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Welcome, welcome, folks, to the Week in Review, TechCrunch’s regular column that recaps the past week in news.If you want it in your inbox every Saturday, sign up here.Hope you’re cozying up with a hot drink on this cold Saturday afternoon.Expect Greg’s byline? Not to worry – he’s still enjoying parental leave, as I mentioned in the January 7 edition.all is well.
Before we get into that, may I not note again that TC’s initial phase in Boston is on the horizon.With tickets starting at $99, it will be a worthwhile stop along the Eastern Conference circuit, featuring expert-led workshops, case studies and deep dives with tech founders.
Some members of the TechCrunch editorial staff will be in attendance — don’t be a stranger if you see us on the show floor.
Read the most ChatGPT Pro goes: OpenAI indicated this week that it will soon start charging for ChatGPT, its viral AI-powered chatbot that can write articles, emails, poems and even computer code.
A “pro” version of the tool called ChatGPT Professional will throw in unlimited messages with no availability windows, no throttling and ChatGPT – “at least 2x the daily limit.” Pricing remains up in the air.
Microsoft 365 Basic is: Microsoft will introduce a lower-cost tier of Microsoft 365, its productivity software and cloud-based document editing services, starting Jan.30, the company announced Wednesday.Called Microsoft 365 Basic and priced at $1.99 per month or $19.99 per year, the plan will initially include 100 GB of storage, Outlook email and access to support experts for Microsoft 365 and Windows 11.
The layoff hit one newsgatherer: Smart News, the Tokyo-based news aggregation website and app, let go of 40 percent of its U.S.and China workforce, or about 120 people, my colleagues.Sarah And Kristen The report company was affected by the same economic factors that have caused several tech industry layoffs in recent months, plus complications from Apple’s implementation of App Tracking Transparency, or ATT.
Robotics also: Brian This week, Alphabet joined a growing list of tech giants cutting staff amid ongoing economic struggles, reports said.The company’s robot software firm, Intrinsic, laid off 40 employees, the move comes less than a year after Intrinsic acquired both Vicarious and Open Robotics — the latter announced less than a month ago.It was done a long time ago.
Licensed Entertainment: Dungeons & Dragons content creators are fighting to protect their livelihoods.
Amanda Writes in a deep dive.Wizards of the Coast (WotC), the game’s Hasbro-owned publisher, plans to update the game’s license for the first time in 22 years, rolling out a new licensing system that allows creators of any D&D content.
will require that earns more than $750,000.Paying the company a 25% royalty on every dollar above that limit.
In a glimmer of good news, WotC has delayed the rollout of the licensing scheme, following widespread backlash.
Color, but e-ink: One of the cool gizmos to emerge from the 2023 Consumer Electronics Show is E Ink’s color display.Harry He says they can spit out 50,000 colors at 300 DPI – way, way up from the last-generation model’s maximum of 4,000 colors.
E Ink says its goal is to use them to create a magazine-reading experience that’s strong enough to win over even the most demanding publishers.
Keys of Days: My partner (and boss!).
Frederick This week reviewed the Keychron Q10, Keychron’s second — but smaller — Alice-style keyboard.He approved the gasket mount and silicone gasket, which provide a bit of flex while reducing ping and other noise.As for the Alice layout (the keys aren’t in a straight line, but the left and right halves are slightly angled), it was easy to get used to, he said — and he appreciated the five macro buttons below the knobs.
Create a map with whatever you want.Read the full review for more.
Welcome Home, Welcome Homes: In profile, Mary Ann Pulls back the curtains on Welcome Homes, a proptech startup launched by the co-founders of cloud services provider DigitalOcean.The New York City-based firm — which recently raised $29 million — offers a way for people to design and build new homes online, similar to other venture-backed companies (e.g., Atmos, Homebound ) is trying to address the housing shortage.
I hear deep voices: Microsoft’s new VALL-E AI model can simulate a voice using just three seconds of audio from a target speaker.But as my colleague Devin writes, that’s not necessarily cause for alarm — or rather, was already warranted by the voice-imitating tech.
Voice replication has been the subject of intense research for years, and the results have been good enough to fuel a number of startups, such as Wellseed, Peppercup, and Respecher.VALL-E is the latest example of its potential and dangers.
Medium Mastodon includes: Online publishing startup Medium, originally created by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, is adopting open-source social platform Mastodon.Sarah reports that Medium has created its own instance — me.dm — to support authors and their publications with a reliable infrastructure, moderation, and a shortened domain name for authors to use, among other things, as their usernames.Easy to share.
Audio Roundup As always, TechCrunch had a winning lineup of audio content this week for your listening pleasure — though I Probably Be a little biased.
On Startup Focused Fund, TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Editor Nisha Tambe explores these struggles as a woman of color trying to innovate in the mineral processing industry with Sheba Dawood, co-founder of clean energy tech provider Minerva Lithium.Talked about and what will happen next.for the company.TC’s dedicated crypto show, Chain Reaction, features an interview with Polygon Labs, one of the biggest market shakers in the crypto space and one of the Layer-2 blockchains building on top of the Ethereum ecosystem..Meanwhile, on Equity, Natasha, Mary Ann, and Becca talk about upcoming deals from Inflow, Dell, and Fidelity.Dismissals and Suits in Carta; Microsoft’s much-rumored investment in ChatGPT and OpenAI; and SBF’s substack debut.
TechCrunch+ If you haven’t subscribed to TC+ yet, here’s your regular reminder.This is where TC takes a thorough, exclusive look at trends, industries and emerging technologies.Here’s some of the most popular content on TC+ this week:
Crypto Roller Coaster: While some crypto-focused venture capitalists are excited for 2023, others see it as a dangerous time.
Jacqueline According to a source quoted in the reports piece, internal sentiment among VCs is a “wait and see” game; Competition in the market is likely to increase as investors write fewer checks and become more selective.
Meet Chat GPT, VC: Some investors are (carefully) incorporating ChatGPT into their workflow, as it turns out.Being a predominantly text-based support tool, ChatGPT can make its way into rejection letters, market maps or even due diligence bits, TC found – all while changing Ventureland.To stay sharp in the scape.Natasha M , Christine And I Take more.
Axis when ready: Axis isn’t necessarily bad news.
Brian Casey writes about how he transitioned his deep tech startup to become a software-as-a-service company – albeit not without major challenges.In his words: “Pivoting from hardware to SaaS was the right move for our electric motor design startup, but the process wasn’t exactly linear.”.