A major Silicon Valley medtech company just announced it was pausing H-1B hires

Intuitive Surgical is best-known for building surgery robots. It just froze offers to H-1B candidates due to President Donald Trump's new policy.

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Peter Thiel Compared Tech Detractors to the Antichrist, Says a Lecture Attendee

An attendee of the billionaire investor’s secretive Antichrist lecture series reveals new details from Peter Thiel's latest talk.

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Meta just missed a senator's deadline for submitting records about its AI chatbot policies for kids

Sen. Josh Hawley's office says Meta hasn't complied with its request to hand over records on how its AI chatbot interacted with children.

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Business Insider hires TechCrunch's Rollet - Talking Biz News

Business Insider has hired TechCrunch reporter Charles Rollet as a tech reporter in San Francisco. He has been a senior writer covering artificial intelligence, security and startups. Rollet previousl...

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Google Worried It Couldn’t Control How Israel Uses Project Nimbus, Files Reveal

Internal Google documents show that the tech giant feared it wouldn’t be able to monitor how Israel might use its technology to harm Palestinians.

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Exclusive: The Department of Labor just dropped its investigation into Scale AI

The U.S. Department of Labor has dropped its investigation into Scale AI’s compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act, according to a source directly The U.S. Department of Labor has dropped its investigation into Scale AI and it's investigation it's HR partner Upwork, TechCrunch has learned.

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ChatGPT’s new image generator is really good at faking receipts

This month, ChatGPT unveiled a new image generator as part of its 4o model that is a lot better at generating text inside images.  People are already using it to generate fake restaurant receipts, potentially adding another tool to the already-extensive toolkit of AI deepfakes used by fraudsters. Prolific social media poster and VC Deedy […]

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19 founders and VCs working with Elon Musk's DOGE | TechCrunch

Silicon Valley used to take a backseat to Washington, D.C. But now, the people disrupting technology have taken the wheel at the highest echelons of

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SpaceX Starship spirals out of control in second straight test flight failure | TechCrunch

SpaceX's Starship spiraled out of control while in space during a test flight on Thursday, marking the second launch in a row that the vehicle has

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Exclusive: Scale AI is being investigated by the US Department of Labor

Scale AI is being investigated by the U.S. Department of Labor for compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act.

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Defense tech startup Epirus raises $250M Series D to counter drone swarms | TechCrunch

Defense tech startup Epirus has raised a $250m Series D to expand its counter-drone solutions.

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Singapore arrests alleged Nvidia chip smugglers

Singapore just arrested 3 men for allegedly smuggling Nvidia chips. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Startup co-founded by longevity guru Peter Attia emerges from stealth

Biograph, a company co-founded by longevity guru Peter Attia and a prominent Silicon Valley VC, has emerged from stealth.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang shrugs off DeepSeek as sales soar | TechCrunch

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is more bullish about Nvidia's sales than ever, despite a market panic last month induced by China's DeepSeek.

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Stripe says AI startups are growing faster than SaaS ever did and calling them wrappers ‘misses the point’ | TechCrunch

In its annual letter released Thursday, payments giant Stripe declared that it was “seeing an AI boom” with its data revealing that artificial

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Exclusive: Despite recent layoffs, Meta is expanding in India

Meta is expanding in India, despite recent layoffs of what the tech giant controversially deemed "low performers."

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After raising $1 billion, fintech Varo closes another $29 million, replaces founder CEO

Fintech Varo has been hoping to raise a $55 million Series G round but has, so far, closed on $29 million to date, according to a recent SEC filing. Varo

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

A senior Elon Musk staffer created a custom AI chatbot that's supposed to help DOGE "eliminate" government waste.

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Trump’s USAID Cuts Halt Agent Orange Victims Program in Vietnam

Fifty years after the Vietnam War ended, President Trump’s gutting of foreign aid has halted American efforts to address a toxic legacy and build a strategic partnership.

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Exclusive: 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.

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Elon Musk will withdraw bid for OpenAI’s nonprofit if its board agrees to terms

In a court filing on Wednesday, a lawyer for Elon Musk said the billionaire will withdraw his $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI’s nonprofit if the ChatGPT maker’s board of directors “preserve the charity’s mission” and halt its conversion to a for-profit…

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Shopify took down Kanye’s swastika t-shirt shop, but another antisemitic storefront still operates

Shopify took down Kanye West’s online store after the musician sold t-shirts with the swastika symbol. West, who also goes by Ye, advertised his online store in a Super Bowl commercial on Sunday, directing viewers to his website, where the only item…

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Exclusive: Carta settles two more lawsuits that alleged sexual harassment and discrimination

Carta, which previously faced scrutiny over its workplace environment, has settled two lawsuits filed by women who used to work there.

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Media giant Lee Enterprises confirms cyberattack as news outlets report ongoing disruption | TechCrunch

The newspaper owner said it was determining what data, if any, was stolen.

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