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Today β€” 17 January 2025TechCrunch News

TikTok CEO responds to Trump, thanks him for trying to solve US banΒ 

17 January 2025 at 10:54

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew responded to comments made by Donald Trump regarding Friday’s Supreme Court ruling to ban the app in the U.S.Β  In a video posted on TikTok, Chew said, β€œOn behalf of everyone at TikTok and all our users across the country, I want to thank President Trump for his commitment to […]

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SpaceX and Blue Origin must investigate this week’s big rocket tests, FAA says

17 January 2025 at 10:44

The Federal Aviation Administration is requiring Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin to investigate what went wrong on their respective mega-rocket test flights this week. The regulator said both companies must perform what’s known as a β€œmishap investigation.” These probes involve the companies and the FAA working together to understand what went wrong, […]

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OpenAI is trying to extend human life, with help from a longevity startup

17 January 2025 at 10:35

OpenAI says it trained a new AI model called GPT-4b micro with Retro Biosciences, a longevity science startup trying to extend the human lifespan by 10 years, according to the MIT Technology Review. Retro, which is backed by Sam Altman, has been working with OpenAI for roughly a year on this research, according to the […]

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Big Tech expands its reach with new startup acquisitions and investments

By: Anna Heim
17 January 2025 at 10:05

Welcome to Startups Weekly β€” your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. This week’s newsletter is about startups, but it is also about Big Tech companies expanding their reach, both through acquisitions and through investments. Most interesting startup stories […]

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Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search

17 January 2025 at 09:32

Google says it has begun requiring users to turn on JavaScript, the widely used programming language to make web pages interactive, in order to use Google Search. In an email to TechCrunch, a company spokesperson claimed that the change is intended to β€œbetter protect” Google Search against malicious activity, such as bots and spam, and […]

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Malware stole internal PowerSchool passwords from engineer’s hacked computer

17 January 2025 at 09:05

The theft of a PowerSchool engineer's passwords prior to the breach raises further doubts about the company's security practices.

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Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd to reclaim CEO position in March

17 January 2025 at 08:40

Bumble announced today that founder Whitney Wolfe Herd is returning as CEO after stepping down from the position in 2023.Β  Wolfe Herd will succeed Lidiane Jones, the company’s current CEO who has left for β€œpersonal reasons,” Bumble explained. Jones, the former CEO of Slack, will continue her role at Bumble until the transition takes effect […]

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Instagram Reels adds new features as TikTok is banned in the U.S.

17 January 2025 at 08:21

Instagram announced a timely update to its video feature Reels this morning, alongside the news that the Supreme Court upheld the law that will ban TikTok in the U.S. on January 19. The update, says Meta, will make it easier for users to discover the content that friends and followers are liking on the platform […]

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Trump comments on TikTok ban: β€˜stay tuned’

17 January 2025 at 08:02

Just ahead of today’s Supreme Court ruling β€” which saw the nation’s highest court uphold the law banning TikTok in the U.S. as of January 19 β€” Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that he had a β€œvery good” phone call with China’s President Xi Jinping, which included discussion of TikTok. In addition, the president-elect […]

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Rivian finalizes $6.6B loan for its Georgia factory

17 January 2025 at 07:45

Rivian and the Department of Energy have finalized a $6.6 billion loan announced in November with just a few days left until Donald Trump’s inauguration. The company will use the loan to help build out its planned factory in Georgia, east of Atlanta, with construction beginning in 2026. The first R2 SUVs are scheduled to […]

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Instabase raises $100M to help companies process unstructured document data

17 January 2025 at 07:11

Instabase, a company that creates software for extracting and processing unstructured data from myriad document types, has raised $100 million in a Series D round of funding. The announcement comes as companies struggle under a deluge of data β€” data that can unlock key business insights. Indeed, most of the data that companies generate is […]

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Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban

The Supreme Court has upheld the law that will effectively ban TikTok on Sunday, January 19. The decision marks the end of TikTok’s months-long legal fight against a law that essentially forces the ByteDance-owned app to shut down unless it divests its U.S. operations on national security grounds. As of Sunday, it will be illegal […]

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Ken Howery: The tech mogul at the center of Trump’s Greenland ambition

17 January 2025 at 06:38

Surprise! Donald Trump’s big, audacious ambition to buy Greenland from Denmark has a tech angle. Ken Howery, named as U.S. President-elect Trump’s pick to be the next ambassador to the country (and thus chief broker of any deal), is one more part of the rich seam of tech people running through Trump’s upcoming administration.Β  Part […]

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Europe orders Elon Musk’s X to submit documents on its recommendation algorithms

17 January 2025 at 06:23

The European Commission (EC) says it has requested information from Elon Musk’s X related to the algorithms that determine the content it recommends to users. The EC wants to determine how those algorithms may or may not be compliant with the Digital Services Act (DSA), which imposes key obligations on online platforms operating across the […]

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GM banned from sharing driving and location data with insurance companies

17 January 2025 at 06:00

The order bans the automaker from selling consumers' information to data brokers for five years.

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Nord Security founders launch Nexos.ai to help enterprises take AI projects from pilot to production

17 January 2025 at 01:58

A new AI orchestration startup from the founders of Lithuanian unicorn Nord Security is setting out to help enterprises put their AI projects into production, with an initial focus on bringing greater visibility, security, and adaptability to large language models (LLMs). Nexos.ai, as the startup is called, is the handiwork of Tomas Okmanas (pictured above) […]

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Yesterday β€” 16 January 2025TechCrunch News

Apple brings Store app to Indian market

16 January 2025 at 18:45

Apple launched its dedicated Apple Store app in India on Friday, deepening its retail presence in the world’s most populous country as the iPhone maker seeks to capitalize on growing consumer demand. The app, available for download on India’s App Store, lets customers purchase Apple products directly while receiving personalized shopping recommendations, the company said […]

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FAA had to divert flights because of SpaceX Starship explosion

16 January 2025 at 17:08

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) told TechCrunch it had to β€œbriefly” slow and divert a number of aircraft in the airspace near Puerto Rico, where debris was seen falling after SpaceX’s Starship exploded during a test flight Thursday. Multiple flights could be seen entering holding patterns or completely changing course in the airspace near the […]

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