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CrowdStrike shares plunge 11% to lowest level of the year on report that Delta may seek damages

CrowdStrike shares fell after CNBC reported on Monday that Delta hired an attorney to seek compensation following the July 19 global IT outage.

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Meta will pay Texas $1.4B in settlement over facial recognition software

Meta agrees to pay the state of Texas $1.4 billion over five years, and the first payment of $500 million is due in the next month, according to a court filing. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use … Continue reading

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Airtable acquihires onboarding startup Dopt for AI talent

Airtable today announced that it has acquired Dopt, a startup focused on helping other startups build product onboarding experiences for new users. Earlier this year, Dopt introduced a number of features that helped users add AI-based assistance tools to their … Continue reading

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Perplexity AI will share revenue with publishers after plagiarism accusations

Perplexity AI on Tuesday debuted a revenue-sharing model for publishers after more than a month of plagiarism accusations.

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Friend’s $99 necklace uses AI to help combat loneliness

AI hardware is all the rage in startup land — though receptions have thus far been mixed. Two notable examples, Rabbit and Humane, released devices to disappointing results. a16z-backed Limitless and Exor-backed Bee AI, meanwhile, are working on their own … Continue reading

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Hey, there ARE Growth funds in Europe — Kennet raises $287M for its largest fund to date

Europe is routinely castigated by tech industry observers for having too little ‘growth capital’ funds, and, compared to the US, that’s true. That said, it is nowhere near non-existent on this front. To wit: Growth equity investor Kennet has just … Continue reading

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Federal regulator says Amazon can be held responsible for faulty goods sold on its marketplace

A judge said Amazon’s fulfillment program for sellers give it “far-reaching control” over the products sold on its platform.

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How the Kids Online Safety Act Was Dragged Into a Political War

The Senate was set to pass the Kids Online Safety Act on Tuesday, but the legislation faces an uphill battle in the House because of censorship concerns.

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Microsoft apologises after thousands report new outage

Microsoft said it was looking at a ‘network infrastructure’ issue impacting its services.

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HealthEquity data breach affects 4.3 million people

HealthEquity said the March data breach included personal information and protected health data on millions of people. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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