In a recent panel interview with Collider, Joe Russo, the director of tentpole Marvel films like “Avengers: Endgame,” predicted that, within two years, AI will be able to create a fully-fledged movie. It’d say that’s a rather optimistic timeline. But we’re getting closer. This week, Runway, a Google-backed AI startup that helped develop the AI...
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How well are SaaS, e-commerce, fintech and health tech startups doing in 2023?
Healy Jones Contributor Share on Twitter Healy Jones runs financial planning and analysis for Kruze Consulting. The startup ecosystem has gone through some substantial changes over the last few months, and founders need to understand current conditions to properly plan for the future. I serve the accounting and financial planning needs of more than 750...
S&P 500 rides tech higher as treasury yields slip on signs of cooling labor market By Investing.com
© Reuters. Investing.com — The S&P 500 climbed Thursday as tech resumed its climb higher following a drop in Treasury yields after data showing jobless claims jumped to 20-month highs stoked expectations for a Federal Reserve pause next week. The was up 0.6%, the rose 0.5%, or 180 points higher, and the rose 0.9%. Initial...
Investors take note: Wildfire smoke will spark a surge in East Coast climate tech startups
As smoke from Canadian wildfires has enveloped large swathes of the East Coast, millions of people have found themselves trapped inside, gazing out on orange skies and hazy cityscapes. The air quality index — which is usually ignored — has suddenly become an object of fascination and source of small talk. It’s all remarkably similar...
UK’s AI safety summit gets thumbs up from tech giants
Make way for another forum on AI safety. The UK government has announced it will convene a “global” AI summit this fall with the aim of agreeing “safety measures to evaluate and monitor the most significant risks from AI”, as its PR puts it. There’s no word on who will attend as yet — but...
NASA spends $45M to seed tech from hundreds of space businesses
Hundreds of small aerospace businesses will receive grant funding from NASA to accelerate their technologies, as part of a wider government program to seed cutting-edge American enterprises. A total of 249 small businesses and 39 research institutions received Phase I grants under the space agency’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer...
Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens explains why tech companies are moving to the city
Atlanta mayor Andre Dickens sat down with TechCrunch to help open our first TechCrunch Live event dedicated to the city and spoke with us about the rapidly growing tech landscape. Atlanta is home to many buzzy industries, including fintech and SaaS, and is also the abode for many investors looking to back the startups in...
TuSimple has started testing its self-driving truck tech in Japan
TuSimple, a publicly traded company developing self-driving trucks, is doing regular test runs on an expressway in Japan, marking its entrance into the island nation, the company said Tuesday. The testing on Japan’s Tomei Expressway, which connects Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka, suggests TuSimple is doubling down on its Asia-focused business. Back in December, the company...
3rd Retrofit Tech Abu Dhabi Summit discusses energy efficiency and retrofitting strategies
ABU DHABI, 6th June, 2023 (WAM) – The third edition of Retrofit Tech Abu Dhabi Summit began today, with over 200 high-level decision makers from the energy efficiency, sustainability and retrofitting sectors.The Summit, which is officially hosted by Abu Dhabi Energy Services (ADES), a subsidiary of TAQA Group, is taking place under the theme ‘Unleashing...
MoIAT, EDGE launch Talk 4.0 to drive tech adoption, sustainable practices
ABU DHABI, 6th June 2023 (WAM) — The Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology (MoIAT) and EDGE Group PJSC have jointly launched Talk 4.0, a new knowledge-exchange initiative to empower industrial leaders to adopt transformative technologies and sustainable practices. The new initiative follows a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the two parties in August...