Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! It’s finally cooling down here in my home base of Austin, Texas, and that makes me happy. In this week’s newsletter, we’re looking at a big raise in the embedded fintech software space, a flurry of M&A activity and SMB-focused fundraises and more. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and […]
Study suggests that even the best AI models hallucinate a bunch
All generative AI models hallucinate, from Google’s Gemini to Anthropic’s Claude to the latest stealth release of OpenAI’s GPT-4o. The models are unreliable narrators in other words — sometimes to hilarious effect, other times problematically so. But not all models make things up at the same rate. And the kinds of mistruths they spout depend […]
bunch raises $15.5M for its platform that simplifies investment management for VCs
Public market investors have a large variety of infrastructure and software that helps them keep track of, analyze and manage their investments, but that’s not the case for investors in private companies — such as venture capitalists. Indeed, a lot of private market investors have to manage and upload information about their investments into a […]