From: today

This Luddite Puppet Hopes You’re Not Reading This on Your Smartphone

Ai News Culture

On this week’s episode of The Big Interview podcast, WIRED’s senior culture editor Manisha Krishnan talks to Gowanus about eschewing Big Tech, going outside, and rejection in the age of dating app...

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From: today

The Chatbot That Foretold Why People Share Secrets With ChatGPT

Ai News The Big Story

In the 1960s an MIT professor named Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot called ELIZA. The conversations people had with it set precedents for the chatbots to come.

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From: today

Pinwheel launches a retro-inspired landline phone for kids

Tech Crunch Startups

Kid-friendly tech company Pinwheel announced the launch of a new landline phone designed to let children stay connected without the distractions of a smartphone.

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From: today

DOGE Used AI for Housing Policy. The Government Won’t Say How

Ai News Politics

In response to a public records request, HUD has withheld documents about DOGE’s use of AI—in part by citing a privilege that doesn’t exist.

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From: yesterday

Already rich, already successful, why the last wave of tech winners is grinding again

Tech Crunch AI

They're rolling up their sleeves again, seemingly out of fear of missing AI's defining moment and, presumably, the irresistible allure of making even more money -- potentially a lot more.

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From: yesterday

Uber’s product chief on hotels, robotaxis, and why the company doesn’t want to be “everything for everyone”

Tech Crunch TC

Uber Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal walks TechCrunch through the company's financial-services ambitions, its increasingly complicated relationship with Waymo, its new AV Labs data operation, and ...

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From: yesterday

Video-generation startup PixVerse raises $439M, valuation soars past $2B

Tech Crunch AI

With the cash, the company aims to expand its world model offering and reach customers across geographies.

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From: yesterday

X just tweaked its algorithm to make it more friendly, less battleground

Tech Crunch Social

The social media site says it will amplify posts made by users' mutual followers' to give the feed more of a communal feel.

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From: yesterday

Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation

Tech Crunch AI

The company is raising at least $75 million, led by Robot, with significant participation from USV and other prominent investors.

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From: yesterday

Siri AI Is Becoming Apple’s Everything Tool

Ai News Gear

Apple’s revamped Siri is more than a voice assistant; it’s now the backbone of the iPhone user experience. You can try it now through the iOS 27 public beta.

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From: yesterday

Satya Nadella has issued a shocking warning to companies using AI

Tech Crunch AI

Of all the debates raging about the potential downsides of AI, there is one worry causing the most hand-wringing among AI enthusiasts in Silicon Valley — that the giant AI labs that sell proprietary...

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From: yesterday

Apple says former employee exploited ‘rare’ bug to download confidential files after leaving for OpenAI

Tech Crunch Security

Apple would not comment on the "security breach," which allegedly allowed a former employee to download sensitive files from Apple's network long after he departed the company for rival OpenAI.

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From: yesterday

How MIT students are helping to prevent cyberattacks

MIT Classes and programs

Students from the MIT Cybersecurity Clinic help local governments and other vulnerable organizations defend against digital threats.

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From: yesterday

AI agents create virtual playgrounds to help robots get crucial training data

MIT Research

“SceneSmith” system uses collaborative AI agents to create realistic 3D environments of places like kitchens, hotels, and living rooms, where robots can simulate everyday chores.

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From: yesterday

The wildest allegations in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI

Tech Crunch AI

Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI contains allegations that range from employees joking about unauthorized access to Apple’s systems to claims that job candidates were asked to bring Ap...

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From: yesterday

Sam Altman’s space data center trash talk is what most experts already believe

Tech Crunch AI

"homeboy you're the one sellling [sic] public market investors on short-term space datacenters."

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From: yesterday

Investors send General Fusion soaring in debut as first publicly traded fusion company

Tech Crunch Climate

General Fusion started trading on the Nasdaq following a reverse merger that saw high redemptions.

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From: yesterday

12 states sue to block Paramount’s $110B Warner Bros. deal

Tech Crunch Government & Policy

The states allege that the deal would harm movie theaters, basic cable distributors, and audiences.

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From: yesterday

Should AI help you get away with killing your spouse?

Tech Crunch AI

What does a world of total user-aligned AI actually look like?

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From: yesterday

As TV-tracking app TV Time shuts down, its founder builds Bingers, a new home for fans

Tech Crunch Apps

The creator of TV Time is building a successor app that will let users import their watch histories and preserve the community that formed around discussing their favorite shows.

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From: yesterday

Anthropic starts localizing Claude pricing for India, its biggest market after the US

Tech Crunch AI

Claude users in India are starting to see Indian rupee-denominated subscription plans.

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From: yesterday

SpaceX cleared to fly Starship again after booster failure in May

Tech Crunch Space

This will be the first Starship test flight for SpaceX as a public company, testing the market's appetite for the company's "fly, fail, fix" approach to rocket development, which often ends in firebal...

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From: yesterday

Waze adds new AI-powered features and customization updates

Tech Crunch AI

Some of the new features are powered by Google's Gemini AI assistant, which reflects the tech giant's broader push to integrate Gemini across its products while also better positioning Waze to compete...

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From: yesterday

LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire, citing ‘serious concerns’ over civil liberties and privacy

Tech Crunch Privacy

The LAPD, one of Flock's biggest government customers, is ending its contract with the company citing civil liberties concerns.

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