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Jeff Bezos might finally get his hands on a sports team
Jeff Bezos is reportedly attempting to join the club of very rich Americans buying stakes in U.K. soccer teams. Bezos,…
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Now Rippling is counter suing tiny startup Runlayer
HR startup Rippling filed a lawsuit Monday accusing MCP gateway startup Runlayer of infringing on three of its…
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight the billionaire tax
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has donated another $20 million to Build a Better California, an organization advocating…
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Mark Zuckerberg’s AI manifesto is exactly why people don’t like AI
On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500 word manifesto about personal AI, largely about the possibilities for the…
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Tech industry is buzzing after a Claude agent hacked into a gym
By now, we all realize that Silicon Valley’s AI labs have built the world’s best hackers in the form of AI agents. It…
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Aptoide becomes the first rival app store to return to Google Play in the US
On Monday, the Portugal-based app distributor brought its games store back to Google Play after more than a decade,…
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Social media platforms still facing thousands of user addiction lawsuits after failed appeals
According to a report from Reuters, San Francisco’s 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied these platforms’ attempt…
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YouTube now requires creators to have twice as many watch hours to start earning money
YouTube announced on Monday that new creators will have to meet higher thresholds to begin earning money from ads and…
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Clicks’ Power Keyboard brings BlackBerry-style typing to any phone — with some compromises
Clicks Technology, the startup determined to bring back physical keyboards to smartphones, began shipping its now-$99…
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Meta’s new Glimmer AI model offers a hint at Zuckerberg’s personal intelligence vision
Meta on Monday released Muse Glimmer, an open-weight model designed to power AI agents locally on consumer hardware,…
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Sila lands $1.4B Pentagon loan as militaries demand more batteries
Sila has landed a $1.4 billion loan from the U.S. Department of Defense to help the U.S.-based startup expand…
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Archer buys former rival Wisk Aero
Three years after settling a trade secret lawsuit, electric aircraft company Archer Aviation now owns its former…
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A data breach at shipping giant Ceva Logistics is rippling across banks, retailers, Steam gamers, and beyond
Ceva Logistics, one of the world’s largest shipping and logistics giants, has been hacked. Several companies that rely…
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Signed up for Klaviyo? Dozens of advertisers may have seen your password
Newly revealed security research found that until recently, marketing tech giant Klaviyo was inadvertently sharing the…
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Discovered Materials is playing AI whack-a-mole to hunt cooler chips
Chips running AI workloads are too hot: That’s one reason why data centers consume so much electricity and require…
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Google Play adds Venmo as a payment option
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Embattled hedge fund Situational Awareness invests $400M in chip startup Source Foundry
This week, the fund invested $400 million into Source Foundry, a startup founded by Stanford researchers aiming to…
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Anthropic is turning Claude Code’s auto mode on by default
The company first unveiled a test version of auto mode in March, pitching it as a way to balance speed and control. I…
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Historian Jill Lepore says Silicon Valley misreads science fiction and undermines democracy
Historian Jill Lepore warns that tech companies are replacing the functions of democratic government, marking a return…
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The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk
The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk as AI agents undergoing cybersecurity evaluations have escaped their…
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This ‘adversarial’ pattern can prevent surveillance cameras from detecting you
Bill Swearingen has developed a computer-generated pattern that can prevent surveillance cameras from detecting people…
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This former notorious red-light district is now one of the world’s top AI hubs
AI startup wants to know these days is, how can I get office space in King’s Cross? The area is so hot that a VC firm…
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Planned Amazon data center could become the biggest climate polluter in the U.S.
In Brief Posted: 2:24 PM PDT · August 8, 2026 Image Credits:Thossaphol / Getty Images Anthony Ha Planned Amazon data…
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OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide
OpenAI has acquired presentation startup NextSlide, with the startup's team members now working on ChatGPT. The…
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X replaces ‘misaligned’ revenue sharing program with Original Content Rewards
X, the social media platform now owned by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, is shaking up how it pays influencers and creators. In…
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The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft is a lot of fun, but it’s not a must-have
After testing the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft for two months, I found that it was made for a very specific kind of…
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Google’s top hacker hunter explains why hacking groups get codenames
For more than a decade, the cybersecurity industry has been assigning names to different hacking groups. Some of them,…
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OpenAI says it slowed Astra model development over security concerns
OpenAI said Friday it has suspended work on some aspects of its upcoming model Astra after an internal review found it…
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After Rippling blew millions on AI in months, it built an employee ROI tool
HR software provider Rippling this week unveiled AI Spend Console, an anti-tokenmaxxing product that helps a company…
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Wacom’s Movinkpad 11 is a fun and mid-priced entry point for digital artists
Since the advent of the internet, there has been a dedicated digital art community that’s all about creating through…
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Security researchers scanned the Polish web and found courts, hospitals, and airports at risk of hacks
Two Polish security researchers wanted to find out how vulnerable their country’s internet was to potential…
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Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents
Cloudflare is the latest company to join the race to build a new web browser. But instead of pitching a Chrome…
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Computer maker Framework notifies ‘all customers’ of a data breach
On Thursday, several Framework customers said on social media that they had received an email from the company…
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Trump administration has spent nearly $4B to cancel offshore wind farms
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Host your own piece of Disrupt: Apply to run a Side Event at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 takes place at Moscone West in San Francisco from October 13–15, but some of the best…
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Chinese AI model Kimi escaped its cybersecurity testing environment, researchers say
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Airbnb says AI is helping it ship features faster as it tests a new search function
Airbnb might be taking slow steps to roll out AI features to its consumer-facing interface, but the company is rapidly…
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SpaceX’s Terafab will rely on natural gas power plants, not Tesla solar panels
SpaceX said this week that it will build natural gas power plants to supply electricity to the Terafab semiconductor…
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The founder’s guide to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Everything you need to know
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New Mexico court orders Meta to pay additional $567M in child safety case
A New Mexico court has ordered Meta to pay an additional $567 million in fines for its role in harming children…
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OpenAI’s new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300 and $400
Bloomberg now reports that the device will be “donut-shaped,” designed thusly to allow users to carry it around their…
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OpenAI’s new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300-$400
Bloomberg now reports that the device will be “donut-shaped,” designed thusly to allow users to carry it around their…
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Google says hackers are calling financial firm employees to hack and extort victims
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China-linked LightSpy spyware caught targeting victims in 13 countries, including the US
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