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BYD rolls out EV batteries with 5-minute ‘flash charging’ — but there’s …
The Chinese automaker's new Blade Battery 2.0 is capable of charging at up to 1.5 megawatts, dramatically slashing the time it takes to fill up.
Italian prosecutors confirm journalist was hacked with Paragon spyware
Italian authorities are making progress in their investigation into a wide-ranging spyware scandal in Italy involving Paragon spyware. But the mystery of who hacked two …
It’s official: The Pentagon has labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk
The Department of Defense has officially labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk, making the AI firm the first American company with the label. Meanwhile, the DOD …
X revamps Creator Subscriptions with new features, like exclusive threads and shareable …
X is rolling out a series of new features for creators, like the ability to offer paid threads and other marketing tools.
Hardware testing startup Nominal hits $1B valuation, raises $155M in 10 months
Nominal provides hardware testing equipment to defense tech companies. Founders Fund led the preemptive deal.
Roblox launches real-time AI chat rephrasing to filter out banned language
The new feature goes beyond Roblox’s current text filter, which simply replaces banned words and phrases with the “#” symbol.
FYI: Impersonators are (still) targeting companies with fake TechCrunch outreach
Fraudsters are impersonating TechCrunch reporters and event leads, and reaching out to companies. Here's what we're doing about it, and what you can look out …
Luma launches creative AI agents powered by its new ‘Unified Intelligence’ models
Luma introduced Luma Agents, powered by its new “Unified Intelligence” models, designed to coordinate multiple AI systems and generate end-to-end creative work across text, images, …
Cursor is rolling out a new kind of agentic coding tool
Called Automations, the new system gives users a way to automatically launch agents within their coding environment, triggered by a new addition to the codebase, …
Meta sued over AI smart glasses’ privacy concerns, after workers reviewed nudity, …
Lawyers say Meta's marketing materials promised privacy and user control over sharing footage. But an investigation found that subcontractors are reviewing footage from customers' glasses.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei could still be trying to make a deal …
Anthropic's $200 million contract with the Department of Defense broke down due to disagreements over giving the military unrestricted access to its AI.
Oura acquires Doublepoint, a startup that specializes in gesture recognition technology
The company believes its next phase of wearable AI will be powered by a combination of voice and gesture.
Netflix buys Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking company InterPositive
Affleck says he wanted to "preserve what makes human storytelling human, which is judgement."
Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic, but …
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday that his company's investments in OpenAI and Anthropic will likely be its last — but his explanation may not …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up …
Anthropic gave up its contract with the Pentagon over AI safety disagreements -- then, OpenAI swooped in.
Apple Music to add Transparency Tags to distinguish AI music, says report
The label or distributor has to opt in to tagging their music as AI, so it's unclear how effective this intervention will be.
Google settles with Epic Games, drops its Play Store commissions to 20%
Google has dropped its commission, charging a 20% service fee and an optional 5% to use its billing services. It will also offer a new …
His house burned down. He used the insurance money to build PopSockets.
Does a consumer hardware company need to get on the VC treadmill to succeed? Eleven years and 290 million products sold across 115 countries later, PopSockets has proven that the bootstrapped, low-dilution path more viable than …
US and EU police shut down LeakBase, a site accused of sharing …
Authorities say LeakBase was "one of the world’s largest online forums for cybercriminals," and maintained an archive of hacked databases containing hundreds of millions of …
Google Search rolls out Gemini’s Canvas in AI Mode to all US …
Canvas in AI Mode is available to U.S. users in English for creating plans, projects, apps, and more.
Decagon completes first tender offer at $4.5B valuation
The AI-powered customer support startup is the latest example of a fast-growing, young company that's providing employee liquidity.
The US military is still using Claude — but defense-tech clients are …
As the U.S. continues its aerial attack on Iran, Anthropic models are being used for many targeting decisions.
X taps William Shatner to give out invites to its payments service, …
42 X users donated to William Shatner's charity in exchange for an early invite to X Money beta.
TikTok won’t add end-to-end encryption to direct messages, report says
The social media giant says that end-to-end encryption would make users less safe.
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