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Heya, people, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s common e-newsletter that recaps the previous few days in tech.
Google’s annual enterprise-focused dev convention, Google Cloud Next, dominated the headlines — and we had loads of protection from the occasion. But it wasn’t the solely factor afoot (see: the spectacular eclipse).
Lorenzo wrote about how hackers stole over ~340,000 Social Security numbers from authorities consulting agency Greylock McKinnon Associates (GMA). It took GMA 9 months to find out the extent of the breach and notify victims; as of but, it’s unclear why.
Elsewhere, Sarah had the story on Spotify’s customized AI playlists, which lets customers create a playlist based mostly on written prompts.
And Connie reported on the loss of life of entrepreneur Mahbod Moghadam, who rose to fame as the co-founder of Genius, the on-line music encyclopedia. Moghadam handed away at the age of 41 owing to issues from a recurring mind tumor.
Lots else occurred. We recap all of it in this version of WiR — however first, a reminder to enroll to obtain the WiR e-newsletter in your inbox each Saturday.
News
Tesla value drop: Tesla dropped costs of unsold Model Y SUVs in the U.S. by hundreds of {dollars} in an try to filter an unprecedented stock backlog.
Snapchat turns off its photo voltaic system: Snapchat adjusted a characteristic in its app that visualizes how “shut” you’re to your mates after reporting revealed that it was including to teenagers’ nervousness.
Noninvasive nervousness remedy: Neurovalens, a startup creating tech to ship noninvasive electrical stimulation of the mind and nervous system, achieved FDA clearance due to a 2019 company rule change geared toward encouraging improvements concentrating on insomnia and nervousness.
Llama 3: At an occasion in London, Meta confirmed that it plans an preliminary launch of Llama 3 — the subsequent technology of its AI mannequin used to energy chatbots and different apps — inside the month.
Emulators in the retailer: Apple up to date its App Store guidelines to globally enable emulators for retro console video games an possibility for downloading titles.
AT&T breach: AT&T started notifying U.S. state authorities and regulators of a safety incident after confirming that tens of millions of buyer data posted on-line final month had been genuine.
Funding
Web3 and magnificence: Kiki World, a magnificence model that makes use of web3 for buyer co-creation and possession, has closed a $7 million spherical led by Andreessen Horowitz.
Analysis
Magnets in keyboards: Frederic writes about an intriguing improvement in mechanical keyboard design: magnetic switches, which may shortly change the actuation level — the level throughout the keypress the place the swap registers a downstroke.
WFH, right here to remain: Working from dwelling isn’t going away — even when some CEOs want it could. Ron writes that the majority staff crave flexibility and work-life stability — who knew?
Podcasts
On Equity’s startup-focused Wednesday present, the crew dug into the Multiverse’s acquisition of Searchlight, the newest Guesty spherical, the Monad Labs transaction and a brand new enterprise capital fund concentrating on progress rounds in Africa.
Meanwhile, Found featured Ben Christensen, the founder and CEO of Cambium, a startup that’s reimagining the wooden provide chain and reallocating beforehand wasted supplies for use in new constructing tasks.
Bonus spherical
Microsoft passwords uncovered: Security researchers found an open and public database hosted on Microsoft’s Azure cloud service that was storing inner data referring to Microsoft’s Bing search engine. Microsoft says that it has resolved the lapse.
