Waymo Is the Second Automated Driving Company in 2 Days to Face an Investigation
This week, Waymo announced it makes 50,000 paid robotaxi rides weekly.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits that AI’s benefits may not be widely distributed
In a new essay on his personal blog, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company is open to a “compute budget,” among other “strange-sounding” ideas, to “enable everyone on Earth to use a lot of AI” and ensure the benefits of the technology are widely distributed. “The historical impact of technological progress suggests that most […]
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Apple touts stopping $1.8BN in App Store fraud last year in latest pitch to developers
Apple released new data about anti-fraud measures related to its operation of the iOS App Store on Tuesday morning, trumpeting a claim that it stopped over $7 billion in “potentially fraudulent transactions” across the four years between 2020 and 2023. More than $1.8 billion of that total was stopped in 2023, per Apple, which is […]
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Expedia starts testing AI-powered features for search and travel planning
Online travel agency Expedia is testing an AI assistant that bolsters features like search, itinerary building, trip planning, and real-time travel updates.
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Inside TabaPay’s drama-filled decision to abandon its plans to buy Synapse’s assets
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we look at the drama around TabaPay deciding to not buy Synapse’s assets, as well as stocks dropping for a couple of fintechs, Monzo raising even more funds, and more! Sign up here to get Fintech in your inbox every Tuesday at 7 a.m. PT! The big story There was […]
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Threat actor scraped Dell support tickets, including customer phone numbers
The person who claimed to have stolen the physical addresses of 49 million Dell customers appears to have taken more data from a different Dell portal, TechCrunch has learned. The newly compromised data includes names, phone numbers and email addresses of Dell customers. This personal data is contained in customer “service reports,” which also include […]
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On Elon’s whim, X now treats ‘cisgender’ as a slur
If you write the words “cis” or “cisgender” on X, you might be served this full-screen message: “This post contains language that may be considered a slur by X and could be used in a harmful manner in violation of our rules,” the warning says. You can continue to publish the post or delete it. […]
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How to Combine Your Online Marketing Tacts With In-Person Marketing
Here’s how to combine offline and online marketing approaches for a better outcome for your business.
Meta is shutting down Workplace, its enterprise communications business
Facebook once had big ambitions to be a major player in enterprise communication and productivity, but today the social network’s parent company Meta will be closing a very significant chapter in that story. TechCrunch has learned that Meta is shuttering Workplace, a version of Facebook that had been built to enable communication among business teams […]
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Sources: Meta is shutting down Workplace, its enterprise communications business
Facebook once had big ambitions to be a major player in enterprise communication and productivity, but today the social network’s parent company Meta will be closing a very significant chapter in that story. TechCrunch has learned that Meta is shuttering Workplace, a version of Facebook that had been built to enable communication among business teams […]
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