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Designers hated Figma’s collaborative design tool at first, but grew to love it

Back in 2012 when Dylan Field was a student at Brown University, he came up with the idea of building a browser-based design tool. At the time, design tools were all on the desktop, which meant that designers worked alone, … Continue reading

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Did this one feature entice Robinhood to acquire X1?

Welcome back to The Interchange! If you want this in your inbox, sign up here. We’re back after a brief hiatus, with lots of fintech news, including Robinhood’s latest acquisition, Plaid’s newest product and a ChatGPT-powered AI tool that aims to help you … Continue reading

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OceanGate fires a whistleblower, hackers threaten to leak Reddit data, and Marvel embraces AI art

Hello, lovelies, and welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that recaps the week in tech. For many folks, this workweek was a day shorter, thanks to the Juneteenth observance on Monday. But plenty happened. We’ve got coverage … Continue reading

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Keeping tabs on dry powder and university spinouts

W elcome to the TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. The start of a new season is always … Continue reading

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Deal Dive: Caraway shows what else digital health can do

Access to healthcare has long been an issue in the U.S., but the sheer magnitude of the problem became apparent during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Numerous digital health startups stepped in to address the plethora of issues, … Continue reading

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This week in AI: Big tech bets billions on machine learning tools

Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a handy roundup of the last week’s stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and … Continue reading

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How one software engineer is turning Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse story into a musical

Mauricio Costa, a software engineer and music composer living in Atlanta, is creating a musical comedy out of the Silicon Valley Bank collapse, called “The Valley.” Perhaps the wounds are still fresh, but Costa told TechCrunch while reading articles about … Continue reading

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Amazon plans to invest another $15 billion in India by 2030

Amazon plans to more than double its investment in India in the next seven years, the e-commerce group said, joining a roster of other high-profile American giants ramping up commitment to the South Asian market after meeting with Prime Minister … Continue reading

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Hacker responsible for 2020 Twitter breach sentenced to prison

Three years after one of the most visible hacks in recent history played out in real-time in front of millions of Twitter users, one of the hackers responsible for the breach will now serve time in federal prison. Joseph James … Continue reading

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What happens if regulators nix the $20B Adobe-Figma deal?

When Adobe announced it was putting up $20 billion to buy Figma in September 2022, it didn’t take long before people began assuming it was a blatant attempt to take a competitor off the market.  It was certainly curious, especially … Continue reading

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