Why Entrepreneurs Can’t Rely on Traditional Retirement Plans (And What to Do Instead)
As you build your business, you probably don’t think about retirement. It’s up to you to set your own course as an entrepreneur.
The Download: the rise of luxury car theft, and fighting antimicrobial resistance
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 curious case of the disappearing Lamborghinis Across the world, unsuspecting people are unwittingly becoming caught up in a new and growing type of organized criminal enterprise: vehicle transport fraud and theft. Crooks…
TechCrunch Mobility: Tesla’s ride-hailing gambit
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
Perplexity accused of scraping websites that explicitly blocked AI scraping
Internet giant Cloudflare says it detected Perplexity crawling and scraping websites, even after customers had added technical blocks telling Perplexity not to scrape their pages.
The Risky, Messy and Unstoppable Power of Saying ‘Yes’
Success doesn’t come from playing it safe. It comes from showing up, saying yes, and figuring it out as you go.
OpenAI says ChatGPT is on track to reach 700M weekly users
OpenAI’s consumer chatbot ChatGPT to hit a new milestone of 700M weekly users.
Elon Musk says he’s bringing back Vine’s archive
Elon Musk says the company will bring back Vine’s archive of videos back online.
These protocols will help AI agents navigate our messy lives
A growing number of companies are launching AI agents that can do things on your behalf—actions like sending an email, making a document, or editing a database. Initial reviews for these agents have been mixed at best, though, because they struggle to interact with all the different components of our digital lives. Part of the…
Grok Imagine, xAI’s new AI image and video generator, lets you make NSFW content
Elon Musk continues to position Grok as an unfiltered, boundary-pushing AI.
Lyft and China’s Baidu look to bring robotaxis to Europe next year
The companies want to launch the robotaxi services in Germany and the U.K. first, pending regulatory approval.
Google removes over 50 DEI groups from a list of groups it helps fund
Google removed the name of 58 DEI groups from its list, including the Latino Leadership Alliance and the ACLU of Illinois.