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The Next Two Weeks Could Redefine Tech

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-13 20:00:52

There’s always something at risk when it comes to investing. But right now, it is definitely smart to keep your eyes open for major market disturbances. With the risk-reward balance in the U.S. equities market stabilizing, Wall Street has entered a pivotal stretch over the next 14 trading sessions that may determine its near-term direction. In a span often defined by uncertainty, key economic data and Fed policy will weigh heavily on investor sentiment. No sector is more vulnerable than tech.

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Depot (YC W23) Is Hiring a Solutions Engineer (Remote US and Canada)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-14 07:00:27

Depot is growing rapidly and reinventing the software build space, so we are now looking for our first dedicated Solutions Engineer to bridge the gap between our innovative technology and the developers who need it most. This is a rare opportunity for an experienced developer who wants to help peers make dramatic gains in their day-to-day jobs, and ultimately for their organizations. An ideal candidate would be someone who is already a Depot user and fan who wants to find a new role in a fast

Topics: build customer depot performance technical

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Scale AI is suing a former employee and rival Mercor, alleging they tried to steal its biggest customers

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-10-14 07:21:30

Scale AI, which helps tech companies prepare data to train their AI models, filed a lawsuit against one of its former sales employees and its rival Mercor on Wednesday. The suit claims the employee, who was hired by Mercor, “stole more than 100 confidential documents concerning Scale’s customer strategies and other proprietary information,” according to a copy seen by TechCrunch. Scale is suing Mercor for misappropriation of trade secrets and is suing the former employee, Eugene Ling, for breac

Topics: customer mercor scale suit techcrunch

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These psychological tricks can get LLMs to respond to “forbidden” prompts

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-14 15:32:12

If you were trying to learn how to get other people to do what you want, you might use some of the techniques found in a book like Influence: The Power of Persuasion. Now, a pre-print study out of the University of Pennsylvania suggests that those same psychological persuasion techniques can frequently "convince" some LLMs to do things that go against their system prompts. The size of the persuasion effects shown in "Call Me A Jerk: Persuading AI to Comply with Objectionable Requests" suggests

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The Tech Industry Has a Dirty Secret: The More People Learn About AI, the Less They Trust It

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-14 18:04:04

Researchers have found that trust in artificial intelligence falls among people as they become more AI literate — a damning revelation that highlights persistent skepticism in the tech. AI companies continue to paint the tech as a mesmerizing, revolutionary inflection point for humanity that justifies enormous capital expenditures to run wildly resource-intensive AI models. But when real-life users become more familiar with the tech — realizing that, at their core, products like ChatGPT are wo

Topics: ai literacy people tech use

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Google brings Material 3 Expressive to Pixel 6 and newer devices, along with other features

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-10-14 19:00:00

Google announced on Wednesday that it’s bringing a slew of new features to the Android ecosystem and Pixel devices. The tech giant is introducing Material 3 Expressive to Pixel phones, Adaptive Audio for the Pixel Buds Pro 2, on-wrist navigation for the Pixel Watch, new AI writing tools in Gboard, enhanced audio sharing capabilities, the ability to create custom Android bots, and more. Starting Wednesday, Material 3 Expressive is coming to Pixel 6 and newer devices, as well as Pixel Tablet. Goo

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Google avoids breakup, but has to give up exclusive search deals in antitrust trial

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-10-14 12:45:20

Google will not be forced to break up its search business, but a federal judge has tentatively ordered other changes to the tech giant’s business practices to keep it from further anticompetitive behavior. U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta outlined remedies on Tuesday that would bar Google from entering or maintaining exclusive deals that tie the distribution of Search, Chrome, Google Assistant, or Gemini to other apps or revenue arrangements. For example, Google wouldn’t be able to condi

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The Download: sustainable architecture, and DeepSeek’s success

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-10-15 09:10:00

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Google won’t be forced to sell Chrome after all A federal judge has instead ruled it has to share search data with its rivals. (Politico) + He also barred Google from making deals to make Chrome the default search engine on people’s phones. (The Register) + The company’s critics feel the ruling doesn’t go far enough. (The Verge) 2 OpenAI is adding emotional guardrail

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3 days left to lock in your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-10-15 11:30:00

Time is running out to showcase your startup in front of the most influential eyes in tech. In just 3 days, the exhibitor table deadline closes for TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 in San Francisco. And with only 10 tables still available (or fewer by the time you read this), every minute matters. If you’ve been on the fence, consider this your nudge. Disrupt 2025 isn’t just another conference. It’s the beating heart of the startup world — where founders launch, investors scout, and media take notice.

