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Yulu electric scooters
Transportation

India’s Yulu raises $93M as quick-commerce boom fuels e-bike demand | TechCrunch

As India’s quick-commerce platforms race to deliver everything from groceries to smartphones in minutes, electric mobility startup Yulu...

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Media & Entertainment

Disney+ looks to TikTok creators to bring fan content to its short-form video feed | TechCrunch

Disney is partnering with TikTok to bring Disney-focused fan content directly into the Disney+ app. The companies are...

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In Brief

Apple now makes 1 in 4 iPhones in India: Report | TechCrunch

Apple is now manufacturing 25% of its iPhones in India — hitting a milestone JPMorgan predicted back in...

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In Brief

OpenAI unveils Lockdown Mode to protect sensitive data from prompt injection attacks | TechCrunch

OpenAI announced a new feature that it says will provide additional protection from prompt injection attacks, where malicious...

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AI

OpenAI’s feud with mathematicians is only escalating | TechCrunch

Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work as they...

Gaming

Pokémon Go maker Niantic is reportedly selling its games division | TechCrunch

Niantic, the company behind the popular augmented reality game Pokémon Go, is looking to sell its game development business,...

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Startups

Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis | TechCrunch

There is a certain wildness in the tech industry these days that both mimics previous eras of large...

MacPaw x Liquid AI
AI

MacPaw taps Liquid AI to offer on-device inference to devs building for its app store | TechCrunch

Ukraine-based app developer MacPaw has partnered with Liquid AI to power its products with locally hosted AI models,...

During a press conference organized by the National Council of the Order of Journalists at the Chamber of Deputies, Fanpage director Francesco Cancellato asks the Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni about the wiretapping case involving himself, other journalists and activists.
Security

Italian prosecutors confirm journalist was hacked with Paragon spyware | TechCrunch

Italian authorities confirmed that a journalist who was alerted by WhatsApp last year of a suspected spyware attack...

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Security

Former cyber executive turned whistleblower accuses IBM of covering up several data breaches | TechCrunch

A former IBM cybersecurity executive accused the company of getting hacked three times in the previous decade by...