Day by day Crunch: Twitter CEO expresses remorse after utilizing his platform to name disabled worker ‘the worst’

To get a roundup of robotechcompany.com’s greatest and most necessary tales delivered to your inbox daily at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe right here.

Blissful Worldwide Girls’s Day! Do you know that the vacation was adopted by the UN 46 years in the past? We learn the Wikipedia article about IWD, and realized stuff. Strive it — you could be taught one thing too!

On our Discovered podcast this week, Darrell and Becca are joined by Matt Rogers, the founder and CEO of Mill, a startup that helps its clients flip their meals scraps into farm feed. It’s a rad episode. Deal with your ears to a present.

A lot love, Christine and Haje

The robotechcompany.com Prime 3

• A mea culpa for the ages: “Say it, overlook it; write it, remorse it.” By no means have been more true phrases spoken to clarify the current Twitter trade between Elon Musk and an worker that concerned Musk publicly mocking the worker about their incapacity. Aisha writes that Musk has apologized.
• Duck, duck, AI goose: Natasha L writes that DuckDuckGo, a privateness search engine, is the newest to dabble in AI. Known as DuckAssist, the characteristic can immediately reply simple search queries.
• Collect across the VC dinner desk: Berlin-based enterprise capital fund La Famiglia closed on €250 million in capital commitments for its third seed fund and first progress co-investment fund. Each funds will spend money on business-to-business startups. Mike has extra.

Startups and VC

Harri writes, “Native governments within the southwestern U.S. are placing up $150,000 to again what they are saying is a pioneering effort to ‘flip air into concrete at scale.’” The funds will assist cowl the price of the “reference mission,” a collaboration between two local weather tech startups and a masonry agency in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Based by an ex-Apple worker, Humane does work that’s shrouded in thriller. Its newest spherical of funding, a $100 million Sequence C, attracted a laundry record of notable buyers. Up to now, Humane has raised $230 million from present and former buyers, together with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. Kyle investigates.

And now we have 5 extra for you:

7 buyers reveal what’s sizzling in fintech in Q1 2023

Cash cash in a pile. Picture Credit: Getty Photographs / Alicia Llop

How are fintech buyers adapting throughout this downturn, and the way are they advising the founders of their portfolios?

Mary Ann Azevedo interviewed seven VCs to ask how (or if) any have shifted their thesis to suit present macroeconomic tendencies and be taught extra in regards to the sorts of alternatives they’re on the lookout for proper now:

• Charles Birnbaum, companion, Bessemer Enterprise Companions
• Aunkur Arya, companion, Menlo Ventures
• Ansaf Kareem, enterprise companion, Lightspeed Enterprise Companions
• Emmalyn Shaw, managing companion, Flourish Ventures
• Michael Sidgmore, companion and co-founder, Broadhaven Ventures
• Ruth Foxe Blader, companion, Anthemis
• Miguel Armaza, co-founder and basic companion, Gilgamesh Ventures

Three extra from the TC+ workforce:

robotechcompany.com+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup groups get forward of the pack. You may enroll right here. Use code “DC” for a 15% low cost on an annual subscription!

Massive Tech Inc.

Ding dong, Ring now has a higher-resolution, battery-powered doorbell, Ivan reviews. Upgrades embrace with the ability to see somebody’s total physique and a straightforward solution to launch the battery so it may be recharged.

In the meantime, Blue Origin might be seeing pink after being named in two separate lawsuits alleging ageist hiring practices. Aria writes that one swimsuit includes workers being requested to hunt out youthful candidates whereas the opposite is being introduced by a 64-year-old who claims he repeatedly was turned away from jobs regardless that interviewers mentioned he was certified.

And now we have 4 extra for you:

• Extra bother over at Tesla: The electrical automobile maker is underneath additional investigation, this time after steering wheels fall off two Mannequin Y autos. Kirsten has extra.
• Spot these new options: Spotify had a sprinkling of reports at this time, together with Sarah‘s, Countdown Pages, Tales and Sarah and Aisha‘s TikTok-style discovery feeds. Additionally, Aisha reviews that Spotify has new progress and discovery instruments for artists.
• Google it: Brian reviews that Google’s developer convention, Google I/O, returns to Mountain View Could 10. In the meantime, Frederic has your have a look at Google’s developer preview of Android 14, whereas Aisha reviews on the corporate’s VPN entry enlargement to all Google One members and different options.
• Quantumania: Frederic is on the American Bodily Society March Assembly in Las Vegas and caught up with Krysta Svore, Microsoft’s VP of Superior Quantum Growth, who advised him that the corporate is making it simpler to combine quantum and classical computing.