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S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic

Jun 5, 2026 at 18:45 · Ars Technica

SpaceX has requested unusually swift entry into several leading stock market indexes as a condition of its historic s...

An OpenAI model solved a famous math problem that stumped humans for 80 years

Jun 1, 2026 at 11:00 · Ars Technica

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous pro...

Bug bounty businesses bombarded with AI slop

May 18, 2026 at 13:23 · Ars Technica

Companies that pay hackers to find flaws in their software are being inundated with low-quality reports generated by ...

Musk’s “World War III” threat in Twitter lawsuit haunts him at OpenAI trial

May 4, 2026 at 15:05 · Ars Technica

Just days before the trial started, Elon Musk tried to settle his lawsuit, which alleges that under Sam Altman's dire...

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Jun 21, 2026 at 04:56 SecurityLab

Хотите отредактировать сообщение в Telegram? Не тут-то было. 150 млн человек остались без мессенджера из-за школьных шпаргалок

Суд в Индии решил: подождём до конца экзаменов.

Jun 20, 2026 at 20:32 TechCrunch

Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’

"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”

Jun 20, 2026 at 19:41 TechCrunch

In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search

So ... what's your In the Weights score?

Jun 20, 2026 at 18:26 TechCrunch

Founders Fund’s outlier bet on humanely killed fish

Shinkei makes a refrigerator-sized robot called Poseidon to kill fish quickly and humanely.

Jun 20, 2026 at 16:39 TechCrunch

Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic

Jumper isn't the only big name leaving Google DeepMind.

Jun 20, 2026 at 15:00 TechCrunch

Every new iOS 27 feature that’s worth knowing about

While it's not flashy like Apple’s new Siri AI and Apple Intelligence upgrades, there are still a number of additions to iOS 27 worth loo...

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TechCrunch Apr 8, 2026 at 20:09 Startups
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AWS boss explains why investing billions in both Anthropic and OpenAI is an OK conflict

AWS has an ingrained culture of handling competition, he explained, because the cloud giant also competes with its partners.

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TechCrunch Apr 8, 2026 at 19:56 Startups
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Amazon to end support for older Kindle devices

Amazon told Kindle owners this week that it's ending support for all e-readers released in 2012 or earlier, making them virtually unable to load any new content.

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TechCrunch Apr 8, 2026 at 18:53 Startups
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Meta debuts the Muse Spark model in a ‘ground-up overhaul’ of its AI

This is the first model Meta has released under its Superintelligence Labs, led by former Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang.

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TechCrunch Apr 8, 2026 at 18:51 Startups
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Hack-for-hire group caught targeting Android devices and iCloud backups

Security researchers exposed a spying campaign by a hack-for-hire group that used Android spyware and phishing to steal iCloud credentials and hack victims’ devices.

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TechCrunch Apr 8, 2026 at 18:23 Startups
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Tubi is the first streamer to launch a native app within ChatGPT

Tubi becomes the first streaming service to offer an app integration within ChatGPT, the AI chatbot that millions of users turn to for answers.

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TechCrunch Apr 8, 2026 at 17:19 Startups
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Volkswagen begins testing its self-driving microbuses in Los Angeles ahead of launch with Uber

Volkswagen subsidiary MOIA America still has a long and winding regulatory road before it can launch a commercial robotaxi service.

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TechCrunch Apr 8, 2026 at 16:30 Startups
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These are the countries moving to ban social media for children

Australia was the first country to issue a ban in late 2025, aiming to reduce the pressures and risks that young users may face on social media, including cyberbullying, social ...

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TechCrunch Apr 8, 2026 at 16:03 Startups
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British cryptographer Adam Back denies NYT report that he is Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto

Back, a long-time researcher and pioneer in cryptography, denies the allegation that he is the secretive creator of Bitcoin.

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TechCrunch Apr 8, 2026 at 16:01 Startups
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Astropad’s Workbench reimagines remote desktop for AI agents, not IT support

Astropad’s Workbench lets users remotely monitor and control AI agents on Mac Minis from iPhone or iPad, with low-latency streaming and mobile access.

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TechCrunch Apr 8, 2026 at 15:38 Startups
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Hackers steal and leak sensitive LAPD police documents

The LAPD said the breach affected “a digital storage system” belonging to the city’s Attorney's Office. The World Leaks extortion gang was reported to be behind the attack.

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TechCrunch Apr 8, 2026 at 15:23 Startups
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OpenAI releases a new safety blueprint to address the rise in child sexual exploitation

OpenAI's new Child Safety Blueprint aims to tackle the alarming rise in child sexual exploitation linked to advancements in AI.

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TechCrunch Apr 8, 2026 at 15:21 Startups
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Developer of VeraCrypt encryption software says Windows users may face boot-up issues after Microsoft locked his account

The maker of the popular open source file encryption software VeraCrypt said Microsoft locked his online account, which may prevent device owners from booting up their computers.

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TechCrunch Apr 8, 2026 at 15:00 Startups
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Databricks co-founder wins prestigious ACM award, says ‘AGI is here already’

Matei Zaharia has won the top honor from the Association for Computing Machinery. Now he's working on AI for research and says AGI is simply misunderstood.

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OpenAI News Apr 8, 2026 at 14:00 AI
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The next phase of enterprise AI

OpenAI outlines the next phase of enterprise AI, as adoption accelerates across industries with Frontier, ChatGPT Enterprise, Codex, and company-wide AI agents.

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TechCrunch Apr 8, 2026 at 14:00 Startups
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Final 3 days to save up to $500 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass

Save up to $500 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass until April 10, 11:59 p.m. PT. Secure your spot at the center of the tech ecosystem. Register today.

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TechCrunch Apr 8, 2026 at 13:00 Startups
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Atlassian launches visual AI tools and third-party agents in Confluence

Confluence users can now create visual assets within the software in addition to new third-party agents working with Lovable, Replit, and Gamma.

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