From: today

DoorDash introduces relief payments for drivers as the Iran-US war drives up gas prices

Tech Crunch Apps

Gas is one of the largest expenses for delivery drivers. With prices continuing to surge, DoorDash is offering a lifeline to Dashers with a new relief program.

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On algorithms, life, and learning

MIT Special events and guest speakers

Operations research expert Dimitris Bertsimas delivered the annual Killian Lecture, providing a look at the past and future of his work.

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Leonid Radvinsky, the owner of OnlyFans, has passed away

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OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky has passed away at the age of 43 after a battle with cancer. 

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Littlebird raises $11M for its AI-assisted ‘recall’ tool that reads your computer screen

Tech Crunch AI

Littlebird is building an AI that reads your screen in real time to capture context, answer questions, and automate tasks, without relying on screenshots.

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Startup Gimlet Labs is solving the AI inference bottleneck in a surprisingly elegant way

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Gimlet Labs just raised an $80 million Series A for tech that lets AI run across NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, ARM, Cerebras and d-Matrix chips, simultaneously.

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Grab to buy Foodpanda Taiwan from Delivery Hero for $600 million

Tech Crunch Commerce

Grab will acquire Delivery Hero’s Foodpanda business in Taiwan for $600 million, expanding beyond Southeast Asia and setting up a closer challenge to Uber Eats in a tightly contested market.

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Elizabeth Warren calls Pentagon’s decision to bar Anthropic ‘retaliation’

Tech Crunch AI

In a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) equated the DoD's decision to label Anthropic a "supply chain risk" as retaliation, arguing that the Pentagon could simpl...

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FBI says Iranian hackers are using Telegram to steal data in malware attacks

Tech Crunch Security

Hackers working for Iran’s government are using Telegram in hacking operations that use malware to target dissidents, opposition groups, and journalists who oppose its regime, according to the FBI.

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Sam Altman-backed fusion startup Helion in talks with OpenAI

Tech Crunch AI

Helion is reportedly negotiating a deal that would see it sell 12.5% of its power output to OpenAI.

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Federal immigration agents filmed making airport arrests as Trump calls in ICE to ease security line delays

Tech Crunch Transportation

The Trump administration has deployed ICE agents to over a dozen U.S. airports amid an ongoing federal shutdown that's causing long wait times. Eyewitnesses have already recorded at least one arrest i...

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Meet the Gods of AI Warfare

Ai News The Big Story

In its early days, the AI initiative known as Project Maven had its fair share of skeptics at the Pentagon. Today, many of them are true believers.

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The AI Race Is Pressuring Utilities to Squeeze More From Europe’s Power Grids

Ai News Business

As data center developers queue up to connect to power grids across Europe, network operators are experimenting with novel ways of clearing room for them.

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From: yesterday

The SEC drops its four-year-old investigation into EV startup Faraday Future

Tech Crunch Transportation

After four years, and multiple subpoenas and depositions, the beleaguered startup has dodged yet another bullet.

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Do you want to build a robot snowman?

Tech Crunch AI

On the latest episode of the Equity podcast, we recapped CEO Jensen Huang’s GTC keynote and debated what it means for Nvidia’s future.

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Cursor admits its new coding model was built on top of Moonshot AI’s Kimi

Tech Crunch AI

Building on top of a Chinese model feels particularly fraught right now.

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Elon Musk unveils chip manufacturing plans for SpaceX and Tesla

Tech Crunch Hardware

Elon Musk recently outlined ambitious plans for a chip-building collaboration Tesla and SpaceX — but he has a history of overpromising.

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TechCrunch Mobility: Uber everywhere, all at once

Tech Crunch Transportation

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.

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Delve accused of misleading customers with ‘fake compliance’

Tech Crunch Startups

An anonymous Substack post accuses compliance startup Delve of “falsely” convincing “hundreds of customers they were compliant” with privacy and security regulations.

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An exclusive tour of Amazon’s Trainium lab, the chip that’s won over Anthropic, OpenAI, even Apple 

Tech Crunch Enterprise

Shortly after Amazon announced its $50 billion investment in OpenAI, AWS invited me on a private tour of the chip lab at the heart of the deal.

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From: 2 days ago

Are AI tokens the new signing bonus or just a cost of doing business?

Tech Crunch AI

Maybe tokens really will become the fourth pillar of engineering compensation. But engineers might want to hold the line before embracing this as a straightforward win.

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It’s been 20 years since the first tweet

Tech Crunch Social

On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey posted a simple message: “just setting up my twittr”.

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Publisher pulls horror novel ‘Shy Girl’ over AI concerns

Tech Crunch AI

Hachette Book Group said it will not be publishing “Shy Girl” over concerns that artificial intelligence was used to generate the text.

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Delve accused of misleading customers with ‘fake compliance’

Tech Crunch AI

An anonymous Substack post accuses compliance startup Delve of “falsely” convincing “hundreds of customers they were compliant” with privacy and security regulations.

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Why Wall Street wasn’t won over by Nvidia’s big conference

Tech Crunch AI

Despite investor fears of an AI bubble, Nvidia's latest conference shows that most in the industry aren't concerned by that possibility.

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