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Screenshots suggest TikTok is circumventing Apple App Store commissions

Twitch’s TikTok-like discovery feed is rolling out to all users

Amazon CodeWhisperer is now called Q Developer and is expanding its functions

EU watchdog questions secrecy around lawmakers’ encryption-breaking CSAM scanning proposal

Inside the ‘cold war’ at Techstars as CEO Mäelle Gavet hires, fires, fights to force change

Google lays off staff from Flutter, Dart and Python weeks before its developer conference

Fisker starts new round of layoffs to ‘preserve cash’

Ethiopian plastic upcycling startup Kubik gets fresh funding, plans to license out its tech

ChatGPT’s ‘hallucination’ problem hit with another privacy complaint in EU

Humanoid robots are learning to fall well

Tesla profits tumble, Fisker flatlines, and California cities battle for control of AVs

London’s first defense tech hackathon brings Ukraine war closer to the city’s startups

Will a TikTok ban impact creator economy startups? Not really, founders say

Investors won’t give you the real reason they are passing on your startup

Photo-sharing community EyeEm will license users’ photos to train AI if they don’t delete them

Meta AI tested: Doesn’t quite justify its own existence, but free is free

So are we banning TikTok or what? Also: Can an influencer really tank an $800M company?

The IBM-HashiCorp coupling could be more complicated than it seems

After 6-year hiatus, Stripe to start taking crypto payments, starting with USDC stablecoin

Why code-testing startup Nova AI uses open source LLMs more than OpenAI

WhatsApp adds global support for passkeys on iOS

Reddit is making it easier to navigate conversations on its mobile apps

The all-electric Mercedes G-Class ratchets up the tech and off-road capability

Tesla’s new growth plan is centered around mysterious cheaper models

Tesla profits drop 55%, company says EV sales ‘under pressure’ from hybrids

‘Send now, pay later’ startup Pomelo lands $35M Series A from secretive Vy Capital, Founders Fund

Meta opens Quest OS to third-party headset makers, taps Lenovo and Xbox as partners

Peak XV’s Piyush Gupta is leaving firm to start own secondary-focused VC fund

Tinder gets a ‘Share My Date’ feature for users to send date plans to their curious friends

TikTok Shop expands its secondhand luxury fashion offering to the UK

Tesla layoffs, Cybertruck recalls and Serve Robotics goes public

Boston Dynamics unveils a new robot, controversy over MKBHD, and layoffs at Tesla

Women in AI: Ewa Luger explores how AI affects culture — and vice versa

U.S. House passes revised bill to ban TikTok or force sale

MarketForce winds down its B2B e-commerce arm

Pitch Deck Teardown: Geodesic.Life’s $500K pre-seed deck

Lacework, last valued at $8.3B, is in talks to sell for just $150M to $300M, say sources

Cape dials up $61M from A16Z + more for mobile service that doesn’t use personal data

Dark Space is building a rocket-powered boxing glove to push debris out of orbit

Mastering finance essentials with Mercury’s VP of finance, Dan Kang, at TechCrunch Early Stage

Adtech giants like Meta must give EU users real privacy choice, says EDPB

Trump’s Truth Social plans to launch a live TV streaming platform

Apple opens web distribution option for iOS devs targeting EU

Bay Bridge Ventures is raising $200M for a new climate fund, filings show

Elon Musk plans to charge new X users to enable posting

PVML combines an AI-centric data access and analysis platform with differential privacy

A comprehensive list of 2023 & 2024 tech layoffs

Apple pulls a Game Boy emulator for App Store violations, but says game emulators are allowed

OpenAI opens Tokyo hub, adds GPT-4 model optimized for Japanese

ShareChat’s valuation drops below $2 billion in new funding

Pula raises $20M Series B to provide agricultural insurance to farmers in Africa, Asia and LatAm

TechCrunch Mobility: Cruise robotaxis return and Ford’s BlueCruise comes under scrutiny

Generative AI is coming for healthcare, and not everyone’s thrilled

Tesla drops prices, Meta confirms Llama 3 release, and Apple allows emulators in the App Store

Naval Ravikant’s Airchat is a social app built around talk, not text

Startups Weekly: So are we all working from home now?

Spotify is developing tools that would let users remix songs, screenshots show

A Dungeons & Dragons actual play show is going to sell out Madison Square Garden

Introducing the ScaleUp Startups Program at Disrupt 2024 for Series A to B startups

Taylor Swift’s music is back on TikTok, despite platform’s ongoing UMG dispute

Quibi redux? Short drama apps saw record revenue in Q1 2024

Megan Thee Stallion’s favorite app is Pinterest, obviously

Apple News is testing a game that kind of looks like NYT Connections

Hundreds of creators sign letter slamming Meta’s limit on political content

A comprehensive list of 2023 & 2024 tech layoffs

Messenger now lets you create shared albums, send HD photos and share larger files

Microsoft employees exposed internal passwords in security lapse

TikTok’s Instagram competitor likely to be named TikTok Notes

Now at the top of the App Store, The Eclipse App is a great companion for Monday’s solar eclipse

China tensions underline US investment in TSMC

Neurotech startup Neurovalens gets FDA clearance for noninvasive anxiety treatment

Paddy Cosgrave returns as Web Summit CEO after resigning over Israel/Gaza controversy

Avendus, top India venture advisor, seeks $300 million for new PE fund

Spotify launches personalized AI playlists that you can build using prompts

TechCrunch Mobility: Apple layoffs, an EV price reckoning and another Tesla robotaxi promise

Fintech representation in YC’s Demo Days is definitely shrinking

Mahbod Moghadam, who rose to fame as the co-founder of Genius, has died

Canoo reveals it paid for CEO’s jet, AT&T leaks records and X announces NSFW plans

When it comes to building startups in Boston, success begets success

Sundar Pichai on the challenge of innovating in a huge company and what he’s excited about this year

Spotify reuses its live audio tech through Listening Party feature

Tesla reportedly drops plan to build $25,000 EV

Net neutrality won’t survive a Trump presidency

Hoping to stall a ban, TikTok says it generated $14.7B for US small businesses last year

WhatsApp goes down in Meta’s second big outage this year

OnePlus went ahead and built its own version of Google Magic Eraser

Apple Vision Pro’s Persona feature gets collaborative

AWS unveils new service for cloud-based rendering projects

Y Combinator’s Garry Tan chastises a San Francisco lawmaker again; this time about an email bill

Chat app Telegram challenges Meta with the launch of new ‘Business’ features and revenue-sharing

Terraform Industries converts electricity and air into synthetic natural gas for the first time

Microsoft to unbundle Office and Teams globally following years-long criticism

GGV Capital is no more, as partners announce two separate brands