Category: Tech Crunch

With two IPOs this week alone, Kleiner Perkins partner Mamoon Hamid has reason to celebrate.

News of a backlog at the U.S. federal department comes less than a week after national security experts urged the Trump administration to reverse its decision that allows Nvidia to export H20 chips to China.

The jury verdict is one of the first major legal decisions about driver assistance technology that has gone against Tesla. Both Elon Musk and Tesla have spent years making claims about Autopilot’s capabilities.

STAN, headquartered in Singapore, is trying to position itself as a gaming community platform to rival Discord, but its approach to the market is quite different.

Latvian startup Handwave aims to compete with Amazon palm payments by offering an independent alternative.

SixSense offers an AI-powered platform that helps chip makers prevent defects. It landed backing led by Peak XV’s Surge (formerly Sequoia India & SEA).

Andy Jassy’s description of an AI-generated ad that Alexa+ delivers in a multistep conversation, which could help users find new products, is uncharted territory for Amazon and the broader tech industry.

While sales growth suggests fear of tariffs helped fuel sales, Cook downplayed the “pull forward” effect, noting that consumers were more motivated by the “strength of the product.”

Reddit reported its Q2 earnings, and it’s clear that its focus on AI has ramped up significantly.

The 15-year-old chipmaker saw its shares climb 61% above its IPO price by the close of its first trading day.