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Scale AI still exists and it’s suing an ex-employee over corporate espionage
It’s been a tumultuous summer for Scale AI: Meta took a multibillion-dollar stake in the company, Mark Zuckerberg hired Scale…
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This HP laptop with an astonishing 32GB of RAM is just $261
Usually I consider a Windows laptop a deal if I can find one with 16GB of RAM — the lowest…
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Orchard Robotics, founded by a Thiel fellow Cornell dropout, raises $22M for farm vision AI
Inspired by his grandparents, who were apple farmers in China, Charlie Wu got the idea to apply technology to agriculture…
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Google’s NotebookLM now lets you customize the tone of its AI podcasts
Google’s AI note-taking and research assistant NotebookLM now lets users customize the tone of their Audio Overviews, which are podcasts…
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Why the US government is taking a stake in Intel
The Trump administration wants the United States to be the dominant force when it comes to artificial intelligence, and one…
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Roblox expands use of age estimation tech and introduces standardized ratings
Amid lawsuits alleging child safety concerns, online gaming service Roblox announced on Wednesday that it’s expanding its age estimation technology…
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Netflix CPO Eunice Kim is coming to Disrupt 2025
The celebration of TechCrunch’s 20th anniversary is happening at Disrupt 2025 — taking place October 27-29 — and we couldn’t…
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Windows 11 gets automatic light/dark modes in next PowerToys update
If you haven’t tried PowerToys—Microsoft’s official add-on pack that gives Windows dozens of extra features—you really should. I’m a huge…
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Instagram is finally launching an iPad app
After years of people constantly nudging Instagram about releasing an iPad app, the social network is finally launching one today.…
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Earth’s core has ‘reversed’ its rotation. What does that mean for us?
As early as 2024, scientists from the US and China discovered that the Earth’s core had slowed down and even…
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Venezuela’s president thinks American spies can’t hack Huawei phones
During a press conference on Monday, Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, showed off a Huawei smartphone that China’s President Xi Jinping…
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ExpressVPN overhauls its VPN plan with 3 new membership tiers
ExpressVPN is shaking things up in a big way by releasing three new membership tiers to its VPN service. Rather…
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