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Fisker is just a few days into its Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and the fight over its assets is already charged, with one lawyer claiming the startup has been liquidating assets…
Security
Hacker claims to have 30 million customer records from Australian ticket seller giant TEG
13 hours ago
A hacker is advertising customer data allegedly stolen from the Australia-based live events and ticketing company TEG on a well-known hacking forum. On Thursday, a hacker put up for sale…
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Dot is a new AI companion and chatbot that thrives on getting to know your innermost thoughts and feelings.
The e-fuels startup is working on producing fuel for aviation and maritime shipping using carbon dioxide and other waste carbon streams.
Fisker was facing “potential financial distress” as early as last August, according to a new filing in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceeding, which the EV startup initiated earlier this week.…
Transportation
Cruise clears key hurdle to getting robotaxis back on roads in California
15 hours ago
Cruise, the self-driving subsidiary of General Motors, has agreed to pay a $112,500 fine for failing to provide full information about an accident involving one of its robotaxis last year.…
Feel Therapeutics has a pretty original deck, with some twists we rarely see; the company did a great job telling the overall story.
AI
TechCrunch Minute: Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 is its best model yet — at least on paper
9:00 AM PDT • June 21, 2024
OpenAI rival Anthropic released its newest generative AI model this week, Claude 3.5 Sonnet. While Sonnet is an improvement over Anthropic’s last release, it’s not…
The Rockset buy fits into OpenAI’s broader recent strategy of investing heavily in its enterprise sales and tech orgs.
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The U.S. government announced sanctions against 12 executives and senior leaders of the Russia-based cybersecurity giant Kaspersky. In a press release, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets…
Apps
Style DNA gets a generative AI chatbot that suggests outfit ideas based on your color type
17 hours ago
Style DNA, an AI-powered fashion stylist app, creates a personalized style profile from a single selfie. The app is particularly useful for people interested in seasonal color analysis, a process…
Biotech & Health
Khosla-backed Marble, built by former Headway founders, offers affordable group therapy for teens
18 hours ago
Rates of depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts are surging among U.S. teens. A recent report from the Center of Disease Control found that nearly one in three girls have seriously…
Hardware
A new startup from Figure’s founder is licensing NASA tech in a bid to curb school shootings
18 hours ago
Cover says what sets it apart is the underlying technology it employs, which has been exclusively licensed from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Spotify is introducing a new “Basic” streaming plan in the United States, the company announced on Friday. The new plan costs $10.99 per month and includes all of the benefits…
Photographers say the social media giant is applying a ‘Made with AI’ label to photos they took, causing confusion for users.
Startups
Ilya Sutskever’s new AI venture, and time to BeReal about bankruptcy
7:15 AM PDT • June 21, 2024
Get ready for a jam-packed episode of Equity, TechCrunch’s flagship podcast about the business of startups! This week, co-hosts Mary Ann Azevedo and Haje Kamps…
Enterprise
Squarespace sells restaurant reservation system Tock to American Express for $400M
19 hours ago
Website building platform Squarespace is selling Tock, its restaurant reservation service, to American Express in a deal worth $400 million — the exact figure that Squarespace paid for the service…
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Change Healthcare confirms ransomware hackers stole medical records on a ‘substantial proportion’ of Americans
The February ransomware attack on UHG-owned Change Healthcare stands as one of the largest-ever known digital thefts of U.S. medical records.
19 hours ago
Google said today that it globally paused its experiment that aimed to allow new kinds of real-money games on the Play Store, citing the challenges that come with the lack…
