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Elon Musk frets over controlling Tesla’s ‘robot army’ as car biz rebounds slightly

Tesla’s record sales quarter has offered the company a reprieve after a terrible start to 2025. But CEO Elon Musk is focused on building a

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Open source agentic startup LangChain hits $1.25B valuation

LangChain raised $125 million at a $1.25 billion valuation, the company announced on Monday. TechCrunch reported in July that the provider of a popular open

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YC alum Cercli, an AI-powered Rippling for MENA, raises oversubscribed $12M Series A

In a region long defined by fragmented enterprise systems, outdated compliance tools, and HR software that rarely talks to finance, Cercli is building a unified

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OpenAI’s ‘embarrassing’ math | TechCrunch

“Hoisted by their own GPTards.” That’s how Meta’s Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over GPT-5’s

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Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video

Wikipedia is often described as the last good website on an internet increasingly filled with toxic social media and AI slop. But it seems the

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Senate Republicans deepfaked Chuck Schumer, and X hasn’t taken it down 

Senate Republicans shared a deepfake video of Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, designed to make it seem like Democrats are celebrating the ongoing government

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OpenAI pauses Sora video generations of Martin Luther King Jr.

OpenAI announced Thursday it paused the ability for users to generate videos resembling the late civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. using its AI

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Co-founder of Indian social network Koo releases a new photo sharing app

In the last few years, photo-sharing apps have capitalized on the idea that Instagram has become too curated, creating spaces for users to share unfiltered

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Coinbase boosts investment in India’s CoinDCX, valuing exchange at $2.45B

Coinbase has increased its investment in India’s CoinDCX, valuing the exchange at $2.45 billion post-money, as the U.S. crypto giant bets on the country’s digital-asset

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Grindr’s owners may take it private after a financial squeeze

Grindr’s majority owners are scrambling to take the LGBTQ+ dating app private after a stock decline triggered a personal financial crisis, according to a report