Arc Max” moniker. The Browser Company is using a combination of OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 and Anthropic&#

Promova’s new feature helps people with dyslexia learn a new language

Promova, the language learning app with more than 11 million users, today launched “Dyslexia Mode,” which uses a specialized typeface called Dysfont so people with dyslexia can learn a new languag

Gmail to enforce harsher rules in 2024 to keep spam from users’ inboxes

Google today is announcing a series of significant changes to how it handles email from bulk senders in an effort to cut down on spam and other unwanted emails. The company says that starting next yea

Don’t sweat the valuation headlines, ByteDance is doing great

Does TikTok owner ByteDance's valuation cut mean that it is a struggling business? Not in the slightest.

Greylock secures $1B for its 17th fund amid launch of early-stage founders program

Greylock 17 will target pre-seed, seed and Series A founders in the areas of enterprise and consumer software.

PlanetScale forks MySQL to add vector support

It seems like everyone in the database business is thinking about how to capitalize on the growth of AI by adding support for vectors to their products. That, after all, remains to be the easiest way
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