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The billion-dollar infrastructure deals powering the AI boom

The billion-dollar infrastructure deals powering the AI...

Here's everything we know about the biggest AI infrastructure projects, includin...

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DJI loses lawsuit over classification as Chinese military company

DJI loses lawsuit over classification as Chinese milita...

A federal judge has rejected drone maker DJI’s efforts to get off a Department o...

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Oura CEO talks potential IPO and ‘nonnegotiable’ data privacy

Oura CEO talks potential IPO and ‘nonnegotiable’ data p...

In a recent interview with The New York Times, Oura Health CEO Tom Hale didn’t d...

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The AI services transformation may be harder than VCs think

The AI services transformation may be harder than VCs t...

Early warning signs suggest this whole services-industry metamorphosis may be mo...

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Paid, the AI agent ‘results-based billing’ startup from Manny Medina, raises huge $21M seed

Paid, the AI agent ‘results-based billing’ startup from...

Paid offers an interesting contribution to the AI agentic world: a platform for ...

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How South Korea plans to best OpenAI, Google, others with homegrown AI 

How South Korea plans to best OpenAI, Google, others wi...

South Korea has launched its most ambitious sovereign AI initiative yet, as the ...

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Trump demands Microsoft fire global affairs head Lisa Monaco

Trump demands Microsoft fire global affairs head Lisa M...

“It is my opinion that Microsoft should immediately terminate the employment of ...

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AI startup Friend spent more than $1M on all those subway ads

AI startup Friend spent more than $1M on all those subw...

If you’ve been on the New York subway recently, you’ve probably seen stark white...

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Beware coworkers who produce AI-generated ‘workslop’

Beware coworkers who produce AI-generated ‘workslop’

Researchers at consulting firm BetterUp Labs, in collaboration with Stanford Soc...

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Electronic Arts will reportedly be acquired for $50B

Electronic Arts will reportedly be acquired for $50B

The rumored buyers of EA include investors like Silver Lake and Saudi Arabia's P...

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Checkout.com’s new $12B valuation is a glass half-full situation  

Checkout.com’s new $12B valuation is a glass half-full ...

Checkout.com is boosting its valuation as part of an employee stock buy-back pro...

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What’s behind the massive AI data center headlines?

What’s behind the massive AI data center headlines?

This week on Equity, Anthony Ha and Max Zeff go beyond the headlines to break do...

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Vibe coding: Hype or new reality? Only at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Vibe coding: Hype or new reality? Only at TechCrunch Di...

Lauri Moore (Bessemer), David Cramer (Sentry), and Zach Lloyd (Warp) join the Bu...

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Famed roboticist says humanoid robot bubble is doomed to burst

Famed roboticist says humanoid robot bubble is doomed t...

Brooks, who co-founded iRobot and spent decades at MIT, is particularly skeptica...

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Viral call-recording app Neon goes dark after exposing users’ phone numbers, call recordings, and transcripts

Viral call-recording app Neon goes dark after exposing ...

Call recording app Neon was one of the top-ranked iPhone apps, but was pulled of...

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Meta launches ‘Vibes,’ a short-form video feed of AI slop

Meta launches ‘Vibes,’ a short-form video feed of AI slop

Think TikTok or Instagram Reels, but every single video you come across is essen...