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Google-backed satellites for wildfire detection launch as smoke chokes US, Canada
The FireSat program can spot wildfires that other satellites miss.
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The Pentagon's Space Development Agency hasn't moved as fast as anyone would like
"Missiles are being launched at the joint force every single day in [Operation] Epic Fury.".
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Hegseth wants a "High-T" military; doctors call it a clinical minefield
"We're turning the clock back on rational healthcare.".
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Troubling new details emerge on diabetes ouster controversy
American Diabetes Association blocked publication of op-ed articles so the authors posted them as a preprint.
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Will Russia's answer to the Falcon 9 rocket ever take flight?
Grasshopper-like tests could begin in 2028.
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Fubo hikes prices by $15 after restoring some NBCU channels lost in November
Fubo subscribers still don't have Versant channels.
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San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores
Official estimates Google and Apple likely made millions in nudify app fees.
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Ars is looking for a senior technology reporter, and you might be it!
Desktops, laptops, phones, CPUs, GPUs, NAS—if you know this stuff, come work for us!
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The report oil companies are worried about: Climate attribution science
New report says our ability to tie weather damages to climate change is improving.
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FCC took pricey gifts from Paramount as the company needed approval for deals
FCC chair has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of tickets by CBS or its parent company.
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2026 Lucid Gravity Touring review: A strong act 2
Quick, comfortable, roomy, and agile for a large electric SUV.
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SpaceX scrubs Starship launch after some of its engines didn't start
Next launch attempt hopefully in a few days.".
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It's official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android
Google says these changes could endanger user privacy and security.
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How hard is it to build orbital data centers, actually?
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Chamath Palihapitiya raises $135M Series A for his AI coding startup, takes CEO role
Chamath Palihapitiya, best known for his venture capital firm Social Capital and the All-In podcast, announced Monday that the AI coding startup he founded raised a sizable Series A.
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Gemini’s personalized AI image generation is now free for US users
Google initially announced that Gemini’s Personal Intelligence feature would get Nano Banana-powered image generation back in April, allowing users to create images that reflect their unique interests.
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Watch out, Amazon: The Kobo eReader now has a Goodreads rival
Another challenger to the Amazon Kindle-Goodreads book-tracking empire has emerged.
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Waymo and Uber quietly part ways in Phoenix
Waymo robotaxis are no longer available on Uber’s ride-hail app in Phoenix, Arizona, ending a nearly three-year partnership in the city, both companies confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday.
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Anthropic and Gov. Newsom forge deal allowing California government to use Claude at half price
Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and Anthropic have made a deal that allows California government agencies to use Claude at a discounted price.
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Arena, the AI leaderboard everyone uses, is now a $100M business
Just eight months after launching its commercial service, AI leaderboard provider Arena , which originated as a research project at UC Berkeley in 2023, has reached $100 million in annualized run-rate revenue.
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Cursor now has a mobile app for guiding your coding agent on the go
Cursor isn’t letting the $60 billion SpaceX acquisition slow it down.
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Trump administration threatens 92 GW of new electricity supply with red tape
Permitting delays pushed by the Trump administration threaten to derail 92 gigawatts of clean power, even as electricity demand from AI data centers skyrockets.
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In major privacy win, Supreme Court rules geofence warrants are protected by privacy rights
Supreme Court on Monday limited the law enforcement use of “geofence” search warrants, in a major legal ruling that is likely to have broad ramifications for privacy rights and law enforcement across the United States.
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WhatsApp now lets you reserve usernames
WhatsApp today announced a much-awaited feature: usernames, which will allow users to share their profiles without disclosing their phone number.
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Rocket Lab continues buying spree by acquiring satellite company Iridium
Launch company Rocket Lab is buying satellite operator Iridium , putting it in a position to become a more full-fledged space services company and continuing a wave of consolidation in the industry.
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Robot hand company settles Tesla trade secret suit and announces $11M raise
Jay Li doesn’t recommend getting sued by Tesla if you’re trying to get a startup off the ground.
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Pocket raises $11M in bet on rising demand for AI note-taking devices
Unlike AI gadgets like Rabbit or Humane, companies building dedicated gadgets for recording and transcribing meetings have actually seen some traction.
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Omen AI’s plan to optimize data centers is all wet
The AI-driven demand for compute power has data centers looking to squeeze more from every rack of GPUs.
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Flipper Device’s new Busy Bar is a customizable display for productivity
London-based Flipper Devices is known for its Flipper Zero gadget , used by hackers and tinkerers to access different radios with Bluetooth, RFID, NFC, and a sub-1GHz transceiver.
