SoftBank virtually halts new funding as it contends with persistent losses (techcrunch.com)
Elon Musk says Twitter will provide a free write-only API to bots providing ‘good’ content (techcrunch.com)
AWS says growth dropped to mid-teens to start new year as customer cost-cutting continues (techcrunch.com)
Meta’s Reality Labs lost $13.7 billion on VR and AR last year (techcrunch.com)
Netflix lists rules and exemptions to prevent account sharing outside household (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI releases tool to detect AI-generated text, including from ChatGPT (techcrunch.com)
Thrive Capital believed to be leading new multibillion-dollar investment in Stripe (techcrunch.com)
Big factories, big trucks and big Musk: Tesla Q4 earnings expectations (techcrunch.com)
Waymo lays off staff as Alphabet announces 12,000 job cuts (techcrunch.com)
No rest for Salesforce as activist investor Elliott Management takes multibillion-dollar stake in company (techcrunch.com)
Alphabet makes cuts, Twitter bans third-party clients, and Netflix’s Reed Hastings steps down (techcrunch.com)
Area 120, Google’s in-house incubator, severely impacted by Alphabet mass layoffs (techcrunch.com)
Amazon ends charity donation program AmazonSmile (techcrunch.com)
Google-backed ShareChat cuts 20% workforce to ‘sustain through headwinds’ (techcrunch.com)
Norton LifeLock says thousands of customer accounts breached (techcrunch.com)
CircleCI says hackers stole encryption keys and customers’ source code (techcrunch.com)
CES 2023 debrief (techcrunch.com)
Sam Bankman-Fried launches Substack: ‘I didn’t steal funds, and I certainly didn’t stash billions away’ (techcrunch.com)
Twitter is considering selling usernames through online auctions, new report claims (techcrunch.com)
OpenAI begins piloting ChatGPT Professional, a premium version of its viral chatbot (techcrunch.com)
Coinbase to cut 20% jobs, abandon ‘several’ projects to weather downturns in crypto market (techcrunch.com)
Vista Equity Partners to acquire insurance software company Duck Creek for $2.6B (techcrunch.com)
Sony and Honda unveil Afeela, Bird Buddy launches a new smart feeder, and Amazon secures an $8B loan (techcrunch.com)
Mastercard launches web3-focused artist incubator with Polygon (techcrunch.com)
Daily Crunch: In layoff update, Amazon CEO tells workers ‘we plan to eliminate just over 18,000 roles’ (techcrunch.com)
Amazon to cut 18,000 jobs as tech layoffs continue (techcrunch.com)
BMW unveils Dee prototype, “the next level of human-machine interaction” (techcrunch.com)
Burned by layoffs, tech workers are rethinking risk (techcrunch.com)
Yet another Zomato co-founder leaves the firm (techcrunch.com)
Will Bitcoin and Ethereum prices stagnate, sink or rebound in 2023? (techcrunch.com)
Twitter suffered outage after Elon Musk made ‘significant’ backend server architecture changes (techcrunch.com)
What to expect from AI in 2023 (techcrunch.com)
Tesla stock plunges as investors fear Twitter dramas, loss of China sales (techcrunch.com)
FTC fines Fortnite maker Epic Games $520M over children’s privacy and item shop charges (techcrunch.com)
Twitter bans posting of handles and links to Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and more (Updated) (techcrunch.com)
Twitter just banned prominent journalists who cover Elon Musk with no warning (techcrunch.com)
Musk sells $3.5B worth of Tesla stock as investors voice concern over Twitter involvement (techcrunch.com)
Elon Jet, the Twitter account tracking Elon Musk’s flights, was permanently suspended (techcrunch.com)
SBF scheduled to testify tomorrow at US House hearing on FTX collapse (techcrunch.com)
Thoma Bravo snags Coupa for $8B despite activist pressure to hold off for higher price (techcrunch.com)
Twitter Blue to relaunch with actual verification process, higher price for Apple users (techcrunch.com)
Rackspace blames ransomware attack for ongoing Exchange outage (techcrunch.com)
Confirmed: Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield stepping down in January (techcrunch.com)
Sam Bankman-Fried says unlikely to testify in Dec 13 House Committee hearing (techcrunch.com)
Bret Taylor steps down as co-chair and CEO of Salesforce (techcrunch.com)
DoorDash lays off 1,250 employees to rein in operating expenses (techcrunch.com)
Bitcoin ‘rarely’ used for legal transactions, on ‘road to irrelevance’, say European Central Bank officials (techcrunch.com)
Amazon shutting down wholesale distribution in third business exit in India (techcrunch.com)
Crypto firm Genesis says it has ‘no plans to file bankruptcy imminently’ (techcrunch.com)
Tesla issues back-to-back recalls (techcrunch.com)
Ok, I take back what I said about tech layoffs (techcrunch.com)
Binance’s CZ on FTX: ‘We were the last straw that broke the camel’s back’ (techcrunch.com)
Amazon hardware head confirms layoffs in memo (techcrunch.com)
Amazon begins layoffs as economic woes mount (techcrunch.com)
After mothballing Amazon Care, Amazon reenters tele-health with Amazon Clinic, a marketplace for third-party virtual consultants (techcrunch.com)
The power pendulum is swinging back to employers, isn't it? (techcrunch.com)
Crypto VC David Pakman on FTX: an “entirely avoidable tragedy” (techcrunch.com)
Musk’s lawyer tells Twitter staff they won’t be liable if company violates FTC consent decree (techcrunch.com)
Twitter chief information security officer Lea Kissner departs (techcrunch.com)
Sequoia Capital marks its FTX investment down to zero dollars (techcrunch.com)
Google and Twitter veteran maps out a Twitter alternative (techcrunch.com)
Fake Twitter accounts flock to blue check mark chaos (techcrunch.com)
Volvo’s flagship all-electric SUV embraces software-defined vehicle trend (techcrunch.com)
Elon Musk details his vision for a Twitter payments system (techcrunch.com)
RIP TechCrunch’s Official Twitter Badge (11/9/22-11/9/22) (techcrunch.com)
Twitter will add an ‘official’ badge to high-profile accounts in lieu of verification (techcrunch.com)
Salesforce confirms it has laid off hundreds of employees (techcrunch.com)
Crypto giant Binance to acquire rival FTX following ‘liquidity crunch’ (techcrunch.com)
A beginner’s guide to Mastodon, the open source Twitter alternative (techcrunch.com)
Lyft takes $135.7 million hit on Argo AI shutdown (techcrunch.com)
Nvidia touts a slower chip for China to avoid US ban (techcrunch.com)
Elon Musk’s Twitter faces US midterm elections, his first high-stakes test (techcrunch.com)
US DOJ announces seizure of $3.36B in cryptocurrency (techcrunch.com)
Twitter to delay verification check mark rollout until after US midterm elections (techcrunch.com)
Amazon exec confirms corporate hiring freeze through end of year (techcrunch.com)
Twitter CMO is the latest to leave in a string of exec departures (techcrunch.com)
Amazon Prime now comes with a full music catalog of 100 million songs and ad-free podcasts (techcrunch.com)
Elon Musk’s plan to charge for Twitter verification will be a misinformation nightmare (techcrunch.com)