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DOJ tells Google to sell Chrome

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re exploring the DOJ telling Google to sell off Chrome to break up its monopoly, OpenAI accidentally deleting potential evidence in The New York Times’ copyright lawsuit against it, and how AI … Continue reading

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Tesla says it has reached a ‘conditional’ settlement in Rivian trade secrets lawsuit

Tesla and Rivian may have resolved a lawsuit in which Tesla accused Rivian of poaching employees and stealing trade secrets. Bloomberg reports that Tesla told a California statement judge that the companies have reached a “conditional” settlement, and that it … Continue reading

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The rise and fall of the ‘Scattered Spider’ hackers

The prolific hacking group broke into Caesars Entertainment, Coinbase, DoorDash, Mailchimp, Riot Games, Twilio (twice), and dozens more.  © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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How tech bros bought ‘America’s most pro-crypto Congress ever’

Crypto showed up in force this election cycle, raising tens of millions to vote out the industry’s critics and vote in its friends.

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Trump’s tariff threats don’t scare this Mexican fintech

Mexico’s economic development — turbocharged by the amount of nearshoring in recent years — has made it fertile ground for startups. But the trend is under threat if President-elect Donald Trump follows through with his idea of taking a harder … Continue reading

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Microsoft is finally testing its Recall photographic memory search feature. It’s not perfect

Microsoft on Friday finally started letting people test Recall, a so-called photographic memory search feature for the latest Copilot+ PCs. It’s not perfect.

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Meet three incoming EU lawmakers in charge of key tech policy areas

The European Union looks to have clinched political agreement on the team of 26 commissioners who will be implementing President Ursula von der Leyen’s policy plan for the next five years. A final vote is still pending next week, but … Continue reading

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Conservationists turn to AI in battle to save red squirrels

The tech is being used to automatically control the creatures’ access to feeders at sites across the UK.

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OpenAI accidentally deleted potential evidence in NY Times copyright lawsuit (updated)

Lawyers for The New York Times and Daily News, which are suing OpenAI for allegedly scraping their works to train its AI models without permission, say OpenAI engineers accidentally deleted data potentially relevant to the case. Earlier this fall, OpenAI … Continue reading

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Sequoia marks up its 2020 fund by 25%

Sequoia says no exits, no problem. The Silicon Valley titan of venture marked up the value of its 2020 Sequoia Capital U.S. Venture XVII fund by 24.6% in June, at the end of a 12-month period, according to PitchBook, which … Continue reading

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