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Techstars increases startup funding to $220,000, mirroring YC structure Techstars, a nearly 20-year-old startup accelerator, announced new terms for startups that enter its three-month program. The organization will now invest…

OpenAI’s new reasoning AI models hallucinate more OpenAI’s recently launched o3 and o4-mini AI models are state-of-the-art in many respects. However, the new models still hallucinate, or make things up…

Bluesky may soon add blue check verification Bluesky may soon get a new blue checkmark verification system, according to changes to the app’s public GitHub repository spotted Friday by reverse…

TechCrunch Mobility: Lyft buys its way into Europe, Kodiak SPACs, and how China’s new ADAS rules might affect Tesla Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news…

White House replaces covid.gov website with ‘lab leak’ theory The government-run website covid.gov used to host information about COVID-19 vaccines, testing, and treatment. Now, under President Trump’s purview, the page…

ChatGPT is referring to users by their names unprompted, and some find it ‘creepy’ Some ChatGPT users have noticed a strange phenomenon recently: Occasionally, the chatbot refers to them by…

Startups Weekly: Mixed messages from venture capital Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox…

TikToker sues Roblox over her Charli XCX ‘Apple’ dance TikTok content creator Kelley Heyer sued the video game Roblox for using her dance to Charli XCX’s “Apple” without permission. Heyer…

ChatGPT will now use its ‘memory’ to personalize web searches OpenAI is upgrading ChatGPT’s “memory” again. In a changelog and support pages on OpenAI’s website Thursday, the company quietly announced…

Trump EPA targets two-man geoengineering startup for ‘polluting the air’ The company sells “cooling credits” for its sulfur dioxide-based geoengineering projects. The company sells “cooling credits” for its sulfur dioxide-based…