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The director of marine operations at OceanGate, the company whose submersible went missing Sunday on an expedition to the Titanic in the North Atlantic, was fired after raising concerns about its first-of-a-kind carbon fiber hull and other systems before its maiden voyage, according to a filing in

The late-stage market is whacked. You only need to look at how Tiger Global Management, previously one of the most active investors in all of startup-dom, has failed to find a buyer for a large basket of its stakes in private tech companies. The fact that Tiger did not, as PitchBook wrote, find a b

In the race for dominance in the AI travel industry, even a small lead matters right now. Every player in the space trying to capitalize on the promise of new AI/LLM (large language model) technologies is struggling with the fact that major platforms like ChatGPT are limited by data that is outdate

Talk about a slam dunk. Shaquille O'Neal, 15-time NBA All-Star, four-time NBA Champion and three-time NBA Finals MVP, will join us at TC Disrupt 2023, which takes place September 19-21. Following nearly two decades in the NBA, Shaq has built an estimated $400 million business empire — moving

Jane Technologies today announced the launch of its new point-of-sale (POS) platform that it says will improve the overall cannabis shopping experience with reliable online listings and in-store curated shopping recommendations. Everyone knows the pain. You find your favorite strain on your dispens

We all know what authentication is. You enter a username and password or use your face or your fingerprint, and you can access a device or an application, but what you can do with that application or device falls under the realm of authorization, authentication's close cousin. For years, develo

Over 422 million people around the world have diabetes, with the World Health Organization noting that the majority of those with the disease are living in low-income and middle-income countries. In Latin America, there are over 40 million adults with diabetes, according to Statista. And with the g

Artificial intelligence touches many aspects of professional industries, including medicine, legal, business, information technology and more. AI-powered transcription service is one example that has become an integral part of those fields. Parrot, a transcription platform offering speech-to-text d

Meet Hyperline, a new product that handles pricing and billing for software-as-a-service companies. The company provides integrations so that you can quickly start billing. It then supports different scenarios, such as recurring subscriptions, usage-based billing, custom discounts and more. This is

Meet Gladia, a French AI startup that wants to change how companies interact with audio data. The company develops an audio transcription application programming interface (API) that you can integrate with other products and is supposed to work much better than what's available out there. And t

"attachment_2558848" aria-describedby="" style="width: 680px">Shoppable Business Chris Blanquera, Sam Blanquera and Carlo Silva Shoppable Business wants to make it easier for businesses in the Philippines to source and procure branded products and other inventory, with an emphasis on making sure pro

Byju’s is cutting 500 to 1,000 more jobs at the firm, this time eliminating several non-sales roles as well, as the Indian edtech giant pushes to improve its finances, according to a person familiar with the matter. The Bengaluru-headquartered startup, which has cut over 3,000 jobs in the pas

Seedstars Capital and Swiss philanthropic foundation Fondation Botnar have launched Seedstars Youth Wellbeing Ventures, a $20 million investment vehicle targeting early-stage startups in Africa that are focused on improving the wellbeing of people below 30 years in low-and-middle-income countries.

You.com CEO Richard Socher may not be a household name, but if you travel in AI circles, chances are you know who he is. Beginning in 2014 when he wrote his influential doctoral thesis about natural language processing, he has helped pave the way for today's headline-grabbing AI technology, a f