TechCrunch Mobility: Tesla takes a hit, tariff chaos begins, and one EV startup hits a milestone

Posted on April 4, 2025 by Techme101

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Over the 13 years reporting on Tesla and its CEO, Elon Musk, I have watched the rise, fall, near misses, and rise again of the company and […]

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How Kalshi helped prediction markets go mainstream

Posted on April 4, 2025 by Techme101

Kalshi is the largest prediction market in America, creating an entire trading economy around political, sports, and cultural events. To some, including several states, it’s an illegal effort that requires gambling licenses. To others, including some courts and members of the Trump administration, it’s just a new financial opportunity. In a conversation with TechCrunch’s Maxwell […]

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Trump’s tariff rates for other countries radically larger than World Trade data

Posted on April 4, 2025 by Techme101

A report suggests the trade-weighted average tariff rates in most countries are much different than the figures touted by the Trump administration.

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Affirm heads for second-worst week on record on tariff worries, Klarna delayed IPO

Posted on April 4, 2025 by Techme101

Affirm shares have plunged nearly 30% in two days, headed for their second-worst week ever, a decline made worse with the delayed IPO of rival Klarna.

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OpenAI’s models ‘memorized’ copyrighted content, new study suggests

Posted on April 4, 2025 by Techme101

A new study appears to lend credence to allegations that OpenAI trained at least some of its AI models on copyrighted content. OpenAI is embroiled in suits brought by authors, programmers, and other rights-holders who accuse the company of using their works — books, codebases, and so on — to develop its models without permission. […]

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AI has opened a new era in venture capital according to Forerunner Founder Kirsten Green

Posted on April 4, 2025 by Techme101

Forerunner has seen a number of high-profile successes, showing an ability to get ahead of consumer trends with investments in Oura, Chime, the Farmer’s Dog, and beyond in non-B2C companies. To get a sense of how that happened, and what’s next for Forerunner in the AI era, TechCrunch Editor in Chief Connie Loizos spoke with […]

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Trump extends TikTok deadline for the second time

Posted on April 4, 2025 by Techme101

President Donald Trump extended a deadline requiring China-based ByteDance to sell U.S. TikTok operations, marking second time Trump taken such an action.

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Mach CEO on building defense tech company in your 20s

Posted on April 4, 2025 by Techme101

Mach CEO Ethan Thornton has been building weapons systems of varying shapes and sizes since high school, but his ambitions have turned into a company that recently landed a contract with the U.S. military and a plan to develop cross-functional factories. TechCrunch’s Charles Rollet interviewed Thornton during the StrictlyVC 2025 event in San Francisco, exploring […]

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GitHub Copilot introduces new limits, charges for ‘premium’ AI models

Posted on April 4, 2025 by Techme101

GitHub Copilot, Microsoft-owned GitHub’s AI coding assistant, could soon become costlier for some users. On Friday, GitHub announced “premium requests” for GitHub Copilot, a new system that imposes rate limits when users switch to AI models other than the base model for tasks such as “agentic” coding and multi-file edits. While GitHub Copilot subscribers can […]

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Klarna, StubHub delay IPOs as Trump’s tariffs roil markets

Posted on April 4, 2025 by Techme101

Klarna and StubHub are delaying plans to go public after President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff announcement sent shockwaves through the U.S. markets.

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