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India, already an IPO bright spot, prepares for bigger surge in 2025
India has bucked the global trend in initial public offerings this year, establishing itself as a rare bright spot for tech listings while other major markets face continued headwinds. The world’s most populous nation is now preparing for an even more substantial wave of startup IPOs in 2025. More than 20 startups are preparing to […]
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FTC reportedly opens antitrust investigation into Microsoft
The FTC has launched an antitrust investigation into Microsoft, according to multiple reports that corroborate earlier reporting by the Financial Times. The agency is said to be looking into whether Microsoft violated antitrust law in multiple segments of its business, including its public cloud, AI, and cybersecurity product lines. Of particular interest to the FTC […]
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Time spent online by adults in the UK jumped by nearly an hour in 2024 says Ofcom
Adults are spending an average of 4 hours and 20 minutes each day online across smartphones, tablets and computers in the U.K., according to figures from Ofcom’s annual Online Nation report diving into consumer digital habits. The figure is a big jump compared to 2023, when adults over 18 spent an average of 3 hours […]
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Uber’s subscription service reportedly target of FTC probe
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating Uber over whether it broke consumer protection laws by allegedly automatically signing people up for its Uber One subscription service and making it hard to cancel, according to Bloomberg News. The investigation was opened earlier this year after the FTC received customer complaints. Uber told Bloomberg that its cancellation […]
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Alibaba releases an ‘open’ challenger to OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model
A new so-called “reasoning” AI model, QwQ-32B-Preview, has arrived on the scene. It’s one of the few to rival OpenAI’s o1, and it’s the first available to download under a permissive license. Developed by Alibaba’s Qwen team, QwQ-32B-Preview contains 32.5 billion parameters and can consider prompts up ~32,000 words in length; it performs better on […]
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Spotify cuts developer access to several of its recommendation features
Spotify will no longer allow developers building third-party apps with its Web API to access several features within the music streaming platform, such as song and artist recommendations, the company announced in a developer blog post on Wednesday. The company appears to be limiting third-party developers from building AI apps using data from Spotify listeners. […]
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Investigators think a Chinese ship purposefully cut critical data cables
European investigators believe that a Chinese commercial ship purposefully dragged its anchor in order to slash through two critical data cables.
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DIY and synth-curious? Try putting together the analog POM-400 from Teenage Engineering
The Pocket Operator Modular 400 from Teenage Engineering is an analog modular synthesizer that you put together yourself. If you’re at all interested in DIY kits or synths, this might be a great weekend project. You bend the bright yellow chassis into shape to start, mounting the various modules into place with tiny little screws. […]
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T-Mobile says telco hackers had ‘no access’ to customer call and text message logs
The phone giant said hackers did not access the contents or logs of customer phone calls or text messages, during an industry-wide attack on phone and internet companies.
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Threads now lets you swipe between different feeds right from the home screen
Threads is rolling out a redesign that keeps your feeds visible on the home screen, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Wednesday. The redesign allows you to quickly swipe between different feeds just like you can on X. The change is rolling out on Android on Wednesday, and will launch on iOS in the coming […]
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Google Gemini’s Imagen 3 lets players design their own chess pieces
Google Labs, the experimental arm of the tech giant, has introduced a new online project that offers an entertaining variation of the game of chess. The web experiment is named GenChess, which, as the name implies, uses Gemini Imagen 3, Google’s image generation model, allowing players to customize their own chess pieces using text prompts. […]
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This Week in AI: AI gets creative in the kitchen
Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. It’s nearly Thanksgiving, and you know what that means: stuffing your face to the point of comatosis. Well, that and entertaining all the unsavory relatives you manage to keep at bay the rest of the year. […]
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Meta’s Threads is developing its own take on Bluesky’s ‘Starter Packs’
Hoping to quell some of the momentum behind social network Bluesky, a competitor to X and Meta’s Threads, Meta is developing a feature that takes inspiration from one of Bluesky’s more popular additions: the concept of “Starter Packs,” or hand-curated lists of suggested users that help newcomers find people to follow. Meta’s version of these […]
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OpenAI moves to trademark its o1 ‘reasoning’ models
