Wednesday, October 2, 2024 | | | Welcome to TechCrunch AM! This morning, we're excited about our site's redesign, so make sure to check out TC's new look! While you're there, you should read about the EU asking social media cos to ensure they're not ignoring mental health; a startup that wants to offer ride-hailing for satellites; and Toyota's latest investment in flying cars. We've also got notes on a ton more, so let's dive in! — Rebecca | | | Image Credits:OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP / Getty Images | 1. Pulling the DSA lever: The EU wants more information from Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube about their content recommendation algorithms, and whether they're adequately preventing negative impact in areas like mental health and civil discourse. Read More 2. Satellite ride-hail: Impulse Space has raised a $150 million Series B to develop a new line of orbital transfer vehicles that can move satellites around in space. Investors believe the service will soon be in demand. Read More 3. Toyota pours $$$ into eVTOLs: The Japanese automaker is adding $500 million to its original $394 million investment in Joby Aviation to help the eVTOL startup get across the certification finish line and ramp up commercial production of its aircraft. Read More | | | Image Credits: Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch | 🌱 Faux feta: A 2021 study found the most successful long-term vegans were those whose motivations were health, rather than morals or ethics. Based off that understanding, Heura is scaling its meat replacement business by focusing on healthier plant-based swaps. Read More ♀️ Femtech unite: Women's health company Perelel has acquired Loom, a women's sexual health platform, as it seeks to become a holistic mental and physical health platform. It might be a sign that VC is finally realizing that the women's health market is drastically underserved. Read More 🥐 La Maison: Early stage VC Motier Ventures is doing something very French: It's building a tech hub for its portfolio companies in one of the Galeries Lafayette upmarket fashion department stores, with the goal of fostering and hosting a thriving startup ecosystem. Read More 🚗 The Three Musketeers: On this week's episode of Found, we spoke to Harry Jones, Tom Leathes and Alex Buttle, founders of Motorway, a startup that connects car owners with dealers. It's their fifth startup together since they met back in 2002. Read More 🪖 War in the front, party in the back: The founder of defense contractor Anduril, a guy named Palmer Luckey who seemingly never leaves the house without his Hawaiian shirt, says societies need a "warrior class" that's excited about "enacting violence on others in pursuit of good aims." Read More | | | 🧑💻 Google is hot on OpenAI's trail: Bloomberg reports Google is working on AI software that reasons like a human as it seeks to build a potential competitor to OpenAI's o1 model. Read More 📹 App Store drama goes virtual: Third-party YouTube app Juno, created for the Apple Vision Pro headset, has been removed from the App Store after Google said it violated YouTube's guidelines, The Verge reports. Read More 🎮 Smells like teen spirit: The Guardian has a great read about a former Nintendo factory in Kyoto that has reopened as a gaming museum, featuring consoles all the way from the Famicom, launched in 1983, to the Switch, launched in 2017. Read More | | | Image Credits:Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images | 🎵 Bop Spotter: I've said it once, and I'll say it again: Shazam is the best app to ever be invented. And one San Francisco local agrees. Riley Walz has installed an Android onto a phone pole in the Mission to capture the best music being played there and feature them on a website. Genius. Read More | | | Featured jobs from Crunchboard | | | Has this been forwarded to you? Click here to subscribe to this newsletter. | | | Update your preferences here at any time | | Copyright © 2024 TechCrunch, All rights reserved.Yahoo Inc. 110 5th St,San Francisco,CA | | | | |
