A hapless French woman is robbed of $850K and a bright future with Brad Pitt by the horrors of catfishing in the AI age. Source
The tech industry has come around to Trump after shunning him during his first administration. Source
Mark Zuckerberg has been bringing about some significant changes to its business strategy and focusing on increasing efficiency by stepping in varied directions. It has recently stirred quite a controversy…
Foundation Model Kieth Wasserman, a wealthy Los Angeles-based real estate mogul and Elon Musk fanboy, became the target of widespread mockery after begging for "private firefighters" to come protect his…
OpenAI has appointed an executive at investment firm BlackRock to its board of directors. Adebayo “Bayo” Ogunlesi, a senior managing director at BlackRock and CEO of Global Infrastructure Partners, an…
Well, potential GPU buyers in the markets should now at least prefer a model with over 8GB VRAM, as newly-emerged benchmarks show that demand for more VRAM has increased massively…
Apple and TSMC have been working together to manufacture chips locally in the United States. TSMC has conducted various tests and it is also looking to expand its business with…
The Federal Trade Commission said yesterday it is sending over $1 million in refunds to 6,764 consumers who purchased Razer Zephyr masks that were deceptively marketed as providing N95 protection…
Plans to block new vehicles with software and hardware linked to either China or Russia are moving ahead. Today, the Department of Commerce published a final rule in the Federal…
Real estate giant CBRE announced Tuesday that it is acquiring the rest of co-working startup Industrious, in which it already had a sizable investment, at a valuation of over $800 million.…
Stephanie Gonzaga / Boom! Studios Diamond Comics Distributors, one of the biggest companies involved in getting graphic novels into physical retailers for purchase, is filing for bankruptcy and scaling its…
At CES 2025, we saw the good and the weird, all the newest innovations that the tech industry has to offer in the upcoming year. While many of the devices…
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at the latest with embattled fintech Bench, Robinhood’s $45 million settlement, a couple of M&A deals, some cool fundraises, and more. To…
A relatively low-risk strategy for high returns underpins the trading platform’s offering, amid growing interest in quantitative funds. Source
The White House's new restrictions on global AI chip sales would make it harder for the EU to acquire and use them. Source
Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority New York’s law that requires ISPs to offer cheap internet plans to low-income households goes into effect on January 15. To comply, New York-based…
The leaders of Spokane’s American Aerospace Materials Manufacturing Center Tech Hub have selected a 386,000-square-foot facility as its HQ. (ATC Manufacturing Photo) After missing out on federal funding awarded in…
Umoja Biopharma CEO Andy Scharenberg. (Umoja Photo) Another Seattle-area health startup is raising a big new round of funding. Umoja Biopharma announced a $100 million Series C round that will…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang may have said that “very useful quantum computers” are probably still 20 years away, but his company is also hedging its bets beyond classical chips with…
Data centers are expected to continue growing at a breakneck pace, doubling their power demand by 2029, according to a new report from JLL. The industry’s expansion, fueled by the…