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apps
How to delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads
In the wake of Meta’s decision to remove its third-party fact-checking system and loosen content moderation policies, Google searches on how to delete Facebook,...
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apps
Built on Bluesky, Pinksky brings its Instagram-like app to Android
Bluesky users on Android now have access to a new app that works more like Instagram than X. On Tuesday, an app called Pinksky launched...
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apps
Apple and Google take down malicious mobile apps from their app stores
Apple and Google have pulled as many as 20 apps from their respective app stores after security researchers found the apps were carrying data-stealing malware for...
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apps
Composo helps enterprises monitor how well AI apps work
AI and the large language models (LLMs) that power them have a ton of useful applications, but for all their promise, they’re not very...
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apps
Presto is building Stripe for EV charging
Charging an electric vehicle in public can be the best of time s or the worst of time s. An EV driver can be charged...
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auto
Cruise to slash workforce by nearly 50% after GM cuts funding to robotaxi operations
Autonomous vehicle company Cruise is laying off “nearly” 50% of its workforce — cuts that extend to the CEO and several other top executives — as it prepares...
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apps
Former Whoop exec’s new app Alma uses AI for all things nutrition
Generative AI models have demonstrated to app developers that combining a robust knowledge base with the right model can enable them to offer users services —...
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beauty
Sotira lands $ 2M to help brands offload and monetize their surplus inventory
An estimated 20% to 30% of all inventory in the U.S. is surplus, with much of it ending up in landfills. A startup called Sotira wants...
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apps
Hero’s all-in-one, AI productivity app takes on Google’s Calendar and others
People often use multiple apps for notes, schedule management, and to-dos. But why not combine them all in one app? That’s the ethos behind...
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apps
Apple tops 1 billion subscriptions, nearly $ 100B in services revenue in 2024
Apple’s iPhone sales may be down, but the company’s Services division, which includes the App Store, iCloud, Music, TV+, and other subscriptions, is...
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technology
Intel won’t bring its Falcon Shores AI chip to market
Intel is effectively killing Falcon Shores, its next-generation GPU for high-performance computing and AI workloads. The move comes as Intel tries to correct course after...
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learning
Ai2 says its new AI model beats one of DeepSeek’s best
Move over, DeepSeek. There’s a new AI champion in town — and they’re American. On Thursday, Ai2, a nonprofit AI research institute based in...
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technology
Microsoft brings a DeepSeek model to its cloud
Microsoft’s close partner and collaborator, OpenAI, might be suggesting that DeepSeek stole its IP and violated its terms of service. But Microsoft still wants...
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learning
How DeepSeek changed Silicon Valley’s AI landscape
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek provoked the first Silicon Valley freak-out of 2025 after releasing open versions of AI models that compete with the best technology OpenAI,...
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technology
Perplexity submits a new bid for TikTok
Perplexity AI has submitted a revised proposal to merge with TikTok, in an arrangement that would give the U.S. government up to 50 percent ownership...
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technology
OpenAI wants to take over your browser
Welcome back to Week in Review. This week we’re diving into OpenAI’s newly released AI agent, called Operator. We also look at where...
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technology
In motion to dismiss, chatbot platform Character AI claims it is protected by the First Amendment
Character AI, a platform that lets users engage in roleplay with AI chatbots, has filed a motion to dismiss a case brought against it by...
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technology / entrepreneurship
French e-bike startup Angell nears bankruptcy
Angell, a French smart electric bike startup, has announced in an email to customers that the company is declaring insolvency and approaching a court to...
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entrepreneurship
Retro Biosciences, backed by Sam Altman, is raising $ 1 billion to extend human lifespan
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is doubling down on Retro Biosciences, a biotech startup based in San Francisco that wants humans to live 10 years longer than...
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health
UnitedHealth confirms 190 million Americans affected by Change Healthcare data breach
UnitedHealth has confirmed the ransomware attack on its Change Healthcare unit last February affected around 190 million people in America — nearly double previous estimates. The U....
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technology
JetBrains launches Junie, a new AI coding agent for its IDEs
JetBrains, the company behind coding tools like the IntelliJ IDE for Java and Kotlin (and, indeed, the Kotlin language itself), on Thursday launched Junie, a...
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entrepreneurship
Neko Health’s unicorn-sized Series B is larger than some Series C rounds
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday?...
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entrepreneurship
Allara lands $ 26M to expand women’s hormone telehealth
Growing up with an OB-GYN father, Rachel Blank assumed that most women received excellent gynecological care. She regularly witnessed her dad’s patients thanking him...
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auto / entrepreneurship
Kodiak has made its first driverless truck deliveries to customer Atlas Energy
Kodiak Robotics has officially handed off two autonomous trucks to customer Atlas Energy Solutions, marking the startup’s first commercial launch. Atlas, a provider of...
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entrepreneurship
ElevenLabs has raised a new round at $ 3B+ valuation led by ICONIQ Growth, sources say
Companies that want to build AI voice into their products are rushing to work with ElevenLabs, the startup that develops synthetic voice technology like voice...
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learning
Meta’s Yann LeCun predicts a ‘new AI architectures paradigm’ within 5 years and ‘decade of robotics’
Meta’s chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, says that a “new paradigm of AI architectures” will emerge in the next three to five years, going...
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entrepreneurship
Stargate will use solar and batteries to power $ 100B AI venture
The massive $ 100 billion Stargate joint venture will reportedly be powered, at least in part, by solar and batteries. The renewable power installations will be built...
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entrepreneurship
LG Electronics takes majority stake in Bear Robotics, reportedly valuing startup at $ 600M
LG Electronics is betting on robotics as its next big growth driver. The South Korean electronics company said on Friday that it has agreed to...
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entrepreneurship
Foyer unlocks $ 6.2M to help people save up to buy homes
Landy Liu knows how hard it is to save for a home. While working at mortgage startup Better.com, he spent years dealing with first-home...
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technology
Researchers develop a way to power wearables through human skin
The dream of battery-free devices has taken an unlikely turn, as Carnegie Mellon researchers debuted Power-Over-Skin. The technology allows for electrical currents to travel through...
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entrepreneurship
Everstone acquires bootstrapped Indian startup Wingify for $ 200M
Private equity firm Everstone has reached a deal to acquire a majority stake in Wingify, one of India’s earliest bootstrapped software-as-a-service success stories, for...
