Welcome back to the TechCrunch Podcast. This week Christine Hall is here to talk about how VCs are using ChatGPT and Natasha Lomas comes on to explain why meta is in  regulatory hot water. And as always, Darrell breaks down the biggest stories in tech.

Articles from the episode:

• Some investors are (cautiously) implementing ChatGPT in their workflows
• Meta’s ads being found unlawful in the EU is a warning to other ad-funded platforms

More from TechCrunch

• OpenAI begins piloting ChatGPT Professional, a premium version of its viral chatbot
• A big CES 2023 trend: All battery power, everywhere, all the time
• Microsoft 365 Basic launches with 100 GB of storage, Outlook and more for $1.99 per month
• All US domestic flights grounded as key FAA system goes down

Credits: The TechCrunch Podcast is produced by Maggie Stamets, hosted by Darrell Etherington, and edited by Kell. 

This week Darrell talks with Kyle Wiggers about a few interesting AI announcements from CES and Natasha Mascarenhas comes on to talk about how tech workers are handling the mass layoffs we’ve seen in the past few months. .  And as always, Darrell breaks down the biggest stories in tech.

Articles from the episode:

•  Here’s a roundup of the top AI-powered products we saw at CES 2023
• Burned by layoffs, tech workers are rethinking risk

More from TechCrunch

• Sony and Honda reveal Afeela
• India set an ‘incredibly important precedent’ by banning TikTok, FCC Commissioner says
• There’s now an open source alternative to ChatGPT, but good luck running it
• Salesforce to cut workforce by 10% after hiring ‘too many people’ during the pandemic

Credits: The TechCrunch Podcast is produced by Maggie Stamets, hosted by Darrell Etherington, and edited by Kell. 

It's that very slow week before the new year, so we're bringing you a bite-sized episode. No interviews this week, just Darrell walking you through a few of the most interesting stories from the past week  Please take a second to rate and review The TechCrunch Podcast and follow us wherever you listen to podcasts. We'll see you in 2023!

Articles from the episode:

• Twitter suffered outage after Elon Musk made ‘significant’ backend server architecture changes
• LastPass says hackers stole customers’ password vaults
• Kickstarter shut down the campaign for AI porn group Unstable Diffusion amid changing guidelines

Credits: The TechCrunch Podcast is produced by Maggie Stamets, hosted by Darrell Etherington, and edited by Kell. 

This week we're bringing you a very special episode from our friends over at Equity.

To end the year, the Equity crew is bringing back their predictions episode: Alex, Natasha, Mary Ann, Theresa, Maggie, and Becca. Grace couldn't make the mic but we have a feeling she'd agree with at least 2% of our predictions, anyways.

Let's not ruin the episode, but to give you a taste, here's what topics we based our predictions on:

• Startup building and culture trends
• M&A and the return of secondaries
• The future of media and how social will shift
• Deep tech and generative AI
• And, of course, crypto

We end on an earnest note. Good luck to Alex as he embarks on parenthood, welcome to Becca, who will be joining Equity in the new year, and, of course, thank you to all of you for sticking by us during this rollercoaster of a year.

And with that, chat in 2023!

Credits: The TechCrunch Podcast is produced by Maggie Stamets, hosted by Darrell Etherington, and edited by Kell. 

This week Darrell talked with Tim De Chant about his coverage of fusion energy and what feels like a rare hopeful story in renewable energy tech. And Jacquelyn Melinek walks us through Sam Bankman-Fried’s alleged crimes and confirmed arrest.  Plus he goes over the top stories in tech from the week.  And as always, Darrell breaks down the biggest stories in tech.

Articles from the episode:

• World-record fusion experiment produced even more energy than expected
• FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested in the Bahamas
• US attorney says ‘we are not done’ charging individuals for FTX collapse

Other news from the week:

• Instagram adds text updates with new Notes feature
• OpenAI’s attempts to watermark AI text hit limits
• Elon Jet, the Twitter account tracking Elon Musk’s flights, was permanently suspended

Credits: The TechCrunch Podcast is produced by Maggie Stamets, hosted by Darrell Etherington, and edited by Kell. 

This week Darrell talks with Taylor Hatmaker on to talk about Lensa AI and the possible ramifications for artists. Then we’ll hear from some attendees at the TC sessions: Space event  And as always, Darrell breaks down the biggest stories in tech.

