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• Those ‘Founder mode’ memes keep coming [551d]
• Andreessen Horowitz shutters its Miami office after two years [551d]
• Boeing and NASA prepare to bring Starliner home without its crew on Friday [551d]
• Facebook says, ‘How do you do, fellow kids?’ [551d]
• E-bike maker Cowboy raises a small funding round as it targets profitability next year [551d]
• Paylocity acquiring corporate spend startup Airbase for $325M [551d]
• Publishers prevail in lawsuit over Internet Archive’s ’emergency’ e-book lending [551d]
• Ryan Breslow’s lofty $450M Bolt deal is in trouble [551d]
• Short series app My Drama takes on Character.AI with its new AI companions [551d]
• Woman who allegedly killed two people using Ford BlueCruise charged with DUI homicide [552d]
• X is hiring staff for security and safety after two years of layoffs [552d]
• This Week in AI: VCs (and devs) are enthusiastic about AI coding tools [552d]
• The Cosmos Institute, whose founding fellows include Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark, launches grant programs and an AI lab [552d]
• As remote working keeps rolling, Oyster raises $59M Series D at $1.2B valuation [552d]
• TechCrunch Minute: X lost 40 million monthly active users after Brazil ban [552d]
• Tinder update targets college students as dating apps struggle [552d]
• YouTube debuts new parental controls aimed at teens [552d]
• Ireland’s privacy watchdog ends legal fight with X over data use for AI after it agrees to permanent limits [552d]
• X doubles down on video with a new TV app [552d]
• Apple event 2024: How to watch the iPhone 16 launch [552d]
• Watch this robotic wheelchair’s compliant wheels take on bumps, rocks and stairs [552d]
• Slauson & Co. raises $100M Fund II proving appetite for inclusion persists [552d]
• Students and recent grads: Only 3 days left to save on TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 Student Passes [552d]
• Anthropic launches Claude Enterprise plan to compete with OpenAI [552d]
• Mayfield allocates $100M to AI incubator modeled after its entrepreneur-in-residence program [552d]
• Ilya Sutskever’s startup, Safe Superintelligence, raises $1B [552d]
• Revefi seeks to automate companies’ data operations [552d]
• Dutch clean energy investor SET Ventures lands new €200 million fund, which will go toward digital tech [552d]
• DubClub wants amateur sports betters to win more [552d]
• You.com ‘refocuses’ from AI search to deeper productivity agents with new $50M round [552d]