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Snapchat’s new Footsteps feature tracks your location history

Cruise gets $1.5 million penalty for keeping pedestrian crash details from safety regulator

Raspberry Pi launches camera module for vision-based AI applications

Fidelity has cut X’s value by 79% since Musk purchase

Here is what’s illegal under California’s 18 (and counting) new AI laws

Gov. Newsom vetoes California’s controversial AI bill, SB 1047

In war-torn Sudan, a displaced startup incubator returns to fuel innovation

X faces additional $1.9M fine to end ban in Brazil

Brian Williams might host a live election night special for Amazon

Binance founder ‘CZ’ released from custody after four-month sentence

Canoo hit with two supplier lawsuits as last remaining co-founder leaves

AI dominated both YC Demo Day and startup news

US government charges three Iranian hackers with Trump campaign hack

Nomi’s companion chatbots will now remember things like the colleague you don’t get along with

Uber snags another robotaxi deal, aviation startups land VC bucks, and where Rivian Foundation money is going

Meta updates Ray-Ban smart glasses with real-time AI video, reminders, and QR code scanning

OpenAI rolls out Advanced Voice Mode with more voices and a new look

Some Kaspersky customers receive surprise forced-update to new antivirus software

Ephos wants to shatter the market for AI and quantum chips with a new design based on glass

Rabbit’s web-based ‘large action model’ agent arrives on r1 as early as this week

David Energy is going up against Goliath energy incumbents

Jump raises $12M to help freelancers get benefits just like employees

SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son has been planning his comeback

Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a ‘cancer to WordPress’ and urges community to switch providers

The TechCrunch Cyber Glossary

Some startups are going ‘fair source’ to avoid the pitfalls of open source licensing

Google CEO Sundar Pichai announces $120M fund for global AI education

X reverses course in Brazil

Apple breaks down iPhone 16 repair process

The 25 battery tech startups that just got a piece of $3B in federal funds  

Internet surveillance firm Sandvine says it’s leaving 56 ‘non-democratic’ countries

Apple, Google wallets now support California driver’s licenses

Apple Intelligence is now live in public beta. Here’s what it offers and how to enable it.

Bill requiring AM radio in new cars gets closer to law

HTC takes on Apple’s Vision Pro and PC Gaming with $1,000 Vive Focus Vision

Three new ways to personalize your iPhone’s Home Screen in iOS 18

Ursa Major nabs $12.5M from U.S. Navy, DoD for 3D printed rocket motors

Snap’s new AI feature lets you create Snapchat Lenses by simply describing them

Microsoft Copilot: Everything you need to know about Microsoft’s AI

Fisker Ocean owners stuck paying for recall repairs

Salesforce Ventures ups its AI fund to $1 billion, doubling it again

Amazon mandates full five-day return to office

Myntra bets on 4-hour delivery amid India’s quick commerce boom

AWS brings OpenSearch under the Linux Foundation umbrella

Insight Partners is closing in on a whopping $10B+ new fund

Port of Seattle shares ransomware attack details

Every fusion startup that has raised over $300M

‘Hot Ones’ could add some heat to Netflix’s live lineup

Why ORNG’s founder pivoted from college food ordering to real-time money transfer

Sam Bankman-Fried appeals conviction, criticizes judge’s ‘unbalanced’ decisions

Fintech Bolt is buying out the investor suing over Ryan Breslow’s $30M loan

First impressions of ChatGPT o1: An AI designed to overthink it

A fight is brewing as TuSimple tries to move $450M to China and pivot from self-driving trucks to AI animation

Announcing the final agenda for the Space Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

Bolt has quietly settled its lawsuit with Fanatics amid ongoing boardroom drama

Why Y Combinator companies are flocking to banking and HR startup Every

OpenAI reportedly in talks to raise at $150B valuation

These sub-1mm robots morph and crawl with an electric zap

Bluesky catches up to X with native support for video

Google Gemini: Everything you need to know about the generative AI models

Apple punts on AI

Apple says AirPods Pro 2 can be used as ‘clinical-grade’ hearing aids

European VC Atomico closes $1.24B across two funds for early and growth-stage startups

Apple Intelligence delays could impede iPhone 16 ‘supercycle’

Elon Musk says Tesla has ‘no need’ to license xAI models

Electro-hydraulic muscles help these robot legs stand straight on uneven terrain

Telegram reportedly ‘inundated’ with illegal and extremist activity

Bluesky grows to 9M+ users

Payroll startup Warp disavows ‘affiliate’ who posted about white superiority

How a cold email to a VC helped salon software startup Mangomint raise $35M

University of Texas opens robotics program up to incoming freshmen

Meta will let third-party apps place calls to WhatsApp and Messenger users — in 2027

US charges five Russian military hackers with targeting Ukraine’s government with destructive malware

Driverless car-sharing startup Vay steers toward B2B services

Ryan Breslow’s $450M Bolt deal said to involve a restraining order now

Short series app My Drama takes on Character.AI with its new AI companions

Woman who allegedly killed two people using Ford BlueCruise charged with DUI homicide

X is hiring staff for security and safety after two years of layoffs

Volkswagen is rolling out its ChatGPT assistant to the US

Android 15 will be available on supported Pixel devices in the coming weeks

Android’s latest update improves text-to-speech, Circle to Search, earthquake alerts and more

‘Hospital at home’ startup Doccla raises $46 million for its European expansion

BigEndian founders hope to use their deep chip experience to help establish India in semiconductors

SparkLabs closes $50M fund to back AI startups

Want to branch out beyond Google? Here are some search engines worth checking out

Customers of Indian crypto exchange WazirX unlikely to recover full funds

Validus, a Singapore-based digital SME lending platform, secures $50M debt financing to help enterprises in Indonesia

Apple may ditch those old familiar USB-A ports in the new Mac mini

Why do so many home robots still suck?

From InstaDeep to Paystack: Here are Africa’s biggest startup exits and how much they raised