TechCrunch
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Anthropicâs latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests
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Apple plans to change its Hide My Email privacy feature that could make it less effective
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SpaceX valuation balloons to $2.6T, briefly passes Amazon
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Qualcomm wants to be the chip inside whatever replaces your smartphone, and it just announced two products toward that end
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Bug in FIFA World Cup internal system gave anyone ability to modify TV stream
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Android 17 launches with new multitasking tools as Google expands Gemini features
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Mobileyeâs US robotaxi launch will put it on both sides of the AV business
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Rivian cuts hundreds of workers after R2 deliveries start
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Snap finally debuts its long-awaited AR glasses, Specs, and, oof, they arenât cheap
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Sixty percent of US consumers say âAIâ in brand messaging is a turnoff, survey finds
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SpaceX is public: Everything you need to know post-IPO
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India orders temporary ban on Telegram over exam fraud concerns
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Payments startup Flutterwave hits $3.2B valuation, backed by Ripple
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DOJ claims xAIâs unpermitted gas turbines are a matter of ânational, economic, and energy securityâ
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Plaud says its software business topped $100M in ARR after shipping over 2M AI notetakers
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Robinhoodâs note on 10% layoffs shows blaming AI isnât cutting it
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Probably raises $9M to build a more reliable kind of AI
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This startupâs super metals could soon be in military drones, luxury watches, and chefâs knives
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SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO
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Threads adds new personalization and community features as it reaches 500M monthly users
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Databricks says annualized revenue rose 80%+ YoY to $6.9B, up from $5.4B in Q4; CEO Ali Ghodsi says higher AI agent usage is increasing costs, lowering margins (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
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Sources: Meta decided to support KOSA after it was packaged with language preempting state AI laws and a bill requiring app stores to verify users' ages (Politico)
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Kapwing: in tests, ~60% of the first 500 TikTok For You videos shown to a new account were AI slop, ~3x the slop shown to a new YouTube user via YouTube Shorts (Matt G. Southern/Search Engine Journal)
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Sources: the US has held off adding DeepSeek, CXMT, and 100+ other flagged companies to its Entity List, last updated in October, the longest gap in 10+ years (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)
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Sources: Amazon faces a possible FTC lawsuit alleging it misled advertisers; multiple state AGs are involved and the case could seek billions in civil penalties (Bloomberg)
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Many US lawmakers said this week they had not been briefed on Trump's Fable 5 move, including Ted Cruz, whose commerce committee has jurisdiction over AI policy (Politico)
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Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signs a state budget that levies taxes on social media giants, digital advertising, and prediction and crypto markets (Mitchell Armentrout/Chicago Sun Times)
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Anthropic pauses its plan to move Claude Agent SDK to token-based billing from June 15, saying "Nothing changes for now", giving power users a pricing reprieve (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)
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SpaceX closed up 4.83% on Tuesday for a $2.65T market cap, just above Amazon's, after popping ~12% intraday and briefly overtaking Microsoft's $2.93T market cap (CNBC)
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Sources: PayPal plans to close its 10-year-old PayPal Ventures arm amid new CEO Enrique Lores' shakeup and has hired Jefferies to explore selling some positions (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
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Melbourne-based Everlab, which is building an AI-powered preventive healthcare platform, raised a AU$65M Series A led by Airtree Ventures (Tegan Jones/SmartCompany)
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Sensor Tower: ChatGPT's market share fell to 46.4% at the end of May, as Gemini rose to 27.7% and Claude to 10.3%; Grok, Meta AI, and others have less than 5% (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
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Z.ai debuts GLM-5.2, saying the open-weights AI model brings improvements to agentic coding and long-horizon tasks, with a 1M context window and an MIT license (Z.ai)
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Google launches Android 17 and Wear OS 7, available first on Pixel devices, with support for the latest AI models, a bubble bar UI, and live updates on Wear OS (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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Qualcomm announces Snapdragon Reality Elite, its new flagship XR chipset, and says it will debut in the compute puck of Xreal's Aura Android XR device this fall (David Heaney/UploadVR)