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Yoel Roth, Twitter’s Former Trust and Safety Chief, Is Trying to Clean Up Your Dating Apps

Yoel Roth suffered targeted harassment after quitting as top content cop at Elon Musk’s Twitter. Now he’s head of trust and safety at dating giant Match Group, owner of Tinder, Hinge, and more.

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Reddit to raise nearly $750 million in upcoming IPO

Reddit aims to raise up to $748 million as part of its upcoming IPO, in which the social media company is seeking a valuation of about to $6.5 billion.

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Bitcoin hits fresh record high above $71,000 as UK opens the door to crypto exchange-traded products

The move from U.K. regulators comes after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approved the first-ever spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds.

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US firm ends takeover interest in Currys

Investment firm Elliot says it will not bid for the retailer after being rejected “multiple times”.

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Elon Musk says xAI will open-source Grok this week

Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI will open-source Grok, its chatbot rivaling ChatGPT, this week, he said, days after suing OpenAI and complaining that the Microsoft-backed startup had deviated from its open source roots. xAI released Grok last year, arming it with … Continue reading

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Better Business Investing Starts With This $25 Class

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‘Banking as a Service’ startup Griffin raises $24M as it attains full banking license

Founded by former Silicon Valley engineers, UK-based Griffin Bank, an API-driven banking-as-a-service platform just obtained a banking license, roughly one year after starting the application process. This means it has been given the green light from the UK’s financial services … Continue reading

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Rivian’s big bet, Waymo goes driverless in Austin and the Chevy Blazer EV returns

TechCrunch Mobility is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click TechCrunch Mobility — to receive the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free. Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for … Continue reading

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AI chatbots ‘think’ in English, research finds

The large-language-models (LLMs) behind AI chatbots ‘think’ in English, even when being asked questions in other languages, new research shows.  To investigate this phenomenon, researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne looked at three versions of these … Continue reading

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Elon Musk Has a Giant Charity. Its Money Stays Close to Home.

After making billions in tax-deductible donations to his philanthropy, the owner of Tesla and SpaceX gave away far less than required in some years — and what he did give often supported his own interests.

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