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AI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B months after its last mega round

12 min 25 sec ago
Startup Baseten is reportedly close to finalizing a $1.5 billion round at a $13 billion as the “inference gold rush" marches on.
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Snap spins off AI video team into new company, Dotmo, due to costs

1 hour 2 min ago
The Snapchat maker is spinning off yet another internal unit. Dotmo will be comprised of current Snap staff who are leaving the social media company to focus on AI video development.
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OpenAI is bringing on some big guns in the lead-up to its IPO 

1 hour 33 min ago
OpenAI is bulking up before its IPO, landing Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer from Google DeepMind and former Trump AI policy official Dean Ball in the same week.
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The 11 standout startups from YC’s Demo Day, according to VCs

1 hour 40 min ago
TechCrunch spoke to investors to find the hottest startups in the Spring 2026 YC batch. Some of them commanded valuations of over $175 million, VCs said.
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Almost half of U.S. singles feel negatively about AI in dating, Match says

2 hours 40 min ago
About 47% of singles look negatively at the use of AI in dating -- but, many dating app users are open to AI helping with profile punch-ups and conversation starters.
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Amazon hopes to challenge Nvidia more directly by selling its AI chips

3 hours 10 min ago
AWS is in talks to sell its chips to other data centers. CEO Andy Jassy has said this represents a $50 billion opportunity for the company.
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Rivian owners sue over false promises on self-driving features

3 hours 32 min ago
Plaintiffs in the class action complaint allege Rivian falsely promised for years it would bring hands-free driving to its first-generation R1 vehicles.
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Mivo’s new app takes a mindful approach to managing screen time

3 hours 32 min ago
Doomscrolling on social media is a very common problem and can feel like an endless loop of constantly losing track of time. Instead of tackling this issue with strict limits, a new mindful screen time app called Mivo Scrolling is trying to shake things up. Launched last month, Mivo doesn’t look super different from other […]
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AI data centers just got a government-mandated fast lane to the grid

3 hours 43 min ago
FERC told grid operators to give data centers a fast lane for interconnections, but it failed to address electricity supply shortages.
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Texas government data breach allowed hackers to steal 3 million driver’s licenses and passports

4 hours 19 min ago
A data breach involving government-issued ID documents affects over three million people in Texas.
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‘Queer Eye’s’ life coach Karamo Brown launches Kē, a wellness app featuring his AI digital clone

4 hours 37 min ago
Karamo Brown, famous for his pep talks on Netflix’s “Queer Eye,” has jumped into the wellness and AI space with his new app, Kē. After spending a year and a half focusing on his own journey—from fitness and nutrition to meditation, sobriety, relationships, and personal growth—Brown wants to help others do the same.  Kē offers […]
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Apple opens up App Store to new competition in Brazil

5 hours 44 min ago
Apple’s grip on iPhone app distribution is loosening in another major market: Brazil.
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MapTap, a daily geography game, is my new Wordle

5 hours 44 min ago
MapTap is a phone game that will make you feel smarter after you play it.
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General Intuition in talks to raise $300M at around $2B valuation

6 hours 12 min ago
General Intuition is in talks to raise around $300 million at a roughly $2 billion valuation from backers including Jeff Bezos. The startup trains AI agents on spatial-temporal reasoning.
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A tech worker-backed PAC is bringing a $5M knife to Big Tech’s $100M gunfight 

6 hours 19 min ago
Guardrails positions itself as a populist political movement that runs on small donations from people in the trenches of the AI boom.
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Spotify’s reserved ticket sales to music superfans are now going live

7 hours 32 min ago
Spotify is launching "Reserved," a new system that will hold two concert tickets for an artist's superfans before they're on sale to the public.
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Adobe adds its AI assistant to Premiere, Illustrator and InDesign

8 hours 32 min ago
Adobe is updating its Firefly AI assistant with new chops, and adding it to Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign and Frame.io.
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Pixi’s new iOS app turns text messages into interactive AR experiences

9 hours 32 min ago
Forget stickers, GIFs, and emoji reactions. Pixi is betting that the next evolution of messaging is interactive augmented reality (AR).
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Waymo recalls nearly 4,000 robotaxis to stop them driving into highway construction zones

9 hours 33 min ago
The company has identified at least 13 instances where its robotaxis drove into highway sections closed for construction.
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NASA picks Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for Mars mission, setting up a race with SpaceX

Wed, 06/17/2026 - 23:26
Relativity Space—a rocket maker acquired by former Google executive chair Eric Schmidt last year after stumbling on the path to orbit—might just beat SpaceX to Mars.
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