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Elon Musk staffer created a DOGE AI assistant for making government “less dumb” 

A DOGE staffer created a custom AI chatbot that’s supposed to help “eliminate” government waste. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Amazon, Microsoft, and Exxon want to make scandal-plagued carbon markets more trustworthy

A task force, organized by the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank, is hoping to improve credibility of voluntary carbon markets. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Thinking Machines Lab is ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati’s new startup

Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati has announced her new startup. Unsurprisingly, it’s focused on AI. Called Thinking Machines Lab, the startup, which came out of stealth today, intends to build tooling to “make AI work for [people’s] unique needs and … Continue reading

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VC giant Insight Partners confirms January cyberattack 

The VC firm has $90 billion in assets under management and invested in several unicorn cybersecurity startups © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Facebook now only stores live videos for 30 days, will delete old broadcasts

Facebook announced on Tuesday that live videos will now only be stored on the social network for 30 days, after which they will be deleted. Previously, these videos were stored indefinitely. The change goes into effect on Wednesday. All live … Continue reading

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Amazon kills ‘Inspire,’ its TikTok-style feed for discovering products

Amazon is shutting down “Inspire,” its TikTok-like, short-form video and photo feed that was previously available in its mobile app. The feed allowed users to discover products and shop from content created by influencers, brands, and other customers. A company … Continue reading

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X challenges German court order granting data access to election researchers

Earlier this month, a Berlin court ordered Elon Musk-owned X to provide immediate access to public platform data to two civil society organizations seeking to study systemic risk around the country’s upcoming election. In a post on X, the social … Continue reading

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Meta announces LlamaCon, its first generative AI dev conference

Meta on Tuesday announced that it’ll host its first-ever dev conference dedicated to generative AI. Called LlamaCon after Meta’s Llama family of generative AI models, the conference is scheduled to take place on April 29. Meta said that it plans … Continue reading

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Bluesky adds a ‘followers only’ reply option

The new feature lets users limit their conversations to connections of their own choosing. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Fetii’s group rideshare app for young people attracts funding from Mark Cuban, YC

When he was a senior studying at Texas A&M University, Matthew Iommi realized that there were no good options for transporting groups of people. Fellow college students heading out for the night together didn’t have access to on-demand rides with … Continue reading

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