Elon Musk's PAC Is Buying Ads for Donald Trump on Elon Musk's X
<div>America PAC purchased ads yielding tens of millions of impressions on X between July 8 and October 1, according to the platform’s ad disclosure data.</div>
<div>America PAC purchased ads yielding tens of millions of impressions on X between July 8 and October 1, according to the platform’s ad disclosure data.</div>
<div><p>Amnon Shashua, the founder and CEO of Mobileye, has an eye for complicated problems that he believes can be solved with AI, and that AI itself can be fixed to become more reliable. On the sidelines of building and running his self-driving car technology company — which he took public, then sold to Intel, then […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p></div>
<div><p>In an interesting variation of the usual “stop stealing our stuff” lawsuit already deployed dozens of times against AI companies, today brings a more nuanced form of alleged theft. Alcon Entertainment, a production company behind “Blade Runner 2049,” is suing Tesla, Elon Musk, and Warner Bros Digital for what they claim is a willful circumvention […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p></div>
T-Mobile and AT&T say US regulators should drop a plan to require unlocking of phones within 60 days of activation, claiming that locking phones to a carrier's network makes it possible to provide cheaper handsets to consumers. "If the Commission mandates a uniform unlocking policy, it is consumers—not providers—who stand to lose the most," T-Mobile alleged in an October 17 filing with the Federal Communications Commission. The proposed rule has support from consumer advocacy groups who say
Yuichiro Tamaki, leader of Japan’s Democratic Party for the People (DPP), has proposed a crypto tax reform to support the growth of a token economy, including Web3 and NFTs if he wins the election. His plan would lower the taxation on crypto gains to a 20% separate declaration tax instead of treating them as miscellaneous income. Proposal for Lowering Crypto Taxes According to the campaign document, Tamaki suggested allowing losses to be carried forward for three years and exempting taxes on exc
TL;DR The SEC continued the legal battle with Ripple by filing an official appeal on a specific summary judgment. The company’s CLO likened the regulator’s desire to prevail in the case to the tragic end of Captain Ahab from the novel Moby Dick. What Does the SEC Hope for? The legal tussle between Ripple and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) seems nowhere near its end following the latest move by the agency. Recall that it officially appealed a 2023 verdict of Judge Analisa Torr
Attention, developers: you can now get your hands on Elon Musk's Grok 2 multimodal language model through his startup xAI's new API.Read More
<div>Immigration and Customs Enforcement's contract with Paragon Solutions faces scrutiny over whether it complies with the Biden administration's executive order on spyware, WIRED has learned.</div>
Qualcomm unveiled its Snapdragon 8 Elite, which it claimed is the world's fastest mobile centralized processing unit (CPU).Read More
GamesBeat lead writer Dean Takahashi, sat down with Xsolla CMO, Berkley Egenes, to dig into the latest Xsolla news.Read More
<div><p>Is the grass greener on the other side? We’re not sure, but the sky is most certainly bluer. It’s been almost two years since Elon Musk purchased Twitter, now X, leading people to set up shop on alternative platforms. Mastodon, Post, Pebble (which has already shuttered operations) and Spill have been presented as potential replacements, […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p></div>
<div><p>Los Angeles is known for glitz, but there’s also a lot of grit in the air — literally. Thousands of containers are moved off and on ships at the area’s two major ports every day, almost always transferred via pollution-spewing diesel trucks. This has made Los Angeles a hotbed for all kinds of new electric […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p></div>
More than 100 physical attacks have been perpetrated against Bitcoiners, according to the “Known Physical Bitcoin Attacks” archive, maintained by Casa’s co-founder Jameson Lopp. The archive catalogs a concerning pattern in the crypto landscape: a rise in physical attacks against those possessing BTC and other digital assets. While numerous incidents go unnoticed, this list serves as a sobering reminder of the perils of crypto ownership. Rising Threats The archive chronicles numerous violent enco
<div><p>While fund sizes of many venture capital firms have ballooned into billions of dollars over the last decade, Benchmark Partners, one of Silicon Valley’s most successful investors, has stuck to raising approximately $425 million in capital every few years. That’s what the storied firm told in a letter to its limited partners when it announced […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p></div>
<div><p>As competition from newcomers like Bluesky and Threads increases, X on Monday launched a “Radar” trend analysis tool that aims to offer subscribers real-time insights into emerging trends and conversations on the platform. The tool, previously known as Insights, was initially targeted at Verified Organizations (businesses), allowing marketers to track topics and trends on the […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p></div>
<div>The Russian-aligned network Storm-1516 has a long history of posting fake whistleblower videos—including deepfakes—to push Kremlin talking points.</div>
<div><p>News Corp’s Dow Jones and the NY Post have sued growing AI startup Perplexity over what they describe as a “content kleptocracy.” In a lawsuit filed in New York on Monday, the media organization claimed that Perplexity engages in copyright violations on a “grand scale,” simultaneously duplicating and misrepresenting original content created by others: Its […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p></div>
For Cherise Irons, chocolate, red wine, and aged cheeses are dangerous. So are certain sounds, perfumes and other strong scents, cold weather, and thunderstorms. Stress and lack of sleep, too. She suspects all of these things can trigger her migraine attacks, which manifest in a variety of ways: pounding pain in the back of her head, exquisite sensitivity to the slightest sound, even blackouts and partial paralysis. Irons, 48, of Coral Springs, Florida, once worked as a school assistant principa
<div><p>Shortly after the social marketplace Poshmark announced it would lower selling fees and increase fees for buyers, the company decided to revert to its original fee structure following outrage among sellers. In an email to sellers sent on Monday (and viewed by TechCrunch), founder and CEO Manish Chandra wrote an apology about the fee change, […]</p> <p>© 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.</p></div>
TL;DR Shibarium-related metrics have headed north lately, while SHIB’s burn rate exploded by triple digits on a 24-hour scale. However, the recent shift from self-custody methods toward exchanges could be interpreted as a bearish factor for the meme coin’s price. Good News for SHIB Bulls? The second-largest meme coin has performed quite well in the past month, registering a 30% price increase. Despite being slightly in the red today (October 21), some important factors suggest that the rally