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TechCrunch Mobility: Fisker enters into dumpster fire territory and Tesla chases FSD revenue

Ember’s journey from hot coffee to medication transport

Women in AI: Brandie Nonnecke of UC Berkeley says investors should insist on responsible AI practices

Robinhood’s new Gold Card, BaaS challenges and the tiny startup that caught Stripe’s eye

Fisker loses customers’ money, Robinhood launches a credit card, and Google generates travel itineraries

MIT tool shows climate change could cost Texans a month and a half of outdoor time by 2080

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis gets UK knighthood for ‘services to artificial intelligence’

Instagram is developing ‘Blend,’ recommended Reels for you and a friend

YouTube now lets creators share exclusive Shorts with their paying subscribers

US offers $10M to help catch Change Healthcare hackers

Oregon signs right to repair into law

The UK threw a splashy event in New York this week to woo more American VCs

Fisker lost track of millions of dollars in customer payments for months

NASA’s snake robot is designed to search out life in the icy oceans of a Saturn moon

Vibrant Planet uses AI for land mapping and improving climate resiliency

Synctera is the latest banking-as-a-service startup to lay off staff

A judge just killed Elon Musk’s lawsuit against an anti-hate research org

Large language models can help home robots recover from errors without human help

London regtech GSS raises $47M to help banks screen for global sanctions

Apple, Google and Meta face first formal investigations under EU’s DMA

Tutoring platform GoStudent reaches profitability amid tradeoffs

Spotify tests video courses to teach everything from music production to excel

TechCrunch Mobility: The wheels are starting to come off the Fisker EV bus

Nvidia could be primed to be the next AWS

Non-sexy industries can appeal to investors too

Apple sued, Microsoft’s AI ambitions and Nvidia’s surprises

AT&T won’t say how its customers’ data spilled online

The DOJ’s case against Apple adds to a growing pile of antitrust problems for Cupertino

Reddit’s IPO has begun with shares soaring 60% within minutes

DOJ claims green bubbles are an issue in iPhone monopoly suit

Candela’s electric ferries multiply as the startup lines up $25M in new funding

EU signals doubts over legality of Meta’s privacy fee

Astera Labs’ IPO pops 54%, showing that investor demand for tech with an AI twist is high

Threads is rolling out trending topics to all users in the US

Nvidia CEO wants enterprise to think ‘AI factory,’ not data center

After raising $1.3B, Inflection got eaten alive by its biggest investor, Microsoft

Nvidia and Qualcomm join Open Source Robotics Alliance to support ROS development

Telegram raises $330M fresh capital through bond sales

YC-backed digital bank Onyx Private tells customers it’s closing their accounts

Poseidona is removing invasive algae from oceans and turning it into food

xAI open-sources base model of Grok, but without any training code

Another autonomous vehicle startup shutters, Zoox expands driverless testing and investor fervor for AI escalates

VC Arjun Sethi talks a big game about selling his company-picking strategies to other investors; he says they’re buying it

Griffin Bank has a license to thrill

SpaceX doc leaks, TikTok ban gains steam, and Grok to go open-source

LinkedIn plans to add gaming to its platform

Pornhub says, ‘Bad Texas! No smut for you!’

Lordstown Motors comes out of bankruptcy with a new name to fight Foxconn

Hyundai-backed Motional buys time with a bridge loan

How to verify a data breach

After AWS and Google, Microsoft says it’s removing Azure ‘egress’ data transfer fees — but with caveats

This battery startup says it’s found a way to make cheap LFP batteries without sacrificing range

ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

Locus Robotics’ success is a tale of focusing on what works

TikTok is now letting creators in more countries earn money for their effects

Lucid Motors is stuck in a fight over the name of its Gravity SUV

Kate Middleton’s photo editing controversy is an omen of what’s to come

After losing access to Twitter’s API, Block Party pivots to privacy

Feeeed is a reader app that goes beyond tracking RSS feeds

Elon Musk says xAI will open-source Grok this week

‘Banking as a Service’ startup Griffin riases $24M and attains full banking licence

Rivian’s big bet, Waymo goes driverless in Austin and the Chevy Blazer EV returns

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What’s going on with the new bill that could ban TikTok?

Apple terminates Epic’s account, Meta platforms get knocked offline and former Twitter execs sue Elon Musk

Spyware makers express concern after US sanctions spyware veteran

Tracking ads industry faces another body blow in the EU

Brevian is a no-code enterprise platform for building AI agents

Apple terminates Epic Games developer account calling it a ‘threat’ to the iOS ecosystem

Applications are open for the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200

Target to launch Target Circle 360 next month, its Prime competitor

Google takes aim at SEO-optimized junk pages and spam with new search update

OpenSea’s partnership with Coachella is a sign that NFTs can be more than profile pictures

Numbers Station lets business users chat with their data

Why Signal ‘turned our architecture inside out’ for its latest privacy feature

Google’s latest Pixel Drop will let users post high-quality photos, videos on Instagram

Instagram now lets you edit DMs up to 15 mins after sending them

Anthropic claims its new models beat GPT-4

Indonesia fintech Wagely makes bank while helping the unbanked

India reverses AI stance, requires government approval for model launches

Waymo scores a critical robotaxi permit, Fisker cuts more workers and Apple car fades away

Camshaft says Byju’s unit beneficial owner of $533 million funds

Plug In South LA helps build diverse startups in a traditionally underserved area

When startups fail, these startups clean up

Francine Bennett uses data science to make AI more responsible

Apple cancels its car, Google’s AI goes awry and Bumble stumbles

AI chip startup Groq forms new business unit, acquires Definitive Intelligence