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Sardine’s algorithm helps crypto and fintech companies detect fraud

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It’s a great time to be in the fraud detection business in crypto and fintech. Sardine , a compliance platform for fintech companies, primarily serves neobanks, NFT marketplaces, crypto exchanges, and crypto on-ramps.

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A pivot, in this market?

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Big shout out to Kyle Wiggers, as well, who is fearlessly, and thoughtfully, covering artificial intelligence alongside Devin Coldewey. The AI debate On TC+, I wrote a story about the debate happening inside every venture firm right now : What’s the best way to capture the artificial intelligence zeitgeist?

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Seel secures $17M round to infuse AI in customer product returns

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Aiming to give merchants more control over this, Seel , which focuses on underwriting e-commerce returns, is leveraging artificial intelligence to build proprietary underwriting software that uses hundreds of signals to predict the probability of return as soon as an order is placed, co-founder Zack Peng told TechCrunch via email.

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Extra Crunch roundup: DTC strategy, IPO analysis, Zoom’s future product plans

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Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window). Image Credits: Daniel Grizelj (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Toast raises IPO price range, providing a Monday bump to fintech valuations. Image Credits: pryzmat (opens in a new window) / Shutterstock (opens in a new window). of that equity class.

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Daily Crunch: New Point-E AI allows users to generate 3D objects from detailed text prompts

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More AI : Kyle had another top-read story on artificial intelligence, this time about Petals creating a free, distributed network for running text-generating AI. It’ll give a wine return, I’m sure : Anna explores how Fintech Vint hopes to turn wine and spirits into a mainstream asset class. Startups and VC. Is that the bank?

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Pitch for the check you want 

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Here’s what to know: I expect there to be more redundancies in workforces that are partially attributed to artificial intelligence. And we’ve been building toward this future for a long time, as this year’s product pipeline will demonstrate,” he said. What is this, revenue growth for ants? No pitches, please.

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Cities, cycles and San Francisco’s ‘return’

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In the rest of this newsletter, we’ll talk about pitch deck teardowns and artificial intelligence. TC’s Dominic-Madori Davis has written a pair of stories looking at how the artificial intelligence boom is sitting with historically underfunded minorities. There’s good news, and there’s bad.