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Bolt reportedly threatens legal action against Silverbear Capital
Bluesky tops app charts and sees ‘all-time-highs’ after Brazil bans X
Airbnb and fashion app By Rotation partner for free destination wedding outfits
The org behind the data set used to train Stable Diffusion claims it has removed CSAM
Sub.club aims to fund the fediverse via premium feeds
Tesla keeps putting its digital history in the memory hole
Fluid Truck’s board ousted its sibling co-founders amid allegations of mismanaging funds
Threads deepens its ties to the open social web, aka the ‘fediverse’
Polestar is getting a new CEO amid EV sales slump
One busted valve led to the failure of Astrobotic’s $108M Peregrine lunar lander mission
Meta and Instagram spotted developing a new social music-sharing feature
How Techstars, Meta helped profitable LatAm startup Mercately raise a $2.6M seed
Will HP still demand $4B from Mike Lynch’s estate?
Anthropic publishes the ‘system prompts’ that make Claude tick
Durov arrest boosts Telegram app downloads
Care.com to pay customers $8.5M in FTC settlement for deceiving caregivers, families
Uber fined $324M over EU driver data transfer breach
Loft Orbital forms joint venture with UAE-based firm to scale satellite production in the Middle East
In 2024, it really is better to run a startup in San Francisco, according to data and founders who’ve relocated
Y Combinator backs its first defense startup, Ares Industries
TPG nears $150M funding in India’s Eruditus at $2.3B valuation
Telegram founder Pavel Durov reportedly arrested in France
Apple reportedly announcing iPhone 16 lineup and more on Sept. 10
The fallout after Bolt’s aggressive fundraising attempt has been wild
M&A can open up the playing field for the competition
Marc Andreessen’s family plans to build a ‘visionary’ subdivision near the proposed California Forever utopia city
Halliburton shuts down systems after cyberattack
Boston Dynamics’ new electric Atlas can do push-ups
AI sales rep startups are booming. So why are VCs wary?
Former Alphabet X spinout Mineral sells technology to John Deere
Relive the Myspace days by adding a favorite song to your Instagram profile
D-ID launches an AI video translation tool that includes voice cloning and lip sync
Anthropic’s Claude surpasses $1M in mobile app revenue
Watch this robot quickly install roof shingles
OpenAI signs deal to train on Condé Nast content, surface stories in ChatGPT
PayPal could challenge Apple Wallet in the EU
Former a16z VC Balaji Srinivasan obtained a private island for his new longevity ‘technocapitalist’ school
Apple Podcasts launches on the web
Amazon considers moving Amazon Pay into a standalone app in India
As CO2 emissions from supply chains come into focus, this startup is aiming at farms
Digitally resurrecting actors is still a terrible idea
Rippling’s Parker Conrad says founders should ‘go all the way to the ground’ to run their companies
Palantir CEO Alex Karp is ‘not going to apologize’ for military work
Why Porsche NA CEO Timo Resch is betting on ‘choice’ to survive the turbulent EV market
Nancy Pelosi criticizes California AI bill as ‘ill informed’
Researchers develop hair-thin battery to power tiny robots
Rimac squeezes more power into its new all-electric hypercar Nevera R. And it only starts at $2.5 million
Geekbench releases AI benchmarking app
Sonos CEO Patrick Spence confirms 100-person layoff
FTC finalizes rule banning fake reviews, including those made with AI 
Palo Alto Networks CEO apologizes for happy hour display featuring women with lampshades on their heads
The Tesla Diner might actually be happening
Google adds new AI-powered features for photo editing and image generation
The biggest data breaches in 2024: 1 billion stolen records and rising
Euro VCs welcome Balderton’s fresh $1.3B but grumble about Europe’s AI misses
TikTok comes for messaging apps with the addition of group chats
What is AI good for anyway? Maybe not summarizing
India’s Kazam powers up to roll out EV charging in Southeast Asia
Why Scott Painter is selling a beach house to start a new vehicle software company
How CNH’s ‘black belt’ M&A head makes deals
CrowdStrike accepts award for ‘most epic fail’ after global IT outage
Tesla’s Dojo, a timeline
The tech world mourns Susan Wojcicki
OpenAI faces more leadership shake-ups
Maybe Friend wasn’t crazy for spending $1.8M on a domain after all
Ecovacs home robots can be hacked to spy on their owners, researchers say
The X exodus that wasn’t
Substack now lets anyone publish posts, even if they don’t have a newsletter
China’s autonomous vehicle startup WeRide prepares for a US IPO
Flint Capital raises a $160M through an unusual fund-raising strategy
Instagram is embracing the ‘photo dump’
UK’s internet regulator warns social media platforms over risks of inciting violence
Keychron’s K2 HE turns magnets and wood into an affordable mechanical keyboard
A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs
Europe’s most valuable fintech, and which startups became unicorns this year
Google loses massive antitrust case over search
Announcing the agenda for the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
Placer.ai boosts valuation to $1.5B after quietly raising another $75M
Apple’s new Safari feature removes distracting items from websites
AI chip startup Groq lands $640M to challenge Nvidia
From golf to hunting, a new crop of startups want to make these experiences even better
Many safety evaluations for AI models have significant limitations
OpenAI says it’s taking a ‘deliberate approach’ to releasing tools that can detect writing from ChatGPT
Even after $1.6B in VC money, the lab-grown meat industry is facing ‘massive’ issues
Zuckerberg and Jensen show off their friendship, while an AI necklace covets yours
When a big company comes after a hot startup, it’s not a slam dunk decision to sell
FTC and Justice Department sue TikTok over alleged child privacy violations
Adept Materials’ dehumidifying paint was inspired by trees and semiconductors
AI music startup Suno claims training model on copyrighted music is ‘fair use’
iPad sales help bail out Apple amid a continued iPhone slide
How filming a capella concerts and dance recitals led Northzone’s newest parter Molly Alter to a career in VC
Microsoft now lists OpenAI as a competitor in AI and search
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