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SpaceX launches new V3 Starlink satellites but suffers another booster failure
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Vietnam is looking to restrict social media for kids; here’s a look at growing number of other countries doing the same
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Waymo reportedly mulling a breakup with Uber
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Volkswagen engineers charged with insider trading tied to Rivian joint venture
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Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage
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US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a ‘duress’ password during border search
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Anduril reportedly in talks to raise funding at $100B valuation, more than 3x last year’s mark
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Anthropic launches Opus 5
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India’s move against Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat sparks legal debate
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OpenAI’s own model went rogue before Kimi had Wall Street sweating
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Sam Altman’s biometric startup World raises $52.5M via crypto sale
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As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions
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Rivian sues the US government for ‘full refund’ of Trump tariffs
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Bluesky’s AI assistant Attie expands into an open social research tool
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Midjourney acquired the astrology app Co-Star
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OpenAI’s new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app
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Facebook launches a dedicated Marketplace app for sellers, adds a free verification system
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How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers
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Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua to step aside as company pushes into robotaxis, robotics
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AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack-scale system
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Patreon lays off 20% of its workforce
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Tesla’s door handles may spur new US safety rules
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Meta drops out of a major clean energy pact as its natural gas buildout accelerates
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Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models
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US government says Iran-linked hackers are disrupting American water and energy providers
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Runway launches AI model router as generative media gets crowded
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OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all U.S. users
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Tesla’s robotaxis are moving in reverse
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Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction
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Google will now let you sign in to your account with a selfie video
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Nvidia is sending GPUs to the moon
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Google’s Gemini nears billion-user milestone
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MeBeMe’s new ‘interrupter’ app helps you become your best self instead of doomscrolling
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Your backstage pass to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is waiting
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Ford bets on Apple for its next-generation of EVs
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Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so good
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After shocking quarter, IBM insists that AI isn’t killing the mainframe
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Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business
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Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable
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Tesla spending skyrockets as Cybercab, Semi, Megapack production timeline slips
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Social media addiction lawsuit against Meta is dropped
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SoundCloud acquires decentralized music platform Nina Protocol months after its shutdown
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How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face
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Travis Kalanick’s robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z
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Science Corporation’s vision-restoring chip wins EU approval
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Yope raises $12.3M to build a private social network without algorithms or ads
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Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy explains why Anthropic is winning (and it’s not the model)
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Monday.com lays off hundreds to focus on AI
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Google is making it easier to switch from iPhone to Android
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Substack’s new tool tells you who’s been writing their newsletters with AI
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OpenAI’s AI spending spree has ballooned to $750B
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If you pay a hacker’s ransom, chances are that they’ll come back for more
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WhatsApp adds Apple CarPlay and Android Auto upgrades, iPad sign-ups, and more
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Passionfroot raises $15M to expand its B2B creator marketplace to the US
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The Anthropic-Physical Intelligence rumor roiling AI Twitter
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Dimension Capital’s $800M third fund shows the intersection of science and compute is booming
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Meta is testing an AI bedtime story app for people with no imagination
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These are the countries moving to ban social media for children
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OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its pre-release models
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OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its own pre-release models
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Jack Dorsey is taking on Slack with Buzz, a group chat platform for teams and their AI agents
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AI and the rise of the universal entertainment app
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Bucking EV slowdown, Sila raises $300M to expand battery materials factory
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Einride bets $38M on EV charging as it scales electric trucking
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Apple teams up with Klarna to launch a lease-to-own program for iPhones, iPads, and Macs
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Data centers expected to use 4x more electricity by 2035
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Tesla spins up robotaxi pilots in Orlando and Tampa ahead of Q2 earnings
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Google releases three new Gemini models — but no 3.5 Pro
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Instagram now lets you swap out the music in your old posts
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Threads rolls out parental supervision tools
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US threatens sanctions against Chinese AI models over IP theft
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After TikTok, Snap settles social media addiction case
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AI music generator Suno breach affects 55M users, per Have I Been Pwned
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What to know about the landmark Warner Bros. Discovery sale
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UK government scraps plans for digital ID cards after millions of Brits opposed
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The Xteink X4 Pro could be the tiny e-reader of your dreams
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Music streamer Deezer says more than 50% of daily uploads are AI-generated
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Gritt exits stealth with $34 million for robots to build solar plants—then, everything else
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Anthropic’s landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved
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Trump’s latest AI czar has already resigned
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Google is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient
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AI’s most important protocol is getting a little bit easier to use
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X relaunches a rebuilt Android app after year-long effort
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OpenAI is scared of open-weight models. Should the US be?
