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March 29, 2025 · 4 min · 700 words · Lauren Edwards

Sam Altman firing drama detailed in new book excerpt

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March 29, 2025 · 2 min · 345 words · Matthew Knight

Week in Review: Elon Musk’s xAI buys X

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March 29, 2025 · 5 min · 991 words · Julie Rodriguez

‘Tesla Takedown’ protesters are planning a global day of action on March 29, and things might get ugly

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March 29, 2025 · 6 min · 1203 words · Erin Mcguire

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March 28, 2025 · 4 min · 657 words · Kristen Moore

Breast pump startup Willow acquires assets of Elvie as UK women’s health pioneer moves into administration

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March 28, 2025 · 5 min · 894 words · Daniel Walsh

Fintech VC powerhouse Frank Rotman stepping down from QED Investors to found his own startups

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March 28, 2025 · 3 min · 539 words · Eric Lewis

Google rolls out user choice billing on Google Play in the UK

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March 28, 2025 · 3 min · 534 words · Nicole Burton

Krafton acquires controlling stake in Indian gaming studio Nautilus Mobile for $14M

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March 28, 2025 · 5 min · 1023 words · John Hendrix

Mozilla patches Firefox bug ‘exploited in the wild,’ similar to bug attacking Chrome

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March 28, 2025 · 2 min · 313 words · Melissa Glenn

OpenAI peels back ChatGPT’s safeguards around image creation

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March 28, 2025 · 5 min · 904 words · Samantha Peterson

Startups Weekly: Mercury more than doubled its valuation, and other news

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March 28, 2025 · 5 min · 914 words · Lori Schmidt

TechCrunch Mobility: Inside the Rivian skunkworks program, and Trump’s gift to Tesla

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March 28, 2025 · 5 min · 1024 words · Heidi Ross