From: today

Inside a $1.1B deal to reshore critical minerals refining

Tech Crunch Climate

Critical minerals startup Nth Cycle is betting that its modular approach to nickel refining can make the practice viable in the U.S. and Europe.

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The Fight to Hold AI Companies Accountable for Children’s Deaths

Ai News Business

After a series of suicides allegedly linked to AI chatbots, one lawyer is trying to hold companies like OpenAI accountable.

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Multiverse Computing pushes its compressed AI models into the mainstream

Tech Crunch AI

After compressing models from major AI labs including OpenAI, Meta, DeepSeek and Mistral AI, Multiverse Computing has launched both an app that showcases the capabilities of its compressed models and ...

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Two Palantir veterans just came out of stealth with $30 million and a Sequoia stamp of approval

Tech Crunch Venture

The founders are worth paying attention to.

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A better method for identifying overconfident large language models

MIT Research

This new metric for measuring uncertainty could flag hallucinations and help users know whether to trust an AI model.

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Generative AI improves a wireless vision system that sees through obstructions

MIT Research

With this new technique, a robot could more accurately detect hidden objects or understand an indoor scene using reflected Wi-Fi signals.

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Meta is having trouble with rogue AI agents

Tech Crunch AI

A rogue AI agent inadvertently exposed Meta company and user data to engineers who didn't have permission to see it.

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Sam Altman’s thank-you to coders draws the memes

Tech Crunch AI

Altman expresses gratitude for people who knew how to write their code from scratch. The internet replies with salty jokes.

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Nothing CEO Carl Pei says smartphone apps will disappear as AI agents take their place

Tech Crunch AI

Nothing CEO Carl Pei says AI agents will eventually replace apps, shifting smartphones toward systems that understand intent and act on a user's behalf.

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Nvidia is quietly building a multibillion-dollar behemoth to rival its chips business

Tech Crunch AI

Nvidia's networking business raked in $11 billion last quarter despite getting significantly less fanfare than chips and gaming.

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FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms

Tech Crunch Government & Policy

FBI director Kash Patel told lawmakers that the agency is actively purchasing commercially available location data, which can track Americans without needing a warrant.

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Why Walmart and OpenAI Are Shaking Up Their Agentic Shopping Deal

Ai News Business

After OpenAI’s Instant Checkout feature fell short, Walmart is instead embedding its Sparky chatbot directly into ChatGPT and Google Gemini.

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Pardoned Nikola founder Trevor Milton is trying to raise $1B for AI-powered planes

Tech Crunch Transportation

He told the Wall Street Journal he thinks autonomous planes will be "10 times harder than Nikola ever was."

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Patreon CEO calls AI companies’ fair use argument ‘bogus,’ says creators should be paid

Tech Crunch AI

Patreon CEO Jack Conte says AI companies should pay creators for training data, arguing their fair use defense falls apart when they license content from major publishers.

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Rebel Audio is a new AI podcasting tool aimed at first-time creators 

Tech Crunch AI

Rebel Audio is a new all-in-one podcasting tool that allows creators to record podcasts, edit, clip content for social, and publish episodes, all without ever leaving the platform. 

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The Gemini-powered features in Google Workspace that are worth using

Tech Crunch AI

From summarizing emails, drafting content, organizing data, and tracking meetings, here are all the best Gemini features in Google Workspace.

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Apps to distract you from the endless cycle of doomscrolling

Tech Crunch Apps

It's hard to break the cycle of doomscrolling, but there are plenty of apps that can help you spend more time on content that’s engaging and productive.

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The leaderboard “you can’t game,” funded by the companies it ranks

Tech Crunch Startups

Artificial intelligence models are multiplying fast, and competition is stiff. With so many players crowding the space, which one will be the best — and who decides that? Arena, formerly LM Arena...

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This startup wants to make enterprise software look more like a prompt

Tech Crunch AI

The company has raised $12 million in seed funding to build an AI operating system for enterprise.

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Facebook launches a new monetization program to attract popular creators from TikTok, YouTube

Tech Crunch Apps

Facebook says it paid creators nearly $3 billion through its monetization programs in 2025, a 35% increase from the previous year and its highest annual total to date.

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Sequen snags $16M to bring TikTok-style personalization tech to any consumer company

Tech Crunch AI

With its Series A, Sequen is bringing its proprietary AI ranking and personalization technology to large consumer business.

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Microsoft hires the team of Sequoia-backed AI collaboration platform, Cove

Tech Crunch AI

AI collaboration startup Cove is shutting down after its team joined Microsoft, with service ending April 1 and customer data set for deletion.

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Marquis says over 672,000 people had personal and financial data stolen in ransomware attack

Tech Crunch Security

Fintech company Marquis is notifying hundreds of thousands of people that hackers stole their personal and financial information, including their Social Security numbers.

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Russians caught stealing personal data from Ukrainians with new advanced iPhone hacking tools

Tech Crunch Security

A suspected group of Russian government hackers was caught targeting Ukrainians with new iPhone hacking tools designed for espionage and potentially to steal crypto.

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