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SoftBank’s CEO isn’t the only one with questions about Elon Musk’s orbital data center hype
Not everyone is buying Elon Musk’s vision for orbital data centers .
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Apple Vision Pro exec is reportedly leaving for OpenAI
Paul Meade, the Apple vice president in charge of the Vision Pro headset, is leaving the company to join OpenAI’s hardware team, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman .
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The fittest founder in the room got cancer. Here’s how he used AI to fight back.
Conno Christou doesn’t leave things to chance.
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Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models as Anthropic’s export ban drags on
On Wednesday, Chinese cybersecurity firm 360 reportedly unveiled Tulongfeng, an AI tool it says can go head-to-head with Anthropic’s Mythos.
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Trump Admin releases Anthropic Mythos to be used by more than 100 US companies, agencies
Two weeks into the ban that caused Anthropic to pull its powerful cybersecurity-oriented models , Mythos 5 and Fable 5, from the market, the Trump administration is softening its stance.
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FTC gives Musk the OK to acquire SpaceX alumni startup Mesh
Elon Musk is eyeing an acquisition of Mesh Optical Technologies, a startup founded by three former SpaceX engineers last year developing hardware for fast data center communications.
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Corgi, the buzzy Y Combinator-backed insurance tech startup, says it didn’t steal an open source product
Y Combinator-backed insurance tech startup Corgi became embroiled in yet another controversy earlier this week when Papermark, maker of open source data room software, accused Corgi of stealing its software and passing it off as its own.
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Novak Djokovic has a new job — advisor to private equity firm General Atlantic
Djokovic has invested in a handful of wellness companies, including Waterdrop in 2023 , and co-founded his own supplement company, SILA , in 2024, followed by the clean snack food company Cob Foods in 2025.
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OpenAI poaches Uber India chief to lead its biggest market outside the US
OpenAI is making yet another big, visible bet on India.
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Russian hackers were behind $2.5B hack of Jaguar Land Rover: Report
Last year, hackers attacked car giant Jaguar Land Rover (JPL), one of the U.K.’s biggest employers.
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TikTok’s road to becoming a super app
Although TikTok is widely described as a social media giant, it’s been gradually moving beyond that category.
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Xprize founder says ‘humans behave better when they’re being watched’
A future where you can know anything, anytime, anywhere.
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Early Bird pricing ends tonight for TechCrunch Founder Summit
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Robotaxis drive miles just to get cleaned and charged; this new startup wants to fix that
Take a stroll around San Francisco and it won’t take long to spot an empty autonomous vehicle cruising the city’s streets, waiting to be hailed by a rider or heading off to a distant depot to be charged and cleaned.
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The White House is asking OpenAI to slow roll the release of its new model over safety concerns
OpenAI’s release of its newest model, GPT 5.6, reportedly won’t be like its previous releases.
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Patronus AI lands $50M to build ‘digital worlds’ that stress-test AI agents
They are evolving from answering questions to autonomously executing multi-step complex tasks.
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Netris raises $15M Series A from a16z to help AI neoclouds go live faster
The AI boom has encouraged everyone and their uncle to launch a data center business.
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Can your smartwatch detect sleep apnea?
No smartwatch can actually diagnose sleep apnea, but some can track certain signs that might indicate you have the condition.
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Europe is pushing back on Washington’s chip war
ASML, based in the Netherlands, is Europe’s most valuable company and the only maker in the world of the sophisticated lithography machines that are used to make cutting-edge AI chips.
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Former Infosys chief has a new startup that wants to challenge the IT services world
For decades, IT services firms made billions of dollars by allowing companies to outsource tech tasks like customizing, integrating, and maintaining enterprise software.
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India’s MoEngage bets that the future of marketing is millions of AI agents
MoEngage did not disclose the financial terms of the transaction, but a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch that the all-cash deal was worth tens of millions of dollars.
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Superhuman acquires AI detection startup GPTZero
GPTZero, the three-year-old AI detection startup that Princeton grad Edward Tian first built as a senior thesis project, has been acquired by Superhuman, the companies announced on Tuesday.
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Don't let the Star Wars branding put you off Galactic Racer
Star Wars Galactic Racer is shaping up to be a lot of fun.
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Tata Electronics, a major tech supplier to Apple and Tesla, confirms data breach
Tata Electronics, an Indian electronics and semiconductor manufacturer and a key supplier to Apple and Tesla, among other tech giants, confirmed a data breach weeks after files purportedly obtained from the company appeared on a hacker forum.
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