OpenAI has filed a trademark application for its latest AI model, o1, as the firm moves to shield its IP. On Tuesday, OpenAI submitted paperwork to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to register the trademark “OpenAI o1.” Interestingly, the documents reveal that OpenAI filed for a foreign trademark application in Jamaica in May, […]
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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 to Google’s NotebookLM. The feature, called GenFM, can be found on the company’s ElevenLabs Reader iOS app. Currently, GenFM supports 32 languages, including English, Hindi, Portuguese, Chinese, Spanish, French, German, […]
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TuSimple co-founder demands liquidation, sues company for control of his shares
Xiaodi Hou, the co-founder and former CEO of self-driving truck startup TuSimple, is demanding that the board immediately liquidate the company and return all remaining funds — roughly $450 million — to shareholders “on a pure pro-rata basis, regardless of share class,” according to a letter that TechCrunch has viewed. Hou is also suing TuSimple […]
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Elon Musk’s AI company may release a consumer app
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, is reportedly preparing to release a stand-alone consumer app. That’s according to The Wall Street Journal, which reports that the upcoming app will be similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, allowing users to access xAI’s Grok chatbot from their personal devices. The app will likely arrive after xAI closes its next funding […]
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Pony AI’s valuation hits $5.25B after Nasdaq debut
The Chinese autonomous driving tech company will go public on the U.S. markets at $13 per share.
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TikTok will restrict some beauty filters for people under 18
TikTok is now the go-to social network for more than a billion users, bringing it to the attention of 14 U.S. attorneys general, who recently announced they were suing the company over its negative impact on minors’ mental health, as well as for harvesting their data. A subsequent report indicated that the company’s own research […]
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Scaling startups is top priority as EU reboots its top team
Europe must get much better at scaling startups. That’s the prognosis of the European Union’s president, Ursula von der Leyen, who’s on the cusp of taking up her second five-year term steering the bloc of some 449 million people — with a December 1 start date now locked in. Giving a speech to the European […]
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Bluesky’s open API means anyone can scrape your data for AI training
Bluesky might not be training AI systems on user content as other social networks are doing, but there’s little stopping third parties from doing so. Per a report by 404 Media, Daniel van Strien, a machine learning librarian at AI firm Hugging Face, pulled 1 million public posts from Bluesky via its Firehose API for […]
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Audio platform Pocket FM taps into AI tools to help it expand its content catalog
India-based audio platform Pocket FM has more than 200,000 hours of content on the service. However, the company’s CEO, Rohan Nayak, believes that the platform still has room to grow in terms of creating original content and expanding its library to multiple genres and subgenres. The fastest way to do that is to tap into […]
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Raspberry Pi launches Compute Module 5 for embedded apps
Raspberry Pi is better known for its single-board computer with a ton of ports sticking out. The most recent of which is the Raspberry Pi 5, which was introduced in September 2023. These small computers are perfect for the education market and for tech enthusiasts looking for a cheap computing device to power an interactive […]
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Eyewa now has 150 stores selling eyeglasses in the Middle East and just raised $100M to add 100 more
Helping consumers find the perfect glasses is a booming global business, spawning giants like Warby Parker in the U.S. and Lenskart in India. In the Middle East, this market is producing its own rising powerhouse: Eyewa. Eyewa, based in Dubai and Riyadh, sells a wide range of eyewear products, including prescription glasses, sunglasses, blue light […]
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Ai2 releases new language models competitive with Meta’s Llama
There’s a new AI model family on the block, and it’s one of the few that can be reproduced from scratch. On Tuesday, Ai2, the nonprofit AI research organization founded by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, released OLMo 2, the second family of models in its OLMo series. (OLMo is short for “open language […]
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Roblox will now give users 25% more of its in-game currency if you buy Robux on its website
As scrutiny around Apple and Google’s app store fees ramps up around the world, Roblox is now offering users who buy its game currency, Robux, on the web and via gift cards 25% more than they would get if they purchased from an app store instead. In essence, the company is encouraging users to purchase […]
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Figure 02 performing tasks autonomously
Robotics startup Figure released a video update showcasing their Figure 02 humanoid robot autonomously performing tasks at HQ for a BMW use case.