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technology
Databricks closes $ 15.3B financing at $ 62B valuation, Meta joins as ‘strategic investor’
Data analytics platform Databricks has confirmed that it has closed a previously announced $ 10 billion in Series J equity financing at a $ 62 billion valuation. The San...
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technology
Scale AI is facing a third worker lawsuit in about a month
Scale AI is facing its third lawsuit over alleged labor practices in just over a month, this time from workers claiming they suffered psychological trauma...
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technology
Spotify introduces educational audio courses, starting in the UK
Spotify is expanding its streaming service to now include educational courses in addition to music, podcasts, and audiobooks. The company on Tuesday referenced one of...
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education
Perplexity launches Sonar, an API for AI search
Perplexity on Tuesday launched an API service called Sonar, allowing enterprises and developers to build the startup’s generative AI search tools into their own...
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learning
What PowerSchool isn’t saying about its ‘massive’ student data breach
It’s only January, but the recent hack of U.S. edtech giant PowerSchool has the potential to be one of the biggest breaches of...
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apps
YouTube launches speed controls and high-quality audio tests for Premium users
YouTube said Wednesday that it is adding new experimental features for Premium users, including high-quality audio, a faster playback speed option on mobile, and the...
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apps
Truecaller brings real- time caller ID to iPhone users
Popular caller ID app Truecaller has long left iPhone users at a disadvantage by not offering the caller information in real- time — a feature its...
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technology
Blinkit signals costly battle ahead in Indian quick commerce market
Zomato’s quick-commerce business, Blinkit, is accelerating its expansion in India, but it expects losses to continue piling up as competition intensifies in India’s...
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technology
AI benchmarking organization criticized for waiting to disclose funding from OpenAI
An organization developing math benchmarks for AI didn’t disclose that it had received funding from OpenAI until relatively recently, drawing allegations of impropriety from...
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apps
What we know about the TikTok ban
Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re looking at the impacts of the looming TikTok ban in the U.S., including the “...
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apps
Apple lists all apps it removed alongside TikTok in the US
In a rare move amid the TikTok shutdown, Apple has published a statement and a support document listing all affected apps that are inaccessible in...
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apps
Apple brings Store app to Indian market
Apple launched its dedicated Apple Store app in India on Friday, deepening its retail presence in the world’s most populous country as the iPhone-maker...
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auto
CES 2025: Self-driving cars were everywhere, plus other transportation tech trends
Even before CES 2025 kicked off a few trends began to emerge — or more accurately, some gaps appeared. All U.S. and some European automakers that...
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auto
Riding in a Zoox robotaxi at CES 2025: Everything that went right and wrong
A construction zone. A car crash. A double-parked truck. A motorcycle cop with its red, white, and blues deployed. My one-hour trip along the Las...
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entrepreneurship
Gumloop, founded in a bedroom in Vancouver, lets users automate tasks with drag-and-drop modules
Developers Max Brodeur-Urbas and Rahul Behal think that AI has the potential to automate lots of business-relevant tasks, but that many of the AI-powered automation...
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auto
Autonomous vehicles are having a moment and other vibes from CES 2025
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch...
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entrepreneurship / job & work
Scale AI hit by its second employee wage lawsuit in less than a month
Scale AI relies on an army of workers it categorizes as contractors to do essential AI work like labeling images or rating LLM responses for...
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entrepreneurship
Hippocratic AI raises $ 141M for creating patient-facing AI agents
Hippocratic AI, a startup building AI solutions that can handle non-diagnostic patient-facing tasks, secured a massive $ 141 million Series B at a valuation of $ 1.64 billion led...
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gaming
The new Atari handheld knows its market
CES isn’t much of a gaming show. Every year, however, a few notable products slip through the news deluge. Created in collaboration with My...
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entrepreneurship
ICON, a builder of 3D-printed homes last valued around $ 2 billion, cuts about 25% of staff
ICON Technologies Inc., which builds homes using 3D printing, is laying off 114 people, according to a WARN letter filed with the Texas Workforce Commission. A...
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entrepreneurship
Defense startup Epirus in talks to raise over $ 150M, potentially cutting valuation
Defense tech startup Epirus is reportedly raising between $ 150 million and $ 200 million in a new funding round led by Joe Lonsdale’s venture firm 8VC, Bloomberg...
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entrepreneurship
Beams secures $ 9M Series A to digitize UK home renovation market
Home renovation projects can be unpredictable for both customers and builders. Meanwhile, small contractors barely use modern software and home renovation giants, like IKEA, tend...
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entrepreneurship
Doublepoint launches free Apple Watch app to control devices with hand gestures
Finnish startup Doublepoint launched its free app, WowMouse, for the Apple Watch this week at CES 2025. The app uses the wearable’s sensors, compass, and...
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apps / cool stuff / how-to
How to delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads
In the wake of Meta’s decision to remove its third-party fact-checking system and loosen content moderation policies, Google searches on how to delete Facebook,...
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auto
We talked to the guy who was stuck in a Waymo robotaxi on a dizzying loop
A month ago, a video circulated around social media of a Waymo robotaxi stuck in a roundabout loop — an isolated incident with no passengers in...
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entrepreneurship
Scout Motors CEO Scott Keogh says modern cars have become ‘dystopian’ and ‘disconnected’
Volkswagen- backed startup Scout Motors broke cover just a few months ago, and at this week’s CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada, they hold the...
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apps
Mastodon CEO calls Meta’s moderation changes ‘deeply troubling,’ warns users cross-posting from Threads
Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko has spoken out about the significant moderation changes announced by Meta on Tuesday, which will see the social networking giant removing...
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entrepreneurship
Xocean raises $ 119M to capture ocean data with uncrewed surface vessels
Xocean, an Irish marine robotics startup that provides ocean data to the energy and hydrography industries using uncrewed surface vessels (USVs), has raised €115 million ( $ 119 million)...
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learning
PowerSchool says hackers stole students’ sensitive data, including Social Security numbers, in data breach
Edtech giant PowerSchool has warned customers that hackers accessed its customers’ highly sensitive information — including student Social Security numbers, grades, and medical information — during a...
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entrepreneurship
Astrohaus launches a mechanical keyboard for writers
Astrohaus has cornered a very specific niche. The Michigan-based startup builds hardware for writers looking to eliminate distractions. It’s really tough finishing up that...
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entrepreneurship
Rounded is an AI orchestration platform that lets anyone build an AI voice agent
French startup Rounded believes AI voice agents are going to become the default way customers interact with companies, so instead of building AI voice agents...
