Eric Baker’s long, winding road to taking StubHub public
Although StubHub’s shares fell 6% in first day of trading, the IPO is testament to the co-founder’s 25-year effort.
The Download: AI’s impact on the economy, and DeepSeek strikes again
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The State of AI: Welcome to the economic singularity —David Rotman and Richard Waters Any far-reaching new technology is always uneven in its adoption, but few have been more uneven than generative AI.…
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Airbnb’s CEO Is ‘Not Happy’ With One Aspect of His Company. Here’s How He Plans to Fix It.
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky wants the company to grow faster.
Irregular raises $80 million to secure frontier AI models
Irregular, the AI security startup, now has a valuation of $450 million, a source close to the deal told TechCrunch.
Tesla is redesigning its door handles following safety probe, Bloomberg investigation
Chief designer Franz von Holzhausen said Wednesday that the company is “working on” combining the electronic and manual door releases after owners have reported getting trapped.
‘Don’t Be Too Nice’: Here’s How to Run the Perfect Video Call, According to Zoom’s CEO
Even the CEO of Zoom thinks video meetings can be improved.
Amazon’s CEO Wants His 1.5 Million Person Company to ‘Operate Like the World’s Largest Startup.’ Here’s How He Plans to Do It.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says the company will be able to innovate faster without layers of middle management.
Kleiner Perkins-backed voice AI startup Keplar aims to replace traditional market research
The two-year-old startup raised a $3.2 million seed round led by Kleiner Perkins.
Meet Macroscope: an AI tool for understanding your code base, fixing bugs
On Wednesday, former Twitter head of product Kayvon Beykpour announced the launch of Macroscope, an AI system aimed at developers and product leaders that summarizes updates to a codebase and catches bugs, among other things.
China tells its tech companies they can’t buy AI chips from Nivida
After strongly discouraging tech companies from buying Nivdia’s AI chips in August, the country is now banning the practice outright.
AI Is Quietly Writing Your Résumé — and One Tool Could Misrepresent Your Reputation if You Don’t Take Control
AI assistants like Microsoft Copilot are already rewriting your professional reputation — here’s how to take control of your “AI Résumé” before it costs you opportunities.