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As more celebrities and popular influencers join Bluesky, the fast-growing social media service has been facing more concerns around impersonation and verified identity. The Bluesky Safety team posted Friday that the company has updated its impersonation policy to be “more aggressive,” adding that “impersonation and handle-squatting accounts will be removed.” The company said it should […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/4ipEyRF

Attorneys for tech billionaire Elon Musk have filed for a preliminary injunction against OpenAI, several of its co-founders, and its investor and close collaborator, Microsoft, to prevent OpenAI and other named defendants from engaging in what Musk’s counsel claims is anticompetitive behavior. The motion for an injunction, which was filed late on Friday in the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/9wIcXoN

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. With only so many days left in the year, there was plenty of startup news to round up since last Friday, despite a short workweek in the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/kqwGAWT

As more publishers cut content licensing deals with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, a study put out this week by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism — looking at how the AI chatbot produces citations (i.e. sources) for publishers’ content — makes for interesting, or, well, concerning, reading. In a nutshell, the findings suggest publishers remain at the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/F2gz6qn

Poor literacy skills have plagued the deaf and hard of hearing community for decades. The median literacy rates of deaf high school graduates have languished at a fourth-grade level since the turn of the 20th century, according to the National Center for Special Education Research. Bringing STEM concepts into the mix — the vocabulary for […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/SR9cMQn

Reddit is concentrating on international markets such as the U.K., India, Brazil, and the Philippines to bolster its user base. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/jxuHs6T

Zomato has raised $1 billion through a so-called qualified institutional placement, completing its first major fundraise since its 2021 IPO. The $30 billion food delivery and quick-commerce giant, which leads both those categories, issued approximately 336.5 million shares at ₹252.62 each ($3), according to a stock exchange filing on Friday. The placement, which opened on […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/8PhRXau

Thanksgiving weekend has long been seen as the traditional start to the most important sales period for retailers, and so far, the indication is that we’re in for a strong holiday season for e-commerce. Salesforce is tracking activity in real time and has just put out its first figures for the day. It says that […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/IAX9wo4

Photonics — a field that underpins light-based systems for manipulating data — has a bright future, as the rise of AI demands better computing performance, but it has yet to be fully applied to a new generation of chips. German startup Akhetonics hopes to change that. It’s raised a €6 million seed funding round (approximately […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/1dvPrg3

Threads is rolling out a redesign that keeps your feeds visible on the home screen, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Wednesday. The redesign allows you to quickly swipe between different feeds just like you can on X. The change is rolling out on Android on Wednesday, and will launch on iOS in the coming […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/oHtJv7C

Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. It’s nearly Thanksgiving, and you know what that means: stuffing your face to the point of comatosis. Well, that and entertaining all the unsavory relatives you manage to keep at bay the rest of the year. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/PAUQogb

Hoping to quell some of the momentum behind social network Bluesky, a competitor to X and Meta’s Threads, Meta is developing a feature that takes inspiration from one of Bluesky’s more popular additions: the concept of “Starter Packs,” or hand-curated lists of suggested users that help newcomers find people to follow. Meta’s version of these […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/xXNtWZD

The rapidly growing social networking startup Bluesky, a Twitter/X alternative built on open web principles, revealed in a livestream on Monday how its approach to user account verification will differ from existing services, like Meta and X. While traditional social media has shifted to a pay-for-verification model, where users pay for the privilege of the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/SBG7s8D

Vikram Bhaskaran was leading creator partnerships at Pinterest when his father started showing early symptoms of ALS, a rare, terminal neurodegenerative disease. “It turned my world upside down,” Bhaskaran said. He worked during the day, and spent his evenings Googling the illness and treatment options and in Facebook groups. But Bhaskaran discovered that finding clear, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/gyE3hVK

Bluesky, the social network that’s currently surging in popularity due to an exodus of users from rival X, is in breach of European Union (EU) regulations that stipulate all online platforms must regularly publish regional user numbers. The Digital Services Act (DSA), which came into full effect back in February, is an online governance framework […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/RtN3pqn

Meet the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W, a tiny board designed around a microcontroller that lets you build hardware projects at scale. Raspberry Pi is once again using the RP2350, its own, well-documented microcontroller. But what is a microcontroller again? As the name suggests, microcontrollers let you control other electronic components or devices. Regular Raspberry […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/dgIP07w

Entrepreneur Marc Lore has already sold two companies for billions of dollars, collectively. Now he plans to take his food delivery and take-out business Wonder public in a couple of years at an ambitious $40 billion valuation. We talked with Lore in person in New York recently about Wonder and its ultimate aim of making […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/6KncNfS

