Residents of SpaceX’s Starbase Launch Site Vote Overwhelmingly to Incorporate as City of Starbase, Texas Boca Chica, Texas – May 4, 2025 – Residents of the area surrounding SpaceX’s Starbase launch site in South Texas voted decisively on May 3, 2025, to incorporate as the City of Starbase, marking a significant milestone for Elon Musk’s … Read more
Mira Murati, the former CTO of OpenAI, is making waves with her new venture, Thinking Machines Lab, which is reportedly targeting a staggering $2 billion seed round. This would mark one of the largest initial funding rounds ever, valuing the company at $10 billion or more. Launched earlier this year, the startup aims to build … Read more
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie Thinks His City Is on the Verge of a Rebound San Francisco, CA – April 6, 2025San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie is radiating optimism about the city’s future, declaring at TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC event on April 3 that San Francisco stands on the cusp of a major rebound. The Levi Strauss … Read more
Startups Weekly: Stay Tuned for the Rippling Espionage Movie San Francisco, CA – April 4, 2025This week’s startup scene delivered a plot twist straight out of a Hollywood thriller, with HR tech giant Rippling dropping a bombshell that’s got everyone buzzing: a corporate espionage saga involving rival Deel that’s so wild, it’s begging for a … Read more
Since you’ve submitted this prompt twice, I’ll assume you’d like a fresh take or a variation on the previous response. Below is a revised news article with a different angle, focusing more on the tech CEOs’ perspectives and the broader economic stakes, while keeping the core event—Mayor Daniel Lurie’s plea at the StrictlyVC event—intact. SF … Read more
DOGE Sets Sights on IRS with Hackathon to Build ‘Mega API’ Washington, DC – April 6, 2025 – Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is reportedly gearing up for a hackathon next week, aiming to create a “mega API” to streamline access to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) data. The initiative, first noted by TechCrunch … Read more
Meta Drops Llama 4: A Fresh Batch of Flagship AI Models Menlo Park, CA – April 6, 2025 – Meta has unleashed Llama 4, its latest suite of flagship AI models, signaling a bold step forward in its mission to dominate the open-source AI frontier. Rolled out over the weekend, Llama 4 introduces two models … Read more
Meta Unveils Llama 4: Two AI Models Out Now, Two More in the Pipeline Menlo Park, CA – April 5, 2025 – Meta has officially launched Llama 4, the latest chapter in its open-source AI saga, introducing two immediately available models—Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick—while teasing two more, Llama 4 Behemoth and Llama … Read more
Week in Review: Nintendo Unveils the Switch 2 This week, Nintendo finally pulled back the curtain on its highly anticipated Nintendo Switch 2, marking its first major console reveal since the original Switch debuted in 2017. The announcement, made during a Nintendo Direct livestream on April 2, 2025, sent waves of excitement through the gaming … Read more
Deel’s Communications Chief Departs Amid Escalating Spying Lawsuit from Rippling San Francisco, CA – April 5, 2025 – Elisabeth Diana, the head of communications at Deel, a human resources startup valued at $12 billion, has left the company as it grapples with a high-profile corporate espionage lawsuit filed by its rival, Rippling. Diana’s departure, confirmed … Read more