From: today

The Gulf’s AI Boom Has an Undersea Cable Problem

Ai News Business

Hyperscalers are pushing the Gulf to rethink internet infrastructure as AI raises the stakes of cable disruptions.

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From: today

Finnish phone-maker HMD bundles Indian AI chatbot onto new smartphone in push to reach local market

Tech Crunch Gadgets

HMD is pre-loading Sarvam's Indus chatbot app, which supports 22 Indic languages

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From: today

Waymo expands pause to four cities as robotaxis keep driving into floods

Tech Crunch Transportation

Waymo's robotaxi service is now suspended in both Atlanta and San Antonio, as the company works to stop its vehicles from driving into flooded roads.

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From: yesterday

SpaceX scrubs first Starship V3 launch just before liftoff

Tech Crunch Space

SpaceX fueled the third-generation rocket booster and ship and was just moments away from liftoff, before calling a scrub. It's expected to try again Friday.

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From: yesterday

Can OpenAI’s ‘Master of Disaster’ Fix AI’s Reputation Crisis?

Ai News Business

Global affairs chief Chris Lehane wants to tone down the debate over AI’s societal impacts—and get states to pass laws that won’t derail OpenAI’s meteoric rise.

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From: yesterday

Who will benefit most from SpaceX IPO? Mostly Elon — and a few from his inner circle

Tech Crunch TC

Elon Musk has the largest stake in SpaceX by billions of shares. The other biggest shareholders also have longstanding and deep ties to Musk.

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From: yesterday

Waymo halts freeway rides after robotaxis struggle in construction zones

Tech Crunch Transportation

The service suspension comes as Waymo has also paused operations in Atlanta and San Antonio after its robotaxis drove into flooded streets.

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From: yesterday

Meta Is in Crisis, Google Search’s Makeover, and AI Gets Booed by Graduates

Ai News Business

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we unpack the mass layoffs at Meta, big announcements at Google I/O, and the latest backlash against AI.

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From: yesterday

Spotify and Universal Music strike deal allowing fan-made AI covers and remixes

Tech Crunch Media & Entertainment

Spotify is partnering with Universal Music Group to let Premium subscribers create AI-generated song covers and remixes, with participating artists receiving a share of the revenue.

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From: yesterday

Forget ‘TechnoKing’: Elon Musk will really be king at SpaceX

Tech Crunch Transportation

Musk, who will have more than 50% of the voting power, will have a monarchical grip over the publicly-traded version of SpaceX — control that goes far beyond what other tech founders enjoy.

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From: yesterday

How Elon Musk will increase his power through the SpaceX IPO

Tech Crunch Transportation

Musk, who will have more than 50% of the voting power, will have a monarchical grip over the publicly-traded version of SpaceX — control that goes far beyond what other tech founders enjoy.

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From: yesterday

Law enforcement shuts down VPN service used by two dozen ransomware gangs

Tech Crunch Security

First VPN promised hackers complete anonymity for their cyberattacks. But Europol said it was able to notify the service’s users that they have now been identified.

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From: yesterday

Six search engines worth trying now that Google isn’t really Google anymore

Tech Crunch AI

Google is about to look really different, and if you're not a fan of the AI overview feature, then you're not going to like what's coming.

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From: yesterday

Convective Capital raises an $85 million fund to build disaster resilience

Tech Crunch Venture

After launching to invest in fire tech, Convective is broadening its mandate to disaster resilience.

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From: yesterday

Trump delays AI security executive order: ‘I don’t want to get in the way of that leading’

Tech Crunch AI

President Trump delayed signing an executive order that would have required pre-release government security reviews of AI models, citing dissatisfaction with the order's language.

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From: yesterday

This young startup is taking on a fragrance industry that hasn’t changed in almost half a century

Tech Crunch Startups

Fragrance tech company Patina announced Thursday a $2 million raise from investors, including Betaworks and True Ventures. 

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From: yesterday

I Cloned Myself With Gemini’s AI Avatar Tool. The Result Was Unnervingly Me

Ai News Gear

I used the Gemini app to generate lifelike videos featuring a digital clone of myself. Google sees this as the future of creation. I’m still creeped out.

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From: yesterday

Spotify takes on Google’s NotebookLM with its new app

Tech Crunch AI

Spotify is releasing the new desktop app as a research preview in more than 20 markets.

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From: yesterday

Spotify adds AI-powered Q&A and briefing generation features to podcasts

Tech Crunch AI

Spotify will let you generate daily or weekly briefs based on your prompts

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From: yesterday

Spotify launches an ElevenLabs-powered audiobook creation tool

Tech Crunch AI

Spotify is releasing new audiobook plans later this year

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From: yesterday

Spotify will reserve tickets for top fans of an artists in a bid to drum up engagement

Tech Crunch Apps

Spotify said that it will monitor activity like streams and shares to determine who is a top fan

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From: yesterday

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani takes to Twitch to chat with New Yorkers

Tech Crunch Apps

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is launching a Twitch series today at 4 p.m. ET.

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From: yesterday

Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods

Tech Crunch Transportation

Waymo's robotaxi service is now suspended in both Atlanta and San Antonio, as the company works to stop its vehicles from driving into flooded roads.

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From: yesterday

Hark raises $700M Series A for its secretive ‘universal’ AI interface

Tech Crunch AI

Hark expects to release its first multimodal models this summer, which it says will power a personal AI platform that works with existing products and services. The company expects to follow that with...

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