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YouTube now lets creators tag Amazon products and earn commissions from purchases

YouTube now lets creators tag Amazon products and earn ...

The update turns product recommendations into a more direct revenue stream for c...

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Buried in Meta’s $18B settlement is a legal pass on kids’ data

Buried in Meta’s $18B settlement is a legal pass on kid...

Meta’s settlement with 29 states allows it to retain certain data from children ...

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Bluesky adds an ‘algorithmic opt-out’ feature for those who don’t want to go viral

Bluesky adds an ‘algorithmic opt-out’ feature for those...

Sometimes people just want to post to their followers, Bluesky says.

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Rivian’s CFO is leaving the company

Rivian’s CFO is leaving the company

Claire McDonough is stepping down on October 30 to pursue a new opportunity, the...

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Anthropic and OpenAI are joining the AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 

Anthropic and OpenAI are joining the AI stage at TechCr...

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest ...

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Google’s Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI

Google’s Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the...

Consumer AI apps need to stop making users learn their product architecture.

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Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45B deal with Nscale

Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45B dea...

The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic...

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Meta’s $18B child-safety deal hinges on age-verification tech that doesn’t work well

Meta’s $18B child-safety deal hinges on age-verificatio...

The historic settlement reignites ongoing concern around how age-verification te...

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Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘surging demand’

Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘sur...

Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the...

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Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation

Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350 million at a ...

The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of ...

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Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model

Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a r...

A new study finds leading AI labs have few publicly documented plans for contain...

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OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill

OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety ...

OpenAI is calling for California to strengthen SB 53, an AI safety bill that the...

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Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘teammate’ just outperformed Anthropic and OpenAI at replicating research

Inherent, founded by DeepMind alumni, says its AI ‘team...

Built by DeepMind alumni, British AI lab Inherent released Faraday, an AI agent ...

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Will the DOJ’s investigation into a16z spook other VCs?

Will the DOJ’s investigation into a16z spook other VCs?

On the latest episode of Equity, we wonder why the DOJ is investigating startup ...

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Harvard’s $699 startup bootcamp offers AI avatars of its instructors

Harvard’s $699 startup bootcamp offers AI avatars of it...

In the HBS Foundry program, AI avatars provide feedback during practice pitches ...

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TikTok reaches $400M settlement over children’s privacy lawsuit

TikTok reaches $400M settlement over children’s privacy...

Two years after the U.S. Department of Justice alleged that TikTok violated the ...

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Apple is reportedly cutting hundreds of jobs from Siri, Vision Pro teams

Apple is reportedly cutting hundreds of jobs from Siri,...

Apple has admitted that some roles are being impacted as it shifts its focus awa...

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How AI accounting startup Rillet raised $100M and became a unicorn in 48 hours

How AI accounting startup Rillet raised $100M and becam...

Rillet CEO Nicolas Kopp shared growth numbers at a board meeting and set off a f...

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Nvidia partners with data center developer Cloverleaf

Nvidia partners with data center developer Cloverleaf

Nvidia continues to pour money into data center development — just as AI data ce...

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Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine

Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine

Anthropic forbids its Claude models from generating sexually explicit content. B...