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Apple iPad event: What to expect
So far, the biggest surprise about May 7’s “Let Loose” event is that it’s happening at all. We’re just over a month out from Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer Conference, and yet the company determined there was enough news to warrant a stand-alone event. iPads (including the iPad Pro and iPad Air) will be the focus,…
3:12 pm PDT • May 6, 2024
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Social
The Net Gala hosts its first event for the stylish and chronically online
2:37 pm PDT • May 6, 2024
The warehouse was dim and slightly misty. But the bar was open, and a photographer was snapping away anyway. On Friday, the crowd followed the white rabbit to Brooklyn for…
Transportation
Lucid loses longtime Apple and Intel exec who steered software division
2:03 pm PDT • May 6, 2024
Lucid Motors’ senior vice president of digital Mike Bell has resigned from his position. The company said in a filing Monday that the longtime Apple and Intel executive’s resignation is…
With U.S. regulators continuing to ramp up their scrutiny of crypto, startups and founders in the space are looking overseas to find friendlier climates to support their growth. One such…
As DocuSign reportedly explores a sale to private equity, it’s acquiring a company itself. On Monday, DocuSign announced that it’s buying Lexion, a contract workflow automation startup, for $165 million.…
Opera’s in-browser AI product, called Aria, can now summarize text-based web pages on Android. The AI-powered web page summarizing tool quickly condenses news articles, blog posts or research papers in…
Venture
TechCrunch Minute: Newchip, Techstars and what happens when startup accelerators fail
9:00 am PDT • May 6, 2024
Building a startup is hard. Building a company that helps startups is similarly difficult. That’s the takeaway from TechCrunch reporting on Techstars and Newchip. In the case of Newchip, the…
An international coalition of police agencies have resurrected the dark web site of the notorious LockBit ransomware gang, which they had seized earlier this year, teasing new revelations about the…
Plenty of founders have a difficult decision to make early in their journey: where to set up shop. For deep tech founders, the decision is complicated by the fact that…
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Dorsey leaves Bluesky, tech giants do more with less, and the next IPO
8:16 AM PDT • May 6, 2024
News that Jack Dorsey is out at Bluesky caused a stir this weekend. After all, Dorsey is a former Twitter co-founder and CEO, so his investment of…
Robotics
Alphabet-owned Intrinsic incorporates Nvidia tech into robotics platform
8:00 am PDT • May 6, 2024
The first bit of news out of the Automate conference this year arrives by way of Alphabet X spinout Intrinsic. The firm announced at the Chicago event on Monday that it…
OpenAI is collaborating with Stack Overflow, the Q&A forum for software developers, to improve its generative AI models’ performance on programming-related tasks. As a result of the partnership, announced Monday,…
Hardware
Biden administration plans $285M in CHIPS Act funding for digital twins
3:00 am PDT • May 6, 2024
President Joe Biden’s administration is looking to fund efforts that improve semiconductor manufacturing by using digital twins. Digital twins are virtual models used to test and optimize physical objects and…
Startups
Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo talks about AI, chatbot platform Poe and why OpenAI is not a competitor
3:00 am PDT • May 6, 2024
Last November, Adam D’Angelo found himself at the epicenter of one of the biggest controversies in the tech industry. The board of OpenAI — the $80 billion startup leading the…
Growth
Sequoia’s Jess Lee explains how early-stage startups can identify product-market fit
1:31 am PDT • May 6, 2024
Founders at the early stages of building their startups may have already created a strong solution, identified a gap in the market, or may simply have an inescapable and driving…
Bluesky’s most prominent backer has left its board. On Saturday, Jack Dorsey posted on X about grants for open protocols from his philanthropic Start Small initiative. This prompted someone to…
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Hyundai antes up $1B for AV startup Motional and Elon unplugs the Tesla Supercharger team
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Before I jump into the all the news — and boy there was a lot! — I have an important update for all of you lovely readers. TechCrunch Mobility is moving to Thursdays! It will be the same…
12:00 pm PDT • May 5, 2024
Catherine Breslin is the founder and director of Kingfisher Labs, where she helps companies develop AI strategies.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is making strides in astronomy with its 122-megapixel primarily infrared photos taken 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth. Impressive stuff. The space agency’s newest sky-peeper…
