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J. Michael Cline, the co-founder of Fandango and multiple other startups over his multi-decade career, died after falling from a Manhattan hotel, New York’s Deputy Commissioner of Public Information tells TechCrunch. The New York Police Department responded to 911 calls from the Kimberly Hotel, a 30-story hotel on 50th street in midtown Manhattan on Tuesday…

When Tade Oyerinde first set out to fundraise for his startup, Campus, a fully accredited online community college, it was incredibly difficult. VCs have backed for-profit education companies in the past, including Coursera and Udacity, but backing a more traditional two-year college is different. Plus, he was looking for funds a few years ago when…

Waymo would need a ground transportation permit to operate at SFO, which has yet to be approved. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only…

NASA was looking for proposals that maximized the use of flight heritage because reliability will be key. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only…

TTT models, a new architecture, could effectively replace transformers if they scale up as their creators suggest they will. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only…

Slope’s founders both have a background in AI, so large language models power the company’s underwriting infrastructure.  © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only…

Fisker has been given the green light by a bankruptcy judge to sell more than 3,000 of its Ocean SUVs to a vehicle leasing company, a deal that will net the defunct EV startup a maximum of $46.25 million. The approval of the sale clears the way for the rest of Fisker’s bankruptcy process to…

Wittaya Aqua enables seafood farmers to consolidate existing data points across the seafood supply chain. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only…

Some of the largest, most damaging breaches of 2024 already account for over a billion stolen records. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only…

Elon Musk is doubling down on his commitment to Texas by vowing to move SpaceX’s massive headquarters from its long-time Hawthorne, California home to the Lone Star State.  Musk later said that he would move the headquarters of his social media platform X from San Francisco…