TechCrunch
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Farewell, Jeeves: Ask.com shuts down
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Netflix delays Greta Gerwig’s ‘Narnia’ movie for big theatrical push in 2027
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The best AI dictation apps, tested and ranked
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Beyond Lovable and Mistral: 21 European startups to watch
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Uber wants to turn its millions of drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies
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Replit’s Amjad Masad on the Cursor deal, fighting Apple, and why he’d rather not sell
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Musely secures $360M from General Catalyst without giving up equity
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Meta buys robotics startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions
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Coatue has a plan to buy up land for data centers, possibly for Anthropic
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Pentagon inks deals with Nvidia, Microsoft, and AWS to deploy AI on classified networks
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Ubuntu services hit by outages after DDoS attack
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Musk v. Altman is just getting started
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People are finally using Reddit’s search
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ChatGPT Images 2.0 is a hit in India, but not a big winner elsewhere, yet
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As Tim Cook steps down, Apple hit record sales — but a chip shortage looms
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Y Combinator alum Skio sells for $105M cash, only raised $8M, founder says
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Sources: Anthropic potential $900B+ valuation round could happen within 2 weeks
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Apple was surprised by AI-driven demand for Macs
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Legal AI startup Legora hits $5.6B valuation and its battle with Harvey just got hotter
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Rivian downsizes DOE loan to $4.5B for Georgia factory
Techmeme
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Analysis: after Trump's World Liberty raised $550M from investors, tokens worth hundreds of millions in USD were privately sold in "white glove" transactions (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
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Investigation: Nobitex was founded by two brothers from Iran's elite Kharrazi family; the crypto exchange processed hundreds of millions beyond US sanctions (Reuters)
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A Chinese court ruled that companies cannot terminate staff just to replace them with AI, following a similar ruling by another Chinese court in December 2025 (Victor Swezey/Bloomberg)
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Study: OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of emergency room patients using electronic records and a few sentences from nurses, vs. to 50-55% for triage doctors (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
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Sources: Nigerian mobile payments service OPay is preparing for a US IPO at a $4B valuation with Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, and JPMorgan Chase advising (Bloomberg)
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Sources: Anthropic is in early talks to buy AI inference chips from UK-based Fractile when they become available in 2027 (The Information)
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A look at casino-style games, considered gambling in some US states, where player "whales" spend tens of thousands via IAP on Apple, Google, and Meta platforms (Bloomberg)
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A profile of OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, who sources say helped keep OpenAI's Microsoft deal on track and has privately suggested waiting until 2027 for an IPO (Wall Street Journal)
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Ripple Labs investor and exec Chris Larsen plans to spend $3.5M to help Alex Bores, a NY congressional candidate at the center of a proxy war over AI regulation (New York Times)
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Sources: GameStop is preparing to make an offer for eBay after quietly building a stake; GameStop had a market cap of ~$11B as of May 1, while eBay had ~$45B (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
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Avoca, whose AI agents let physical services businesses handle inbound calls and dispatch, raised $125M+ across seed, Series A, and Series B at a $1B valuation (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
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A UK court orders Samsung to pay ZTE $392M for patents needed to enable phone network access; Samsung faces similar suits from ZTE in China, Germany, and Brazil (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
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Waymo says it is continuing to "refine" its system preventing kids under 18 from riding alone, after adult riders reported new age-verification checks (Aarian Marshall/Wired)
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xAI launches Grok 4.3, featuring "always-on reasoning", 1M token context window, and low API pricing, and releases a voice cloning suite called Custom Voices (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
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Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical have been down for more than a day, following a "sustained, cross-border attack" (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)