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Mistral, the French AI giant, is reportedly on the cusp of securing a $14B valuation [12d]
Scale AI is suing a former employee and rival Mercor, alleging they tried to steal its biggest customers [12d]
Apple’s Siri upgrade could reportedly be powered by Google Gemini [12d]
xAI’s CFO is the latest executive to leave Elon Musk’s AI firm [12d]
FirstClub bucks India’s speed obsession, quickly triples valuation to $120M with premium approach [12d]
CoreWeave acquires agent-training startup OpenPipe [12d]
SpaceX gets a green light to more than double its Florida launches [12d]
Pornhub owner pays $5M settlement to FTC over historic failure to block abusive content [12d]
Google brings Material 3 Expressive to Pixel 6 and newer devices, along with other features [12d]
Orchard Robotics, founded by a Thiel fellow Cornell dropout, raises $22M for farm vision AI [12d]
Google’s NotebookLM now lets you customize the tone of its AI podcasts [12d]
Why the US government is taking a stake in Intel [12d]
Roblox expands use of age-estimation tech and introduces standardized ratings [12d]
Netflix CPO Eunice Kim joins TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 to talk scaling product and reimagining entertainment [12d]
Instagram is finally launching an iPad app [12d]
Venezuela’s president thinks American spies can’t hack Huawei phones [12d]