It’s not exactly a secret that Apple has explored the possibility of building a television. Before his death in 2011, co-founder Steve Jobs famously told biographer Walter Isaacson that he’d “finally cracked it,” but no full-fledged Apple TV (as opposed to the Apple TV set-top box) has emerged in the years since. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/GocjKCU

The Australian government has withdrawn a bill that would have fined online platforms up to 5 percent of their global revenue if they failed to stop the spread of misinformation. The bill, which was backed by the Labor government, would have allowed the Australian Communications and Media Authority to create enforceable rules around misinformation on […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/quHa5hi

Now you can appear to be on a Zoom call in your office, even when you’re sipping a margarita in a hammock far, far away. Courtesy of a months-old startup called Pickle, its pitch is simple: just submit a five-minute-long training video of yourself to create an avatar, and within 24 hours, you’re ready to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/b9VrXlN

It may be hard to remember, but George Clooney and Brad Pitt co-starred in a movie, “Wolfs,” that Apple released just two months ago. On Friday, the film’s writer and director Jon Watts said Friday that a sequel is no longer happening; in a follow-up interview with Deadline, he explained that he “no longer trusted […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/DYxom8z

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re exploring the DOJ telling Google to sell off Chrome to break up its monopoly, OpenAI accidentally deleting potential evidence in The New York Times’ copyright lawsuit against it, and how AI companies are using TikTok brainrot for study tools. Let’s do this. The U.S. Department of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/1d6cweT

Tesla and Rivian may have resolved a lawsuit in which Tesla accused Rivian of poaching employees and stealing trade secrets. Bloomberg reports that Tesla told a California statement judge that the companies have reached a “conditional” settlement, and that it expects to seek dismissal of the lawsuit by December 24. Tesla filed the suit, which […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/7POkgZ0

A new tool for the rapidly growing X competitor Bluesky helps you quickly create new feeds that you can pin to the app’s home page to follow your various interests. If you’re daunted by the prospect of having to rebuild your Twitter/X lists on Bluesky’s app, you can use the Pack2List web app to take […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/PeDAL6t

MatX, a startup designing chips that support large language models, has raised a Series A of approximately $80 million, three sources say, less than a year after raising its $25 million seed round.  Spark Capital led the investment, valuing the company at a pre-money valuation in the mid-$200 million range and a post-money valuation of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/o2c3Cgm

Revolut, the London-based fintech unicorn, shared a few items on the company’s 2025 roadmap at a corporate event in London on Friday. One of its main focuses for next year will be the introduction of an AI-enabled assistant to help its 50 million customers navigate the financial app, manage their money, and customize the software. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/DXkOMzC

Not for the first time, food delivery firm Foodinho has been spanked by Italy’s privacy watchdog. Per Reuters, the Glovo-owned on-demand delivery app has been fined €5 million ($5.20 million) after it was found to have unlawfully processed the data of more than 35,000 riders registered on the platform. Issues identified included riders’ geolocation data […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/XExdWRZ

Ten years after pitching on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in London, fintech N26 has reported its first ever quarterly (pre-tax) profit. The challenger bank with millions of customers across Europe generated a net operating income of €2.8 million during the third quarter of 2024 (or $2.9 million at current exchange rates). This is an important […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/IPkEiK8

As X competitor Bluesky takes off, topping 20 million users, Meta’s own Twitter-like app, Instagram Threads, has begun rolling out a new feature called custom feeds to its global audience. Hoping to capitalize on user demand for more personalization, custom feeds are meant to allow Threads users to easily build feeds around specific topics or […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/P9DIgYU

OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode feature to the web, letting users talk to the AI chatbot right from their browser. The company’s chief product officer, Kevin Weil, announced the launch on X. The feature, which makes ChatGPT more natural to speak with, is rolling out to ChatGPT’s paying customers this week, which means […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/cyRuwUF

Vegas police received funding for tech like drones and license plate readers from Ben Horowitz. Now it wants AI to go through police footage. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/j6FIqTX

Netflix is adding a new title to its gaming library: a daily word puzzle that is eerily similar to a lot of other mobile games that exist already.  Announced in October, the streaming giant teamed up with TED, the well-known non-profit media organization, to launch TED Tumblewords, a new daily word puzzle game. In this […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/H2Xq7wQ

Decentralized social network Mastodon is also seeing some uplift from the X “exodus,” founder Eugen Rochko shared on the platform just ahead of the weekend. While the Twitter-like startup Bluesky has been capturing headlines and attention for its rapid adoption among former X users, a smaller group has apparently turned to the open source networking […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/9h14uc5

