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New York State halts construction of all new data centers
New York became the first state to halt data center construction after Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order today that temporarily bars the state from approving new permits for large projects. Hochul’s order applies to data centers 50 megawatts or larger,...
Iran abused mobile networks’ vulnerabilities to locate US military in the Middle East, report says
The Iranian government abused well-known vulnerabilities in the global telecoms infrastructure to locate U.S. military personnel in the build-up to the Iran War, as well as in the early days of the conflict, according to Financial Times. The Iranian government...
I’m de-influencing you from buying the RingConn 3 (even though it’s pretty)
I would’ve bought a wearable health tracker a lot sooner if they all weren’t so ugly. I don’t want a glowing screen on my wrist, and the woven Whoop bracelet looks like something I would’ve made at summer camp. But in the last few months, both RingConn and Oura have...
The real AI race may no longer be at the frontier
For several weeks this summer, the AI industry was fixated on Anthropic’s latest frontier models and Washington’s fight to control who was granted access to them. But while everyone was watching the frontier, developers kept building — and they weren’t waiting around...
Telegram’s shortlink domain is back online after day-long suspension
A domain used by the messaging app Telegram mysteriously dropped offline on Monday, with the app’s founder, Pavel Durov, saying in an X post that t.me links had “stopped working.” The outage prevented users from accessing the t.me domain shortlink, used by the...
DeepMind CEO calls for an independent standards body to regulate frontier AI
In an X post on Tuesday morning, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis called for the creation of a new regulatory body to oversee frontier model releases. Titled “A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age,” the post makes the case for a “standards body”...
DeepMind CEO calls for an independent standards body to regulate frontier AI
In an X post on Tuesday morning, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis called for the creation of a new regulatory body to oversee frontier model releases. Titled “A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age,” the post makes the case for a “standards body”...
Reflection inks $1B compute deal with Nebius
Reflection AI, a U.S. startup vying to develop open models, has signed a $1 billion compute deal with European AI infrastructure company Nebius. Nebius, formerly the international arm of Russian tech giant Yandex, will provide Reflection access to Nvidia’s latest...
Reflection inks $1B compute deal with Nebius
Reflection AI, a U.S. startup vying to develop open models, has signed a $1 billion compute deal with European AI infrastructure company Nebius. Nebius, formerly the international arm of Russian tech giant Yandex, will provide Reflection access to Nvidia’s latest...
Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dies in plane crash
Claude Guillemot, co-founder of French video game company Ubisoft, died Friday at the age of 69. According to French media (via Bloomberg), Guillemot died in a plane crash in the French resort town of La Baule. He was one of two people aboard the plane, both of whom...
Polymarket reportedly paid creators to post deceptive videos about fake bets
Polymarket has been paying online creators to post deceptive videos that show them making lucrative bets on the prediction market, according to a new investigation in the Wall Street Journal. The WSJ said that it analyzed 1,100 videos about Polymarket and also viewed...
TechCrunch Mobility: A new robotaxi scorecard shows China’s dominance
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Today is Juneteenth, a U.S. federal holiday marking the end of slavery in...
When the Trump administration cracks down on Anthropic, who benefits?
Anthropic recently took its two newest AI models offline due to an export control order from the Trump administration, prompting broad debates about AI policy and digital sovereignty. On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Sean O’Kane, Rebecca Bellan,...
Beyond Siri: Here are the practical AI features coming to your iPhone in iOS 27
Siri’s AI overhaul may have been the headline announcement at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference earlier this month, but Apple’s broader AI strategy is taking shape through a series of smaller features embedded across its software. Rather than asking consumers to...
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’
Asked about the privacy implications of chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude, Signal President Meredith Whittaker answered, “These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.” Whittaker made those comments in a broader...
In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search
Anyone who’s Googled themselves recently knows that it doesn’t quite hit the way it used to. Sure, there’s everything going on with Google search itself, but there’s also an inescapable feeling that web search isn’t the canonical source of information that it used to...
Founders Fund’s outlier bet on humanely killed fish
Earlier this week, at TechCrunch’s newest StrictlyVC event in El Segundo, Shinkei Systems founder Saif Khawaja and Founders Fund partner Delian Asparouhov sat down for a conversation that kept circling back to a question that doesn’t usually come up at a venture...
Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic
John Jumper, who shared a recent Nobel Prize in chemistry, announced Friday that he’s making the leap to Anthropic after “nearly 9 years” at Google DeepMind. In a post on X, Jumper wrote that DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis “took a real chance letting me lead the...
Every new iOS 27 feature that’s worth knowing about
While Apple’s new Siri AI and Apple Intelligence announcements dominated the WWDC spotlight earlier this month, the tech giant also packed iOS 27 with a number of upgrades across its everyday apps and services, including smarter bill splitting in Apple Wallet, new...
He made your free video player run smoothly. Now he’s doing that for robots.
You’ve probably used VLC Media Player, the free video player with the orange traffic-cone icon — it’s been downloaded more than 6 billion times. But according to its lead developer, Jean-Baptiste Kempf, robots will soon be almost as ubiquitous as his open source video...
Encryption, spyware, and now Mythos: History shows why cyber export control doesn’t work
Last Friday, citing unspecified national security concerns, the White House ordered Anthropic to restrict the export of its powerful AI models Fable and Mythos to anyone outside of the United States, as well as foreign nationals inside the country. Shortly after, the...
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Things to Consider Before Buying a Hoverboard
With so much hype surrounding hoverboards, it’s little wonder that these ingenious designs are the most in-demand products when it comes to the tech industry. Yet, with many of these possessing a hefty price tag, it makes sense to ensure that your hoverboard purchase...
3 Powerful Spying Programs Used For Hacking
The invention of cryptocurrency and improved technology may have opened new gates for businesses, but they have also introduced new risks into the business world. The world of the internet is becoming more and more unsafe with each passing day. If you think that only...
Is It Worth It to Have a Smart Car If You Know It Can Be Hacked?
The technology of tomorrow is here today, and it is incredible. We have self-driving cars, delivery drones, 3D printers, and more that are changing our very way of life. But does it come at a cost? Long have there been discussions about whether or not it is wise to...
Mobile Application Development Myths That Nobody Should Believe
Mobile use is constantly growing so it should be no surprise to see that companies from all around the world are interested in taking advantage of this. The problem is that there is not much known about what is possible and what is not possible. We see so many...