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Sam Altman comes out swinging at The New York Times

Sam Altman comes out swinging at The New York Times

From the moment OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stepped onstage, it was clear this was not...

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Kalshi closes $185M round as rival Polymarket reportedly seeks $200M

Kalshi closes $185M round as rival Polymarket reportedly...

Investors are pouring big bucks into these two rival prediction markets.

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Brad Feld on “Give First” and the art of mentorship (at any age)

Brad Feld on “Give First” and the art of mentorship (at...

Brad Feld has spent decades operating by a simple principle: Give without expecting...

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Indian drone startup Raphe mPhibr raises $100M as military UAV demand soars

Indian drone startup Raphe mPhibr raises $100M as military...

Indian drone startup Raphe mPhibr has raised $100 million in an all-equity Series...

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Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books

Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training...

A federal judge sided with Meta on Wednesday in a lawsuit brought against the company...

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Anthropic says most AI models, not just Claude, will resort to blackmail

Anthropic says most AI models, not just Claude, will resort...

Several weeks after Anthropic released research claiming that its Claude Opus 4...

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Cluely, a startup that helps ‘cheat on everything,’ raises $15M from a16z

Cluely, a startup that helps ‘cheat on everything,’ raises...

Cluely's new funding comes roughly two months after it raised $5.3 million in seed...

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TechCrunch Mobility: Applied Intuition’s eye-popping valuation, the new age of micromobility, and Waymo’s wild week 

TechCrunch Mobility: Applied Intuition’s eye-popping valuation,...

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on...

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Rippling spy says men have been following him, and his wife is afraid

Rippling spy says men have been following him, and his...

If becoming a corporate spy sounds exciting, let this newest affidavit from confessed...

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Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab closes on $2B at $10B valuation

Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab closes on $2B at $10B...

Thinking Machines Lab, the secretive AI startup founded by OpenAI’s former chief...

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Alexa von Tobel has high hopes for ‘fintech 3.0’

Alexa von Tobel has high hopes for ‘fintech 3.0’

It’s been 10 years since Alexa von Tobel sold her financial planning startup LearnVest...

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Google reportedly plans to cut ties with Scale AI

Google reportedly plans to cut ties with Scale AI

Meta’s massive investment in Scale AI may be giving some of the startup’s biggest...

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Spiraling with ChatGPT

Spiraling with ChatGPT

ChatGPT seems to have pushed some users towards delusional or conspiratorial thinking,...

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Taiwan places export controls on Huawei and SMIC

Taiwan places export controls on Huawei and SMIC

Chinese companies Huawei and SMIC may have a difficult time accessing resources...

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The U.S. Navy is more aggressively telling startups, ‘We want you’

The U.S. Navy is more aggressively telling startups, ‘We...

While Silicon Valley executives like those from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI are grabbing...

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YouTube says its ecosystem created 490K jobs and added $55B to the US GDP in 2024

YouTube says its ecosystem created 490K jobs and added...

YouTube's impact report shows that the creator economy has continued to grow, despite...