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The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak.

Consumer AI apps need to stop making users learn their product architecture.

Was Greg Brockman the right executive all along?

The report, which spans several discrete cybersecurity compromises, is the most complete accounting of the incident to date.

Flipboard is acquiring Bluesky feed-building startup Graze, bringing its privacy-friendly ad technology and creator monetization tools into Flipboard’s growing open social web ecosystem.

The company won't say if medical devices are affected or if any customer data was exfiltrated.

The Justice Department said that the domain seizures made the botnet and its command and control servers "inoperable," as the domains were hardcoded into the botnet's code and were critical for the botnet's communication and essential operations.

The firm backs companies building in the “female economy,” or the markets where women drive demand — women’s health, digital commerce, and AI tools.

The event is expected to be a notable one, as Apple is rumored to unveil its long-awaited foldable iPhone. It'll also be the first Apple event with John Ternus as CEO, who is scheduled to take the reins of the tech giant from Tim Cook on September 1.

One of the most notable changes is that Meta plans to implement a daily two-hour time limit for teens that can only be disabled with parental permission.

Vibe-coding darling Lovable just raised $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, roughly doubling its worth in eight months. But Lovable isn’t the only Stockholm startup putting up huge numbers lately — legal AI company Legora and health tech startup Neko Health are right there with it. On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Dominic-Madori Davis is joined by Sophia Bendz, a partner at Cherry Ventures and longtime fixture of Europe’s startup […]

Particle’s new podcast intelligence platform transcribes and analyzes more than 130,000 podcasts, making their conversations searchable on the web and accessible to AI agents through an API and MCP.

Perceptron offers an AI model that it says can help machines navigate the world while also providing in-depth visual intelligence.

Ring says users can still opt for end-to-end encryption.

Gates is mostly in the Responsible AI camp, but there are a few ideas in here we hadn't heard before.

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