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Wispr Flow launches a Granola-styled meeting notetaker

Wispr Flow's new terms of service indicate it will introduce a notetaker that generates meeting summaries and action items....

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Elon Musk repeatedly one-upped his execs on SpaceX’s first earnings call

Musk kept inflating the already-big promises being made by SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen and Gwynne Shotwell on the company's first call....

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Lucid’s turnaround plan hinges on $1.4B in cash savings, robotaxis

Lucid's new CEO Silvio Napoli listed four must-win priorities, including the successful launch of its midsize EV, finishing a factory in Saudi Arabia, cutting expenses, and robotaxis....

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How to get the best hotel deals for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

We’ve partnered with hotels around Moscone West during Disrupt, taking place October 13 to 15, to secure the best prices available for attendees. ...

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SpaceX has bought $329M worth of Tesla Megapacks so far this year

SpaceX has ramped up its purchases of Tesla Megapacks for its xAI data centers....

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SpaceX doubles revenue on Anthropic and Google compute deals, Starlink growth

SpaceX doubled its revenue compared to last year, according to its first quarterly earnings since going public in June....

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Android app developers may be unwittingly sharing their users’ location data with advertisers

Developers may not realize they are sharing their users' location data with advertisers, per new research....

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Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains.

A new SaferAI report finds Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier AI capabilities while lacking key safety mitigations, renewing concerns that powerful open models could outpace governance and...

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Anthropic signs $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta

Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta....

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Meet Wrinkles, an AI app that uncovers the hidden stories of the places around you

Wrinkles, available on both iOS and Android, essentially acts as an AI-powered audio tour guide that reveals hidden history and local stories....

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Nvidia doesn’t mess around: A week after open AI industry group formed, it’s already showing progress

The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance, spearheaded by Nvidia and grown to over 120 companies, already has proposals out for defending against AI agents....

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Waymo opens up robotaxi service in Dallas to everyone

Waymo has dropped the waitlist for its robotaxi service in Dallas, the latest step in the company's bid to scale its self-driving technology across the United States, U.K., and Europe....

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Take an extra $100 off your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass: This week only!

Starting today, you can take an additional $100 off your founder, investor, or attendee TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass, which is a nice bonus on top of our current discounted pricing. ...

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TV Time co-founder launches Bingers to revive the beloved TV-tracking app

After TV Time’s shutdown left millions of users searching for an alternative, one of the app’s original founders is back with Bingers, a new TV and movie tracker that revives the social features fans ...

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Hackers steal over $130 million by exploiting bug in offline hardware wallets

A security vulnerability in the cryptocurrency hardware wallet Coldcard is allowing hackers to drain the crypto from victims’ wallets. The total losses amount to more than $130 million, according to b...

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Spotify expands AI remix and covers project with Merlin partnership

Spotify says Merlin, which represents more than 30,000 independent labels and distributors, has joined Universal Music Group in backing its upcoming AI-powered remix and covers product. The paid tool ...

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Texas halts new data centers as governor calls for audits

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has paused new data center development until an audit has been completed....

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Elon Musk spends half his time talking robots and AI on Tesla earnings calls

An analysis of the last seven years of Tesla earnings calls shows just little attention Musk pays to Tesla's car business....

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Host a Side Event during TechCrunch Founder Summit Week in Boston

Want to tap into the energy of 1,100+ startup founders, investors, and tech leaders descending on Boston for the Founder Summit 2026 on June 9? Host your own Side Event during “Founder Summit Week,” h...

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Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI

Apple says its trade secrets investigation into OpenAI has widened. In a new court filing, Apple claims additional former staff may have retained or accessed confidential information....

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Spotify now has over 300M subscribers

Notably, the company saw its subscriber base swell by 9% in the second quarter despite raising prices in several regions this year....

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India moves to give its instant payments network a business model

The legislation lays the groundwork for a potential overhaul of India's zero-merchant-discount-rate regime, under which businesses have not paid fees to accept UPI payments since 2020....

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Is the future of data centers portable? Runware builds a pod to find out

On Tuesday, AI infrastructure company Runware announced the launch of its own modular data center called Sonic Inference Pod....

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EON wants to move the data superhighway from ocean fiber to space lasers

Endeavour Optical Networks is planning to launch the fastest space laser communications system yet built....

