TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2023

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior reporter Natasha Mascarenhas. Haje is one of the reporters I quote most in this newsletter because all of his work fits the “startup must read” category — and his witty headlines don’t hurt, either. The question is where and how.”

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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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The Verge

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Which, in turn, means that there are fewer opportunities for sweeping upgrades like there were in the early days when the iPhone getting copy and paste support was headline news. Apple has, in fairness, already started to trend away from its one-and-done updates, if only because it’s missed its self-imposed deadlines multiple times.

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Care2

MARCH 18, 2012

It’s been close to two weeks since Invisible Children released it’s "Kony 2012" video, which quickly spread across social networks, blogs, and made headlines across major news networks and newspapers like the NYT and the Washington Post. With over 80M views on Youtube, the video is still being shared and talked about.

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The Verge

JANUARY 16, 2021

And yet the show has hung on admirably — even if it doesn’t have the most important product announcements for stuff you can go buy right now, it still manages to give us some good hints at what the most important tech trends will be for the next year or two. The headliner, the Ryzen 9 5980HX, has eight cores, 16 threads, and high hopes.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

The Log4Shell exploit that gave bad actors the ability to execute malicious code on infiltrated servers made global headlines and ruined many cybersecurity professionals’ holidays. This broke a four-year trend of revenue growth being the more important driver of software company stock performance.”

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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. Additionally, compare notes with others on what this trend, along with the expanding mandate of the product role, could mean for the function. Winning the War on Ransomware.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2022

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. While these companies have very real customer bases and products, it is not hard to imagine that at least some of these valuations were propped up by hype.”

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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 ? These snippets have made headlines when users discover particularly egregious errors.

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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. And AI-powered human resources systems were not prepared for the great resignation of 2021.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

and globally, VC activity in 2022 is well on track to exceed a long-term trend that started in 2006 for total amount invested. Instead of a collapse, the data suggests a healthy “reversion to the mean” following an astonishing and historic hype cycle in 2021. In the U.S. More volatility.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2022

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. The startup feels low-key in a sector that has been full of hype and chest-beating in recent years. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2023

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. Also, shout out to Fundrise CMO Jon Carden for the headline inspiration! To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. In the rest of this newsletter we’re talking about Cerebral Valley and Substack.

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The Verge

MARCH 3, 2022

It was inspired by an Onion headline, Yang explained: “ American People Hire High-Powered Lobbyist To Push Interests In Congress.”). Most of the people I talked to said that NFTs and DAOs would be the big trends for 2022. To that end, Polis hyped Colorado’s history with cooperatives to the crowd.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. Since its launch, the Theranos story has been synonymous with the strengths, and clearly damaging weaknesses, of Silicon Valley hype culture. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.

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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? Few startups had as much hype — and early consumer buy-in — as Clubhouse. with TechCrunch Editorial Team.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 6, 2021

As the numbers on Heller’s video began to climb into the millions, TikTok’s army of commentators rushed into the trending topic to debate and analyze what was happening. The app’s young users pore over random trending videos, constructing elaborate conspiracy theories and even doxxing the people featured in them.

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