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Trump considers naming an ‘AI czar’
Incoming president Donald Trump is considering naming an “AI czar” in the White House, Axios reports. Should Trump appoint such a policy person, they’d be charged with helping to coordinate federal regulation and governmental use of AI. Importantly, an AI czar wouldn’t require Senate confirmation, Axios notes — allowing them to get to work on […]
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Elon Musk wants to block the transfer of InfoWars’ X accounts to The Onion
The Onion, a satirical publication, won a bankruptcy auction earlier this month to purchase conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ website, InfoWars, and other related assets. However, that sale is now in limbo after a federal judge temporarily halted the deal. On Monday, Elon Musk threw yet another wrench in the works, objecting to the transfer of […]
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SpaceX gets FCC green light for Starlink direct-to-phone deal with T-Mobile
The FCC has granted SpaceX permission to go forward with plans to offer a direct-to-phone version of its Starlink satellite internet service, with T-Mobile as its provider and a few provisos in place. The proposal dates to summer 2022, when SpaceX and T-Mobile first announced that they were pursuing the ability for the mobile provider’s […]
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AWS re:Invent 2024: What to expect and how to watch Amazon’s biggest event of the year
Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) biggest conference of the year is around the corner, and all signs point to it being an eventful one. AWS re:Invent 2024 kicks off in Las Vegas on Sunday, with sessions scheduled to run through December 6. A keynote address featuring AWS CEO Matt Garman will take place December 3, starting […]
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ServiceTitan could be the first of many ‘dirty’ term-sheet IPOs, VCs believe
Rather than opening an IPO window, ServiceTitan's IPO could be the first \of something else entirely, VCs warn.
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Uber is building a fleet of gig workers to label data for AI models
Uber is expanding its fleet of gig workers and creating a new category: AI annotation and data labeling. The ride-hailing company has started hiring contractors for a new AI and data labeling division called Scaled Solutions. These workers complete projects for Uber’s internal business units but are also serving outside customers including self-driving vehicle company […]
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FTC finds that smart device makers fail to make clear how long their products will be supported
A new paper from the Federal Trade Commission found that many smart device makers fail to disclose to consumers how long they will provide software updates for their products. The agency looked at 184 different smart devices, ranging from hearing aids to security cameras, and found that nearly 89% of them don’t provide buyers with […]
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Russia-linked hackers exploited Firefox and Windows bugs in ‘widespread’ hacking campaign
The Russia-aligned RomCom gang exploited the vulnerabilities to target hundreds of Firefox users across Europe and North America.
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This Mexican fintech isn’t too worried about Trump’s tariff threats
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re taking a look at: If you’d like to receive the Fintech newsletter in your inbox every Tuesday, sign up here! The big story Trump’s tariff threats don’t scare this Mexican fintech Mexico’s economic development has made it a fertile ground for startups. But the trend is under threat […]
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Bluesky verification could look a lot different from X’s blue checks
The rapidly growing social networking startup Bluesky, a Twitter/X alternative built on open web principles, revealed in a livestream on Monday how its approach to user account verification will differ from existing services, like Meta and X. While traditional social media has shifted to a pay-for-verification model, where users pay for the privilege of the […]
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YC-backed Circleback is out to become the best meeting notetaker
As the number of startups offering speech-to-text services is increasing, meeting transcripts are becoming a common offering. There are plenty of tools that offer AI assistants that either join the meeting or capture your system’s audio to transcribe and summarize your meetings. Y Combinator-backed Circleback wants to differentiate itself by providing detailed notes and action […]
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Roon raises $15M to replace ‘Dr. Google’ with real doctors sharing videos about illness treatments
Vikram Bhaskaran was leading creator partnerships at Pinterest when his father started showing early symptoms of ALS, a rare, terminal neurodegenerative disease. “It turned my world upside down,” Bhaskaran said. He worked during the day, and spent his evenings Googling the illness and treatment options and in Facebook groups. But Bhaskaran discovered that finding clear, […]
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From $19M to $1.5M, here’s how much Anduril pays top execs like Palmer Luckey in cash and stock
Beyond patriotism, there’s another huge reason to join a defense startup: it pays really, really well.
