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Volkswagen reportedly plans to cut 100,000 jobs
Volkswagen reportedly wants to cut 100,000 jobs, about 15% of its workforce, and close German plants. It would be the biggest over…
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California built a tool to catch AI killing jobs
California has built the first state tool to watch for AI wiping out jobs. The early read: no mass layoffs yet, but warning signs …
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OpenAI told Cannes it is “clearly in the advertising business now.” The numbers say it is barely in the door.
OpenAI made its debut at the Cannes Lions advertising festival this week, but it did not book a beach club on the Croisette alongs…
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Patronus AI raises $50M to stress-test AI agents
Patronus AI has raised $50m to build simulated worlds where AI agents can be tested before they touch a real system. The pitch bor…
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Robotaxis drives miles just to get cleaned and charged; this new startup wants to fix that
Aseon Labs, which came out of Y Combinator's 2026 spring cohort, has raised $10 million from Crane Venture Partners and others.
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Early Bird pricing ends tonight for TechCrunch Founder Summit
Save up to $190 on your pass to TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026. Early Bird pricing ends today, at 11:59 p.m. PT, after which rates…
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Malaysia intercepts $13M AI chip shipment bound for re-export
The shipment passed through Kuala Lumpur declared as ordinary computer components. Inside the 72 server units, Malaysian customs o…
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Zalando plunges after German regulator opens accounting review
Germany’s financial regulator is reviewing a disclosure tied to the About You takeover. Zalando says it is formal and not material…
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France’s statistics department hit by cyberattack on staff directory
The institution that counts France found itself counting victims this week. INSEE, the national statistics department, said a cybe…
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Swatch wants $170m from Samsung over copied watch faces
A London court already found 26 of Samsung’s smartwatch faces infringed Swatch trademarks. Now the two sides are fighting over the…
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Kobo rejected 45% of self-published books last year, mostly over AI
A self-publishing platform exists to say yes. Kobo’s, last year, spent a remarkable share of its time saying no. Rakuten Kobo reje…
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Samsung’s $647bn home investment heads for the chip-starved southwest
Numbers in the trillions have a way of losing their edges, so it is worth holding this one still for a moment. Samsung is expected…
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The US government asks OpenAI to slow its next model’s release
Sam Altman told staff Washington wants GPT-5.6 released first to a short list of trusted partners, with access approved customer b…
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Cargo drone startup Elroy Air nears an $800m SPAC deal
The maker of the autonomous Chaparral is in advanced talks to go public through a blank-cheque merger valuing the combined company…
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TikTok and YouTube cut 4.7 million under-16 accounts in Indonesia
The number arrives with the bluntness of a government tally. TikTok and YouTube have deactivated roughly 4.7 million accounts belo…
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SpaceX wants to sell Starlink phone service directly to US consumers
Every satellite company eventually looks down at the much larger market on the ground, and SpaceX appears ready to make the move. …
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Airwallex raises $320m at an $11bn valuation, betting on agentic finance
A 38% jump in valuation over six months is the kind of figure that tells you where investor appetite has gone. Airwallex, the glob…
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Italy opens an antitrust probe into Microsoft 365’s AI price rise
The regulator says customers were moved to a pricier Copilot-bundled plan unless they actively opted out, with too little informat…
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Australia’s teen social media ban works on paper, less so in practice
A law is only as strong as the door it actually closes, and Australia’s ban on social media for under-16s appears to have left a w…
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The seed rounds you may have missed in H1
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The voice-controlled drones startup backed by Lakestar and Seedcamp
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The French & Benelux startups making €100m+ in revenue
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The White House is asking OpenAI to slow roll the release of its new model over safety concerns
penAI reportedly plans to share its newest model, GPT 5.6, with a select group of partners instead of to the broader public. The r…
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YouTube Shorts are getting even shorter with an update that lets you double the playback speed
YouTube Shorts is getting a makeover.