The three hard-tech moonshots fueling SpaceX’s unbelievable IPO
Most of the value in SpaceX's IPO is effectively a call option on the company's ambitious space data center plans.
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Pinterest bets on creators with Amazon Storefront integration
Pinterest is adding support for Amazon Storefronts, allowing creators to earn affiliate commissions more easily while showcasing their product recommendations in one place.
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Warner Music acquires AI attribution startup Sureel AI
Through the acquisition, WMG aims to better track when its artists' work is used in AI-generated content or for training AI models.
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ServiceNow tells customers a bug left some of their data exposed to the internet
ServiceNow is used by thousands of enterprises to automate their internal processes, but says several customers had data accessed because of a security bug.
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Jedify raises $24M to help companies arm AI agents with context on their business
The funding round was led by Norwest, with participation S Capital VC, Cerca Partners, and Oceans Ventures. Snowflake Ventures also participated as a strategic investor.
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Decart’s new world model can simulate hours of photorealistic driving — with some caveats
Decart is launching Oasis 3, a real-time world model that generates photorealistic driving environments for autonomous vehicle testing, now available via API for developers to build on.
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Snapchat limits users under 16 to sharing Spotlights with friends
Users under 16 years old will get a separate profile to show Stories and Spotlight posts to friends that they follow back.
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Why everyone’s an energy company now
Electricity demand from AI data centers is pushing everyone — including automakers like GM and Ford — into the energy storage business.
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Avalanche’s desktop fusion reactor delivers blistering-hot plasma
Fusion power startup Avalanche Energy said its reactor prototype heated a plasma to over 10 million degrees C.
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Why two SpaceX alumni are betting on solar and batteries to power the AI craze
Ambrosia Energy wants to build power plants in less than 12 months while undercutting natural gas. It hopes to build gigawatts worth by 2030.
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Waymo says it built a better benchmark for comparing robotaxis to humans
Waymo created a new computer model to help it better understand how humans behave in crash scenarios that its robotaxis encounter.
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Meta signs first AI data center deal in India with Reliance
The 168-megawatt facility will support Meta's global AI computing needs and can be expanded over time.
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Top Lucid Motors executive departs amid new CEO’s leadership shakeup
The exec, Emad Dlala, has left just a few months after being promoted to SVP of engineering and digital, TechCrunch has learned.
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Google just fired a warning shot in the AI subscription price wars
Google just made it significantly cheaper to enjoy its budget AI subscription tier.
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How Justin Ernest invested nearly $400M into hot startups without a traditional VC fund
Instead of spending a year raising a formal venture fund, the Sabertooth VC founder used a captive network of LPs to invest startups like Anthropic, Anduril, and SpaceX.
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GM joins race to build batteries for AI data centers and the grid
GM is developing an entirely new sodium-ion battery chemistry for use in everything from data centers to its own factories.
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Hey Siri, here’s what I actually want from AI
I'm desperate for a personal AI assistant, but do I really want to become the kind of person who can't function without the friendly robot voice in my phone?
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Anthropic’s Fable 5 can make weirdly fun video games with the click of a button
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 is going to be a big hit with the web's vibe coders.
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Can tech companies learn to love cheaper AI models?
If those same AI workloads can be handled by cheaper models without affecting quality, it would mean a massive shift in the economics of AI.
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CISA gives US federal agencies three days to fix a VPN bug under attack by a ransomware gang
Check Point said hackers broke into dozens of organizations by exploiting a VPN bug in several of its products used across the government.
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