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Push it jumps to No. 1 on App Store promising a way to send push notifications to friends

TechCrunch

It’s clear that data will be used for marketing purposes and shared with Push it’s vendors and business partners, the policy says.). “All the excitement around Push it has been entirely organic,” he claims, though admitting the company used social media to hype the app’s launch. It’s No.

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Twig takes $35M to turn stuff you own into a way to pay

TechCrunch

“Essentially our core business is we enable consumers to get paid for their old items and in the process we give a new life to their items — and this increases supply in the secondary market at least,” he says. ” Cupi condenses Twig’s business to a very simple pitch: “We tokenize assets.”

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VW is testing its robotaxis in snowy, icy Norway

Ars Technica

That's why Moia Volkswagen's AV division has begun testing its autonomous ID Buzzes around the streets of Oslo, Norway, this winter. That hype has certainly calmed down a lot over the last few years as reality began to bite. For a while, autonomous driving was the hottest thing in tech. Startups have shut down, winnowing the field.

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Kry closes $312M Series D after use of its telehealth tools grows 100% yoy

TechCrunch

” The free version of Kry’s tools for clinicians generated “big uplift” for the business, per Schildt, but he’s more excited about the wider service delivery shifts that are happening as the pandemic has accelerated uptake of digital health tools. In short, Kry is agnostic about how it helps deliver healthcare.

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Tesla Investors Concerned Elon Musk Is Causing Huge Sales Drop

Futurism

In better times, Musk might've been able to write off the tumble as a blip, a momentary market fluctuation, since the hype-driven stock has always tended to be volatile. Tesla's stock woes are a reflection of ominous business fundamentals. If investors were hoping for a fresh start in 2025, it's looking like anything but.

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Social media giants urged to tackle data-scraping privacy risks

TechCrunch

High profile examples of such systems, such as OpenAI’s large language model ChatGPT, have relied (at least in part) upon data posted online for training their systems — and a class action lawsuit filed against the U.S.

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Tesla Just Got Some Extremely Bad News

Futurism

The uninspiring numbers almost certainly indicate that Musk's controversial role in the Trump administration, his dalliance with far-right forces at home and abroad, as well as his polarizing personal behavior like his thinly-veiled Nazi salute are all blowing back on his businesses. Maybe the hype is finally starting to even out.

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