Published on: 2025-04-20 11:30:00
Kazu Gomi has a big view of the technology world from his perch in Silicon Valley. And as president and CEO of NTT Research, a division of the big Japanese telecommunications firm NTT, Gomi can control the R&D budget for a sizable chunk of the basic research that is done in Silicon Valley. And perhaps it’s no surprise that Gomi is pouring a lot of money into AI for the enterprise to discover new opportunities to take advantage of the AI explosion. Last week, Gomi unveiled a new research effort
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-21 04:23:58
Fans holding out hope for Star Wars movie news beyond just The Mandalorian & Grogu are in luck. At Star Wars Celebration Japan, Lucasfilm announced that the next film to hit theaters after Mando is called Star Wars: Starfighter. Shawn Levy directs, Ryan Gosling stars, shooting starts this fall, and it’ll be out May 28, 2027. Star Wars: Starfighter comes to theaters on May 28, 2027. #StarWarsCelebration pic.twitter.com/dsbVb3VdBY — Star Wars (@starwars) April 18, 2025 It’s a standalone adventur
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-28 15:31:31
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Balancing the paradox of protecting one of the world’s leading travel, software and services businesses against the accelerating threats of AI illustrates why CISOs need to be steps ahead of the latest adversarial AI tradecraft and attack strategies. As a leading global B2B travel platform, American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT) and its security team are do
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 05:50:18
Disney is reimagining the Walt Disney Studios portion of its Disneyland Paris park into Disney Adventure World, and that means fresh new attractions. Two of them will be themed around the 1994 Lion King movie and 2009’s Up, with both getting their first big theme park attractions to celebrate their respective 30th and 15th anniversaries in 2024. On Saturday, Disney revealed construction on Lion King’s previously announced (and currently unnamed) ride will begin in the fall. Parkgoers will go on
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 03:58:19
A VIX volatility index chart on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, US, on Wednesday, March 19, 2025. Federal Reserve officials held their benchmark interest rate steady for a second straight meeting, though they telegraphed expectations for slower economic growth and higher inflation. Photographer: Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images Already under pressure amid last week's multitrillion-dollar stock market rout, the venture capital industry now faces an even tough
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-05 19:21:26
As Apple continues to grow the catalog of immersive video content for Apple Vision Pro users, we’re now learning more about the production process of this content. In a new interview on the Voices of VR podcast, Kent Bye was joined by Ant Williams, a freediving athlete featured in the “Ice Dive” episode of “The Adventure Series” immersive video show. In the interview, Williams describes the process of shooting the episode, which was a collaboration between Apple Studios and Atlantic Productions
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-12 07:52:00
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Over the 13 years reporting on Tesla and its CEO, Elon Musk, I have watched the rise, fall, near misses, and rise again of the company and its billionaire leader. Musk, known for his willingness to take risks, has admitted how close the company came to filing for bankruptcy before turning it all around. It was that “us versus them
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-13 03:48:00
In brief: It appears the previous reports that TSMC and Intel are set to form a joint venture to operate Team Blue's US fabs were accurate. The tech giants are said to have reached a preliminary agreement on the plan, which has been pushed by the White House and Department of Commerce in the hope of helping Intel address its current manufacturing crisis. The deal will see TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, take a 20% stake in the new company. The report comes from The Information, ci
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-13 21:00:00
StrictlyVC is crossing the Atlantic! On 13 May, London will play host to an exclusive StrictlyVC evening, delivering the same high-caliber VC insider content that has made these events a must-attend for investors and startup leaders alike. If you’re a venture capitalist or founder looking to exchange insights with peers and dive into powerful, no-filter conversations over wine and canapés, this event is for you. StrictlyVC is known for hosting in-depth discussions with some of the biggest names
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-15 15:30:01
As crypto prices rallied to record highs last year, venture investors piled into new bitcoin-related startups. The number of pre-seed transactions in the market climbed 50% in 2024, according to a report published Thursday from Trammell Venture Partners. The data indicates that more entrepreneurs entered the bitcoin arena despite a cautious funding environment for the broader tech startup universe. Bitcoin more than doubled in value last year, while ethereum rose by more than 40%. Early in the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-28 15:58:07
Bradley Tusk, co-founder and managing partner at Tusk Venture Partners, told TechCrunch in today’s episode of Equity that VC as we know it is dead. And it has been for the last four years. “Maybe there’s some VC that I’ve never heard of that’s awash with liquidity the last couple of years, but we haven’t returned $1 in capital to our LPs in four years,” Tusk said. VC has had a rough couple of years thanks to higher-interest rates, crashed startup valuations from 2021 highs, and stymied IPO and
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-02 13:30:00
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, hit a lot of high concepts and low-level tech speak at his GTC 2025 keynote speech last Tuesday at the sprawling SAP Center in San Jose, California. My big takeaway was that the humanoid robots and self-driving cars are coming faster than we realize. Huang, who runs one of the most valuable companies on earth with a market value of $2.872 trillion, talked about synthetic data and how new models would enable humanoid robots and self-driving cars to hit the market wit
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Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, hit a lot of high concepts and low-level tech speak at his GTC 2025 keynote speech last Tuesday at the sprawling SAP Center in San Jose, California. My big takeaway was that the humanoid robots and self-driving cars are coming faster than we realize. Huang, who runs one of the most valuable companies on earth with a market value of $2.872 trillion, talked about synthetic data and how new models would enable humanoid robots and self-driving cars to hit the market wit
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-04 02:05:00
