From: yesterday

Talks to sell PayPal to Stripe and Advent are heating up

Tech Crunch Fintech

PayPal is still reportedly negotiating a potential sale to Stripe and private equity firm Advent, as the fintech firm's new CEO attempts to turn the company around.

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From: yesterday

The Next Big Influencer Is This 4-Foot-Tall Robot From China

Ai News Business

The Unitree G1 has found online fame as a relatively affordable robot that can charm a crowd. But can it ever hold down a real job?

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From: yesterday

Self-driving trucks are officially testing on California highways

Tech Crunch Transportation

Aurora Innovation and Kodiak AI, two companies developing self-driving trucks, have received permits from the California Department of Motor Vehicles.

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From: yesterday

Thrive’s Joshua Kushner chides Silicon Valley VCs over AI euphoria

Tech Crunch TC

The AI opportunity is huge, but "it would also be a grave error in our minds to let excitement weaken our investment discipline," Kushner warns in his first-ever investment letter.

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From: yesterday

What we know about the alleged Iranian hacks on US water utilities

Tech Crunch Security

Over the last couple of weeks, hackers have targeted and broken into the systems of several water plants in the United States. Here’s what we know and don’t know about this wave of attacks alleged...

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From: yesterday

Read-it-later app Pocket shut down — here are the best alternatives

Tech Crunch Apps

Pocket users have until October 8, 2025, to export their saved articles and other items, including lists, archives, favorites, notes, and highlights.

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From: yesterday

Gambit Security’s “AI Across the Intrusion Lifecycle” Shows How AI Is Moving Deeper Into Real-World Cyberattacks

Unite AI Reports

Gambit Security’s new report, AI Across the Intrusion Lifecycle offers a detailed look at how artificial intelligence is moving beyond a supporting role in cybercrime and becoming integrated into th...

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From: yesterday

Unforgetful is a new reminders app for people who can’t stop hitting snooze

Tech Crunch Apps

Unforgetful, the latest app from longtime indie developer Marco Arment, is designed to make reminders harder to ignore — or accidentally dismiss.

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From: yesterday

Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations

Tech Crunch AI

Turning off this setting won't affect invisible benchmarks used to identify an AI generated file.

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From: yesterday

Eric Picard, SVP of Product at Fluency – Interview Series

Unite AI Interviews

Eric Picard, Senior Vice President of Product at Fluency, is an experienced product and technology executive who has spent decades developing digital advertising platforms, automated marketplaces, dat...

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From: yesterday

Does Mark Zuckerberg really believe AI is ‘for everyone’?

Tech Crunch AI

Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behi...

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From: yesterday

Tech Visionary Says the Big AI Labs Don’t Get What People Want

Ai News Business

Tim O’Reilly built a publishing empire that AI is helping to destroy. Yet he loves AI—as long as it’s open source.

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From: yesterday

Apple proposes to take a 15% cut of purchases made outside the App Store

Tech Crunch Apps

Apple is asking a federal judge to allow it to charge commissions of up to 15% on purchases made through external links in iOS apps.

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From: yesterday

Kog is going deeper to squeeze more inference out of GPUs

Tech Crunch AI

The idea that GPUs are poorly suited for agentic workflows may be a misconception, according to French startup Kog.

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From: yesterday

Giving ‘Secret Identities’ to Copyrighted Animation Characters

Unite AI Anderson's Angle

New research from China offers a non-invasive way to protect copyrighted animation characters, by 'injecting' generic substitutes at inference time. But can this method defeat the ingenuity of prompt-...

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From: yesterday

Hyperscalers might regret embracing natural gas if new forecast proves correct

Tech Crunch AI

Natural gas prices could triple in some parts of the U.S., which could saddle hyperscalers with massive bills to power their AI data centers.

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From: yesterday

US courts will start publishing how often the government uses spyware

Tech Crunch Security

The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts told TechCrunch that it will start disclosing how many times judges authorized the use of spyware to wiretap suspected criminals.

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From: yesterday

AI’s Best ROI Right Now Is Fixing Old Code, Not Writing New Code

Unite AI Thought Leaders

Every AI product demo I sit through starts the same way: an empty prompt box, a request in plain English, and a working app a few minutes later. It's a genuinely impressive party trick. It's also, I'd...

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From: yesterday

Your KV Cache Doesn’t Have a Bit Problem. It Has a Geometry Problem.

Unite AI AI Fundamentals

At identical 2-bit precision, one decision about which axis you quantize along swings a benchmark score from 2.88 to 63.53. Keys and values need opposite treatment — and the reason is in the attenti...

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From: yesterday

When AI Is Right and the Process Is Wrong

Unite AI Thought Leaders

Imagine a common scenario in financial services. A team deploys AI to review contracts: hundreds of pages, repetitive clauses, and routine work that normally takes employees days. The model identifies...

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From: yesterday

The Shift from AI Capability to AI Control

Unite AI Thought Leaders

A series of high-profile incidents involving frontier AI providers has left businesses asking a question that, until recently, many hadn't seriously considered. What happens when the technology you've...

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From: yesterday

These ‘Masturbation Consultants’ Were Hired to Pleasure Themselves With AI

Ai News Culture

Joi AI hired 10 people to masturbate using AI companions as part of a monthlong “wellness” study. The company claims the practice could help “solve male loneliness.”

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From: yesterday

Uber and Pony.ai plan to bring 2,000 robotaxis to Europe

Tech Crunch Transportation

The partnership is expanding beyond the initial market of Zagreb, Croatia to four additional European cities.

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From: yesterday

EMERGING and Promethean Raise $300M Experience Fund With $500M Hard Cap

Unite AI Funding

EMERGING and Promethean Investments launched The Experience Fund (XPR) on August 14, 2026, a $300 million vehicle with a $500 million hard cap that will invest in artificial intelligence, IP holdings ...

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