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Robinhood’s note on 10% layoffs shows blaming AI isn’t cutting it
Unlike many of his tech industry peers who have cut thousands of jobs citing the need to restructure to make the most o
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DOJ claims xAI’s unpermitted gas turbines are a matter of ‘national, economic, and energy security’
The Justice department says the Pentagon needs xAI to keep using its unpermitted gas turbines.
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Plaud says its software business topped $100M in ARR after shipping over 2M AI notetakers
Plaud is trying to make a mark in a crowded market full of AI-powered meeting notetakers.
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Probably raises $9M to build a more reliable kind of AI
Probably wants to prevent hallucinations and factual errors from reaching users, and achieve accuracy on par with determ
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SpaceX passes Amazon as valuation balloons to $2.7T
SpaceX's valuation has increased by $1 trillion since its shares started trading on Friday.
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SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO
The deal is supposed to help SpaceX's struggling AI division. The company told IPO investors it sees a $26 trillion addr
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Malaysia’s AI agent-powered messaging app Respond.io raises $62.5M, eyes acquisitions
Respond.io, one of Malaysia startups to watch, uses AI agents to handle high volumes of customer inquiries and charges p
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Sundar Pichai faces boos, walkout at Stanford graduation ceremony over Google’s Israel, ICE ties
AI is once again at the heart of a college graduation protest — this time for the technology's use in Google's defense c
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The US government’s Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak
The Trump administration's decision that forced Anthropic to pull its latest cybersecurity models could be reactionary,
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Why do South Koreans love AI so much?
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox fir
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SpaceX is public: Everything you need to know post-IPO
TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens ne
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Meta’s new ‘AI Mode’ on Facebook pulls from public info across its platforms
Meta announced Monday that it's rolling out a wave of new AI features on Facebook, the latest sign of the company's effo