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Netflix's co-CEO reportedly told Trump, "I took your advice." from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/NHlECGt

Here's everything we know about the biggest AI infrastructure projects, including major spending from Meta, Oracle, Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/QF41nz9

"We don't need it, we don't want it, and will not do business with them again," the president wrote in the post. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/URalhg2

In his lawsuit against OpenAI, Musk touted xAI safety compared with ChatGPT. A few months later, xAI's Grok flooded X with nonconsensual nude images. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/WIScwo6

Anthropic and the Pentagon are clashing over AI use in autonomous weapons and surveillance, raising high-stakes questions about national security, corporate control, and who sets the rules for military AI. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/52nBNMW

OpenAI shared the new numbers as part of its announcement that it has raised $110 billion in private funding. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/icl9oOQ

IDC says phone makers will ship only 1.12 billion smartphones as compared to 1.26 billion last year. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/oIXeupQ

Mistral AI lands a partnership with Accenture, the consultant that has also recently announced partnerships with rivals OpenAI and Anthropic. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/WSZlwQO

Users who are part of the test can type "DM me" or "Message me" in a post or reply to automatically generate a hyperlink that invites others to start a private conversation with them. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/0BTciYD

Public backlash over the data center boom is leading to a variety of draconian policies—including bans on new construction. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/EG1XiLM

Gemini on Android will be able to automate tasks involving rideshare requests, or grocery or food delivery, says Google. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/sJgipdb

Spotify and Liquid Death launched what might be the wildest product of the year: a speaker shaped like a urn. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/Kzb8kNc

Earlier this month, OpenAI launched a new platform called OpenAI Frontier for enterprises to build and manage agents, but OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap said that businesses haven’t yet seen AI adoption at scale. “One of the interesting things and some of the inspiration for the work we’ve been doing lately around OpenAI Frontier is we […] from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/zmBXIGE

While some cities are moving to end their contracts with Flock over its links to ICE, others are taking matters into their own hands. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/EvekDVR

The company open-sourced an 8 billion parameter LLM, Steerling-8B, trained with a new architecture designed to make its actions easily interpretable. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/NUAfJH5

On the latest episode of Equity, we debated what’s next for the creator economy, and whether there will be any room for the next generation of creators to stand out. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/gD8Lz0n

"The number one thing is to get out of your head this ideal that gets passed around in the self-help world: 'go get a mentor,' and everyone runs out and cold calls someone that's ridiculously too high and unachievable, and it doesn't work." from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/cODX8jt

Netflix board member Susan Rice had predicted that corporations that “take a knee” to Trump will be “held accountable” when Democrats return to power. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/FXfuKlr

A list of some of the alternative app stores iPhone users in the EU can try today.  from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/9SuKfCk

"It also takes a lot of energy to train a human." from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/dDGutRm

Wikipedia editors have decided to remove all links to Archive.today, a web archiving service that they said has been linked to more than 695,000 times across the online encyclopedia. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/QEa27AM

Is Microsoft's gaming division doubling down on AI? from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/d3Z7NQU

The startup, founded by accountants who worked at Flexport, Miro, Hopin and Thrive Global, automates the difficulties of prepping financial statements. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/OiuHwWc

"The grounds for relief that Tesla relies upon are virtually the same as those Tesla put forth previously during the course of trial" from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/j6wDT3I

Elon Musk's company town already has a volunteer fire department, and is forming a Starbase Police Department. Now it wants its own court, too. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/dGbsjvy

A small group of users in the U.S. will start to see search results that include interactive product carousels with pricing, images, and direct where-to-buy links. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/IwtFroC

The smartphone is available for preorder now with shipments starting March 5.  It comes in Lavender, Berry, Fog, and Obsidian. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/fZBJHcL

Thrive Capital just raised $10 billion for its new fund-- nearly double the size of its last fund. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/HTkDd7V

The new project, called Material Scale, will initially focus on climate tech startups in the apparel industry. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/sEjdFIp

Anthropic has released a new version of its mid-size Sonnet model, keeping pace with the company's four-month update cycle. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/uwp1XnW

Under the partnership, Infosys plans to integrate Anthropic's Claude models into its Topaz AI platform to build so-called "agentic" systems. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/p0FSKvW

Cohere's Tiny Aya models support over 70 langauges from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/3dCnJP2

According to a16z, it has eyes around the world in order to spot companies as early as local funds might. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/wrTLP6z

The longtime host of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” is suing Google, alleging that the male podcast voice in the company’s NotebookLM tool is based on him. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/jaWHPuM

The apparent issue: whether Claude can be used for mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/D4zdPbH

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says India has the largest number of student users of ChatGPT worldwide. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/Uwb4WJu

As much of Silicon Valley chases mega-rounds and buzzy AI deals, Stacy Brown-Philpot is running Cherryrock Capital like a throwback to venture capital's earlier days from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/ZDjEgXB

