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Sam Altman’s project World looks to scale its human verification empire. First stop: Tinder.

Sam Altman’s project World looks to scale its human ver...

World, which has raised eyebrows (but also a lot of interest) with its Orb-cente...

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From LLMs to hallucinations, here’s a simple guide to common AI terms

From LLMs to hallucinations, here’s a simple guide to c...

The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossa...

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TechCrunch Mobility: Who is poaching all the self-driving vehicle talent?

TechCrunch Mobility: Who is poaching all the self-drivi...

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation a...

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X says it’s reducing payments to clickbait accounts

X says it’s reducing payments to clickbait accounts

X is cutting back on payments to accounts that are “flooding the timeline” with ...

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Apple reportedly testing four designs for upcoming smart glasses

Apple reportedly testing four designs for upcoming smar...

These glasses are a step back from an ambitious plan that once called for Apple ...

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Trump officials may be encouraging banks to test Anthropic’s Mythos model

Trump officials may be encouraging banks to test Anthro...

The report is particularly surprising since the Department of Defense recently d...

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Intel signs on to Elon Musk’s Terafab chips project

Intel signs on to Elon Musk’s Terafab chips project

Intel will join SpaceX and Tesla in an effort to build a new U.S. semiconductor ...

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Firmus, the ‘Southgate’ AI data center builder backed by Nvidia, hits $5.5B valuation

Firmus, the ‘Southgate’ AI data center builder backed b...

Nvidia-backed Asia AI data center provider Firmus has now raised $1.35 billion i...

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Iranian hackers are targeting American critical infrastructure, US agencies warn

Iranian hackers are targeting American critical infrast...

A joint FBI, NSA, and CISA advisory warns that Iranian hackers have "escalated" ...

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VC Eclipse has a new $1.3B fund to back — and build — ‘physical AI’ startups

VC Eclipse has a new $1.3B fund to back — and build — ‘...

Eclipse will put some of that money towards incubating, or building startups.

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I can’t help rooting for tiny open source AI model maker Arcee

I can’t help rooting for tiny open source AI model make...

Arcee is a tiny 26-person U.S. startup that built a high-performing, massive, op...

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A new dating app, Sonder, has a deliberately annoying sign-up process (and it’s working)

A new dating app, Sonder, has a deliberately annoying s...

Sonder profiles are completely unstructured, encouraging users to build somethin...

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‘System failure’ paralyzes Baidu robotaxis in China

‘System failure’ paralyzes Baidu robotaxis in China

Passengers in Baidu's robotaxis were trapped for up to two hours.

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The reputation of troubled YC startup Delve has gotten even worse

The reputation of troubled YC startup Delve has gotten ...

Delve faces new allegations that it violated the open source license of its cust...

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Anthropic took down thousands of GitHub repos trying to yank its leaked source code — a move the company says was an accident

Anthropic took down thousands of GitHub repos trying to...

Anthropic executives said it was an accident and retracted the bulk of the taked...

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De-fi platform Drift suspends deposits and withdrawals after millions in crypto stolen in hack

De-fi platform Drift suspends deposits and withdrawals ...

Blockchain trackers put the cryptocurrency heist in the hundreds of millions of ...