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TechCrunch Meta’s $18B child-safety deal hinges on age-verification tech that doesn’t work well

The historic settlement reignites ongoing concern around how age-verification technology puts privacy at risk.

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TechCrunch Apple is holding its iPhone launch event on September 9

The event is expected to be a notable one, as Apple is rumored to unveil its long-awaited foldable iPhone. It'll also be the first...

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TechCrunch Meta agrees to sweeping changes to restrict kids’ access to its apps as part of settlement with states

One of the most notable changes is that Meta plans to implement a daily two-hour time limit for teens that can only be disabled wi...

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TechCrunch What’s driving Sweden’s startup boom, from Lovable to Legora

Vibe-coding darling Lovable just raised $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, roughly doubling its worth in eight months. But...

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TechCrunch Radar makes podcasts searchable — and usable by AI agents

Particle’s new podcast intelligence platform transcribes and analyzes more than 130,000 podcasts, making their conversations searc...

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TechCrunch Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45B deal with Nscale

The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak.

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TechCrunch Google’s Gemini has a branding problem, and so does the rest of AI

Consumer AI apps need to stop making users learn their product architecture.

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TechCrunch How do we explain OpenAI’s executive exodus?

Was Greg Brockman the right executive all along?

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TechCrunch OpenAI releases its official report on the Hugging Face breach

The report, which spans several discrete cybersecurity compromises, is the most complete accounting of the incident to date.

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TechCrunch Flipboard acquires Graze, the feed builder working to monetize the open social web

Flipboard is acquiring Bluesky feed-building startup Graze, bringing its privacy-friendly ad technology and creator monetization t...

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TechCrunch Medical device maker Boston Scientific says a cyberattack is causing a ‘global disruption’ to its operations

The company won't say if medical devices are affected or if any customer data was exfiltrated.

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TechCrunch US seizes domains of Chinese botnet used to target NASA, Justice Department, and the Senate

The Justice Department said that the domain seizures made the botnet and its command and control servers "inoperable," as the doma...

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TechCrunch Capital F closes $17M debut fund with goal to back the future of the ‘female economy’

The firm backs companies building in the “female economy,” or the markets where women drive demand — women’s health, digital comme...

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TechCabal After the Cell C divorce, Blu Label is making a play for electricity

After its Cell C restructuring, Blu Label is looking to electricity as its next growth opportunity. Image Source: Techcentral

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TechCrunch Arga Labs is building a better way to train enterprise AI agents

Arga has raised $10 million in a seed funding round that was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Box Group, Emergence...

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TechCrunch Robot brain builders are pushing out of their GPT-2 era

Robot bodies are waiting for their AI brains to catch up.

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TechCrunch Bluesky now lets you upload 10-minute long videos

Bluesky's new 10-minute video support includes faster upload speeds, too.

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TechCrunch QueryStory wants you to believe what AI is telling you

The startup came out of stealth with $6 million in seed funding and a plan to use LLMs and cybersecurity know-how to make AI queri...

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TechCrunch CISA confirms hackers targeted over 100 US water systems during July

The federal cyber agency's warning comes amid a wave of suspected Iran-backed cyberattacks targeting critical water systems across...

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TechCrunch Surprise: Z.ai is the AI lab behind the mysterious Ox Alpha model

Z.ai confirms it is behind Ox Alpha, the mysterious open AI model topping benchmarks and leaderboards, and its weights are set to...

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TechCrunch Meta settles for $18B in lawsuit brought by 29 states over social media harms to children

The lawsuit alleged that Meta knowingly designed platforms like Instagram and Facebook to addict children, despite knowing about t...

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TechCrunch Ex-Meta scientists want to bring visual AI to the factory floor

Perceptron offers an AI model that it says can help machines navigate the world while also providing in-depth visual intelligence.

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TechCrunch Ring introduces a new encryption standard, makes it the default for cloud features

Ring says users can still opt for end-to-end encryption.

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TechCrunch Bill Gates wants to see a robot tax and ‘Human Reserved’ jobs to mitigate harms from AI

Gates is mostly in the Responsible AI camp, but there are a few ideas in here we hadn't heard before.

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