Elon Musk announced Wednesday that an early version of video and audio calling is now available on X, formerly known as Twitter. The move is another step
![Will X's addition of audio and video calling create stickiness in the app? | TechCrunch](https://radiation.party/pictrs/image/abac57ea-1c72-4e7e-be99-d6a74cb7b7d4.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
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Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic’s first lunar lander is set to take off on United Launch Alliance’s new Vulcan Centaur rocket on Christmas Eve.
![ULA aims to launch Astrobotic lunar lander on Christmas Eve | TechCrunch](https://radiation.party/pictrs/image/ad0c8baf-9599-47d8-8c3e-75a9515d8e19.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
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Ford has reached a "tentative agreement on a new labor contract" with the United Auto Workers (UAW) union for the automaker's U.S. operations. The UAW
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The UAW says this contract raises the starting wage by 68 percent.
![Ford and UAW reach tentative agreement to end strike](https://radiation.party/pictrs/image/e7f65a3f-b9aa-4cf3-8bb9-73efa5e48fd3.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
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Rocket Lab's Electron will likely fly missions again before the year is out, the company said in a new statement Wednesday.
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The platform is struggling to attract users and advertisers, third-party data suggest. Musk has voiced optimism, saying the company “can be thought of as an inverse startup.”
![X’s Tumultuous First Year Under Elon Musk, in Charts](https://radiation.party/pictrs/image/bbee2bec-1f7a-4147-bcea-2ca652391669.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
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Jina AI introduces jina-embeddings-v2, the world's first open-source model boasting an 8K context length. Matching the prowess of OpenAI's proprietary models, this innovation is now publicly accessible on Huggingface, signaling a significant milestone in the landscape of text embeddings.
![Jina AI Launches World's First Open-Source 8K Text Embedding, Rivaling OpenAI](https://radiation.party/pictrs/image/37543ae6-1d11-47fc-ba54-ee528265e484.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
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Compared to the shitshow that went down last year, TwitchCon Las Vegas was largely a success. The problem? Nobody liked Las Vegas. This year’s TwitchCon Though attendees said Twitch itself had improved, they complained that the Las Vegas Strip, an area that’s expensive, not walkable and lacks ...
![TwitchCon 2023 was better than last year, but everyone hated Las Vegas | TechCrunch](https://radiation.party/pictrs/image/1a9ab498-1240-47d9-9070-d18916b7ea26.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
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Control your phone by gazing upon it.
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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Korean telco KT are among the investors of Moreh, which builds an AI software tool that optimizes and creates AI models.
![AMD and Korean telco KT back AI software developer Moreh in $22M Series B | TechCrunch](https://radiation.party/pictrs/image/f902a4eb-0728-4222-953b-6df614d18a68.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
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Or <em>"How to find a lost phone in a no-cell-coverage camping site?"</em>
![Approaching unconventional problems | Manas.Tech](https://radiation.party/pictrs/image/73466456-7334-46aa-b76a-c2547c74fbd4.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
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Ahead of a global summit on how to keep artificial intelligence from doing harm, a UK government report warns that the tech could be used to help create bioweapons, or escape human control altogether.
![The UK Lists Top Nightmare AI Scenarios Ahead of Its Big Tech Summit](https://radiation.party/pictrs/image/b03f0f05-68b4-4678-aebc-87321854cd3a.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
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Israel has told civilians in the northern Gaza Strip, including residents of Gaza City, to move to the south of the enclave, saying it will be safer there as the military attacks Hamas following its Oct. 7 cross-border assault.
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Henry Ward told customers today that if they are concerned about “negative press” tied to the outfit, they should read a Medium post of his.
![Carta’s CEO reaches out to customers about bad press, alerting them to bad press | TechCrunch](https://radiation.party/pictrs/image/dfcf7108-e317-41b9-8a71-a9519cebf1dd.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
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