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OpenAI’s Sora video generator appears to have leaked
A group appears to have leaked access to Sora, OpenAI’s video generator, in protest of what it’s calling duplicity and “art washing” on OpenAI’s part. On Tuesday, the group published a project on the AI dev platform Hugging Face seemingly connected to OpenAI’s Sora API, which isn’t yet publicly available. Using their authentication tokens — […]
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Perplexity mulls getting into hardware
Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine, wants to get into hardware — kinda sorta. Aravind Srinivas, Perplexity’s founder and CEO, posted on X on Monday that he was considering making a “simple, under $50” device to “reliably answer” questions “voice to voice.” He promised that Perplexity would “definitely” sell such a device if the post got […]
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Amazon Japan raided by anti-monopoly authorities
Amazon Japan has said it will collaborate with Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) after the watchdog conducted an on-site inspection related to suspected violations of anti-monopoly laws. The e-commerce giant is under suspicion of inappropriately urging vendors to lower their prices on its online shopping platform in return for better product placement, as first reported […]
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Spotify debuts marketing tools and insights for audiobook authors
Spotify on Tuesday introduced a new set of tools for authors and publishers distributing their audiobooks on its platform with the launch of Spotify for Authors. Similar to its existing efforts, Spotify for Artists and Spotify for Creators (previously Podcasters), Spotify for Authors will allow writers and publishers to track insights and analytics about their […]
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UK, US retail giants hit by ongoing disruption after ransomware attack on supply chain firm
The Arizona-based firm said it has "no timeline" for restoration, following a cyberattack that caused disruption at companies around the world.
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Inflection AI CEO says it’s done trying to make next-generation AI models
Just last year, Inflection AI was as hot as a startup could be, releasing best-in-class AI models it claimed could outperform technology from OpenAI, Meta, and Google. That’s a stark contrast compared to today, as Inflection’s new CEO tells TechCrunch that his startup is simply no longer trying to compete on that front. Between then […]
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In court filing, Drake alleges UMG and Spotify artificially inflated popularity of diss track ‘Not Like Us’
The long-standing feud between rappers Drake and Kendrick Lamar is heating up. Drake — via a business entity called Frozen Moments LLC — filed a petition yesterday in a New York Supreme Court accusing distributor Universal Music Group (UMG) of artificially inflating the popularity of “Not Like Us,” Lamar’s recently released “diss” track directed at […]
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EU’s outgoing antitrust chief regrets not moving faster and breaking Big Tech’s grip
The European Union’s outgoing competition chief, Margrethe Vestager, made a name for herself with headline-grabbing enforcements against Big Tech. But in a New York Times exit interview, as she approaches the end of her term, she sounds regretful at not having gone faster and harder against the likes of Apple and Google. She summarized her […]
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Cleo Capital launches cybersecurity accelerator to help undo the ‘crushing burden’ of online threats
Cleo Capital, the early-stage venture fund that counts the AI firm Groq, fintech company Ellevest, and fashion brand Hill House as investments, has announced the launch of a new cybersecurity accelerator. The program is looking for pre-seed and seed companies from all around the world. The accelerator is a remote, 12-week program, with a standard […]
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Cardless swipes up $30 million to build a new generation of co-branded credit cards
More than a quarter of all U.S. residents use co-branded credit cards to get discounts and other extras from brands they use regularly. But not all is rosy in the world of loyalty commerce. Major brands like Uber, Starbucks and Walmart have all pulled back from such projects over the years after failing to see […]
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Apple ordered to open up in-app purchases in Brazil
Brazil’s antitrust regulator Cade has ruled that Apple must lift restrictions on in-app purchases within 20 days, Reuters reports. Otherwise, if the iPhone maker doesn’t comply, it faces fines of $43,000 per day. This decision is the result of a complaint filed by e-commerce merchant Mercado Libre in 2022. If you’ve been following recent changes […]
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Say bye to freeform e-bike parking in London following new rules to reduce bike mess on streets
London is putting the brakes on the mess of electric bikes that litter the streets of the city. Today, the local transportation authority, Transport for London, announced a new enforcement policy that will restrict parking for the tens of thousands of e-bikes rented on-demand from companies like Lime, HumanForest and Dott. The news is significant […]
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Google to test plain ‘blue link’ results for hotel searches in EU markets in latest DMA twist
