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TechCrunch Mobility: The AI skills arms race is coming for automotive
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! There is a bit of a theme emerging in transportation — and really every...
For Eclipse, the $2.5B Cerebras win is just the start of realizing its physical-world thesis
When Lior Susan started Eclipse Ventures in 2015, the firm’s thesis of digitizing the physical world wasn’t particularly popular in Silicon Valley. “It was the era of enterprise software and SaaS, and it felt fairly lonely the first couple of years,” Susan said on...
The enterprise risk nobody is modeling: AI is replacing the very experts it needs to learn from
For AI systems to keep improving in knowledge work, they need either a reliable mechanism for autonomous self-improvement or human evaluators capable of catching errors and generating high-quality feedback. The industry has invested enormously in the first. It's...
The haves and have nots of the AI gold rush
The vibes around the current AI boom aren’t great, even in the tech industry, according to a lengthy social media post from Menlo Ventures partner Deedy Das. Das described San Francisco as “pretty frenetic right now,” as “the divide in outcomes is the worst I’ve ever...
Marketing operating system Nectar Social raises $30M Series A led by Menlo
AI-powered marketing platform Nectar Social announced Thursday that it raised a $30 million Series A round led by Menlo Ventures and its Anthology Fund, which was created alongside Anthropic. The company, which officially exited stealth last year, is an agentic...
Research repository ArXiv will ban authors for a year if they let AI do all the work
ArXiv, a widely used open repository for preprint research, is doing more to crack down on the careless use of large language models in scientific papers. Although papers are posted to the site before they are peer-reviewed, arXiv (pronounced “archive”) has become one...
The offline desk gadget that actually got me to sit up straight
Working from home has its own perils. Pets can be demanding, your back aches from hours at a desk, or you simply forget to move. There are a few apps that nudge you to move around or indicate that you’re not sitting in an ideal position, but they’re easy to dismiss....
OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman reportedly takes charge of product strategy
OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman is officially taking the reins of the company’s product strategy, according to Wired. This seems to solidify an already-existing change, with Brockman overseeing OpenAI’s products on an interim basis while the company’s...
$60B AI chip darling Cerebras almost died early on, burning $8M a month
Today, Cerebras Systems is a public company that sells AI chips for inference to giants like OpenAI and AWS. It held a blockbuster IPO on Thursday, with both of its co-founders billionaires, and ended the week worth about $60 billion. But in 2019, when it was three...
Meta was finally held accountable for harming teens. Now what?
Meta lost a lawsuit against the state of New Mexico last week, marking the first time that the company has been held liable by the court system for endangering child safety. This was a landmark decision on its own — but the next day, Meta lost another case when a jury...
Go play this secret game in your TikTok DMs
TikTok has quietly added a secret emoji game that you can access in your DMs. The goal of the game is simple: use your finger to bounce as high as you can by hopping across alligators. Avoid the skeleton alligators, and be careful — broken alligators disappear after...
OpenClaw has 500,000 instances and no enterprise kill switch
“Your AI? It’s my AI now.” The line came from Etay Maor, VP of Threat Intelligence at Cato Networks, in an exclusive interview with VentureBeat at RSAC 2026 — and it describes exactly what happened to a U.K. CEO whose OpenClaw instance ended up for sale on...
Slack adds 30 AI features to Slackbot, its most ambitious update since the Salesforce acquisition
Slack today announced more than 30 new capabilities for Slackbot, its AI-powered personal agent, in what amounts to the most sweeping overhaul of the workplace messaging platform since Salesforce acquired it for $27.7 billion in 2021. The update transforms Slackbot...
Whoop’s valuation just tripled to $10 billion
Whoop, the fitness and health tracking wearable company, has closed a $575 million Series G funding round at a $10.1 billion valuation — nearly triple its last reported valuation of $3.6 billion — in a deal that brings together sovereign wealth funds, major health...
Uber increases stake in WeRide as robotaxi partnership ramps up in Dubai
Uber and Chinese autonomous vehicle company WeRide have launched robotaxi operations without a human safety operator in Dubai as part of a broader expansion in the Middle East. Riders can now book the vehicles through Uber’s app, with operations in commercial and...
Hacker hijacks Axios open-source project, used by millions, to push malware
A hacker has hijacked and modified a popular open-source software development tool to deliver malware that could put millions of developers at risk of being compromised. On Monday, a hacker pushed malicious versions of the widely used JavaScript library called Axios,...
FedEx chooses partnerships over proprietary tech for its automation strategy
Automation is coming to warehouses — fast. While some companies like Amazon are developing their own robotic fleets in-house, others have turned to outside players for their automation tech. FedEx has dabbled with both strategies. And the $84 billion company has...
Claude Code’s source code appears to have leaked: here’s what we know
Anthropic appears to have accidentally revealed the inner workings of one of its most popular and lucrative AI products, the agentic AI harness Claude Code, to the public.A 59.8 MB JavaScript source map file (.map), intended for internal debugging, was inadvertently...
Nomadic raises $8.4 million to wrangle the data pouring off autonomous vehicles
To build the autonomous machines of the future, sometimes your model needs a model. Companies developing self-driving cars, robots manipulating the physical environment, or autonomous construction equipment collect thousands, if not millions, of hours of video data...
Health data giant CareCloud says hackers accessed patients’ medical records
Healthcare technology giant CareCloud has confirmed that hackers accessed one of its stores of patients’ electronic health records during a data breach earlier this month. The disclosure, filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last Friday, said the...
Imagine if your Teams or Slack messages automatically turned into secure context for your AI agents — PromptQL built it
For the modern enterprise, the digital workspace risks descending into "coordination theater," in which teams spend more time discussing work than executing it. While traditional tools like Slack or Teams excel at rapid communication, they have structurally failed to...
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Facebook account hacked, why you should worry about your safety
Ten years ago, I couldn’t care less about Facebook. In fact, I didn’t even want to join it, I didn’t understand how it worked and I found no use in it. My best friend made me sign up, so I did, and my account remained unused for months until someone told me that you...
Internet Gaming’s Global Impact
The Internet changed the way the world does many things, and it saw major companies having to change their way they conduct business, as it quickly became evident that they either adapted or would be left behind. There are several examples that come to mind such as...
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