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Ford launches a ‘privacy promise’ and explains how and why it uses customer data

Ford said it's making an "explicit commitment" to its customers that "their vehicle data is safe" with the company.

Borrowed reading: stories from our extended colleagues

Five stories worth your time from our extended colleagues at CIO, Computerworld, Macworld, and PCWorld.

OpenAI might rebrand its data centers as ‘AI compute campuses’

Data centers are deeply unpopular. But what if we called them something else?

AI can make tech CEOs’ lives easier. What about everyone else?

On Equity, we discuss why tech CEO statements can seem so tone deaf.

Data centers are now a midterm issue, even in Brooklyn

At a Brooklyn midterm party five days before Election Day, every conversation, from a council member’s fireside chat to a debate about the Democratic Party, kept circling back to AI and data centers.

4 days left: How TechCrunch Founder Summit helps you make more useful connections to scale

On November 4 at Boston’s SoWa Power Station, get ready for a full day packed with meaningful networking opportunities, actionable insights, and connections that could change the trajectory of your idea and startup. Register before all prices go up at the door.

Judge allows NAACP lawsuit over xAI data center pollution to move forward

An NAACP lawsuit accuses the SpaceX-owned AI company of violating the Clean Air Act.

Waymo taps Toyota to supply robotaxis for Japan and the UK

Waymo will begin testing self-driving versions of Toyota's electric bZ4X vehicles in Japan next year as part of a broader partnership with the automaker.

Microsoft hits 10 quarters of record-breaking revenue in a row

Whatever the future of AI might be, the current situation is still very good for Microsoft. The tech giant reported yet another record for quarterly revenue on Wednesday: $92.3 billion, a 19% increase over the year-ago quarter.

Wiz’s CTO on PHP2Shell and the coming ‘vulnpocalypse’

The PHP scare may have faded from your feed, but the cleanup is far from over. Last week, two critical bugs in the open source language behind roughly 70% of websites left organizations scrambling to fix their systems, with some taking sites offline until the vulnerabilities could be patched. According to researchers who found the […]

Discord is making its public communities more searchable, and people have concerns

In December, messages from Discord's public discoverable servers will begin appearing in search engine results.

Re:Build, which spun out Slate Auto, raises $2.1B

The manufacturing accelerator bills itself as "America’s answer to Shenzhen."

Disruptive raises $10B fund to make big bets on at least 10 companies

Disruptive has made headlines in recent years for pouring money into companies like chip startup Groq and the AI voice-generation startup ElevenLabs.

Databricks co-founder shares his secrets for winning big enterprises customers

Turns out selling to big companies isn’t about having the shiniest tech: it’s about hitching a ride on a giant’s sales team.

Watch out, YouTube; Instagram goes from short-form to 90-minute videos

As Instagram rolls out long form videos of up to 90 minutes, the platform has an opportunity to challenge YouTube if it plays its cards right.

Fusion startups are giving the government shares in exchange for awards. Is it worth it?

Fusion startups face a new challenge, one unrelated to plasma physics: Give the government shares in exchange for funding awards or go it alone?

Tesla turns to Turo to boost adoption of Full Self-Driving (Supervised)

Eligible Turo hosts will also get a one-month free trial of Tesla's FSD software.

The best apps for tracking your reading and discovering new books

There are numerous apps on the market that promise to do just that, so we’ve compiled a list of some of the best ones to help you pick the right one for you.

Grok releases the first seven minutes of its AI-generated ‘Odyssey’

The footage looks okay, as long as you're not seeking artistry, inspiration, or human interest.

‘Cyberselfish’ author takes aim at Silicon Valley libertarians as her book returns from the dead

"That's a 12-year-old view of the world."