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• Pear wants to empower up-and-coming VCs with its new emerging managers in residence program
• 13 companies from YC Demo Day 1 that are worth paying attention to
• Sam Altman reportedly poised to get equity in OpenAI for the first time
• Zuckerberg chats with AI clone as human creator looks on in year’s weirdest demo
• OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says she’s leaving the company
• What does Mark Zuckerberg’s shirt say?
• Meta pitches VR to mobile developers with new support for Android apps on Quest
• Y Combinator’s next Demo Day will include in-person seats for top VCs, Garry Tan says
• Meta developed a ‘neural interface’ for its next-gen Orion AR glasses
• Meta teases Orion, ‘the most advanced glasses the world has ever seen’
• Meta Ray-Bans are getting live translation
• Mark Zuckerberg says Meta AI has nearly 500 million users
• Meta updates Ray-Ban smart glasses with real-time AI video, reminders, and QR code scanning
• Meta’s Hyperspace lets you scan and explore real-life spaces in VR
• Meta has rebuilt Instagram and Facebook for its Quest headsets
• Canva adds new abilities for app developers and improves discoverability
• Meta AI can now understand and edit your photos
• Meta AI’s genAI ‘Imagine’ features expand across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger
• Meta lets businesses create ad-embedded chatbots
• Meta AI gets celebrity voices and lip-synced translations
• Meta discontinues Quest 2 and Quest Pro
• Meta announces $300 Quest 3S, a cheaper take on mixed reality
• Convergence AI played with agents ‘for years’ until raising $12M to give them long-term memory
• Meta Connect 2024: Everything announced on AI, the metaverse, Quest headsets and more
• Diagrid launches Catalyst to help enterprises build their microservices
• Amazon employees beg management to reverse 5-day RTO mandate
• Consumer, culture, and creators with Erin and Sara Foster at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
• Longshot Space closes over $5M in new funding to build space gun in the desert
• After losing a peering lawsuit in Germany, Meta says it’s never getting back together with Deutsche Telekom
• Ayrton Energy mimics margarine to store hydrogen safely
• Meta’s Llama AI models get multimodal
• Audible experiments with new AI features for tailored audiobook recommendations
• Meta acquires the Threads.com domain name
• Early sign-ups to EU’s AI Pact include Amazon, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI — but Apple and Meta are missing
• Final 3 days to score up to $600 in savings on TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 passes
• Meta Connect 2024: How to watch the metaverse and generative AI event today
• Google files antitrust complaint against Microsoft in Europe over cloud licensing practices
• Backyard Baseball ’97 is back, with a re-release coming soon on Steam
• Tomasz Tunguz’s Theory Ventures bets $12M on Initia, the ‘iOS for web3’
• Raycast raises $30M to bring its Mac productivity app to Windows and iOS
• AI2’s Molmo shows open source can meet, and beat, closed multimodal models
• Supabase, a Postgres-centric developer platform, raises $80M Series C
• Uber will soon offer WeRide robotaxis in Abu Dhabi 
• Mozilla hit with privacy complaint in EU over Firefox tracking tech
• Radian Aerospace completes ground tests of prototype space plane
• WhatFix raises a whopping $125M for its in-app user guides
• Google’s revised ad targeting plan triggers fresh competition concerns in UK
• Reddit is bringing AI-powered, automatic translation to dozens of new countries
• Legal ping-pong in the WordPress world continues as Automattic sends WP Engine a cease-and-desist letter alleging trademark infringement
• Vsim, founded by Nvidia alums, raises $21.5M for robotics simulation tech  
• Airtel taps AI to combat India’s rampant spam calls problem
• Hone Capital, a Silicon Valley firm, is being probed by the FBI
• Salesforce snatches up Zoomin, a tool for organizing company knowledge
• ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot
• Caroline Ellison sentenced to two years in prison for FTX fraud
• Commvault acquires data backup provider Clumio
• The best Twitter alternatives worth checking out
• EGYM, a connected fitness startup conceived after the founder hit a wall at the gym, lands $200M at a $1.2B+ valuation
• The beloved Rodecaster board gets a video production counterpart
• How one female VC is teaching kids about startups and women in tech
• Northvolt lays off 1,600 workers, but it’s not the end for Europe’s battery champion
• OpenAI rolls out Advanced Voice Mode with more voices and a new look
• Nothing launches a slick pair of $149 open-ear headphones
• Toyota Ventures’ Jim Adler says climate tech startups need to secure future buyers
• From dinners with Travis Kalanick to fired after maternity leave: One of CloudKitchens’ earliest employees is suing
• Rivian reveals first $10M in grants for long-promised Rivian Foundation
• Moxie, which helps nurses launch medspas, raises a preemptive Series B from Lachy Groom
• Data platform Airbyte can now create API connectors by reading the docs
• Just 4 days left to save up to $600 on TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 passes
• Tech YouTuber MKBHD’s Panels app is a bit underwhelming
• As the open social web grows, a new nonprofit looks to expand the ‘fediverse’
• A startup from ex-Revolut employees uses AI to automate accounts — but hopes to keep accountants in jobs