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Judge says FTC investigation into Media Matters ‘should alarm all Americans’

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-11-14 15:32:36

A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction blocking the Federal Trade Commission’s investigation into left-leaning advocacy group Media Matters. Back in 2023, Media Matters published research showing ads from major companies had appeared alongside antisemitic and other offensive content on Elon Musk-owned X. When major advertisers subsequently pulled back from the platform, X sued Media Matters. It also sued advertisers and advertiser groups over what it claimed was a “systematic ille

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Anthropic says some Claude models can now end ‘harmful or abusive’ conversations

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-11-14 15:50:05

Anthropic has announced new capabilities that will allow some of its newest, largest models to end conversations in what the company describes as “rare, extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions.” Strikingly, Anthropic says it’s doing this not to protect the human user, but rather the AI model itself. To be clear, the company isn’t claiming that its Claude AI models are sentient or can be harmed by their conversations with users. In its own words, Anthropic remains “hig

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Sen. Hawley to probe Meta after report finds its AI chatbots flirt with kids

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-11-15 10:38:40

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said he intends to investigate whether Meta’s generative AI products exploit, deceive, or harm children, after leaked internal documents showed the company’s chatbots were allowed to have “romantic” and “sensual” chats with children. “Is there anything – ANYTHING – Big Tech won’t do for a quick buck?” Hawley wrote in a post on X announcing the investigation. Hawley chairs the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, which he says will commence a prob

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TikTok’s new guidelines add subtle changes for LIVE creators, AI content, and more

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-15 15:17:48

TikTok is preparing an update to its Community Guidelines, which dictate the rules for participating on the social video platform as well as what standards the company uses to determine the videos that make it onto its For You feed. While the update largely rewrites the original text for simplicity’s sake, there are a few items that jump out in the new revision — notably how TikTok prioritizes its marketplace, how deeply it personalizes the experience per user, and a small change to the type of

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Trump wants to clean up the space industry’s red tape: Here’s who wins

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-11-15 20:09:09

During a press conference in late 2024, President Donald Trump vowed to “slash massive numbers of job-killing regulations” in his second term and pledged to eliminate 10 old rules for every new one. Now, he’s bringing that deregulation drive to commercial space, ordering federal agencies to streamline launch licensing, fast-track spaceport development, and clear out the Federal Aviation Administration’s industry advisory board. “Inefficient permitting processes discourage investment and innova

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Kyte, which billed itself as the ‘best competitor to Hertz,’ shuts down

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-11-15 20:29:06

Rental car startup Kyte has shut down nearly one year after slashing staff and exiting most of its cities in the United States. The company sold its customer list to Turo in July, and then turned right around and entered into a form of receivership in California, according to a notice that went out to Kyte creditors. Kyte fell behind on some of its loans earlier this year, according to the notice. That caused the company’s top lender to repossess and liquidate Kyte’s vehicle fleet. Kyte’s boar

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Ultrahuman acquires viO HealthTech to launch enhanced cycle and ovulation tracking

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-11-16 05:00:00

Smart ring maker Ultrahuman is acquiring women’s health technology company viO HealthTech to launch advanced cycle and ovulation tracking, the company announced on Friday. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Thanks to the acquisition, the company is launching a new plug-in for the Ultrahuman Ring AIR called “Cycle and Ovulation Pro.” The plug-in will allow users to accurately track their cycles, get fertility planning support with ovulation confirmation, and detect patterns like

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Meet the first batch of VCs set to judge Startup Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-11-16 15:00:00

From Dropbox to Cloudflare, Startup Battlefield alumni have redefined industries. Who will win $100,000 and the spotlight this year? Startup Battlefield 200 is the crown jewel of TechCrunch Disrupt — and this year’s competition promises to be unforgettable. From thousands of applicants, only the top 20 will take the Stage at Disrupt 2025 (October 27–29, San Francisco) to pitch their vision to panels of top-tier VCs in front of a live audience. Every contender is chasing game-changing impact — a

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Bluesky rolls out massive revamp to policies and Community Guidelines

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-18 15:49:58

Two years after launching, social network Bluesky is revising its Community Guidelines and other policies, and asking for feedback from its users on some of the changes. The startup, a competitor to X, Threads, and open networks like Mastodon, says its new policies are meant to offer improved clarity and more detail around its user safety procedures and the appeals process. Many of the changes are being driven by new global regulations, including the UK Online Safety Act (OSA), the EU Digital S

