TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

SpaceX is known for its vertical integration, but one component it’s been outsourcing is parachutes — until earlier this month, when the company quietly acquired parachute vendor Pioneer Aerospace after its parent company went bankrupt. The Information first reported the news.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In November, the cybersecurity collective vx-underground wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that unknown hackers were claiming to have breached Coin Cloud, a bankrupt Bitcoin ATM company.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Making good choices now will allow leaders to future-proof their business and reap the benefits of AI while boosting the bottom line. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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CIO

DECEMBER 12, 2024

As businesses race toward digital transformation, Gartner has forecasted a game-changing shift in customer service strategies for Fortune 500 companies. By consolidating these into a single AI-powered platform, companies can enable fluid transitions between modes such as voice, chat, and video within a single interaction.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

One of many important missions is to ensure that when you acquire and integrate a company, then you transition them to good foundational systems I started as a CIO but with cyber events happening at an increasingly alarming rate, I developed the cyber program. We are scaling through organic growth as well as through acquisitions.

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CIO

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Noting that companies pursued bold experiments in 2024 driven by generative AI and other emerging technologies, the research and advisory firm predicts a pivot to realizing value. Forrester Research this week unleashed a slate of predictions for 2025.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2024

When something goes wrong with an AI system or model, the approaches used to respond to problems caused by traditional software systems don’t work. A new playbook is required.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

In different countries and regions, power companies have different key challenges and service priorities. For example, line loss reduction is Africa’s biggest challenge while in Saudi Arabia, power companies are more concerned about power supply reliability.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Mutual fund company Fidelity has marked down its investment in X holdings — the parent company of X (formerly Twitter) owned by Elon Musk — by 71.5% from the original valuation of shares, according to a new disclosure. Fidelity spent $19.2 million to acquire a stake in X back in October 2022. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2023

On Friday, genetic testing company 23andMe announced that hackers accessed the personal data of 0.1% The company also said that by accessing those accounts, hackers were also able to access “a significant number of files containing profile information about other users’ ancestry.” of customers, or about 14,000 individuals.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Genetic testing company 23andMe announced on Friday that hackers accessed around 14,000 customer accounts in the company’s recent data breach. Securities and Exchange Commission published Friday, the company said that, based on its investigation into the incident, it had determined that hackers had accessed 0.1%

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Last Tuesday, Fidelity National Financial, or FNF, a real estate services company that bills itself as the “leading provider of title insurance and escrow services, and North America’s largest title insurance company,” announced that it had experienced a cyberattack.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The company has raised €385 million, or $415 million at today’s exchange rate — according to Bloomberg, it values the company at roughly $2 billion. French startup Mistral AI has officially closed its much anticipated Series A funding round. Mistral AI is also opening up its commercial platform today.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Adobe’s $20 billion mega-bid to buy rival Figma is now officially dead, after the companies said today that regulatory pushback in Europe had caused them to put an end to the acquisition plans.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Neuralink, the Elon Musk-founded company developing implantable chips that can read brain waves, has raised an additional $43 million in venture capital, according to a filing with the SEC.

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Henrik Warne

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

I was in contact with 30 companies, got a no from 8 companies, no reply from 6 companies, and offers from 3 companies. The times were getting tougher, and many companies had been laying off people during all of 2023. The times were getting tougher, and many companies had been laying off people during all of 2023.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Elon Musk is moving forward with his plans to turn the company formerly known as Twitter, now called X, into an “everything app” that includes its own payments system. The company in late November was granted three additional money transmitter licenses in the U.S. states of South Dakota (on Nov. 27), Kansas (on Nov.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Meta may have abandoned its efforts around live shopping on Facebook and Instagram, but the social networking company still believes in its apps’ potential as a shopping platform.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2024

An international law firm that works with companies affected by security incidents has experienced its own cyberattack that exposed the sensitive health information of hundreds of thousands of data breach victims.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Frontdesk, a startup that managed more than 1,000 furnished apartments across the United States, laid off its entire 200-person workforce Tuesday after attempts to raise more capital failed, TechCrunch exclusively learned from sources familiar with internal happenings at the company. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2024

In an email viewed by TechCrunch, OpenAI said that developers building GPTs will have to review the company’s updated usage policies and GPT brand guidelines to ensure that their GPTs are compliant […] © 2023 TechCrunch. OpenAI plans to launch a store for GPTs, custom apps based on its text-generating AI models (e.g.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Raphael Ouzan Contributor Share on X Raphael Ouzan is the founder and CEO of A.Team, a future-of-work company pioneering the world’s first AI-enabled team formation platform. A recent study from Randstad, the recruitment company, […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2024

The company was appropriately dramatic in a release issued this morning. Apple this morning confirmed that the Vision Pro will be available in the U.S. starting February 2. Pre-orders for the $3,500 spatial computing device open Friday January 19 at 5AM PT. The era of spatial computing has arrived,” said Tim Cook. All rights reserved.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Meta has silently updated its support pages to indicate that the company won’t let users on Instagram message their Facebook contacts anymore. The company, as pointed out by 9to5Google, said the feature will shut down mid-December — without specifying a date.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Amazon has purchased three Falcon 9 launches from SpaceX to support deployment of its Project Kuiper mega-constellation, the company said Friday. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Cisco announced this morning that it intends to acquire Isovalent, a cloud-native security and networking startup that should fit well with the company’s core networking and security strategy. The companies did not share the purchase price.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2024

Now, the company is committing to a time frame. Elon Musk has been detailing his vision for X’s, formerly Twitter’s, transformation into an “everything app,” including payments, creator tools, shopping and more, since acquiring the social network over a year ago. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2023

But like any newer technology, large companies tend to move cautiously. Some companies have actually been looking to cut back […] © 2023 TechCrunch. To hear the hype from vendors, you would think that enterprise buyers are all in when it comes to generative AI. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

As tech companies begin to monetize generative AI, the creators on whose work it is trained are asking for their fair share. But so far no one can agree on whether or how much artists should be paid. A recent open letter from the Authors Guild signed by more than 8,500 writers, including Margaret Atwood, […]

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has been caught running unlabeled ads in users’ Following feeds, TechCrunch has learned and was able to confirm firsthand.

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