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meta We’re back in court, but this time there’s only one defendant. First arguments in the high-profile case brought by New Mexico begin Monday. metaThe state’s attorney general, Raul Torrez, said the agency failed to protect apps like Facebook and Instagram from online predators targeting child users. The lawsuit, originally filed in 2023, alleges that Meta “facilitated human trafficking by directing and connecting users, including children, to sexually explicit, exploitative, and child sexual abuse content” in the state. “What we’re really alleging is that Meta has developed a dangerous product, a product that not only targets children, but allows them…
Boston Dynamics, the Massachusetts-based robotics company known for its four-legged robots and humanoids, plans to change its leadership team. Robert Player announced in an internal memo on Tuesday that he would step down as the company’s chief executive officer, A3 first reported. Amanda McMaster, the company’s chief financial officer, will serve in the top role while the company searches for a replacement. Boston Dynamics sent TechCrunch a statement saying, “Robert Player is an icon in the global robotics industry, and the entire team at Boston Dynamics would like to express our deepest gratitude and appreciation for his leadership. From the…
Alphabet Inc. Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai during the Bloomberg Tech Conference on Wednesday, June 4, 2025 in San Francisco, California, USA.David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Imagesof the alphabet Debt sales continue to expand.The company is close to finalizing a global bond offering worth more than $30 billion, up from the $20 billion it raised on Monday, two people familiar with the deal said.On Tuesday morning, Alphabet went to European markets to raise about $11 billion in British pounds and Swiss francs, said the people, who requested anonymity because the details are private. Bloomberg previously reported that Alphabet…
Bangladesh will vote on Thursday in its first general election since a Gen Z rebellion toppled an aging dictatorship. Tens of millions of young people dreamed that this uprising would chart a new course for the country. In summer 2024, footage of protesters storming longtime leader Sheikh Hasina’s mansion and fleeing by helicopter shocked the world and galvanized other youth-led movements against corruption and cronyism that helped overthrow governments in Nepal and Madagascar. Many are happy that Hasina’s 15-year rule, marked by accusations of election fraud, plundering state resources and brutal suppression of opposition, is over. Mirza Shakil, a student…
As OpenAI faces increasing pressure from rival Anthropic’s improved coding tools, CEO Sam Altman told employees and investors that the company is feeling the momentum, too.Altman told OpenAI employees on Friday that ChatGPT, the company’s popular artificial intelligence chatbot, is “back to more than 10% monthly growth,” according to an internal Slack message seen by CNBC. OpenAI is also preparing to unveil “a modernized chat model” this week, Altman said.More than 800 million people use ChatGPT every week, but Google and Anthropic are on the rise. OpenAI declared a “code red” in December to improve ChatGPT and temporarily halted several…
AI lab Flapping Airplanes just raised $180 million in seed funding from Google Ventures, Sequoia, Index and others to do what most labs have quietly given up on: train models to learn like humans instead of scavenging the internet. The founding team, made up of brothers Ben and Asher Spector and co-founder Aidan Smith, is betting that fundamentally data-efficient training could open the door to entirely new AI capabilities. Today on TechCrunch’s Equity Podcast, TechCrunch AI Editor Russell Brandon speaks with all three founders about why investors wrote such big checks to labs with no products, what AI’s massive efficiencies…
liftThe company’s stock fell 15% in extended trading Tuesday after the ride-hailing company reported disappointing fourth-quarter results.Here’s how the company performed against LSEG’s estimates:Earnings per share: Non-comparable earnings: $1.59 billion vs. $1.76 billionSales increased 3% year over year. Bookings rose 19% year over year to $5.07 billion, in line with Wall Street expectations. Net income was approximately $2.76 billion, or $6.72 per share. The company said it expects earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, a measure of profitability, to be in the range of $120 million to $140 million for the current quarter. Analysts had expected sales of $139.8…
At least nine people were killed in a shooting at a high school and residential area in northeastern British Columbia, Canadian police said Tuesday. Police responded to reports of a shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School around 1:20pm local time on Tuesday and found six people dead and dozens injured. The other person died while being taken to the hospital. The suspect in the shooting was found dead from an “apparent self-inflicted wound,” police said. Both victims were airlifted to hospital with serious or life-threatening injuries. Police said about 25 other people with non-life-threatening injuries were being treated at local…
At least nine people were killed in a shooting at a high school and residential area in northeastern British Columbia, Canadian police said Tuesday. Police responded to reports of a shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School around 1:20pm local time on Tuesday and found six people dead and dozens injured. The other person died while being taken to the hospital. The suspect in the shooting was found dead from an “apparent self-inflicted wound,” police said. Both victims were airlifted to hospital with serious or life-threatening injuries. Police said about 25 other people with non-life-threatening injuries were being treated at local…
Jen Tran & Devin StraderStatus: SplitOn the Season 21 finale of The Bachelorette, it seemed like Bachelor alum Jen Tran finally had her happy ending with finalist Devin Strader. But Jen revealed on After the Final Rose in September 2024 that Devin snubbed her as soon as the cameras stopped. “He would boldly declare his love and then all of a sudden the next day he wouldn’t say anything and deny that he was in love,” Jen told host Jesse Palmer on the Sept. 3 episode. “All the promises he made to me, all the love he wanted to give…