Databricks raises $10B as it barrels toward an IPO
Databricks, the data analytics platform, has raised $10 billion in a funding round that values the company at $62 billion (up from $43 billion). Backers include Thrive Capital, Andreessen Horowitz,…
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Popular LatAm digital payment service AstroPay launches multi-currency wallet
AstroPay has been around since 2009. The bootstrapped company currently has 320 employees and is profitable. And yet, it’s not a name that comes up often in startup news. The…
10 Essential Pandas Commands for Data Preprocessing
Check out this beginner’s guide to cleaning and preparing data efficiently with Python.
[The AI Show Episode 127]: 12 Days of OpenAI Continues, Gemini 2, Hands-On with o1, Andressen Says Gov’t Wanted “Complete Control” Over AI & OpenAI Employee Says AGI Achieved
While Santa’s loading his sleigh, Silicon Valley’s dropping AI breakthroughs by the hour. OpenAI’s “12 Days of Shipmas” keeps the gifts coming with ChatGPT Canvas, an Apple Intelligence integration, and…
Crush on VS Janitor AI
Artificial intelligence has revolutionized the way we interact with virtual tools, especially in the realm of AI companions and utility-driven bots. Two prominent names in this space are Crush on…
Crush on AI Alternatives
AI chat platforms have become increasingly popular for their ability to create immersive, personalized conversations, and Crush on AI is one such tool that has captured users’ attention. Whether you’re…
Focused Energy buys two of the world’s most powerful lasers for its fusion quest
The massive lasers will be installed in the startup’s future facility, which it is building in the San Francisco Bay Area. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use…
Texas medical school says hackers stole sensitive health data of 1.4 million individuals
The university’s incident website blocks search engines from listing the site, making it more difficult for affected individuals to find the website in search results. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights…
Meta fined $263M over 2018 security breach that affected ~3M EU users
Meta has been fined €251 million (around $263 million) in the European Union for a Facebook security breach that affected millions of users which the company disclosed back in September…
Nuon helps companies deploy their software into their customers’ cloud accounts
Jon Morehouse launched PowerTools in 2019 to help companies ship static sites and serverless apps to their cloud accounts on providers like AWS and Azure. When a customer asked him…