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Zoox robotaxis are finally rolling out, Waymo snags more cash, and Aurora delays its self-driving truck launch

VCs on how to raise in 2025 if you’ve taken a flat, down, or extension round

How startups can do more than rack up huge valuations and maybe save the world

What you need to raise a Series A today, according to three VC partners

Indian fintech Slice seals bank merger

Instagram is lowering video quality for unpopular videos

The next Mac mini might be nearly as small as an Apple TV

NASDAQ CEO Adena Friedman isn’t surprised we haven’t seen a resurgence in startup IPOs yet

OpenAI’s Whisper transcription tool has hallucination issues, researchers say

Apple wins $250 from Masimo in watch patent trial

Rental car startup Kyte slashes staff and shrinks to two markets in bid for survival

The fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor called Loops

Tesla’s $25,000 EV flip-flop, explained

Zero Motorcycles is raising $120 million

Bluesky raises $15M Series A, plans to launch subscriptions

Longtime policy researcher Miles Brundage leaves OpenAI

LinkedIn confirms the ‘follower purge’ was just a bug that’s now resolved

One Zero could be raising $100M

OpenAI hires its first chief economist

Poshmark reverses decision to lower selling fees after sellers experience a drop in sales 

DataCrunch wants to be Europe’s first AI cloud hyperscaler — powered by renewable energy

Perplexity is reportedly looking to fundraise at an $8B valuation

Women in AI: Marissa Hummon thinks AI will help make the power grid greener

Four takeaways from Pony AI’s IPO filing

The WordPress vs. WP Engine drama, explained

Acrew Capital hits five years, raises $700m

Why changes to the block on Elon Musk’s X are driving users away

Investors bet on the power of light, diamonds in the trash, and more

Experts say OpenAI’s patent pledge amounts to little more than ‘virtue signaling’

Google replaces executive in charge of Search and advertising

Y Combinator-backed fintech CapWay has shut down

After selling Drift, ex-HubSpot exec launches AI for customer success managers

Fisker owners get help with recall repairs as court approves liquidation plan

Threads will start showing others when you’re online by default

White House considers expanding Nvidia and AMD’s AI chip export limits to additional countries

Tesla Optimus bots were controlled by humans during the ‘We, Robot’ event

Former Product Hunt CEO Josh Buckley is looking to raise a fourth $250M fund

The biggest data breaches in 2024: 1 billion stolen records and rising

Table Space eyes $2.5B valuation in India IPO

Constellation Technologies & Operations wants to work with telecom operators to deliver 5G internet from space

Rerail is a new fintech-focused angel fund from Cocoa’s Anthony Danon

Director Morgan Neville is steering clear of generative AI after ‘Roadrunner’ backlash

How a medtech market opportunity is shaping up for wearable neurotech

Meta’s Yann LeCun says worries about A.I.’s existential threat are ‘complete B.S.’

In latest move against WP Engine, WordPress takes control of ACF plugin

Tesla’s Cybercab robotaxi is here — and it could cost less than $30K

Khosla Ventures just backed OpenAI with $405M more, but not necessarily with its own capital

New rounds will help startups challenge well-funded rivals

Babbel co-founder Markus Witte will once again run the company, replacing CEO Arne Schepker

Amazon team in charge of Just Walk Out loses three execs, gains one

FTX’s Ryan Salame posts jokes on LinkedIn as he heads to prison

SpaceX alums are working to raise a hefty $550M first deep tech fund

X changes creator payouts to depend on engagement, not ads

Shield AI’s founder on death, drones in Ukraine, and the AI weapon ‘no one wants’

After winning Nobel for foundational AI work, Geoffrey Hinton says he’s proud Ilya Sutskever ‘fired Sam Altman’

Fourteen AGs sue TikTok, claiming that it harms children’s mental health

North American robotics sales declined in first half of 2024

India regulator issues notice to Ola Electric over consumer rights concerns

Tesla’s head of vehicle programs jumps to Waymo ahead of Robotaxi reveal

Flutterwave’s chief on the company’s executive hires, product focus, and IPO plans

Ola Electric stock tumbles as complaints ratch up, and market share erodes

Klarna is about to oust another board member

StrictlyVC comes to TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

New York’s top VCs under 30

CPO Paul Gubbay says Squarespace is training its AI tools with curation and taste

23andMe’s future prompts more worries, as genomic data analysis improves

OpenAI closes the largest VC round of all time

Amazon closes more of its cashierless convenience stores

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

Initialized Capital restructures, and lets multiple partners go

The 13 biggest take-private PE acquisitions so far this year in tech

DOJ sentences pair for Apple repair scheme involving 6,000 knockoff iPhones

OpenStack is ready for the VMware refugees

Ray-Ban Meta + facial recognition = Terminator vision for doxxing

A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs

A hidden microphone on a San Francisco street pole is spotting ‘bops’ in the wild

Threads users can now see who follows them from other fediverse servers

Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Durk Kingma