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- OpenAI’s o1-pro is the company’s most expensive AI model yet [158d]
- Hacked, leaked, exposed: Why you should never use stalkerware apps [158d]
- Data breach at stalkerware SpyX affects close to 2 million, including thousands of Apple users [158d]
- X users treating Grok like a fact-checker spark concerns over misinformation [158d]
- Sequoia shutters D.C. office, lets go of policy team [158d]
- Sequoia shutters Washington, D.C., office, lets go of policy team [158d]
- OpenAI research lead Noam Brown thinks AI ‘reasoning’ models could’ve arrived decades ago [158d]
- Nvidia reportedly acquires synthetic data startup Gretel [158d]
- AWS generative AI exec leaves to launch startup [158d]
- Group co-led by Fei-Fei Li suggests that AI safety laws should anticipate future risks [159d]
- Substack rival Ghost is now connected to the fediverse [159d]
- A key DeepMind robotics researcher left Google and Nvidia has already backed his stealth startup [159d]
- Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Zuckerberg than custom domains [159d]
- xAI launches an API for generating images [159d]
- Telegram founder Pavel Durov says app now has 1B users, calls WhatsApp a ‘cheap, watered down imitation’ [159d]
- Elon Musk’s X reportedly bounces back to $44B valuation [159d]
- Judge orders Citibank to release nonprofit funds, rejects EPA’s arguments [159d]
- In another good sign for fintech, Ribbit Capital is raising a new $500M fund [159d]
- GM, Gatik, Torc team up with Nvidia to accelerate self-driving [159d]
- Analytics company Dataminr secures $85M to fund growth [159d]
- Streamer Plex raises subscription price for the first time in a decade [159d]
- Google search, Play Store falling foul of Digital Markets Act rules, says EU [159d]
- EPA was ‘arbitrary and capricious’ when it froze nonprofits’ Citibank accounts, judge finds [159d]
- Researchers say they’ve discovered a new method of ‘scaling up’ AI, but there’s reason to be skeptical [159d]
- Tera AI comes out of stealth with $7.8M to provide visual navigation for robots [159d]
- US teachers’ union says hackers stole sensitive personal data on over 500,000 members [159d]
- EU sends Apple first DMA interoperability instructions for apps and connected devices [159d]
- ‘The Last of Us’ to stream in American Sign Language on Max [159d]
- Hugging Face’s new iOS app taps AI to describe what you’re looking at [159d]
- The AI leaders bringing the AGI debate down to Earth [159d]
- Hunted Labs lands $3M to find suspicious open source contributors [159d]
- Mortgage as an employee benefit? Kleiner Perkins leads $23.5M Series A for Multiply Mortgage [159d]
- Google unveils redesigned $499 Pixel 9a [159d]
- Zoox recalls 258 self-driving cars over unexpected braking [159d]
- Cape opens $99/month beta of its privacy-first mobile plan, inks Proton deal, raises $30M [159d]
- Let your voice be heard! Vote for who you want to see at TechCrunch Sessions: AI [159d]
- Google now lets kids use Google Wallet for in-store payments in select countries [159d]
- Agentic AI startup AMT aims to be ‘Google Adwords for influencers,’ raises seed round [159d]
- Researchers name several countries as potential Paragon spyware customers [159d]
- Shopify transfers its US listing from the NYSE to the Nasdaq [159d]
- Academics accuse AI startups of co-opting peer review for publicity [159d]
- Prezent raises $20M to build AI for slide decks [159d]
- US paid music subscribers cross 100 million mark for the first time [159d]
- Aletiq secures $6.5M for its SaaS tool focused on product lifecycle management [159d]
- Factorial snaps up $120M from General Catalyst to boost its HR sales and marketing [159d]
- A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs [159d]
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