We’ve seen AI chatbots in religious apps before, but a chapel in Lucerne, Switzerland has gone further — putting artificial intelligence inside a confessional. DW’s report shows the “AI Jesus” in action dispensing machine-generated spiritual advice via an avatar visible inside the wooden enclosure. Parishioners sitting on the other side interact with the AI by […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/RFP9j1r

Oyo founder Ritesh Agarwal’s investment vehicle has proposed to inject another $65.1 million into the hotel management startup, according to shareholder notifications reviewed by TechCrunch. The investment, through Redsprig Innovation Partners, would value the SoftBank-backed company at $3.8 billion, according to terms shared in the extraordinary general meeting notice. While this represents a 38% premium […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/AbJ9nde

Blizzard Entertainment first released World of Warcraft in November 2004, so The New York Times celebrated the anniversary by outlining the many ways we can still see the massively multiplayer online roleplaying game’s influence’s 20 years later. For one thing, while multiplayer games and early social networks such as MySpace already existed, WoW provided a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/9R1maCq

Bluesky is having a moment — a moment that’s already stretched on for nearly three months. Over the summer, the social media app saw a wave of new signups in Brazil after X (formerly Twitter) was temporarily banned there. And in the United States, unhappiness with changes at X, and with owner Elon Musk’s close […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/U5ySB8x

Only two companies currently provide cargo delivery to and from the International Space Station, and both are based in the United States. The Exploration Company, which operates out of Germany, France, and Italy, is looking to change that: It just closed a large funding round to further its mission of building Europe’s first reusable space […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/aJZ8TMX

When Brynn Putnam sold her last company, Mirror, to Lululemon for $500 million at the start of the pandemic, it looked to this editor like she’d sold the smart fitness company too soon.  Instead, the timing proved brilliant. The home fitness craze crashed nearly as abruptly as it peaked during that first year of lockdowns. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/kF4dzLx

Viewers have been talking about Friday evening’s boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul — but probably not for the reasons Netflix was hoping. Yes, the 27-year-old Paul (a YouTuber turned professional boxer) defeated the 58-year-old Tyson (a former heavyweight champion who came out of retirement for this match) in eight rounds, but the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/PAHwRBl

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re breaking down Bluesky’s big surge in users, Elon Musk co-leading Trump’s “Department of Government Efficiency,” and Mark Zuckerberg’s latest foray in extreme wife-guy behavior. Let’s go. Bluesky is seeing a major surge as X users unhappy with the platform’s latest policy decisions make the move to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/S1QClgh

What’s the best gift you can get someone? Why, the gift of travel, of course. The next best is something to enhance the travel experience. As fun and enlightening as seeing new places is, the whole part of getting there can detract from the overall experience, especially for those who find themselves traveling a lot […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/0SVeCUI

Not everyone actually needs to use a VPN. This simple guide will help you decide if you need a VPN for your situation. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/RJYXcL5

American drone manufacturer Skydio has raised an extension round of $170 million, adding onto the $230 million Series E it closed early last year. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/dqhlCDM

Significant changes are coming to ABL Space Systems. The leader of the seven year old startup took to social media last night to make a big announcement: the company will no longer be focusing on the commercial launch market, but will be turning instead to missile defense.  ABL had been developing a small launch vehicle […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/5tIh9xH

Haliey Welch, the 22-year-old who went viral for her “Hawk Tuah” video, has managed to turn her brief moment of fame into a full-fledged career. In just a few months, Welch has rapidly risen to fame, amassing around 5 million followers across various social media platforms.  After recently releasing her own podcast titled “Talk Tuah,” […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/GS1tVug

YouTube is launching a new way for creators to earn money during vertical livestreams, the company announced on Thursday. Viewers can now buy “Jewels,” a digital currency, to send “gifts” to creators. Gifts are animations that appear on screen during vertical livestreams. If this sounds familiar, it’s because it’s similar to TikTok’s live gifting feature […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/EDungq1

Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. On Monday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei sat in for a five-hour podcast interview with AI influencer Lex Fridman. The two covered a range of topics, from timelines for superintelligence to progress on Anthropic’s next flagship tech. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/0wbpX1r

A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/FNiKM6O

Apple is set to expand its smart home presence, according to Ming-Chi Kuo. The well-sourced analyst reported on Tuesday that the iPhone maker is working on an IP (internet protocol) camera with an expected 2026 shipping date. The analyst notes that Chinese component maker, Goertek, is set to assemble the product, which Apple expects to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/xfkr3io

