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Will Smith eating spaghetti and other weird AI benchmarks that took off in 2024

A look back on my favorite episodes of TechCrunch’s Found podcast

Investigation exposes pedophilia in the child-influencer industry 

Elon Musk’s promises for Tesla in 2024, from robotaxis to Optimus bots

Blue Origin looks to take on SpaceX dominance with New Glenn launch days away

Volkswagen leak exposed precise location data on thousands of vehicles across Europe for months

Nvidia’s next move: powering humanoid robots

AI data centers could be ‘distorting’ the US power grid

Crypto industry groups sue IRS over broker reporting rule

Africa’s newest fintech unicorns are winning by keeping their feet on the ground

Permira’s Brian Ruder talks AI, Squarespace acquisition, and the value of co-leadership

Google CEO says AI model Gemini will the company’s ‘biggest focus’ in 2025

Why DeepSeek’s new AI model thinks it’s ChatGPT

Lyft says San Francisco overcharged it $100 million in taxes 

LG mounts planters on a lamp for apartment growing

Watch this four-legged robot adapt to tricky situations like an animal

DeepSeek’s new AI model appears to be one of the best ‘open’ challengers yet

The fall of EV startup Fisker: A comprehensive timeline

Elon Musk’s jets made 355 trips in 2024, including 31 to or from the Mar-a-Lago area 

These were the badly handled data breaches of 2024

PharmEasy’s $5.6 billion value shrinks to $456 million, investor data shows

Bluesky starts testing a trending topics feature

Home for the holidays? Share this top cybersecurity advice with friends and family

A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs

Onyx Motorbikes is back, one year after its owner died leaving the company in shambles

Sony’s CES 2025 press conference: How to watch

Instagram tests a way to show you Story Highlights you didn’t get a chance to see

Juniper Ventures spins out of Climate Capital to invest in synthetic biology for the climate

A popular technique to make AI more efficient has drawbacks

Yoast CEO calls for a ‘federated’ approach to WordPress repository

Palantir and Anduril reportedly building a tech consortium to bid on defense contracts

Trump says he wants to keep TikTok around ‘for a little while’

The biggest flops and fizzles in 2024 transportation, from Apple Car to Fisker

Apple might be working on a smart doorbell

Tetsuwan Scientific is making robotic AI scientists that can run experiments on their own

OpenAI’s GPT-5 reportedly falling short of expectations

OpenAI announces new o3 model — but you can’t use it yet

Nvidia clears regulatory hurdle to acquire Run:ai

OpenAI announces new o3 models

Backed by a16z and NEA, Backflip raises $30M Series A to turn text into AI-generated designs

Instagram teases AI tools for editing appearances, backgrounds in videos using prompts

GitHub launches a free version of its Copilot

Grammarly acquires productivity startup Coda, brings on new CEO

OpenAI brings its o1 reasoning model to its API — for certain developers

What is Instagram’s Threads app? All your questions answered

NeurIPS keynote speaker apologizes for reference to Chinese student

What exactly is an AI agent?

Apple reportedly developing foldable iPhone and iPad

Rhode Island says personal data likely breached in social services cyberattack

GM ‘blindsides’ Cruise by giving up on robotaxis

Meta asks California AG to block OpenAI’s conversion to for-profit

What are AI ‘world models,’ and why do they matter?

The 51 most disruptive startups of 2024

Google’s NotebookLM now lets you to talk to its AI podcast hosts

OpenAI 2024 event: How to watch new ChatGPT product reveals and demos

Stigg makes it easy to change your SaaS pricing

HarperCollins CEO touts Spotify’s audiobooks entry, AI’s impact on publishing

Google says its new quantum chip indicates that multiple universes exist

A new disclosure shows, again, how badly Tiger’s ‘pray and spray’ fund performed

US sanctions Chinese cybersecurity firm for firewall hacks targeting critical infrastructure

Humane shows off AI software to connect all your devices

Bluesky teases paid subscription, Bluesky+, in new mockup

Ukraine says Russian hackers are targeting country’s defense contractors

It’s a Raspberry Pi 5 in a keyboard, and it’s called the Raspberry Pi 500

Apple’s Vision Pro might add support for PlayStation VR controllers

UCLA offers comp lit course developed by AI

Apple sued over abandoning CSAM detection for iCloud

Google says its new AI model outperforms the top weather forecast system

Google pushes back against federal supervision of its payment arm

Elon Musk’s X gains a new image generator, Aurora

Instagram locks out developers of third-party consumer apps

Hopeful hearts and other startup news

a16z-backed Toka wants to help US agencies hack into security cameras and other IoT devices

Threads tests a feature that lets users see how well specific posts performed

OpenAI confirms new $200 monthly subscription, ChatGPT Pro, which includes its o1 reasoning model

OpenAI 2024 event: How to watch new ChatGPT product reveals and demos

See Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs generate 3D environments from a single picture

Threads users can now follow profiles from other fediverse servers

Amazon announces Nova, a new family of multimodal AI models

AWS’ new service tackles AI hallucinations

Poland arrests former spy chief in Pegasus spyware probe

Spotify Wrapped 2024 is almost here, but first let’s explore all the copycats 

AWS wants to make your call center interactions less painful

Y Combinator’s Demo Day is back in person

Death Clock app predicts the date of your death

Fidelity reportedly marked up its X stake by 32 percent

Best Apple Watch apps for boosting your productivity