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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...

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Spotify’s new Playlist Notes let users and editors explain their song picks

Spotify’s new Playlist Notes let users and editors expl...

Spotify launches a new feature that gives users a chance to explain the stories ...

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Save up to $300 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass until August 21 

Save up to $300 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass un...

If you’ve been circling around Disrupt, then now’s the best time to lock in your...

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‘Unprecedented’ number of Apple users received recent spyware alert, say investigators

‘Unprecedented’ number of Apple users received recent s...

Cybersecurity experts who investigate spyware attacks say the number of people w...

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AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team

AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Goo...

"We have some really ambitious plans to help you work with AI in Chrome to get t...

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Anthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B

Anthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B

The model maker added $18 billion in annualized revenue in two months.

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Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery

Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform chil...

The woman claimed that AI tools are "taking everyday life and turning it into ch...

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TechCrunch Mobility: The shifting flight path of electric air taxis

TechCrunch Mobility: The shifting flight path of electr...

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on ...