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entrepreneurship
Biosphere zaps germs with UV light to make biomanufacturing cheaper
Ask any scientist that has worked with cell cultures in a lab: Contamination is high on their list of fears. Even one stray bacterium or...
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entrepreneurship
Flipkart hires Dunzo’s co-founder to lead quick commerce push
Flipkart has hired Kabeer Biswas, the co-founder of Indian delivery startup Dunzo, as the Walmart-owned e-commerce group expands its quick-commerce business in the country. Biswas...
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entrepreneurship
Nuclear startup Deep Fission plans to bury micro-reactors to power data centers
Back in the 1950s, the U.S. started detonating nuclear bombs underground to limit the fallout, both radioactive and sociopolitical, unleashed by aboveground testing. Hundreds...
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nutrition
Oura valued at $ 5B following deal with medical device firm Dexcom
Smart ring maker Oura announced on Tuesday that it has received a $ 75 million investment from glucose device maker Dexcom. The investment marks Oura’s Series...
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apps
Cloudflare’s VPN app among half-dozen pulled from Indian app stores
More than half-a-dozen VPN apps, including Cloudflare’s widely-used 1.1.1.1, have been pulled from India’s Apple App Store and Google Play Store following intervention from...
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learning
OpenAI failed to deliver the opt-out tool it promised by 2025
Back in May, OpenAI said it was developing a tool to let creators specify how they want their works to be included in — or excluded...
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technology
People are playing a new DOOM-themed CAPTCHA
CAPTCHA programs that are used to determine whether a site visitor is a person or a bot come in pretty standard formats. Think text distortion (...
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auto
A Waymo robotaxi and a Serve delivery robot collided in Los Angeles
On December 27, a Waymo robotaxi and a Serve Robotics sidewalk delivery robot collided at a Los Angeles intersection, according to a video that’s circulating...
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technology
Judge allows California’s ban on addictive feeds for minors to go into effect
Late Tuesday evening, a federal judge blocked tech lobbying group NetChoice’s challenge to California’s recently enacted law, SB 976, which prohibits companies from serving “...
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technology
ChatGPT and Sora went down for the second time this month
ChatGPT, Sora, and OpenAI’s developer-facing API were down on Thursday for more than four hours. OpenAI says it started experiencing a major outage at 11...
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learning
Silicon Valley stifled the AI doom movement in 2024
For several years now, technologists have rung alarm bells about the potential for advanced AI systems to cause catastrophic damage to the human race. But...
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technology
Investigation exposes pedophilia in the child-influencer industry
A New York time s investigation found that dozens of potential pedophiles have prolifically exploited the child influencer industry, portraying themselves as photographers or social...
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entrepreneurship
India’s mobile payments dilemma
India’s payments regulator is set to decide as early as Monday whether to curb the dominance of Walmart’s PhonePe and Google in the...
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technology
Permira’s Brian Ruder talks AI, Squarespace acquisition, and the value of co-leadership
It has been a busy year in the private equity realm, with countless big-money acquisitions unfolding. The take-private space specifically has seen some sizable transactions,...
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technology
How to watch CES 2025’s press conferences
CES kicks off January 7. The annual Las Vegas event sets the tone of the year’s consumer electronics and automotive industries. As always, TechCrunch will...
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technology
Watch this robotic ‘Superman Suit’ rotate around a gymnastics bar
Scientists at the Suzumori Endo Robotics lab in Tokyo have developed the Superman Suit: a suit powered by hydraulic artificial muscles that allow it to...
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learning
The promise and perils of synthetic data
Is it possible for an AI to be trained just on data generated by another AI? It might sound like a harebrained idea. But it’...
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entrepreneurship
Venture capitalists continue to play musical chairs
From Keith Rabois to Matt Miller, a lot of VCs have switched firms or spun out of storied VC institutions this year. These employment changes...
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entrepreneurship
Proton’s device aims to help those with kidney disease, and cut heart failure risks
People with chronic kidney disease, or those at risk of heart failure, are greatly affected by potassium imbalances in the body. These can even be...
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entrepreneurship
Juniper Ventures spins out of Climate Capital to invest in synthetic biology for the climate
There’s a mismatch in climate tech investing: Well over half of all dollars invested since 2020 have flowed into startups working on energy and transportation,...
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entrepreneurship
AI startups attracted 25% of Europe’s VC funding
Venture funding into Europe is heading for a flat year, but this may obfuscate the fact that European AI startups are thriving. According to VC...
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entrepreneurship
Coralogix acquires AI observability platform Aporia
Coralogix, the well-funded observability platform, on Monday announced that it has acquired Aporia, a startup that focuses on giving businesses tools to observe and secure...
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auto
Tesla Superchargers: GM, Ford, Rivian, and other EV brands with access
In May 2023, Ford triggered a transformation when the U.S. automaker locked in a deal to give owners of its EVs access to the Tesla...
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entrepreneurship
CES 2025 is coming: TechCrunch wants to meet your hardware startup
According to the calendar, we’re a mere weeks out from CES — the perfect gift for your gadget blogger who has everything. The massive consumer...
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entrepreneurship / learning
OpenAI’s o3 suggests AI models are scaling in new ways — but so are the costs
Last month, AI founders and investors told TechCrunch that we’re now in the “second era of scaling laws,” noting how established methods of improving...
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entrepreneurship
Tetsuwan Scientific is making robotic AI scientists that can run experiments on their own
Cristian Ponce was wearing an Indiana Jones costume when he met his co-founder Théo Schäfer. It was at a Halloween party in 2023 thrown...
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entrepreneurship
The biggest flops and fizzles in 2024 transportation, from Apple Car to Fisker
Autonomous vehicle technology and electrification startups were once the darlings of the VC and corporate world. The two technologies promised billions of dollars in revenue —...
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entrepreneurship
OpenAI’s GPT-5 reportedly falling short of expectations
OpenAI’s efforts to develop its next major model, GPT-5, are running behind schedule, with results that don’t yet justify the enormous costs, according...
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space
K2 Space will fly its extra-large satellite for the first time in 2026
K2 Space is betting that the future of space hardware will be big — really big. The startup is building massive spacecraft under the assumption that...
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auto
Tesla is courting Texas cities to test its promised robotaxi service
Tesla is evaluating multiple Texas cities where it wants to test a long-promised robotaxi service, including Austin, according to emails obtained by Bloomberg News. An...
