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Cursor capitalizes on GitHub frustration, launches rival hosting platform
Cursor, known for its AI Code Editor, is launching a new code-hosting platform to rival developers' long preferred favorite, GitHub.
View the articleDOJ’s probe into Andreessen Horowitz over board seats baffles VCs
Since portfolio companies often pivot and expand into competing markets, investors view occasional conflicts of interest as unavoidable for large VC firms.
View the articleTikTok explores peer-to-peer payments via DMs, report says
If rolled out, the feature would use the social media service’s TikTok Pay offering, which is already available in Southeast Asia for TikTok Shop purchases.
View the articleOpenAI Overhauls Safety Protocols After Its AI Agents Went Rogue
The ChatGPT maker says its upcoming Astra model may have reached “critical” cyber capabilities, prompting it to halt a significant number of training runs while it tightens internal safeguards.
View the articleOpenAI institutes new safeguards after Hugging Face breach
The new safeguards include more detailed monitoring of models during the development process, as well as greater emphasis on alignment and security during the post-training process.
View the articleSaulius Lazaravičius, VP of Product at Hostinger – Interview Series
Saulius Lazaravičius, VP of Product at Hostinger, is an experienced technology and product leader whose career spans more than two decades across software engineering, entrepreneurship, e-commerce, a...
View the articleSave up to $300 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass until August 21
If you’ve been circling around Disrupt, then now’s the best time to lock in your pass and start getting ready to join the rest of the startup community gathering in San Francisco from October 13-1...
View the articleEtched Raises $700M Series D at $21B Valuation to Ramp Inference Hardware Production
Etched has raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation in a round led by Jane Street, the AI chip startup announced on August 18, 2026. The quant trading firm took the lead after testing and then b...
View the articleEtched’s valuation doubles to $21B in a month
Jane Street has installed Etched's first shipped AI cluster system, and was so impressed, it led another massive round, the startup says.
View the articleApple overhauls its EU App Store fees, loosens rules for alternative app stores
Apple is simplifying its EU App Store fees, replacing its per-install fee with a 5% commission for apps distributed outside the App Store and making it easier for developers to operate alternative app...
View the articleComcast adds motion sensing to millions of its newer routers, with a privacy catch
A new feature added to Comcast's newest routers can detect if there is motion is inside your home without needing traditional motion sensors.
View the articleLauri Kien Kotcher, CEO and Co-Founder of Different Day – Interview Series
Lauri Kien Kotcher, CEO and Co-Founder of Different Day, is an experienced business leader, brand builder, board director, and strategic advisor whose career spans artificial intelligence, consumer pr...
View the articleWhen AI art has no author: Study finds generated images often can’t be traced to training data
A new method for surgically removing training examples from a model reveals that as datasets grow, the link between what a model learns and what it produces dissolves.
View the articleWhy Apple’s camera-equipped AirPods may not be the ‘pervert pods’ consumers fear
Apple’s leaked camera-equipped AirPods might avoid the privacy pitfalls of other AI wearables by preventing users from recording photos and videos.
View the articleBluesky says its recent outage was caused by another DDoS attack
This is the latest large-scale DDoS attack to hit the social networking site this year.
View the articlePeacock is raising prices across all of its streaming plans
"These price changes allow Peacock to continue to create the best experience for its viewers, remain competitive in the marketplace, and deliver unique content across all genres," the company wrote on...
View the articleEdcafe AI Review: The Teacher Tool That’ll Save Your Sunday
Ask any teacher what actually eats their time, and it's rarely the hours in front of students. It's everything that happens before and after: building a quiz from scratch on a Sunday night, formatting...
View the articlePerplexity’s Free Airtel Year Ends, and Its India Revenue Climbs
Perplexity's year-long bet on free access in India is starting to show its return. The AI search company's in-app revenue in the country rose roughly 60% in the months after its giveaway with telecom ...
View the articleWarp’s new system is an out-of-the-box software factory for AI development
On Tuesday, Warp introduced Warp Factories, a new infrastructure system designed to make building AI software factories as easy as possible.
View the articleAnthro Energy breaks ground on factory that could pave the road to solid-state batteries
Battery materials startup Anthro Energy has broken ground on a Louisville factory to make electrolytes, including those for solid-state batteries.
View the articleOpenAI launches a safer ChatGPT for teens — years after teens started using it
ChatGPT for Teens adds age-appropriate safety measures, parental controls, and learning tools designed to steer teens away from harmful content — and from using AI to cheat on their homework.
View the articlePerplexity’s free AI offer left it with millions more users in India
Perplexity's India revenue rose about 60% after the Airtel offer ended for new users, even as downloads declined.
View the articleApple’s new macOS update reportedly contains a video of AirPods with a camera
A video in a MacOS Tahoe release candidate version shows a user wearing AirPods, looking at a book, and talking to Siri.
View the articleAI is Less Likely to Launch a Nuclear Strike When It Reasons in Japanese
A new study suggests that some AI models become far less willing to recommend a nuclear strike when they reason in Japanese instead of English, revealing that the language an AI 'thinks' in can intima...
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