Elon Musk settles former Twitter executives’ lawsuit over severance pay
Ex-chiefs had sued the billionaire for more than $128mn after they were fired following the platform’s takeover ...
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Elon Musk settles $128 million severance pay lawsuit with ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, other top executives
The former top executives who filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk are: Parag Agrawal; Ned Segal, Twitter's former chief ...
Zohran Mamdani says he and Elon Musk agree on 1 key goal
Zohran Mamdani said "all politics" should share one of Elon Musk and DOGE's central focuses at an event geared toward the NYC ...
Judge Grants NYT’s Demand for List of Elon Musk’s Security Clearances, Citing His Own Public Admissions
A federal judge in New York granted a summary judgment motion to The New York Times regarding its public records request for a list of Elon Musk's security clearances -- and Musk's own public comments ...
Elon Musk agrees to settle with fired Twitter execs over severance dispute
Elon Musk and X have reached a settlement with a group of executives over $128 million in severance that they allege Musk had not paid since he bought what was then known as Twitter in 2022.
Elon Musk will settle $128M lawsuit with former Twitter execs
One of Musk's first moves upon buying Twitter was to fire CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Segal, and top lawyers Sean Edgett and ...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Is Taking More Control of the Texas Coastline Ahead of Starship’s Next Launch
With Starbase’s newly acquired power, the company may decide to close down the beach to support the development of its ...
Musk’s Boasts About Drugs and State Secrets Backfire Spectacularly
Musk was sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission in January, which claimed that an 11-day delay in disclosing his ...
Here’s what it’s really like to appear on billionaire VC Tim Draper’s ‘Meet the Drapers’ pitch show
The show is one of many on Draper's newly launched television channel, DraperTV, which offers programming around business and entrepreneurship, available via streaming services like Roku.
OpenAI’s Nick Turley on transforming ChatGPT into an operating system
In an interview, OpenAI's Head of ChatGPT discusses the company's push into developing an AI operating system full of third-party apps.
Sora’s downloads in its first week was nearly as big as ChatGPT’s launch
This level of consumer adoption is worth noting because Sora remains an invite-only app, while ChatGPT was more publicly available at launch. That makes Sora's performance more impressive.
Elon Musk will settle $128M lawsuit with former Twitter execs
The four executives never received severance payments, which they claim is because they tried to hold Musk to his $44 billion commitment when he tried to back out of buying the company.
Amazon Pharmacy is launching vending machines for prescription drugs
The kiosks have a range of commonly prescribed medications, including antibiotics, inhalers, and blood pressure medications.
Here’s the tech powering ICE’s deportation crackdown
From phone spyware and facial recognition to phone unlocking technology and databases and more, this tech powers Trump's deportation machine.
Zendesk says its new AI agent can solve 80% of support issues
Zendesk has launched a new autonomous support agent that should solve 80% of support issues without human intervention.
H-1B visa changes explained: The loophole costing startups talent
Today on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Dominic-Madori Davis was joined by Jeremy Neufeld, the Director of Immigration Policy at the Institute for Progress, to break down what the recent H-1B change means for startups, founders, and the future of tech talent in America. Watch the full episode for more about: Equity is TechCrunch’s flagship podcast, produced […]
AST SpaceMobile lands key Verizon deal amid growing competition with SpaceX and T-Mobile
AST SpaceMobile is deepening its relationship with mobile carrier giant Verizon.
Base Power raises $1B to deploy home batteries everywhere
Base Power's Series C will help the company expand beyond Texas, its beachhead market, and build batteries in the United States.
Asterix Foods Raises $4.2M Seed Round for its Low-Cost, Modular Alternative to Precision Fermentation
Congratulations to Asterix Foods, an SOSV portfolio company and graduate of the IndieBio startup development program, on emerging on its $4.2 million Seed round led by CPT Capital, with participation from ReGen Ventures, SOSV, Grok Ventures, and the Israeli Innovation Authority. The funding will accelerate commercialization of Asterix’s radically simpler way to produce high-value bioactive proteins, without the massive bioreactors, cleanrooms, or nine-figure facilities typical of precision ferme
A break down of the H-1B changes — and why more changes could come
Jeremy Neufeld, the director of immigration policy at the Institute for Progress, comes on Equity to talk H-1B changes.