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entrepreneurship
This fintech processed $ 1B in payments through word-of-mouth
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re diving into: How Juicyway processed more than $ 1 billion in cross-border payments. • CarDekho SEA’s first round of...
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entrepreneurship
Insight VC describes Databricks’ wild $ 10B deal and the bad advice the CEO ignored
It’s been a wild week for investors clawing their way into Databricks’ record-breaking $ 10 billion fundraising, one of the VCs leading the deal told TechCrunch. “...
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learning / entrepreneurship
AI is burying company web sites in search results, but Otterly.AI thinks it can help
Many sites saw their organic traffic decline in 2024, in big part due to the rise of AI-generated search results. Many queries no longer lead to...
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entrepreneurship
A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs
The tech layoff wave is still going strong in 2024. Following significant workforce reductions in 2022 and 2023, this year has more than 130,000 job cuts across 457 companies, according...
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entrepreneurship
Grammarly acquires productivity startup Coda, brings on new CEO
Grammarly is acquiring productivity startup Coda, the company announced on Tuesday. As part of the deal, Coda’s CEO and co-founder Shishir Mehrotra will become...
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entrepreneurship
Slip Robotics snags $ 28M for its bots that can load a truck in five minutes
Drop by any given loading dock and a buzz of forklifts — loaded up with goods — can be spotted maneuvering in and out of truck trailers....
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entrepreneurship
The DOJ wants a Perplexity executive to testify in its Google antitrust case
A U.S. court ruled in August that Google has a search monopoly, and while Google appeals, the Justice Department is figuring out what kind...
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entrepreneurship
‘It’s dumb to IPO this year’: Databricks CEO explains why he’s waiting to go public
Databricks just closed one of the largest funding rounds ever, raising a staggering $ 10 billion in fresh capital. Naturally, technology investors were quick to ask what...
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auto
Waymo robotaxis are coming to Tokyo in 2025
Waymo will begin testing its autonomous vehicle technology in Tokyo in early 2025, the first time the Alphabet company’s robotaxis have driven on public roads...
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auto
TuSimple’s former CEO wants a new board that will liquidate the company
TuSimple co-founder and former CEO Xiaodi Hou is on a war path in the lead up to Friday’s annual shareholder meeting that will decide...
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entrepreneurship
Agave, the startup behind Find the Cat, finds $ 18M
A startup out of Turkey that has built a hit casual mobile game where you have to find cats in Where’s Wally-style drawings of...
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learning
Google DeepMind unveils a new video model to rival Sora
Google DeepMind, Google’s flagship AI research lab, wants to beat OpenAI at the video-generation game — and it might just, at least for a little...
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entrepreneurship
Focused Energy buys two of the world’s most powerful lasers for its fusion quest
Fusion power startup Focused Energy has signed a deal to buy two of the world’s most powerful lasers, the company exclusively told TechCrunch. The...
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learning
Cohere is quietly working with Palantir to deploy its AI models
Cohere is one of the best-known AI startups outside of OpenAI and Anthropic, hitting a $ 5.5 billion valuation as of July. It’s co-founded by an...
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entrepreneurship
Cohere is quietly working with Palantir to deploy its AI models
Cohere is one of the best-known AI startups outside of OpenAI and Anthropic, hitting a $ 5.5 billion valuation as of July. It’s co-founded by an...
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auto / learning
GM ‘blindsides’ Cruise by giving up on robotaxis
Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re looking at GM’s decision to pull out of the robotaxi business, Google alluding to...
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apps
ElevenLabs’ new feature is a NotebookLM competitor for creating GenAI podcasts
Voice AI startup ElevenLabs on Wednesday introduced a feature that lets you upload different types of content to create a multispeaker podcast for you, similar...
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entrepreneurship
Kalshi CEO admits enlisting influencers to dis Polymarket in a now-deleted podcast segment
Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour confirmed on a podcast interview that his employees asked social media influencers to promote memes about the FBI’s raid on...
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entrepreneurship / learning
The 51 most disruptive startups of 2024
All year long, TechCrunch covers startups, everything from unicorns to tiny seed-stage launches. We are, in many ways, the startup experts. To create this list,...
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entrepreneurship
Databricks is on track to raise a record $ 9.5+ billion round at $ 60B valuation
Databricks is close to finalizing a $ 9.5 billion round at a $ 60 billion valuation, including a secondary sale for employees that could climb even higher before it...
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entrepreneurship
Liquid AI just raised $ 250M to develop a more efficient type of AI model
Liquid AI, an AI startup co-founded by robotics luminary Daniela Rus, has raised $ 250 million in a Series A led by AMD. Per Bloomberg, the round...
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entrepreneurship
As AI-fueled disinformation explodes, here comes the startup counterattack
With disinformation on the rise, especially given the explosion of AI, companies are just as vulnerable to its effects as individuals. Refute is a London-based...
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entrepreneurship
G2 Ventures Partners is raising $ 750 million for a third fund
G2 Venture Partners, the high-profile firm that spun out of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is raising a third fund with a target of $ 750 million,...
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apps
Google Gemini: Everything you need to know about the generative AI models
Google’s trying to make waves with Gemini, its flagship suite of generative AI models, apps, and services. But what’s Gemini? How can you...
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auto / entrepreneurship
It's the end of the road for Cruise, and Bluesky is still taking off
Almost one decade after its $ 1 billion acquisition of Cruise, automaker General Motors has decided to give up on the self-driving startup. GM will now use...
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apps
Google’s NotebookLM now lets you talk to its AI podcast hosts
A few months ago, Google’s NotebookLM note-taking app debuted an Audio Overviews feature that generates a podcast with AI virtual hosts based on information...
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entrepreneurship
How 21-year-old Koko Xs became the new rising-star solo VC
When Koko Xs considered pursuing a career as a VC after he graduated from college last year, he observed a handful of trends that suggested...
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entrepreneurship
Activate and The Engine Accelerator team up to train scientists to become founders
The road from scientist to founder is well trodden, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy. Those pitfalls are why, over the last decade,...
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entrepreneurship
Twelve Labs is building AI that can analyze and search through videos
AI models that understand videos as well as text can unlock powerful new applications. At least, that’s what Jae Lee, the co-founder of Twelve...
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entrepreneurship
A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs
The tech layoff wave is still going strong in 2024. Following significant workforce reductions in 2022 and 2023, this year has more than 130,000 job cuts across 457 companies, according...
