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Chris Wright has been a big booster of oil and gas, but he's also no stranger to climate tech. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Xiaodi Hou, the co-founder and former CEO of self-driving trucking startup TuSimple, has urged a California district court to issue a temporary restraining order to stop the company from transferring its remaining U.S. assets to China, according to a recent court filing. Hou, who plans to apply for a temporary restraining order in December during […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Decentralized social network Mastodon is also seeing some uplift from the X “exodus,” founder Eugen Rochko shared on the platform just ahead of the weekend. While the Twitter-like startup Bluesky has been capturing headlines and attention for its rapid adoption among former X users, a smaller group has apparently turned to the open source networking […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Jessica Owens and Iana Dimkova, co-founders of Initiate Ventures, are launching their new healthcare/ life sciences-focused firm with a respectable $45 million debut fund. One of the ways they convinced limited partners to become investors is because they are building a combination early-stage and incubation firm. So not only will they invest in early-stage startups […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Marc Benioff famously got into tech as a child coder writing games. He’s always loved tech gadgets. During an episode of TechCrunch’s Equity, when asked about his latest gadgets, he showed off his Oura ring. But then he considered and said that his favorite gadget these days is his car. “I think my car is […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

We’ve seen AI chatbots in religious apps before, but a chapel in Lucerne, Switzerland has gone further — putting artificial intelligence inside a confessional. DW’s report shows the “AI Jesus” in action dispensing machine-generated spiritual advice via an avatar visible inside the wooden enclosure. Parishioners sitting on the other side interact with the AI by […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Partiful, the New York-based event-planning app that’s taking on older solutions like Evite, Eventbrite, and Facebook Events, has been named Google’s app of the year, the tech giant announced on Monday as part of its “best apps and games of 2024” list. The list also highlighted the top game, AFK Journey, alongside other category winners […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

As college tuition increases and the student loan debt crisis continues, three former executives from language learning app Duolingo are building a new startup aimed at making college education more affordable and accessible. The company, tentatively named Outsmart Education (the name is not final yet), is headed by co-founders Daniel Falabella (CPO), former senior director […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Google is committing $20 million in cash and $2 million in cloud credits to a new funding initiative designed to help scientists and researchers unearth the next great scientific breakthroughs using artificial intelligence (AI). The announcement, made by Google DeepMind co-founder and CEO Demis Hassabis during a fireside chat at the closed-door AI for Science […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

AI-powered search engine Perplexity is venturing into e-commerce. On Monday, the company debuted a new shopping feature for its paid customers in the U.S. which offers shopping recommendations within Perplexity’s search results as well as the ability to place an order without going to a retailer’s website. With the move, Perplexity is taking on Google […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

San Francisco’s mayor-elect, Daniel Lurie, has tapped OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to help run his transition team, the campaign announced on Monday, as part of the administration’s effort to embrace the tech industry. Altman, alongside nine other San Francisco leaders, will provide guidance to Lurie’s team on ways the city can innovate, and help the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

ElevenLabs, a startup that provides AI voice cloning and a text-to-speech API, launched the ability to build conversational AI bots on Monday. The company announced that users can now build complete conversational agents on ElevenLabs’ developer platform, with customizable variables such as tone of voice and response length. ElevenLabs has mostly worked on providing different […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Jen Easterly, the director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), will depart the government agency after more than three years at the helm. Both Easterly and the agency’s deputy director Nitin Natarajan will depart CISA on January 20 as the new Trump administration begins, according to NextGov, which first reported the departures, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

French AI startup Mistral has released a slew of updates to its product portfolio as it looks to remain competitive in the cutthroat AI space. Mistral’s Le Chat chatbot platform can now search the web — with citations in line, a la OpenAI’s ChatGPT. It’s also gained a “canvas” tool along the lines of ChatGPT […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

India’s competition watchdog has fined Meta $25.4 million for antitrust violations related to WhatsApp’s controversial 2021 privacy policy. The Competition Commission of India also issued cease-and-desist orders against Meta and its messaging subsidiary WhatsApp, alongside mandating behavioral remedies. The ruling follows the regulator’s 2021 investigation into WhatsApp’s “take-it-or-leave-it” privacy terms, which sparked concerns over data […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

If a software product is successful enough, you’ll probably be able to find a company building an open source alternative. And yet, nobody has created a modern open source CRM product that can be considered as a serious competitor to Salesforce. That’s exactly what Twenty is trying to achieve. For the past couple of years, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

The US-based firm said hackers misdirected a $250,000 wire transfer payment that it hasn't been able to recover. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

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Beyoncé is headed to Netflix. The singer will perform live during the halftime show during the Houston Texans vs. Baltimore Ravens Christmas Day game, which is set to be streamed on the as part of its newly minuted three-year deal with the NFL.  “Your early Christmas wish has been granted as Beyoncé will perform during Netflix’s […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →