Motion filed to hold Trump in contempt during hush money trial
The order was made following a series of social media posts by the former president, including ones about witnesses Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels.
The order was made following a series of social media posts by the former president, including ones about witnesses Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels.
Former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker concluded his testimony about a deal to kill negative stories about former President Trump during the 2016 campaign, and two more witnesses were called.
The stories you need to start your day: Trump’s trial witnesses, the NBA playoffs and more in today’s edition of The Yodel newsletter
On the first day of Trump’s first criminal trial, prosecutors asked Judge Juan Merchan to fine Trump $3,000 for three social media posts attacking witnesses who will testify in the hush money case against him that they say violate a gag order put in place by the judge last month
Judge Juan Merchan blocks an attempt by former President Donald Trump to force NBCUniversal to hand over information about the release of its recent documentary about adult film star Stormy Daniels.
Tesla has begun laying off more people, starting with two senior executives, with plans for hundreds more. CEO Elon Musk says the company has to get “absolutely hard core about headcount.”
The EU has officially opened a significant investigation into Meta for election disinformation. While the European Commission’s statement doesn’t explicitly mention Russia, Meta told Engadget the EU probe targets the country’s Doppelganger campaign.
Viewership was still better than what the NFL Draft drew two years ago.
“I think a huge reason why we all came to do this reunion is to show our viewers and the audience our true personalities and who we are as adults,” Vertes told Yahoo Entertainment.
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What to know about King Charles’s recent health issues, from an enlarged prostate to a cancer diagnosis.
Now, in a signal of the popularity of the medium, one of the startups building a platform for creating and distributing newsletters is announcing some funding. NEA is leading this Series B with Sapphire Sport and previous backer Lightspeed Venture Partners also participating. The startup is not disclosing its valuation with this round but it has now raised $46.5 million.
Entrepreneurs Al Yang and Adar Arnon met at Harvard Business School and quickly realized that they had an interest in common: cybersecurity. "We've witnessed an evolving business climate that brought along with it an unprecedented need for improved security processes," Arnon told TechCrunch. Yang and Arnon decided to turn this interest into something more, so they started SafeBase, which was accepted into Y Combinator's accelerator program during the pandemic.
Chegg's growth metrics have declined since the launch of free AI learning tools, weighing heavily on the stock.
Ansa, a startup that helps merchants develop and offer branded virtual wallets, has raised a $14 million Series A round of funding, the company has told TechCrunch exclusively. Renegade Partners led Ansa’s latest financing, which included participation from existing backers Bain Capital Ventures, BoxGroup and Wischoff Ventures and new investor B37 Ventures. With this latest raise, Ansa has raised a total of nearly $20 million in venture capital, including a $5.4 million seed round.
Modern teams are awash in real-time digital feedback from the cars. The A2RL, as it is known, is not the first autonomous racing series: There's the Roborace series, which saw autonomous race cars setting fast lap times while dodging virtual obstacles; and the Indy Autonomous Challenge, which most recently ran at Las Vegas Motor Speedway during CES 2024. While the Roborace focused on single-car time trials and the Indy Autonomous series centers on oval action, A2RL set out to break new ground in a couple of areas.
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The European Union said on Tuesday that it suspects Meta's social networking platforms, Facebook and Instagram, of breaking the bloc' rules for larger platforms in relation to election integrity. The European Commission (EC) has opened formal infringement proceedings to investigate Meta under the Digital Services Act (DSA), an online governance and content moderation framework. The EU's concerns here span several areas.
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Yelp announced a new AI-powered chatbot today for consumers that helps them connect with relevant businesses for their tasks. The company joins a long list of organizations leaning into AI chatbots as an assistive medium. Yelp said that the chatbot uses OpenAI's large language models (LLMs) along with its own data to ask users queries about their problems and connect them with relevant professionals for the job.
Dan Purcell, the founder and CEO of Ceartas, recalls feeling devastated when he realized that a former partner had, unbeknownst to him, uploaded previously private, intimate videos of them onto a porn site. Purcell then looked into services that could help him take the videos down, but most were aimed at large enterprises rather than creators. Resolved to come up with a solution to help prevent such violations, Purcell roped in his co-founder Jonny Smyth (now CTO of the startup) to build Ceartas in 2021.