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CoreWeave joins the Nasdaq-100 just 15 months after its IPO, capping a wild ride from crypto mining to AI darling
CoreWeave, the AI cloud infrastructure company that began life as a New Jersey cryptocurrency mining operation called Atlantic Cry…
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OpenAI is under investigation by 42 state attorneys general, days after filing for its IPO
A coalition of 42 state attorneys general has opened a sweeping investigation into OpenAI, first reported by the Wall Street Journ…
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US government orders Anthropic to kill Fable 5 and Mythos 5 in unprecedented AI model recall
The US government has ordered Anthropic to suspend access to its two most capable AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, in what appears…
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Andrew Yang thinks the next big startup opportunity is lowering the cost of living
Andrew Yang made a list of everything Americans overpay for — housing, food, wireless — and thinks the next startup gold rush is g…
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Anthropic’s safety warnings may have just backfired — the government has pulled the plug on its most powerful AI
Anthropic isn't hiding its frustration. "We disagree that the finding of a narrow potential jailbreak should be cause for recallin…
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Elon Musk's stratospheric rise to trillionaire status - in charts
The BBC breaks down how the tech mogul's fortune has grown.
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Meta’s months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag, say the engineers stuck inside it
A new report suggests the unit, which employs 6,500 people, is on the verge of revolt.
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Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to scam ‘hundreds of thousands of victims’ sued by Google
The tech giant said a group called "Outsider Enterprise" used AI to scam hundreds of thousands of victims, sending 2.5 million tex…
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80 Texas residents are suing SpaceX, saying rocket launches are literally destroying their homes
Eighty residents of towns near SpaceX’s Starbase facility in South Texas have filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that the compa…
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SpaceX IPO closes up 19% and delivers the world’s first trillionaire
The company made its heavily anticipated debut on Friday, trading higher than its initial $135 IPO price.
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India’s Avataar AI launches a video model that costs $0.005 per second, 27x cheaper than rivals
Bangalore-based Avataar AI has launched Varya, one of India’s first homegrown video AI models. It generates video at roughly $0.00…
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Five cloud security mistakes that start at the architecture level
Cloud Architect Nodir Safarov, who leads migration and infrastructure automation for thousands of global clients at SOTI Inc., ide…
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China opens its first photonic computing lab as it bets on light to outrun US chip curbs
China has launched its first dedicated photonic computing laboratory in Shanghai, signalling that Beijing sees light-based chips a…
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SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell just gave another hint at a Tesla merger
A SpaceX-Tesla merger seems inevitable.
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SpaceX rented Colossus 1 to Anthropic because it couldn’t make the data centre work for Grok
SpaceX rented its Colossus 1 data centre to Anthropic not because it had surplus capacity, but because it could not make the facil…
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London Tech Week 2026: the AI billions, the US build-out, and a royal first
London Tech Week wrapped its 12th edition this week, after three days of main-stage programming at Olympia from 8 to 10 June, with…
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Spotify is adding editor-hosted videos to New Music Friday so you can meet the people behind the playlist
Spotify is adding short-form videos from its editorial team to New Music Friday, its flagship weekly playlist for new releases. Th…
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SpaceX IPO: Live updates on everything you need to know
TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. Th…
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SpaceX shares soar 30% midday, vaulting it to top six most valuable U.S. companies
The company made its heavily anticipated debut on Friday, trading higher than its initial $135 IPO price.
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Firefox’s AI kill switch exists. Only 1% of users have flipped it.
Mozilla built an AI kill switch into Firefox after its users demanded one. Only 1% have used it. Another 3% turned off some AI fea…
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Google sues Chinese cybercrime ring that used Gemini to build phishing sites and send 2.5 million scam texts
Google filed a lawsuit on Friday to dismantle the infrastructure behind a Chinese cybercrime operation called Outsider Enterprise.…
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IMF chief warns advanced AI models like Mythos “can be used to destroy the financial system”
The head of the International Monetary Fund warned on Wednesday that advanced AI models like Anthropic’s Mythos “can be used to de…
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Mistral is rumored to be raising €3B at €20 valuation
The funding round would value the company at around €20 billion (about $23.15 billion), nearly double its Series C valuation of €1…
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Google sues alleged Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to send scam texts
The tech giant said a group called "Outsider Enterprise" used AI to scam hundreds of thousands of victims, sending 2.5 million tex…