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OnlyFans, a large adult creator network where performers and influencers sell subscription-based content directly to their fans, is considering selling a majority stake in the business to investment firm Architect Capital, people close to the deal told TechCrunch. The deal values ​​the platform at $5.5 billion. Of the $5.5 billion, $3.5 billion will be in equity and $2 billion in debt, the person said. Under the terms, Architect would acquire a 60% stake in the business. The parties are in an exclusive relationship and OnlyFans is prohibited from negotiating with other potential buyers for a period of time. It is…

The viral personal AI assistant previously known as Clawdbot has a new name again. After a legal challenge from Claude’s maker Anthropic, the company briefly rebranded itself to Moltbot, but has now settled on OpenClaw as its new name. The name change was not ordered by Anthropic, which declined to comment. But this time, Clawdbot’s original creator Peter Steinberger tried to avoid copyright issues from the beginning. “We found someone to help us with the trademark research for OpenClaw, and just to be safe, we also asked permission from OpenAI,” the Austrian developer told TechCrunch via email. “The lobster has…

A confidential informant told the FBI in 2017 that Jeffrey Epstein had a “personal hacker,” according to documents released Friday by the Justice Department. The document, released as part of the Justice Department’s legally mandated effort to release documents related to investigations into deceased sex offenders, does not specify who the alleged hacker was, but it does contain some details about the hacker. According to sources, the hacker was an Italian national from southern Calabria who specialized in finding vulnerabilities in iOS, BlackBerry devices, and the Firefox browser. The hacker allegedly developed and sold zero-day exploits and offensive cyber tools…

Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin will pause its space tourism flights for “at least two years” to focus all resources on its upcoming mission to the moon, the company announced Friday. The decision temporarily halts the program that Blue Origin has used for the past five years to fly humans beyond the Kármán Line, the accepted boundary in space. Blue Origin made the announcement just weeks before the third launch of its New Glenn giant rocket, scheduled for late February. The company previously indicated it intended to use a third Newglen launch to send a robotic lunar lander to…

SpaceX is reportedly lining up four major Wall Street banks for a potential 2026 IPO — a move that could signal the long-awaited reopening of the public markets after a years-long IPO drought. In the meantime, late-stage private companies like SpaceX are finding other ways to create liquidity for employees and early shareholders, largely through a fast-growing secondary market. To unpack what SpaceX’s IPO chatter means, how private liquidity works before a debut, and what investors are looking for in today’s pre-IPO giants, we spoke with Greg Martin, managing director at Rainmaker Securities, a broker-dealer specializing in secondary share transactions…

Triple-drug therapy for pancreatic cancer has shown promise in early animal studies, offering a potential new treatment for a disease with notoriously low survival rates.Pancreatic cancer is considered one of the most deadly common cancers, with a 5-year relative survival rate of approximately 13%. This means that approximately 87% of cancer patients are expected to die within five years of diagnosis. Survival rates for people diagnosed at a very late stage of the disease can be as low as 1%.In a study published Dec. 2 in PNAS, researchers tested a new combination therapy that simultaneously blocks three cancer growth pathways…

Earlier this month, Anthropic announced Cowork, a new agent tool that aims to take the benefits of its AI coding assistant, Claude Code, and transform it into a more general-purpose tool that even non-programmers can benefit from. Anthropic has introduced new features within Cowork to provide even more powerful capabilities for enterprise users. Look, it’s a plugin. The idea behind the plugin is simple. Plugins are designed to automate “special” tasks within different departments of a company. Whether the function is drafting content for the marketing department, reviewing risks in documents for a corporate legal team, or drafting answers for…

Bluesky this week released its first transparency report documenting the actions taken by its Trust & Safety team and the results of other initiatives such as age guarantee compliance, influence manipulation monitoring, and automated labeling. The social media startup, a rival to X and Threads, grew nearly 60% in 2025, from 25.9 million users to 41.2 million. This includes both accounts hosted on Bluesky’s own infrastructure and accounts running their own infrastructure as part of Bluesky’s decentralized social network based on the AT protocol. Last year, users made 1.41 billion posts on the platform. This represents 61% of all posts…

Satellite images reveal that dozens of dams across the country, including the largest in Texas, may be at risk of collapse due to shifting ground beneath them. Inspections typically do not take these movements into account, suggesting that many of the country’s dams are in worse shape than previously realized.This new discovery raises the prospect that thousands of dams that we do not monitor closely due to high costs and lack of personnel may be damaged and at risk of failure. But how big is the problem, and is it worth using satellite data to provide early warning?Satellites offer an…

Billionaire tech mogul Reid Hoffman is appealing to Silicon Valley tech moguls not only to condemn the killing of two Americans at the hands of Border Patrol agents, but also to stop placating President Trump. “We in Silicon Valley cannot bow our knees to Trump,” Hoffman wrote in a post for X and an opinion column for the San Francisco Standard. “We cannot bow down and hope the crisis fades. Hope without action is no strategy. It is an invitation for Trump to trample everything in sight, including our own business and national security interests.” There was some backlash against…