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Someone ordered 18,000 cups of water at an AI drive-thru - now fast food chains are reconsidering

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-10-15 19:34:00

Matt Cardy/Contributor/Getty Images News via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Fast-food chains are experimenting with AI in drive-thrus. Previous gen AI order-takers failed. AI voice tech is playing a larger role in customer service. Fast-food restaurants like Taco Bell and McDonald's tried to integrate AI into their daily operations, but rethought their decisions when customers complained. According to the Wall Street Journal, custom

Topics: ai customers mcdonald technology voice

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Google avoids break up, but has to give up exclusive search deals in antitrust trial

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-10-16 14:45:20

Google will not be forced to break up its search business, but a federal judge has tentatively ordered other changes to the tech giant’s business practices to keep it from further anticompetitive behavior. U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta outlined remedies on Tuesday that would bar Google from entering or maintaining exclusive deals that tie the distribution of Search, Chrome, Google Assistant, or Gemini to other apps or revenue arrangements. For example, Google wouldn’t be able to condi

Topics: google judge mehta search tech

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EU Gets Cold Feet Over Google Fine, Fears Potential Trump Backlash

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-10-16 19:00:58

The European Union has put plans to fine Google on hold. The commission in charge of doling out punishment for digital infractions is reportedly worried that fining the U.S. tech giant for allegedly abusing its dominance in online advertising could provoke U.S. President Donald Trump. Bloomberg and Reuters reported, citing unnamed sources, that E.U. officials had planned to announce the antitrust sanction on Monday; however, that deadline came and went without an announcement. The Commission h

Topics: commission digital google tech trump

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Google avoids break up, faces new oversight in search antitrust trial

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-10-16 19:45:20

Google will not be forced to break up its search business, but a federal judge has tentatively ordered other changes to the tech giant’s business practices to keep it from further anticompetitive behavior. U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta outlined remedies on Tuesday that would bar Google from entering or maintaining exclusive deals that tie the distribution of Search, Chrome, Google Assistant, or Gemini to other apps or revenue arrangements. For example, Google wouldn’t be able to condi

Topics: disrupt google mehta search tech

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US and Indian VCs just formed a $1B+ alliance to fund India’s deep tech startups

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-10-16 22:30:00

Eight U.S. and Indian venture capital and private equity firms — including storied investors Accel, Blume Ventures, Celesta Capital, and Premji Invest — have formed an unusual coalition to back India’s deep tech startups, pledging more than $1 billion over the next decade to strengthen U.S.-India tech ties. The alliance addresses longstanding funding concerns. In April, Indian Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal drew criticism after slamming domestic startups for focusing on food delivery instead of

Topics: alliance capital india indian tech

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ICE reactivates contract with spyware maker Paragon

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-10-17 11:11:25

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) signed a contract last year with Israeli spyware maker Paragon worth $2 million. Shortly after, the Biden administration put the contract under review, issuing a “stop work order,” to determine whether the contract complied with an executive order on commercial spyware, which restricts U.S. government agencies from using spyware that could violate human rights or target Americans abroad. Almost a year later, when it looked like the contract would

Topics: contract disrupt paragon spyware techcrunch

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Kapa.ai (YC S23) is hiring research and software engineers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-18 13:01:01

Why you should join kapa.ai We make it easy for technical companies to build AI assistants. Companies like Docker, Grafana and Mixpanel deploy kapa in the following ways: As chat interface on their public documentation to answer developer questions. As first line of defense on their support forms to reduce tickets. As internal assistant for their GTM teams to navigate their own complex product. We leverage companies existing technical knowledge sources including documentation, tutorials, fo

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Indian grocery startup Citymall raises $47M to challenge ultra-fast delivery giants

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-10-18 10:30:00

Indian e-commerce startup Citymall, which focuses on budget-focused grocery delivery for tier 2 and tier 3 towns, said today that it has raised $47 million in Series D funding led by Accel, with participation from existing investors including Waterbridge Ventures, Citius, General Catalyst, Elevation Capital, Norwest Venture Partners, and Jungle Ventures. The Series D round comes three years after the company’s $75 million Series C round led by Norwest Venture Partners. The valuation of the comp

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Detecting and countering misuse of AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-18 09:44:21

