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China opens its first photonic computing lab as it bets on light to outrun US chip curbs
China has launched its first dedicated photonic computing laboratory in Shanghai, signalling that Beijing sees light-based chips a…
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SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell just gave another hint at a Tesla merger
A SpaceX-Tesla merger seems inevitable.
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SpaceX rented Colossus 1 to Anthropic because it couldn’t make the data centre work for Grok
SpaceX rented its Colossus 1 data centre to Anthropic not because it had surplus capacity, but because it could not make the facil…
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London Tech Week 2026: the AI billions, the US build-out, and a royal first
London Tech Week wrapped its 12th edition this week, after three days of main-stage programming at Olympia from 8 to 10 June, with…
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Spotify is adding editor-hosted videos to New Music Friday so you can meet the people behind the playlist
Spotify is adding short-form videos from its editorial team to New Music Friday, its flagship weekly playlist for new releases. Th…
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SpaceX IPO: Live updates on everything you need to know
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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SpaceX shares soar 30% midday, vaulting it to top six most valuable U.S. companies
The company made its heavily anticipated debut on Friday, trading higher than its initial $135 IPO price.
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Firefox’s AI kill switch exists. Only 1% of users have flipped it.
Mozilla built an AI kill switch into Firefox after its users demanded one. Only 1% have used it. Another 3% turned off some AI fea…
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Google sues Chinese cybercrime ring that used Gemini to build phishing sites and send 2.5 million scam texts
Google filed a lawsuit on Friday to dismantle the infrastructure behind a Chinese cybercrime operation called Outsider Enterprise.…
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IMF chief warns advanced AI models like Mythos “can be used to destroy the financial system”
The head of the International Monetary Fund warned on Wednesday that advanced AI models like Anthropic’s Mythos “can be used to de…
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Mistral is rumored to be raising €3B at €20 valuation
The funding round would value the company at around €20 billion (about $23.15 billion), nearly double its Series C valuation of €1…
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Google sues alleged Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to send scam texts
The tech giant said a group called "Outsider Enterprise" used AI to scam hundreds of thousands of victims, sending 2.5 million tex…
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From AI deals to streaming fraud, the music industry is wrestling with four existential battles at once
The music industry descended on New York this week for Indie Week and a flurry of parallel gatherings. The conversations kept circ…
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Why SpaceX IPO could spark a ‘$200bn private markets boom’
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Robinhood sees ‘record-breaking’ traffic after SpaceX stock debuts
The trading platform says some customers experienced intermittent disruptions, but that those issues have resolved.
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SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI’s hot IPO summer
The IPO market is back, and it’s not the same companies leading the charge. FAANG had a good run, but a&…
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Elon Musk becomes the world’s first trillionaire after SpaceX’s historic IPO
The SpaceX IPO has boosted Musk's paper wealth to more than $1,000,000,000,000 at a time when he is more hated -- and powerful -- …
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SpaceX opens at $150, an 11% pop for the most anticipated debut in history
The company made its heavily-anticipated debut on Friday, trading higher than its initial $135 IPO price.
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Pleo lays off 50 employees in latest round of cuts
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Mistral in talks to raise at €20bn valuation, reports say
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Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp hit by a major Meta outage
Meta had a bad Friday morning. A major Meta outage knocked out Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger for users around the w…
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Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxi wins Level 4 approval in Switzerland
Baidu’s robotaxis are heading to the Alps. AmiGo, a venture between the Chinese giant’s Apollo Go robotaxi unit and Swiss Post’s P…
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Meta is giving free AI glasses to every blind veteran in America
Meta is giving free Meta AI glasses to every blind veteran in America. Mark Zuckerberg announced the programme on Friday, offering…
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Thena Capital closes a £45M fund to back UK medtech, a first for an all-female GP team
Thena Capital has closed its first fund at £45m ($60.4m), the London venture firm announced this week, after a £27m first close in…