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Guide Labs debuts a new kind of interpretable LLM

Tech Crunch AI

The company open-sourced an 8 billion parameter LLM, Steerling-8B, trained with a new architecture designed to make its actions easily interpretable.

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Particle’s AI news app listens to podcasts for interesting clips so you you don’t have to

Tech Crunch AI

AI news app Particle can now pull in key moments from podcasts, letting readers instantly play short, relevant clips alongside related stories.

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Spotify rolls out AI-powered Prompted Playlists to the U.K. and other markets

Tech Crunch AI

Spotify continues to test its AI-powered “Prompted Playlists” feature, now rolling out the tool to Premium subscribers in the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and Sweden.

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Finnish quantum unicorn IQM set to go public

Tech Crunch Enterprise

Finnish unicorn IQM plans to go public via a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) valuing the company at approximately $1.8 billion — joining the growing cohort of quantum computing companies ...

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VPN flaws allowed Chinese hackers to compromise dozens of Ivanti customers, says report

Tech Crunch Security

Chinese hackers allegedly broke into the network of an Ivanti subsidiary in 2021. The hackers exploited a backdoor in its VPN product, which allowed the hackers to gain access to 119 other unnamed org...

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5 days left to lock in the lowest TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket rates

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Five days to save up to $680 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket. These lowest rates of the year disappear on February 27 at 11:59 p.m. PT.

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How AI agents could destroy the economy

Tech Crunch AI

Citrini Research imagines a report from two years in the future, in which unemployment has doubled and the total value of the stock market has fallen by more than a third.

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Defense Secretary summons Anthropic’s Amodei over military use of Claude

Tech Crunch AI

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has summoned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon for a tense discussion over the military's use of Claude. Hegseth has threatened to designate Anthropic a "supply...

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Wispr Flow launches an Android app for AI-powered dictation

Tech Crunch Apps

AI-powered dictation startup Wispr Flow has launched its Android app today. The company released its app for Mac and Windows first, then launched on iOS in June 2025. On iOS, users could use Wispr Flo...

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Apple might take a new approach to announcing its next products

Tech Crunch Hardware

Apple has invited the tech press to a “special Apple experience” on March 4, but it might unfold a bit differently than the company's standard press event.

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Can the creator economy stay afloat in a flood of AI slop?

Tech Crunch Media & Entertainment

On the latest episode of Equity, we debated what’s next for the creator economy, and whether there will be any room for the next generation of creators to stand out.

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Bill Gurley says that right now, the worst thing you can do for your career is play it safe

Tech Crunch TC

"The number one thing is to get out of your head this ideal that gets passed around in the self-help world: 'go get a mentor,' and everyone runs out and cold calls someone that's ridiculously too high...

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Quantonation’s double-sized second fund shows quantum still has believers

Tech Crunch Venture

Quantonation Ventures, a venture firm investing in quantum and physics-based startups, has closed its oversubscribed second fund at €220 million, or approximately $260 million. That’s more than tw...

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Trump says Netflix will face ‘consequences’ if it doesn’t fire board member Susan Rice

Tech Crunch Government & Policy

Netflix board member Susan Rice had predicted that corporations that “take a knee” to Trump will be “held accountable” when Democrats return to power.

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TechCrunch Mobility: Waymo makes its defense

Tech Crunch Transportation

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.

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All the important news from the ongoing India AI Impact Summit

Tech Crunch AI

India is hosting a four-day AI Summit this week that will be attended by executives from major AI labs and Big Tech, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, and Cloudflare, as well as ...

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China’s brain-computer interface industry is racing ahead

Tech Crunch Biotech & Health

China’s brain-computer interface industry is rapidly scaling from research to commercialization, driven by strong policy support, expanding clinical trials, and growing investor interest.

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6 days left to lock in the lowest TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 rates

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Super Early Bird pricing for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ends February 27 at 11:59 p.m. PT. That means you have just 6 days left to secure up to $680 of ticket savings.

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How to Hide Google’s AI Overviews From Your Search Results

Ai News Gear

You can avoid Google’s AI summaries in your search results by simply adjusting your query. Or just switch search engines altogether.

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The 9,000-pound monster I don’t want to give back

Tech Crunch TC

I thought: other than hotels that use SUVs like the Escalade IQL to ferry guests around, what kind of monster chooses a car like this?

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Move over, Apple: Meet the alternative app stores available in the EU and elsewhere

Tech Crunch Apps

A list of some of the alternative app stores iPhone users in the EU can try today. 

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From: 2 days ago

Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too

Tech Crunch AI

"It also takes a lot of energy to train a human."

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From: 2 days ago

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today after alleged DDoS attack

Tech Crunch Media & Entertainment

Wikipedia editors have decided to remove all links to Archive.today, a web archiving service that they said has been linked to more than 695,000 times across the online encyclopedia.

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Microsoft’s new gaming CEO vows not to flood the ecosystem with ‘endless AI slop’

Tech Crunch AI

Is Microsoft's gaming division doubling down on AI?

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