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Judge pauses $110B Paramount-Warner Bros merger
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Adobe camera app’s new feature will critique your photos using AI
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Hackers are exploiting recently patched WordPress bugs, putting millions of websites at risk
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YouTube clarifies policies around AI slop and upsetting videos
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Hackers stole ‘significant’ amount of data from tech firm relied on by thousands of US hospitals and pharmacies
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Hugging Face confirms breach affected internal datasets and credentials, urges users to take action
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Netflix paid $587M for Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking startup
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What to watch for after Jensen Huang’s Japan visit
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Can an Apple lawsuit derail OpenAI’s hardware plans?
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TechCrunch Mobility: The battle over robotaxi rules
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‘Odyssey’ director Christopher Nolan calls AI an obvious ‘Trojan horse’
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Nonprofit Current AI is racing to build the World Wide Web of AI, free for all
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Waymo says San Francisco service has resumed after one-hour pause
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Kimi: Threat or menace?
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All the EVs that were discontinued or killed off in the U.S. this year
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Federal employees can download TikTok on their work phones again
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A 600-mile road trip (and data) proves EV charging doesn’t suck anymore
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Neil Rimer thinks the AI money is coming back out
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Vertu wants executives to pay $6,880 for an AI agent — here’s how it actually performs
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The Zoom hack that says, ‘Don’t record me’
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Agility Robotics plants its flag in Tesla’s backyard
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AI-driven memory crunch jolts India’s smartphone market
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Apple and Google ordered to purge ‘nudify’ apps from App Stores
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I replaced my space heater and ceiling fan with one Dyson appliance
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How Apple’s big lawsuit could disrupt OpenAI’s IPO plans
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FBI arrests man accused of using Steam games to drain victims’ crypto wallets
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Parents want safer phones for kids. These companies are answering the call.
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Amazon fixing bug that billed some AWS customers billions of dollars
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Patreon stops asking AI bots not to scrape — and starts blocking them
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reMarkable’s new Paper Pure is good. That’s why I wrote this review on it.
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Zoox issues software recall after a robotaxi got confused by heavy smoke
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Why the first GPU financiers are turning to inference chips in a $400 million deal
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San Francisco mayor pushes for tougher rules after the Waymo traffic fiasco
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SpaceX suddenly aborts second Starship V3 launch after ignition
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Coca-Cola suspended production at its Fairlife dairy after a ransomware attack
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Founders Fund hires former OpenAI exec Ryan Beiermeister (and not because of her ‘Mafia’ skills)
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Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos
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Roblox launches an AI-powered game-creation feature in its mobile app
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Oil giant BP shutters its corporate venture arm after 20 years
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Uber’s $14.8B Delivery Hero deal would nearly double its global footprint
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Newsletter platform Beehiiv now lets subscribers chat with each other, adds AI
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X cracks down on creators who steal content
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Google continues its renaming streak by turning NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook
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Google’s AI Mode now lets you link and interact with select apps
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Yes, you can now order DoorDash from the command line
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UK cops say arrest of two young hackers disrupted the operations of an infamous hacking group
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Period tracker Stardust shares users’ health data with analytics firm, says Mozilla research
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Why is OpenAI selling a ChatGPT basketball?