Firefly Aerospace has raised a massive late-stage funding round ahead as it prepares for the launch of its lunar lander later this year and the first mission of its Elytra spacecraft next year.  The $175 million Series D, which set Firefly’s valuation at over $2 billion, apparently closed in less than two months in a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/Ae9076Q

Apple’s latest iOS 18.1 software updates introduced a series of Apple Intelligence features, including Writing Tools and notification summaries. However, some features were missing from the lineup, like Genmoji, which allows users to create emojis from written prompts.  Now, with iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.2 public betas officially available, the highly anticipated […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/YQCZqAE

The majority of the aging population in Japan still prefers using cash for transactions, according to a recent report citing government data. In 2023, cashless transactions in Japan totaled 126.7 trillion yen ($885 billion), accounting for 39.3 percent of all spending in the country, said the Japanese government. The government hopes that number reaches 40 […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/Nxfg0Du

Intudo, the Indonesia-only venture capital firm, said it has raised $125 million across two investment funds — $75 million for Intudo Ventures IV, and $50 million for another fund that will invest in downstream natural resources and renewable energy. Intudo said Fund IV will invest in Indonesian startups that take advantage of the country’s location, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/SH9wTc2

Lightspeed has led Wheelocity's $15 million round as the startup pivots to rural India commerce. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/asPLMU9

Amazon has confirmed that employee data was compromised after a “security event” at a third-party vendor. In a statement given to TechCrunch on Monday, Amazon spokesperson Adam Montgomery confirmed that employee information had been involved in a data breach. “Amazon and AWS systems remain secure, and we have not experienced a security event. We were […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/u4cJaRC

Lawsuits against X (formerly Twitter) will soon be heard in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas. The shift was first announced last month as part of a broader set of changes to X’s terms of service and privacy policy. Now, with the changes set to take effect on November 15, The […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/licyepK

The PRESS Act would protect a journalist's sources, and gained unanimous bipartisan support when passed by the House in January. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/4IQvd3B

After a chip manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company was found inside a Huawei processor, the US Department of Commerce has ordered the company to halt shipments of advanced chips to Chinese customers, according to a report in Reuters. Huawei faces significant trade restrictions from the US, so the pause on shipments is supposed to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/kzQ72Eq

Equal, an Indian startup founded by Keshav Reddy, has raised $10M in its maiden funding round led by Prosus Ventures to scale identity verification and financial data sharing. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/qQRX0Sh

OpenAI’s next flagship model might not represent as big a leap forward as its predecessors, according to a new report in The Information. Employees who tested the new model, code-named Orion, reportedly found that even though its performance exceeds OpenAI’s existing models, there was less improvement than they’d seen in the jump from GPT-3 to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/NIGw5bO

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re unpacking the latest layoffs at Mozilla, Perplexity offering to cross a picket line, and Apple warning investors that it might never top the iPhone. Let’s get into it. The Mozilla Foundation laid off 30% of its employees in the second round of layoffs for the Firefox […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/tvEHSPq

New code introduced in the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system could make it more difficult for both police and thieves to unlock iPhones. 404 Media reported Thursday that law enforcement officials were warning each other that phones being stored for forensic examination seemed to be rebooting themselves — something that security experts confirmed […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/c9Mx7j1

Over the years, numerous startups have gained traction by designing, making and selling standing desks as part of a workspace innovation trend to promote better health, and a lot of executives swear by them, including Apple CEO Tim Cook, who once called sitting “the new cancer.” But per the Washington Post, a new study of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/oYLAHwX

Exosonic, a startup developing supersonic commercial air travel and UAV tech, is winding down after five years of operation. In an update posted to its website, Exosonic said it was unable to find the traction necessary to continue operations.  “Although the founders and team still believe in the need/desire for quiet supersonic flight and supersonic […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/mJM6LqR

President-elect Donald Trump looped in Elon Musk on his phone call with Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday, according to Axios. As one of Trump’s top campaign donors, Musk has forged a strong alliance with the incoming president. The Tesla CEO has been rumored as a candidate for a position in Trump’s cabinet, and his […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/D4y0IVZ

Tesla shares have popped since the U.S. election as investors bet that a Trump presidency will benefit the automaker led by ally Elon Musk. Tesla’s shares have rallied nearly 30% since Tuesday, including an increase Friday morning that pushed the company’s market cap past the $1 trillion mark. The share spike is largely related to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/y7xr0HB

The Beatles have been nominated for two Grammy awards this year, and no, we did not accidentally fall into a time warp back to the 1960s. The Beatles song “Now and Then,” refined with the use of AI and released last year, is up for Record of the Year and Best Rock Performance. So, the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/OsFLx2e

Rivian reported Thursday revenue of $874 million in the third quarter — more than 12% lower than analysts estimates — as the EV startup struggled to resolve a component shortage that disrupted production of its recently overhauled flagship R1S and R1T vehicles.  Last month, Rivian lowered its annual production guidance to 47,000 to 49,000 vehicles […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/XqMwuJf

Throughout the years, several reports have accused Roblox, the popular gaming platform aimed at preteens, of lacking strict safety protocols for children, which exposes them to dangers such as grooming, explicit content, and violent or abusive material. In a significant update to its safety policy, Roblox plans to keep users under the age of 13 […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/6uHfScg

TikTok on Thursday debuted a new feature that will more closely connect its app, which already influences which songs top the charts, to the streaming services where users discover and play their favorite music. With the launch of a new “Share to TikTok” feature, music fans will be able to directly share tracks from both […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/Amp19fe

Elon Musk — the billionaire CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI, and the owner of The Boring Company, Neuralink, and X — took a sharp swing to the right this election to support President-elect Donald Trump, using his vast wealth, influence, and megaphone on X to influence the outcome of the election.  Musk’s support came […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/e5WfX9j

Pinstripe aims to reimagine the secondhand market by offering sellers the opportunity to have both a digital storefront and a physical retail presence. Launched in June, the platform offers an alternative approach compared with other marketplaces like Archive, Depop, Facebook Marketplace, and Poshmark. With Pinstripe, sellers take their clothes to local consignment stores, vintage shops, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/v25Dlru

A grueling election cycle has come to a close. Donald Trump will be the 47th president of the U.S., and, with Republicans in control of the Senate — and possibly the House — his allies are poised to bring sea change to the highest levels of government. The effects will be acutely felt in the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/pvG3YwC

The hydrogen industry, which has relied on oil and gas companies both financially and through lobbying efforts, is preparing for a grim outcome. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/s83fbap

The CEO of AI search company Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, has offered to cross a virtual picket line and provide services during a strike by New York Times tech workers. The NYT Tech Guild announced its strike Monday, after setting November 4 as its deadline months earlier. The workers represented provide software support and data analysis […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/GvwCh9U

Anduril, the defense tech company co-founded by Palmer Luckey, is considering building its first major manufacturing plant, a 5-million-square-foot facility known as “Arsenal-1,” in Arizona, Ohio or Texas, according to someone familiar with the matter.  The company, which is developing autonomous drones, planes, and submarines, had announced $1.5 billion at a $14 billion post-money valuation […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/sMBmr4q

X is rolling out its controversial update to the block feature, allowing people to view your public posts even if you have blocked them. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/CTyiLRO

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) giant Affirm is launching in the U.K., its first market outside North America. Its long-anticipated arrival comes as U.K. lawmakers mull new rules to bring BNPL firms into line with other traditional consumer credit services, though such laws aren’t expected to come into effect until at least 2026 — long […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/SkbeiZH

Election Day is nearly here, and if you haven’t already mailed in your ballot or gone in for early voting, you might need a ride come November 5.  Here’s a roundup of all the freebies, discounts, and information on getting to the polls that transportation companies are offering. Micromobility Lime is offering free rides to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/xKuUmQo

Gabor Cselle, the former CEO and co-founder of X challenger Pebble, has joined OpenAI to work on a secretive project. Cselle, who according to LinkedIn has been employed at OpenAI since October, announced the news in a post on X yesterday. “Will share more about what I’m working on in due time,” he wrote. “Learning […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/tVdhEjo

As a part of TechCrunch’s ongoing Women in AI series, which seeks to give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved (and overdue) time in the spotlight, TechCrunch interviewed Sophia Velastegui. Velastegui is a member of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) national AI advisory committee and the former chief AI officer at Microsoft’s business software division. Velastegui didn’t […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/prgBOdA

“There is no AI without data, there is no AI without unstructured data, and there is no AI without unstructured data at scale,” said Chet Kapoor, chairman and CEO of data management company DataStax. Kapoor was kicking off a conversation at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 about “new data pipelines” in the context of modern AI applications, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/2C5cMg1

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re coming at you right off the heels of TechCrunch Disrupt! If you missed it, we’re highlighting conversations from Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, and Disney star turned space CEO Bridgit Mendler. Of course, we’ve got news from the rest of the tech world […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/heHW2Cv

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. Money attracts money, as the saying goes. This week seemed to confirm it, with a couple startups announcing new rounds of funding only months after their previous […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/vH9o4N6

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth used by more than 92% of Fortune 500 companies. That growth has propelled OpenAI itself into […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/nY0vK9J