As I take in the view of Alcatraz Island from a Mediterranean restaurant in San Francisco, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman enters, phone in hand. I…
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US government reportedly in talks to acquire stake in Intel
The Trump administration is once again engaging with semiconductor giant Intel. The U.S. government is reportedly in talks to acquire a stake in Intel, according…
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The 2025 Startup Battlefield 200 List Releases on August 27
Set your alarms. Bookmark this page. Refresh like your future depends on it. TechCrunch is on the brink of unveiling the 2025 Startup Battlefield 200,…
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Anthropic Challenges OpenAI and Google with New Claude AI Features for Students and Developers
Anthropic is introducing “learning modes” for its Claude AI assistant, transitioning the chatbot from a tool that provides answers to a companion that facilitates learning.…
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Landbase Acquires Adauris Team and Tech to Enhance AI Roadmap
American AI startup Landbase has acquired its second Canadian AI company this year. Landbase, based in San Francisco but founded in Canada, offers AI go-to-market…
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Waymo Unveils a Music Experience Befitting Its Robotaxi
I’m in a Waymo, traversing San Francisco’s bustling streets with ease, thanks to 29 cameras, six radar, and five lidar sensors feeding an AI model.…
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ChatGPT’s Model Picker Returns, with Added Complexity
When OpenAI released GPT-5 last week, the company aimed to simplify the ChatGPT experience. They intended for GPT-5 to be a “one size fits all”…
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Waabi Appoints Uber Freight CEO to Head Self-Driving Truck Commercialization
Lior Ron, the co-founder and CEO of Uber Freight, is set to join Toronto-based Waabi as COO, guiding the company in deploying its AI-driven self-driving…
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Nvidia Introduces New Cosmos Models and Infrastructure for Robotics and Physical Applications
On Monday, Nvidia introduced new world AI models, libraries, and infrastructure for robotics developers, with Cosmos Reason standing out as a 7-billion-parameter reasoning vision language…
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Customers heavily influence Anthropic’s revenue amid AI pricing war threatening margins
Anthropic has rapidly reached a $5 billion revenue run rate, heavily relying on two primary customers, which constitute a significant portion of its income. This…
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