Historic spacecraft landing double-header from Varda, Intuitive Machines

February 26, 2024

Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. My stomach is still in knots from the Intuitive Machines landing livestream. I think it’s fair to say that the words of Tim Crain, Intuitive Machines’ CTO, will go down in history: “We’re not dead yet.” Very metal. Want to reach out with a tip? Email Aria at […]

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Artificial Intelligence’s Impact on Stock Market

February 26, 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a significant force behind the impressive gains witnessed in the stock market over the past year. This revolutionary technology has made its mark across…

Reddit users wonder if the next big meme stock is Reddit itself

February 26, 2024

Jeremiah Johnson says he has “an embarrassing amount” of Reddit karma. So, as a longtime moderator of subreddits like r/economics, he was part of a select group of power users who were granted first dibs to buy stock in Reddit as the company prepares to go public. “You would never see Instagram doing something like […]

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QIA to invest $1 billion in international and regional venture capital funds

February 26, 2024

The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) is launching a $1 billion venture capital (VC) fund of funds for international and regional venture capital funds, the sovereign wealth fund announced on Monday. The program, according to QIA, seeks to attract international VC funds and startups to Qatar and the wider Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, with a […]

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Feds hack LockBit, LockBit springs back. Now what?

February 26, 2024

Days after it was knocked offline by a sweeping, years-in-the-making law enforcement operation, the notorious Russia-based LockBit ransomware group has returned to the dark web with a new leak site complete with a number of new victims. In a verbose, borderline-rambling statement published Saturday, the remaining LockBit administrator blamed its own negligence for last week’s […]

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Former Twitter engineers are building Particle, an AI-powered news reader

February 26, 2024

A team led by former Twitter engineers is rethinking how AI can be used to help people process news and information. Particle.news, which entered into private beta over the weekend, is a new startup offering a personalized, “multi-perspective” news reading experience that not only leverages AI to summarize the news, but aims to do so […]

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Ransomware attack blamed for Change Healthcare outage stalling US prescriptions

February 26, 2024

An ongoing cyberattack at U.S. health tech giant Change Healthcare that sparked outages and disruption to hospitals and pharmacies across the U.S. for the past week was caused by ransomware, TechCrunch has learned. A healthcare executive with knowledge of the incident, who was on the call briefed by the company’s executives, said the healthcare tech […]

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