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Techmeme - 2024-11-15T01:35:43-05:00

Grubhub co-founder Matt Maloney says he led an effort to buy Grubhub for $1B+ around the start of 2024 and in 2022; Wonder bought Grubhub for $650M on Nov. 13 (Financial Times) - 2024-11-15T01:35:00-05:00

Eighteen US states, led by Kentucky, sue the SEC and its commissioners, including Chairman Gary Gensler, over its crackdown on the crypto industry (Decrypt) - 2024-11-15T01:15:02-05:00

The US DOJ says Cruise admits to submitting a false report to influence an investigation into an October 2023 crash with a pedestrian and will pay a $500K fine (David Shepardson/Reuters) - 2024-11-15T00:25:01-05:00

In his amended lawsuit against OpenAI, Musk names new defendants including Microsoft, Reid Hoffman, and ex-OpenAI board member and Microsoft VP Dee Templeton (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - 2024-11-15T00:00:17-05:00

NASA partners with Microsoft to create Earth Copilot, an AI chatbot that can answer questions about the Earth using NASA's geospatial information (Emma Roth/The Verge) - 2024-11-14T23:20:06-05:00

SwiftConnect, which provides a platform to let workers access physical offices via mobile digital badges, raised a $37M Series B led by Quadri Ventures (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - 2024-11-14T22:50:01-05:00

Fake AI albums targeting real artists are flooding Spotify to profit from royalty fraud, abusing a distribution process effectively based on the honor system (Elizabeth Lopatto/The Verge) - 2024-11-14T21:35:03-05:00

TikTok makes its AI ad creation tool, Symphony Creative Studio, available to all advertisers and adds the ability to use content from Getty Images with the tool (Emma Roth/The Verge) - 2024-11-14T20:00:45-05:00

Applied Materials reports Q4 revenue up 5% YoY to $7.05B, vs. $6.95B est., and forecasts Q1 revenue below estimates; AMAT drops 5%+ after hours (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters) - 2024-11-14T19:40:02-05:00

Lenovo reports Q2 revenue up 24% YoY to $17.85B, above est., and net income up 44% YoY to $358.5M, vs. $343.3M est.; IDC: Lenovo's PC shipments grew 3% YoY (Bloomberg) - 2024-11-14T19:25:01-05:00

Thomas E. Kurtz, an American mathematician, computer scientist, and co-inventor of the BASIC programming language with John Kemeny, died at 96 on November 12 (Dag Spicer/CHM) - 2024-11-14T18:35:00-05:00

Ilya Lichtenstein is sentenced to five years in prison for conspiring with his wife, Heather "Razzlekhan" Morgan, to launder money from the 2016 Bitfinex hack (Sabrina Willmer/Bloomberg) - 2024-11-14T18:05:02-05:00

OpenAI makes the ChatGPT desktop app for Windows available to all users, following an October release limited to paying ChatGPT subscribers (Michael Kan/PCMag) - 2024-11-14T17:30:13-05:00

Chinese autonomous driving company Pony.ai aims to raise $195M in its US IPO, targeting a valuation of up to $4.48B (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters) - 2024-11-14T15:55:05-05:00

Sources: the US House Select Committee on China summoned Amazon staffers in September to discuss concerns about Amazon's shopping partnership with TikTok (Alexandra S. Levine/Bloomberg) - 2024-11-14T15:30:01-05:00