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Meta’s Oversight Board says account bans lack due process, transparency

Tech Crunch Social

Meta's board cites "due process" concerns over account bans. It's also pushing Meta to offer clear information about violations and its use in AI in making its determinations.

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Meta rolls out a new AI creator assistant on Facebook

Tech Crunch AI

Creators often have to parse through charts and dashboards to understand their performance, but with the new AI assistant, they can get quick answers to questions like "When should I post?" and "What ...

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What to expect from WWDC 2026: Siri’s highly anticipated revamp and Apple Intelligence updates

Tech Crunch AI

Apple's WWDC nears: here's what you can look forward to.

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A burglar used a Waymo to steal yoga clothes in San Francisco — and got away with it

Tech Crunch Transportation

The incident helps shed some new light on how Waymo treats and stores the footage captured by its robotaxis.

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Cash App launches a wand for tap-and-pay

Tech Crunch Apps

Cash App plans to launch more tap-to-pay tags.

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NSF renews support for MIT-led AI and physics institute, expanding a new model for discovery

MIT Funding

IAIFI enters its second phase with increased funding, broader ambitions, and a growing community at the frontier of AI and fundamental physics.

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Waymo’s spent robotaxi batteries will be used as grid storage

Tech Crunch Transportation

The company announced a deal with B2U Storage Solutions to repurpose the battery packs as Waymo pulls them off the road.

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Ramp raises $750M at $44B valuation as investors hunger for fintechs with an AI story

Tech Crunch Fintech

Ramp has nearly tripled its valuation over the past year as investors scramble to grab a part of the fast-growing startup.

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Is Silicon Valley ready to put robots in people’s homes? Hello Robot is.

Tech Crunch AI

The California startup released the fourth-generation of its home assistance robot, Stretch.

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Chinese spies are using LinkedIn to lure Westerners into sharing sensitive information

Tech Crunch Security

The advisory warns that Chinese spies are using public job search platforms to recruit people with access to non-public information.

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Apple touts $1.4 trillion in App Store billings and sales, 90% without a commission

Tech Crunch AI

Apple's App Store generated $1.4 trillion in sales, up from $1.3 trillion last year, with $149 billion in sales for digital goods.

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Oura Ring 5 review: Thinner, lighter, better

Tech Crunch Gaming

The Ring 5, which Oura describes as the world’s smallest smart ring, is 40% smaller than its predecessor and starts at $399.

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Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Wild Hunt for the Brain’s ‘Core Algorithm’

Ai News The Big Story

With $500 million in funding and a reported $2.5 billion valuation, Flourish wants to reinvent AI by putting real neurons under the microscope.

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Alpha School’s Ritzy New York City Campus Costs $65,000 a Year—but Isn’t Actually a School

Ai News The Big Story

A homeschooling center in Manhattan is part of the company’s nationwide expansion. Internal documents reveal its strategy: “Opening date > safety.”

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Quantum Computing Is Having Its Public Market Moment

Ai News Business

Quantinuum, a quantum computing startup, is losing millions. Investors want in anyway.

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Benchmark raises its first-ever growth fund as part of $2B capital raise

Tech Crunch Fundraising

The legendary abandons its more than 20 year tradition of keeping its funds to about $425 million.

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OpenAI and Anthropic Sign Letter to Prevent AI-Developed Biological Weapons

Ai News Science

Leading AI labs, executives, and scientists are sending a letter to lawmakers urging them to improve tracking of synthetic DNA sequences that could be used for bioweapons.

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Quick commerce FirstClub doubles valuation to $255M in nine months

Tech Crunch Startups

The Bengaluru startup has crossed 1 million orders and reached a $50 million annualized GMV run rate within a year of launch.

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Lovable signs multiyear deal with Google Cloud to up usage 5x, source says

Tech Crunch AI

Lovable and Google signed an expanded multiyear deal that involves a 5x expansion of Lovable's footprint on Google Cloud, and expanded access to Anthropic Claude.

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Teaching AI agents to ask better questions by playing “Battleship”

MIT Research

MIT researchers use the classic game as a test bed for AI agents, finding a small AI model can outperform the biggest ones at 1 percent of the cost.

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Defense tech is flooded with money, but who’s built to last?

Tech Crunch Government & Policy

Defense tech is red hot right now. Anduril and Mach Industries just doubled and quadrupled their valuations, respectively, and the U.S. government is proposing a 40% increase in defense budge...

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Tod Machover receives George Peabody Medal for contributions to music and technology

MIT Awards, honors and fellowships

The George Peabody Medal is the highest honor bestowed by the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.

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Uber to put 500 data-collection vehicles on the road this year

Tech Crunch Transportation

The modified Ioniq 5 will be loaded with sensors to capture data for Uber's new AV Labs division.

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Alphabet’s record-breaking $85B raise for Google’s AI business is a helluva good signal

Tech Crunch AI

If Alphabet's record-breaking $85 billion stock sale signals investor appetite for AI-related offerings, we can see that investors are ready to chow.

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