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A February 2024 ransomware attack on UnitedHealth-owned health tech company Change Healthcare stands as the largest data breach of health and medical data in U.S. history. Change Healthcare confirmed in January 2025 that its data breach affects approximately 190 million people in America, almost double the company’s previous estimate. The company said it has notified millions of individuals by mail that their personal and health information was stolen by cybercriminals, and published a separate public notice for anyone whose contact information could not be found. Change Healthcare processes billing and insurance for hundreds of thousands of hospitals, pharmacies and medical…
Jet fuel is a modern mystery, commercial airplanes can carry hundreds of passengers around the world, and military aircraft can regularly break the sound speed. However, the jet fuel we know may be in the chopping block because the world is trying to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions. Commercial Airlines is in charge of 2.5 % of all carbon pollution. This is a share that is likely to grow as other industries electrify, and is an option that cannot be not absent on long -distance flights. However, if jet fuel can be made from carbon dioxide, there is a possibility that…
If you follow the AI industry, Mistral should be a familiar name by now. The French AI startup with a $6 billion valuation is arguably the largest AI company working on the foundation model in Europe. Alan, on the other hand, is less well known. The health insurance unicorn is quietly growing and has become your digital companion for your health. More than 680,000 people in a small number of countries are covered by Alan's insurance. The link between these two companies is Jean-Charles Samourian Werbe, co-founder CEO of Alain and co-founding advisor of Mistral. Bloomberg published a strange story…
British telecoms giant TalkTalk has confirmed it is investigating a data breach after hackers claimed to have stolen the personal information of millions of customers. In a post on a popular cybercrime forum seen by TechCrunch, an individual using the alias “B0ND” claimed to have stolen the personal data of more than 18.8 million current and former TalkTalk subscribers. This data that threat actors are offering for sale likely includes customer names, email addresses, IP addresses, phone numbers, and subscriber pins. In a statement to TechCrunch, TalkTalk spokesperson Liz Holloway confirmed that the company is investigating the data breach, but…
Perplexity AI has submitted a correction proposal to merge with Tiktok, a arrangement that gives the US government with up to 50 percent ownership of the new business. AP communication first reported this new proposal. The sources familiar with bidding acknowledged TechCrunch that the report of the AP communication was accurate. The AI search engine had previously proposed a new company to combine Perprexity, Tiktok US, and additional stock investors. According to the AP communication, under a new bidding, the government will receive stocks after at least $ 300 million new shares, but Tiktok's current Chinese owner of the byte…
According to multiple sources, more startups were closed in 2024 than 2024, and given the insane companies that were funded on a crazy day in 2020 and 2021, it was actually it. Is not surprising. We seem to be almost over, and another brutal startup may shut down in 2025. TechCrunch collected data from several sources and found a similar tendency. According to Carta, the 966 startup was closed in 2024 compared to 769 in 2023. This is an increase of 25.6 %. One note on methodology: These numbers are Carta customers for bankruptcy or dissolution, and for companies that…
NPR reports that the Trump administration is negotiating a deal for Oracle to acquire TikTok with a new US investor. Lawmakers passed a bill last year that would have forced TikTok to either be sold to Chinese parent company ByteDance or banned in the U.S., but the app was temporarily suspended before the law took effect on Jan. 20. Things took a turn for the worse, until President-elect Donald Trump announced he would issue an executive order extending TikTok's delay. Prohibited. At the time, President Trump also outlined his “initial thoughts” on a deal to save TikTok, calling it “a…
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is focusing on Retro Biosciences, a San Francisco-based biotech startup that aims to help humans live 10 years longer than the so-called healthy lifespan. I want it. Altman previously provided Retro Bioscience's entire seed round of $180 million. The startup has now raised $1 billion in Series A funding, with Altman also participating, the Financial Times reports. Retro Biosciences, which plans to begin clinical trials for treatments for diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, recently used OpenAI to train a model to turn ordinary cells into stem cells. CEO Joe Betts-LaCroix told the FT that he…
United Health has confirmed in February that the ransomware attack on the company's Change and Healthcare has influenced about 190 million in the United States, which is almost twice as much as the previous estimation. do. On Friday, the US medical insurance giant confirmed the latest numbers with TechCrunch after the market was closed. “Change Healthcare has determined that the total number of individuals affected by Change Healthcare is approximately 190 million,” said Tyler Mason, a public relations officer of United Health Group. Child email I mentioned. “The majority of those people have already provided individual or alternative notifications. The…