Articles from the episode:

• Lensa AI, the app making ‘magic avatars,’ raises red flags for artists
• UPDATED: It’s way too easy to trick Lensa AI into making NSFW images
• Read all of the stories from TC Sessions: Space

Other news from the week:

• Meta won’t let staff discuss topics like abortion, gun control and vaccines at work
• Amazon will give your overworked delivery driver $5 if you ask Alexa to say thank you
• Confirmed: Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield stepping down in January
• The FTC is suing to block Microsoft from buying Activision

Credits: The TechCrunch Podcast is produced by Maggie Stamets, hosted by Darrell Etherington, and edited by Kell. 

This week Darrell talks with Rita Liao about the great wall of porn obscuring information about protests in china. And Ron Miller comes on to recap the AWS re:invent event and his story on Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor stepping down. And as always, Darrell breaks down the biggest stories in tech.

Articles from the episode:

• Great Wall of porn obscures China protest news on Twitter 
• Bret Taylor steps down as co-chair and CEO of Salesforce
• All of TC’s AWS re:invent converage

Other news from the week:

• Instafest app lets you create your own festival lineup from Spotify
• Musk at Twitter has ‘huge work’ ahead to comply with EU rules, warns bloc
• BeReal wins ‘app of the year’ in Apple’s annual App Store Awards in 2022

Credits: The TechCrunch Podcast is produced by Maggie Stamets, hosted by Darrell Etherington, and edited by Kell. 

This week Darrell was busy hosting TC Sessions: Crypto, so producer Maggie interviewed  Dom-Madori Davis  about what Dom calls Vibe Capitalists and the kind of patterns they are matching. You’ll also hear Anita Ramaswamy talk to Binance CEO CZ on FTX, building trust in crypto and revenue opportunities in a truly DeFI world. And as always, Darrell breaks down the biggest stories in tech

.Articles from the episode:

• Long live the vibe capitalist!
• Binance’s CZ on FTX: ‘We were the last straw that broke the camel’s back’

Other news from the week:

• Is Elon Musk’s Twitter about to fall out of the GDPR’s one-stop shop?
• Musk poses workers with a choice: quit Twitter, or prepare to get ‘hardcore’
• In his first emails to Twitter staff, Musk talks about ending remote work and battling verified spam
• Amazon begins layoffs as economic woes mount
• SBF regrets declaring FTX bankrupt

Credits: The TechCrunch Podcast is produced by Maggie Stamets, hosted by Darrell Etherington, and edited by Kell. 

This week Darrell talks with Dom-Madori Davis about the coalition of VCs that are standing for reproductive rights. And Jacquelyn Melinek comes on the break down the FTX- Binance saga that’s unfolded over the past week. And as always, Darrell breaks down the biggest stories in tech.

Articles from the episode:

• More than 100 VC firms join VCs for Repro coalition to support reproductive rights
• Here’s the rundown on the Binance and FTX fiasco 
• Binance’s plan to acquire FTX is ‘real-life Game of Thrones’ as crypto winter winds blow
• Binance backs out of deal to buy FTX
• Crypto giant Binance agrees to buy rival FTX amid ‘liquidity crunch’

Other news from the week:

• All of the Elon Musk and Twitter news here
• US DOJ announces seizure of $3.36B in cryptocurrency
• Meta confirms 11,000 layoffs, amounting to 13% of its workforce
• Salesforce confirms it has laid off hundreds of employees

Credits: The TechCrunch Podcast is produced by Maggie Stamets, hosted by Darrell Etherington, and edited by Kell. 

This week Amanda Silberling and DarrellI went live on LinkedIn and Twitter Spaces to talk about Elon Musk’s questionable plans for blue checks on Twitter. Then he talks with Natasha Mascarenhas about a new startup, Rewind, that wants to help humans have perfect memory. And as always, we break down the biggest stories in tech.

Articles from the episode:

• Elon Musk’s plan to charge for Twitter verification will be a misinformation nightmare
• Elon Musk’s Twitter already looks grim for the LGBTQ community
• Rewind wants to revamp how you remember, with millions from a16z

Other news from the week:

• Watch SpaceX launch a Falcon Heavy for the first time in three years
• Amazon Prime now comes with a full music catalog of 100 million songs and ad-free podcasts
• Google puts an end to Google Hangouts once and for all

Credits: The TechCrunch Podcast is produced by Maggie Stamets, hosted by Darrell Etherington, and edited by Kell.