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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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Muon Space closes $56M to scale all-in-one satellite platform

Muon Space closed a new tranche of funding for its space-as-a-service business. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Google loses massive antitrust case over search

Google has suffered a major court defeat in the U.S. that could alter the way it does business, should the decision stand. Judge Amit P. Mehta of U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, ruling in a case brought … Continue reading

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Announcing the agenda for the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

We’re so excited to announce that we’ve added a dedicated AI Stage presented by Google Cloud to TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. It joins Fintech, SaaS and Space as the other industry-focused stages — all under one big roof. We couldn’t possibly … Continue reading

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Placer.ai boosts valuation to $1.5B after quietly raising another $75M

A startup developing AI market research based on location data, and backed by a who’s who, has quietly raised, TechCrunch has learned. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Apple’s new Safari feature removes distracting items from websites

Safari’s newest feature, Distraction Control, can remove distracting elements from a website. The feature follows Browser Company’s Arc Browse’s addition of Boosts last year, which similarly lets users remove features from a site and further customize its appearance. Apple is … Continue reading

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YouTuber files class action suit over OpenAI’s scrape of creators’ transcripts

A YouTube creator is seeking to bring a class action lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that the company trained its generative AI models on millions of transcripts from YouTube videos without notifying — or compensating — the videos’ owners. In a … Continue reading

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TechCrunch Minute: The iPad was the surprising star of Apple’s sales numbers

For once, the iPad was the highlight of Apple’s latest sales numbers. The company said in its third quarter earnings report that iPad sales increased year-over-year, from $5.8 billion to $7.2 billion. The reason for that growth is probably new … Continue reading

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Flipkart blitzes into India’s 10-minute quick commerce battle

India’s fast-growing quick commerce market is getting a new deeply-pocketed entrant: Walmart-owned Flipkart, India’s largest e-commerce firm. Flipkart has started to roll out Flipkart Minutes, its quick commerce service, in parts of Bengaluru. The new service offers customers the ability … Continue reading

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