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In a vote of confidence for Meta’s Threads, Kalshi adds sharing feature | TechCrunch
Prediction market Kalshi is making it easier for its users to have conversations on Meta’s social network Threads. Kalshi now offers a share option that will automatically embed the relevant prediction market chart into a Threads post. Whether people want to discuss who’s going to win Best Picture or which reality TV contestant is going read more
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Artists Behind Removed Trump-Epstein Statue Have Placed A New One in Washington, D.C.
The anonymous artists behind The Secret Handshake, the guerrilla public art statue of PresidentDonald Trumpand convicted sex offenderJeffrey Epstein, are at it again. On Tuesday, the group emailed ARTnews with photos of a new statue placed in Washington, D.C., again depicting Trump and Epstein. Titled KING OF THE WORLD, the 12-foot tall statue depicts the read more
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DOGE employee stole Social Security data and put it on a thumb drive, report says | TechCrunch
A former employee of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency reportedly stole Americans’ personal data from the U.S. Social Security Administration and stored it on a thumb drive, according to a whistleblower complaint reported by The Washington Post. The former DOGE software engineer told co-workers at his new job that he “possessed two tightly restricted read more
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Mandiant's founder just raised $190M for his autonomous AI agent security startup | TechCrunch
Kevin Mandia, who founded the cybersecurity startup Mandiant in 2004 and sold it to Google for $5.4 billion in 2022, has launched a new AI-native cybersecurity startup with what the company claims is a record-breaking funding round. The new outfit, called Armadin, has raised $189.9 million in combined seed and Series A funding led by read more
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Google and Tesla think we’re managing the electrical grid all wrong | TechCrunch
Google, Tesla, and data center developer Verrus are among a group of companies arguing that the electrical grid is being underutilized and they want everyone — especially politicians — to know about it. The three companies along with HVAC giant Carrier, virtual power plant company Renew Home, distributed energy resource developer Sparkfund, and smart electrical read more
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At Making Their Mark Forum, Art Figures Debate Gender Inequities in the Market and the Museum
Four years ago, when Komal Shah conceived a forum to celebrate female artists and address enduring gender inequities in the art world, she thought she’d be convening attendees in Washington, D.C., in the glow of Kamala Harris’s White House. Instead, the forum took place against a political backdrop openly hostile toward diversity in the arts. read more
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Amazon launches its healthcare AI assistant on its website and app | TechCrunch
Amazon announced on Tuesday that it’s expanding access to its healthcare AI assistant to its website and app. The assistant, called Health AI, was previously only available on the app for One Medical, the healthcare company Amazon acquired for $3.9 billion in 2023. Health AI can answer questions, explain health records, manage prescription renewals, book read more
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'Pokémon Pokopia' is a game about rehabilitating a broken world — and I love it | TechCrunch
On Friday night, my boyfriend and I sat on the couch for a refreshing evening of doing nothing together. We tuned into a baseball game, he picked up my guitar, and I eagerly booted up “Pokémon Pokopia,” the 30-year-old franchise’s new cozy life simulator game, which is unlike anything we’ve seen from Pokémon before. I read more
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YouTube surpasses Disney, Paramount, WBD in 2025 ad revenue | TechCrunch
YouTube has hit some impressive numbers in 2025. According to new estimates from research firm Moffett Nathanson — as reported by The Hollywood Reporter — the platform pulled in a staggering $40.4 billion in ad revenue, which is more than Disney, NBC, Paramount, and Warner Bros. Discovery’s (WBD’s) combined ad revenue, whose total came to read more
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Lost for More Than a Century, the First 'Sci-Fi' Film Ever Made Resurfaces
Around 1897, the French director Georges Méliès made a silent short film that, until last month, hadn’t been publicly viewable for more than a century. “Gugusse et l’Automate,” or “Gugusse and the Automaton,” is a 45-second slapstick piece featuring a magician and a Pierrot-styled robot as they duke it out. Méliès is best known for read more
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Live Updates: Iran war rages as Pentagon says about 140 U.S. service members wounded overall
CBS News attended the burials on Monday of a number of individuals the Iranian government said were military and intelligence officers and their relatives at a cemetery about 16 miles south of Tehran. CBS News was able to attend with government permission. The Iranian government has not allowed the media to publicize anti-regime voices from read more
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AI-powered apps struggle with long-term retention, new report shows | TechCrunch
With the top app stores flooded with AI apps, developers may think the best bet for turning a profit is to integrate artificial intelligence technology into their own products. However, a new study focused on the subscription app ecosystem across iOS, Android, and web is calling that assumption into question. RevenueCat, a company that offers read more
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EIC Scaling Club companies double peer funding growth with 66% increase
A recent report reveals that in the past 14-20 months, EIC Scaling Club members have achieved an average funding growth of 66.66 per cent. That is more than double the control group, which saw just 26 per cent growth in the same time period, according to the EIC Scaling Club Impact Report. Supporting Europe’s most read more
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A Newly Excavated Maya Settlement in Belize Shows Adaptation to Climate Change
The Postclassic period of Maya civilization (800–1500 CE) was marked by significant environmental and societal stressors, including prolonged droughts and a shift from centralized authority to smaller, competitive polities. A new excavation at an archaeological site in Belize shows how despite these challenges, Postclassic Maya communities not only survived, but thrived. The excavation was conducted read more
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EU Says It Could Pull Funding to Venice Biennale Over Russian Pavilion
The European Union said it could pull funding to the Venice Biennale if the show goes through with hosting Russia, adding to mounting furor over plans by the country to show at the world’s most important art exhibition for the first time since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Henna Virkkunen and Glenn Micallef, respectively the read more
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Retired FBI Agents Geoffrey Kelly Details His 22-Year Investigation into the Gardner Museum Heist in New Book
Editor’s Note:This story is part ofNewsmakers, an ARTnews series featuring conversations with the figures shaping how the art world is changing right now. Next week, the world’s greatest art heist turns 36. To mark the anniversary of the 1990 theft of 13 artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston is a new book read more
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Pete Hegseth Is Pushing Defense Employees to Volunteer With DHS
The Department of Defense is putting more pressure on employees to volunteer to support the Department of Homeland Security’s immigration crackdown. In a February 19 memo sent to civilians across the DOD, secretary of defense Pete Hegseth wrote that he expects “every supervisor to encourage their civilian employees to volunteer. Leadership must continue to promote read more
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ChatGPT can now create interactive visuals to help you understand math and science concepts | TechCrunch
On Tuesday, OpenAI introduced dynamic visual explanations, a new ChatGPT feature that allows users to see how formulas, variables, and mathematical relationships change in real time. Instead of just reading an explanation or looking at a static diagram, users can now engage directly with interactive visuals. For example, when exploring the Pythagorean theorem, you can read more
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Chicago, Meet Your New ‘Neighbors’: Expo Gets a New Satellite Fair, In a Luxe Gold Coast Apartment
Collector Mirka Serrato was walking her dog through Chicago’s affluent Gold Coast neighborhood when she came across Ramiro Verdugo, the groundsman tending to the garden at an imposing neoclassical residence. Both Latin American, they hit it off. She was looking for a place to live, and an apartment was available. She ended up living there read more
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The mystery of a globetrotting iPhone-hacking toolkit
A mass hacking campaign targeting iPhone users in Ukraine and China used tools that were likely designed by U.S. military contractor L3Harris, TechCrunch has learned. The tools, which were intended for Western spies, wound up in the hands of various hacking groups, including Russian government spooks and Chinese cybercriminals. Last week, Google revealed that over read more
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