Mahbod Moghadam, who rose to fame as the co-founder of Genius, has died
Mahbod Moghadam, the controversial, never-boring co-founder of Genius and Everipedia, as well as an angel investor, passed away last month at age 41 owing to “complications from a recurring brain tumor,” according to a post attributed to his family and published on Genius. The startup world appears to have caught
Read moreCanoo reveals it paid for CEO’s jet, AT&T leaks records and X announces NSFW plans
Heya, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter recapping the noteworthy happenings in tech over the past several days (and change). Famed startup accelerator Y Combinator had its Demo Days, and the venture desk took it all in with an appropriately skeptical eye. You can read their day
Read moreWhen it comes to building startups in Boston, success begets success
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Read moreDeal Dive: EarliTec Diagnostics raises $21.5M to help diagnose autism earlier
EarliTec's FDA-authorized device helps clinicians diagnose children showing signs of autism as young as 16 months old. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read morePrice of zero-day exploits rises as companies harden products against hackers
Tools that allow government hackers to break into iPhones and Android phones, popular software like the Chrome and Safari browsers, and chat apps like WhatsApp and iMessage, are now worth millions of dollars — and their price has multiplied in the last few years as these products get harder to
Read moreWhat we’ve learned from the women behind the AI revolution
The AI boom, love it or find it to be a bit more hype than substance, is here to stay. That means lots of companies raising oodles of dollars, a healthy dose of regulatory concern, academic work, and corporate jockeying. For startups, it means a huge opportunity to bring new
Read moreApple changes App Store rules to allow retro game emulators globally
Apple updated its App Store rules Friday to allow emulators for retro console games globally with an option for downloading titles. However, the company warned that the developers are responsible for making sure that they follow copyright rules. Android users can already access a ton of emulators to play old classics
Read moreX makes Grok chatbot available to premium subscribers
Social network X is rolling out access to xAI’s Grok chatbot to Premium tier subscribers after Elon Musk announced the expansion to more paid users last month. The company said on its support page that only Premium and Premium+ users can interact with the chatbot in select regions. Last year,
Read moreIVP’s Eric Liaw on the firm’s giant new fund, that Klarna kerfuffle, and why looks can be deceiving when it comes to firm succession
When IVP recently announced the closing of its 18th fund, I called Eric Liaw, a longtime general partner with the growth-stage firm, to ask a few questions. For starters, wringing $1.6 billion in capital commitments from its investors right now would seem a lot more challenging than garnering commitments during
Read moreAre guidance documents laws?
Are guidance documents laws? Strictly speaking, no. The people who generate such documents are not legislators. Legislators delegate to agencies to make rules, and agencies delegate to other organizations to make guidelines. For example [1], Even HHS, which has express cybersecurity rulemaking authority under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
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