TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2023

It’s not surprising: Hyped-up technologies often get outsized interest. He also has a great piece about Adobe’s Scott Belsky and the executive’s take on generative AI. Image Credits: Clark Studio The follow-up My colleagues took the mic this week on Equity to talk through the latest and greatest headlines.

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2021

Even by Musk’s standards, it was a bizarre and brilliant bit of tomfoolery: a multipurpose sideshow that trolled Tesla skeptics, fed the fans, ginned up the share price, and created some eye-catching headlines. I’m not saying that he shouldn’t be doing research like this, but it’s the usual overblown hype.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Get super stoked, because we are hype. Crypto is quieter, with prices not changing much and the general vibe of the market not evolving a whit. And it makes us here on the show look good!

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The Verge

APRIL 4, 2022

So you’d be remiss if you thought you were traveling back in time (yuk yuk) when you saw a headline claiming the DeLorean was about to be reborn as an electric vehicle and thought to yourself, “Didn’t I read that already?”. The next generation of DeLorean is coming into focus August 18, 2022. Let’s clear things up a bit.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

” A decade of fintech failures: 4 innovations that didn’t live up to the hype A Black YC alum explains how he raised $107M Image Credits: Andrew T. People see the headline, ‘$107 million raised.’ But all is not going well. “Forget about planning your business based on the metrics of the past decade,” they write.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

That gives us a look into the nascent non-fungible token ecosystem and what people want to buy and trade: more affordable, value-generating NFTs that “unlock an activity that are not artificially supply constrained.” Why LatAm’s fintech boom is more than hype and superlative venture investment. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

When you book a headliner act or keynote speaker, feature them in a sneak preview of your lineup. Generate excitement by creating a series of posts counting down until you announce your event talent lineup. Allow event headliners or speakers to do an Instagram takeover. Conduct a lineup countdown.

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TechNode

APRIL 23, 2024

Although the virtual Lius nearly 40-minute-long slot made for only a short section of the 11-hour-long e-commerce event, its appearance still suggests that the company sees use of the avatar as a headline- and hype-generating strategy as it looks to boost consumption on its platforms.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2023

“AI whisperer” jobs are roles made for people who are savvy prompt engineers and able to manipulate ChatGPT or other generative AI tools to get what they want from it. It’s also a reminder that generative AI’s boom will create a whole new set of questions about how we ask questions. Give feedback. Tell it that! Ask for nuance.

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The Verge

JANUARY 16, 2021

The headliner, the Ryzen 9 5980HX, has eight cores, 16 threads, and high hopes. The ROG Zephyrus G15 wasn’t Asus’s headline CES announcement; the company didn’t spend much time talking about it at all. Honorable Mentions: Most Hype: Mercedes-Benz Hyperscreen. Su made some big claims. Meeting that standard this year is the LG G1.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

They’ll unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines and will wade through the hype to keep you up-to-date on the world of business, tech and VC. As we see it continuously evolve and expand in importance, are product leaders poised to develop into the next generation of CEOs? Winning the War on Ransomware.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2023

Phil Haslett, co-founder and chief strategy officer of EquityZen, had this to say about the company’s choosing to move forward with its delayed SPAC despite all the negative headlines over the past 20 months. Via email, he wrote: “Senior leadership at Better.com (and its investors) are not surprised the stock is ‘down’ 90%.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2022

When X1 started raising for its Series B in late March/early April, it was generating about $1 million per month in revenue, he said. The startup first made headlines for its unique model which allows it to underwrite customers based on their income rather than their credit scores. You also get notifications for refunds.”.

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DataRobot

MARCH 31, 2022

Over the past several years, AI has gone from obscurity to headline news but not always for the right reasons. While AI systems have matured from science experiments to vital business-as-usual tools, not every AI project lives up to the hype. The current generation of AI, called narrow AI, is based upon pattern recognition.

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The Verge

MAY 26, 2021

Watching this year’s I/O demos I was reminded of the hype surrounding self-driving cars, a technology that has so far failed to deliver on its biggest claims (remember Elon Musk promising that a self-driving car would take a cross country trip in 2018 ? (If These snippets have made headlines when users discover particularly egregious errors.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2021

And I’ve now seen probably three major generations or inflection points of how we approach the autonomy problem in a fairly short period of time. So this all depends on your frame of reference, Nilay, and I guess, which headlines you’re reading and believing. I don’t know that it’s realistic in the very first generation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Since its launch, the Theranos story has been synonymous with the strengths, and clearly damaging weaknesses, of Silicon Valley hype culture. Meet Unstable Diffusion, the group trying to monetize AI porn generators. What’s left to learn from Theranos? Have friends. Image Credits: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images. FTX update.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Last month, the company suspended its AI-powered news alert feature after it falsely claimed a murder suspect had shot himself, one of several fabricated headlines that appeared under trusted news organizations’ logos. “Generative AI is distinct from some of those trends, but there’s definitely a lot of hype.

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Towards Data Science

OCTOBER 7, 2023

The hype around generative AI is real, and data and ML teams are feeling the heat. And tech giants like OpenAI, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have been flooding the market with features driven by large language models (LLMs) and image-generating diffusion models. Getting started with LLMs? Image courtesy of author.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In each of these instances, the app’s aggressive recommendation algorithm awakens, pushing the controversies to millions of users, generating hundreds of videos, thousands of comments, and too many views to count. A teenage version of the OSINT community. If you’re on TikTok, you’ve no doubt seen Mc’s videos.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

We’ll unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines, and wade through the hype to keep you up to date on the world of business, tech and VC. What Does Product-Market Fit Mean When Hype Tanks? Not every startup can generate revenue from day one. Live On Stage: TechCrunch’s Equity. Sponsored by: AWS.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Cherlynn: I mean, so that headline is like all thanks to our EIC, Aaron [00:02:00]Souppouris, because I was like, where, where do I go from here? And I think that that's the thing and that's why I went with that headline in the end. Limited to generative stuff, but once you can broaden beyond that, it gets really useful.

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