209 arrested during Grand Army Plaza protest
The protesters laid a banner reading "Stop Arming Israel" in the middle of the street in Brooklyn.
The protesters laid a banner reading "Stop Arming Israel" in the middle of the street in Brooklyn.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said in a social media post Sunday that the University of Texas would not meet the demands of student protesters.
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.
A challenger with less than a year of UFC experience gave Pantoja plenty of problems. And wounds.
Former NBA guard Darius Morris has died at the age of 33. He played for five teams during his four NBA seasons. Morris played college basketball at Michigan.
Welcome, folks, to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch's regular newsletter that recaps the week that was in tech. A total of 200 people were let go across Google’s “Core” teams, which included those working on app platforms and other engineering roles. Elsewhere, Tesla CEO Elon Musk gutted the company's team responsible for overseeing its Supercharger network in a new round of layoffs -- despite recently winning over major automakers like Ford and General Motors.
The latest layoffs at Tesla this week cut close to the bone of the EV pioneer’s big competitive advantage — its ubiquitous Supercharger network.
Hallucinations -- the lies generative AI models tell, basically -- are a big problem for businesses looking to integrate the technology into their operations. In a recent piece in The Wall Street Journal, a source recounts an instance where Microsoft's generative AI invented meeting attendees and implied that conference calls were about subjects that weren't actually discussed on the call. As I wrote a while ago, hallucinations may be an unsolvable problem with today's transformer-based model architectures.
A lot can go wrong when you're building a house. Experts say it's essential to stay involved throughout the process.
The Yahoo Fantasy football analysts reveal their first quarterback rankings for the 2024 NFL season.
Henrik Fisker stood on a stage last August and proudly debuted two prototypes designed to catapult his eponymous EV startup Fisker into the mainstream. There was the Pear, a low-cost EV meant for the masses, and the Alaska, Fisker’s entry into the red-hot pickup truck market. In the weeks that followed, Fisker stopped paying the engineering firm that helped develop those vehicles, according to a previously unreported lawsuit filed in federal court this week.
The Yahoo Fantasy football analysts reveal their first defense rankings for the 2024 NFL season.
The busiest two weeks of first quarter earnings season are over. Here are the most significant reports.
Peloton, the exercise equipment maker and online fitness course provider, said it is laying off 15% of its workforce (about 400 people) as part of cost-cutting measures. The company also said its CEO, president, and board director, Barry McCarthy, would step down after two years in the role. McCarthy, who was previously CFO at Spotify and Netflix, was coerced out of retirement in early 2022 when Peloton's co-founder and then-CEO, John Foley, left the role alongside a major cost-cutting effort that saw 2,800 employees laid off.
A large number of police descended at Hamilton Hall at Columbia University Tuesday night to clear protesters who had occupied the building.
O'Hara was part of a golden era for USWNT.
Some 'garden leave' agreements that Wall Street uses to protect secrets are expected to survive the FTC's new noncompete ban, but some probably won't.
Investors weren't impressed with the company's growth forecast amid the AI rally.
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 company is planning to introduce new menu items, loyalty offerings, and more, but it likely falls short of what's needed for a turnaround.
Fantasy baseball analyst Scott Pianowski breaks down what he learned from a recent industry draft, one month into the 2024 MLB season.