We’ve developed sophisticated safety and security measures to prevent the misuse of our AI models. But cybercriminals and other malicious actors are actively attempting to find ways around them. Today, we’re releasing a report that details how. Our Threat Intelligence report discusses several recent examples of Claude being misused, including a large-scale extortion operation using Claude Code, a fraudulent employment scheme from North Korea, and the sale of AI-generated ransomware by a cybercr

Topics: ai claude data financial technical

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U.S. and Indian VCs just formed a $1B+ alliance to fund India’s deep tech startups

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2025-10-18 14:30:00

Eight U.S. and Indian venture capital and private equity firms — including storied investors Accel, Blume Ventures, Celesta Capital, and Premji Invest — have formed an unusual coalition to back India’s deep tech startups, pledging more than $1 billion over the next decade to strengthen U.S.-India tech ties. The alliance addresses longstanding funding concerns. In April, Indian Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal drew criticism after slamming domestic startups for focusing on food delivery instead of

Topics: alliance capital india indian tech

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Welcome to the Technocracy: Dreams of forgotten movement from the 1930s live on

news.ycombinator.com Anton Cebalo 2025-10-19 13:49:15

Between 1921 and 1932, a strange man became a familiar face in Greenwich Village, New York City. Howard Scott lectured all who would listen on his vision for an anti-democratic state led by technicians and engineers. Businesspeople and politicians would be replaced, and a new society of abundance would be possible through science. He spread a gospel that preached “technology was the revolutionary agent of our period.” Scott believed liberal capitalism would eventually collapse and give way to a

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People Still Spending on Tech Despite Red Flags in July Report

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-20 12:13:03

U.S. consumers continued to open their wallets in July, a new study from the Bureau of Economic Analysis showed on Friday, underscoring the resilience of household demand even as inflation held above the Federal Reserve’s target. That doesn’t mean that they didn’t wince while doing it. The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge, the personal-consumption expenditures price index, rose 0.2% on the month and 2.6% from a year earlier. The core measure, which strips out food and energy, advan

Topics: consumers high inflation spending tech

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TechCrunch Mobility: A new speed bump for EV owners and Waymo’s robotaxi fleet surpasses 2,000

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-10-20 16:05:00

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Wow, y’all aren’t exactly bullish on EV sales in the U.S. once the federal tax credit expires. For those wondering what I am referring to: I included a poll in the last edition of TechCrunch Mobility. Yup, only email subscribers get to participate in polls. The question was: “What’s your prediction for E

Topics: company ev startup techcrunch tesla

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AI is returning to Taco Bell and McDonald's drive-thrus - will customers bite this time?

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-10-21 11:09:00

Matt Cardy/Contributor/Getty Images News via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Fast-food chains are experimenting with AI in drive-thrus. Previous gen AI order-takers failed. AI voice tech is playing a larger role in customer service. Fast-food restaurants like Taco Bell and McDonald's tried to integrate AI into their daily operations, but rethought their decisions when customers complained. According to the Wall Street Journal, custom

Topics: ai customers mcdonald technology voice

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Live Updates From IFA 2025 in Berlin 🔴

gizmodo.com Raymond Wong 2025-10-22 05:00:08

We’re going back to IFA in Berlin! Well, some members of the Gizmodo crew, including our consumer tech reporter, Kyle Barr, will be roaming the labyrinthine halls of the Messe Berlin to find the smartest, coolest, and weirdest consumer electronics you’ll have the luxury of spending your hard-earned paychecks on in the near-ish future. Expect the usual tech giants like Lenovo and Samsung to have a big presence. If you’ve ever been to IFA (it’s open to the public), you’ll know there’s a lot to ta

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90% of IT pros say they feel isolated at work - here's how to fix it

zdnet.com Mark Samuels 2025-10-22 11:48:00

mustafahacalaki/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways 90% of IT pros have felt isolated at work Face-to-face chats strengthen IT-business collaboration. Trust and ownership drive project success across teams. Working in tech can sometimes feel like a lonely experience. More than 90% of IT professionals responding to a survey on the Spiceworks community have felt isolated at some point, and over a third experience

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Why my 12-year-old Kindle is still my favorite piece of tech

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-22 18:00:08

I’m a tech guy with plenty of gadgets I use regularly. These include my phone, tablet, smartwatch, Bluetooth speaker, laptop, headphones, earbuds, and more. But when I look at my electronics lineup, one device sticks out as a symbol of what great technology should be. It was cheap, is old, but still looks almost as new, and I have no reason whatsoever to buy a new one. It’s my Kindle, and I love everything about it. What's your favorite piece of tech you own? 13 votes Phone 46 % Tablet 8 % Comp

