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Xprize founder says global surveillance is a good thing because humans behave better when they are being watched
Xprize Foundation founder Peter Diamandis has joined a growing list of tech executives who believe global surveillance is a good i…
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Xprize founder says ‘humans behave better when they’re being watched’
Peter Diamandis is the latest tech executive to argue that global surveillance will make the world a better place, following Larry…
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Apple skips its high-end M6 chips for an AI-first M7
Apple is breaking its own playbook. It will skip the high-end versions of its M6 chip and leap to an AI-focused M7 line. Apple M7 …
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Aseon Labs raises ten million dollars to build parking-space-sized pods that charge and clean robotaxis
Aseon Labs, a Redwood City startup building automated service pods for robotaxi fleets, has raised ten million dollars in a seed r…
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onsemi to buy Synaptics in $7bn bet on ‘physical AI’
onsemi is buying Synaptics in an all-stock deal worth about $7bn. The onsemi Synaptics deal bets that AI’s next wave lives not in …
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Volkswagen reportedly plans to cut 100,000 jobs
Volkswagen reportedly wants to cut 100,000 jobs, about 15% of its workforce, and close German plants. It would be the biggest over…
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California deploys first AI job-loss tracker as white-collar cuts emerge
California has launched the first real-time dashboard to track AI-driven job losses, offering European policymakers a potential bl…
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OpenAI told Cannes it is “clearly in the advertising business now.” The numbers say it is barely in the door.
OpenAI made its debut at the Cannes Lions advertising festival this week, but it did not book a beach club on the Croisette alongs…
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Patronus AI raises $50M to stress-test AI agents
Patronus AI has raised $50m to build simulated worlds where AI agents can be tested before they touch a real system. The pitch bor…
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Robotaxis drives miles just to get cleaned and charged; this new startup wants to fix that
Aseon Labs, which came out of Y Combinator's 2026 spring cohort, has raised $10 million from Crane Venture Partners and others.
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Early Bird pricing ends tonight for TechCrunch Founder Summit
Save up to $190 on your pass to TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026. Early Bird pricing ends today, at 11:59 p.m. PT, after which rates…
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Malaysia intercepts $13M AI chip shipment bound for re-export
The shipment passed through Kuala Lumpur declared as ordinary computer components. Inside the 72 server units, Malaysian customs o…
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Zalando plunges after German regulator opens accounting review
Germany’s financial regulator is reviewing a disclosure tied to the About You takeover. Zalando says it is formal and not material…
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France’s statistics department hit by cyberattack on staff directory
The institution that counts France found itself counting victims this week. INSEE, the national statistics department, said a cybe…
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Swatch wants $170m from Samsung over copied watch faces
A London court already found 26 of Samsung’s smartwatch faces infringed Swatch trademarks. Now the two sides are fighting over the…
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Kobo rejects 45% of self-published books amid AI flood
Rakuten Kobo rejected nearly half of all self-published submissions last year as AI-generated content overwhelms digital bookstore…
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Samsung and SK Hynix plan $647.5bn Korean chip expansion
South Korea’s top two chipmakers are preparing a $647.5 billion domestic investment drive that will deepen Asia’s grip on the AI m…
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The US government asks OpenAI to slow its next model’s release
Sam Altman told staff Washington wants GPT-5.6 released first to a short list of trusted partners, with access approved customer b…
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Cargo drone startup Elroy Air nears an $800m SPAC deal
The maker of the autonomous Chaparral is in advanced talks to go public through a blank-cheque merger valuing the combined company…
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TikTok and YouTube cut 4.7 million under-16 accounts in Indonesia
The number arrives with the bluntness of a government tally. TikTok and YouTube have deactivated roughly 4.7 million accounts belo…
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SpaceX wants to sell Starlink phone service directly to US consumers
Every satellite company eventually looks down at the much larger market on the ground, and SpaceX appears ready to make the move. …
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Airwallex valued at $11bn as investors back AI payments push
Cross-border payments firm Airwallex has secured $320 million at an $11 billion valuation, signalling strong investor appetite for…
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Italy opens an antitrust probe into Microsoft 365’s AI price rise
The regulator says customers were moved to a pricier Copilot-bundled plan unless they actively opted out, with too little informat…
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Australia’s teen social media ban works on paper, less so in practice
A law is only as strong as the door it actually closes, and Australia’s ban on social media for under-16s appears to have left a w…