Fisker cleared to sell North American EVs for $46.25 million
Fisker has been given the green light by a bankruptcy judge to sell more than 3,000 of its Ocean SUVs to a vehicle leasing company, a deal that will net the defunct EV startup a maximum of $46.25 million. The approval of the sale clears the way for the rest
Read moreElon Musk vows to move X, SpaceX headquarters from California to Texas
Elon Musk is doubling down on his commitment to Texas by vowing to move SpaceX’s massive headquarters from its long-time Hawthorne, California home to the Lone Star State. Musk later said that he would move the headquarters of his social media platform X from San Francisco, California, to Austin, Texas
Read moreThe biggest data breaches in 2024: 1 billion stolen records and rising
Some of the largest, most damaging breaches of 2024 already account for over a billion stolen records. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreAfter Tesla and OpenAI, Andrej Karpathy’s startup aims to apply AI assistants to education
Andrej Karpathy, former head of AI at Tesla and researcher at OpenAI, is launching Eureka Labs, an “AI native” education platform. In tech speak, that usually means built from the ground up with AI at its core. And while Eureka Labs’ AI ambitions are lofty, the company is starting with
Read moreJ.D. Vance is anti-Big Tech, pro-crypto
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images The former tech investor likes the FTC’s Lina Khan and wants to break up Google, citing its liberal bias. In February, about a hundred people gathered at Bloomberg’s Washington, DC office for a conference hosted by the startup incubator Y Combinator. It
Read moreWith the latest iOS 18 developer beta, Apple makes flashlight UI more fun
Apple initially added a new flashlight UI in iOS 18’s third developer beta, and with iOS 18 now available in public beta, you can try one of the most underrated additions to your iPhone right now. The company had already introduced a new way to control True Tone Flashlights on
Read moreTechCrunch Minute: Whistleblowers say OpenAI employs ‘illegally restrictive’ NDAs
Trouble could be on the horizon for OpenAI. A group of whistleblowers accused OpenAI of requiring its employees to sign illegally restrictive non-disclosure agreements, or NDAs. The lawyers representing these whistleblowers sent a letter to SEC chair Gary Gensler, alleging that OpenAI’s contracts with current and former employees could illegally
Read moreHow to bridge the gap between Web2 skills and Web3 workflows
You’re familiar with older web and pre-web languages like JavaScript and Java. Did you know that you can use these well-known languages with Web3 technologies?
Read moreVC David Sacks delivers a fire-and-brimstone speech at the Republican National Convention
On the first night of the RNC, venture capitalist David Sacks took the stage to warn Republicans of “a world on fire.” © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read more‘Industry Consolidation Benefits the Sector and Country’-MTN
MTN believes that investing in South Africa’s fiber network infrastructure is positive. Additionally, the consolidation of the industry is seen as both inevitable and desirable within the national and international landscape. Maziv merger “MTN is not opposing the merger, nor does it support a prohibition of the proposed Vodacom –
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