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Watch Our Livestream Replay: Back to School in the Age of AI

wired.com Scott Gilbertson 2025-10-23 07:28:46

Everyone has a stake in how tech is shaping education today. From the tech moguls and venture capitalists who are starting “microschools” and building ed-tech tools to policymakers who are writing bills to safeguard kids online and teachers who are getting creative about using AI for school. WIRED explored all this and more in our recent back-to-school digital edition, which was the topic of our subscriber-only livestream on Thursday, August 28, 2025. Hosted by WIRED's features director, Reyhan

Topics: features getting livestream school tech

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Enterprise data infrastructure proves resilient as Snowflake’s 32% growth defies tech slowdown fears

venturebeat.com Sean Michael Kerner 2025-10-23 10:55:42

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Just days after Gartner’s stock plummeted 50% on warnings of slowing enterprise technology purchases, Snowflake delivered a resounding counter-narrative. Enterprises aren’t pulling back on data infrastructure. They’re doubling down. The cloud data platform company reported 32% year-over-year growth in product revenue for its fiscal second

Topics: ai data enterprise snowflake technology

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This Is How You Log Off

wired.com Lauren Goode 2025-10-23 23:47:30

Lauren Goode: I'm so glad we brought you on today. No, I'm genuinely glad, though. Here's my thing, is that I think we've become beta testers. There's this promise right now from the purveyors of technology that agentic AI is going to start doing some of these tasks for us. I won't spend an hour shopping because I'm going to put in a prompt what I need, and then it's going to order it for me. In the meantime, that requires so much babysitting and so much hand holding and so much authentication a

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No-code website builder Framer reaches $2B valuation

techcrunch.com Anna Heim 2025-10-24 07:15:51

Framer, a no-code website builder that claims over half a million monthly active users, has reached a $2 billion valuation after raising a $100 million Series D funding round led by existing investors Meritech and Atomico. This double-unicorn milestone comes at a time of hype for website builders — including direct competitors like Figma, Squarespace and Wix, as well as rising ‘vibe coding’ platforms such as Cursor and Lovable. In 2023, Framer raised a $27 million Series C led by Meritech at a

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Latest Tech News

The Next Two Weeks Could Redefine Tech

Depot (YC W23) Is Hiring a Solutions Engineer (Remote US and Canada)

Scale AI is suing a former employee and rival Mercor, alleging they tried to steal its biggest customers

These psychological tricks can get LLMs to respond to “forbidden” prompts

The Tech Industry Has a Dirty Secret: The More People Learn About AI, the Less They Trust It

Google brings Material 3 Expressive to Pixel 6 and newer devices, along with other features

Google avoids breakup, but has to give up exclusive search deals in antitrust trial

The Download: sustainable architecture, and DeepSeek’s success

3 days left to lock in your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Someone ordered 18,000 cups of water at an AI drive-thru - now fast food chains are reconsidering

Google avoids break up, but has to give up exclusive search deals in antitrust trial

EU Gets Cold Feet Over Google Fine, Fears Potential Trump Backlash

Google avoids break up, faces new oversight in search antitrust trial

US and Indian VCs just formed a $1B+ alliance to fund India’s deep tech startups

ICE reactivates contract with spyware maker Paragon

Kapa.ai (YC S23) is hiring research and software engineers

Indian grocery startup Citymall raises $47M to challenge ultra-fast delivery giants

Detecting and countering misuse of AI

U.S. and Indian VCs just formed a $1B+ alliance to fund India’s deep tech startups

Welcome to the Technocracy: Dreams of forgotten movement from the 1930s live on

People Still Spending on Tech Despite Red Flags in July Report

TechCrunch Mobility: A new speed bump for EV owners and Waymo’s robotaxi fleet surpasses 2,000

AI is returning to Taco Bell and McDonald's drive-thrus - will customers bite this time?

Live Updates From IFA 2025 in Berlin 🔴

90% of IT pros say they feel isolated at work - here's how to fix it

Why my 12-year-old Kindle is still my favorite piece of tech

Watch Our Livestream Replay: Back to School in the Age of AI

Enterprise data infrastructure proves resilient as Snowflake’s 32% growth defies tech slowdown fears

This Is How You Log Off

No-code website builder Framer reaches $2B valuation

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