Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350M at a $2.5B valuation
The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring…
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Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘surging demand’
Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years. But this extended…
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Meta’s $18B child-safety deal hinges on age-verification tech that doesn’t work well
The historic settlement reignites ongoing concern around how age-verification technology puts privacy at risk.
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Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45B deal with Nscale
The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak.
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Google’s Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI
Consumer AI apps need to stop making users learn their product architecture.
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How do we explain OpenAI’s executive exodus?
Was Greg Brockman the right executive all along?
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OpenAI releases its official report on the Hugging Face breach
The report, which spans several discrete cybersecurity compromises, is the most complete accounting of the incident to…
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Flipboard acquires Graze, the feed builder working to monetize the open social web
Flipboard is acquiring Bluesky feed-building startup Graze, bringing its privacy-friendly ad technology and creator…
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Medical device maker Boston Scientific says a cyberattack is causing a ‘global disruption’ to its operations
The company won't say if medical devices are affected or if any customer data was exfiltrated.
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US seizes domains of Chinese botnet used to target NASA, Justice Department, and the Senate
The Justice Department said that the domain seizures made the botnet and its command and control servers "inoperable,"…
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Capital F closes $17M debut fund with goal to back the future of the ‘female economy’
The firm backs companies building in the “female economy,” or the markets where women drive demand — women’s health,…
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Apple is holding its iPhone launch event on September 9
The event is expected to be a notable one, as Apple is rumored to unveil its long-awaited foldable iPhone. It'll also…
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Meta agrees to sweeping changes to restrict kids’ access to its apps as part of settlement with states
One of the most notable changes is that Meta plans to implement a daily two-hour time limit for teens that can only be…
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What’s driving Sweden’s startup boom, from Lovable to Legora
Vibe-coding darling Lovable just raised $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, roughly doubling its worth in eight…
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Radar makes podcasts searchable — and usable by AI agents
Particle’s new podcast intelligence platform transcribes and analyzes more than 130,000 podcasts, making their…
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Ex-Meta scientists want to bring visual AI to the factory floor
Perceptron offers an AI model that it says can help machines navigate the world while also providing in-depth visual…
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Ring introduces a new encryption standard, makes it the default for cloud features
Ring says users can still opt for end-to-end encryption.
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Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and ‘Human Reserved’ jobs to mitigate harms from AI
Gates is mostly in the Responsible AI camp, but there are a few ideas in here we hadn't heard before.
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CISA confirms hackers targeted over 100 US water systems during July
The federal cyber agency's warning comes amid a wave of suspected Iran-backed cyberattacks targeting critical water…
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Surprise: Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha model
Z.ai confirms it is behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious open AI model topping benchmarks and leaderboards, and its weights…
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Meta settles for $18B in lawsuit brought by 29 states over social media harms to children
The lawsuit alleged that Meta knowingly designed platforms like Instagram and Facebook to addict children, despite…
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Robot brain builders are pushing out of their GPT-2 era
Robot bodies are waiting for their AI brains to catch up.
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Bluesky now lets you upload 10-minute long videos
Bluesky's new 10-minute video support includes faster upload speeds, too.
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QueryStory wants you to believe what AI is telling you
The startup came out of stealth with $6 million in seed funding and a plan to use LLMs and cybersecurity know-how to…
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Arga Labs is building a better way to train enterprise AI agents
Arga has raised $10 million in a seed funding round that was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Box…
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Hearing tech startup Legato emerges from stealth with $12M and a peek at its AI hearing glasses
The glasses, called Legato Frames, integrate the company’s patented hearing-assistance technology into the arms of…
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Runable hits $21M to bet AI agents can go from building businesses to growing them
Runable says 60% to 70% of its 1 trillion-plus token usage in the last 90 days came from paying customers.
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Ventures Platform goes bigger — and broader — with its second Africa fund
The Pan-African venture firm has raised $84 million and plans to invest in startups beyond its home market of Nigeria.
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India’s Ringg gets backing from Peak XV as it pushes voice AI past the phone call
Ringg has raised $10 million from Peak XV as a part of its Series A extension.
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Robotics startup Generalist reaches $3B valuation, sources say
The $200 million extension comes just months after the physical AI startup reached a $2 billion valuation.
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OpenAI loses a top data center exec as stream of high-profile departures continues
In a statement to TechCrunch about Malone's departure, OpenAI said it had "recently reorganized" its "infrastructure…
Read at source →X sends cease-and-desist to open source project Nitter over alleged scraping
X has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open source project behind privacy-friendly X front ends, demanding…
Read at source →Instagram’s ‘First Draft’ feature aims to make editing Reels less tedious
Instagram says the process can produce a first pass in under 10 seconds, potentially saving creators significant…
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Stability AI, maker of image generator Stable Diffusion, raises $76 million in fresh funding
The company's new fundraising total now stands at $232 million.
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SpaceX will build a second, $100B ‘Starbase’ spaceport in Louisiana
The company says it will start construction in 2027 and that a Starship rocket could take flight as soon as 2029.
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Your vote matters! Decide which Audience Choice sessions will make it to TechCrunch Founder Summit
Each year, we get a huge influx of applicants to speak at TechCrunch’s events, and this year’s Founder Summit in Boston…
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