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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…

Character AI, a platform that allows users to role-play with AI chatbots, has filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the parents of a suicidal teenager who was allegedly addicted to the company's technology. In October, Megan Garcia filed a lawsuit against Character AI in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Orlando, over the death of her son Sewell Setzer III. Garcia said her 14-year-old son developed an emotional attachment to the character AI chatbot, Danny, and started texting him constantly and withdrawing from the real world. Following Setzer's death, Character AI announced…

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The developers of Pixelfed, Loops, and Sup, open source alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp, respectively, are currently raising funds on Kickstarter to fuel further development of their apps. The trio is part of the growing open social web, also known as Fediverse, and leverages the same ActivityPub protocol used by the Mastodon X alternative. The latter saw an increase in registrations and usage after the company formerly known as Twitter was sold to Elon Musk in October 2022 and during the X leak following the US presidential election. In the months and years following that sale, people are looking…

Developers behind Instagram, Tiktok, and Whatsapp's pixelfed, loops, and SUP open source are currently collecting funds to promote further development of apps in Kickstarter. This trio is a part of the growing open -minded web, which is also known as a Fediverse equipped with the same ActivityPub protocol used in X alternative Mastodon. The latter, which was previously known as Twitter sold to ELON MUSK in October 2022, increased and used in the Egyptian statement of X, following the US presidential election, increased and used. Open source and distributed apps such as Mastodon and Bluesky (use new ones in the…

Apple released a new number on Friday and emphasized the adoption of iOS 18 users. The mobile operating system released in a public format in September 2024 is installed on 68 % of compatible devices. The number will jump to 78 % on the iPhone released in the past four years. For the remaining iPhone, 19 % run iOS 17, and 13 % use the previous version. Similarly, 19 % of the iPhone released in the past four years is currently running iOS 17. This figure drops to 5 % in the previous iOS build. This is understandable, considering the…

Welcome to Startups Weekly -Weekly something that you can't miss from the startup world. Do you reach the receiving box every Friday? Sign up from here. This week would have been a short week because it started on holidays in the United States. However, some of the founders were busy on the day of the inauguration ceremony, and for the next few days, they brought us more than their fair. The most interesting startup story of this week Image Credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Via Getty This week, I remembered that not all sales were born in the same way, and…