July 26, 2024

Controversial CRISPR scientist promises “no more gene-edited babies” until society comes around

He Jiankui, the Chinese biophysicist whose controversial 2018 experiment led to the birth of three gene-edited children, says he’s returned to work on the concept of altering the DNA of people at conception, but with a difference.  This time around, he says, he will restrict his research to animals and nonviable human embryos. He will…

November 2022

SBF claims massive ignorance on obvious conflicts in FTX downfall

November 30, 2022

“I didn’t ever try to commit fraud on anyone, I was shocked by what happened this month,” Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the founder and former chief executive of the fallen FTX, said at the New York Times’ annual DealBook summit in an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin. One of the biggest questions around this debacle is […]

SBF claims massive ignorance on obvious conflicts in FTX downfall by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

Stability AI doubles down on AWS

November 30, 2022

Microsoft may have long had OpenAI as its trusty partner (after its sizable investment), but AWS today announced that Stability AI, one of the hottest new upstarts in the generative AI space and the company behind Stable Diffusion, is doubling down on its cloud, making it its “preferred cloud provider to build and scale its […]

Stability AI doubles down on AWS by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Musk at Twitter has ‘huge work’ ahead to comply with EU rules, warns bloc

November 30, 2022

European Union regulators have fired another warning shot at Elon Musk over his erratic piloting of Twitter since his takeover last month — saying he has “huge work” ahead if the social media site is to avoid falling foul of major new governance rules for digital services which entered into force earlier this month. Reminder: […]

Musk at Twitter has ‘huge work’ ahead to comply with EU rules, warns bloc by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

YouTube acknowledges its iOS app is crashing, says it’s working on a fix

November 30, 2022

YouTube’s mobile app on iOS devices is currently down for some users. The crashes began on Wednesday afternoon as thousands of iOS users reported the app would close shortly after opening it. Users also reported seeing a message on the app that said, “A serious error occurred.” TechCrunch tried to replicate the problem and experienced […]

YouTube acknowledges its iOS app is crashing, says it’s working on a fix by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch

StartupOS launches what it hopes will be the operating system for early-stage startups

November 30, 2022

Running a startup can be a chaotic time; a million things need to be built, done, tracked, analyzed, considered, reported and validated. Keeping an overview of it all can be hard, and there’s always a threat of something (maybe something important?!) slipping through the cracks. StartupOS today launched a platform to bring some sanity to […]

StartupOS launches what it hopes will be the operating system for early-stage startups by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch