Only 3 days left to save $300+ on investor and founder tickets for TechCrunch All Stage

Posted on March 29, 2025 by Techme101

The final countdown is here! This is your last weekend to lock in Early Bird pricing for TechCrunch All Stage founder and investor tickets. Save up to $320 before the clock strikes 11:59 p.m. PT on March 31. Founders, charge ahead. Investors, power the mission! On July 15 at SoWa Power Station in Boston, 1,200 […]

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Amateur photographers hope to fix Wikipedia’s ‘terrible’ pictures

Posted on March 29, 2025 by Techme101

The site is littered with awful photos, particularly of celebrities – but a volunteer project is trying to fix that.

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Center Parcs removes X account from website after fake account set up

Posted on March 29, 2025 by Techme101

An IT consultant took charge of the Center Parcs UK’s handle after the firm deactivated its account.

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Elon Musk must face Twitter shareholders’ lawsuit over alleged securities fraud

Posted on March 29, 2025 by Techme101

A proposed class-action lawsuit against Elon Musk and his family office Excession can proceed in federal court, a judge ruled Friday.

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Javice found guilty of defrauding JPMorgan in $175M startup purchase

Posted on March 29, 2025 by Techme101

Charlie Javice, the founder of student loan application startup Frank that was purchased by JPMorgan for $175 million, was found guilty on Friday of defrauding the bank by greatly inflating the customer count. After a five-week trial, the jury found Javice guilty, agreeing with prosecutors’ claims that she fabricated the vast majority of Frank’s customer […]

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Elon Musk Says He Has Sold X to His A.I. Start-Up xAI

Posted on March 29, 2025 by Techme101

The deal combined two of Mr. Musk’s companies, which have been on different trajectories. The transaction valued xAI at $80 billion and X at $30 billion, the billionaire said.

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Blackstone Considers Small Investment in TikTok

Posted on March 29, 2025 by Techme101

The private equity giant is considering investing as the video app works to follow a law that requires it to separate from its Chinese owner, ByteDance, by next week.

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Elon Musk’s xAI Acquires X, Because of Course

Posted on March 28, 2025 by Techme101

Social platform X struggled after Elon Musk took over, but its fortunes improved dramatically after US President Donald Trump won reelection. Now it will be become part of Musk’s AI startup xAI.

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Elon Musk says xAI has acquired X in deal that values social media site at $33 billion

Posted on March 28, 2025 by Techme101

In a social media post on Friday, Elon Musk said his startup xAI has acquired his social media company X.

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OpenAI Agents Now Support Rival Anthropic’s Protocol, Making Data Access ‘Simpler, More Reliable’

Posted on March 28, 2025 by Techme101

Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol is effectively a universal language that can be used to develop two-way connections between a wide range of AI models and third-party data sources.

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