Sunday, November 19, 2023

India and Australia World Cup final shatters streaming records on Hotstar

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In India, few events garner as much attention as a cricket game. And there’s no match for a World Cup final. The Sunday game has already topped 59 million concurrent viewers, shattering the 53 million milestone that was set just earlier this week. With no high-profile cricket game any time soon, Hotstar is likely to […]


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With Amo, the founder of Zenly wants to make social apps social again

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In 2018, I wrote a TechCrunch article stating that 2018 was “the year social networks were no longer social.” Reflecting on that article, I’m not sure that 2018 was the turning point. But the premise of the article still holds up well. At some point, social networks were no longer about connecting with your closest […]

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India and Australia World Cup final shatters streaming records on Hotstar

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In India, few events garner as much attention as a cricket game. And there’s no match for a World Cup final. The Sunday game, which began just half an hour ago, has already topped 54 million concurrent viewers, shattering a record that was set just earlier this week. With no high-profile cricket game anytime soon, […]

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A timeline of Sam Altman’s firing from OpenAI — and the fallout

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In a dramatic turn of events late Friday, ex-Y Combinator president Sam Altman was fired as CEO of AI startup OpenAI, the company behind viral AI hits like ChatGPT, GPT-4 and DALL-E 3, by OpenAI’s board of directors. Then, the company’s longtime president and co-founder, Greg Brockman, resigned — as did three senior OpenAI researchers. […]


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Time for moderation?

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Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen made it clear that while he was keen on buying Convoy because of the "incredible tech stack" it built, he wasn't buying its strategy.


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Robotics Q&A with Toyota Research Institute’s Max Bajracharya and Russ Tedrake

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For the next few weeks, TechCrunch’s robotics newsletter Actuator will be running Q&As with some of the top minds in robotics. Subscribe here for future updates.  Part 1: CMU’s Matthew Johnson-Roberson This week, we’ve got a two-fer. Toyota Research Institute’s Russ Tedrake and Max Bajracharya split the job. Tedrake is TRI’s vice president of Robotics […]


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Saturday, November 18, 2023

OpenAI’s board is no match for investors’ wrath

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On Friday, the board of OpenAI, the AI startup behind ChatGPT and other viral AI-powered hits, did something unexpected but seemingly well within its right: removed the company’s CEO, Sam Altman. But judging by how the situation’s unfolded, it seems that OpenAI’s investors and partners — and many of its employees — were more comfortable […]

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SpaceX launches Starship for the second time, going farther than ever before

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https://t.co/cahoRQ72lm — SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 18, 2023 SpaceX flew Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, for the second time ever today – and even though both the Super Heavy booster and the Starship upper stage had to be blown up in mid-air, it was still a […]


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SpaceX launches Starship for the second time, going farther than ever before

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Watch Starship’s second integrated flight test → https://t.co/bJFjLCiTbK https://t.co/cahoRQ72lm — SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 18, 2023 SpaceX flew Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, for the second time ever today – and it went way farther than the first time around. Developing… 

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Sam Altman ousted as OpenAI’s CEO

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Sam Altman has been fired from OpenAI, Inc., the 501(c)(3) nonprofit that acts as the governing body for OpenAI, the AI startup behind ChatGPT, DALL-E 3, GPT-4 and other highly capable generative AI systems. He’ll both leave the company’s board of directors and step down as CEO. In a post on OpenAI’s official blog, the […]


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TC+ Roundup: Just say no to triaging

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Good morning! All signs are pointing to a recovery in 2024, and that’ll be better for some than others. The past few years have seen investors propping up mediocre portfolio companies, hoping that a little boost can help them through a tough fundraising market. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Use discount code […]


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This Week in Apps: Apple’s iPhone app of the year finalists, plus 7 hidden gems

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Is the App Store still a source for new technology innovations or has AI development become the hotter new tech to build for these days? We pondered this question this week when Apple unveiled its iPhone App of the Year finalists, which surprisingly included a trio of longtime favorites — hiking app AllTrails, language learning […]


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