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

Furno’s micro-kilns promise to reduce pollution and eliminate transportation costs. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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OpenAI Hires Aaron Chatterji to Be Its Chief Economist

Aaron Chatterji was chief economist at the Commerce Department under President Biden and served on President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers.

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

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 … Continue reading

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One Zero could be raising $100M

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 … Continue reading

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OpenAI hires its first chief economist

OpenAI has hired its first chief economist: Aaron Chatterji, formerly the chief economist at the Commerce Department under President Joe Biden and a senior economist in President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers. Chatterji, who’s also a professor of business and … Continue reading

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Stratospheric, AI-enabled robotic cameras on balloons could help you get your insurance claim check faster

Near Space Labs, a Brooklyn, New York-based startup, invented stratospheric, AI-enabled robotic cameras that fly on weather balloons.

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Farewell to Foursquare’s app

“I would be lying if I didn’t admit that I have been in a real funk these last few days over this news,” writes Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley, speaking about the company’s plan to sunset the Foursquare City Guides app … Continue reading

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SEC fines four companies $7 million for ‘misleading cyber disclosures’ regarding SolarWinds hack

The SEC concluded that four tech companies misled investors and minimized the damage they suffered from the SolarWinds supply chain hack. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Starboard Value’s Jeff Smith says Salesforce has ‘a lot more to go’ and can get more profitable

Salesforce has become more profitable in the past few years, but one activist investor says there’s more for the software company to do.

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Amazon-backed Anthropic debuts AI agents that can do complex tasks, racing against OpenAI, Microsoft and Google

Anthropic, the Amazon-backed AI startup founded by former OpenAI research executives, announced AI agents that can use a computer to complete complex tasks.

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