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Phone maker OnePlus reportedly plans to wind down US and Europe operations

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OnePlus could also wind down its operations in India by 2027

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Google’s biggest clean power project is 40 miles north of xAI’s unpermitted gas power plant

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Google's biggest solar and battery project stands in sharp contrast with xAI's nearby unpermitted power plant.

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Whatnot acquires Shaped to power real-time live shopping recommendations

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Livestream shopping platform Whatnot has acquired AI startup Shaped, a machine learning company focused on real-time recommendations and search. The deal will bolster Whatnot’s personalization and d...

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Hack suggests AI music generator Suno scraped YouTube for training data

Tech Crunch AI

The hacker used an employee's credentials to access source code, which revealed how Suno scraped decades of audio.

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Microsoft patches record number of security vulnerabilities, citing its use of AI

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Microsoft's monthly release of security fixes, dubbed Patch Tuesday, resolved a record 570 security vulnerabilities across the company's product line, thanks to discoveries with AI.

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Stripe and Advent reportedly offered to buy PayPal for around $53.4B

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If completed, the acquisition would unite two of the biggest names in digital payments.

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Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba’s Qwen AI

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The deal, which was rumored to be in the works last year, marks an important step for Apple's AI ambitions in a key market.

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Spotify expands parent-managed accounts to users on its free tier

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The feature was previously only available to paid subscribers.

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India bets billions on breaking China’s grip on smartphone manufacturing

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New Delhi announced a $6.5 billion smartphone manufacturing program and a $13.3 billion semiconductor push to deepen India's electronics supply chain.

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US charges Russian ‘bulletproof’ web hosts over cyberattacks that netted $62M from cybercrime victims

Tech Crunch Security

The 2024 indictment, now unsealed, accuses three Russians and two web hosts of aiding hackers and profiting from cybercrime.

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Anthropic, Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not just models

Tech Crunch AI

Anthropic-backed Ode launches as AI labs bet that embedding forward-deployed engineers inside enterprises is the key to accelerating enterprise AI adoption.

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Reelful’s AI turns your camera roll into short-form videos for social media

Tech Crunch AI

The app is designed for people who want to create social content, but find traditional video editing tools too complex or time-consuming.

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Rime picks up $24M Series A to help enterprises field customer calls

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Rime is handling over 100 million calls each month across multiple companies.

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Why Realta Fusion is building a fusion reactor at an old hot dog factory

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An old Oscar Mayer factory in Wisconsin will become America's latest fusion power research and development hub.

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Vint Cerf is working on a plan to unleash AI agents on the open internet

Tech Crunch AI

The guy behind TCP/IP is working on a standard for identifying AI agents in the wild.

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Indian AI coding startup Emergent becomes a unicorn with $130M Series C

Tech Crunch AI

The startup has reached a $120 million annualized revenue run rate and more than 200,000 paying customers.

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An Inventor of Apple’s FaceID Wants to Analyze Your Brain’s Health With AI

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Gidi Littwin’s new AI startup, Hemispheric, makes diagnostic brain scans for conditions like depression, PTSD, and Parkinson’s. He wants the technology to be as cheap and easy as for a blood test....

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Backed by $60M in funding, Oak steps out of stealth to fix the identity mess that AI agents are making worse

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Cofounded by senior entrepreneur Shai Morag, Israeli identity management startup Oak is emerging out of stealth with $60 million in seed funding. 

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A SpaceX vet raised $65M to pull wire harnesses out of the Cold War era

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Someone has to bundle all the wires that go into rockets, missiles, and satellites.

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My Ebike Delivery Went Missing. When I Tried to Recover It, I Ended Up in Chatbot Hell

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Companies’ increasing reliance on AI chatbots isn’t making the customer service experience smarter. It’s just making it more infuriating.

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OpenAI Staffers Are Funding a Rival Super PAC to Take on Their Boss

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OpenAI employees have donated more than $215,000 to a political effort opposing Leading the Future, a group backed by the company’s president, Greg Brockman.

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From: yesterday

OpenAI researcher Miles Wang in talks to launch AI drug discovery startup valued at $2B

Tech Crunch AI

The funding discussions point to investor interest in applying AI to make breakthroughs in life sciences.

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Lorde says AI glasses are “not sexy”

Tech Crunch AI

"Increasingly in our world, it gets harder and harder to know what is real," Lorde said on stage.

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OpenAI’s first hardware device is reportedly a screenless speaker that can move

Tech Crunch AI

The device is weirdly described as involving "mechanical elements that can move on their own" and the Bloomberg report includes the detail that the device is designed to "feel like a companion and bec...

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