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The contract between the two companies ends in May 2028, Uber told TechCrunch.

The indictment, which was unsealed Friday, alleges the Volkswagen engineers used confidential insider information to buy stock in Rivian.

AI coding startup Cognition has acquired Poke, the AI assistant you text like a friend, in a deal valuing the startup in the low nine figures. The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief that how AI assistants interact with users is as important as … Read more

A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government’s claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone’s data, opening up fresh questions about a person’s constitutional rights at the U.S. border.

Anduril is said to be raising a new round of funding that may push its valuation up to about $100 billion, per Reuters.

AI tools have democratized the opportunity to build, shortening the timelines of success and enabling more young people to start successful companies without stepping foot inside a Big Tech company. 

Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases

The offline messaging app surged in popularity in India amid protests in New Delhi.

AI companies including Nvidia and Mistral urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington debates responses to Chinese AI and alleged model distillation.

The carmaker has said it’s owed a refund in the “tens of millions of dollars.”

Users can now ask Attie questions about news, trends, and conversations on Bluesky and other apps on the AT Protocol.

The AI lab Midjourney continues to expand its purview beyond image and video generation.

ChatGPT Voice on desktop can work with both ChatGPT Work and Codex to complete tasks and control agents.

Seller is a dedicated Marketplace app for people who list and sell items frequently.

We spoke with several cybersecurity researchers, who look for unknown vulnerabilities and develop tools to exploit them, about how OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s guardrails affect their work.

TechCrunch Startup Battlefield is coming to Australia — and we’re partnering with Stripe to find the country’s most exciting early-stage startups.

Shashua has been invited to take the chairman of the board seat.

AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.

In a memo to staff that was posted online, Conte said the company’s core business is strong, but the platform has to respond to market changes and adjust its cost structure to remain stable.

In the AI-funding frenzy, many startups are raising back-to-back rounds at ever-increasing valuations — but even by those standards, Corgi stands out.

The new rule-making process follows a series of incidents, including fatal ones, in which people have become stuck inside cars.

Meta has made significant investments in natural gas over the past year. Now, it’s dropping out of an industry renewable energy group.

Claude’s new voice model will let you reschedule your meeting or draft an email.

AegisAI co-founders developed AI agents that quickly analyze each message as a human would, paying attention to small anomalies that even the most elaborate checklist wouldn’t catch.

An updated government advisory warns that Iranian hackers are exploiting systems used by water and energy providers.

Runway no longer wants to be just another AI model company. It wants to become the infrastructure layer for generative media. On Thursday, the startup launched Runway Media Router through Runway Dev, its developer platform, released earlier this month, that provides API access to a growing roster of third-party image, video and audio models alongside … Read more

Users can also integrate their personal data from services like Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal.

The number of paid robotaxi miles traveled fell 36% in the second quarter, despite expanding to new cities, according to Tesla’s own figures.

David Bowie’s song “Five Years,” which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.

Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts, has created new chips and memory components that speed up inference on any AI model — no GPUs required, it says.