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Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev has a lot to celebrate this holiday season. After a bumpy few years following Robinhood’s 2021 IPO — a period during which shares of the commission-free trading app plummeted by more than 90% after it abruptly restricted trading in some meme stocks —  the 12-year-old company was just declared Yahoo Finance’s […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

For several years now, technologists have rung alarm bells about the potential for advanced AI systems to cause catastrophic damage to the human race. But in 2024, those warning calls were drowned out by a practical and prosperous vision of generative AI promoted by the tech industry – a vision that also benefited their wallets. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Back in May, OpenAI said it was developing a tool to let creators specify how they want their works to be included in — or excluded from — its AI training data. But 7 months later, this feature has yet to see the light of day. Called Media Manager, the tool would “identify copyrighted text, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Every year I report on how some Google representatives are active within the SEO communities, offering SEO support and encouragement of sorts, to the SEO community. This year is no different and we have numerous Googlers and Microsoft Bing representatives active on New Years Eve and New Years Day (the day is not over) online and active in the SEO communities.... →

Accel has raised $650 million for its eighth India fund as the U.S. venture firm expands its investment strategy in the South Asian market. The new fund follows the firm’s seventh India fund secured in March 2022. Accel — which has backed companies including e-commerce group Flipkart, food delivery platform Swiggy and software group Freshworks […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Late Tuesday evening, a federal judge blocked tech lobbying group NetChoice’s challenge to California’s recently enacted law, SB 976, which prohibits companies from serving “addictive feeds” to minors. Beginning Wednesday, companies will be prohibited from providing an addictive feed to a California-based user they know to be a minor unless one of the minor’s parents […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Conservative activists claim X is censoring them for being critical of its owner, Elon Musk. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

When a company releases a new AI video generator, it’s not long before someone uses it to make a video of actor Will Smith eating spaghetti. It’s become something of a meme as well as a benchmark: Seeing whether a new video generator can realistically render Smith slurping down a bowl of noodles. Smith himself […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

TechCrunch’s Found podcast, which has brought listeners the stories behind the startups since April 2022, released its final episode today. I’ve been one of the hosts of Found since November 2022 and in that time have spoken to more than 75 founders about the startups they are building. These founders hail from many different backgrounds […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

A New York Times investigation found that dozens of potential pedophiles have prolifically exploited the child influencer industry. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Elon Musk had an eventful 2024, what with his hard push into right-wing politics and leveraging his X social media platform and considerable influence to help Donald Trump win the presidential election. Putting politics aside for a moment, it’s worth focusing on another Musk pastime: making promises for Tesla. The Tesla CEO’s promises — and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

On December 27, a Waymo robotaxi and a Serve Robotics sidewalk delivery robot collided at a Los Angeles intersection, according to a video that’s circulating on social media. The footage shows a Serve bot crossing a street in West Hollywood at night and trying to get onto the sidewalk. It reached the curb, backed up […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

One last mega-deal closed out an eventful 2024. On Tuesday, World Wide Technology (WWT), a tech services company based in St. Louis, announced it has agreed to acquire Canadian IT provider Softchoice in a deal that values the latter at C$1.8 billion (~$1.25 billion). The deal, which is all-cash, was unanimously approved by Softchoice’s board, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Ah, 2024: the year we debated how to pronounce “hawk tuah,” pondered the health benefits of eating rocks, and held space for a Broadway showstopper. It was a year when the discourse could feel shockingly pure and joyful — at least for a few minutes, before we all came tumbling back down to reality. Online […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Blaming victims, months of silence, and suing security researchers all featured in cybersecurity in 2024. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

Каждый год последние 20 с лишним лет я пишу последний пост года — и ощущаю себя немного президентом, особенно, когда текст правильно начинать с того, что год был непростой. Год был действительно не из простых и я не только про математику. Удивительно то, что именно таким он и прогнозировался и мы его всё же пережили. Впрочем, хочется, чтобы те, кто прогнозируют нам не менее тяжелый 2025-й, наконец уже ошиблись. Но было и интересно — особенно в области AI и технологий. Даже не припомню, когда мне до этого бы... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Why should New Years eve be any different...... →

Lumen says there is 'no evidence' that customer data was accessed during the intrusion © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

French food delivery startup Epicery will cease operations Tuesday, after one last holiday season hurrah for its clients and the local food businesses that were using the platform during its nine years in business in exchange for a 25% commission. In a message announcing the decision to customers earlier this month, Epicery’s team said that […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →

These simple cybersecurity resolutions can help keep your startup protected from most malicious hackers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.... →