Google has announced it’s making more changes to how it displays search results in the European Union in response to continued complaints that it’s failing to comply with the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). This will include what it bills as a “short test” of plain “blue link” style search results for hotel queries in […]
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Intel and Biden Administration finalize $7.86B CHIPS Act grant for domestic manufacturing
The U.S. Department of Commerce confirmed on Tuesday it has awarded $7.865 billion to chip giant Intel under the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act, a federal statute signed into law by President Joe Biden in 2022 to boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing. The funding will go toward manufacture and advanced packaging (techniques to assemble and integrate […]
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AI helps India’s Meesho cut some customer call costs by 75%
Softbank-backed online shopping site Meesho has rolled out what it claims is the first GenAI-powered voice bot among Indian e-commerce firms for customer support, paring down some expenses by 75%. GenAI, or generative AI, refers to artificial intelligence models that are trained on lots of data so that they are capable of producing and parsing […]
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EV charging platform Ampeco raise $26M Series B, as demand for charging soars
We last covered EV charging platform Ampeco in 2023 when it raised a Series A round of $13 million. Today it’s raised $26 million in a Series B funding led by Revaia, a growth equity investment fund. That takes its total funding to $42 million. Many EV charging systems are end-to-end solutions which makes them […]
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Cradle builds out its protein-design AI platform (and wet lab) with $73M in new funding
Using AI to accelerate biotech is fast becoming standard practice, and companies offering services to deploy the tech quickly are seeing big uptake and new investment. Cradle is one of these, focused on protein design — and it just raised $73 million to build out its labs and team. Cradle appeared in 2022 as part […]
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Cambridge materials science spin-out Molyon is on a mission to make next-gen batteries fly
Battery tech is pivotal as the world leans into electrification to power decarbonization in the race against climate change. But rising demand is putting more attention on the limits and drawbacks of current generation lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery technology. This is where Cambridge University spin-out Molyon hopes to come in: the U.K. startup is developing next-gen […]
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Volta, a Shopify for B2B transactions, raises biggest pre-seed round of Italy
Volta, a new startup with a team split between two headquarters in Milan and Paris, has secured a €6 million pre-seed round ($6.3 million) to develop a new vertical software-as-a-service platform focused on B2B sales. In more practical terms, the Volta team pitches its product as an equivalent to Shopify but focused on B2B transactions. […]
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Biolevate’s raises €6M to helps medical writers keep up with the pace of new drugs
Writing the documentation that must go alongside the development of new drugs is a highly labor-intensive process: not much software is used and there’s a shortage of expert writers. Paris-based Biolevate helps medical writers go faster with a platform that uses NLP and visual document reading to assisting in writing. It’s now raised €6 million […]
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Rivian snags $6.6B conditional federal loan to build Georgia factory
Rivian said late Monday it has secured conditional commitment for a $6.6 billion loan from the Department of Energy, funds that will help the EV maker restart construction of a massive factory in Georgia. The funds will come from DOE’s Loan Programs Office Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Loan Program. Rivian said it expects to begin […]
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Google Developer Program gains new features, but you’ll have to pay for them
In June, Google announced the Google Developer Program, a free program to give devs access to resources designed to help them build applications using Google services. Now that “millions” of devs have signed up (according to Google), the company is introducing a second, paid tier to commercialize the program. On Monday, Google launched the Google […]
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Another star athlete is making his way into venture capital
Giannis Antetokounmpo, a player for the Milwaukee Bucks, launched a venture capital firm called Build Your Legacy Ventures that will focus on sports and entertainment investing, according to Bleacher Report. Antetokounmpo will serve as general partner. The fund was “not just about capital; it’s about forging partnerships and opening my network to accelerate the growth […]
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Marc Andreessen, Joe Lonsdale, and all the other VCs reportedly in the running for DOGE and other Trump committees
With Elon Musk playing such a high-profile role in Donald Trump’s transition team, Musk’s buddies, many of them Silicon Valley venture capitalists, are reportedly being tapped to help out. For instance, VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, and in particular co-founder Marc Andreessen, is repeatedly being mentioned. He, along with Antonio Gracias and Joe Lonsdale, are reportedly […]
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TechCrunch Space: Everything is bigger in Texas!
Hello, and welcome back to TechCrunch Space! First off, I want to highlight a few stories we weren’t able to get to: First, Inversion Space raised a $44 million Series A to continue development of its ultra-precise orbit-to-Earth cargo delivery service. The company has already garnered a lot of attention from the DOD for its […]
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Rocket Lab nails two missions within 24 hours — one in each hemisphere
Rocket Lab set a new speed record for launch turnaround time, successfully executing two Electron missions in 24 hours. The company added in a statement that this is also the first time any launch operator has completed a mission from each hemisphere within that time frame. Rocket Lab, which was founded in New Zealand, maintains […]
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Tesla appears to be building a teleoperations team for its robotaxi service
As Tesla gears up to launch a robotaxi service in the coming years, the automaker looks like it’s building out a teleoperations team. According to a recent job listing, Tesla is hiring a software engineer to help develop a teleoperations system that will allow human operators to remotely access and control the company’s upcoming robotaxis […]
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Sill’s new app rounds up the best links from your Bluesky and Mastodon networks
Want to keep up with what everyone’s talking about on alternative social media sites like Bluesky and Mastodon, but don’t have time to constantly scroll through their respective apps? A newly launched link aggregation service called Sill may be able to help. The service is similar to the older startup Nuzzel, which was ultimately acquired […]
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Here’s why ServiceTitan was on the clock to go public
When ServiceTitan dropped its S-1 notice of an impending public offering on November 18, many VCs likely rejoiced. A successful IPO by the company, which builds operating software for trade businesses, could be what the quiet IPO market needs to start shaking loose. But the timing of ServiceTitan’s IPO may not be entirely based on […]
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IMAX embraces AI to expand original content reach
With global content consumption rising and demand for non-English content surpassing that for English movies and shows, IMAX is leveraging AI to scale localization on its original content. The entertainment and media industry grew 5% to $2.8 trillion in 2023, according to a report by PwC. The industry is expected to continue its expansion, though […]
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Volkswagen slashes the value of its stake in Northvolt, the beleaguered battery manufacturer
The write downs occurred throughout the current fiscal year as the situation at Northvolt deteriorated.
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Threads tests the ability for users to choose their preferred default feed
Since Threads’ launch last year, users have asked for the option to set their “Following” feed as their default feed. Now, more than a year later, Threads is finally testing the ability for users to do so. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Monday that the social network is now testing the option for users […]
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Authorities catch ‘SMS blaster’ gang that drove around Bangkok sending thousands of phishing messages
Thai authorities said the crime gang sent around a million malicious SMS text messages to nearby residents over a three-day period in November.
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YouTube Music’s 2024 Recaps are out — here’s how to see yours
It’s officially that time of the year when music-streaming services start giving users a look back at their listening habits for the year. YouTube Music announced on Monday that users can now access their 2024 Music Recap to get personalized stats regarding their top artists, songs, moods, genres, and more for the year. You can […]
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Apple again snubs AI in its ‘iPhone App of the Year’ finalists
On Monday, Apple’s list of finalists for its coveted “iPhone App of the Year” award once again reveals how the iPhone maker is downplaying the impact of AI technology on the mobile app ecosystem. As it did last year, Apple’s 2024 list of top iPhone finalists favors more traditional iOS apps, including those that help […]
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Bluesky falling foul of EU rules by not reporting user numbers across the bloc
Bluesky, the social network that’s currently surging in popularity due to an exodus of users from rival X, is in breach of European Union (EU) regulations that stipulate all online platforms must regularly publish regional user numbers. The Digital Services Act (DSA), which came into full effect back in February, is an online governance framework […]
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Instagram takes on Snapchat with new location-sharing feature
Instagram is introducing the ability for users to share their locations with their friends via DMs (direct messages), the company announced on Monday. The feature indicates that the Meta-owned social network is looking to challenge services like Apple’s Find My and Snapchat’s Snap Map, both of which are popular ways for users to see their […]
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Pestle recipe app can now save dishes from TikTok
Recipe app Pestle is rolling out a new feature that can automatically turn your favorite TikTok recipe videos into detailed, step-by-step instructions, using AI. The new feature processes the video’s caption, where creators tend to document their ingredient list and instructions, but is powered by on-device machine learning instead of using a third-party AI provider. […]
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Anthropic proposes a new way to connect data to AI chatbots
Anthropic is proposing a new standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data resides. Called the Model Context Protocol, or MCP for short, Anthropic says the standard, which it open sourced today, could help AI models produce better, more relevant responses to queries. MCP lets models — any models, not just Anthropic’s — […]
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California will offer EV rebates if Trump kills federal tax credits
California is committed to zero-emission vehicles, even if the federal mood shifts. The state’s governor, Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, said Monday that if the incoming Trump administration cuts the $7,500 EV tax credit, he will propose rebates for eligible residents who buy electric vehicles. “We’re not turning back on a clean transportation future — we’re […]
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Appcharge raises $26M to help gaming apps cut out Apple and Google from virtual goods revenues
As Apple and Google continue to battle with regulators and publishers over whether their app stores are monopolistic, a startup called Appcharge has raised some funding to build an alternative for game developers who want a different avenue for monetization. Appcharge sees itself as a kind of “Shopify” for gaming — a platform for publishers […]
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Bending Spoons is taking video platform Brightcove private in $233M acquisition
Brightcove, a cloud platform that helps businesses manage and monetize video content, is being taken private by Italian technology company Bending Spoons in an all-cash deal valued at $233 million. The transaction prices Brightcove at $4.45 per share, translating to a 90% premium on its 60-day average. Founded out of Boston in 2004, Brightcove develops […]
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UK seeks collaboration for security research lab to counter Russia and ‘new AI arms race’
The U.K. is seeking collaboration for a new AI security research lab that’s designed to counter Russia and other hostile states in what it dubs the “new AI arms race.” While the U.K. government has launched numerous funding initiatives in the past to support cybersecurity projects, the rise of AI-fueled nation-state attacks, specifically, is the […]
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Corning offers bundle of commitments in bid to settle EU antitrust probe
After the European Union opened a competition investigation into Corning earlier this month, citing concerns over alleged exclusive dealing, the Gorilla Glass maker has offered a raft of changes to its contract clauses aimed at settling the probe. The U.S. company is a supplier to major electronics brands, including Apple’s iPhone, and the changes could […]
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PlayAI clones voices on command
Back in 2016, Hammad Syed and Mahmoud Felfel, an ex-WhatsApp engineer, thought it’d be neat to build a text-to-speech Chrome extension for Medium articles. The extension, which could read any Medium story aloud, was featured on Product Hunt. A year later, it spawned an entire business. “We saw a bigger opportunity in helping individuals and […]
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South Korean prosecutors request 5-year jail sentence for Samsung chief Jay Lee
