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Amazon quietly acquired audio content discovery engine Snackable AI to boost its podcast projects

Amazon quietly acquired New York-based audio content discovery engine Snackable AI last December to boost its podcast features, as first reported by New York Post. The tech giant told TechCrunch in email on Friday that the Snackable AI team joined … Continue reading

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Amazon’s TikTok-like Inspire shopping feed is now available to all customers in the US

Amazon’s in-app TikTok-like shopping feed is now available to all customers in the United States, according to the company’s website. The feature rolled out to select U.S. customers in December after Amazon had been spotted experimenting with a TikTok-like shopping … Continue reading

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Vint Cerf on the ‘exhilarating mix’ of thrill and hazard at the frontiers of tech

Vint Cerf has been a near-constant influence on the internet since the days when he was helping create it in the first place. Today he wears many hats, among them VP and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google. He to be … Continue reading

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Paytm tops $977 million revenue in a year, narrows loss

Paytm, India’s leading mobile payments firm, reported a 13.2% surge in revenue to $285.7 million in the quarter ending March and pared its loss by 57% to $20.5 million in a sharp turnaround for the company that is increasingly trying … Continue reading

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RapidAPI headcount down 82% from fresh layoffs less than two weeks after cutting 50% of staff

Rapid (previously known as RapidAPI), a startup that built out an API marketplace valued at $1 billion last year, has laid off another 70 employees less than two weeks after letting go of 50% of its staff, TechCrunch has learned. … Continue reading

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Down rounds are a ‘ticket to try again,’ says founder who raised 3 in a row

For the past year, everyone’s been predicting that the muted exit environment and bone-dry funding market would bring a reckoning for many late-stage companies. We’ve been seeing layoffs and cost-cutting measures across the board as companies look to shore up … Continue reading

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TechCrunch Disrupt early-bird savings end in 7 days

Most early-stage startup founders, investors, technologists and all-around aficionados recognize and appreciate a great deal. We’re flagging this one, folks, because you have just one week left to take advantage of early-bird pricing on all passes to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023, … Continue reading

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Ex-Fin Capital general partner, who led its investment in Pipe, starts new venture firm

Peter Ackerson has departed from his role as general partner at fintech-focused venture firm Fin Capital and started a new firm, Audere Capital. According to his LinkedIn profile, Ackerson – who first joined Fin Capital in August of 2019 – … Continue reading

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Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming business set to become profitable in 2023

Warner Bros. Discovery announced Friday that its streaming business will turn a profit in 2023. The company previously said it expected to break even by 2024 and become profitable in 2025. “It is an important time for Warner Bros. Discovery. … Continue reading

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With DeepFloyd, generative AI art gets a text upgrade

Generative AI is pretty impressive in terms of its fidelity these days, as viral memes like Balenciaga Pope would suggest. The latest systems can conjure up scenescapes from city skylines to cafes, creating images that appear startlingly realistic — at … Continue reading

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