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Meta debuts its Muse AI agent. Will consumers trust it?

Meta debuts its Muse AI agent. Will consumers trust it?

Meta's new personal AI agent Muse wants access to users' email, calendars, payme...

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The Exploration Company nabs $450 million to challenge SpaceX

The Exploration Company nabs $450 million to challenge ...

The Exploration Company (TEC) has raised $450 million to build reusable spacecra...

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Cognition hits $48B valuation, signaling investors believe AI coding is far from a winner-take-all market

Cognition hits $48B valuation, signaling investors beli...

Cognition's valuation multiple is higher than Cursor's was before selling to Spa...

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Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers

Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers

Last month, a Claude user noticed his account was consuming tokens even though h...

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White House takes down ‘Build the Wall’ game after the Tetris Company complains

White House takes down ‘Build the Wall’ game after the ...

The Trump administration's short-lived arcade game "Build the Wall" is now nowhe...

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Authors push back as publishers and agents make claims on Anthropic settlement

Authors push back as publishers and agents make claims ...

Authors say publishers seem to be claiming more than their fair share of settlem...

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Phil Schiller’s App Store exit reportedly driven by wariness over future plans

Phil Schiller’s App Store exit reportedly driven by war...

Schiller reportedly had reservations about new CEO John Ternus' goal of bringing...

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What we expect from the upcoming Apple launch

What we expect from the upcoming Apple launch

While Apple's first foldable iPhone Ultra will headline the September 9 launch, ...

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A secret new Elizabeth Holmes documentary stuns Telluride

A secret new Elizabeth Holmes documentary stuns Telluride

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's secret Elizabeth Holmes documentary, "You C...

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Opaque recurrence, and other AI terms that you should probably know

Opaque recurrence, and other AI terms that you should p...

The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossa...

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OpenAI’s Astra model is on the way — and very good at breaking into computer systems

OpenAI’s Astra model is on the way — and very good at b...

OpenAI previewed the precautions it is taking as it prepares to release Astra, i...

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AfterQuery reportedly becomes Y Combinator’s fastest-ever unicorn, now valued at $3.2B

AfterQuery reportedly becomes Y Combinator’s fastest-ev...

AI model-training startup AfterQuery has reportedly raised a round that valued i...

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Apple follows Google in adopting Trump’s ‘Lake America’ name

Apple follows Google in adopting Trump’s ‘Lake America’...

Apple Maps is following President Trump's executive order to change the name of ...

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Reliance’s JioHotstar takes its streaming empire global — without sports

Reliance’s JioHotstar takes its streaming empire global...

JioHotstar will only have entertainment content when it launches in the UK, Cana...

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Larry Page’s flying car company Pivotal loses its CEO

Larry Page’s flying car company Pivotal loses its CEO

The company told TechCrunch he is "pursuing new endeavors."

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A group funded by Andreessen, Horowitz, and Brockman plans data center ads to sway midterms

A group funded by Andreessen, Horowitz, and Brockman pl...

Build American AI plans to lobby voters in select states about the virtues of da...

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a16z brings growth fund to $8.5B days after launching new $1.1B fund

a16z brings growth fund to $8.5B days after launching n...

Andreessen Horowitz held out its hand and returned with billions more in new fun...

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Polymarket reportedly raises $300 million from Donald Trump Jr.’s investment fund

Polymarket reportedly raises $300 million from Donald T...

The firm, 1789 Capital, led the funding round that reportedly will total around ...

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Apple shares ‘shocking evidence’ against former employee accused of stealing company data for OpenAI

Apple shares ‘shocking evidence’ against former employe...

Apple says it has evidence that a former employee destroyed evidence of data the...

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Lachy Groom backs Indian startup aiming to keep aircraft aloft for a year

Lachy Groom backs Indian startup aiming to keep aircraf...

Founded by a 20-year-old, Alteon is developing autonomous aircraft that hopes to...