Innovation
Founder Sahil Lavingia says he was booted from DOGE after just 55 days | TechCrunch
Sahil Lavingia has published a diary recounting his time as a member of Elon Musk’s DOGE workforce. It’s a short read — Lavingia’s DOGE stint lasted just 55 days...
Exclusive: Security startup Horizon3.ai is raising $100M in new round
Horizon3.ai, a cybersecurity startup that provides tools like autonomous penetration testing, is seeking to raise $100 million in a new funding round and has locked down at least $73...
George R.R. Martin Is Really Starting to Get Sick of Your ‘Winds of Winter’ Complaining
George R.R. Martin has been writing The Winds of Winter for a very long time, and in that process, he’s also happened to do a lot of things that are...
GameStop bought $500 million of Bitcoin | TechCrunch
GameStop announced on Wednesday that it bought 4,710 Bitcoin, which is worth over $500 million at the time of the purchase. The video game retail chain has struggled to...
Why Anthropic’s New AI Model Sometimes Tries to ‘Snitch’
The hypothetical scenarios the researchers presented Opus 4 with that elicited the whistleblowing behavior involved many human lives at stake and absolutely unambiguous wrongdoing, Bowman says. A typical example...
After Deepfaking YouTube, Google’s Veo 3 Could Slop-ify Video Games Next
Google’s new video generator is out in full force, and I don’t know about you, but my feeds are full of examples of what it can (and sometimes can’t) do....
The Best Juicers for Cocktails, Mocktails, Juices, and Smoothies
Most all-purpose juicers fall into one of two types. Centrifugal juicers or masticating slow juicers that are also known as “cold press.”A centrifugal juicer offers speed and a lot...
Dozens of unsold Tesla Cybertrucks are piling up at Detroit parking lot | TechCrunch
Tesla’s Cybertruck sales dropped significantly in recent quarters, leading to a rapid buildup of unsold inventory. And it looks like the company is resorting to unconventional storage sites for...
Nancy Mace’s Former Staff Claim She Had Them Create Burner Accounts to Promote Her
Nancy Mace, the South Carolina Republican congresswoman, often tells her staff that she’s a self-taught coder—just one aspect of how Mace presents her tech expertise, as befits her role...
‘Grand Theft Auto’ Publisher Swaps DEI for ‘Diversity of Thought’ in Annual Report
Take-Two Interactive, the publisher behind Grand Theft Auto VI, is forgoing any mention of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts and promoting “diversity of thought" in its latest annual...
