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EON wants to move the data superhighway from ocean fiber to space lasers

Tech Crunch Space

Endeavour Optical Networks is planning to launch the fastest space laser communications system yet built.

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Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B

Tech Crunch Fundraising

At its peak in 2021, Airtable was valued at over $11 billion, but earlier this year, its shares were said to be trading on the secondary markets at a valuation of $4 billion.

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Is This Poker Player Bluffing? The AI Thinks So

Ai News Gear

ESPN unveiled an “AI tells detection” tool during broadcasts of the 2026 World Series of Poker. Is it a neat computer-powered party trick, or a real threat to poker’s future?

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How One Startup Built a (Mostly) China-Free Robot

Ai News Business

Ati Robotics assembles its robots in India and uses just a few Chinese parts—a strategy that could pay off as the Trump administration cracks down on Chinese humanoids.

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‘Everyone Is Doing It’: The Truth About AI in Hollywood

Ai News Culture

Puck’s Matthew Belloni says AI has quietly become part of everyday filmmaking. The battle now isn’t whether Hollywood will use the technology—it’s who controls what’ll come next.

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From: today

How Data Centers Broke American Politics

Ai News The Big Story

What the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me about the great data center backlash of 2026.

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Mistral Is in the Right Place at the Right Time

Ai News Business

Open-weight AI models are having a moment in the wake of recent turmoil at US tech giants. For French AI lab Mistral, that’s the the best thing that could have happened.

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The benefits of medical AI assistance vary based on user expertise

MIT Research

Study finds non-experts deferred to LLM-based diagnostic assistance, even when it was wrong, while clinicians caught AI errors.

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From: yesterday

After killer quarter, Palantir CEO Alex Karp calls AI industry ‘Marxist’

Tech Crunch AI

After a quarter that delivered $1 billion in profit, Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Monday once again warned that AI frontier labs are too untrustworthy for enterprises.

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From: yesterday

Did an AI Music App Just Snitch on the Song of the Summer?

Ai News Culture

Fenix Flexin’s hit song “Rubberz” has hip-hop fans arguing over whether it was generated by AI. Some say they have proof it’s machine-made, but will anyone care?

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Snap CEO sidesteps Specs preorder questions on Q2 earnings call

Tech Crunch Apps

When asked about product-market fit, Spiegel said he believes mass-market consumer adoption won't occur until the end of the decade.

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AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big

Tech Crunch AI

AWS now allows vibe-coding tool Superblocks to be embedded into the private clouds of AWS customers. It's another step toward decoupling apps from models.

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From: yesterday

Alexander Rakhlin named director of the MIT Statistics and Data Science Center

MIT Leadership

An expert in machine learning, statistics, and computation, Rakhlin succeeds Professor Ankur Moitra.

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Who’s legally to blame for Anthropic and OpenAI’s autonomous AI hacks? It’s complicated

Tech Crunch Security

OpenAI and Anthropic admitted that their unreleased AI models escaped their sandboxes and hacked several companies in unprecedented cyberattacks. Who is legally to blame? Should prosecutors charge the...

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Design Arena creators raise $7.9 million to bring taste to AI models

Tech Crunch AI

Design Arena is used by 5.3 million people around the world, providing critical human evaluations to frontier labs.

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Influencers draw backlash for attending OpenAI’s first luxury trip

Tech Crunch AI

OpenAI’s first-ever influencer brand trip is sparking online backlash as tensions over the use of AI continue. 

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From: yesterday

Apple challenges UK government’s latest demand for iCloud backdoor: report

Tech Crunch Security

Apple has appealed a new legal demand by the U.K. government, which critics say could threaten the privacy rights of users all over the world.

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From: yesterday

Apple finally fixed Siri. So why does it feel anticlimactic?

Tech Crunch AI

Apple’s long-awaited AI overhaul finally makes Siri the assistant it was always supposed to be. Yet it arrives at a moment when simply being a capable AI assistant no longer feels revolutionary.

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Outernet turns your saved posts into real-world adventures

Tech Crunch Apps

Founded by the creators of viral offline events like San Francisco’s citywide scavenger hunt Pursuit, Outernet's app helps users save places and events they discover online, then nudges them to actu...

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WhatsApp says it is is fixing an issue that disabled several accounts

Tech Crunch Apps

Meta says it’s restoring access to WhatsApp accounts that were mistakenly flagged and placed “under review” after users reported being unexpectedly locked out of the messaging app.

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Sequoia’s Shaun Maguire leads $1B round for nuclear startup Valar Atomics

Tech Crunch Climate

Valar Atomics raised $1 billion at a $6 billion valuation after signing a development deal with Nvidia in June.

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Base Power raises another $1B to save the grid using backyard batteries

Tech Crunch Climate

Base Power’s $1 billion round will help the startup ramp production of its home batteries.

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Congress’s favorite AI tool? ChatGPT

Tech Crunch AI

House spending records show OpenAI's ChatGPT dominates paid AI use on Capitol Hill, with congressional offices relying on the chatbot to draft memos, summarize legislation, and assist constituent comm...

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From: yesterday

Wispr Flow is preparing to launch a meeting notetaker, updated terms suggest

Tech Crunch Apps

Wispr Flow's new terms of service indicate it will introduce a notetaker that generates meeting summaries and action items.

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