Venture capitalists continue to play musical chairs

Topics late AI Amazon Image Credits:Bryce Durbin / TechCrunch Apps Biotech & Health Climate Image Credits:Bryce Durbin / TechCrunch Cloud Computing mercantilism Crypto Enterprise EVs Fintech Fundraising Gadgets Gaming Google Government & Policy Hardware Instagram layoff Media & Entertainment Meta Microsoft Privacy Robotics Security Social infinite startup TikTok Transportation speculation More from TechCrunch Events Startup Battlefield StrictlyVC Podcasts telecasting Partner Content TechCrunch Brand Studio Crunchboard touch Us From Keith Rabois to Matt Miller , a quite a little of VCs have switched firms or spun out of celebrated VC psychiatric hospital this yr ....

December 23, 2024 · 2 min · 412 words · William Bridges

WhatsApp scores historic victory against NSO Group in long-running spyware hacking case

Topics in style AI Amazon Image Credits:Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto / Getty Images Apps Biotech & Health Climate Cloud Computing DoC Crypto Enterprise EVs Fintech Fundraising gadget game Google Government & Policy Hardware Instagram Layoffs Media & Entertainment Meta Microsoft seclusion Robotics security department societal Space startup TikTok Transportation Venture More from TechCrunch consequence Startup Battlefield StrictlyVC Podcasts Videos Partner Content TechCrunch Brand Studio Crunchboard Contact Us A U.S. jurist has rule that Israeli spyware maker NSO Group breached hacking police force by using WhatsApp to infect devices with its Pegasus spyware ....

December 23, 2024 · 3 min · 582 words · Tracy Allison

Yoast’s former CEO calls for a ‘federated’ approach to WordPress repository

Topics belated AI Amazon Image Credits:Bryce Durbin / TechCrunch Apps Biotech & Health Climate Cloud Computing Department of Commerce Crypto Enterprise EVs Fintech Fundraising convenience Gaming Google Government & Policy Hardware Instagram Layoffs Media & Entertainment Meta Microsoft Privacy Robotics Security Social Space startup TikTok Transportation Venture More from TechCrunch case Startup Battlefield StrictlyVC Podcasts Videos Partner Content TechCrunch Brand Studio Crunchboard meet Us Days after World Wide Web hosting provider WP Enginewon a preliminary injunction against WordPressco - Godhead Matt Mullenweg and rival hosting provider Automattic , Mullenweg announced thatWordPress....

December 23, 2024 · 4 min · 750 words · Francisco Garrett

OpenAI trained o1 and o3 to ‘think’ about its safety policy

Topics Latest AI Amazon Image Credits:Eugene Gologursky/The New York Times / Getty Images Apps Biotech & Health mood Image Credits:Eugene Gologursky/The New York Times / Getty Images Cloud Computing Commerce Crypto Graph measuring o1’s improved alignment compared to Claude, Gemini, and GPT-4o.Image Credits:OpenAI Enterprise EVs Fintech Example from OpenAI’s research on deliberative alignment.Image Credits:OpenAI Fundraising appliance punt Template OpenAI gave its internal reasoning model to generate synthetic data.Image Credits:OpenAI Google...

December 22, 2024 · 8 min · 1607 words · Claudia Rodriguez

Sriram Krishnan named Trump’s senior policy advisor for AI

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December 22, 2024 · 3 min · 578 words · Craig Solis

Tetsuwan Scientific is making robotic AI scientists that can run experiments on their own

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December 22, 2024 · 5 min · 881 words · Ryan Reyes

Trump says he wants to keep TikTok around ‘for a little while’

Topics late AI Amazon Image Credits:Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Apps Biotech & Health mood Cloud Computing Commerce Crypto Enterprise EVs Fintech fundraise Gadgets Gaming Google Government & Policy computer hardware Instagram Layoffs Media & Entertainment Meta Microsoft secrecy Robotics certificate Social distance startup TikTok Transportation speculation More from TechCrunch Events Startup Battlefield StrictlyVC Podcasts Videos Partner Content TechCrunch Brand Studio Crunchboard Contact Us With a U.S. TikTok ban scheduled to take effect in less than a calendar month , President - elect Donald Trump said Sunday that he ’d like to keep the app around , according to Reuters ....

December 22, 2024 · 2 min · 355 words · April Krueger

Google pushes back against DOJ’s ‘interventionist’ remedies in antitrust case

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December 21, 2024 · 3 min · 439 words · Teresa Ramos

Hollywood angels: Here are the celebrities who are also star VCs

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December 21, 2024 · 9 min · 1714 words · Loretta Coffey

If climate tech is dead, what comes next?

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December 21, 2024 · 4 min · 804 words · Debbie Watson

Meet Skyseed, a VC fund and incubator backing the Bluesky and AT Protocol ecosystem

Topics Latest AI Amazon Image Credits:Peter Wang Apps Biotech & Health Climate Peter Wang’s Bluesky post.Image Credits:Screenshot Cloud Computing Commerce Crypto Enterprise EVs Fintech fund raise Gadgets Gaming Google Government & Policy Hardware Instagram layoff Media & Entertainment Meta Microsoft privateness Robotics Security societal Space Startups TikTok transportation system Venture More from TechCrunch event Startup Battlefield StrictlyVC newssheet Podcasts Videos Partner Content TechCrunch Brand Studio Crunchboard meet Us On November 15 , Peter Wang posted amessagerequesting melodic theme for a new incubator and investment company to support experimental projects built on the burgeoningBluesky / AT Protocol ecosystem ....

December 21, 2024 · 12 min · 2377 words · Bryan Castaneda

OpenAI announces new o3 model — but you can’t use it yet

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December 21, 2024 · 6 min · 1148 words · Michael Tanner

OpenAI’s GPT-5 reportedly falling short of expectations

Topics Latest AI Amazon Image Credits:Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto / Getty Images Apps Biotech & Health Climate Cloud Computing Commerce Crypto Enterprise EVs Fintech fund-raise widget Gaming Google Government & Policy computer hardware Instagram layoff Media & Entertainment Meta Microsoft Privacy Robotics Security societal outer space Startups TikTok exile speculation More from TechCrunch Events Startup Battlefield StrictlyVC Podcasts television Partner Content TechCrunch Brand Studio Crunchboard Contact Us OpenAI ’s efforts to break its next major model , GPT-5 , are hunt behind docket , with consequence that do n’t yet justify the enormous monetary value , according toa new reportin The Wall Street Journal ....

December 21, 2024 · 2 min · 353 words · Justin Johnson