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Journalist. Explorer. Potty Mouth. Bagel Aficionado. NYC. Senior Reporter for @TechCrunch. Co-host of @EquityPod. Send tips to rebecca.bellan@techcrunch.com.

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Rebecca Bellan’s Biography

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Senior reporter at TechCrunch. Author of TC's morning daily newsletter. Co-host of the Equity podcast.

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Letter: 'When Does Female Empowerment Transcend the Magical Into the Actual?'

Letter: 'When Does Female Empowerment Transcend the Magical Into the Actual?'

I like to ask women, friends and strangers alike, if they were witches when they were younger. Responses usua…

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Did a Brooklyn Home's Tunnel Provide Passage to Escaped Slaves?

Did a Brooklyn Home's Tunnel Provide Passage to Escaped Slaves?

"Every time we produced new evidence, they told us it wasn't enough. What do you want? You want me to have de…

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The Uber Situation in Buenos Aires Is Crazy

The Uber Situation in Buenos Aires Is Crazy

Argentina-Most Porteños, or residents of Buenos Aires, know the drill when it comes to hailing an Uber. Chang…

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Nirvana unplugged: Why aren't more Americans buying electric vehicles?

Nirvana unplugged: Why aren't more Americans buying electric vehicles?

According to a new report from the United Nations' scientific panel, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate C…

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$23 Billion Education Funding Report Reveals Less Money for City Kids

$23 Billion Education Funding Report Reveals Less Money for City Kids

An opinion piece on Tuesday in the New York Daily News called for New York State to make good on its decade-o…

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Citing Civil Rights, Cities Are Banning Cashless Retail

Citing Civil Rights, Cities Are Banning Cashless Retail

In February, New York City Councilmember Ritchie Torres introduced legislation that would prohibit retail est…

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OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing

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OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing

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OpenAI is sunsetting Atlas, the AI-powered browser it launched in October with ChatGPT at its core. But it’s not giving up on the idea that AI should help people browse the web. Instead, it’s taking some of the agentic browsing features it tested in Atlas and redistributing them across ChatGPT’s desktop app and a Google Chrome extension. For much of the past year, the AI industry had been engaged in a war to unseat Chrome as the place where people spend most of their time online.
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New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial

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Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

Google docs, tape recorder, my phone, spreadsheets, Acris, caffeine.

Why did you become a journalist?

I wanted to record history and to search for the truth. I also wanted to write.
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