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FTX trial stirs up more chaos as ex Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison testifies on faulty balance sheets, bribes and more

Welcome back to Chain Reaction. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important crypto stories delivered to your inbox every Thursday at 12 p.m. PT, subscribe here. It’s week two of the Sam Bankman-Fried trial and I’m writing … Continue reading

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Cruise opens robotaxi service in Houston

GM’s self-driving car subsidiary Cruise has opened its robotaxi service to users in Houston — an expansion that comes amid increasing criticism of the company’s operations in San Francisco, it’s first launch city. Cruise said it will operate seven days … Continue reading

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Threads is rolling out an edit button, and it’s not locked behind a paywall

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced today that Threads, Instagram’s Twitter-like app, is rolling out an edit button. With this new feature, users will be able to edit a post for up to five minutes after it has been posted to … Continue reading

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Tesla whistleblowers filed a complaint to the SEC in 2021, but the agency never interviewed them. Here’s what the complaint said

Two whistleblowers’ complaint to the SEC about Tesla alleged that Elon Musk’s automaker may have run afoul of securities laws and flouted accounting standards.

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How to fundraise when your deep tech startup sounds like sci-fi

Your pitch may well be the first time a VC has even heard of a concept, so how can they possibly work out how to invest in your idea when it sounds like sci-fi?

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Caroline Ellison says she wasn’t an ambitious person until she met Sam Bankman-Fried

Ellison, the former Alameda CEO and ex-girlfriend of Sam Bankman-Fried, faced cross-examination in the FTX founder’s fraud trial on Thursday.

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Bluesky gets its first third-party mobile app with Graysky, launching later this month

Bluesky, the Jack Dorsey-backed Twitter alternative, is getting its first third-party app for mobile users: a new app called Graysky. Though numerous Bluesky projects built on the company’s API are already in the works or in testing, Graysky will be … Continue reading

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Israeli biotech startup mana.bio launches AI-fueled programmable drug therapy

Israeli biotech startup Mana.bio has been planning to launch its programmable drug treatment solution for months, and decided to forge ahead in spite of the attacks that happened this past weekend in the country. The company is using an AI-driven … Continue reading

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Amazon says October Prime Day outpaces last year’s event

Prime members scooped up more than 150 million items from third-party sellers, up from about 100 million items last year.

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Europe gives TikTok CEO 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas war misinformation

Europe gives TikTok 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas war misinformation, graphic content

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