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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
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