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Impersonators are targeting companies with fake TechCrunch outreach

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xAI’s legal chief steps down after whirlwind year

Robert Keele said this week that he has stepped down as xAI’s head of legal after just over a year, saying he wants to spend

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Two teens charged in attack on former DOGE official Edward “Big Balls” Coristine

Two 15-year-olds have been charged with unarmed carjacking after allegedly attacking Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, the teenage software engineer and former Neuralink intern who became

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Clay confirms it closed $100M round at $3.1B valuation

Sales automation startup Clay has raised a $100 million Series C at a $3.1 billion valuation in a round led by CapitalG, confirming TechCrunch’s report

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Jeh Aerospace nets $11M to scale the commercial aircraft supply chain in India

Indian startup Jeh Aerospace founders Vishal Sanghavi and Venkatesh Mudragalla have had a front row seat to the commercial aircraft sector and its growing production

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Apple might be building its own AI ‘answer engine’

Apple has formed a new team to build a ChatGPT-like app, according to according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. This team — reportedly called Answers, Knowledge,

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Tim Cook reportedly tells employees Apple ‘must’ win in AI

Apple CEO Tim Cook held an hourlong all-hands meeting in which he told employees that the company needs to win in AI, according to Bloomberg’s

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Venture firm CRV raises $750M, downsizing after returning capital to investors

CRV has secured $750 million toward the 55-year-old venture firm’s twentieth flagship fund, it announced on Friday. The new fund is smaller than the $1

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Female-founded semiconductor AI startup SixSense raises $8.5M

A Singapore-based deep tech startup called SixSense has developed an AI-powered platform that helps semiconductor manufacturers predict and detect potential chip defects on production lines

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GitHub Copilot crosses 20 million all-time users

GitHub Copilot, an AI coding tool offered by Microsoft-owned GitHub, has now reached more than 20 million users, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said on the