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An overly broad age assurance law in Mississippi is leading to arguments about which platforms — Bluesky, Mastodon, or others — offer the best solution for avoiding crackdowns on internet freedoms.
The company that makes the Bluesky social app announced last week that it would block access to its service in the state of Mississippi, rather than comply with the new age verification law. In a blog post, the company explained that, as a small team, it lacked the resources to implement the substantial technical changes required by the law, and it…
More clean tech manufacturing investments were cancelled in U.S. in the second quarter than were announced, according to a new study from the Rhodium Group and MIT. Companies cancelled $5 billion worth of projects, while only $4 billion in new investments were announced.
Threads is testing a new feature that makes it easy to share long-form text on the social network, Meta confirmed to TechCrunch on Thursday. The feature lets users attach a block of text to a post instead of creating a thread of several different posts when looking to share more in-depth thoughts and ideas.
App researcher Radu Oncescu first spotted the new “text attachment” feature on iOS and shared a screenshot of it. According to the app’s description of the new feature, it’s designed to allow users to “attach longer text and get…
What happens when your first 10 hires aren’t people at all? At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27–29 at San Francisco’s Moscone West, we’re digging into the new wave of startups replacing or augmenting early employees with AI agents. Think outbound sales, billing, and customer support — automated from day one.
This panel, hosted on the Builders Stage, features a mix of technical founders and seasoned operators who are actually doing it, debating where the line between human and machine should be drawn — and how far is too…
Nearly a year ago, GM began selling an adapter to allow existing electric vehicles to use the North American Charging Standard plugs at Tesla Supercharger stalls. EV owners rejoiced in their newfound freedom.
Now, GM is announcing three more adapters. The additional adapters, which help GM customers access EV chargers with different charging rates and standards, is a win for flexibility, but at the cost of simplicity. It’s entirely possible that two-EV households could own four different adapters.
Several years ago, the majority of EV…
As AI becomes more prevalent in the classroom—where students use it to complete assignments and teachers are uncertain about how to address it—an AI platform called MathGPT launched last year with the goal of providing an “anti-cheating” tutor to college students and a teaching assistant to professors.
Framer, a no-code website builder that claims over half a million monthly active users, has reached a $2 billion valuation after raising a $100 million Series D funding round led by existing investors Meritech and Atomico.
This double-unicorn milestone comes at a time of hype for website builders — including direct competitors like Figma, Squarespace and Wix, as well as rising ‘vibe coding’ platforms such as Cursor and Lovable.
In 2023, Framer raised a $27 million Series C led by Meritech at an undisclosed valuation.
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Billionaire entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban thinks America’s healthcare industry is broken, and he’s not mincing words about it.
“No one looks at the financial side of healthcare and says, ‘This is the way it should work,’” Cuban said on this week’s episode of the Equity podcast. “When you go to the doctor and you get a prescription . . . you have no idea what the cost to you is going to be. You don’t know if you can afford it or not.”
The former “Shark Tank” host and minority owner of the Dallas Mavericks…
Investors are clambering to get onto Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable’s cap table, making unsolicited offers of investment that value the company at more than $4 billion, reports Financial Times.
Lovable CEO Anton Osika isn’t currently engaging with the flurry of inbound, the Times says, which comes a few weeks after the startup announced a $200 million round at a $1.8 billion valuation in a deal led by Accel. A Lovable spokesperson told the outlet the company isn’t fundraising now. TechCrunch has reached out for further…