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Duolingo ‘killed’ its mascot with a Cybertruck, and it’s going weirdly well Duolingo’s mascot, Duo the owl, is dead. Okay, Duo isn’t really dead (we think), but the language learning…
Elon Musk staffer created a DOGE AI assistant for making government “less dumb” A DOGE staffer created a custom AI chatbot that's supposed to help "eliminate" government waste. © 2024…
Apple purges apps without contact info from EU app store, as DSA deadline hits A change requiring app developers to disclose their address, phone number, and email information to consumers…
Safe Superintelligence, Ilya Sutskever’s AI startup, is reportedly close to raising roughly $1B Safe Superintelligence, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, could be close to…
Amazon, Microsoft, and Exxon want to make scandal-plagued carbon markets more trustworthy A task force, organized by the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank, is hoping to improve credibility of voluntary…
Thinking Machine Labs is ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s new startup Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati has announced her new startup. Unsurprisingly, it’s focused on AI. Called Thinking Machine Labs, the…
VC giant Insight Partners confirms January cyberattack The VC firm has $90 billion in assets under management and invested in several unicorn cybersecurity startups © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.…
Fintech fundraising is giving me 2021 flashbacks Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week we’re looking at some big valuation jumps, how Stripe is eyeing another shareholder sale, a colorful conversation…
Fiverr wants gig workers to offload some of their work to AI Gig marketplace Fiverr wants to let freelancers train AI on their bodies of work and use it to…
Facebook now only stores live videos for 30 days, will delete old broadcasts Facebook announced on Tuesday that live videos will now only be stored on the social network for…