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Cosmetics giant Rituals confirms data breach of customer membership records

The cosmetics retailer, which counts 41 million customers in its membership data, declined to provide an accurate total number of customers affected.

Zack Whittaker 4 months ago

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Cathie Woods’ ARK makes its first lead investment in startup Lucra — and it isn’t AI 

Lucra offers corporate loyalty programs reimagined as interactive eSports. But winning ARK as a lead wasn't easy.

Julie Bort 4 months ago

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OpenAI teams up with Infosys to bring AI tools to more businesses

Infosys said the integration will be used to help its clients modernize software development, automate workflows and deploy AI systems, initially focusing software engineering, legacy modernization, and DevOps.

Jagmeet Singh 4 months ago

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UK government says 100 countries have spyware that can hack people’s phones

The U.K.'s cybersecurity chief warned that U.K. businesses and critical infrastructure are underestimating the threat from spyware attacks and other cyberthreats, with more governments having access to the powerful surveillance technology than ever.

Zack Whittaker 4 months ago

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Esther and Anne Wojcicki join new healthcare accelerator, fund

Mary Minno launches early-stage startup accelerator program, Treehub, and an early-stage firm, AI Health Fund, aimed at backing startups working at the intersection of healthcare and AI.

Dominic-Madori Davis 4 months ago

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X makes it more expensive to post links through its API

Posting links on X through its API is now 1,900% more costly

Ivan Mehta 4 months ago

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AI is spitting out more potential drugs than ever. This start-up wants to figure out which ones matter.

10x Science has raised a $4.8 million seed round to help pharmaceutical researchers understand complex molecules.

Tim Fernholz 4 months ago

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Snap Map’s new ‘Place Loyalty’ badges will show the spots you visit most often

If you’re in the top 25% of users who visit a certain place, you’ll see your ranking on the Snap Map and can choose to share it with others.

Aisha Malik 4 months ago

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Amazon Music partners with Bandsintown for concert listings

Users will be able to see live events of an artist on their Amazon Music profile

Ivan Mehta 4 months ago

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The most interesting startups showcased at Google Cloud Next 2026

Google wants AI startups on its cloud and has showcased a long list of them at its annual conference.

Julie Bort 4 months ago

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Duolingo is now giving free users access to advanced learning content

Duolingo is opening up its advanced language learning content offering to free users, allowing them to acquire skills that were previously reserved to paid subscribers.

Lauren Forristal 4 months ago

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Google Maps is about to get a big dose of AI

Generative AI is being infused into Google's popular feature within Maps.

Lucas Ropek 4 months ago

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Exclusive: Google deepens Thinking Machines Lab ties with new multi-billion-dollar deal

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab has signed a multi-billion-dollar deal with Google Cloud for AI infrastructure powered by Nvidia's latest GB300 chips, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.

Rebecca Bellan 4 months ago

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Redwood Materials lays off 10% in restructuring to chase energy storage business

The company is restructuring some teams to accommodate a booming energy storage business, according to emails viewed by TechCrunch.

Sean O'Kane 4 months ago

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Meta will record employees’ keystrokes and use it to train its AI models

Meta says that it has a new internal tool that is converting mouse movements and button clicks into data that can train its AI models.

Lucas Ropek 4 months ago

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Unauthorized group has gained access to Anthropic’s exclusive cyber tool Mythos, report claims

Anthropic told TechCrunch it is investigating the claims, but maintains that there is no evidence that its systems have been impacted.

Lucas Ropek 4 months ago

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SpaceX is working with Cursor and has an option to buy the startup for $60 billion

Only Elon would do this before an IPO.

Tim Fernholz 4 months ago

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Apple’s John Ternus will run one of the world’s most powerful companies; the job is a minefield

Apple's top job comes with almost unrivaled power and money, but it comes with plenty of baggage, too.

Connie Loizos 4 months ago

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AI research lab NeoCognition lands $40M seed to build agents that learn like humans

Founded by an OSU researcher, the startup is developing AI agents that can become experts in any domain.

Marina Temkin 4 months ago

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Apple’s Cal AI crackdown signals it’s still policing the App Store

Apple tells TechCrunch Cal AI was removed not for web payments alone, but for deceptive billing, manipulative tactics, and App Store rule violations.

Sarah Perez 4 months ago

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SusHi Tech Tokyo isn’t a conference — it’s a deal room with 60,000 people

When 60,000 attendees descend on Tokyo Big Sight April 27–29, the headline numbers are hard to ignore: 750 startup exhibitors, 151 sessions, city leaders from 49 countries. But the stat that tells you what kind of event this actually is? It's 10,000 facilitated business meetings — brokered, booked,...

Cindy Zackney 4 months ago

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ChatGPT’s new Images 2.0 model is surprisingly good at generating text

ChatGPT Images 2.0, the newest image-generation model from OpenAI, shows just how much AI capabilities have evolved over the last few years.

Amanda Silberling 4 months ago

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Sam Altman throws shade at Anthropic’s cyber model, Mythos: ‘fear-based marketing’

This week, during a podcast appearance, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called out his competitor's new cybersecurity model, noting that the company was using fear to make its product sound more impressive than it actually is.

Lucas Ropek 4 months ago

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A look at Tim Cook’s 15-year legacy as CEO of Apple

Cook, who joined Apple in 1998, succeeded Steve Jobs as CEO in 2011 and went on to transform Apple into a $4 trillion powerhouse. 

Aisha Malik 4 months ago

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