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Design and development shop the Iconfactory is selling some apps — and AI is partially to blame

Palo Alto Networks agrees to buy CyberArk for $25 billion

Zuckerberg signals Meta won’t open source all of its ‘superintelligence’ AI models

Nvidia AI chip challenger Groq said to be nearing new fundraising at $6B valuation 

Luma and Runway expect robotics to eventually be a big revenue driver for them

Anthropic reportedly nears $170B valuation with potential $5B round

SOSV bets plasma will change everything from semiconductors to spacecraft

Amazon disputes report that it raised prices of popular items since Trump took office

Why Dispo’s co-founder made the leap from social media to steelmaking

Flights grounded as Russia’s largest airline Aeroflot hacked and systems ‘destroyed’

‘Wizard of Oz’ blown up by AI for giant Sphere screen

Itch.io is the latest marketplace to crack down on adult games

DOGE has built an AI tool to slash federal regulations

Astronomer winks at viral notoriety with ‘temporary spokesperson’ Gwyneth Paltrow

Index Ventures’ Jahanvi Sardana shares the truth about TAM and what founders should focus on instead

Meta names Shengjia Zhao as chief scientist of AI superintelligence unit

AI referrals to top websites were up 357% year-over-year in June, reaching 1.13B

X to test using Community Notes to find the posts everyone likes

Chime backer Lauren Kolodny bets on AI to revolutionize estate processing

AI companions: A threat to love, or an evolution of it?

Tesla profits pulled down by falling EV sales and regulatory credits

Trump’s AI Action Plan aims to block chip exports to China but lacks key details

Former Y Combinator, a16z experts hold invite-only summit for founders

OpenAI agreed to pay Oracle $30B a year for data center services

Rocket Lab’s first hurdle to flying its new rocket is getting it to the pad

Threads adds improved content performance metrics for creators

Hackers exploiting SharePoint zero-day seen targeting government agencies

72% of US teens have used AI companions, study finds

Figma’s Dylan Field will cash out about $60M in IPO, with Index, Kleiner, Greylock, Sequoia all selling, too

Dia launches a skill gallery, Perplexity to add tasks to Comet

Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX confirms $44 million stolen during hack

New zero-day bug in Microsoft SharePoint under widespread attack

Former Tesla president discloses the secret to scaling a company

Tesla loses its charm for India’s loyalists — even as Musk finally delivers

Microsoft says it will no longer use engineers in China for Department of Defense work

Astronomer CEO resigns following Coldplay concert scandal

David Sacks and the blurred lines of government service

What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor

A surveillance vendor was caught exploiting a new SS7 attack to track people’s phone locations

CaaStle founder charged with fraud, turns herself in

Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code – without telling users

Microsoft is buying tons of carbon removal from Xprize startup Vaulted Deep

Hadrian raises $260M to build out automated factories for space and defense parts

After raising over $3M, popular VC-backed beauty brand Ami Colé is shuttering

India eyes global quantum computer push — and QpiAI is its chosen vehicle

Scale AI lays off 14% of staff, largely in data labeling business

GM teams up with Redwood Materials to power data centers with EV batteries

A former OpenAI engineer describes what it’s really like to work there

Meta fixes bug that could leak users’ AI prompts and generated content

AV startup Pronto.ai acquires off-road autonomous vehicle rival SafeAI

Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is worth $12B in seed round

As the browser wars heat up, here are the hottest alternatives to Chrome and Safari in 2025

Elon Musk’s Grok is making AI companions, including a goth anime girl

Malaysia will require trade permits for U.S. AI chips

Discord’s virtual reward, ‘Orbs,’ launches out of beta

Jack Dorsey’s latest app tracks sun exposure

Meta acquires voice startup Play AI

Study warns of ‘significant risks’ in using AI therapy chatbots

The countdown’s almost over: 2 days until TechCrunch All Stage 2025 kicks off in Boston

A United Nations research institute created an AI refugee avatar

Marc Andreessen reportedly told group chat that universities will ‘pay the price’ for DEI

Week in Review: X CEO Linda Yaccarino steps down

Sarah Smith launches $16M fund, says AI can ‘unlock’ so much for solo GPs like herself

Goldman Sachs is testing viral AI agent Devin as a ‘new employee’

Belkin ends support for most Wemo devices and its Wemo app

Mockly made a fake DM generator that’s actually user-friendly

5 days until TechCrunch All Stage — save up to $475 before prices rise

Neobank Revolut seeks $65B valuation, a year after its $45B deal

X’s ad business improved under departing CEO Linda Yaccarino, but it’s still tough times ahead

Jack Dorsey says his ‘secure’ new Bitchat app has not been tested for security

SpaceX in talks to raise new funding at $400B valuation

Activision took down Call of Duty game after PC players hacked, says source

Gmail’s new ‘Manage subscriptions’ tool will help declutter your inbox

iOS 26 beta 3 dials back Liquid Glass

Tennis players criticize AI technology used by Wimbledon

Apple appeals EU’s €500M fine over App Store payment restraints

‘Improved’ Grok criticizes Democrats and Hollywood’s ‘Jewish executives’

X blocks Reuters accounts in India

Researchers seek to influence peer review with hidden AI prompts

How Brex is keeping up with AI by embracing the ‘messiness’

Ask not for whom the Louvre of Bluesky tolls, it tolls for thee

Google faces EU antitrust complaint over AI Overviews

Ready-made stem cell therapies for pets could be coming

Microsoft is closing its local operations in Pakistan

TechCrunch All Stage brings back early launch prices for a limited time

Final GOP bill kneecaps renewables and hydrogen but lifts nuclear and geothermal

Not everyone is thrilled with Threads’ DMs

ChatGPT referrals to news sites are growing, but not enough to offset search declines

Nothing releases its first over-the-ear headphones, the $299 Headphone (1)

Nothing releases their first over-the-ear headphones