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‘It’s a Modern-Day Draft’: Why Stanford Students Walked Out on Sundar Pichai’s Commencement Speech
Last month, more than a hundred Stanford students left their own graduation to protest Google’s military contracts and deals with ICE. Two organizers, Amanda Campos and Eva Jones, tell us why.
View the articleGritt exits stealth with $34 million for robots to build solar plants—then, everything else
Gritt is coming out of stealth with $34 million and plan to automate the hardest tasks on construction sites.
View the articleThe Army Is Burning Through Its AI Tokens
Members of the Army received an email informing them that they were rapidly depleting their AI tokens, and needed to limit use.
View the articleEtsy Is In Its Flop Era, and Sellers Are Fleeing
Once a quirky bastion of amateur vulva jewelry and pet portraits, Etsy is now deluged with mass-produced goods and AI knockoffs. Some customers don’t seem to mind.
View the articleAnthropic’s landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved
The final approval settles one case, but it doesn't resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI models.
View the articleColossal Biosciences reportedly in talks to raise new capital at $20B–$30B valuation
The de-extinction startup is looking to double or triple its previous valuation, according to the report.
View the articleTrump’s latest AI czar has already resigned
The director role for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has become a revolving door since David Sacks left his position as czar.
View the articleGoogle is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient
Alphabet, Google's parent company, is reportedly working on a new chip designed to make its Gemini models run much more efficiently.
View the articleAI’s most important protocol is getting a little bit easier to use
Under the new system, the protocol will take a looser, "stateless" approach to session IDs on the server side, similar to how most ordinary websites already work.
View the articleX relaunches a rebuilt Android app after year-long effort
X says the rebuilt version of its Android app is now available globally.
View the articleOpenAI is scared of open-weight models. Should the US be?
Talk of banning Chinese-made open-weight LLMs reveals the challenge of turning AI into a business.
View the articleNatural raises $30M to reinvent payments for AI agents — and take on Stripe
The one-year-old startup aims to reinvent financial architecture for autonomous AI transactions.
View the articleJudge pauses $110B Paramount-Warner Bros merger
The lawsuit from the states alleges that the deal would harm movie theaters, basic cable distributors, and audiences.
View the articleAdobe camera app’s new feature will critique your photos using AI
Adobe's Project Indigo can now remove all kinds of backgrounds from photos you snap using the app
View the articleHackers are exploiting recently patched WordPress bugs, putting millions of websites at risk
Two critical security flaws in WordPress’ software have given hackers the chance to remotely take over tens of millions of websites, according to an estimate by a cybersecurity researcher.
View the articleYouTube clarifies policies around AI slop and upsetting videos
YouTube has updated its monetization policies to more clearly define the kinds of AI-generated and low-quality videos that can’t earn ad revenue.
View the articleInference startup Infinity raises $15M from Touring Capital, OpenAI and Anthropic researchers
AI infrastructure company Infinity announced Monday a $15 million raise at a $100 million valuation from investors including Touring Capital, Principal VC, and researchers from companies such as ...
View the articleHackers stole ‘significant’ amount of data from tech firm relied on by thousands of US hospitals and pharmacies
Edinburgh-based tech firm Craneware said customer data was stolen during a cyberattack. The company makes software that thousands of U.S. hospitals, pharmacies, and clinics rely on for billing patient...
View the articleWatch Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley discuss the future of surveillance at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Flock Safety sits right at the center of the debate over where the line should be drawn between privacy and public safety. That’s why we’re bringing Flock’s founder and CEO Garrett Langley to...
View the articleHugging Face confirms breach affected internal datasets and credentials, urges users to take action
Hugging Face is urging users to rotate any access tokens stored on the platform and review account activity.
View the articleStrictlyVC returns to New York City September 10 to celebrate a huge year for the city’s startup community
For the first time since 2024, StrictlyVC is coming back to New York City — and we're bringing the kind of access you’d expect from an under-wraps event to the whole startup, VC, and dealmaking co...
View the articleNetflix paid $587M for Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking startup
Netflix revealed that it paid $587 million in cash for InterPositive, a startup co-founded by Ben Affleck.
View the articleWhat to watch for after Jensen Huang’s Japan visit
Jensen Huang left Tokyo with deals spanning Japan's entire tech ecosystem.
View the articleCan an Apple lawsuit derail OpenAI’s hardware plans?
On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether Apple's lawsuit will cast over OpenAi's much-discussed plans to get into hardware and go public.
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