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The wait is almost over: The 2025 Startup Battlefield 200 list drops August 27

techcrunch.com Isabelle Johannessen 2025-11-18 15:56:46

Set your alarms. Bookmark this page. Refresh like your future depends on it. After reviewing thousands of groundbreaking applications from around the globe, TechCrunch is just days away from announcing the 2025 Startup Battlefield 200 — our handpicked cohort of the most promising early-stage startups set to take the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt this October 27-29. The 2025 Startup Battlefield 200 list will go live, right here, on Wednesday, August 27, at 9:00 a.m. PT. Whether you applied, refe

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Cohere hits a $6.8B valuation as investors AMD, Nvidia, and Salesforce double down

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-11-18 20:40:27

Cohere on Thursday announced that it had raised an oversubscribed $500 million round, bringing its valuation to $6.8 billion. This is up from the $5.5 billion valuation it landed a little over a year ago when it raised its previous round, also $500 million. Toronto-headquartered Cohere was one of the first breakout LLM model makers, founded in 2019 by co-founder Aidan Gomez, one of the authors of the “Attention is all You Need” paper that became the foundation of modern AI. But it has been a sl

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Apple’s blood oxygen monitoring returns to its latest Apple Watches

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-11-19 15:51:23

Apple announced on Thursday it’s introducing a redesigned Blood Oxygen feature for some Watch Series 8, Series 10, and Apple Watch Ultra. With this move, Apple is bringing back blood oxygen monitoring by tweaking the feature to get around the International Trade Commission’s (ITC) import ban. Blood oxygen data will be measured and calculated on the user’s paired iPhone, and results can be viewed in the Respiratory section of the Health app. This means users won’t be able to view the data on the

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Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of xAI, has announced his departure

news.ycombinator.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-11-20 04:51:33

Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of Elon Musk’s xAI startup, announced his departure from the company on Wednesday in a post on X. Babuschkin led engineering teams at xAI and helped build the startup into one of Silicon Valley’s leading AI model developers just a few years after it was founded. “Today was my last day at xAI, the company that I helped start with Elon Musk in 2023,” Babuschkin wrote in the post. “I still remember the day I first met Elon, we talked for hours about AI and what the fu

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NASA has sparked a race to develop the data pipeline to Mars

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-11-21 15:26:37

For decades, NASA built and flew its own relay orbiters and spacecraft to ferry valuable data back to Earth. Now the agency is shifting to buying connectivity as a service, much like it does for launch and astronaut transport. That pivot has sparked a race, with major contenders pitching ways to keep Mars missions online. What’s at stake isn’t a single contract: it’s the data pipe to Mars. This new approach, which will mix NASA assets and commercial infrastructure, would gradually replace the

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Monarch Tractors won’t be built by Foxconn after Ohio factory sale

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2025-11-21 15:29:45

Foxconn will no longer build electric tractors for California startup Monarch Tractor after the Taiwanese tech giant recently sold its Ohio factory to SoftBank. Monarch CEO Praveen Penmetsa confirmed the news in a LinkedIn comment Tuesday. He also said his company worked with Foxconn to “build up inventory” before the sale of the factory, noting his startup has “enough to meet customer demand for the next 12 months, along with ample spare parts.” “In the coming weeks, we will be sharing more a

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Anthropic nabs Humanloop team as competition for enterprise AI talent heats up

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-11-21 20:17:30

Anthropic has acquired the co-founders and most of the team behind Humanloop – a platform for prompt management, LLM evaluation, and observability – in a push to strengthen its enterprise strategy. The terms of the deal were not shared, but it appears to follow the acqui-hire playbook we’re increasingly seeing in the tech industry amid the war for AI talent. Humanloop’s three co-founders – CEO Raza Habib, CTO Peter Hayes, and CPO Jordan Burgess – have all joined Anthropic, alongside around a do

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NeoLogic wants to build more energy-efficient CPUs for AI data centers

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-11-22 15:00:00

When NeoLogic started building its more energy-efficient CPUs for AI servers, folks in the industry told its founders Avi Messica and Ziv Leshem that their idea wasn’t viable. “Most of the people that we have met say it’s impossible,” Messica told TechCrunch. “Some of them told us, at the time, that the innovation is impossible because you cannot innovate in logic synthesis. You can’t innovate in circuit design. It’s too mature.” Israel-based NeoLogic nevertheless set out to prove them wrong,

