January 16, 2025

The Download: what’s next for Neuralink, and Meta’s language translation AI

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. What to expect from Neuralink in 2025 In November, a young man named Noland Arbaugh announced he’d be livestreaming from his home for three days straight. His broadcast was in some ways typical…

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A rising EV startup star snags $100M and Tesla’s win-lose federal funding moment

January 16, 2025

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Before we move into the news of this week, we have one more roundup of transportation tech at CES 2025. As I noted last week, autonomous vehicle […]

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Instagram Threads won’t share a timeline for account portability

January 16, 2025

Will Instagram Threads truly integrate with the fediverse, also known as the open social web, to allow its users not only to interact with people on other services like Twitter alternative Mastodon but also to move their account elsewhere if they decide that Meta’s policies are no longer to their liking? Today that answer remains […]

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TikTok ban poised to be delayed as Trump explores ways to extend deadline

January 16, 2025

The U.S. ban on TikTok is poised to be delayed as the deadline falls on the MLK Day holiday weekend and President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration intends to find a way to extend the deadline, Bloomberg reports. Biden officials see the issue as one for Trump’s incoming administration, as the current administration doesn’t plan to intervene […]

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Your IPO Could Fail If You Don’t Follow These Communication Strategies

January 16, 2025
Effective communication strategies are key to ensuring a successful transition to the public market, especially as IPO activity surges. PR and marketing teams play a vital role in shaping a company’s narrative, managing media relations and building investor trust throughout the IPO process.

Goldman Sachs’ David Solomon tells startups to reconsider going public

January 16, 2025

Goldman Sachs is one of the biggest investment banker “book runners” for IPOs – where banks are paid many millions of dollars for each listing they underwrite. Yet CEO David Solomon told attendees of the Cisco AI Summit in Palo Alto that startups should reconsider the idea of going public, reports the Financial Times.  Solomon […]

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This MIT spinout wants to spool hair-thin fibers into patients’ brains

January 16, 2025

You can’t start a company without a healthy dose of daring, and that’s certainly the case with NeuroBionics. The MIT-spinout thinks it could one day improve the lives of millions of people who live with neurological conditions like depression, epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease.  Famed investor Steve Jurvetson of Future Ventures said that if everything goes […]

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