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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JANUARY 15, 2025

CIOs worried about where the money for new AI initiatives will come from may have some help on the way, with some companies apparently selling off non-core assets to pay for new AI projects. AI is both a huge potential gamechanger for many companies and a huge expense to get right, he says.

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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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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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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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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 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

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

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

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

More than two million people across the United States will receive notice that their personal and sensitive health information was stolen earlier this year during a cyberattack at Postmeds, the parent company of online pharmacy startup Truepill. 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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Why is it that so many companies that rely on monetizing the data of their users seem to be extremely hot on AI? If you ask Signal president Meredith Whittaker (and I did), she’ll tell you it’s simply because “AI is a surveillance technology.”

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Beeper, the startup that reverse engineered iMessage to bring blue bubble texts to Android users, is experiencing an outage, the company reported via a post on X on Friday. Was it too good to be true? And Apple is to blame, it seems. Users, including those of us at TechCrunch with access to the app, […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

In a post on X, Musk said in an upcoming update, the company will overlay the title in the upper portion of the image of a URL Card. Elon Musk said that X, formerly Twitter, will start showing headlines in preview cards with URLs on the platform again after removing titles last month. He didn’t […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

OpenAI is in discussions to possibly sell shares in a move that would boost the company’s valuation from $29 billion to somewhere between $80 billion and $90 billion, according to a Wall Street Journal report citing people familiar with the talks.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Apple said it will no longer give over records of users’ push notifications to law enforcement unless the company receives a valid judge’s order.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Google’s new Gemini AI model is getting a mixed reception after its big debut yesterday, but users may have less confidence in the company’s tech or integrity after finding out that the most impressive demo of Gemini was pretty much faked.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Elon Musk is looking to raise 1/44 of a Twitter for his AI company, xAI. In other words, the man behind Tesla, SpaceX and X is seeking $1 billion in funding for his next venture. According to an SEC filing, Musk has raised about $135 million so far from four unnamed investors, with the first sale …

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