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The person has had a week. The FDA informed the e-cigarette maker that it would no longer be allowed to sell or distribute its products in the US. The company couldn't prove that its products are safe. The ban was put on hold by a federal appeals court. According to court documents, the stay buys time until the case can be heard by the court.
The story about the Cloudflare outage was one of the most read stories. The interruption was brief. The company didn't say what caused the problem.
The company was acquired for $10.2 billion by a group of private equity firms. When the deal closes in the fourth quarter, Zendesk will go private again.
At its re:Mars conference this week, Amazon announced CodeWhisperer, an artificial intelligence pair programming tool that can perform entire functions based on only a few words. The system is supported by billions of lines of publicly available open source code, as well as publicly available documentation and code on public forums.
The CEO and COO of MindGeek left the company this week. There was a report in the New Yorker about MindGeek's moderation policies.
Microsoft and Meta are using artificial intelligence to run their data centers. Microsoft is developing an artificial intelligence system to analyze data and generate warnings for teams to prevent or mitigate safety incidents. The system tries to detect and predict impacts to the data center construction schedule. Meta says that it has been developing physical models to mimic extreme conditions and introducing this data to the artificial intelligence models that are responsible for cooling and airflow on its server.
The Israeli startup is helping software engineers learn how to do the non-engineering parts of their jobs. The platform has challenges designed to mimic real-world experiences. Real tools and technologies are used to navigate these experiences. The company's CEO was spoken to by Haje. Here, you can read the Q&A.
Darrell chats with Bill Gates on the techncial show. The two spoke at the event about the importance of time management and whether we can still avoid climate disaster. On this week's episode, there is a discussion about the acquisition of Sonatic bySpotify.
Darrell and Jordan talked to the founder of Anja Health, a company that uses different social channels to help entrepreneurs in different industries, about how she thinks every company will have to be its own influence.
You can check out our full recap.
Do you want more? We will be going a bit deeper on the topics our subscribers tell us they care about over at the aptly named TechCrunch+. This week, there are some good things.
WayRay's deck consists of a whopping 75 slides, and it's clear that the founders took a different tack than what we're used to. You can't disagree with a successful fundraise.
According to Dominic- Madori Davis, one of our newest reporters, it's time forLPs to take more responsibility in the fight for economic equality.
What if I can't find a new job? An F-1 student recently graduated with a bachelor's in computer science and is looking for a job, so he asked a lawyer if she knew anything about it.
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