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Sequoia shutters D.C. office, lets go of policy team

DOMINIC-MADORI DAVIS

Sequoia will shutter its D.C. office as well as part ways with the policy team there at the end of March, TechCrunch has confirmed. The news comes — and is somewhat in contrast — with the other prominent VC firms in Silicon Valley strengthening their ties with Capitol Hill and the new Trump administration. Andreessen […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

X users treating Grok like a fact-checker spark concerns over misinformation

JAGMEET SINGH

Hints grow stronger that dark energy changes over time

JENNIFER OUELLETTE

Latest DESI results fall short of discovery threshold but strengthen evidence for dynamical dark energy.

Study finds AI-generated meme captions funnier than human ones on average

BENJ EDWARDS

Mollick proclaims "the meme Turing Test has been passed," but a new study offers a key caveat.

John Wick has a new target in latest Ballerina trailer

JENNIFER OUELLETTE

"This is your fate, and you cannot change it."

HP avoids monetary damages over bricked printers in class-action settlement

SCHARON HARDING

HP has previously paid millions for bricking printers, but not this time.

Data breach at stalkerware SpyX affects close to 2 million, including thousands of Apple users

ZACK WHITTAKER

Hacked, leaked, exposed: Why you should never use stalkerware apps

LORENZO FRANCESCHI-BICCHIERAI

OpenAI’s o1-pro is the company’s most expensive AI model yet

KYLE WIGGERS

OpenAI has launched a more powerful version of its o1 "reasoning" AI model, o1-pro, in its developer API. According to OpenAI, o1-pro uses more computing than o1 to provide "consistently better responses." Currently, it's only available to select developers — those who've spent at least $5 on OpenAI API services — and it's pricey. Very […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

How a $6M bet on Wiz turned into a massive 200x return for one early backer

MARINA TEMKIN

Wiz's $32 billion all-cash acquisition by Google parent Alphabet promises a colossal payday for the cybersecurity startup's early-stage investors. The deal is a big win for Sequoia, one of the best-known VC firms, which stands to make $3 billion, about 25x the money it invested in the company, Bloomberg reported. Despite substantial returns for Sequoia’s […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Bird flu continues spread as Trump’s pandemic experts are MIA

BETH MOLE

Vacancies in a key office of pandemic preparedness raise concern.

DOGE’s Dodgy Numbers Employ a Tesla Technique

AARIAN MARSHALL

Safety researchers claim Elon Musk’s auto company has a long history of potentially misleading stats. Now it looks like his government department is following suit.

SoftBank to acquire semiconductor designer Ampere in $6.5B all-cash deal

KATE PARK

SoftBank Group announced on Wednesday that it will acquire Ampere Computing, a chip designer founded by former Intel executive Renee James, through a $6.5 billion all-cash deal as a strategic move to broaden its investment in AI infrastructure. Ampere will be operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of SoftBank after the deal, which is expected to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

ClearGrid, armed with a fresh $10M, is developing AI to improve debt collection in MENA

TAGE KENE-OKAFOR

Debt collection in emerging markets often feels outdated, and can be costly — damaging borrower trust. As consumer lending surges and regulators push for fairer practices, legacy collection outfits are struggling to maintain pace. ClearGrid aims to help modernize debt collection — and recovery — with AI. The Dubai-based startup, which is emerging from stealth […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids

ASHLEY BELANGER

Blocking outputs isn't enough; dad wants OpenAI to delete the false information.