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gaming
BeReal hit with privacy complaint over how it asks EU users to agree to tracking
Right after BeReal got acquired by French mobile games publisher Voodoo this summer, the candid selfie-sharing app which has been popular with Gen Zers changed...
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auto
Microsoft will take an $ 800M hit over Cruise robotaxi shutdown
GM’s decision to shut down its Cruise robotaxi program continues to ripple through the market, extending to the self-driving car company’s minority investors....
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auto
RIP, Cruise robotaxi
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch...
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entrepreneurship
Carta is making it too difficult to cancel subscriptions, some founders say
Running a startup can be expensive, requiring a multitude of different subscriptions. Cap table management software, which helps founders organize their funding, can cost thousands...
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apps
Here’s how OpenAI uses your data when you use ChatGPT through Apple’s integrations
Following Apple’s integration of OpenAI’s ChatGPT within iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, OpenAI has detailed how your data is handled when you use...
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auto
Cruise employees ‘blindsided’ by GM’s plan to end robotaxi program
The news came by Slack message. Cruise CEO Marc Whitten, who took the top post in June, posted a message Tuesday afternoon in the company’...
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apps
Google Gemini can now do more in-depth research
Google is upgrading Gemini, its chatbot platform, with the ability to “reason” through a research problem and compile a comprehensive report. The updated Gemini offers...
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gaming / learning
It sure looks like OpenAI trained Sora on game content — and legal experts say that could be a problem
OpenAI has never revealed exactly which data it used to train Sora, its video-generating AI. But from the looks of it, at least some of...
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technology
Indian fintech Slice seals bank merger
Indian fintech startup Slice said it has completed its merger with North East Small Finance Bank, marking a rare instance of a startup successfully entering...
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technology
OpenAI whistleblower found dead at 26 in San Francisco apartment
A former OpenAI employee, Suchir Balaji, was recently found dead in his San Francisco apartment, according to the San Francisco Office of the Chief Medical...
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technology
X could introduce labels for parody accounts, but enforcement might be tricky
X is filled with accounts that mimic real-life public figures, ranging from politicians to sports professionals and artists. While some accounts mention “Parody” in their...
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technology
Beta Technologies unveils first passenger carrying electric aircraft
Beta Technologies unveiled Monday the next electric aircraft in its lineup — a passenger-carrying version of its ALIA vertical takeoff and landing and fixed-wing vehicles. Electric...
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technology
Workday acquires AI-powered document platform Evisort
Workday announced on Tuesday that it’s acquiring Evisort, an AI-powered contract management platform, for an undisclosed amount. In a statement, Terrance Wampler, group general...
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technology
Sam Altman’s Worldcoin becomes World and shows new iris-scanning Orb to prove your humanity
Worldcoin, the Sam Altman co-founded “proof of personhood” crypto project that scans people’s eyeballs, announced on Thursday that it dropped the “coin” from its...
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technology
OpenAI could shake up its nonprofit structure next year
It’s looking increasingly likely that OpenAI will soon alter its complex corporate structure. Reports earlier this week suggested that the AI company was in...
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technology
YouTube tests a new way for creators to avoid takedowns
YouTube is now testing a new feature that will let creators edit their videos to remove age restrictions and restore videos that had been impacted...
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technology
TikTok parent ByteDance reportedly values itself at $ 300B
ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, valued itself at $ 300 billion in a recent share buyback offer, according to a new report in The Wall...
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business
Apple quarterly revenue increases, even as China sales decline 11%
Apple’s latest earnings were a mixed bag, with slipping iPhone sales countered by rising revenue. Reporting after the bell Thursday, the iPhone maker’s...
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technology
Consumer tech is bouncing back, and consumer founders like Brynn Putnam are bouncing back with it
When Brynn Putnam sold her last company, Mirror, to Lululemon for $ 500 million at the start of the pandemic, it looked to this editor like she’...
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technology
Flock Safety quietly hired a sitting California mayor. Now he’s suing Flock
Last year, police surveillance startup Flock Safety hired the mayor of a California city with over 200,000 residents to promote its products. But the mayor, Ulises...
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technology
Brazilian fintech Tako emerges from stealth with sizable seed round led by a16z and Ribbit Capital
Running payroll is hard in any country, but perhaps especially so in Brazil thanks to consistently changing laws and extremely influential unions that make it...
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technology
Japan says Chinese hackers targeted its government and tech companies for years
The Japanese government published an alert on Wednesday accusing a Chinese hacking group of targeting and breaching dozens of government organizations, companies, and individuals in...
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technology
Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division
The Mozilla Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the Firefox browser maker Mozilla, has laid off 30% of its employees as the organization says it faces a “...
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technology
Generative AI startup Runway inks deal with a major Hollywood studio
Runway, a startup developing AI video tools, including video-generating models, has partnered with Lionsgate — the studio behind the “John Wick” and “Twilight” franchises — to train...
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technology
Drip Capital, a fintech that provides working capital to SMBs, picks up $ 113M
For over two decades, Jay Chandarana relied on commercial banks to meet the day-to-day, working capital needs of his family business, the sesame seed exporter...
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technology
Uber to launch OpenAI-powered AI assistant to answer driver EV questions
Uber is continuing its push to bring more electric vehicles onto the ride-hail and delivery platform, and it thinks giving drivers a chatbot to answer...
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technology
Snapchat brings camera shortcut to the iPhone lock screen
Users with iPhone iOS 18 and later can now replace the flashlight or native camera lock screen shortcut with the Snapchat camera. Once a picture is...
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technology
EU cybersecurity rules for smart devices enter into force
Rules for boosting the security of connected devices have entered into force in the European Union. The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) puts obligations on product...
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technology
Roblox adds safety measures to ban kids under 13 from social spaces and other experiences
Throughout the years, several reports have accused Roblox, the popular gaming platform aimed at preteens, of lacking strict safety protocols for children, which exposes them...
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technology
Gusto’s head of technology says hiring an army of specialists is the wrong approach to AI
As founders plan for an increasingly AI-centric future, Gusto co-founder and head of technology Edward Kim said that cutting existing teams and hiring a bunch...
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technology
Rivian executives accused of harassment in previously unreported lawsuits
Four employees have sued Rivian in separate lawsuits this year over allegations they were harassed, in some cases by top executives, and that the company’...
