From: today

Discord Sleuths Gained Unauthorized Access to Anthropic’s Mythos

Ai News Security

Plus: Spy firms tap into a global telecom weakness to track targets, 500,000 UK health records go up for sale on Alibaba, Apple patches a revealing notification bug, and more.

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From: today

Ace the Ping-Pong Robot Can Whup Your Ass

Ai News Gear

Ace can read the trajectory of a ball, adjust the racket angle, and respond with strokes that keep the exchange alive with real players.

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From: today

Lachy Groom to back India startup Pronto at a $200M valuation, sources say

Tech Crunch Startups

This round, should it occur, would double the house-help startup's valuation in a matter of weeks.

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From: yesterday

Steve Ballmer blasts founder he backed who pleaded guilty to fraud: ‘I was duped and feel silly’

Tech Crunch Climate

Steve Ballmer wrote a fiery letter in the sentencing of disgraced founder Joseph Sanberg documenting all the harm that's befalling him as an investor.

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From: yesterday

Palantir is reportedly helping the IRS investigate financial crimes

Tech Crunch Government & Policy

The IRS has used Palantir's software since at least 2018, The Intercept reports.

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From: yesterday

Cohere acquires, merges with Germany-based startup to create a ‘transatlantic AI powerhouse’

Tech Crunch Startups

Cohere, the Canada-based AI company that makes AI tools for businesses in regulated industries, announced Friday it would merge with Aleph Alpha, a German company that also builds AI systems for busin...

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From: yesterday

Two college kids raise a $5.1 million pre-seed to build an AI social network in iMessage

Tech Crunch Apps

Series, a social networking app that's grown popular on college campuses, announced a $5.1 million pre-seed round from some big names in tech.

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From: yesterday

Meta’s loss is Thinking Machines’ gain

Tech Crunch AI

Meta has been poaching talent from Thinking Machines Lab. But it's a two-way street.

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From: yesterday

X-energy stock pops 27% on first day of trading following upsized IPO

Tech Crunch Climate

Investors flocked to nuclear power startup X-energy in its first day of public trading on the Nasdaq.

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From: yesterday

ComfyUI hits $500M valuation as creators seek more control over AI-generated media

Tech Crunch AI

ComfyUI, whose tools give creators more control over AI image, video, and audio generation, just raised $30 million.

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From: yesterday

X launches stand-alone XChat app on iOS

Tech Crunch Apps

X's new app promises private chats, disappearing messages, audio and video calls, and more.

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From: yesterday

Google to invest up to $40B in Anthropic in cash and compute

Tech Crunch AI

Google plans up to $40B investment in Anthropic as AI rivals race to secure massive compute capacity, following the limited release of its powerful, cybersecurity-focused Mythos model.

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From: yesterday

AI-Designed Drugs by a DeepMind Spinoff Are Headed to Human Trials

Ai News Science

Isomorphic Labs president Max Jaderberg said at WIRED Health in London that the startup has built a “broad and exciting pipeline of new medicines.”

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From: yesterday

MIT scientists build the world’s largest collection of Olympiad-level math problems, and open it to everyone

MIT School of Engineering

New dataset of 30,000-plus competition math problems from 47 countries gives AI researchers a harder test — and students worldwide a better training ground.

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From: yesterday

Marked-up Mac minis flood eBay amid shortages driven by AI

Tech Crunch AI

Apple’s sold-out Mac mini is spawning marked-up eBay listings as demand surges for the compact desktop, now favored for running local AI models and tools.

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From: yesterday

Nuclear startup X-energy raises $1B in data center-driven IPO

Tech Crunch Climate

Amazon-backed X-energy was able to raise around 20% more money in its IPO as demand for nuclear power surges.

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From: yesterday

Apple's Next CEO Needs to Launch a Killer AI Product

Ai News Business

Tim Cook was a great CEO, but he didn’t crack AI.  It’s job number 1 for John Ternus.

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From: yesterday

Another spyware maker caught distributing fake Android snooping apps

Tech Crunch Security

Researchers have found a new case where government authorities used a fake Android app to plant spyware on a target’s phone. The company that allegedly developed the spyware was not previously known...

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From: yesterday

Tim Cook is stepping down. What happens to Apple now?

Tech Crunch AI

Tim Cook plans to step down from his CEO role in September, handing the reins to hardware chief John Ternus.   Ternus may be inheriting one of the most durable businesses in tech, but he’s also...

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From: yesterday

Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga joins stacked StrictlyVC SF lineup for April 30 event

Tech Crunch Startups

Surprise! StrictlyVC San Francisco, which will kick off this year’s events lineup for TechCrunch on April 30 at the Sentro Filipino Cultural Center, is getting a new addition to its increasingly sta...

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From: yesterday

Nothing introduces an AI-powered dictation tool

Tech Crunch AI

Nothing's new on-device dictation tool supports over 100 languages.

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From: yesterday

DeepSeek previews new AI model that ‘closes the gap’ with frontier models

Tech Crunch AI

DeepSeek says both models are more efficient and performant than DeepSeek V3.2 due to architectural improvements, and have almost "closed the gap" with current leading models, both open and closed, on...

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From: yesterday

In another wild turn for AI chips, Meta signs deal for millions of Amazon AI CPUs

Tech Crunch AI

Meta has commandeered a big chunk of Amazon's homegrown CPUs (not GPUs) for AI agentic workloads, signaling that a new kind of chip race has begun.

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From: yesterday

The Men Behind Your Favorite AI Gay Thirst Traps

Ai News Culture

A viral red carpet moment shone light on a group of hunky Instagram influencers—and the followers who are too horny to care that they’re not real.

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