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Sam Altman, OpenAI will reportedly back a startup that takes on Musk’s Neuralink

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-11-23 00:30:20

Sam Altman is in the process of co-founding a new brain-to-computer interface startup called Merge Labs and raising funds for it with the capital possibly coming largely from OpenAI’s ventures team, unnamed sources told the Financial Times. The startup is expected to be valued at $850 million. A source familiar with the deal tells TechCrunch that talks are still early and OpenAI has not yet committed to participation, so terms could change. Merge Labs is also reportedly working with Alex Bla

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Perplexity offers to buy Chrome for billions more than it’s raised

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-11-24 10:14:08

In a moonshot move, AI search engine Perplexity has offered to buy Chrome from Google for $34.5 billion cash in an unsolicited offer, Reuters reported and Perplexity has confirmed to TechCrunch. Perplexity tells TC the terms of the offer include a commitment to keep Chrome’s underlying engine, Chromium, open source and continue to invest in it. Perplexity’s offer includes a promise to invest $3 billion into the open source project. Perplexity is also promising not to change the user defaults o

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Google vet raises $8M for Continua to bring AI agents to group chats

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2025-11-24 10:15:01

In early 2023, David Petrou, a distinguished engineer and a founding member of both Google Goggles and Google Glass, made a surprising move. After more than 17 years at the company, he departed to launch his own startup. “I was seeing how fast technology was changing, and I felt there are certain ideas that are best explored in the context of a startup,” Petrou told TechCrunch. His ultimate idea was to build Continua, a consumer-facing company that uses AI agents to enhance collaboration and i

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Pronto’s 10-minute house-help pitch sparked a 3.6x valuation jump in just 90 days

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-11-23 20:30:00

In 2025, the average urban Indian no longer needs to wait very long for much (except at government offices and in traffic): They simply have to order what they need from an app, and it’ll be delivered within minutes. The explosion of quick-commerce in the country has meant that millions of Indians are getting increasingly used to not having to wait for deliveries, or step out of their homes, as startups vie to make almost everything, from food and groceries to smartphones and gaming consoles, av

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In a world of vibe coding startups, Uno Platform is targeting enterprise developers

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-11-24 15:00:00

Amid the rise of new AI-powered low code developer tools aimed at hobbyists and non-technical folks, Uno Platform is doubling down on enterprise developers instead. Montreal-based Uno Platform offers a suite of enterprise-grade tools for developers to build cross-platform .NET applications that can be supported on Android, Apple, Linux, and Windows systems. Users code an application once and Uno Platform makes it easy to ship other types of applications from the existing codebase. “If you’re c

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Anduril opens solid rocket motor factory amidst ongoing chemical chokepoint

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-11-24 20:15:42

Anduril has officially brought its high-volume solid rocket motor (SRM) factory online in Mississippi as it races to fulfill America’s demand for space and defense missions and challenge a decades-long duopoly between two major defense contractors. The Mississippi factory will be able to produce 6,000 tactical motors a year by the end of 2026, enough volume to position Anduril as the United States’ “third” SRM supplier. More than 700 motors have already passed static test firing. These motors a

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Pronto’s 10-minute house help pitch sparked a 3.6x valuation jump in just 90 days

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-11-25 20:30:00

In 2025, the average urban Indian no longer needs to wait very long for much (except at government offices and in traffic): They simply have to order what they need from an app, and it’ll be delivered within minutes. The explosion of quick-commerce in the country has meant that millions of Indians are getting increasingly used to not having to wait for deliveries, or step out of their homes, as startups vie to make almost everything, from food and groceries to smartphones and gaming consoles, av

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US government seized $1M from Russian ransomware gang

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-11-26 20:04:12

The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Monday it has seized the servers and $1 million in bitcoin from the prolific Russian ransomware gang behind the BlackSuit and Royal malware. According to the press release, a coalition of global law enforcement agencies, including from the U.S., Canada, Germany, Ireland, France, U.K., and others, seized four servers and nine domains on July 24. In addition, authorities also seized around $1 million in cryptocurrency. BlackSuit and Royal are two diffe

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Ocean’s new app brings inbox triage, tasks, and invites to Gmail users

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-26 23:46:50

A new personal productivity app called Ocean is launching to help you triage your overloaded inbox, take action on your emails by turning them into tasks, and share your availability for meetings with others, all in one app. Today, Gmail so heavily dominates the email market that few challengers emerge. Understanding this, Ocean made the decision to work with Gmail, not compete against it. As a third-party client, gaining a footing in the market can be difficult, but successful email apps have

