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Quantum computing may still largely be in the theoretical domain, but the money that it’s attracting is very real.
Indian space-tech startup EtherealX aims to test its fully reusable medium-lift vehicle in 20.
John Schulman, one of the co-founders of OpenAI, has left the company for rival AI startup Anthropic. In addition, OpenAI president and co-founder Greg Brockman is taking an extended leave…
Grok — not to be confused with the homophonic AI startup Groq that this morning raised over $600 million — has been spreading false information about Vice President Kamala Harris…
Transportation
Lucid pumps $1.5B from Saudi wealth fund after CEO warned relying on its ‘bottomless wealth’ was ‘dangerous’
Saudi Arabia is committing even more money to Lucid Motors as the EV startup struggles to erase its losses. Lucid announced Monday as part of its second-quarter earnings report that…
Listen, I’m tired of talking about Boeing’s Starliner, too, but the spacecraft still isn’t home and questions are mounting about NASA’s transparency.
Google will appeal a U.S. District Court judge’s opinion Monday that found the technology giant acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in online search. The decision from Judge Amit P.…
Last year, OpenAI held a splashy press event in San Francisco during which the company announced a bevy of new products and tools, including the ill-fated App Store-like GPT Store.…
Muon Space closed a new tranche of funding for its space-as-a-service business.
We’re so excited to announce that we’ve added a dedicated AI Stage presented by Google Cloud to TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. It joins Fintech, SaaS and Space as the other industry-focused…
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A startup developing AI market research based on location data, and backed by a who’s who, has quietly raised, TechCrunch has learned.
Safari’s newest feature, Distraction Control, can remove distracting elements from a website. The feature follows Arc Browser’s addition of Boosts last year, which similarly lets users remove features from a…
By collecting this data, OpenAI “profited significantly” from the creators’ work, the complaint alleges.
For once, the iPad was the highlight of Apple’s latest sales numbers. The company said in its third-quarter earnings report that iPad sales increased year-over-year,…
India’s fast-growing quick commerce market is getting a new deep-pocketed entrant: Walmart-owned Flipkart, India’s largest e-commerce firm. Flipkart has started to roll out Flipkart Minutes, its quick commerce service, in…
The list includes Elon Musk’s xAI, which is already valued at a staggering $24 billion, as well as a good number of other AI startups.
When a company is the size of Amazon, a lot of bad actors will come after it and its customers, which makes defending the network a monster job. Over the…
Social
TikTok Lite: EU closes addictive design case after TikTok commits to not bring back rewards mechanism
The European Commission has closed a Digital Services Act (DSA) investigation of a rewards feature in TikTok Lite by accepting commitments from the social media giant to permanently withdraw the…
Groq, a startup developing chips to run generative AI models faster than conventional processors, said on Monday that it has raised $640 million in a new funding round led by…
COVID-19 pushed people to take up outdoor activities. Now, startups are helping companies and consumers keep up with demand.
