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Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni’s Phia raises $35M to ‘make shopping fun again’

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Airtable jumps into the AI agent game with Superagent

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Pinterest to lay off 15% of staff to redirect resources to AI

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Pinterest layoffs impact 15% of staff as resources redirected to AI

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Luminar receives a larger $33M bid for its lidar business

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China’s Moonshot releases a new open source model Kimi K2.5 and a coding agent

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Node-based design tool Flora raises $42M from Redpoint Ventures

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Uber launches an ‘AV Labs’ division to gather driving data for robotaxi partners

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Northwood Space secures a $100M Series B and a $50M Space Force contract

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‘Among the worst we’ve seen’: report slams xAI’s Grok over child safety failures

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South Korea’s Edenlux set for U.S. debut of eye-strain wellness device

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Qualcomm backs SpotDraft to scale on-device contract AI with valuation doubling toward $400M

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Google pays $68M to settle claims its voice assistant spied on users

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AI chip startup Ricursive hits $4B valuation two months after launch

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Meta to test premium subscriptions on Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp

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Some international attendees are skipping 2026 GDC due to safety fears and growing ICE presence

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Vinod Khosla publicly disavows Keith Rabois’ comments on ICE shooting

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YouTubers sue Snap for alleged copyright infringement in training its AI models

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Here’s the tech powering ICE’s deportation crackdown

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Social network UpScrolled sees surge in downloads following TikTok’s US takeover

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Rad Power Bikes reaches deal to sell itself for $13.2M

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AI startup CVector raises $5M for its industrial ‘nervous system’

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TikTok alternative Skylight soars to 380K+ users after TikTok US deal finalized

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Obvious Ventures lands fund five with a 360-degree view of planetary, human, economic health

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Anthropic launches interactive Claude apps, including Slack and other workplace tools

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TikTok attributes recentglitches to a power outage at a U.S. data center

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TikTok attributes recent glitches to a power outage at a US data center

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VC firm 2150 raises €210M fund to solve cities’ climate challenges

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Saudi satirist hacked with Pegasus spyware wins damages in court battle

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Tech workers call for CEOs to speak up against ICE after the killing of Alex Pretti

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Microsoft announces powerful new chip for AI inference

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Nvidia invests $2B to help debt-ridden CoreWeave add 5GW of AI compute

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SpaceX eyes mid-March for first test of upgraded Starship rocket

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Only 5 days left: Over half of the first 500 TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 plus-one passes at 50% off are already gone

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Only 5 days left: Over half of the first 500 TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 +1 passes at 50% off are already gone

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Apple’s new AirTag is louder and can be found across longer distances

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Nvidia’s new AI weather models probably saw this storm coming weeks ago

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Synthesia hits $4B valuation, lets employees cash out

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This founder cracked firefighting — now he’s creating an AI gold mine

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ChatGPT is pulling answers from Elon Musk’s Grokipedia

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Humans& thinks coordination is the next frontier for AI, and they’re building a model to prove it

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Science fiction writers, Comic-Con say goodbye to AI

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TechCrunch Mobility: RIP, Tesla Autopilot, and the NTSB investigates Waymo

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Apple will reportedly unveil its Gemini-powered Siri assistant in February

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What is Bending Spoons? The little-known firm behind Vimeo’s sweeping layoffs

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Google says it’s fixed Gmail issues with spam and misclassification

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Gmail is having issues with spam and misclassification

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Tech CEOs boast and bicker about AI at Davos

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Former Googlers seek to captivate kids with an AI-powered learning app

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SEC drops lawsuit against Winklevoss twins’ Gemini crypto exchange

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