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Ocean’s new app brings inbox triage, tasks and invites to Gmail users

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-11-27 05:46:50

A new personal productivity app called Ocean is launching to help you triage your overloaded inbox, take action on your emails by turning them into tasks, and share your availability for meetings with others, all in one app. Today, Gmail so heavily dominates the email market that few challengers emerge. Understanding this, Ocean made the decision to work with Gmail, not compete against it. As a third-party client, gaining a footing in the market can be difficult, but successful email apps have

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Electronic Arts blocks more than 300,000 attempts to cheat after launching Battlefield 6 beta

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-11-27 10:01:30

Games giant Electronic Arts launched an open beta over the weekend for its upcoming first-person shooter Battlefield 6 and — almost immediately — the game was swamped with cheaters. Soon after the game’s launch, countless players complained online about encountering cheaters. In response, a member of Electronic Arts’ anti-cheat team, who goes by AC, wrote in an official forum that the company saw players report 104,000 “instances of potential cheaters” over the first two days of the game’s bein

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Nvidia unveils new Cosmos world models, infra for robotics and physical uses

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-11-27 15:00:00

Nvidia on Monday unveiled a set of new world AI models, libraries, and other infrastructure for robotics developers, most notable of which is Cosmos Reason, a 7-billion-parameter “reasoning” vision language model for physical AI applications and robots. Also joining the existing batch of Cosmos world models are Cosmos Transfer-2, which can accelerate synthetic data generation from 3D simulation scenes or spatial control inputs, and a distilled version of Cosmos Transfers that is more optimized

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Ford throws out Henry Ford’s assembly line to make low-cost EVs in America

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-11-27 20:31:06

Ford said Monday it will invest $2 billion to transform its Louisville Assembly Plant into a factory capable of making a new generation of affordable EVs, starting with a mid-sized pickup truck with a base price of $30,000 that is slated to launch in 2027. This is not a standard factory upgrade. To reduce the cost of manufacturing, Ford has upended the moving assembly line system launched by its founder Henry Ford more than 112 years ago. The automaker’s willingness to change the century-old s

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Judge says FTC investigation into Media Matters ‘should alarm all Americans’

Anthropic says some Claude models can now end ‘harmful or abusive’ conversations

Sen. Hawley to probe Meta after report finds its AI chatbots flirt with kids

TikTok’s new guidelines add subtle changes for LIVE creators, AI content, and more

Trump wants to clean up the space industry’s red tape: Here’s who wins

Kyte, which billed itself as the ‘best competitor to Hertz,’ shuts down

Ultrahuman acquires viO HealthTech to launch enhanced cycle and ovulation tracking

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Bluesky rolls out massive revamp to policies and Community Guidelines

The wait is almost over: The 2025 Startup Battlefield 200 list drops August 27

Cohere hits a $6.8B valuation as investors AMD, Nvidia, and Salesforce double down

Apple’s blood oxygen monitoring returns to its latest Apple Watches

Igor Babuschkin, a co-founder of xAI, has announced his departure

NASA has sparked a race to develop the data pipeline to Mars

Monarch Tractors won’t be built by Foxconn after Ohio factory sale

Anthropic nabs Humanloop team as competition for enterprise AI talent heats up

NeoLogic wants to build more energy-efficient CPUs for AI data centers

Sam Altman, OpenAI will reportedly back a startup that takes on Musk’s Neuralink

Perplexity offers to buy Chrome for billions more than it’s raised

Google vet raises $8M for Continua to bring AI agents to group chats

Pronto’s 10-minute house-help pitch sparked a 3.6x valuation jump in just 90 days

In a world of vibe coding startups, Uno Platform is targeting enterprise developers

Anduril opens solid rocket motor factory amidst ongoing chemical chokepoint

Pronto’s 10-minute house help pitch sparked a 3.6x valuation jump in just 90 days

US government seized $1M from Russian ransomware gang

Ocean’s new app brings inbox triage, tasks, and invites to Gmail users

Ocean’s new app brings inbox triage, tasks and invites to Gmail users

Electronic Arts blocks more than 300,000 attempts to cheat after launching Battlefield 6 beta

Nvidia unveils new Cosmos world models, infra for robotics and physical uses

Ford throws out Henry Ford’s assembly line to make low-cost EVs in America

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