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SpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year
SpaceX said on Thursday that it will remove the unpermitted turbines powering its xAI data centers near Memphis as it…
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Reddit is testing a new way to watch — and listen to — its viral posts
Reddit is taking a cue from TikTok to bring viral stories to life through video. On Thursday’s second-quarter earnings…
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Smallest.ai raises $13M to build ultra-fast voice AI that sounds genuinely human
Smallest.ai, a startup founded in late 2024, raised $13 million in a Series A round to develop a small, real-time…
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WhatsApp is testing a new folder for messages from large businesses
During Meta’s Q2 2026 earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg said that other revenue in the family of apps segment crossed $1…
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Tesla reportedly might sell its China business ahead of a SpaceX merger
The newspaper reports that “some Tesla executives have been told to prepare for a separation of the China business,”…
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Repeat founder Ryan Williams raises $10M seed for an AI startup for private credit managers
Ellis AI announced Thursday its emergence from stealth with $10 million in seed funding from investors including First…
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Anthropic says its own AI models breached three companies during security tests
Anthropic said Thursday that an internal investigation uncovered three incidents in which its AI model Claude breached…
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Apple stockpiles inventory as it braces for ‘significant supply constraints’
As the generative AI boom drives steep demand for hardware components, Apple and other hardware makers are facing what…
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AI hedge fund Situational Awareness may have sold its public portfolio, but it still has its Anthropic shares
Situational Awareness, a hedge fund formed by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, has sold the majority of…
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Reddit reports a solid quarter but shows signs of AI’s impact
Reddit reported a strong second quarter but spooked investors by mentioning in an investor letter that traffic from…
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Investors love AI, as long as you’re a cloud host
Amazon reported better-than-expected second-quarter earnings on Thursday, and investors loved what they saw. Net sales…
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Apple says gaming slowdown and App Store changes hurt services growth
Apple's services segment, which includes the App Store, AppleCare, music, video, and cloud services, reported $30.74…
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Judge says Trump admin still lacks evidence for Anthropic ‘supply chain risk’ label
Bloomberg and Axios were among the first to report the news. The dispute stems from stalled contract negotiations…
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CareCloud begins to notify hundreds of thousands after hackers stole medical records
Hundreds of thousands of people are receiving letters notifying them that their medical records were stolen in a…
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Friend, the lonely AI wearable, returns with a new voice and a much bigger price tag
Two years ago, tech founder Avi Schiffmann launched Friend, an AI wearable that you could talk to, and that would send…
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Google says it fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
With help from its internal AI tools, Google says it has patched more security flaws in its Chrome browser in the last…
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Okta buys AI security startup Permiso; source says for about $200M
Okta on Thursday agreed to acquire AI identity security startup Permiso Security, betting that demand for protecting…
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Tesla made its 10 millionth EV
Tesla has built its 10 millionth electric vehicle, according to a social media post by the company early on Thursday.…
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Florida plans to build air taxi pads using $200M intended for EV chargers
In Brief Posted: 11:38 AM PDT · July 30, 2026 Image Credits:Joby Aviation Tim De Chant Florida plans to build air taxi…
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Synthetic-user startup Simile raises $200M at $2B valuation 5 months after $100M Series A
In Brief Posted: 10:50 AM PDT · July 30, 2026 Image Credits:Simile Julie Bort Synthetic-user startup Simile raises…
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Spotify launches ‘User notes’ to let users add memories to songs
Spotify is giving users a new way to personalize their playlists with “User Notes,” a feature that lets them add their…
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LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated ‘slop’
LinkedIn is taking aim at the “AI slop” — low-quality, artificially generated content — filling its feed. On Thursday,…
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When will fusion power startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems go public?
Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) is the best funded fusion power startup, having raised $4 billion from investors…
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Meta says AI is making it easier to build new apps — and more are coming
Meta is using AI to quickly launch apps, and more are on the way. Meta has spent years trying and failing to produce…
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Netflix lands global streaming deal for ‘The Walking Dead’
Netflix has signed a multi‑year global licensing agreement with AMC Global Media to stream The Walking Dead franchise…
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Nscale buys Anyscale as it seeks to own more of the AI compute stack
In a bid to capture more of its customers’ AI spending, British AI neocloud Nscale is buying software startup…
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Fusion power darling Commonwealth Fusion Systems raises another $1B
Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has long been the best-funded fusion power startup. CFS announced Thursday that it…
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Forward-deployed engineers are the AI industry’s latest talent obsession
Executive search firm Christian & Timbers estimates that there are only about 2,000 engineers in the U.S. with the…
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In the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI’s hacker was noisy and fast — but not unstoppable
Earlier this month, AI dataset platform Hugging Face shocked the world when it revealed that it had fallen victim to a…
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s biggest stage features leaders from Amazon, Replit, Tether, with much more to come
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FTC sues Hims & Hers for allegedly sharing patients’ medical data with advertisers Meta and Snap
The Federal Trade Commission is suing healthcare giant Hims & Hers for allegedly sharing its customers’ medical and…
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Zoox clears final federal hurdle to launch paid robotaxi service
Federal safety regulators have given Zoox a temporary exemption that will allow the Amazon-owned autonomous vehicle…
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Spotify adds a running mode to its app
Spotify is adding a new mode to its phone app for people who like to listen to music on runs. The new running mode…
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Inforcer raises $50M to help prepare smaller businesses for a new world of AI and security risks
London-based Inforcer announced Thursday a $50 million Series C round led by Insight Partners — the latest sign of…
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Dili raises $21.7 million to bring AI compliance to the infrastructure boom
We already know that making AI work will mean bringing a lot of new data centers and power infrastructure online. But…
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Microsoft is openly competing with OpenAI, Anthropic more than ever
Microsoft is in a unique position as AI overtakes the tech industry. It’s one of the world’s largest cloud providers…
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Mark Zuckerberg predicts that billions of people will have personal AI agents in five years
He added that he could see people using these agents to help them with their finances, health, interpersonal…
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Microsoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment, but OpenAI was a mixed bag
For the quarter, it recorded its investment in Anthropic as a $3.2 billion gain, boosting diluted earnings [er share…
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Zuckerberg says Meta’s enterprise AI opportunity extends beyond agents
In June, Meta entered the enterprise AI market with a new AI agent aimed at businesses, to help with customer service,…
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Discover what’s next for AI, from the SaaS reckoning to the agent security gap, at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
AI hasn’t just changed how startups build; it’s broken how they sell, secure their data and customers, and scale it…
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Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng left the company citing health reasons, then joined OpenAI
“I don’t feel I’m able to continue at the pace a startup requires,” she wrote in an internal Slack message, which she…
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Winamp aims for a comeback with a new music player powered by Deezer
Long before Spotify, Winamp was the music player of choice for millions of music fans. Now, the nostalgic brand is…
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The Hugging Face AI break-in, as told through an increasingly committed bear metaphor
Hugging Face on Monday published a technical timeline that walks readers through how an autonomous AI agent, built on…
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Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine
For a year now, the AI safety testing firm Andon Labs has tasked frontier models with various real-world tasks to…
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Sorry, haters. Ferrari’s first EV is doing just fine
When Ferrari revealed the Luce — its first EV — to the public in May, the internet reacted. Critics compared the…
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Waymo robotaxis are starting to return to freeways
Waymo is slowly adding freeway routes back to its service area more than two months after the company stopped driving…
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US government bans new foreign-made humanoids, robot dogs, and solar inverters, citing risks to national security
The Trump administration is banning the import of new foreign-made humanoid robots, robot dogs, and power inverters,…
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Google brings its age-assurance technology to Android developers worldwide
Google is expanding its answer to Apple’s age-assurance tools with Wednesday’s news that it will bring its Play Signal…
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Elon Musk’s X settles multiyear legal battle with the World Federation of Advertisers
Elon Musk’s X has settled its multiyear legal battle with advertising trade group the World Federation for Advertisers…
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