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Google’s DeepMind UK team reportedly seeks to unionize

Google’s DeepMind UK team reportedly seeks to unionize

Around 300 London-based members of Google’s AI-focused DeepMind team are seeking...

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Lately’s new gamified app helps people arrive on time

Lately’s new gamified app helps people arrive on time

A new app called Lately launched on the App Store a few weeks ago, targeting peo...

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TechCrunch Mobility: Slate’s ‘transformer’ EV truck breaks cover and Tesla’s dueling realities

TechCrunch Mobility: Slate’s ‘transformer’ EV truck bre...

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

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TechCrunch StrictlyVC in Athens in May will feature a special guest: Greece’s prime minister

TechCrunch StrictlyVC in Athens in May will feature a s...

We’re thrilled to announce that Greece’s prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, wi...

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Chinese AI startup Manus reportedly gets funding from Benchmark at $500M valuation

Chinese AI startup Manus reportedly gets funding from B...

Chinese startup Manus AI, which works on building tools related to AI agents, ha...

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OpenAI rolls out a ‘lightweight’ version of its ChatGPT deep research tool

OpenAI rolls out a ‘lightweight’ version of its ChatGPT...

OpenAI is bringing a new “lightweight” version of its ChatGPT deep research tool...

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How do you define cheating in the age of AI?

How do you define cheating in the age of AI?

This AI startup raised $5.3M to help people “cheat on everything.” But in the ag...

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The U.S. doesn’t refine cobalt. This startup wants to change that.

The U.S. doesn’t refine cobalt. This startup wants to c...

Xerion says it has a new technique to produce highly refined cobalt in a single ...

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Intel reportedly plans to lay off over 21,000 employees

Intel reportedly plans to lay off over 21,000 employees

Intel is set to cut over 21,000 people, or roughly 20% of its workforce, with an...

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OpenAI exec says the company would buy Google’s Chrome browser if offered the chance

OpenAI exec says the company would buy Google’s Chrome ...

An OpenAI exec said during Google’s antitrust trial this week that OpenAI would ...

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Khloe Kardashian launches consumer brand backed by Serena Ventures, WME

Khloe Kardashian launches consumer brand backed by Sere...

Khloe Kardashian has formerly launched her new food company, Khloud, and its fir...

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Ex-Meta engineer raises $14M for Lace AI, a revenue generation software startup

Ex-Meta engineer raises $14M for Lace AI, a revenue gen...

As an AI engineer at Meta, Boris Valkov helped build PyTorch, one of the world’s...

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Uber customers can now earn Delta SkyMiles from rides or deliveries

Uber customers can now earn Delta SkyMiles from rides o...

Delta SkyMiles members in the United States can now start earning points when th...

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Tomorrow: Join Ali Ghodsi and Dario Amodei for a fireside chat

Tomorrow: Join Ali Ghodsi and Dario Amodei for a firesi...

Join this free virtual event, featuring Ali Ghodsi, the trailblazing co-founder ...

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Mark Zuckerberg once suggested spinning out Instagram as a solution to its ‘cannibalization’ of Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg once suggested spinning out Instagram a...

In an internal email surfaced as part of the Meta antitrust trial, Meta CEO Mark...

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Palantir exec defends company’s immigration surveillance work

Palantir exec defends company’s immigration surveillanc...

One of the founders of startup accelerator Y Combinator offered unsparing critic...