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Hey , folks , welcome to Week in Review ( WiR ) , TechCrunch ’s newssheet recapping the notable natural event in technical school over the past few days .
This hebdomad , TC ’s motorcar reporter Sean O’Kanerevealedhow EV inauguration Fisker temporarily lost track of millions of dollars in customer payments as it scaled up deliveries , lead to an interior audit that originate in December and took month to complete .
Elsewhere , Lorenzoreportedhow Facebook stag on user ’ Snapchat dealings in a secret project known internally at Meta as “ Project Ghostbusters . ” According to courtyard documents , the goal was to stop and decipher the web dealings between people using Snapchat ’s app and its servers .
And Manish wrote about theresignation of Stability AI laminitis and CEO Emad Mostaquelate last week . Mostaque ’s departure from Stability AI — the inauguration known for its popular simulacrum generation tool Stable Diffusion — comes amid an ongoing battle for stability ( pun destine ) at the company , which was reportedly drop ~$8 million a month as of October 2023 with little tax income to show for it .
Lots else happened . We recap it all in this edition of WiR — but first , a admonisher tosign upto receive the WiR newssheet in your inbox every Saturday .
News
Fisker suspended : Fisker ’s high-risk hebdomad preserve with a halt in the inauguration ’s stock trading . The New York Stock Exchange moved to take Fisker off the rally , quote its “ abnormally broken ” stock grade .
AI - powered travel plan : In an upgrade to itsSearch Generative Experience , Google has added the ability for substance abuser to necessitate Google Search to plan a travel itinerary . Using AI , Search will draw on ideas from websites around the WWW along with reexamination , photos and other details .
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Robinhood ’s newfangled card : Nine months afteracquiring citation card startup X1for $ 95 million , Robinhood on Wednesday announce the launch of its novel Gold Card , powered by X1 ’s technology , with a list of feature article that could make Apple Card users envious .
At AT&T , mum ’s the Logos : The personal selective information of some 73 million AT&T customers spilled online this week . But AT&T wo n’t say how — despite the hack responsible having happened over three yr ago .
Funding
Booming co-pilot : Copilot , the budgeting app , has raised $ 6 million in a Series A beat led by Nico Wittenborn ’s Adjacent . The app is benefiting partly from the last of Mint , Intuit ’s financial management product .
liquified asset : In a part looking at the wider VC - indorse beverage industry , Rebecca and Christine line canned water inauguration Liquid Death ’s recent $ 67 million fundraise , which bring the company ’s total raised to more than $ 267 million . Talk about liquidity .
HVAC venture : Dan Laufer , a former Nextdoor White House , has raised $ 25 million from Canvas Ventures and others for PipeDreams , a inauguration that acquires mummy - and - soda HVAC and plumbing companionship and scales them using its software that helps with scheduling and marketing .
Analysis
Is Nvidia the next AWS?:Ron writes about how there ’s lot of parallels in Nvidia ’s and AWS ’ growth trajectories .
This workweek onEquity , the crew dig into Robinhood ’s novel credit card , Fisker ’s latest woes and even Databricks ’ new AI model that it spend $ 10 million to twirl up . They also spotlit two companies build startups centre around kid , and , to wrap up , looked at a new $ 100 million fund that seeks to back innovative mood tech .
Meanwhile , onFound , Allison Wolff , the co - beginner and CEO of Vibrant Planet , a swarm - based planning and monitoring tool for adaptative land management , discussed why the wildfires we ’re meet today are hotter and diffuse more quickly than we can contain and how right land direction can facilitate foster broken , slower - burning fires .
And onChain Reaction , Jacquelyn interview Scott Dykstra , CTO and co - founder of Space and Time . Space and Time point to be a verifiable compute layer for web3 that scales zero - knowledge proofs , a cryptographic action used to turn up something about a piece of data without revealing the pedigree data itself .
Bonus round
Spotify tests on-line learnedness : In its ongoing efforts to get its 600 million+ user to expend more fourth dimension and money on its platform , Spotify is spinning up a new note of content : e - learning . begin with a rollout in the U.K. , the ( traditionally audio ) streaming chopine is screen the waters for an on-line education offering of freemium picture courses .