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Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B

At its peak in 2021, Airtable was valued at over $11 billion, but earlier this year, its shares were said to be trading on the secondary markets at a valuation of $4 billion....

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After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’

After a quarter that delivered $1 billion in profit, Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs as too untrustworthy for enterprises....

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Snap CEO sidesteps Specs pre-order questions on Q2 earnings call

When asked about product-market fit, Spiegel said he believes mass-market consumer adoption won't occur until the end of the decade....

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AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big

AWS now allows vibe coding tool Superblocks to be embedded into the private clouds of AWS customers. It's another step towards decoupling apps from models....

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Who’s legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI’s autonomous AI hacks? It’s complicated

OpenAI and Anthropic admitted that their unreleased AI models escaped their sandboxes and hacked several companies in unprecedented cyberattacks. Who is legally to blame? Should prosecutors charge the...

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DesignArena creators raise $7.9 million to bring taste to AI models

DesignArena is used by 5.3 million people around the world, providing critical human evaluations to frontier labs....

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Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI’s first luxury trip

OpenAI’s first-ever influencer brand trip is sparking online backlash as tensions over the use of AI continue. ...

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Apple challenges UK government’s latest demand for iCloud backdoor: report

Apple has appealed a new legal demand by the U.K. government, which critics say could threaten the privacy rights of users all over the world....

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Apple finally fixed Siri. So why does it feel anticlimactic?

Apple’s long-awaited AI overhaul finally makes Siri the assistant it was always supposed to be. But after years of delays, the launch lands in an AI landscape where chatbots have evolved into agents t...

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Outernet turns your saved posts into real-world adventures

Founded by the creators of viral offline events like San Francisco’s citywide scavenger hunt Pursuit, Outernet's app helps users save places and events they discover online, then nudges them to actual...

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WhatsApp says it is is fixing an issue that disabled several accounts

Meta says it’s restoring access to WhatsApp accounts that were mistakenly flagged and placed “under review” after users reported being unexpectedly locked out of the messaging app....

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Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire leads $1B round for nuclear startup Valar Atomics

Valar Atomics raised $1 billion at a $6 billion valuation after signing a development deal with Nvidia in June....

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Base Power raises another $1B to save the grid using backyard batteries

Base Power’s $1 billion round will help the startup ramp production of its home batteries....

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Congress’s favorite AI tool? ChatGPT

House spending records show OpenAI's ChatGPT dominates paid AI use on Capitol Hill, with congressional offices relying on the chatbot to draft memos, summarize legislation, and assist constituent comm...

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Wispr Flow is preparing to launch a meeting notetaker, updated terms suggest

Wispr Flow's new terms of service indicate it will introduce a notetaker that generates meeting summaries and action items....

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Horizon3 hits $2 billion valuation with $250M Series E as AI threats escalate

Cybersecurity startup Horizon3 raised $250 million at a $2 billion valuation as companies want continuous, AI-powered security validation instead of annual pentesting....

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Samsung bans smart TV apps that share users’ internet connections with strangers

New security research offers a rare view inside residential proxy networks, which rely on apps that share a person's internet connection with someone else....

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A Marc Benioff-backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem

June emerged from stealth today with a $20 million pre-seed round to make AI adoption simpler....

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The global memory shortage hits the MacBook Air

The global memory chip shortage appears to be affecting the availability of Apple’s most popular Mac....

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Sam Altman and AI’s decel debate

On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss why Sam Altman has calling on the industry to "pace the rate of AI development."...

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Malaysia is reportedly shutting down Balaji Srinivasan’s Network School

Let's see how this "frontier community for techno-optimists" is doing ......

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TechCrunch Mobility: Two roads diverged — for robotaxis

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it....

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Inside the London hacker house taking a stand against founder burnout

How one founder house is betting work-life balance can beat burnout ....

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Judge denies xAI’s request to block Minnesota ban on ‘nudify’ apps

Despite a lawsuit from xAI, a Minnesota ban on apps that allow users to “nudify” images can move forward....

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YouTuber Hank Green says his AI usage is ‘not healthy’

Green offered a remarkable apology, saying that "the level of dopamine that I've been getting from interacting with LLMs ... is not healthy for me or good for the world."...

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