From: today

Replit’s Amjad Masad on the Cursor deal, fighting Apple, and why he’d rather not sell

Tech Crunch AI

At TechCrunch's sold-out StrictlyVC event in San Francisco on Thursday night, we covered a lot of ground in a short time, beginning with the question everyone in the industry is asking right now: in a...

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From: today

Musely secures $360M from General Catalyst without giving up equity

Tech Crunch Biotech & Health

The DTC skin, hair, and menopause care brand will use the non-dilutive capital to super-charge customer acquisition.

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Meta buys robotics startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions

Tech Crunch AI

Meta bought humanoid startup Assured Robot Intelligence to beef up its AI models for robots, the company said.

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A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat

Ai News Business

Build American AI, a nonprofit linked to a super PAC bankrolled by executives at OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, is funding a campaign to spread pro-AI messaging and stoke fears about China.

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Coatue has a plan to buy up land for data centers, possibly for Anthropic

Tech Crunch Real estate

Coatue, one of the biggest names in venture capital, has a new venture that is reportedly buying land near large power sources.

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From: yesterday

Pentagon inks deals with Nvidia, Microsoft, and AWS to deploy AI on classified networks

Tech Crunch AI

The deals come as the DOD has doubled down on diversifying its exposure to AI vendors in the wake of its controversial dispute with Anthropic over usage terms of its AI models.

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From: yesterday

Ubuntu services hit by outages after DDoS attack

Tech Crunch Security

A group of hacktivists have claimed responsibility for a distributed denial-of-service attack, which has affected several Ubuntu and Canonical websites, and prevented users from updating the Linux-bas...

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From: yesterday

Musk v. Altman is just getting started

Tech Crunch AI

Elon Musk spent the better part of three days on the witness stand this week in his lawsuit against OpenAI, and it’s already getting messy. Emails, texts, and his own tweets are surfacing in ...

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From: yesterday

People are finally using Reddit’s search

Tech Crunch Social

The company saw a 30% year-on-year jump in the number of people using search every week, CEO Steve Huffman said on Thursday.

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From: yesterday

Improving understanding with language

MIT Profile

MIT senior Olivia Honeycutt investigates how the ways we communicate can shape our views of the world.

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From: yesterday

Beacon Biosignals is mapping the brain during sleep

MIT Startups

Founded by Jake Donoghue PhD ’19 and former MIT researcher Jarrett Revels, the company is creating an AI-driven platform to help diagnose and treat disease.

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From: yesterday

ChatGPT Images 2.0 is a hit in India, but not a big winner elsewhere, yet

Tech Crunch AI

Users in India are embracing ChatGPT Images 2.0 for creative, personal visuals — from avatars to cinematic portraits.

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From: yesterday

How Shivon Zilis Operated as Elon Musk’s OpenAI Insider

Ai News Business

Messages presented at trial reveal how Zilis, the mother of four of Musk’s children, acted as an intermediary between him and OpenAI.

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From: yesterday

As Tim Cook steps down, Apple hit record sales — but a chip shortage looms

Tech Crunch Hardware

Cook warned that Apple is facing supply chain headwinds from RAMaggedon that could impact its business.

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Y Combinator alum Skio sells for $105M cash, only raised $8M, founder says

Tech Crunch Fintech

Subscription billing fintech Skio sold to its competitor Recharge in what was a healthy exit, according to its founder and former CEO.

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From: yesterday

Sources: Anthropic potential $900B+ valuation round could happen within 2 weeks

Tech Crunch AI

Anthropic is asking investors to submit allocations for the AI company’s latest fundraise within the next 48 hours, according to sources familiar with the matter.

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Good Luck Getting a Mac Mini for the Next ‘Several Months’

Ai News Business

Apple CEO Tim Cook told analysts that AI adoption has happened faster than expected.

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Apple was surprised by AI-driven demand for Macs

Tech Crunch AI

Apple said it will be supply-constrained on Mac mini, Studio, and Neo in the next quarter, too.

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From: yesterday

Legal AI startup Legora hits $5.6B valuation and its battle with Harvey just got hotter

Tech Crunch AI

The two wildly fast-growing rivals have raised massive sums, pushed into each other's home turf, and now have dueling ad campaigns.

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From: yesterday

Rivian downsizes DOE loan to $4.5B of Georgia factory

Tech Crunch Transportation

Rivian has reworked its loan deal with the Department of Energy and now expects to borrow $4.5 billion to build its new factory in Georgia, down from the original amount of $6.6 billion.

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Hackers are actively exploiting a bug in cPanel, used by millions of websites

Tech Crunch Security

Web hosts are scrambling to fix the bug under active attack by hackers. One company said hackers have been abusing the bug for months.

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From: yesterday

After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber, too

Tech Crunch AI

OpenAI will begin rolling out its cybersecurity testing tool, GPT-5.5 Cyber only "to critical cyber defenders" at first.

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EV startup Faraday Future paid $7.5M to company tied to founder Jia Yueting

Tech Crunch Startups

The perpetually struggling EV company made the payments while being investigated by the SEC. That four-year probe was ultimately closed in March.

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Musk v. Altman Kicks Off, DOJ Guts Voting Rights Unit, and Is the AI Job Apocalypse Overhyped?

Ai News Business

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we get into how the Elon Musk-Sam Altman trial goes way beyond their rivalry and could have major implications both for OpenAI and also the AI industry at large.

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