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Colossal CEO Ben Lamm says humanity has a ‘moral obliga...
The CEO of Colossal, a startup that aims to use genetic editing techniques to br...
Japan’s service robot market projected to triple in fiv...
Faced with an aging population and labor shortages, Japanese businesses are incr...
Neom is reportedly turning into a financial disaster, e...
A new WSJ report suggests that Saudi Arabia’s now eight-year-old Neom project — ...
Manus probably isn’t China’s second ‘DeepSeek moment’
Manus, an “agentic” AI platform that launched in preview last week, is generatin...
9 US AI startups have raised $100M or more in 2025
Last year was a monumental year for the AI industry in the U.S. and beyond. Ther...
Week in Review: OpenAI could charge $20K a month for an...
Welcome back to Week in Review. This week we’re looking at OpenAI potentially ch...
Judge allows authors’ AI copyright lawsuit against Meta...
A federal judge is allowing an AI-related copyright lawsuit against Meta to move...
New DOJ proposal still calls for Google to divest Chrom...
The US Department of Justice is still calling for Google to sell its web browser...
Google scrubs mentions of ‘diversity’ and ‘equity’ from...
Google has quietly updated the webpage for its Responsible AI and Human Centered...
Intuitive Machines’ second moon lander is dead
Intuitive Machines’ Athena lunar lander is dead, just one day after it touched d...
Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic A...
Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned Friday that agentic AI could come wit...
SXSW 2025: What we’re paying attention to
TechCrunch will be on the ground at SXSW 2025 — the annual tech, music, comedy, ...
Microsoft reportedly ramps up AI efforts to compete wit...
Microsoft is accelerating its push to compete with OpenAI, its longtime collabor...
Cursor in talks to raise at a $10B valuation as AI codi...
Investor interest in AI coding assistants is exploding. Anysphere, the developer...
Scale AI is being investigated by the US Department of ...
Scale AI is being investigated by the U.S. Department of Labor for compliance wi...
Anthropic’s Claude Code tool had a bug that ‘bricked’ s...
The problematic code changed file permissions that broke some systems, users say...