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technology
WhatsApp scores historic victory against NSO Group in long-running spyware hacking case
A U.S. judge has ruled that Israeli spyware maker NSO Group breached hacking laws by using WhatsApp to infect devices with its Pegasus spyware....
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technology
Watch Boston Dynamics’ electric Atlas do a backflip
A little early holiday surprise from Boston Dynamics this week, as Santa suit-wearing electric Atlas performs a backflip. The feat occurs about 13 minutes into a...
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technology
Nintendo tries again on mobile with a $ 10 Animal Crossing game arriving in December
It was a sad day when Nintendo announced that its free mobile game, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, would soon shut down. The app is ending...
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technology
Alan unveils AI health assistant for its 680k health insurance members
While Alan is better known as a health insurance company, the French startup has always tried to offer more than insurance coverage. It now wants...
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technology
After selling his last AI startup to Meta, Beyond Presence’s founder nabs $ 3.1M to build lifelike avatars
Computer vision applications are getting a huge boost from advances in smartphones combined with AI that helps fill in the gaps of what everyday devices...
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technology
Instagram locks out developers of third-party consumer apps
A change to Meta’s developer tools is impacting third-party consumer apps that had previously integrated with Instagram. Among those affected by the changes are...
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AI helps Telegram remove 15 million suspect groups and channels in 2024
Telegram has been under unprecedented pressure to clean up its platform this year, after its founder Pavel Durov was arrested in France and faces charges...
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entrepreneurship
Ex-Twitch CEO Emmett Shear is founding an AI startup backed by a16z
Emmett Shear, the former CEO of Twitch, is launching a new AI startup, TechCrunch has learned. The startup, called Stem AI, is currently in stealth....
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technology
Researchers open source Sky-T1, a ‘reasoning’ AI model that can be trained for less than $ 450
So- called reasoning AI models are becoming easier — and cheaper — to develop. On Friday, NovaSky, a team of researchers based out of UC Berkeley’s...
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entrepreneurship / business
The global future of remote work, according to three HR startup leaders
Software is eating the world, and companies are hiring global talent more frequently than ever. They want to be able to hire talent in foreign...
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apps
Epic Games to pre-install its game store on ‘millions’ of devices with new Telefónica deal
Epic Games is partnering with Telefónica, one of the largest telecommunication providers in the world, to preinstall the Epic Games Store on all new...
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technology
Europe asks for input on banned uses of AI
The European Union is developing compliance guidance for its new law on AI. As part of that process it’s launched a consultation (here) seeking...
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technology
Samsung’s CES 2025 press conference: How to watch
Samsung’s CES presser is always an odd duck. The Korean electronics giant generally keeps its powder dry when it comes to consumer electronics. After...
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technology
Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a ‘cancer to WordPress’ and urges community to switch providers
Automattic CEO and WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg unleashed a scathing attack on a rival firm this week, calling WP Engine a “cancer to WordPress.” Mullenweg...
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learning
UK consults on opt-out model for training AIs on copyrighted content
The U.K. government is consulting on an opt-out copyright regime for AI training that would require rights holders to take active steps if they...
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technology
Black Friday hits a record $ 74.4B in sales online, up 5% on last year
The momentum of Thanksgiving — which saw consumers spend a record $ 33.6 billion globally online on the day — looks like it continued into Black Friday, with a...
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technology
Nvidia releases its own brand of world models
Nvidia is getting into world models — AI models that take inspiration from the mental models of the world that humans develop naturally. At CES 2025 in...
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technology
ePlane looks to ride the Indian government’s interest in air taxis with new $ 14M round
Soaring private vehicle ownership and declining use of public and nonmotorized transport have created mounting traffic congestion in India, the world’s most populous country,...
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technology
Boston Dynamics’ Atlas humanoid hot dogs for the camera
Automation skeptics ask: Why humanoids? There are many benefits and drawbacks of the robotics form factor, but Boston Dynamics’ latest electric Atlas video showcases one...
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apps / technology
Temu is the most downloaded app on the US App Store in 2024
Chinese shopping app Temu was once again the most downloaded free app in the U.S., according to a list of top apps and games...
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technology
Drone manufacturer Skydio raises $ 170 million extension round
American drone manufacturer Skydio has raised an extension round of $ 170 million, adding to the $ 230 million Series E it closed early last year. The new tranche...
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technology
Watch a robot dog run under water
MAB Robotics Tuesday showcased the latest trick from its Honey Badger robot. In a video, the quadruped is seen running along the bottom of a...
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technology
Sequoia nears first Asia-Pacific deal since regional split
Sequoia is closing in on making its first deal in India and the broader Asia Pacific region since its split with former partners, according to...
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learning
What exactly is an AI agent?
AI agents are supposed to be the next big thing in AI, but there isn’t an exact definition of what they are. To this...
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technology
Perplexity AI submits bid to merge with TikTok
With a TikTok ban looming in the United States, Perplexity AI is the latest bidder hoping to give the video app a new corporate home....
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technology
Apple reportedly worked with a Chinese automaker to develop a battery for its now-canceled car
Apple worked with a Chinese automaker for years to design a battery system for its now-canceled car project. That’s according to Bloomberg, which reports...
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technology
Meta rethinks smart glasses with Orion
Meta Connect 2024 was this week, showcasing new hardware and software to support two of the company’s big ambitions: AI and the metaverse. CEO Mark...
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technology
Fortinet confirms customer data breach
On Thursday, cybersecurity giant Fortinet disclosed a breach involving customer data. In a statement posted online, Fortinet said an individual intruder accessed “a limited number...
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entrepreneurship / apps / business
Death Clock app predicts the date of your death
A new app called Death Clock predicts the date of its users’ deaths and offers tips on how to push that date back. TechCrunch wrote...
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technology
Europe’s DMA forces Meta toward ‘less personalized ads’
Meta, under legal pressure in the European Union over a binary “pay us or consent to ad tracking” choice it currently offers regional users of...
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business
Klarna’s CEO says it stopped hiring thanks to AI but still advertises many open positions
Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski recently told Bloomberg TV that his company essentially stopped hiring a year ago and credited generative AI for enabling this massive...
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apps / technology
No-code app builder Softr expands beyond Airtable databases
If you’re working for a small company and want to build a client portal or an internal tool, it can be difficult to find...
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technology
Supersonic aircraft startup Exosonic is shutting down
Exosonic, a startup developing supersonic commercial air travel and UAV tech, is winding down after five years of operation. In an update posted to its...
