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GrubMarket has acquired Good Eggs

More consolidation is taking place in the world of online food delivery. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that GrubMarket — the startup backed by Tiger Global, among others, that has quietly built a B2B empire in produce and grocery logistics … Continue reading

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UK’s Riverlane scores $75M to correct quantum errors

Quantum computing may still largely be in the theoretical domain, but the money that it’s attracting is very real. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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India’s EtherealX puts $5M seed toward fully reusable launch vehicles

Indian space-tech startup EtherealX aims to test its fully reusable medium-lift vehicle in 20. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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OpenAI co-founder John Schulman says he will leave and join rival Anthropic

Schulman said OpenAI executives remain committed to backing efforts to ensure that people can control highly capable artificial intelligence models.

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OpenAI co-founder leaves for Anthropic

John Schulman, one of the co-founders of OpenAI, has left the company for rival AI startup Anthropic. The news comes as The Information reports that OpenAI’s president, Greg Brockman, has taken an extended leave of absence and Peter Deng, a … Continue reading

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Google’s online search monopoly is illegal, US judge rules

The decision is a major blow to Alphabet, Google’s parent company, and could reshape how technology giants operate.

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Secretaries of state urge X to stop its Grok chatbot from spreading election misinformation

Grok — not to be confused with the homophonic AI startup Groq that this morning raised over $600 million — has been spreading false information about Vice President Kamala Harris on X, the social network formerly known as Twitter. That’s … Continue reading

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TIOBE Programming Language Index News (August 2024): Python Clinches Its ‘Hegemony’

Rust and Kotlin slowly approach the top 10 while Python becomes increasingly untouchable.

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Lucid pumps $1.5B from Saudi wealth fund after CEO warned relying on its ‘bottomless wealth’ was ‘dangerous’

Saudi Arabia is committing even more money to Lucid Motors as the EV startup struggles to erase its losses. Lucid announced Monday as part of its second-quarter earnings report that an affiliate of the Saudi sovereign wealth fund is committing … Continue reading

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Google loses massive antitrust case over search, will appeal ruling

Google will appeal a U.S. District Court judge’s opinion Monday that found the technology giant acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in online search. The decision from Judge Amit P. Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of … Continue reading

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