This week, Alta unveiled its first integration collaboration, teaming up with Public School, a storied New York City brand. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/cTzpi6R

Designer Kate Barton teams up with Fiducia AI and IBM for a NYFW presentation. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/H8NvR6l

AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent the past few weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI is facing its own shakeups, from the disbanding of its mission alignment team to the firing of a policy exec who opposed its “adult mode” feature.  Watch as TechCrunch’s Equity podcast hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony […] from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/Xy3IpFb

The Japanese sex toy maker said a hacker broke into an employee's inbox and stole customer names, email addresses, and correspondence, including order details and customer service inquiries. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/d0hmjEf

The financial regulator revealed in a response to a TechCrunch records request that the probe was closed in September 2025. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/t2lbV8M

WP Engine claims Automattic was going to target more hosting companies with royalty fees. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/VEL8Xni

CEO Chris Urmson called it a “superhuman” moment, adding that Aurora’s trucks can now carry freight 1,000 miles in 15 hours — faster than what a human driver can legally accomplish. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/W812ACc

Upscrolled, a social network that surged in the wake of the U.S. TikTok deal, has seen an uptick in harmful content, including user names and hashtags that contain racial slurs. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/56tpoQF

The tech giant handed over the personal information of a journalist and student who attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024. This is the latest example of ICE using its controversial subpoena powers to target people critical of the Trump administration. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/wLWCDZ1

Rivian, along with other automakers, has been under pressure to make the manual door releases easier to access. The new R2 SUV does that — here's how. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/1yEvXfQ

Facebook's new AI features let users animate their profile pics, restyle their Stories and Memories, and add backgrounds to text posts. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/tNir4px

The company raised $13 billion in equity funding just five months ago, but intense competition between frontier labs and the ongoing cost of compute have made them eager to raise as quickly as possible. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/aBJwP6s

Gather AI has closed funding from former Salesforce CEO's firm Smith Point Capital. Its warehouse AI system doesn't just scan. It seeks out specific data. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/kIw0lsY

After a better-than-expected opening weekend in theaters, box office for Amazon’s “Melania”fell 67%. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/B0dQCmf

But this is still a bad idea. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/plAveUF

India is adjusting startup rules to help more of its deep tech startups with funding and long-term success. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/PkghLAb

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan is expected to be there. Apple's Tim Cook, too. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/zG53eCv

Antetokounmpo is the first NBA player to directly invest in Kalshi. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/dZA23yQ

Although the bill’s prospects are uncertain, New York is at least the sixth state to consider pausing construction of new data centers. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/bXwGOIJ

Elon Musk has merged SpaceX and xAI, creating what might be the blueprint for a new Silicon Valley power structure. With his $800 billion net worth already rivaling historic conglomerate GE’s peak market cap, and Musk being vocal about his view that “tech victory is decided by velocity of innovation,” the question isn’t whether a personal conglomerate can be built, but rather how far Musk himself is […] from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/NcgTxoV

The two-line letter to the CIA's director is the latest warning in recent years from a long-serving Democratic senator with knowledge of secret government programs and intelligence operations. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/H0fMq6U

We’re starting to see the idea of Musk-owned orbital AI data clusters cohere into an actual plan. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/CvgRrpG

The newest version of Anthropic's model is designed to broaden its appeal. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/ECYrw1g

Andreessen Horowitz just raised a whopping ⁠new $15 billion in funding⁠. And a $1.7 billion chunk of that is going to its ⁠infrastructure team⁠, the one responsible for some of its biggest, most prominent AI investments including Black Forrest Labs, Cursor, OpenAI, ⁠ElevenLabs⁠, Ideogram, ⁠Fal⁠ and dozens of others.   A16z ⁠general partner with the infra team Jennifer Li⁠ (who oversees such investments as ElevenLabs – just valued at $11 billion); Ideagram and Fal, has a clear thesis on where the team is looking […] from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/Wd12SN8

Tinder is testing AI recommendations and insight from your Camera Roll for better matches. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/ACYgOZM

The startup has raised more than $500 million, to date, from investors to build a massive, distributed power plant supported by residential batteries. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/UkmFieM

The prolific cybercrime group ShinyHunters took responsibility for hacking Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, and published the stolen data on its extortion website. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/iUfjWhz

Watch Club will house microdramas and fan discussions in the same app, creating a fandom-focused social media experience. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/iv4rUFf

The developer of the popular text editor Notepad++ said hackers associated with the Chinese government hijacked its software update mechanism to deliver tainted software to users for months. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/UmgxbRC

TikTok says it finally solved all issues related to outages caused by snowstorm from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/ax5CSXq

How many of the companies with recent layoffs are just using AI as an excuse? from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/vF802Xk

For years, Tether's CEO avoided the United States, watching from offshore as regulators circled and prosecutors investigated. Those days are over. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/sKy6dcF

While the documentary is exceeding box office expectations, it's unlikely to make a profit in theaters. from TechCrunch https://ift.tt/Tw7FdBL