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- Federal judge allows the EFF’s lawsuit against DOGE and Elon Musk to proceed [17d]
- Amazon Kindle’s new feature uses AI to generate recaps for books in a series [17d]
- Grace raises €5.9M seed to offer insurance to luxury goods [17d]
- OpenAI just made its first cybersecurity investment [17d]
- Intel and TSMC are reportedly launching a joint chipmaking venture [17d]
- Ted Schlein’s Ballistic Ventures is raising $100M for a new fund [17d]
- Teen with 4.0 GPA who built the viral Cal AI app was rejected by 15 top universities [17d]
- TikTok quietly launches a new ‘TikTok for Artists’ platform [17d]
- Devin, the viral coding AI agent, gets a new pay-as-you-go plan [17d]
- Microsoft reportedly pulls back on its data center plans [17d]
- X may soon start selling inactive usernames to Verified Organizations starting at $10K, code reveals [17d]
- Studio Ghibli hasn’t commented on OpenAI’s onslaught of AI copies, but the fan subreddit has [17d]
- Apple loses $250B market value as tariffs tank tech stocks [17d]
- Google is shipping Gemini models faster than its AI safety reports [17d]
- YouTube Shorts takes on TikTok with new creation tools [17d]
- Elon Musk took a chainsaw to the US government. Tesla is taking the hit. [17d]
- Thatch raises $40M to give employees more control of their health care choices [17d]
- This sneaky Android spyware needs a password to uninstall. Here’s how to remove it without one [17d]
- ChatGPT users have generated over 700M images since last week, OpenAI says [17d]
- Voice AI platform Phonic gets backing from Lux [17d]
- Call for speakers: Showcase your knowledge at TechCrunch All Stage [17d]
- What to know about TikTok’s uncertain future in the US and the people who want to buy it [17d]
- Spotify debuts Gen AI ads, programmatic ad buying [17d]
- New session at TechCrunch All Stage: Jahanvi Sardana on how top startups reshape markets [17d]
- Runway, best known for its video-generating AI models, raises $308M [17d]
- The Nintendo Switch 2, hands-on: It’s pretty good! [17d]
- A web3 startup aims to change the game in the tariff wars [17d]
- Fuse raises $6.6M to fix a payment problem for companies expanding to MENA [17d]
- Truecaller now has over 450M monthly active users [17d]
- Fintech Plaid raises $575M at a $6.1B valuation, says it will not go public in 2025 [17d]
- Y Combinator neobank Djamo raises $17M with 1M users across Francophone Africa [17d]
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