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Utilities are racing to link up with fusion startups, with Realta Fusion the latest to benefit

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Utilities are racing to link up with fusion startups, with Realta Fusion the latest to benefit

The grid has been straining under the weight of new AI data centers, and that has utilities courting fusion startups.

Tim De Chant 1 week ago

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Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails

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Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails

Abliteration.AI is making powerful AI models without guardrails easier to access, arguing that giving defenders the same tools as bad actors could ultimately improve cybersecurity.

Rebecca Bellan 1 week ago

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Meta is paying to peek at how you use their latest AI model

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Meta is paying to peek at how you use their latest AI model

Most AI tools allow you to opt out of sharing your usage with the model provider to improve future versions. Meta has taken that idea and put a price tag on it. For its new Muse Spark model, intended for operating coding and other agents, it is offering an explicit discount averaging out to about [&...

Tim Fernholz 1 week ago

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OpenAI launches Astra, its powerful (and controversial) new model

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OpenAI launches Astra, its powerful (and controversial) new model

OpenAI claims that Astra represents "a new frontier on computer and browser use," and that it handles tasks with unmatched "speed, accuracy, and safety."

Lucas Ropek 1 week ago

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Qualcomm backs Ultrahuman in $70M round on bet to turn smart rings into computers

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Qualcomm backs Ultrahuman in $70M round on bet to turn smart rings into computers

Ultrahuman is targeting a $200 million annual revenue run rate by January 2027 as it builds a new Qualcomm-powered smart ring.

Jagmeet Singh 1 week ago

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Circular unveils Ring 3 series with contactless payments and on-finger vibration alerts

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Circular unveils Ring 3 series with contactless payments and on-finger vibration alerts

Smart ring maker Circular on Thursday unveiled its upcoming Ring 3 series, which consists of a Pro model and a Slim option. Both of the smart rings will feature an integrated NFC chip for contactless payments, vibrating alerts for alarms and reminders, and more. The Ring 3 Pro features a slimmer des...

Aisha Malik 1 week ago

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Ollie is betting its focus on privacy can help it win the AI assistant race

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Ollie is betting its focus on privacy can help it win the AI assistant race

The family-focused AI assistant wants access to the details of your everyday life, but says it won’t use that data to train AI models or share it with others.

Sarah Perez 1 week ago

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Google launches AI voice features in Gmail, Docs, and Keep

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Google launches AI voice features in Gmail, Docs, and Keep

Users can search for emails or draft documents using the new conversational feature.

Ivan Mehta 1 week ago

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Google’s latest AI weather model gives you no excuse to forget your umbrella

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Google’s latest AI weather model gives you no excuse to forget your umbrella

Scientists at Google Deepmind and Google Research released a new artificial intelligence model for weather forecasting today that sees our changing atmosphere more clearly and predicts its behavior more often. WeatherNext 3 is the latest wave of a sea change in meteorology brought out by deep learni...

Tim Fernholz 1 week ago

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TikTok comments are getting more interactive with voice comments, polls, and more

TikTok’s comments section is getting an upgrade. The social network announced on Thursday that it’s rolling out new features for its comment sections, including voice comments, comment polls, photo carousel comments, and Live Photo comments. With the additions, the app is borrowing features fr...

Aisha Malik 1 week ago

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Volunteer at TechCrunch Founder Summit in Boston

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Volunteer at TechCrunch Founder Summit in Boston

Our rebranded Boston event, TechCrunch Founder Summit (formerly All Stage), is back on November 4th! And we are looking for some incredible volunteers to help us make this event happen. If you are interested in finding out what goes into building tech events, apply to volunteer. If you are selected,...

TechCrunch Events 1 week ago

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Nvidia confirms it will buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion

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Nvidia confirms it will buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion

Nvidia said Hugging Face hosts over 3 million models and is used by over 18 million developers.

Ivan Mehta 1 week ago

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Amazon’s Zoox expands its robotaxi service to Las Vegas airport

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Amazon’s Zoox expands its robotaxi service to Las Vegas airport

Zoox is expanding to this critical ride-hailing destination a few weeks after it started charging for robotaxi rides.

Kirsten Korosec 1 week ago

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Palo Alto Networks paid $500M for Thrive-backed Console, sources say

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Palo Alto Networks paid $500M for Thrive-backed Console, sources say

The acquisition also leaves Sequoia-backed Serval as the de facto startup leader in AI IT service automation, industry watchers believe.

Marina Temkin 1 week ago

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Google spared from ad-business breakup, but judge orders changes to how it operates

Google has dodged an effort to break up its ad business, but a judge said Wednesday that the company will need to adjust its business to benefit competitors.

Lucas Ropek 1 week ago

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OpenAI’s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts

OpenAI’s new Astra model will use “recurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models.

Russell Brandom 1 week ago

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MapQuest is now the No. 1 U.S. app after bucking Trump’s ‘Lake America’ renaming

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MapQuest is now the No. 1 U.S. app after bucking Trump’s ‘Lake America’ renaming

The once-dominant mapping app has surged to the top of Apple’s U.S. App Store after refusing to adopt Trump’s “Lake America” name, drawing more than half of its 2026 U.S. downloads in just six days.

Sarah Perez 1 week ago

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It sure looks like hackers breached a major ID card verification service

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It sure looks like hackers breached a major ID card verification service

An identity theft search site claimed to have more than 150 million driver's license photos stolen from an ID verification service. The crime site has now shut down.

Zack Whittaker 1 week ago

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Delivery Hero board backs Uber’s $15B takeover bid

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Delivery Hero board backs Uber’s $15B takeover bid

If approved, the combined company would become one of the largest food delivery platforms in the world.

Kirsten Korosec 1 week ago

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Pangram’s Max Spero on why AI detection is harder than ‘Real or Fake’

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Pangram’s Max Spero on why AI detection is harder than ‘Real or Fake’

The internet has a trust problem, and it’s not just because social media feeds are filling up with AI slop. AI-generated text and images are now making their way into job applications, product reviews, and even insurance claims, leaving platforms and users alike scrambling to fig...

Theresa Loconsolo 1 week ago

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X shifts US creator payouts from Stripe to X Money

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X shifts US creator payouts from Stripe to X Money

X says U.S. creator payouts will now be handled through its X Money payments service, a change that appears to replace the previous Stripe-powered payout system.

Sarah Perez 1 week ago

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US government sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material

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US government sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material

"The United States has a strong interest in continuing to develop a robust and competitive artificial intelligence industry that sets the standard for the practice and procedure of AI use globally," the brief reads.

Amanda Silberling 1 week ago

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