South Korean prosecutors sought a five-year prison sentence and a 500 million KRW fine, equivalent to $375,000, for Samsung Electronics chief Jay Y. Lee at an appeals court on Monday. The appeals case comes 10 months after Lee and 13 former Samsung executives were originally acquitted of manipulating stock prices and committing accounting fraud in […]
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Raspberry Pi releases the Pico 2 W, a $7 wireless-enabled microcontroller board
Meet the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W, a tiny board designed around a microcontroller that lets you build hardware projects at scale. Raspberry Pi is once again using the RP2350, its own well-documented microcontroller. But what is a microcontroller again? As the name suggests, microcontrollers let you control other electronic components or devices. Regular Raspberry […]
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Entrepreneur Marc Lore on ‘founder mode,’ bad hires, and why avoiding risk is deadly
Entrepreneur Marc Lore has already sold two companies for billions of dollars, collectively. Now he plans to take his food delivery and take-out business Wonder public in a couple of years at an ambitious $40 billion valuation. We talked with Lore in person in New York recently about Wonder and its ultimate aim of making […]
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Apple will never stop thinking about making a TV
It’s not exactly a secret that Apple has explored the possibility of building a television. Before his death in 2011, co-founder Steve Jobs famously told biographer Walter Isaacson that he’d “finally cracked it,” but no full-fledged Apple TV (as opposed to the Apple TV set-top box) has emerged in the years since. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman […]
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Australian government drops misinformation bill
The Australian government has withdrawn a bill that would have fined online platforms up to 5% of their global revenue if they failed to stop the spread of misinformation. The bill, which was backed by the Labor government, would have allowed the Australian Communications and Media Authority to create enforceable rules around misinformation on digital […]
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Latin America fintech will be a market to watch in 2025
Midway through 2024, Mike Packer, a partner at fintech-focused QED Investors, predicted we’d already hit the bottom for funding to Latin American fintech startups, and that a bounce back was coming. While momentum hasn’t been a straight shot up and to the right ever since, it’s looking like he was right. The volume of venture […]
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Executive assistants, high salaries, and other ways early-stage founders will trigger a seed VC
While most seed investors believe founders should spend their raised cash however they want to, those VCs will still be judging founders’ cash management.
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These alternatives to popular apps can help reclaim your online life from billionaires and surveillance
Not every app or service is trying to monetize your personal data. Here are some of our favorite alternatives to popular apps.
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The curious case of Nebius, the publicly traded AI infrastructure ‘startup’
On October 21, a new ticker opened to Nasdaq traders: NBIS, a truncation of Nebius, a fledgling player in the AI cloud infrastructure space. Casual observers could be forgiven for wondering where this company had come from, as there had been little in the way of the usual fanfare that surrounds most startups’ journey to […]
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How a digital “you” can sit through your agonizing web conference calls
Now you can appear to be on a Zoom call in your office, even when you’re sipping a margarita in a hammock far, far away. Courtesy of a months-old startup called Pickle, its pitch is simple: submit a five-minute-long training video of yourself to create an avatar, and 24 hours later, ostensibly, you’re ready to […]
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‘Wolfs’ sequel canceled because director ‘no longer trusted’ Apple
It may be hard to remember, but George Clooney and Brad Pitt co-starred in a movie, “Wolfs,” that Apple released just two months ago. On Friday, the film’s writer and director Jon Watts said Friday that a sequel is no longer happening; in a follow-up interview with Deadline, he explained that he “no longer trusted […]
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DOJ tells Google to sell Chrome
Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re exploring the DOJ telling Google to sell off Chrome to break up its monopoly, OpenAI accidentally deleting potential evidence in The New York Times’ copyright lawsuit against it, and how AI companies are using TikTok brainrot for study tools. Let’s do this. The U.S. Department of […]
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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 a California judge that the companies have reached a “conditional” settlement, and that it expects to seek dismissal of the lawsuit by December 24. Tesla filed the suit, which was […]
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How ‘Scattered Spider’ hacked some of the world’s biggest tech giants, and got caught
The prolific hacking group broke into Caesars Entertainment, Coinbase, DoorDash, Mailchimp, Riot Games, Twilio (twice), and dozens more.
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Trump’s tariff threats don’t scare this Mexican fintech
Mexico’s economic development — turbocharged by the amount of nearshoring in recent years — has made it fertile ground for startups. But the trend is under threat if President-elect Donald Trump follows through with his idea of taking a harder line on trade with Mexico. Jaime Tabachnik, co-founder and CEO of Mexican trucking finance startup […]
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