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Insurance startup Corgi hits $1.3B valuation 4 months after its Series A

Insurance startup Corgi hits $1.3B valuation 4 months a...

Corgi announced on Wednesday a $160 million Series B, led by TCV, valuing the st...

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Is xAI a neocloud now?

Is xAI a neocloud now?

xAI's real business may be more about building data centers than training AI mod...

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Snap says its $400M deal with Perplexity ‘amicably ended’

Snap says its $400M deal with Perplexity ‘amicably ended’

The deal, announced last November, would have seen Perplexity's AI search engine...

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Barry Diller trusts Sam Altman. But ‘trust is irrelevant’ as AGI nears, he says.

Barry Diller trusts Sam Altman. But ‘trust is irrelevan...

Barry Diller defended OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, while warning that AGI remains an u...

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A 20-minute pitch wins Indian startup Pronto backing from Lachy Groom

A 20-minute pitch wins Indian startup Pronto backing fr...

The investment comes as Pronto scales to 26,000 daily bookings and the market he...

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Lucid Motors doesn’t know how many EVs it will build this year

Lucid Motors doesn’t know how many EVs it will build th...

Lucid Motors pulled its guidance for the year, as it navigates swelling inventor...

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Altara secures $7M to bridge the data gap that’s slowing down physical sciences

Altara secures $7M to bridge the data gap that’s slowin...

Altara’s AI aims to diagnose failures and help speed up R&D by unifying data si...

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Bumble’s paying users are slipping as it bets on an overhaul later this year

Bumble’s paying users are slipping as it bets on an ove...

The company is making a big bet that the swiping model is outdated and most matc...

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SAP bets $1.16B on 18-month-old German AI lab and says yes to NemoClaw

SAP bets $1.16B on 18-month-old German AI lab and says ...

SAP plans to buy German AI startup Prior Labs and invest heavily in it. It is al...

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Nuro receives driverless testing permit ahead of Uber robotaxi service launch

Nuro receives driverless testing permit ahead of Uber r...

The Silicon Valley AV startup has not started driverless testing yet.

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Image AI models now drive app growth, beating chatbot upgrades

Image AI models now drive app growth, beating chatbot u...

Appfigures finds visual model launches generate 6.5x more downloads — but most d...

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OpenAI’s cozy partner Cerebras is on track for a blockbuster IPO

OpenAI’s cozy partner Cerebras is on track for a blockb...

AI chip maker Cerebras is heading for a blockbuster IPO that could value it at $...

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US government warns of severe CopyFail bug affecting major versions of Linux

US government warns of severe CopyFail bug affecting ma...

U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA says the CopyFail bug is being actively used in h...

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Geothermal startup Fervo Energy to raise up to $1.3B in IPO

Geothermal startup Fervo Energy to raise up to $1.3B in...

Enhanced geothermal startup Fervo Energy’s IPO could value the company at up to ...

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As workers worry about AI, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says AI is ‘creating an enormous number of jobs’

As workers worry about AI, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says A...

The Nvidia CEO seems to feel that claims of AI's job-killing potential have been...

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This tiny, magnetic e-reader could stop you from doomscrolling

This tiny, magnetic e-reader could stop you from doomsc...

The Xteink X3 is a delightfully tiny, MagSafe-compatible e-ink reader that attac...

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TechCrunch Mobility: How do you issue a ticket to a robotaxi?

TechCrunch Mobility: How do you issue a ticket to a rob...

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on ...

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In Harvard study, AI offered more accurate emergency room diagnoses than two human doctors

In Harvard study, AI offered more accurate emergency ro...

A new study examines how large language models perform in a variety of medical c...

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‘This is fine’ creator says AI startup stole his art

‘This is fine’ creator says AI startup stole his art

The ad comes from Artisan, the AI startup behind billboards urging businesses to...

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We’ll take it: a TikToker rallies pledges to buy Spirit Airlines after its abrupt weekend collapse

We’ll take it: a TikToker rallies pledges to buy Spirit...

Within hours he'd thrown up a website — a janky, one-hour job, by his own admiss...