Thursday, November 21, 2024 | | | Welcome to TechCrunch AM! This morning, we're looking at Wiz's latest acquisition, OpenAI's whoopsie-daisy, and Nvidia's defense of its moat. We also have more funds for the nuclear and travel sectors, another cloud-based acquisition, fun new ways for the government to spy on you, and more. Let's jump in! — Rebecca | | | Image Credits: Ben Hakim under a license. | 1. Shoot for the moon: After turning down Google's $23 billion offer earlier this year, cybersecurity startup Wiz is now making some buys of its own. It is buying Dazz to expand its reach in cloud security, and sources tell TechCrunch the deal was worth $450 million. Read More 2. What does this button do? Lawyers representing The New York Times and The Daily News, which are suing OpenAI alleging copyright infringement, are saying that OpenAI engineers accidentally deleted potentially crucial evidence that they spent weeks collecting. Read More 3. Is Nvidia's moat at risk? A new trend for improving LLMs involves giving them more time to "think" through questions so they can provide better answers. Some investors are wondering if Nvidia's older chips will be up to the task. Read More | | | Image Credits: Nitat Termmee / Getty Images | ✈️ Have money, will travel: Travel B2B startup Lighthouse has just raised a ton of money in the latest signal that the travel industry is on the up and up. The startup provides data analytics for hotels and others in the hospitality industry, and it just raised $370 million at a valuation of $1 billion. Read More 💵 The downside of digital lending: DC's attorney general is suing instant payday loan fintech Earnin, alleging the company had deceptive marketing and provided illegal high interest loans. Read More 🍩 Nuclear doughnut: Tokamak Energy is the latest startup to get a slice of the nuclear funding pie. The company has raised $125 million to continue refining its squeezed-doughnut approach to fusion power. Read More ☁️ In the cloud, we all fam: Cloud giant Snowflake is acquiring Datavolo, a startup that manages data pipelines. Datavolo's tech might help Snowflake replace single-use data connectors with flexible pipelines so they can move data from cloud and on-premise sources to Snowflake's cloud. Read More 🎬 And… scene! Tubi, the free ad-supported streaming service owned by Fox, has unveiled a new feature that lets people see and browse short clips from over 250,000 TV shows and movies. It's called "Scene" and the feature puts Tubi somewhere between rivals like Roku and short-form video platforms like TikTok. Read More | | | 👀 Prepare to be spied on: The New Yorker has a piece detailing the tech the Trump administration might use to spy on Americans. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement department has a $2 million contract with Paragon, which makes the Graphite spyware that's designed to breach encrypted-messaging apps like Telegram and Signal. Read More 🪑 X loses another executive: Nick Pickles (no relation to Tommy Pickles) has now become part of the X-odus. Pickles used to head global affairs at X, and now he's jumping over to serve as chief policy officer at Sam Altman's Tools for Humanity, reports Reuters. Read More 💸 All in or all out: The Financial Times has a profile of Thrive Capital, the venture firm founded by Josh Kushner that's invested over $1 billion in OpenAI. Kushner's strategy appears to be simple: "Get close to founders, remain loyal through crises and concentrate funds in a small number of companies." Read More | | | 🫣 Is Gen Z okay? Get a load of this TikTok trend called "PDF to Brainrot": Students are uploading texts they need to study and automating a voice to read it to them over "oddly satisfying" videos, like ASMR clips or gameplay footage of Minecraft. Read More | | | Featured jobs from Crunchboard | | | Senior Data Warehouse SQL Developer, Washington Dept. of Natural Resources (Olympia, WA) Pharmacy Epic Application Analyst, OFFSITE (Toppenish, WA) Chief Technology Officer, Mary McDowell Friends School (Brooklyn, NY) Senior Software Engineer, Dyna Robotics (San Francisco, CA) IT Technology Analyst, Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (Middletown, PA) | | | Has this been forwarded to you? Click here to subscribe to this newsletter. | | | Update your preferences here at any time | | Copyright © 2024 TechCrunch, All rights reserved.Yahoo Inc. 110 5th St,San Francisco,CA | | | | |
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