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Promise Bio exits stealth backed by Pfizer and AstraZeneca

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The first thing Promise Bio CEO Ronel Veksler wants you to know about the biotech company he co-founded is that it’s not another AI drug discovery company. Instead, he’s looking to bring precision medicine to autoimmune diseases. Tel Aviv-based...

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TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 full Breakout Session agenda

With TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 just days away, we’re gearing up for an incredible three-day event packed with interactive sessions! From October 28-30 at Moscone West in San Francisco, dive into Q&A conversations with a panel of industry experts...

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TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 Side Events schedule: Mercury, Jetro, Enterprise Ireland, and more to host

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With TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 less than a week away, we’re thrilled to announce the complete list of companies behind the Side Events, set to amplify the excitement for thousands of attendees and Silicon Valley residents. From casual happy hours to...

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Google releases tech to watermark AI-generated text

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Google is making SynthID Text, its technology that lets developers watermark and detect text written by generative AI models, generally available. SynthID Text can be downloaded from the AI platform Hugging Face and Google’s updated Responsible...

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DuckDuckGo will be making more early-stage investments in privacy-focused startups

DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search alternative to Google, wants to put money into startups that have a similar focus on privacy. The company says that it’s actively seeking startups looking for investment, or startups that might be interested...

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Andreessen Horowitz is renting a bunch of Nvidia GPUs to its portfolio companies

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Andreessen Horowitz has a massive cluster of Nvidia H100 GPUs to help its portfolio of AI startups meet their compute needs, the venture capital firm confirmed for the first time on Wednesday. The program, called Oxygen, allows their portfolio...

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TikTok will now show its STEM feed to adults, not just teens

TikTok announced on Wednesday that it’s bringing its STEM feed to all users in the United States, United Kingdom, and Ireland by default. Previously, the feed was only turned on by default for users under the age of 18. The social network says the...

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VCs love using the AI meeting notepad Granola, so they gave it $20M

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Granola’s notepad app has become a popular tool among venture capitalists who use it to record meetings and augment notes using AI technology. That made it easier for the startup to raise funds from a crowd of investors for its $20 million Series A...

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5 days to go: TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 kicks off and ticket prices go up

In only 5 short days, Moscone West in San Francisco will come alive with 10,000 startup and VC leaders for TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. It’s set to be a powerhouse event, drawing innovative minds from every corner of the globe. Time is running out to...

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Lawsuit blames Character.AI in death of 14-year-old boy

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Character.AI is being targeted in a lawsuit after the suicide of a 14-year-old Florida boy whose mother says he became obsessed with a chatbot on the platform. According to The New York Times, Sewell Setzer III, a ninth grader from Orlando, spent...

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Amazon adds gasoline discounts for Prime members, EV charging savings to follow

Amazon is challenging Walmart+ by offering Prime members a discount on fuel to combat high gas prices. The company announced on Wednesday that Prime members will receive a 10 cents per gallon discount at around 7,000 Amoco, AM/PM, and BP gas...

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Fixify blends automation and human analysts to tackle IT problems

Matt Peters has spent more than a decade working for cybersecurity vendors. He was a team lead at Check Point, climbed the corporate ladder to VP of worldwide operations at FireEye, and spent over four years at Expel, a managed detection and response...

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Sensei reels in $16M to expand its contactless store platform in Europe

While Amazon Go helped popularize the concept of completely contactless stores, the arena is growing with others like 7-Eleven and Walmart entering the category, as well as several startups such as Standard Cognition, Zippin, AiFi, Grabango, and...

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India’s Paytm wins approval to resume onboarding new UPI users

Paytm, a leading Indian financial services firm, has received regulatory approval to resume onboarding new UPI users, following an eight-month restriction on many of its operations. United Payments Interface (UPI) is a real-time, instant payment...

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Ro CEO Zachariah Reitano says the benefits of being a private company are growing

Ro co-founder and CEO Zachariah Reitano said while he’d “never say never” about potentially taking the 7-year-old telehealth company public, he thinks the benefits of being a private company are growing. Reitano dodged multiple questions from...

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Lending fintech SoLo Funds faces class action lawsuit

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Cement startup Furno lands $20M grant to build low-carbon micro-kilns in Chicago

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Feds clear way for EVTOL startups to bring flying vehicles to U.S. airspace

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Federal regulators have cleared the path for electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft to share U.S. airspace with planes and helicopters — a win for the burgeoning industry and a timely decision for startups like Joby Aviation and Archer...

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One Zero could be raising $100M

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Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week we’re looking at One Zero potentially raising $100 million, Apple Pay expanding support for loan options, and another way Stripe is making crypto a big priority for its business. If you’d like to receive...

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LinkedIn confirms the ‘follower purge’ was just a bug that’s now resolved

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LinkedIn users on Tuesday began noticing a problem with their follower counts on the platform: They were dropping rapidly, and sometimes by many hundreds of users at once. With no official word at the time from LinkedIn, many began speculating that...

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