
China’s Hillhouse logs hefty decline in hedge fund assets in 2023 By Reuters
By Summer Zhen HONG KONG (Reuters) – Billionaire Zhang Lei’s Hillhouse Investment saw its hedge fund assets plummet by a third last year to $27.5 billion, a U.S. regulatory filing…

Spotify launches personalized AI playlists that you can build using prompts
Spotify already found success with its popular AI DJ feature, and now the streaming music service is bringing AI to playlist creation. The company on Monday introduced AI playlists into…

‘Carbon colonialism’ in Africa meets resistance
Matthew Walley’s eyes sweep over the large forest that has sustained his Indigenous community in Liberia for generations. Even as the morning sun casts a golden hue over the canopy,…

Fintech representation in YC’s Demo Days is definitely shrinking
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at just how many fintech companies made it into Y Combinator’s Winter 2024 cohort, how much funding slid in the first quarter,…

Oil tumbles nearly 2% as Middle East tensions ease By Reuters
By Florence Tan SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Oil prices fell more than $1 a barrel on Monday, with Brent sliding under $90, as Middle East tensions eased after Israel withdrew more soldiers…

Working from home isn’t going away, even if some CEOs wish it would
When I started working from home in the late 1980s as a freelance technical writer, I was clearly an outlier. Even contractors mostly went into the office in those days….

Record flood waters rise in Russia’s Urals, forcing thousands to evacuate By Reuters
By Guy Faulconbridge and Felix Light MOSCOW (Reuters) – Flood waters were rising in two cities in Russia’s Ural mountains on Sunday after Europe’s third-longest river burst through a dam,…

Five themes to watch as earnings season begins
Wall Street is expecting a subdued earnings season from Corporate America despite the first-quarter’s stock market fireworks. Yes, the S&P 500 Index rose 10% from January to March. Strategists, however, predict that…

TechCrunch Mobility: Apple layoffs, an EV price reckoning and another Tesla robotaxi promise
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here — just click TechCrunch Mobility — to receive the newsletter every weekend…

Thousands of Israelis rally for hostages, marking six months of war By Reuters
By Dedi Hayun JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Thousands of protesters rallied in Jerusalem on Sunday demanding the release of around 130 hostages still held in Gaza after six months of Israel’s…