Musk’s xAI Holdings is reportedly raising the second-largest private funding round ever
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Musk's xAI Holdings is reportedly raising the second-largest private funding round ever | TechCrunch
Elon Musk's xAI Holdings is in talks to raise $20 billion in fresh funding, potentially valuing the AI and social media combo at over $120 billion,
Instagram Edits topped 7M downloads in first week, a bigger launch than CapCut’s
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Instagram Edits topped 7M downloads in first week, a bigger launch than CapCut's | TechCrunch
Instagram Edits, Meta's newly released video creation app, had a bigger debut than its direct competitor, ByteDance's CapCut, once did. The new app, which
The OpenAI mafia: 15 of the most notable startups founded by alumni
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The OpenAI mafia: 15 of the most notable startups founded by alumni | TechCrunch
Move over, PayPal mafia: There’s a new tech mafia in Silicon Valley. As the startup behind ChatGPT, OpenAI is arguably the biggest AI player in town. Its
Lately’s new gamified app helps people arrive on time
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Lately's new gamified app helps people arrive on time | TechCrunch
A new app called Lately launched on the App Store a few weeks ago, targeting people with ADHD to help them arrive on time and rewarding them for doing so. A new app called Lately targets people with ADHD to help them arrive on time and rewards them for doing…
Government officials are kind of bad at the internet
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Government officials are kind of bad at the internet | TechCrunch
Perhaps no one in the world has made such catastrophic tech flubs this year as U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. The saga started when the
Amazon’s big book sale just happens to overlap with Independent Bookstore Day
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Amazon’s big book sale just happens to overlap with Independent Bookstore Day | TechCrunch
Amazon is raising eyebrows with the timing of its big book sale for 2025, which runs from April 23 to 28 — which means it’s competing directly with
Week in Review: Cluely helps you cheat on everything
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Week in Review: Cluely helps you cheat on everything | TechCrunch
Welcome back to Week in Review! We've got tons of news for you this week: Slate EVs spotted in the wild; Airbnb pricing updates; a hack at Blue Shield;
Google will stop supporting early Nest thermostats on October 25
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Google will stop supporting early Nest thermostats on October 25 | TechCrunch
Google announced this week that beginning on October 25, it will no longer support or release software updates for the first and second generation Nest
Google’s DeepMind UK team reportedly seeks to unionize
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Google’s DeepMind UK team reportedly seeks to unionize | TechCrunch
Around 300 London-based members of Google’s AI-focused DeepMind team are seeking to unionize with the Communication Workers Union, according to a
The RealReal founder Julie Wainwright has a startling new memoir
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The RealReal founder Julie Wainwright has a startling new memoir | TechCrunch
Julie Wainwright has taken two companies public, an incredible feat by any standard. Yet in her new memoir, Time to Get Real, she offers readers something
Here are Latin America’s biggest startups based on valuation
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Here are Latin America’s biggest startups based on valuation | TechCrunch
Not so long ago, the idea of public tech companies emerging from Latin America seemed far-fetched, and Mercado Libre once appeared as rare and mythical as
Best bookmarking apps to help organize and declutter your digital life
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Best bookmarking apps to help organize and declutter your digital life | TechCrunch
If you’re someone who likes to bookmark a bunch of things that you find interesting or want to come back to later, it can be hard to manage everything you
Report finds Meta’s celebrity-voiced chatbots could discuss sex with minors
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Report finds Meta’s celebrity-voiced chatbots could discuss sex with minors | TechCrunch
AI chatbots available on Meta’s platforms like Facebook and Instagram can engage in sexually explicit conversations with underage users, according to a
Welcome to Chat Haus, the coworking space for AI chatbots
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Welcome to Chat Haus, the coworking space for AI chatbots | TechCrunch
Brooklyn artist Nim Ben-Reuven created a window display art exhibit that pokes fun at the increase of AI in the art world.
4chan is back online, says it’s been ‘starved of money’
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4chan is back online, says it's been ‘starved of money’ | TechCrunch
4chan is partly back online after a hack took the infamous image-sharing site down for nearly two weeks. The site first went down on April 14, with the
Early cancer detection startup Craif raises $22M
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Early cancer detection startup Craif raises $22M | TechCrunch
Cancer ranks as one of the top causes of death worldwide. The National Cancer Institute reported nearly 20 million new cancer cases and 9.7 million
From coding tests to billion-dollar startups, Ali Partovi’s eight-year experiment is paying off
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From coding tests to billion-dollar startups, Ali Partovi's eight-year experiment is paying off | TechCrunch
In Silicon Valley, where the same high-wattage names tend to dominate the headlines, Ali Partovi has long wielded outsized influence despite limited name
StrictlyVC heads to london and Athens this May: Featuring Prime Minister of Greece and Europe’s leading tech and VC voices
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OmniRetail shakes up Africa’s B2B e-commerce market with $20M Series A
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OmniRetail shakes up Africa's B2B e-commerce market with $20M Series A | TechCrunch
Omniretail, the Nigerian startup trying to reshape informal retail through tech and embedded finance, has raised $20 million in Series A.
Lightrun grabs $70M using AI to debug code in production
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Lightrun grabs $70M using AI to debug code in production | TechCrunch
AI-based coding has exploded in popularity on the promise that it will make developers’ jobs faster and easier. But AI coding has also resulted in