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Luxury retailers Prada and Kurt Geiger shamed for taking up to 4 months to pay U.K. suppliers

Luxury retailers Prada and Kurt Geiger shamed for taking...

Slow and late payments are estimated to force 50,000 small businesses to close a...

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Biden administration bans imports of Chinese steel and artificial sweetener brands on forced labor allegations

Biden administration bans imports of Chinese steel and...

It accuses both of being involved in the use of forced labor from China's far-west...

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China EV startup Xpeng wants to bring ‘the best technology’ to Europe as the EU is set to finalize new tariffs on auto imports

China EV startup Xpeng wants to bring ‘the best technology’...

Brian Gu, Xpeng’s co-president, argued Wednesday that fierce local competition,...

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Instant harkens back to a pre-Google Firebase

Instant harkens back to a pre-Google Firebase

Instant wants to recapture some of the magic of the pre-Google-acquisition Firebase...

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Gmail’s new ‘summary cards’ help you take action on your emails, like tracking packages and checking into flights

Gmail’s new ‘summary cards’ help you take action on your...

Competition in the email market is heating up. After Apple’s iOS 18 introduced a...

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Waymo begins offering robotaxi rides in Austin to certain members of the public

Waymo begins offering robotaxi rides in Austin to certain...

Waymo has gotten one step closer to a commercial launch in Austin by early 2025....

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AI coding startup Poolside raises $500M from eBay, Nvidia, and others

AI coding startup Poolside raises $500M from eBay, Nvidia,...

Poolside, the AI-powered software dev platform, has raised half a billion dollars...

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Facebook says it paid content creators $2B this year

Facebook says it paid content creators $2B this year

Are creators sleeping on Facebook? Though the social network has been more enticing...

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J.B. Hunt and UP.Labs launch venture lab to build logistics startups

J.B. Hunt and UP.Labs launch venture lab to build logistics...

Transportation and freight network giant J.B. Hunt is searching for software and...

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OpenAI raises $6.6B and is now valued at $157B

OpenAI raises $6.6B and is now valued at $157B

ChatGPT maker OpenAI has closed the largest VC round of all time. The startup today...

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This Week in AI: OpenAI is stretched thin

This Week in AI: OpenAI is stretched thin

Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in...

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Ray-Ban Meta + facial recognition = Terminator vision for doxxing

Ray-Ban Meta + facial recognition = Terminator vision for...

Any piece of popular consumer electronics will eventually be hacked, often to prove...

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OpenStack is ready for the VMware refugees

OpenStack is ready for the VMware refugees

Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware has left a lot of customers uneasy (and with rising...

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Former head of YC’s Continuity Fund Ali Rowghani launches new seed firm

Former head of YC’s Continuity Fund Ali Rowghani launches...

Ali Rowghani, a former Y Combinator managing director and former Twitter executive,...

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Cancer AI Alliance joins medical and tech expertise together with $40M to collaborate on next-gen care

Cancer AI Alliance joins medical and tech expertise together...

A group of major medical institutions specializing in cancer care have formed a...

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Meta confirms it may train its AI on any image you ask Ray-Ban Meta AI to analyze

Meta confirms it may train its AI on any image you ask...

We recently asked Meta if it trains AI on photos and videos that users take on the...

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Four-legged robot learns to climb ladders

Four-legged robot learns to climb ladders

The proliferation of robots like Boston Dynamics’ Spot has showcased the versatility...

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Venture firm CRV returns $275 million citing overvaluation of mature startups

Venture firm CRV returns $275 million citing overvaluation...

CRV, a more than 50-year-old venture firm, is returning to investors $275 million...