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India is starting to pay for apps, not just download them

Fresh off its Wiz payout, Index Ventures raises $2B across three funds

VC-backed startups commit more fraud, and researchers think they know why

Florida plans to build air taxi pads using $200M intended for EV chargers

Spotify launches ‘User notes’ to let users add memories to songs

Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine

US government bans new foreign-made humanoids, robot dogs, and solar inverters, citing risks to national security

Waymo, robotaxi operators face fresh scrutiny over emergency response failures

HBO Max embraces vertical video with a new ‘Shorts’ feed

Antares raises $470M to build nuclear reactors for the US military

Europe got its own TBPN-style live show, and everyone’s angling for a guest spot

Are brain waves the next unlock for physical AI?

Can Apple make smart glasses that aren’t a constant privacy threat?

Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI

Monday.com is the latest tech company to blame AI for layoffs — here are 20 others

Warner Bros. lawsuit accuses Amazon of illegally poaching executives

The hacker who humiliated spyware makers and was never caught

Elon Musk’s Boring Company reportedly raising funding at a $20 billion valuation

Volkswagen engineers charged with insider trading tied to Rivian joint venture

US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a ‘duress’ password during border search

Meta drops out of a major clean energy pact as its natural gas buildout accelerates

AegisAI, founded by former Google security execs, lands $36M to stop AI-driven spear phishing

Monday.com lays off hundreds to focus on AI

Einride bets $38M on EV charging as it scales electric trucking

Tesla spins up robotaxi pilots in Orlando and Tampa ahead of Q2 earnings

Natural raises $30M to reinvent payments for AI agents — and take on Stripe

StrictlyVC returns to New York City September 10 to celebrate a huge year for the city’s startup community

Netflix paid $587M for Ben Affleck’s AI filmmaking startup

What to watch for after Jensen Huang’s Japan visit

Can an Apple lawsuit derail OpenAI’s hardware plans?

‘Odyssey’ director Christopher Nolan calls AI an obvious ‘Trojan horse’

Nonprofit Current AI is racing to build the World Wide Web of AI, free for all

Kimi: Threat or menace?

Apple and Google ordered to purge ‘nudify’ apps from App Stores

Nuclear startup Valar Atomics in talks to raise new funding at $6B valuation

How Apple’s big lawsuit could disrupt OpenAI’s IPO plans

Coca-Cola suspended production at its Fairlife dairy after a ransomware attack

Founders Fund hires former OpenAI exec Ryan Beiermeister (and not because of her Mafia skills)

Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos

Roblox launches an AI-powered game creation feature in its mobile app

Phone maker OnePlus reportedly plans to wind down US and Europe operations

Google’s biggest clean power project is 40 miles north of xAI’s unpermitted gas power plant

Inside Ode with Anthropic, the startup betting AI services are the future of enterprise

The founder of Hinge raised $18M to build a new AI dating service, Overtone

Lucid Motors denies report it’s considering bankruptcy

DeepMind CEO calls for an independent standards body to regulate frontier AI

Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation

Satya Nadella has issued a shocking warning to companies using AI

Apple says former employee exploited ‘rare’ bug to download confidential files after leaving for OpenAI

The wildest allegations in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI

LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire, citing ‘serious concerns’ over civil liberties and privacy

Uber’s robotaxi lobbying effort puts it on a collision course with Waymo

TechCrunch Mobility: A robotaxi ultimatum

Reed Jobs would rather talk about curing cancer than his last name

This slushie machine was a lifesaver during NYC’s heat wave

Bluesky’s interim CEO, Toni Schneider, drops the ‘interim’

Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft

Hugging Face’s CEO on why companies are done renting their AI

Google will now disclose which ads are made with AI

How to stop Meta’s AI image generator from using your Instagram photos

Elon Musk says X will send DMs when posts you’ve engaged with are corrected

Why this CEO thinks video games make better training data than the internet

Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models

Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images

Figma acquires team behind a vibe coding app

Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch on the fight to split off models from agents

Every major tech layoff in 2026 that has name-checked AI

Amazon competitor Bookshop.org says Kobo e-reader support will happen this year after all

This humanoid robotics company is going public, but its CEO isn’t promising a robot in your home anytime soon

Uber’s European expansion plans may have hit a speed bump

Trump memecoin investors lost $3.8 billion, analysis finds

Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk

Almost 90 new unicorns have been minted so far this year — here they are

New Google commercial imagines a Declaration of Independence written with help from AI

Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage

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

The only AI glossary you’ll need this year

The browser wars aren’t about search anymore — here are the best alternatives to Chrome and Safari

The Dune keypad device can be your meeting controller and more

Travel app Hopper to pay $35M in FTC settlement over ‘unfairly’ charging hidden fees

Anthropic is discussing a new custom chip with Samsung

Ashton Kutcher leaving Sound Ventures to launch new VC firm with Morgan Beller

Cloudflare’s new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers’ content