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India’s Snabbit closes $56M round as investor interest in on-demand home services heats up

Snabbit now processes over 40,000 daily jobs and has cut costs sharply as it expands across cities and services.

Jagmeet Singh 3 months ago

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Letterboxd, the social platform for film buffs, reportedly looking for new owner

Potential buyers of Letterboxd include Versant, the parent company of CNBC and MS NOW, and Hollywood media company The Ankler, according to Semafor.

Lucas Ropek 3 months ago

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Consumers lost $2.1 billion to social media scams in 2025, FTC reports

The agency reports that losses from social media scams have increased eightfold, and that social media scams resulted in higher losses than any other method scammers used to contact consumers.

Aisha Malik 3 months ago

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OpenAI ends Microsoft legal peril over its $50B Amazon deal

OpenAI has won major concessions from its largest shareholder, Microsoft, that will allow it to sell products on AWS, while Microsoft get more cash in a revenue-share agreement.

Julie Bort 3 months ago

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DeepMind’s David Silver just raised $1.1B to build an AI that learns without human data

Ineffable Intelligence, a British AI lab founded a mere few months ago by former DeepMind researcher David Silver, has raised $1.1 billion in funding at a valuation of $5.1 billion.

Anna Heim 3 months ago

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Hacker who allegedly carried out cyberattacks for China is extradited to U.S.

Xu Zewei is accused of participating in a Chinese government hacking group that broke into thousands of U.S. organizations and stole COVID-19-related research.

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 3 months ago

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Investors back Skye’s AI home screen app for iPhone ahead of launch

Skye's new AI app attracted investors before it even launched — a sign of interest in a more AI-aware iPhone.

Sarah Perez 3 months ago

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Data center demand drives 66% surge in natural gas power plant costs

Natural gas power plant costs have nearly doubled in two years and take 23% longer to build as data center electricity demand skyrockets.

Tim De Chant 3 months ago

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What’s behind Europe’s efforts to ditch US software in favor of sovereign tech

Governments across Europe are looking to rely less on American tech providers.

Anna Heim 3 months ago

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China vetoes Meta’s $2B Manus deal after months-long probe

China has ordered Meta to unwind its multibillion-dollar Manus acquisition, dealing a potential setback to Zuckerberg’s push into AI agents.

Kate Park 3 months ago

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OpenAI could be making a phone with AI agents replacing apps

The phone could go in mass production in 2028, an analyst says.

Ivan Mehta 3 months ago

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Critical infrastructure giant Itron says it was hacked

The American technology giant provides water and energy monitoring and utility meters to hundreds of millions of homes and businesses.

Zack Whittaker 3 months ago

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Spotify’s next frontier: fitness content

Spotify is adding fitness as its next major category, launching workout videos, playlists, and Peloton classes inside the app for free and Premium users.

Sarah Perez 3 months ago

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Meta inks deal for solar power at night, beamed from space

Overview Energy's first contract with Meta is a small step toward a future of space-based solar power.

Tim Fernholz 3 months ago

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Truecaller faces mounting pressures as its growth matures

As growth slows, Truecaller is leaning on subscriptions, business services, and new features to sustain momentum beyond India.

Jagmeet Singh 3 months ago

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The Stanford freshmen who want to rule the world . . . will probably read this book and try even harder

Can a book like this actually change anything? Or does the spotlight, as it always seems to, send more students racing to the place?

Connie Loizos 3 months ago

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Amazon’s new podcast strategy: Monetize everything

Amazon's podcasting business seems to have transformed over the past six months.

Anthony Ha 3 months ago

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What Tim Cook built

On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss how Apple has changed since Cook became CEO in 2011, and what challenges incoming CEO John Ternus will be facing.

Anthony Ha 3 months ago

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TechCrunch Mobility: Elon’s admission

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.

Kirsten Korosec 3 months ago

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To buy this Bay Area home, you’ll need Anthropic equity

Someone’s offering an unusual deal for a 13-acre property in Mill Valley, just north of South Francisco.

Anthony Ha 3 months ago

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SpeakOn’s dictation device is a good idea marred by platform limitations

This $129 device uses MagSafe to stick on the back of an iPhone to power transcription across apps

Ivan Mehta 3 months ago

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Anthropic created a test marketplace for agent-on-agent commerce

In a recent experiment, Anthropic created a classified marketplace where AI agents represented both buyers and sellers, striking real deals for real goods and real money.

Anthony Ha 3 months ago

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Maine’s governor vetoes data center moratorium

L.D. 307 would have imposed the country’s first statewide moratorium on new data centers — lasting, in this case, until November 1, 2027.

Anthony Ha 3 months ago

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OpenAI CEO apologizes to Tumbler Ridge community

In a letter to the residents of Tumbler Ridge, Canada, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he is “deeply sorry” that his company failed to alert law enforcement about the suspect in a recent mass shooting.

Anthony Ha 3 months ago

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