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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