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How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product
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Moonshot’s upcoming Kimi 3 is expected to close the gap with Anthropic’s Opus 4.8
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Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba and Baidu
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Meta now alerts parents if their teen discussed suicide or self-harm with its AI chatbot
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Phone maker OnePlus says it won’t release new phones in the U.S. and Europe
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Why Greylock capped its new fund at $1.5B when it says it could have raised more
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Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic
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Tesla driver in fatal Texas crash pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB confirms
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Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex
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Microsoft patches bug in video game Age of Empires II
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Apple bans home services from its upcoming Maps ads
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SpaceX falls to $135 IPO price ahead of Starship launch
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Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling
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Phone maker OnePlus reportedly plans to wind down US and Europe operations
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Google’s biggest clean power project is 40 miles north of xAI’s unpermitted gas power plant
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Hack suggests AI music generator Suno scraped YouTube for training data
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Microsoft patches record number of security vulnerabilities, citing its use of AI
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Stripe and Advent reportedly offered to buy PayPal for around $53.4B
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Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba’s Qwen AI
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Spotify expands parent-managed accounts to users on its free tier
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India bets billions on breaking China’s grip on smartphone manufacturing
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US charges Russian ‘bulletproof’ web hosts over cyberattacks that netted $62M from cybercrime victims
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Rime picks up $24M Series A to help enterprises field customer calls
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Why Realta Fusion is building a fusion reactor at an old hot dog factory
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Vint Cerf is working on a plan to unleash AI agents on the open internet
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A SpaceX vet raised $65M to pull wire harnesses out of the Cold War era
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OpenAI researcher Miles Wang in talks to launch AI drug discovery startup valued at $2B
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Lorde says AI glasses are ‘not sexy’
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OpenAI’s first hardware device is reportedly a screenless speaker that can move
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OpenAI pushes back on Apple trade secret lawsuit
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OpenAI’s new flagship model deletes files on its own, people keep warning
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Apple opens its new Siri AI to everyone with the iOS 27 public beta
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Anthropic’s newest ad is creeping people out
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The founder of Hinge raised $18M to build a new AI dating service, Overtone
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Lucid Motors denies report it’s considering bankruptcy
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Google faces another AI training lawsuit from major publishers
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DeepMind CEO calls for an independent standards body to regulate frontier AI
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Meta’s Adam Mosseri says AI token budgets could soon be capped per engineer
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Google Images gets a Pinterest-like redesign focused on discovery
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New York State halts construction of all new data centers
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Iran abused mobile networks’ vulnerabilities to locate US military in the Middle East, report says
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I’m de-influencing you from buying the RingConn 3 (even though it’s pretty)
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Reflection inks $1B compute deal with Nebius
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The real AI race may no longer be at the frontier
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Telegram’s shortlink domain is back online after day-long suspension
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Spotify expands its AI push with a ChatGPT-like music assistant
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Superhuman’s new auto-draft feature almost makes me like AI replies
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David Beckham’s health drink startup IM8 takes $1B from General Catalyst’s unusual CVF fund
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Already rich, already successful, why the last wave of tech winners is grinding again
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Uber’s product chief on hotels, robotaxis, and why the company doesn’t want to be “everything for everyone”
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Video-generation startup PixVerse raises $439M, valuation soars past $2B
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X just tweaked its algorithm to make it more friendly, less battleground
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Satya Nadella has issued a shocking warning to companies using AI
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Apple says former employee exploited ‘rare’ bug to download confidential files after leaving for OpenAI
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The wildest allegations in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI
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Sam Altman’s space data center trash talk is what most experts already believe
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Investors send General Fusion soaring in debut as first publicly traded fusion company
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12 states sue to block Paramount’s $110B Warner Bros. deal
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Should AI help you get away with killing your spouse?
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As TV-tracking app TV Time shuts down, its founder builds Bingers, a new home for fans
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Anthropic starts localizing Claude pricing for India, its biggest market after the US
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SpaceX cleared to fly Starship again after booster failure in May
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Waze adds new AI-powered features and customization updates
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LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire, citing ‘serious concerns’ over civil liberties and privacy
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Uber’s robotaxi lobbying effort puts it on a collision course with Waymo
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TechCrunch Mobility: A robotaxi ultimatum
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Reed Jobs would rather talk about curing cancer than his last name
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