Democrat Lateefah Simon wins election to U.S. House in California's 12th Congressional District

TechCrunch ChatGPT told 2M people to get their election news elsewhere — and rejected 250K deepfakes As this is the first election in which AI chatbots played a significant part of voters' information diets, even approximate numbers are interesting to think about. For instance, OpenAI has stated that it told around 2 million users of ChatGPT to go look somewhere else. ChatGPT gave this type of "I'm just an AI, go read the actual news" response over 2 million times on Election Day and the day after, OpenAI explained in an update to a blog post on its elections approach.

What does Trump's election mean for the TikTok ban? As TikTok stares down an impending federal ban, Donald Trump's win in the presidential election could be a lifeline. It's a plot twist for the embattled, Chinese-owned social media company. During Trump's last presidency, the president-elect had been the one to initiate the calls to ban TikTok, which only petered out because he didn't win his first attempt at re-election in 2020.

'Whatever you want Ben': Inside Ben Horowitz's cozy relationship with the Las Vegas Police Department When Skydio, a young maker of drones in San Mateo, California, sent a customer proposal in 2023 to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, its chief of staff, Mike Gennaro, forwarded the email to VC Ben Horowitz. "Which deployment are you looking to do?" Horowitz wrote back. "Whatever you want, Ben," Gennaro replied, according to emails seen by TechCrunch.

Benchmark, Index, others are in a wild unsolicited bidding war over Anysphere, maker of Cursor Its developer, Anysphere, has seen its revenue grow from $4 million annualized recurring revenue (ARR) in April to $4 million a month as of last month, according to a person with direct knowledge of the company's financials. Such fast growth has VCs flocking to it. Anysphere has received unsolicited offers valuing the company at as much as $2.5 billion from Benchmark, Index Ventures, and previous investors Andreessen Horowitz and Thrive, among others, the person said.