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

Over 100 VCs pledge support for Kamala Harris

Controversial internet bill KOSA passed by Senate

Spotify expands lyrics access for free users

Fintech giant Stripe keeps on buying

Making AI models ‘forget’ undesirable data hurts their performance

Uber now lets users in India book three trips at once

Bee AI raises $7M for its wearable AI assistant that learns from your conversations

US border agents must get warrant before cell phone searches, federal court rules

UK’s Zapp EV plans to expand globally with an early start in India

Dear Google, who wants an AI-written fan letter?

MatPat, the first big YouTuber to successfully exit his company, is lobbying for creators on Capitol Hill

WazirX to ‘socialize’ $230 million security breach loss among customers

Legal tech, VC brawls and saying no to big offers

Apple signs the White House’s commitment to AI safety

Privacy watchdog says it’s ‘surprised’ by Elon Musk opting user data into Grok AI training

TikTok rolls out a new feature that lets you find songs by singing or humming them

Applied Intuition raises $300M four months after raising $250M

With Google in its sights, OpenAI unveils SearchGPT

Mark Zuckerberg says WhatsApp has 100 million monthly active users in the U.S.

Bing previews its answer to Google’s AI Overviews

This Week in AI: How Kamala Harris might regulate AI

VCs are still pouring billions into generative AI startups

Elon Musk sets 2026 Optimus sale date. Here’s where other humanoid robots stand.

The next fintech to go public may not be the one you expected

Monarch Tractor CEO says $133M raise will help it escape ‘quite a challenging time’

TechCrunch Space: SpaceX’s big plans to bring the ISS back to Earth

17-year-old Eric Zhu’s startup was built in a high school bathroom — now it’s raised $2.3M and is emerging from stealth

The Scene’s new app helps New Yorkers find dining and nightlife spots

CIA AI director Lakshmi Raman claims the agency is taking a ‘thoughtful approach’ to AI

What Kamala Harris has said about AI, tech regulation, and more

Made by Google 2024: Pixel 9, Gemini, a new foldable and other things to expect from the event

Joe Biden drops out of presidential race

From Yandex’s ashes comes Nebius, a ‘startup’ with plans to be a European AI compute leader

Bethesda Game Studios employees form a ‘wall-to-wall’ union

CrowdStrike’s update fail causes global outages and travel chaos

Unpacking how Alphabet’s rumored Wiz acquisition could affect VC

CrowdStrike’s rivals stand to benefit from its update fail debacle

CrowdStrike chaos leads to grounded aircraft — and maybe an unusual weather effect

The CrowdStrike outage is a plot point in a rom-com 

Why it made sense for an online community college to raise venture capital

PE firm PartnerOne paid $28M for HeadSpin, a fraction of its $1.1B valuation set by ICONIQ and Dell Technologies Capital

Meta puts a halt to training its generative AI tools in Brazil 

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

Ethereum co-founder’s warning against ‘pro-crypto’ candidates: ‘are they in it for the right reasons?’

InMobi eyes $10 billion valuation in 2025 India IPO

A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs

After Tesla and OpenAI, Andrej Karpathy’s startup aims to apply AI assistants to education

With the latest iOS 18 developer beta, Apple makes flashlight UI more fun

Hacked, leaked, exposed: Why you should never use stalkerware apps

Major Stripe investor Sequoia confirms $70B valuation, offers its investors a payday

YouTube Music is testing an AI-generated radio feature and adding a song recognition tool

Mitti Labs aims to make rice farming less harmful to the climate, starting in India

How to tell if your online accounts have been hacked

Google reportedly in talks to acquire cloud security company Wiz for $23B

India clings to cheap feature phones as brands struggle to tap new smartphone buyers

Meet the soft robots that can amputate limbs and fuse with other robots

If you’re an AT&T customer, your data has likely been stolen

Here’s the full list of 28 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2024

A VC told Keely Cat-Wells to get a male, able-bodied co-founder. She balked, nabbed a $2M seed round.

HeadSpin, whose founder is in prison for fraud, sold to PE firm in fire sale, sources say

New Senate bill seeks to protect artists’ and journalists’ content from AI use

Shark Tank-backed Kudos raises another $3M for healthier, cotton-based disposable diapers

Are ‘visual’ AI models actually blind?

Beeble AI raises $4.75M to launch a virtual production platform for indie filmmakers

More ex-military officials are becoming VCs as defense tech investment reached $35 billion

FTC study finds ‘dark patterns’ used by a majority of subscription apps and websites

Elon Musk does not owe ex-Twitter staffers $500 million in severance, court rules

Whataburger app becomes unlikely power outage map after Houston hurricane

The fall of EV startup Fisker: A comprehensive timeline

Ariane 6 is the future of European heavy-lift launch — for better or worse

Samsung Unpacked 2024: What we expect and how to watch Wednesday’s hardware event

Delivery Hero warns it could face €400M antitrust fine

Investors chase wealthtech startups in India as affluent class grows

Seed VCs are turning to new ‘pro rata’ funds that help them compete with the big firms

YouTube and LinkedIn have games now, and here’s how you can play them

Figma pauses its new AI feature after Apple controversy

How to set up parental controls on Facebook, Snapchat, TikTok and more popular sites

You could learn a lot from a CIO with a $17B IT budget

Tesla makes it onto Chinese government purchase list

Tokens are a big reason today’s generative AI falls short

OpenAI breach is a reminder that AI companies are treasure troves for hackers

Space for newcomers, biotech going mainstream, and more

X plans to more deeply integrate Grok’s AI, app researcher finds

Quantum Rise grabs $15M seed for its AI-driven ‘Consulting 2.0’ startup

YouTube’s updated eraser tool removes copyrighted music without impacting other audio

India’s Airtel dismisses data breach reports amid customer concerns

Fizz, the anonymous Gen Z social app, adds a marketplace for college students

Amazon retires its Astro for Business security robot after only 7 months

SpaceX wants to launch up to 120 times a year from Florida — and competitors aren’t happy about it

Newsletter writer covering Evolve Bank’s data breach says the bank sent him a cease and desist letter

Twitter/X alternative Mastodon appeals to journalists with new ‘byline’ feature

X weighs adding a downvote button to replies — but it doesn’t want to emulate Reddit

Senators urge owners, partners, and VC backers of fintech Synapse to restore customers’ access to their money

Spotify tests emergency alerts in Sweden

YouTube now lets you request removal of AI-generated content that simulates your face or voice