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Andrew Yang thinks the next big startup opportunity is lowering the cost of living

Andrew Yang, the entrepreneur and 2020 presidential candidate, is betting that the next big wave of startup innovation will come from businesses designed to reduce the cost of living rather than extract more money from consumers. Speaking o

TechCrunchJun 13
Regulation Jun 13

Anthropic’s safety warnings may have just backfired — the government has pulled the plug on its most powerful AI

The U.S. government ordered Anthropic on Friday to immediately disable access to two of its most advanced AI systems—Claude Mythos 5 and the

TechCrunch
Industry Jun 12

SpaceX IPO: Live updates on everything you need to know

SpaceX made history on June 12, 2026, with the largest initial public offering ever recorded. The company, founded by Elon Musk 24 years ago

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Industry Jun 12

Meta’s months-old AI unit is a soul-crushing gulag, say the engineers stuck inside it

Inside Meta's roughly 6,500-person Applied AI unit, morale has cratered to the point that an employee hijacked a livestreamed, internal pres

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Regulation Jun 12

Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to scam ‘hundreds of thousands of victims’ sued by Google

Google filed a lawsuit on Friday seeking to dismantle an alleged Chinese cybercrime network called Outsider Enterprise, which the company sa

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Startups Jun 12

Mistral is rumored to be raising €3B at €20B valuation

Mistral AI, the Paris-based artificial intelligence company, is in early-stage talks to secure roughly €3 billion ($3.5 billion) in new fund

TechCrunch
Tools Jun 12

Cheaper, faster, and culturally aware, Avataar’s video AI is built for India’s scale

Avataar AI, a Peak XV-backed startup focused on video tools for e-commerce, has launched Varya, a new video generation model designed specif

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Startups Jun 12

Theker just raised $85M to build the factory robot that doesn’t specialize in anything

Barcelona-based robotics startup Theker has raised $85 million in a Series A round it claims is the largest ever for a European robotics com

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Startups Jun 12

Jeff Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12B to build an ‘artificial general engineer’ for the physical world

Jeff Bezos's physical AI startup Prometheus has closed a massive $12 billion funding round at a $41 billion valuation, marking one of the la

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Tools Jun 11

Deezer’s new tool can identify AI music from Spotify, Apple Music, and others

Deezer has rolled out a free online tool that scans playlists from 20 major streaming platforms to flag AI-generated tracks, stepping up its

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Tools Jun 11

Pool’s new app turns your screenshots into something useful

A new app called Pool is launching today with a singular mission: turning the chaotic graveyard of screenshots in your phone's camera roll i

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Tools Jun 11

Deezer launches an AI music detector for other streaming services

Deeer is taking the fight against unlabeled AI-generated music into its own hands with a new free tool that scans playlists across rival str

The Verge
Models Jun 9

Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 is a version of Mythos the public can access today

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 to the general public on June 9, marking the first time its most powerful Mythos model has been made avail

TechCrunch 2 sources
Industry Jun 11

Opendoor’s India exit is fueling a bigger conversation about AI and outsourcing

Opendoor, the San Francisco-based iBuyer platform, is closing its India operations roughly 18 months after opening offices in Chennai and Be

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Industry Jun 11

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei has just one direct report

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei runs one of the most valuable AI companies in the world with an unusually lean leadership structure: he has exact

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Industry Jun 10

xAI fired an engineer who raised alarms about Grok safety, new lawsuit claims

A former xAI engineer who became a leading voice on AI safety inside Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company has filed a lawsuit claimin

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Industry Jun 10

Fresh off bond sale, Amazon borrows $17.5B from banks as AI spending continues

Amazon has secured a $17.5 billion loan from a consortium of major financial institutions, including Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo,

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Industry Jun 10

‘AI-pilled’ firms spend $7,500 per employee each month on AI

The most aggressive corporate adopters of artificial intelligence are pouring roughly $7,500 per employee per month into AI tools, according

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Research Jun 10

How memory tools can make AI models worse

Researchers at AI company Writer have published two new papers revealing a troubling downside to the memory features increasingly built into

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Industry Jun 10

Meta signs first AI data center deal in India with Reliance

Meta has entered India's booming AI infrastructure market with its first data center partnership in the country, teaming up with Reliance In

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Industry Jun 10

Google just fired a warning shot in the AI subscription price wars

Google slashed the price of its entry-level AI subscription on Monday, dropping Google AI Plus from $7.99 to $4.99 per month while simultane

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Startups Jun 9

How Justin Ernest invested nearly $500M into hot startups without a traditional VC fund

Sabertooth Capital, the firm founded by former Playground Global investor Justin Ernest, has deployed nearly $500 million across 10 high-pro

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Startups Jun 9

How Justin Ernest invested nearly $400M into hot startups without a traditional VC fund

A former Playground Global investor is using special purpose vehicles to help family offices get in on some of the most coveted late-stage t

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Industry Jun 9

Hey, Siri, here’s what I actually want from AI

Apple unveiled a long-awaited AI-powered overhaul of Siri at its WWDC keynote on Monday, marking the first major revamp of the voice assista

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Tools Jun 9

Anthropic’s Fable 5 can make weirdly fun video games with the click of a button

Anthropic has launched Claude Fable 5, the first publicly available iteration of its long-rumored Mythos model, and early testers say it rep

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Industry Jun 9

It’s not FAANG anymore. It’s MANGOS.

The acronym that defined Wall Street's relationship with Big Tech for the past decade is officially being retired. The FAANG cohort — Meta,

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Regulation Jun 9

Amazon employees ask Seattle to put the brakes on new data centers

Amazon's own workers are pushing back against their employer's data center expansion plans, with current employees joining dozens of residen

The Verge
Industry Jun 9

Why Apple’s slow-and-steady AI bet is starting to look pretty smart

Apple has rolled out what it's calling its largest artificial intelligence launch to date, unveiling Siri AI at an event on June 8, 2026. Th

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Industry Jun 9

Mercor’s Brendan Foody calls out Sequoia, accusing it of ‘dual-pricing’ valuation tricks

Brendan Foody, the co-founder of AI talent platform Mercor, which most recently hit a $10 billion valuation, publicly accused Sequoia Capita

TechCrunch
Industry Jun 7

AI ‘content creators’ are getting harder to spot

The line between human and AI-generated content creators is blurring faster than social media platforms can keep up with, according to a rep

The Verge 2 sources
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