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Startup CEO Charlie Javice is reportedly angling for a Trump pardon
JPMorgan can't be pleased by any of this.
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UK may ban social media for children under 16
The U.K. seems to be following Australia's lead in banning a wide swath of social media for teens.
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Chinese AI models are learning to detect safety tests and adjust their behaviour accordingly
Several Chinese frontier AI models can detect when they are being subjected to safety evaluations and adjust their behaviour accor…
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30 European family offices are looking to set up in Hong Kong as the city overtakes Switzerland in cross-border wealth
Around 30 European family offices have told Hong Kong’s investment promotion agency that they plan to set up operations in the cit…
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Geely will purge excess factory capacity and focus on becoming a global competitor to BYD
Geely Auto chairman Li Shufu told the Chongqing Auto Show on Friday that the company will assess excess capacity across all its un…
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Canada’s Carney compares Anthropic shutdown to 2008 financial crisis, warns of AI “model risk”
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Sunday that the US export ban that forced Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 dem…
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FINQ’s AI-managed ETFs quietly outrun Wall Street in early 2026
Artificial intelligence has spent years promising to disrupt asset management. In 2026, that promise is starting to show up in per…
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De Beers weaponises blockchain to fight lab-grown diamonds, but a 45% price crash looms large
The natural diamond industry has a problem it cannot see with the naked eye. Lab-grown stones are now virtually identical to mined…
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Built to assist, not replace: inside Intercall’s real-time AI for professional interpreters
Among the interpreters who rely on it, the verdict is consistent: at last, something built for the way they actually work. The pre…
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As AI companies race to go public, who else is along for the ride?
Startups are trying to "ride that SpaceX IPO wave."
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Why Apple built a third-party AI system for Siri and then refused to show it at WWDC
Apple’s iOS 27 developer beta contains underlying support for a feature the company never mentioned at its WWDC keynote on June 8:…
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TechCrunch Mobility: SpaceX rockets past Tesla
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part.
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IQM adds a Vanguard board director to its bench as Europe’s first quantum Nasdaq listing approaches
IQM Quantum Computers, the Finnish maker of superconducting quantum systems, has appointed Barbara Venneman to its board of direct…
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Crypto exchanges promised users access to the SpaceX IPO. The tokenized shares never arrived.
Crypto users who thought they had found a way into the hottest IPO in years through tokenized SpaceX stock discovered on Friday th…
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The lawyer who won a $6 million verdict against Meta says AI let him do 30 hours of work in 10
Mark Lanier, the Texas trial lawyer who won a landmark $6 million verdict against Meta and Google in a social media addiction case…
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The new Sonos Play has become my go-to desk and kitchen speaker
The new Sonos Play can act as a portable speaker inside and outside your home.
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Skoda’s Peaq is a seven-seat electric SUV built to undercut the Kia EV9 and Ioniq 9 on price
Skoda has revealed the Peaq, its first seven-seat all-electric SUV and the most expensive car in the Czech automaker’s 130-year hi…
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Grassroots opposition blocked $130 billion in US data center projects in the first three months of 2026
Grassroots opposition to data center construction in the United States has reached a scale that is starting to reshape where and w…
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Fable 5 was beating GPT 5.5 on every major benchmark. Then the US government pulled it offline.
Anthropic’s Fable 5 spent three days as the most capable AI model ever released to the public. It topped the Chatbot Arena leaderb…
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GM says its autonomous cars will eventually be capable of running as robotaxis too
General Motors shut down Cruise, its $10 billion robotaxi division, in December 2024. Eighteen months later, the company’s chief p…
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Spotify removed 57,000 fake podcast episodes promoting illegal drugs, but only after a senator forced its hand
Spotify has removed more than 57,000 fake podcast episodes and banned 3,500 accounts tied to illegal drug promotion after a US Sen…
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NHS England rolls out Microsoft 365 Copilot to 505,000 staff after trial reports 43 minutes saved per day
NHS England is giving more than 505,000 clinicians and support staff access to Microsoft 365 Copilot in what will be the largest A…
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As Anthropic suspends access to new models, India debates its AI future
Tech leaders debate whether the Anthropic episode is a wake-up call for India’s AI ambitions.
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Meta reportedly moves to unwind $2B Manus deal after Beijing’s demand
Meta starts dismantling its $2 billion Manus acquisition after Beijing ordered the deal reversed.