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The CEO of AI search company Perplexity, Aravind Srinivas, has offered to cross a virtual picket line and provide services during a strike by New York Times tech workers. The NYT Tech Guild announced its strike Monday, having said for months that this was the deadline. “But the company has decided that our members aren’t … Read more
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Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images A representative of Elon Musk’s America PAC said the winners of its $1 million voter sweepstakes aren’t randomly selected. The people who are awarded the checks are chosen to be paid “spokespeople” for the pro-Trump PAC, lawyer Chris Gober testified in a Philadelphia court on Monday, as … Read more
As Dogecoin fan Elon Musk continues advocating for Donald Trump, DOGE is the biggest gainer in the top 100 coins Monday while Bitcoin sinks.
Bitcoin struggles to reclaim $70,000 ahead of the US election, but analysts agree that volatility will be present before and after the election result is announced.
Some Bitcoin analysts see the BTC price heading above $80,000 immediately if Donald Trump beats Kamala Harris.
British pension specialist has guided the U.K.’s first pension to make an allocation into bitcoin.
Anthropic’s newest AI model has arrived. But it’s pricier than the last generation — and, unlike Anthropic’s other models, can’t analyze images just yet. Claude 3.5 Haiku, which Anthropic announced last month, matches or bests the performance of Claude 3 Opus, once Anthropic’s state-of-the-art model, on particular benchmarks. Available through Anthropic’s API and a number … Read more
The Echo Spot is a smart alarm clock / speaker hybrid that’s $5 shy of its all-time low price. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge The clocks have fallen back an hour for many of us, and if it all feels a bit disorienting, you’re not alone. Thankfully, Amazon’s versatile Echo Spot … Read more
For Shahaf Bar-Geffen, CEO of COTI, blockchain privacy is more than just a narrative—it’s a “fundamental” necessity for Web3.
At TechCrunch Disrupt, our team sits front and center, furiously typing away at our laptops to publish real-time news from impressive speakers like NFL quarterback-turned-founder Colin Kaepernick, Perplexity AI founder Aravind Srinivas, and Ashton Kutcher. We are a well-oiled machine. Some writers have been covering Disrupt since the old days, before Meta was Meta, and … Read more
Anduril, the defense tech company co-founded by Palmer Luckey, is considering building its first major manufacturing plant, a 5-million-square-foot facility known as “Arsenal-1,” in Arizona, Ohio or Texas, according to someone familiar with the matter. The company, which is developing autonomous drones, planes, and submarines, had announced $1.5 billion at a $14 billion post-money valuation … Read more
The machines that process mail-in ballots help count thousands of votes in a day — and Philadelphia officials know that every second matters. Continue reading…
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Bitcoin price trades below $70,000 as traders derisk ahead of the election. Will altcoins follow this trend or take advantage of BTC’s consolidation?
The Monetary Authority of Singapore is pulling together the projects and participants needed for the next step in its asset tokenization trials.
EigenLayer kicked off programmatic EIGEN token incentives for restakers in October.
To combat the perception that its “open” AI is aiding foreign adversaries, Meta today said that it’s making its Llama series of AI models available to U.S. government agencies and contractors in national security. “We are pleased to confirm that we’re making Llama available to U.S. government agencies, including those that are working on defense … Read more
For those who might not be deeply familiar with blockchain, can you explain why it’s so crucial in today’s digital age? One of the core parts of the digital age is giving power back to the people; you see it in the way ordinary users can have their voices heard and businesses can be seen … Read more
The proposed amendments would allow for sweeping changes to the country’s financial sector.
