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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...

Jun 5, 2026 at 18:45

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

SpaceX has requested unusually swift entry into several leading stock market indexes as a condition of its historic stock market debut. But the S&P 500 stock...

Jun 1, 2026 at 11:00

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

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

May 18, 2026 at 13:23

Bug bounty businesses bombarded with AI slop

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

May 4, 2026 at 15:05

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

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

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Jun 19, 2026 at 07:59 TechCrunch

The US says ASML’s top chip tool may be in China. ASML says it isn’t

There's a commercial logic that cuts against the idea that ASML would risk its export license to arm a Chinese customer.
Jun 19, 2026 at 01:01 TechCrunch

Telegram ban in India sparks a rush to VPNs, rival apps

Telegram argues India should block specific content, not an entire platform used by millions.
Jun 19, 2026 at 00:51 TechCrunch

Source: Elastic agrees to buy CRV-backed DeductiveAI for up to $85M

DeductiveAI, a startup that uses AI to catch and resolve bugs in software, was founded just three years ago.
Jun 18, 2026 at 21:20 TechCrunch

AI inference startup Baseten reportedly raising $1.5B months after its last mega-round

Startup Baseten is reportedly close to finalizing a $1.5 billion round at a $13 billion as the “inference gold rush" marches on.
Jun 18, 2026 at 20:30 TechCrunch

Snap spins off AI video team into new company, Dotmo, due to costs

The Snapchat maker is spinning off yet another internal unit. Dotmo will be composed of current Snap staff who are leaving the social med...
Jun 18, 2026 at 19:59 TechCrunch

OpenAI is bringing on some big guns in the lead-up to its IPO

OpenAI is bulking up before its IPO, landing Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer from Google DeepMind and former Trump AI policy officia...

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Украли трафик, сломали связь в ОАЭ и проигнорировали жалобы. Павел Дуров обвинил индийского провайдера в саботаже Telegram

Павел Дуров советует отправить индийскую Reliance в глобальный бан из-за сетевого пиратства.

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TechCrunch Jun 16, 2026 at 11:25 Startups
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This startup’s super metals could soon be in military drones, luxury watches, and chef’s knives

Instead of heating metals, Foundation Alloy beats them into submission. The startup has raised $22 million to scale up production of its alloys.

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Foundation Foundation Alloy Instead Luxury Watches
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TechCrunch Jun 16, 2026 at 11:21 Startups
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SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO

The deal is supposed to help SpaceX's struggling AI division. The company told IPO investors it sees a $26 trillion addressable market in AI.

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Acquire Cursor AI AI. TechCrunch Blockbuster
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TechCrunch Jun 16, 2026 at 11:00 Startups
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Threads adds new personalization and community features as it reaches 500M monthly users

The Meta-owned social platform announced a series of new features launching today, including a "Your Algo" tool that lets users control what they see in their feeds.

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TechCrunch Jun 16, 2026 at 10:30 Startups
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ChatGPT’s market share slips below 50% for first time

The chatbot still remains the most popular AI assistant worldwide with over 1.1 billion monthly users, followed by Gemini with 662 million and Claude with 245 million.

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Assistant Billion Monthly Chatbot Still ChatGPT
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TechCrunch Jun 16, 2026 at 06:59 Startups
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Malaysia’s AI agent-powered messaging app Respond.io raises $62.5M, eyes acquisitions

Respond.io, one of Malaysia's startups to watch, uses AI agents to handle high volumes of customer inquiries and charges per convo, not per seat.

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Acquisitions Agent Powered AI Customer Inquiries
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TechCrunch Jun 15, 2026 at 23:51 Startups
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Sundar Pichai faces boos, walkout at Stanford graduation ceremony over Google’s Israel, ICE ties

AI is once again at the heart of a college graduation protest — this time for the technology's use in Google's defense contracts.

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College Graduation Defense Contracts Google Graduation
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TechCrunch Jun 15, 2026 at 15:29 Startups
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Cybersecurity vets protest ‘dangerous’ US government ban on Anthropic’s most powerful models

A group made up of dozens of cybersecurity experts urged the White House to remove export-control restrictions on Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos models, arguing that the order is ...

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Anthropic Cybersecurity Cybersecurity Experts Cybersecurity Vets
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TechCrunch Jun 15, 2026 at 14:34 Startups
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Salesforce acquires AI customer service platform Fin for $3.6B

Salesforce says it wants to use Fin's team and technology to improve Agentforce, its existing enterprise platform that businesses can use to build custom AI agents that automate...

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