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Former Autonomy chief executive Mike Lynch issued a statement Thursday following his acquittal of criminal charges, ending a 13-year legal battle with Hewlett-Packard that became one of Silicon Valley’s biggest fraud cases. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The company is in the process of building a gigawatt-scale factory in Kentucky to produce its nickel-hydrogen batteries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Carta, a once-high-flying Silicon Valley startup that loudly backed away from one of its businesses earlier this year, is working on a secondary sale that would value the company at $2 billion Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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New York City, home to over 60,000 gig delivery workers, has been cracking down on cheap, uncertified e-bikes that have resulted in battery fires across the city.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After growing 500% year-over-year in the past year, Understory is now launching a product focused on the renewable energy sector. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In 1816, French physician René Laennec invented an instrument that allowed doctors to listen to human hearts and lungs. That device — a stethoscope — eventually evolved from a simple wooden tube to a lightweight two-earpiece version most doctors today wear on their necks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The startup has been pursuing a ground-up redesign of a well-understood technology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Raspberry Pi 5, the small-but-mighty computer that has become quite popular with tech hobbyists and industrial companies, is now also an AI computer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

2023 was the hottest year on record, it doesn’t look like we’re cooling down anytime soon. Rising temperatures have made farming increasingly difficult in areas that were once prime agricultural resources where heat and drought have severely impacted crops. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ashby consolidates existing talent acquisition tools and leans heavily on AI to automate the more repetitive steps in the recruitment pipeline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As a teen model, Katrin Kaurov became financially independent at a young age. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

YoLa Fresh works with over a thousand retailers across Morocco and records up to $1 million in gross merchandise volume. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When Alex Ewing was a kid growing up in Purcell, Oklahoma, he knew how close he was to home based on which billboards he could see out the car window. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Exactly.ai says it uses generative AI to help artists retain legal ownership of their art while being able to reproduce their designs faster and at scale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The company's public fund disbursement and e-commerce platform makes accepting school tuition and enabling educational enrichment more accessible.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A new startup called Kinnect aims to help people privately save generational memories, traditions, recipes, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ledger, a French startup mostly known for its secure crypto hardware wallets, has started shipping new wallets nearly 18 months after announcing the latest Ledger Stax devices. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Small operations can lose customers by not offering financing, something the Berlin-based startup wants to change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

AniML, the French startup behind a new 3D capture app called Doly, wants to create the PhotoRoom of product videos, sort of. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Indian startup Zypp Electric plans to use fresh investment from Japanese oil and energy conglomerate ENEOS to take its EV rental service into Southeast Asia early next year, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A new startup called Auggie is aiming to give parents a single platform where they can shop for products and connect with each other. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On the heels of raising $102 million earlier this year, Bugcrowd is making good on its promise to use some of that funding to make acquisitions to strengthen its security chops. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

If you thought autonomous driving was just for cars, think again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When developers have a particular job that AI can solve, it’s not typically as simple as just pointing an LLM at the data. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices