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Many VCs, particularly newer firms, readily admit that 2024 has been a challenging year for raising fresh capital. Dimension Capital, a two-...

Supply chain software giant Blue Yonder says it is investigating claims of data theft after a ransomware gang threatened to publish troves o...

Single-board computer maker Raspberry Pi is updating its cute little computer-meet-keyboard device with better specifications. Named the Ras...

Apple is looking to make its Vision Pro mixed reality device more attractive to gamers and game developers, according to a new report from B...

In winter 2025, a comparative literature class at UCLA will feature a textbook, homework assignments, and TA resources generated by AI. The...

Apple is being sued over its decision not to implement a system that would have scanned iCloud photos for child sexual abuse material (CSAM)...

Mitchell Green worked variously in investment banking, as an analyst with Bessemer Venture Partners, and for a hedge fund backed by Tiger Ma...

Famm, the discovery platform for queer-owned brands, was created by BIPOC queer married couple Cat Perez and Marianna Di Regolo to help user...

Google’s DeepMind team unveiled an AI model for weather prediction this week called GenCast. In a paper published in Nature, DeepMind resear...

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re diving into OpenAI’s surprise 12 days of reveals, an underwhelming Spotify Wrapped, and an...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced Friday that it was placing Google’s payment arm under federal supervision. In response, G...

X, the Elon Musk-owned social network previously known as Twitter, has added a new image generator to its Grok assistant. Just like the firs...

The influential accelerator Y Combinator made a splash in Africa in 2020 when it shined its light on the market and began to accept startups...

Notable Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator held a Demo Day for its inaugural Fall cohort this week. The 95 startups in this lat...

Age assurance, an umbrella term that refers to technologies for verifying, estimating, or inferring an internet user’s age, is being thrust...

Paytm has agreed to sell its stake in Japanese payments firm PayPay to SoftBank for $279.20 million, as the Indian firm sheds non-core asset...

About a “dozen Musk allies” have put a pin in their daily routines to serve as unofficial advisers to the Trump transition effort, says the...

The AI chatbot within X, Grok, is now free for all users - but with some limits.© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use on...

On Thursday, OpenAI released what’s effectively a $200-a-month chatbot — and the AI community didn’t know quite what to make of it. The comp...

If you can be the first person to get an AI bot named Freysa to say ‘I love you,’ you’ll win anywhere from $3,000 to tens of thousands of do...

Several factors indicate that Snyk, most recently valued at $7.4 billion, could IPO soon. But the CEO told us why it might not.© 2024 TechC...

Meta’s Nick Clegg talked about how Musk is “playing an outsized role in both the election and now the formation of the new US administration...

Consumer Reports has put out its annual automaker reliability list, and the top spot is relatively unsurprising: Subaru. What may come as a...

A change to Meta’s developer tools is impacting third-party consumer apps that had previously integrated with Instagram. Among those affecte...

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