From: today

This Jammer Wants to Block Always-Listening AI Wearables. It Probably Won't Work

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Deveillance's Spectre I, developed by a recent Harvard grad, wants to give people control over the always-on wearables surrounding their lives. The problem? Physics.

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X is testing a new ad format that connects posts with products

Tech Crunch Apps

An ad test on X promotes Musk's Starlink beneath original content.

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Nintendo sues the US government for a refund on tariffs

Tech Crunch Gaming

This lawsuit comes after a Supreme Court decision struck down some of the president's sweeping tariffs, which had impacted Nintendo and thousands of other companies.

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Life EV officially owns Rad Power Bikes now

Tech Crunch Transportation

The Rad Power brand is expected to live on.

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OSHA probing fatality at Rivian warehouse

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A 61-year-old worker died on Thursday after reportedly getting stuck between a tractor trailer and a loading dock.

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Microsoft, Google, Amazon say Anthropic Claude remains available to non-defense customers

Tech Crunch AI

Trump's Department of War feud with Anthropic won't impact other companies that are using Claude via Microsoft and Google products.

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Bill Gates’ TerraPower gets approval to build new nuclear reactor

Tech Crunch Climate

It's the first permit to be issued by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in nearly a decade.

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Anthropic’s Claude found 22 vulnerabilities in Firefox over two weeks

Tech Crunch AI

In a recent security partnership with Mozilla, Anthropic found 22 separate vulnerabilities in Firefox — 14 of them classified as "high-severity."

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Anthropic’s Pentagon deal is a cautionary tale for startups chasing federal contracts

Tech Crunch AI

The Pentagon has officially designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk after the two failed to agree on how much control the military should have over its AI models, including its use in autonom...

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Claude’s consumer growth surge continues after Pentagon deal debacle

Tech Crunch AI

Claude's app is now seeing more new installs than ChatGPT and is growing its daily active users.

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India PC shipments surpass pandemic peak as first-time users upgrade

Tech Crunch Hardware

India's PC shipments rose 10.2% to 15.9 million units in 2025, surpassing pandemic highs as first-time users upgrade devices, IDC said.

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From: yesterday

These are the countries moving to ban social media for children

Tech Crunch Apps

Australia was the first country to issue a ban in late 2025, aiming to reduce the pressures and risks that young users may face on social media, including cyberbullying, social media addiction, and ex...

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TriZetto confirms 3.4M people’s health and personal data was stolen during breach

Tech Crunch Biotech & Health

Health tech giant TriZetto has confirmed that more than 3.4 million people had personal and health information stolen in a 2024 cyberattack, which the company failed to detect for almost a year.

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Indonesia outlines plan to limit under-16s’ access to social media

Tech Crunch Government & Policy

Indonesia has outlined new regulations that would restrict users under 16 from accessing digital platforms.

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City Detect, which uses AI to help cities stay safe and clean, raises $13M Series A

Tech Crunch AI

City Detect, a company that helps local governments prevent urban decay, is in at least 17 cities so far, including Dallas and Miami.

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Quantum scale-up Pasqal plans $2B SPAC listing, promises to ‘remain French’

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A SPAC deal that is set to take French quantum company Pasqal public on the Nasdaq values the company at $2 billion pre-money.

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India’s Karnataka signals intent to ban social media for under-16s

Tech Crunch Government & Policy

Karnataka's proposal highlights a growing global debate over children’s rights and online policy.

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After Europe, WhatsApp will let rival AI companies offer chatbots in Brazil

Tech Crunch AI

Meta is now allowing rival AI companies to provide their chatbots on WhatsApp to Brazilian users for a fee, a day after the company confirmed a similar decision for users in Europe.

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Why Is Alexa+ So Bad?

Ai News Gear

I stuck Amazon’s Echo Show 15 and its Alexa+ AI assistant in my kitchen for a month. Things have not gone well.

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Jack Dorsey Is Ready to Explain the Block Layoffs

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In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Block’s cofounder and CEO says he axed 40 percent of his workforce so that he can rebuild the company “as an intelligence.”

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Anthropic to challenge DOD’s supply-chain label in court

Tech Crunch AI

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said he plans to challenge the Department of Defense's designation of the AI firm as a supply-chain risk. He claims most Anthropic customers are unaffected by the label.

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DiligenceSquared uses AI, voice agents to make M&A research affordable

Tech Crunch AI

Instead of relying on expensive management consultants, the startup uses AI voice agents to conduct interviews with customers of the companies the PE firms are considering buying.

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Cluely CEO Roy Lee admits to publicly lying about revenue numbers last year

Tech Crunch Apps

The $7 million in annual recurring revenue that Cluely CEO Roy Lee shared last summer was a lie, its founder and CEO Roy Lee admitted on Thursday on X.

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‘Uncanny Valley’: Iran War in the AI Era, Prediction Market Ethics, and Paramount Beats Netflix

Ai News Politics

In this episode, our hosts unpack the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, particularly as the AI industry has been entrenching itself with the Department of Defense.

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