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The Trump administration announced a new $100,000 tax on H-1B visas last Friday. This allows 85,000 skilled foreign workers to enter the United States each year. The fees apply primarily to companies employing these workers with engineers. Veteran venture capitalist Michael Moritz doesn't have it. In the new Scathing Financial Times Op-Ed, former Sequoia Capital Honcho compares the White House to a Tony Soprano pork shop and calls the move another “cruel tor scheme.” Moritz argues Trump is fundamentally misunderstanding why tech companies hire foreign workers, noting that it's not filling skills and labor shortages, replacing Americans or cutting costs.…

The new app, which records calls and offers audio payments, allows data to be sold to AI Companies, the No. 2 app in the social networking section of APILE's US App Store. This app, Neon Mobile, pitches itself as a gold-making building tool that offers “hundreds or thousands of dollars a year” to access audio conversations. According to Neon's website, the company says it will pay up to $30 per day, up to $30 per day to call other neon users and call others. The app also pays for referrals. According to data from app intelligence firm AppFigures, the app…

On Wednesday, Enterprise AI Model Maker Cohere said it raised an additional $100 million (upped its valuation to $7 billion) in an extension of the round announced in August. The August round was an overloaded round of $500 million at a $6.8 billion valuation, the company said at the time. Cohere also announced an interesting twist on the partnership. Competitor Openai has won up to $100 billion in investments from the largest GPU player, Nvidia, but Cohere has signed a deal with AMD, one of the investors. The company's complete suite of command family AI models, including command vision, translation…

Going to the market is often a place where great startups stumble, but it doesn't have to be. This October 27-29, San Francisco's TechCrunch was destroyed in 2025, with GTM Pros Max Altschuler, Alison Wagnfeld and Marc Manara taking the builder stage to show how to build a way to not only support the product, but scale it. Sign up now to secure up to $668 on your 2025 pass and get a front row seat on how to create a winning GTM strategy. Lessons from a large-scale leader Max Altschuler, Alison Wagnfeld, and Marc Manara bring an unusual combination…

Kevin Rose last spoke at Discrupt in 2012 while Digg was in the middle of the technology's most talked about pivot. More than a decade later, he returns to TechCrunch Sturps in 2025, taking place in Moscone West, San Francisco on October 27-29, and reopens Digg with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, sharing what the experience taught him through product, community and turbulence. However, Rose's story doesn't end with a dig. Over the past decade, he has become one of Silicon Valley's most active early-stage investors, helping startups define categories such as consumer technology, crypto. As a partner at True Ventures,…

TechCrunch's AI stage features a powerhouse that disrupts 2025, officially locked and loaded in San Francisco on October 27-29, featuring the powerhouse that will shape the future of artificial intelligence. He is a character leader and works on everything from voices from Faith, Melkor, Runways, Wave and many other top technology, to generative AI and developer tools, to self-driving cars, creative machines, and national security. Founders will first see the technologies that define the next wave of innovation and hear strategies, lessons and insights directly from the teams building them. Do you need front row seats to the future of…

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The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) said on Wednesday that a man was arrested in connection with ransomware attacks that caused delays and confusion at several European airports since the weekend. The hack, which began on Friday, caused delays at airports in Brussels, Berlin and Dublin, as well as London's Heathrow, which continued until yesterday, by Collins Aerospace. The NCA did not name the man who was arrested, but the agency said he was “in his 40s” and was arrested in Southern West Sussex county on Tuesday under the country's computer misuse law “as part of an investigation into a…

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