From: today

Five architects of the AI economy explain where the wheels are coming off

Tech Crunch AI

Earlier this week, five people who touch every layer of the AI supply chain sat down at the Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills, where they talked with TechCrunch about everything from chip shor...

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Study: Firms often use automation to control certain workers’ wages

MIT Research

MIT economists found US companies tend to target employees earning a “wage premium,” which increases inequality but not necessarily productivity.

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Elon Musk’s Last-Ditch Effort to Control OpenAI: Recruit Sam Altman to Tesla

Ai News Business

Messages between Shivon Zilis and Tesla executives reveal plans in 2017 to start a rival AI lab, potentially led by Altman or Demis Hassabis.

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A 20-minute pitch wins Indian startup Pronto backing from Lachy Groom

Tech Crunch Startups

The investment comes as Pronto scales to 26,000 daily bookings and the market heads toward a potential $18 billion size.

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Barry Diller trusts Sam Altman. But ‘trust is irrelevant’ as AGI nears, he says.

Tech Crunch AI

Barry Diller defended OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, while warning that AGI remains an unpredictable force needing guardrails.

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Snap says its $400M deal with Perplexity ‘amicably ended’

Tech Crunch AI

The deal, announced last November, would have seen Perplexity's AI search engine integrated directly into Snapchat.

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Is xAI a neocloud now?

Tech Crunch AI

xAI's real business may be more about building data centers than training AI models. 

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Insurance startup Corgi hits $1.3B valuation 4 months after its Series A

Tech Crunch Startups

Corgi announced on Wednesday a $160 million Series B, led by TCV, valuing the startup at $1.3 billion.

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Microsoft’s AI data center push is colliding with its clean power goals

Tech Crunch Climate

The push for new data centers at Microsoft is putting its key clean power goals at risk.

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Robinhood’s venture fund IPO attracted 150,000+ retail investors, CEO says

Tech Crunch Fintech

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says more than 150,000 retail investors joined the fintech’s new venture fund, which offers exposure to private tech companies like OpenAI, Stripe, Databricks, and Oura befo...

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From: yesterday

Anthropic Gets in Bed With SpaceX as the AI Race Turns Weird

Ai News Business

In an unexpected turn, the two companies signed a deal for Anthropic to use computing resources from Elon Musk’s xAI.

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How Elon Musk left OpenAI, according to Greg Brockman

Tech Crunch AI

Cutthroat negotiations between startup founders are rarely shared so publicly, especially when a company becomes as world-changing as OpenAI.

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DOJ says ransomware gang tapped into Russian government databases

Tech Crunch Security

U.S. prosecutors said a ransomware gang fueled Russian government corruption, and allowed the gang's leaders to avoid paying taxes and dodge the country's military draft.

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AI evaluation startup Braintrust confirms breach, tells every customer to rotate sensitive keys

Tech Crunch Security

Braintrust, a startup that makes an “operating system for engineers building AI software,” notified customers that hackers broke into one of its Amazon cloud environments, and is asking customers ...

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Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Might Make You Lazy and Dumb, Study Shows

Ai News Business

New research suggests that reliance on AI assistants can have a negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem solve.

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SpaceX may spend up to $119 billion on ‘Terafab’ chip factory in Texas

Tech Crunch AI

SpaceX, Elon Musk's space company that also houses his AI company, xAI, is considering spending $55 billion, at least initially, to build a semiconductor factory in Texas, according to a filing with G...

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DeepSeek could hit $45B valuation from its first investment round

Tech Crunch AI

The Chinese AI lab came to prominence in early 2025 after launching a large language model that trained on a fraction of the compute power and at a fraction of the cost of the big U.S. models like tho...

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I Am Begging AI Companies to Stop Naming Features After Human Processes

Ai News Gear

Anthropic announced “dreaming” for AI agents to sort through “memories” at its developer conference. Can we not?

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Chrome on Android now supports approximate instead of precise location sharing

Tech Crunch Apps

The new feature is a small win for Android users, as it gives them more control over how much location data they share with websites.

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Google updates AI search to include quotes from Reddit and other sources

Tech Crunch AI

While citing web forums and discussion boards can help users find answers to more niche queries, this design choice could also prove chaotic.

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Hackers Hate AI Slop Even More Than You Do

Ai News Security

It's not just you. Scammers, hackers, and other cybercriminals are complaining about “AI shit” flooding platforms where they discuss cyberattacks and other illegal activity.

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Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI has gone full stack, demo shows

Tech Crunch AI

Genesis AI, a startup that raised a $105 million seed round to build foundational AI for robotics, has unveiled its first model, GENE-26.5, but also a demo showcasing a set of robotic hands performing...

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Tinder owner Match Group is slowing hiring to pay for its increased use of AI tools

Tech Crunch AI

Match Group said that it's slowing its hiring plans for the rest of the year because AI tools "cost a lot of money."

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Apple to pay $250M to settle lawsuit over Siri’s delayed AI features

Tech Crunch AI

Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class action lawsuit for overpromising the arrival of Siri's AI features.

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