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Devastated by his videos being posted to a porn site, this founder hit on an AI startup idea

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Dan Purcell, the founder and CEO of Ceartas, recalls feeling devastated when he realized that a former partner had, unbeknownst to him, uploaded private, intimate videos of them onto a porn site. Over a call, Purcell told me, “I was dating a girl who was in the tech industry, and she asked me if I […]

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TechCrunch Minute: Elon Musk’s big plans for xAI include raising $6 billion

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TechCrunch recently broke the news that Elon Musk’s xAI is raising $6 billion at a pre-money valuation of $18 billion. The deal hasn’t closed yet, so the numbers could change. But it sounds like Musk is making an ambitious pitch to investors about his 10-month-old startup — a rival to OpenAI, which he also co-founded

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