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technology
North Korean hackers have stolen billions in crypto by posing as VCs, recruiters and IT workers
A venture capitalist, a recruiter from a big company, and a newly hired remote IT worker might not seem to have much in common, but...
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business / technology
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi resigns from self-driving truck startup Aurora’s board
Dara Khosrowshahi is resigning from the board of autonomous vehicle technology company Aurora Innovation, citing a desire to focus on his ongoing responsibilities as CEO...
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technology
Meet Verse, an AI-powered creative app that helps Gen Z design and publish expressive content
Verse, a new AI-powered creative app, is aiming to help Gen Z users create hyper-visual and expressive content. The iOS app allows users to design...
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technology
New Apple security feature reboots iPhones after 3 days, researchers confirm
Apple’s new iPhone software comes with a novel security feature that reboots the phone if it’s not unlocked for 72 hours, according to security...
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technology
Tier becomes Dott following the merger of the two micromobility companies
Tier and Dott, two leading European scooter- and bike-sharing services, are becoming one service called Dott. The two startups have already laid out plans to...
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technology
Norwegian startup Factiverse wants to fight disinformation with AI
In the wake of the U.S. 2024 presidential election, one fact became clear: Disinformation proliferated online at a startling rate, shaping Americans’ views about each...
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technology
Silicon Valley is debating if AI weapons should be allowed to decide to kill
In late September, Shield AI co-founder Brandon Tseng swore that weapons in the U.S. would never be fully autonomous — meaning an AI algorithm would...
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technology
NSO Group admits cutting off 10 customers because they abused its Pegasus spyware, say unsealed court documents
On Thursday, WhatsApp scored a legal victory by convincing a U.S. federal judge to publicly release three court documents that include new revelations about...
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technology
Soliddd is building smart glasses for people with macular degeneration
For the past several years, the halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center have been lousy with AR/VR/XR smart glasses. While some of...
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technology
Internet surveillance firm Sandvine says it’s leaving 56 “non-democratic” countries
Sandvine, the makers of surveillance-ware that allowed authoritarian countries to censor the internet and spy on their citizens, announced that it is leaving dozens of “...
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entrepreneurship / technology
After causing outrage on the first day of Y Combinator, AI code editor PearAI lands $ 1M seed
On the first day of Y Combinator’s winter 2024 session — right after orientation and a photo in front of the YC sign — the founders of...
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self improvement
Facebook Stops Irresponsibly Defaulting Privacy Of New Users’ Posts To “Public”, Changes To “Friends”
After years of putting new users at risk of oversharing by defaulting the visibility of their status updates and photos to public, Facebook is switching...
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technology
EV startup Canoo files for bankruptcy and ceases operations
Seven- year-old electric vehicle startup Canoo has filed for bankruptcy and will “cease operations immediately.” The company is liquidating its assets in a Chapter 7 proceeding...
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technology
Rivian wraps 2024 with more than 50,000 EVs delivered
Rivian finished last year having delivered 51,579 electric SUVs, trucks, and vans, more than triple the number it shipped to customers in 2023. The company announced Friday...
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technology
GM is working on an eyes-off, hands-off driving system
Seven years ago, GM became the first automaker to offer hands-free driving when it rolled out its Super Cruise advanced driver assistance system. Now, it’...
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technology
IBM acquires Kubernetes cost optimization startup Kubecost
IBM on Tuesday announced that it has acquired Kubecost, a FinOps startup that helps teams at companies like Allianz, Audi, Rakuten, and GitLab monitor and...
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technology
Amazon hires the founders of AI robotics startup Covariant
Amazon announced Friday evening that it has hired Covariant’s founders — Pieter Abbeel, Peter Chen, and Rocky Duan — along with “about a quarter” of the...
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technology
Aktiia trained AI on 11 billion data points of blood pressure, and now a clinically certified app is coming
As well as being a major cause of premature death worldwide, hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, is a major risk factor for stroke,...
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technology
US laws regulating AI prove elusive, but there may be hope
Can the U.S. meaningfully regulate AI? It’s not at all clear yet. Policymakers have achieved progress in recent months, but they’ve also...
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OpenAI loses another lead safety researcher, Lilian Weng
Another one of OpenAI’s lead safety researchers, Lilian Weng, announced on Friday she is departing the startup. Weng served as VP of research and...
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technology
Pinterest rolls out genAI tools for product imagery to advertisers
Image inspiration and shopping site Pinterest is the latest tech company to roll out generative AI products to its advertisers, following similar moves by Google,...
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business
India pledges fresh billion for startups
India announced a new $ 1.15 billion Fund of Funds for startups on Saturday while unveiling sweeping regulatory reforms and an ambitious nuclear energy program, as New...
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technology
Many companies won’t say if they’ll comply with California’s AI training transparency law
On Sunday, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill, AB-2013, requiring companies developing generative AI systems to publish a high-level summary of the data that...
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technology
MIT debuts a large language model-inspired method for teaching robots new skills
MIT this week showcased a new model for training robots. Rather than the standard set of focused data used to teach robots new tasks, the...
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technology
Venture funding in Europe fell to $ 45B in 2024, says Atomico
Funding for European tech appears to have stabilized in 2024 after dropping precipitously in 2023, but the signs continue to point to more tough time s ahead,...
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technology
Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on fighting misinformation, tech addiction, and small nuclear reactors
In what has become a bit of an annual tradition, I sat down with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels at AWS re:Invent this week. Another...
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business
Vanguard cuts Indian rideshare startup Ola’s valuation to $ 2B
Vanguard has revised its valuation of Indian ride-hailing startup Ola to about $ 2 billion as of the end of August, according to a regulatory filing. A...
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technology
Lightyear is on a mission to modernize network procurement
Dennis Thankachan isn’t someone you’d expect would launch a digital procurement startup. After college, Thankachan went to work for Goldman Sachs as an...
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technology
Popular calendar app Fantastical lands on Windows
Buzzy calendar apps tend to make a big splash and disappear after a while. Some time s they get acquired, some time s the company...
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business / technology
Google ditches DEI hiring goals
Google will no longer have diversity hiring targets and will review its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, according to an email sent to employees that...
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technology
Blue Origin says New Glenn on track to launch before end of 2024
Blue Origin says it’s on track to launch its towering New Glenn vehicle before the year’s end, though the company is still awaiting...