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Before we jump into the news, just a quick bit of housekeeping. I’m putting “This week’s wheels” on hiatus for a few weeks as I get into more EVs, hybrids, e-bikes, and robotaxis. Stay tuned! A little bird Image Credits:Bryce Durbin Waymo reached a deal with the San Francisco Airport Commission — and by extension the city — to u
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-06 05:59:51
During today’s Disney Company investor shareholders meeting, CEO Bob Iger shared that the studio and Pixar are officially working on a sequel to their Academy Award-winning animated feature Coco. The excitement for the family film starring Gael Garcia Bernal and Anthony Gonzales, which opened up the world to the Dia de los Muertos traditions in Mexico, has not died down. Its story of Miguel, a kid who accidentally crosses over to the land of the dead and goes on an adventure to reconnect with hi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-06 06:47:05
Germany’s Munich Re has signed a definitive agreement to acquire digital insurance company Next Insurance for $2.6 billion, the firms announced on Thursday. Founded in 2016, Palo Alto-based Next Insurance is focused on providing insurance to small-to-medium-sized businesses. It was last valued at $2.5 billion in late 2023 when it raised $265 million. Next Insurance’s backers include Group 11, Allstate, Allianz X, Battery Ventures, Capital G, Redpoint Ventures, Nationwide, Amex Ventures, Ribbit
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 23:00:00
Prezent, a startup empowering customers to build slide decks using generative AI, has raised $20 million as it further develops and refines its AI models for different use cases and expands into new markets. AI has many different applications — one of which is generating decks for business presentations, as it turns out. Off-the-shelf models tend to be not very good at this because they don’t understand industry-specific language and jargon. That’s where Prezent’s technology comes in. Los Alto
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-10 06:07:29
Spend time at a university, and inevitably you’ll come across someone who has a plan to save the world, or at least make some small part of it better. It might be merely the optimism of youth, but sometimes, they’re actually onto something. Critical Venture Partners is betting that young founders plucked fresh from universities can solve some of the world’s most intractable problems, including climate change, healthcare, and economic opportunity. The firm was founded by a trio of recent graduat
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 03:45:32
The electric vehicle transition is really a story about China. There, subsidies have helped juice not just automakers, but the entire battery supply chain behind them. Those incentives, plus decades of industrial policy focused on controlled critical mineral supply chains, has left American and European automakers flat-footed. Take graphite, for example. Every lithium-ion battery today, regardless of the chemistry, requires some or all of the anode to be made of graphite, and Chinese companies
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 07:10:19
Before long, we began passing other racers who had missed the cutoff, limping or sitting in the dirt, heads resting on their knees. Some were kind enough to cheer us on. Dawn graced us as we forded a misting river in a line of teams with packs held above their heads. Racers hobbled onward, sleepless, blistered, thorn-torn, sodden, chilled and wounded; one later displayed to us a wrist that she said was broken, while proudly insisting that she wouldn’t leave the course. But despite all that, they
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 06:00:00
TechCrunch All Stage (formerly Early Stage) returns to Boston on July 15, and the agenda for our tentpole East Coast founder event is almost complete. We’re excited to share this sneak peek at some of the fantastic speakers and sessions we have on tap. For builders who are just starting on their founder journey, our Foundation Stage is absolutely the place to be. We’re enlisting a stellar cast of leading investors and entrepreneurs to dig deep into founder-focused topics such as: All the Ways
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-25 03:00:00
Last year was a monumental year for the AI industry in the U.S. and beyond. There were 49 startups that raised funding rounds worth $100 million or more in 2024, per our count at TechCrunch. Three companies raised more than one “mega-round” last year, and seven companies raised rounds at $1 billion or larger. How will 2025 compare? It’s still early in the year but the number of U.S. AI companies that have raised more than $100 million is almost in double digits, and there has already been one
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-05 01:27:44
Venture investment in startups run by women has always lagged the overall market, and with companies across sectors cutting back on their diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, things seem grimmer than ever for female founders. But the data tells a different tale for 2024 — at least according to this one report by European venture platform Female Foundry: Venture investment to startups founded by women in Europe declined 12% in 2024 from a year earlier, but it was nearly in line with the 11%
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 08:47:04
Fintech has fragmented into increasingly specialized, cucumber-sliced micro-services, ranging from embedded buy-now-pay-later loans to specialized neo banks to yet more payment processing systems. What opportunities remain for innovators in such a fragmented landscape? One U.K. startup, Just Move In, zoomed out and realised that the home had been overlooked by everyone in the industry. And it has now raised an $8 million Series A funding round led by Eos Ventures (a global insurtech VC) for its
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-13 23:05:38
Obvious Ventures, the venture capital firm co-founded by Twitter's Evan Williams, has filed to raise $400 million for its latest fund, according to a regulatory filing. The filing for Obvious Ventures V was made public with the SEC on Tuesday and indicates that it's an initial notice. The firm raised its most recent fund in 2022, when it brought in about $355 million, according to PitchBook data, short of its $400 million target. A spokesperson for the firm declined to comment. Launched in 20
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-14 13:48:01
In Brief Khosla Ventures, a firm known for early investments in OpenAI, is raising $3.5 billion across three funds, the Wall Street Journal reported. That target is 17% larger than the firm’s previous 2023 fund haul of $3 billion. About half of the new capital will be allocated to its ninth core venture fund. The remaining money will be divided between a $1.1 billion growth fund for later-stage startups and a $650 million seed-stage focused fund. Khosla Ventures declined to comment on its new
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