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Sixty percent of U.S. consumers say ‘AI’ in brand messaging is a turnoff, survey finds
WordPress VIP’s latest survey suggests consumers are wary of AI-generated answers even as companies increasingly view AI search as…
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SpaceX is public: Everything you need to know post-IPO
TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. Th…
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India orders temporary ban on Telegram over exam fraud concerns
The restrictions include a nationwide ban on Telegram until June 22 and a requirement to disable the app's message editing feature…
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CyCognito pushes AI pentesting beyond vulnerability scans as enterprise attack surfaces evolve
The cybersecurity industry is confronting a new reality: traditional vulnerability management is no longer enough. As enterprises …
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Payments startup Flutterwave hits $3.2B valuation, backed by Ripple
African payments infrastructure company Flutterwave has hit a new valuation and landed blockchain company Ripple as investor and p…
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Five big questions about the UK's under-16s social media ban
A ban is coming - but it's still not clear what it will mean for sites including Roblox, YouTube and WhatsApp.
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Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop has a trackpad that rumbles like a game controller
Microsoft’s new Surface Laptop and Surface Pro feature a redesigned trackpad with haptic feedback that vibrates when you interact …
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Attackers hijacked over 1,500 Arch Linux packages to steal developers’ secrets, no hacking required
One of the largest open-source package repositories just spent a weekend cleaning up after a malware campaign that did not break i…
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DOJ claims xAI’s unpermitted gas turbines are a matter of ‘national, economic, and energy security’
The Justice department says the Pentagon needs xAI to keep using its unpermitted gas turbines.
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Plaud says its software business topped $100M in ARR after shipping over 2M AI notetakers
Plaud is trying to make a mark in a crowded market full of AI-powered meeting notetakers.
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Robinhood’s note on 10% layoffs shows blaming AI isn’t cutting it
Unlike many of his tech industry peers who have cut thousands of jobs citing the need to restructure to make the most of AI, Robin…
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Mobileye puts self-driving tech in 230 million cars. Now it wants to run its own robotaxis.
For 25 years, Mobileye has been the arms dealer of self-driving, selling the cameras, chips, and software that now sit inside more…
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Genesis AI thinks the humanoid hype is wrong. Its wheeled robot is the counterargument.
On Tuesday, while the robotics industry continued pouring billions into machines that walk like humans, a startup called Genesis A…
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The team that built Microsoft’s Security Copilot just raised $100M to stop attacks before they happen
For most of the past decade, the security industry quietly gave up on prevention. Breaches were treated as inevitable, and the mon…
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This two-year-old startup already programs Blue Origin’s rockets. It just raised $20M.
The hottest pitch in AI right now is not another chatbot. It is software that can run the machines on a factory floor, and a two-y…
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More Big Tech executives just became Army officers. The conflict-of-interest question is getting louder.
The US Army has commissioned three more technology executives into Detachment 201, the reserve unit that gives Silicon Valley lead…
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This Swedish startup doesn’t want to give patent lawyers AI tools. It wants to replace them.
A Swedish startup wants to do to patent attorneys what Harvey and Legora are doing to corporate lawyers, except it is not trying t…
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Anthropic spent six months warning the world about AI. Then the government pulled its models.
No company in the AI industry has done more to warn the public about the technology it is building than Anthropic. No company has …
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ChapsVision to replace Palantir in major contract with French intelligence agency
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SpaceX passes Amazon as valuation balloons to $2.7T
SpaceX's valuation has increased by $1 trillion since its shares started trading on Friday.
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What the Anthropic shutdown means for Europe
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Probably raises $9M to build a more reliable kind of AI
Probably wants to prevent hallucinations and factual errors from reaching users, and achieve accuracy on par with deterministic sy…
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This startup’s super metals could soon be in military drones, luxury watches, and chef’s knives
Instead of heating metals, Foundation Alloy beats them into submission. The startup has raised $22 million to scale up production …
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SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO
The deal is supposed to help SpaceX's struggling AI division. The company told IPO investors it sees a $26 trillion addressable ma…