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AT&T's recent mega customer data breach -- 74 million accounts impacted -- laid bare how much data carriers have on their users, and also that the

photo of Cape dials up $61M from A16Z + more for mobile service that doesn’t use personal data image AT&T’s recent mega customer data breach — 74 million accounts impacted — laid bare how much data carriers have on their users, and also that the data is there for the hacking. Today, a startup called Cape — based out of Washington DC and founded by a former executive from Palantir — is announcing…

photo of Wiz is in talks to buy Lacework for $150-200M; security firm was last valued at $8.3B image Consolidation continues apace in the world of security. Sources tell us that Lacework — a cloud security startup that was valued at $8.3 billion post-money in its last funding round — is in talks to be acquired by another security player, Wiz, for a price of just $150 million – $200 million. Sources close…

Artificial intelligence has been in the crosshairs of governments concerned about how it might be misused for fraud, disinformation and other malicious

LinkedIn -- the social platform that targets the working world -- has quietly started testing another way to boost its revenues, this time with a new service for small and medium businesses.

Perplexity, the AI search engine startup, is a hot property at the moment. TechCrunch has learned that the company is currently raising at least $250 million more at a valuation of between $2.5 billion and $3 billion.

Automation continues to be a major theme in the enterprise -- underscored not least by the rise of AI as a tool to help fix some of the more routine,

Stripe continues to hold the title of being the biggest financial technology business still in private hands, with a current valuation of about $65

photo of Watch it and weep (or smile): Synthesia’s AI video avatars now feature emotions image Generative AI has captured the public imagination with a leap into creating elaborate, plausibly real text and imagery out of verbal prompts. But the catch — and there is often a catch — is that the results are often far from perfect when you look a little closer. People point out strange fingers, floor…

photo of After 6-year hiatus, Stripe to start taking crypto payments, starting with USDC stablecoin image The company announced that it would start to let customers accept cryptocurrency payments, starting with USDC stablecoins, initially only on Solana, Ethereum and Polygon © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.