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Daily Crunch: SBF says he’s ‘had a bad month,’ but is he really giving us the full story?

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Web3 developer platform Fleek has raised $25 million in Series A funding led by Polychain Capital , the company told Jacquelyn. Tipping the scales : Brian writes that Lumen raises $62 million for its handheld weight-loss hardware. TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack.

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Glass rethinks the smartphone camera through an old-school cinema lens

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Films weren’t always widescreen. Originally they were more likely to be approximately the shape of a 35mm film frame, for obvious reasons. If you matted out the top and bottom, you could project a widescreen image, which people liked — but you were basically just zooming in on a part of the film, which you paid for in detail.

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Want More Runway? Consider Your Infrastructure Costs

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You probably don’t want to unnecessarily create a situation where a high-performing team takes a morale hit. Before you find product-market fit, your team is why your business is valuable and you want to keep everyone happy. It’s a win-win-win for your customers, your team and your investors. Illustration: Dom Guzman

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This week in AI: Amazon ‘enhances’ reviews with AI while Snap’s goes rogue

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OpenAI proposes new moderation technique: OpenAI claims that it’s developed a way to use GPT-4, its flagship generative AI model, for content moderation — lightening the burden on human teams. MIT and Harvard teamed up to try to advance our understanding of astrocytes, cells in the brain that perform some as-yet-unknown function.

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Essential Development Problems

The Programmer's Paradox

Over the years I've worked in many development sites, read tonnes of code and heard way too many horror stories about development projects gone bad. While software development is inherently risky, many of the problems I have witnessed were self-inflicted, thus fixable. This is nothing magical about computers.

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Daily Crunch: Amazon CEO says laying off 9,000 more workers ‘is best for the company long-term’

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Lights, camera, AI-ction : Filmustage leverages AI to break down film scripts, create shooting schedules and more, Lauren reports. ” The cloud backlash has begun: Why big data is pulling compute back on premises Three more from the magnificently magnificent TC+ team: Dude, where’s my IPOs? : You can sign up here.

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Daily Crunch: Raba Partnership leads $2.1M seed round for African fintech startup Thepeer

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Time sure flies when the Daily Crunch team entrusts you — meaning me — with TechCrunch’s newsletter of record. As profitable as adult film tends to be, MindGeek bore the brunt of a payment processor crusade against pornography platforms 2 years ago, with processors, including Mastercard, suspending payments to the company’s brands.

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