Calling it a "big deal day," President Joe Biden visited Syracuse, New York Thursday to celebrate tech company Micron’s plans to build a campus of computer chip factories made possible in part with $6 billion of government support.
Visiting chipmakers has become one of President Biden's most common reasons for getting on the road. He will do so again Thursday as he travels to Syracuse to award Micron $6 billion in federal money.
President Biden’s CHIPS Act money continues to get doled out. TSMC just snagged $6.6 billion in grants to build three new factories in Arizona.
Donovan Mitchell scored 39 points to lead the Cleveland Cavaliers to a Game 7 victory over the Orlando Magic. The Cavaliers will face the Boston Celtics in the second round of the NBA playoffs.
TechCrunch Mobility is moving to Thursdays! Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! EV startup Fisker laid off more employees to "preserve cash" as bankruptcy inches ever closer; ride-hailing company Ola cut about 180 jobs and ousted its chief executive, Hemant Bakshi, merely four months after appointing him to the post; and lidar company Luminar slashed its 700-person workforce by 20% as part of a restructuring to adopt an "asset light" business model.
In response to a user on X who asked 'are you still on the bsky board,' this weekend, Jack Dorsey said only, 'no.' The company has yet to confirm his departure, and Dorsey hasn't publicly provided any further information.
Some major deals on board: A super-handy collapsible garden cart for over $200 off, a cordless Shark pro stick vacuum for over 50% off, and a 65-inch Philips 4K smart TV for under $400.
Lego announces new sets including Lambo V12 Vision GT, Aston Martin AMR23, Mercedes-AMG G63 & SL63, Porsche GT4 e-Performance, and Koenigsegg Jesko.
To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight, TechCrunch has been publishing a series of interviews focused on remarkable women who’ve contributed to the AI revolution. Catherine Breslin is the founder and director of Kingfisher Labs, where she helps companies develop AI strategies.
Affluent Americans may want to double-check how much of their bank deposits are protected by government-backed insurance. The rules governing trust accounts just changed.
Saturday Night Live returned this week with Dua Lipa serving as the show's host and musical performer.
Google has a lot at stake as a federal judge weighs whether the tech giant’s search empire should be broken up. But so does the rest of Silicon Valley.
Aluminum polish is great for restoring and protecting metal surfaces. It can be used on wheels, exhaust tips, and other metal surfaces that need cleaning.
So long, night sweats! Score the pillow that more than 16,000 five-star reviewers can't stop gushing about.
More than 6,000 shoppers give this treatment five stars: 'Leaves my mature skin noticeably smoother and brighter than other products.'
Berkshire Hathaway cut its stake in Apple by about 13% as its cash pile hit a record high in the first quarter. A bearish signal all around?
Edwards' coming-out party continued in emphatic fashion in a Game 1 win over the reigning champs.
This week in AI, eight prominent U.S. newspapers owned by investment giant Alden Global Capital, including the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel, sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement relating to the companies' use of generative AI tech. “We’ve spent billions of dollars gathering information and reporting news at our publications, and we can’t allow OpenAI and Microsoft to expand the big tech playbook of stealing our work to build their own businesses at our expense,” Frank Pine, the executive editor overseeing Alden’s newspapers, said in a statement.
Finch suffered the injury during Game 4 of the T'Wolves' first-round series.
The quality was choppy, but it was better than what the WNBA had.
Kleber suffered the injury during the Mavericks' series-clinching win Friday night over the Clippers.