7 m. ago FBI, EPA, and Treasury told Citibank to freeze funds as Trump administration tries to claw back climate money

The accounts were frozen in February, but documents filed today make public details which had previously been unknown. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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18 m. ago How to watch Nvidia GTC 2025, including CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote

GTC, Nvidia’s biggest conference of the year, will return starting Monday in San Jose. If you can’t make it in person, don’t sweat it. TechCrunch will be on the ground covering the major developments. Many of the biggest presentations, talks, and panels will be livestreamed, as well. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is scheduled to deliver […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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29 m. ago Google DeepMind unveils new AI models for controlling robots

Google DeepMind, Google’s AI research lab, on Wednesday announced new AI models called Gemini Robotics designed to enable real-world machines to interact with objects, navigate environments, and more. DeepMind published a series of demo videos showing robots equipped with Gemini Robotics folding paper, putting a pair of glasses into a case, and other tasks in […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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51 m. ago 'Odd' objects excel at navigating challenging terrains without central control

Locomotion, the ability to move from one place to another, is an essential survival strategy for virtually every organism. Adapting to the unpredictable terrain they run into, cells, fungi and microorganisms autonomously move and change shape to explore their environments, while animals run, crawl, slither, roll and jump.

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93 m. ago Browser User, one of the tools powering Manus, is also going viral

Manus, the viral AI “agent” platform from Chinese startup Butterfly Effect, has had an unintended side effect: raising the profile of another AI tool called Browser Use. Browser Use, which aims to make websites more accessible for agentic applications that perform tasks on a user’s behalf, has experienced explosive growth in the past week. Daily […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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93 m. ago Browser Use, one of the tools powering Manus, is also going viral

Manus, the viral AI “agent” platform from Chinese startup Butterfly Effect, has had an unintended side effect: raising the profile of another AI tool called Browser Use. Browser Use, which aims to make websites more accessible for agentic applications that perform tasks on a user’s behalf, has experienced explosive growth in the past week. Daily […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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2 h. ago Hakeem Jeffries To Headline Los Angeles Fundraiser As Democrats Try To Regroup After 2024

Hakeem Jeffries To Headline Los Angeles Fundraiser As Democrats Try To Regroup After 2024  Deadline

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4 h. ago Moonvalley releases a video generator it claims was trained on licensed content

Los Angeles-based startup Moonvalley has launched an AI video-generating model it claims is one of the few trained on openly licensed — not copyrighted — data. Named “Marey” after cinema trailblazer Étienne-Jules Marey, the model was built in collaboration with Asteria, a newer AI animation studio. Marey was trained on “owned or fully licensed” source […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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4 h. ago Garantex administrator arrested in India under extradition law

Garantex co-founder Aleksej Besciokov was arrested in India's Kerala on Tuesday under the country's extradition law. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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5 h. ago Why Onyx thinks its open source solution will win enterprise search

Enterprises have troves of internal data and information that employees need to complete their tasks or answer questions for potential customers. But that doesn’t mean the right information is easy to find. Onyx wants to solve that problem through its internal enterprise search tool. There are other big names in the category, like Glean — […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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6 h. ago Project Europe, a new early stage fund, will back people under 25 to build the next tech titan

A recurring theme in Europe’s tech world is that the region needs its own Google or Microsoft. Now comes the launch of a new fund to support this initiative. Project Europe — a new fund for founders “solving hard problems with technical solutions” — says it has initially pulled together $10 million from 128 different […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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6 h. ago Battery manufacturer Northvolt nears the end as it files for bankruptcy in Sweden

Though the Swedish startup has raised over $14 billion, it has been running short on cash recently. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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6 h. ago How La Fourche, an online organic supermarket, is thriving after q

La Fourche is just seven years old but it has been quite a rollercoaster for the French startup. During this time, the online grocery retailer has gone through a global pandemic, followed by the rise of venture-backed quick-commerce startups that promised grocery deliveries in less than 15 minutes, followed by the implosion of that vertical. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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6 h. ago Malware steals bank cards and passwords from millions of devices

One report claims at least 25 million people were targeted by infostealer malware between the beginning of 2023 and the end of 2024, capturing bank card details and passwords.

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6 h. ago ANALYSIS: 2024 Draft Class Could Be Future of Seattle Mariners

ANALYSIS: 2024 Draft Class Could Be Future of Seattle Mariners  Sports Illustrated

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7 h. ago Pentera nabs $60M at a $1B+ valuation to build simulated network attacks to train security teams

Strong and smart security operations teams are at the heart of any cybersecurity strategy, and today a startup that builds tooling to help keep them on their toes is announcing some funding on the back of a lot of growth. Pentera — which has built a system that launches simulations of network attacks to stress […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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7 h. ago Wolf Games, backed by ‘Law & Order’ creator, uses AI to create murder mystery games

Elliot Wolf, the executive producer and son of “Law & Order” creator Dick Wolf, is entering a new venture aimed at engaging true crime fans.  He, along with co-founders Andrew Adashek (CEO) and Noah Rosenberg (CTO), are developing Wolf Games, a new startup that leverages AI to generate daily murder mystery games. The company also […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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7 h. ago A record year for solar in Illinois and nationwide: 'Customers want it'

Illinois had a record year for solar growth in 2024 and can now draw enough energy from the sun to power 930,000 homes, according to a new report from the Solar Energy Industries Association and Wood Mackenzie.

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8 h. ago Ditto lands $82M to synchronize data from the edge to the cloud

Ditto, a company that’s setting out to bring “resilient” connectivity to edge devices, has raised $82 million in a Series B round of funding at a post-money valuation of $462 million — more than double its Series A valuation from 2023. “Edge,” in the context of Ditto’s industry, refers to a distributed computing model that […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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8 h. ago Pokémon Go maker Niantic is selling its games division to Scopely for $3.5B

Mobile gaming giant Scopely on Wednesday said it has agreed to acquire Pokémon Go maker Niantic's gaming division for $3.5 billion. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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