The funding landscape in Southeast Asia is still in its infancy, but one fintech has managed to land a major round. Creditivo Holdings, which provides credit services to customers in Indonesia and Vietnam, has raised $270 million in what it says is an oversubscribed Series D. The Japanese bank Mizuho Bank, a subsidiary of Mizuho Financial Group, contributed $125 million in the round. It includes participation from returning investors such as Square Peg Capital, Jungle Ventures, Naver Financial Corporation, GMO Venture Partners and Openspace Ventures. The company has now raised…
Day: March 22, 2023
A bug in Google Markup exposes the stripped-down image data from Windows’ photo cropping tools
at first In March, Google updated its flagship Pixel smartphones to fix a vulnerability in Markup, the devices’ default photo editing tool. In the year With the introduction of Android 9 in 2018, Markup’s photo cropping tool quietly left behind information in a cropped image file that could be used to reconstruct some or all of the original image beyond the crop boundary. Although it’s now fixed, the vulnerability is significant because Pixel users have been doing it for years, and in many cases, presumably, cropped images may still contain…
16 best spring sales: Google Pixel phones, Samsung Galaxy S23 and more.
Spring is officially here Here, and retailers celebrate by holding seasonal sales. While these types of sales events often have themes associated with warmer weather, these deals aren’t limited to fitness gadgets and outdoor gear. You’ll find discounts on everything from video games and camera bags to headphones. Check them out! Special offer for Gear readers: Get a 1 year subscription b Wired For $5 ($25 off). This includes unlimited access Wiredcom and our print magazine (if desired). Subscriptions help fund the work we do every day. We may earn…
4 Indian investors explain how their investment strategy has changed since 2021
India is long He had a strong entrepreneurial spirit, and it was common to see people quit their jobs and start their own businesses. A hallmark of that spirit is now evident in the country’s startup ecosystem, which has expanded rapidly over the past few years, if only slightly. However, the global slowdown has affected the growth of startups in the country just like the rest of the world. In the year After a blockbuster year for venture capital funds in 2021, capital inflows to Indian startups look set to…
See for yourself how biased AI image models are with these new tools
One theory for why this might be is that non-binary browns may have more visibility in the press recently, which means their images end up in the datasets used for training AI models, Jernite says. OpenAI and Stable.AI, the company that built Stable Diffusion, have introduced tweaks to their systems to address ingrained biases, such as blocking certain queries that appear likely to generate offensive images. However, these new tools show how limited these fixes are in the face of adoption. A spokesperson for Stability.AI told us that the company…
Keep an eye out for the workforce unicorn as the tech IPO market reopens
Back half The 2023 tech IPO is expected to open up the market. Whether the public offering window is later this year or early 2024, TechCrunch+ expects to see some familiar names from the HR tech space. And maybe a few unfamiliar names. Regular TechCrunch readers are familiar with HR-tech unicorns like Ripple, Gusto, and Dell, late-stage startups valued at more than $10 billion. Velocity Global is another name to include in the startup cluster. Worth a few billion dollars, its recent growth and profitability means it should be on…
ATLANTIC-PACIFIC X LAKE IS NOW LIVE
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Google Bard Test and Ernie Bot Recovery
Google has launched Bard, the search giant’s response to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing Chat. Unlike Bing Chat, Bard doesn’t search for search results – all the information it returns is generated by the model itself. But it’s still designed to help users think and answer questions. Google wants Bard to be an integral part of the Google search experience. The company is making the chatbot available for free to early adopters who sign up on a waiting list to help test and improve the still-experimental technology. But experts worry…
F3C makes investment spin on consumer brands with new $25M fund
F3C’s family fund and founder community announced $25 million in new capital commitments and a focus on becoming the largest community of founders co-investing in late-stage seed and Series A rounds of consumer brands. General partners Kurt Seidensticker, founder of Essential Protein; Sean Kelly, founder of SnackNation and Caro; And Josh Wand, founder of Forcebrands, has brought together more than 50 founders and CEOs, including Amanda Baldwin at SuperGoop, Tyler Ricks at SuperCoffee, Jake Kasan at MVMT and Jordan Bass at HOP WTR. They support and advise founders leading consumer…
Baidu’s ChatGPT competitor Ernie Bot is a portable medium
3. President Xi Jinping traveled to Russia this week to meet with Vladimir Putin. Economic relations between the two countries have weakened in recent years. (Wall Street Journal $) 4. A year after the China Eastern Airlines crash that killed 132 people, the Chinese government still has no idea what happened. (Associated Press) 5. Jiang Yanyong, the Chinese doctor who uncovered the SARS epidemic in 2003, has died at the age of 91. (NPR) 6. Someone keeps cutting the submarine cables that connect the islands of Taiwan to the Internet.…