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A California Senator is urging the state’s Labor and Workforce Development Agency to conduct an investigation into the business practices of fintech turned HR startup Deel. Last week, Senator Steve Padilla (D-San Diego) sent a letter to Stewart Knox, California Secretary of Labor, alleging that Deel has hired hundreds of employees but classified them as […]

Deel under fire for alleged questionable hiring practices, advice to other companies by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch

Threads, Meta’s new social networking platform, is quickly gaining ground in China where Western social apps from Instagram to Facebook are banned. As of Thursday morning Pacific Time, the Twitter clone introduced by Instagram ranked fifth in the social networking category of Apple’s China App Store, just a day after launching. That’s despite the fact […]

Threads app hits Top 5 on Apple’s China App Store despite ban by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch

OpenAI today announced the general availability of GPT-4, its latest text-generating model, through its paid API. Starting this afternoon, all existing OpenAI API developers “with a history of successful payments” can access GPT-4. The company plans to open up access to new developers by the end of this month, and then start raising availability limits […]

OpenAI makes GPT-4 generally available by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Amazon revealed Thursday a preview of new deals that will be offered next week during its annual Prime Day event, including an exclusive healthcare deal through One Medical, the primary care tech provider that the e-commerce giant acquired earlier this year. This is the first time that Amazon has added discounted healthcare to its selection […]

Amazon adds discounted healthcare to Prime Day deals by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch

Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over its new Threads app less than 24 hours after it launched, as first reported by Semafor. The Elon Musk-owned company is accusing Meta of poaching former Twitter employees to create the new platform. Threads, which is a text-based platform that is similar to Twitter, has already passed 30 […]

Twitter threatens to sue Meta over its new Threads app by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch