At least 80 new tech unicorns were minted in 2025 so far: Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook, TechCrunch tracked down the VC-backed startups that became unicorns so far this year. Read More |
Korea's Coupang says data breach exposed nearly 34M customers' personal information: E-commerce company Coupang has confirmed a massive data breach affecting 33.7 million customer accounts in South Korea. Read More |
'Avatar' director James Cameron says generative AI is 'horrifying': James Cameron's movies are often at the cutting edge of visual effects technology, but that doesn't make him a fan of generative AI. Read More |
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Black Forest Labs raises $300M at $3.25B valuation: The round was co-led by Salesforce Ventures and Anjney Midha (AMP), and saw participation from a16z, NVIDIA, Northzone, Creandum, Earlybird VC, BroadLight Capital, General Catalyst, Temasek, Bain Capital Ventures, Air Street Capital, Visionaries Club, Canva and Figma Ventures. Read More |
New report examines how David Sacks might profit from Trump administration role: David Sacks' role as President Donald Trump's artificial intelligence and crypto czar could work out very well for his investments, according to a new report. However, Sacks fired back, calling the story a "nothing burger." Read More |
New York state law takes aim at personalized pricing: Businesses that use personalized pricing are now required to tell customers, "This price was set by an algorithm using your personal data." Read More |
ChatGPT launched three years ago today: It's no hyperbole to suggest that ChatGPT subsequently transformed the worlds of business and tech. Read More |
Varda says it has proven space manufacturing works -- now it wants to make it boring: CEO Will Bruey says people often get Varda wrong. The company isn't "in the space industry; we're in-space industry," he said. Space is "just another place to ship to." Read More |
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