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Modern Warfare 3 ATVI As they’ve done at least once in the past, Activision has allowed week-early access to the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 campaign ahead of the release of multiplayer. However, given the extremely short turnaround time between the two Modern Warfares, yes, it seems a quite few corners have been cut,…

Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter covering the past week in happenings around the tech sphere. Winter’s finally arrived, judging by the NYC weather outside my window — and a winter of a sort might be descending on the tech industry, too, as it unfortunately turns out. This edition of…

OpenAI, Anthropic, Pear VC sublease sizable office spaces in SF; ‘I sold rugs for 17 years, so I have some skills in negotiation’ Ten years ago, Pear VC, then a tiny new venture firm, operated out of a nondescript office in Palo Alto that was enlivened by bright, computer-themed art. Last week, the outfit —…

London was the place to be this week for a who’s who of political leaders and tech CEOs; or more precisely, Bletchley Park was. Famous for housing Alan Turing and other Enigma codebreakers during WW2, the British heritage site played host to the world’s first AI Safety Summit on Wednesday and Thursday. The Exchange explores…

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been traveling a lot this year. In fact, I’ve been back to my 2019 levels of travel, which has been a breath of fresh air after being pandemic-grounded for a couple of years. I like to return to this list every time TechCrunch does a gift guide. It’s…

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Arrival set out eight years ago to make electric vehicle production “radically more efficient.” So far, its plan to forgo the gigafactory for local microfactories has proved anything but. Arrival trumpeted how its automated microfactories would simultaneously churn out electric vans for UPS, cars for Uber drivers and buses for the U.K., Italy and California.…

Fintech giant Klarna has reached an agreement with workers that were set to strike next week, the company told TechCrunch today. Klarna employees were planning to strike next week in the fintech’s home country of Sweden, as reported by tech.eu.  The dispute was reportedly over the lack of a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) — a…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Billionaire Elon Musk announced that Starlink—a satellite internet offering from his aerospace company, SpaceX—“achieved breakeven cash flow” on Thursday, just months after news broke that the offering had greatly increased its revenue, but fallen short of Musk’s expectations last year. Starlink reportedly generated $1.4 billion in 2022, which…

Coinbase, the second-largest crypto exchange by trading volume, released its Q3 2023 earnings on Thursday, giving shareholders and market participants an opportunity to see what’s going on under the hood. In response to the report, the company’s stock is down about 5.5% in after-hours trading. In the third quarter of 2023, Coinbase generated $674 million…