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Tesla, Uber, and Waymo all get the OK to operate thousands of robotaxis in Nevada
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AI data startup Micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate amid AI training boom
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Learn what VCs actually want, from a founder who’s raised $1B
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OpenAI is gaining on Anthropic with business users, new data indicates
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ChatGPT can now send texts for you with new Apple Messages plug-in
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The Enhanced Games — tech’s steroid extravaganza — didn’t pay off, as company posts $60 million loss
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OK, can we actually cool data centers with our pee?
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Someone targeted security researchers using a fake crypto conference as a lure
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Mark buys a castle
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Google gives publishers a new way to fight AI-driven traffic losses
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Runlayer, Rippling drop lawsuits — but the brouhaha is still a cautionary tale for founders
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Castelion hits $13B valuation to mass-produce hypersonic missiles
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Linkdaze’s smart calendar is built to run a household, not just track a schedule
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Grok keeps sending gibberish responses to users
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The investor’s guide to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Everything you need to know
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A third of web pages published since ChatGPT’s launch show signs of AI authorship, study finds
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Early Cerebras investor Adit Singh joins Mayfield as infrastructure partner
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Ramp launches its own AI model router, called Router
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Senators demand answers from TikTok over experiment that disabled safeguards
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Meta brings Pocket, an app that lets you vibe-code and share games, to US users
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Patreon announces new and overhauled features, including changes to its recommendation system to make it easier for smaller creators to get discovered (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
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A look at London cab drivers' concerns and pushback against robotaxis, as Waymo and Wayve race to make London their European launch pad for driverless services (Financial Times)
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CBRE: NYC becomes the top tech talent market for the first time with ~394K jobs, beating the Bay Area's ~375K, amid SF job cuts and finance sector tech hiring (Diana Olick/CNBC)
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Samsung unveils a $65.1B-$79.5B shareholder return package for 2026, combining dividends and share buybacks, calling it "the largest ever by a Korean company" (Jenny Lee/CNBC)
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Sources: Nvidia is in early talks with South Korean AI chip maker Rebellions for a potential deal, including a partnership, an investment, or an acquisition (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
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China grants Geely a two-year permit for the country's first private satellite IoT trial, letting Geely offer connectivity to sectors like transport and energy (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
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How the memory boom is reshaping Micron's hometown of Boise, Idaho, with new millionaires, job growth, rising housing costs, and uneven wealth distribution (CNBC)
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How crypto, AI, and online betting companies emerged as the biggest industries shaping the 2026 US midterm races, as corporate spending reaches a record $517M (Dawn Kopecki/Reuters)
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Brazil announces ~$444.2M in AI investments split between US and Chinese companies, including ~$250.3M for a supercomputing project with Huawei and iFlytek (Marcela Ayres/Reuters)
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Source: AI training data startup Micro1's gross annual run rate grew from $100M to $500M in the past eight months, putting net annual run rate at $150M-$200M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
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Nevada approves permits letting Tesla deploy up to 5,000 robotaxis in the Las Vegas area over the next year, while Waymo and Uber are each allowed up to 1,000 (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
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A NJ teenager drops her lawsuit against Meta, Google, and Snap over alleged social media addiction, without any payment; TikTok previously settled her claims (Diana Novak Jones/Reuters)
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A US judge tosses part of the conviction of ex-Google engineer Linwei Ding, who was found guilty of stealing AI trade secrets to benefit two Chinese companies (Tom Hals/Reuters)
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OpenAI rolls out an Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT on macOS, letting ChatGPT read, search, and analyze chats, prepare and send messages, and more (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
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Super Micro says its independent probe found no evidence its CEO or senior management knew of an alleged scheme to smuggle $2.5B worth of Nvidia chips to China (Amanda Gerut/Fortune)