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business
Tesla to split $ 100M award for electric truck charging corridor in Illinois
Tesla, along with three other industry partners, quietly backed an Illinois Environmental Protection Agency application that won $ 100 million in funding to build electric truck charging...
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business
Karmen secures $ 9.4 million for its revenue-based financing products
French startup Karmen has secured a small funding round so that it can improve its instant financing products. The company offers short-term loans to small...
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technology
Binance founder ‘CZ’ released from custody after four-month sentence
Binance founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao was released from US custody on Friday after serving out his four-month sentence in a low-security correctional facility. CZ’s...
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apps
Apple releases new Apple Intelligence features including ChatGPT integration with iOS 18.2
Apple released new Apple Intelligence features, including image playground, Genmoji, writing tool enhancements, and ChatGPT integration with iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.2. The company also...
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technology
Sonos outlines turnaround plan following app disaster
Sonos’ May app relaunch will be studied as a business school cautionary tale for years to launch. The home audio firm prioritized netting new customers...
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technology
Malware stole internal PowerSchool passwords from engineer’s hacked computer
A cyberattack and data breach at U.S. edtech giant PowerSchool that was discovered December 28 threatens to expose the private data of tens of millions...
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entrepreneurship
From Goodreads’ founder, Smashing debuts its AI-powered app for online readers
Smashing, a new app curating the best of the web from Goodreads co-founder Otis Chandler, is now available to the public. Like Goodreads, the app...
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technology
Fisker owners get help with recall repairs as court approves liquidation plan
Fisker’s plan to liquidate its assets has been accepted by the bankruptcy court in Delaware. And with it, the issue of who should pay...
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technology
WhatsApp will finally let you unsubscribe from business marketing spam
WhatsApp Business has grown to over 200 million monthly users over the past few years. That means there are tons of businesses sending messages to users —...
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technology
Napkin is a note-taking app that is not about making you more productive
Note- taking apps typically aim to make you more efficient and productive. A lot of those apps concentrate on quickly jotting down your thoughts, organizing...
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technology
X gains a faster Grok model and a new ‘Grok button’
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, may be embroiled in an escalating lawsuit with OpenAI, but that’s not stopping it from shipping new products —...
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technology
Microsoft debuts Phi-4, a new generative AI model, in research preview
Microsoft has revealed the newest addition to its Phi family of generative AI models. Called Phi-4, the model improves in several areas over its predecessors,...
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technology
SoundCloud introduces a cheaper plan for artists
Music streaming platform SoundCloud announced Tuesday that it is introducing a new, cheaper paid plan for artists simply called Artist, while renaming its Next Pro...
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technology
Microsoft said it lost weeks of security logs for its customers’ cloud products
Microsoft has notified customers that it’s missing more than two weeks of security logs for some of its cloud products, leaving network defenders without...
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technology
These are the top apps Gen Z young adults downloaded this year
It’s clear that Gen Z has an influence on app consumption. Known as the “mobile-first generation,” they make up about 40% of all mobile users...
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business
FTC fines online retailer Goat $ 2M over deceptive ‘Instant’ and ‘Next Day’ orders
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has ordered Goat, an online marketplace for sneakers and apparel, to pay more than $ 2 million to consumers over...
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technology
OpenAI says it won’t release a model called Orion this year
OpenAI says that it doesn’t intend to release an AI model code-named Orion this year, countering recent reporting on the company’s product roadmap. “...
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apps
Flipboard launches Surf, a new app for browsing the open social web
Social magazine app maker Flipboard is reinventing itself for the new era of the open social web. While the company’s original app allowed users...
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Chinese military researchers reportedly used Meta AI to develop defense chatbot
Chinese research scientists linked to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the military wing of China’s ruling party, reportedly used “open” AI from Meta...
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Tesla says it has reached a ‘conditional’ settlement in Rivian trade secrets lawsuit
Tesla and Rivian may have resolved a lawsuit in which Tesla accused Rivian of poaching employees and stealing trade secrets. Bloomberg reports that Tesla told...
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GitHub launches a free version of its Copilot
Microsoft- owned GitHub announced on Wednesday a free version of its popular Copilot code completion/AI pair programming tool, which will also now ship by...
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Why United chose SpaceX’s Starlink to power its free Wi-Fi
Late last week, United Airlines announced that it signed an agreement with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to bring its Starlink internet service to its entire...
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Linkup connects LLMs with premium content sources (legally)
If you’ve used ChatGPT Search or Perplexity, you know that being able to search the web and see citations inline greatly improves these AI...
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health
Nebraska sues Change Healthcare over security failings that led to medical data breach of over 100 million Americans
The U.S. state of Nebraska has sued the healthtech giant Change Healthcare over a series of alleged security failings that resulted in a historical...
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Website builder Squarespace says it’s training its AI tools with curation and taste
Will generative AI tools help people build better websites, or will they just fill the web with spam? With the recent launch of Design Intelligence,...
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Backyard Baseball ’97 is back, with a re-release coming soon on Steam
The nostalgic ’90’s PC game Backyard Baseball is coming to Steam on October 10, 27 years after its initial release. It’ll cost $ 10. The arcade-style baseball game...
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entrepreneurship / technology
If climate tech is dead, what comes next?
Humans have an innate desire to name things, but to be honest, we’re not always that good at it. Take climate tech: It’s...
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Data center tech is exploding but adoption won’t be easy for startups
The data center industry is expanding rapidly to keep up with the flywheel growth of AI. While these data centers are necessary AI infrastructure, they...
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X says its new image generator, Aurora, will launch for all users within the week
X, the Elon Musk-owned social network previously known as Twitter, quietly added a new image generator to its Grok assistant this past Saturday. Then, it...
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Onyx Motorbikes is back, one year after its owner died leaving the company in shambles
A year after Onyx Motorbikes owner James Khatiblou died suddenly, leaving customers with unfulfilled orders and millions in unpaid debts, the brand has been revived...
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Marc Benioff warns that AI, while useful, is overhyped and partly blames Microsoft
One of the tech industry’s biggest hype men, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, wants you to know that he is psyched about generative AI, but...
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Airbnb and fashion app By Rotation partner for free destination wedding outfits
Eshita Kabra always knew she wanted to work with Airbnb. When she first came up with the idea for her company By Rotation a few...
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business
Will Rivian be Volkswagen’s software savior? VW is betting $ 5.8B it will
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch...
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