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Reddit is using LLMs to solve a problem LLMs largely created
It’s easier than ever for bad actors to spew spam across the internet as powerful large language models (LLMs) become effortlessly accessible. If you’ve spent about ten minutes on the internet in the last few years, you will know that this means spam and bot content...
What billions of AI predictions taught Expedia before the age of AI agents
There's an important distinction between AI that just works today, and AI that lasts at scale. Many companies optimize hard for the first one without ever asking whether they're building the second.Velocity without discipline and strategic direction is a liability,...
Canadian spy agency says it hacked drug traffickers, extremists and a ransomware gang last year
Offering a rare glimpse at the priorities of a top spy organization, Canada’s Communications Security Establishment said it conducted a handful of state-authorized hacks last year in order to disrupt the operations of drug traffickers, violent extremists, and a...
How to reserve and change your WhatsApp username
Meta-owned chat app WhatsApp started to roll out username reservations for its 3 billion users earlier in June. The username feature is not active, but you can claim your username and start using it whenever the feature becomes available this year. With usernames,...
Station F ramps up as a launchpad for Europe’s hottest AI startups
Station F, a Paris-based startup hub founded by French billionaire Xavier Niel, is gearing up for a new edition of its F/ai accelerator program in a bid to strengthen its positioning as a stepping stone for promising AI startups. Launched in January of this year,...
Smart glasses maker Even Realities hits $1B valuation with $150M funding led by Meituan, Tencent
Meta and Snap rolled out new smart glasses last month, the latest sign that the industry is racing to put a camera and an AI assistant onto users’ faces. As the fast-growing market heats up, upstarts like Even Realities are muscling in on the giants. Even Realities, a...
This humanoid robotics company is going public, but its CEO isn’t promising a robot in your home anytime soon
The humanoid robotics market is awash in money right now. Last week, AI2 Robotics, a Shenzhen-based startup that makes wheeled humanoid robots, raised roughly $735 million at a nearly $3 billion valuation. Earlier this year, Apptronik, an Austin-based maker of...
Uber’s European expansion plans may have hit a speed bump
Back in February, Uber announced ambitious plans to launch in seven new European markets in 2026 — but now the Financial Times reports that five of those launches are on hold. Country launches that have been paused include Austria, Norway, and Greece. Uber seemed to...
Trump memecoin investors lost $3.8 billion, analysis finds
Nearly 1 million people have lost a total of $3.8 billion after buying President Donald Trump’s $TRUMP memecoin, according to cryptocurrency analytics firm Nansen. The New York Times reports that Nansen’s analysis is based on transactions that are publicly visible on...
Mira Murati steps back into the spotlight, carefully
Mira Murati isn’t a natural creature of the conference stage. As the CTO of OpenAI, she was present but rarely the public face of the company. As CEO of her own company, Thinking Machines Lab, she has been even harder to find. So when she sat down with Bloomberg in...
Founders Fund launches game show starring Sam Altman, Palmer Luckey, and other tech elites
Have you ever had the desire to see Sam Altman and Palmer Luckey square off over a moderately suspenseful card game? If so, you are in luck. Silicon Valley’s leaders are rushing to embrace the power of media for the purposes of marketing and political capital. Now, in...
Ahead of its IPO, Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei shrugs off doubts about AI’s returns
Private investors have been falling over themselves to get a piece of Anthropic, given the AI model maker is growing at a dizzying pace. Multiple investors told TechCrunch that the company’s $65 billion fundraise at a $965 billion valuation, announced last week, was...
Airbnb’s Brian Chesky plans to launch a new AI lab
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky has had enough of merely being an artificial intelligence kingmaker. He now plans to back a new AI lab of his own. The news, broken by Bloomberg and confirmed to TechCrunch by a person familiar with the situation, marks Chesky as one of many...
Filtr is a new privacy tool that blocks ads in almost every iPhone and Mac app
Using an ad blocker is good for your security, privacy, and even the FBI recommends them to defend from online harms. But as much as ad blockers are great for cleaning up your browsing experience, these tools often do little to prevent the pervasive tracking from ads...
Defense tech, AI, and fundraising take center stage at StrictlyVC Los Angeles on June 18
With just two weeks to go, StrictlyVC Los Angeles is quickly approaching. On Thursday, June 18, at The Aerospace Corporation Campus in El Segundo, investors, founders, and tech leaders will gather for an evening of conversation exploring some of the most consequential...
Startup Battlefield is returning to Australia — here’s what happened the last time we came to Sydney
In November 2017, TechCrunch brought Startup Battlefield to Australia for the first time. Fifteen startups from across Australia and New Zealand took the stage in Sydney, pitched in front of investors and judges, and competed for a shot at the global stage. It was one...
Anthropic says 80% of its new production code is now authored by Claude — how your enterprise can keep up
Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei said it was coming, but it still feels like a milestone: More than 80% of the code merged into Anthropic’s production codebase in May wasn't authored by humans, but by its own AI model, Claude, according to a new report shared...
Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents
Just when you thought the AI data center boom couldn’t get any crazier, Meta has gone and built data centers in tents. The strategy appears to borrow in equal parts from Tesla and xAI. In a bid to cut construction time in half, Meta has built six tents — or “rapid...
Apple approves Poke as the first AI agent on its Messages for Business platform
Poke, a startup that turns using AI agents into something as simple as sending a text message, has become the first AI agent approved to run on Apple’s Messages for Business platform. Previously, the platform was designed for businesses — airlines, retailers, hotel...
Helion, the Sam Altman-backed fusion startup, raises $465M to build a power plant for Microsoft
Helion, the fusion startup backed by Sam Altman, announced on Thursday that it had raised $465 million in a new funding round that values the company at $15.5 billion. The cash infusion lands as Helion is racing to complete Orion, its first power plant. The startup...
Meta’s Oversight Board says account bans lack due process, transparency
Meta’s Oversight Board, the independent governing body that makes policy recommendations to the tech company, said Thursday that Meta’s account deactivations lack due process, violations are doled out without clarity, and there’s little customer support for appeals....
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The Best Gaming Laptop Of 2018
Now, most of the advanced laptops come with high-end processor performance and graphics. If you are a gaming lover, you need to know that the many branded laptops are also available for gaming. Choosing the right gaming laptop is not a simple task, because there are...
Top 12 Mobile Apps That Are Making Millions Of Money Every Month
In this digital era, mobile applications are the order of the day. Have you ever wondered how much the top grossing mobile apps are worth? How much are these apps making every month? Well, if you have ever made a guess, you were probably right or wrong. Firms such as...
Jawbone wins injunction in legal battle with rival Fitbit
facebooktwitterlinkedingoogleplusemailcommentsmoreredditpinteresttumblrA San Francisco judge has ordered five employees of wearable-device maker Fitbit to return confidential information they took before leaving rival Jawbone, a legal victory in a series of lawsuits...
Yahoo: We have a plan to win you back
facebooktwitterlinkedingoogleplusemailcommentsmoreredditpinteresttumblrYahoo CEO Marissa Mayer says the company needs to "improve our relevance." Chris Farina/Corbis Yahoo wants to make better products for you, so it's going to try zooming in. The Internet pioneer has...