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  • AWS launches a new AI agent platform specifically for healthcare | TechCrunch

    Amazon Web Services announced Thursday the launch of Amazon Connect Health. This AI agent-powered platform is meant to help healthcare organizations automate repetitive administrative tasks, including appointment scheduling, documentation, and patient verification, among other things. Amazon Connect Health is HIPAA-eligible and connects with electronic health record (EHR) software. The platform is currently partnered with EHR read more

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  • FBI investigating hack on its wiretap and surveillance systems: Report | TechCrunch

    Hackers have reportedly broken into the networks of the FBI. On Thursday, citing an anonymous source, CNN reported that the breach affected a system used to manage wiretaps and foreign intelligence surveillance warrants. “The FBI identified and addressed suspicious activities on FBI networks, and we have leveraged all technical capabilities to respond,” a bureau spokesperson read more

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  • US reportedly considering sweeping new chip export controls | TechCrunch

    How, and if, the Trump administration plans to regulate the export of semiconductors has remained unclear since Donald Trump took office last year. Now, we have an idea of what the administration is thinking. U.S. regulators have allegedly drafted rules that would require U.S. government approval to ship AI chips anywhere outside the U.S., according read more

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  • Amazon is rolling out a redesigned Fire TV app | TechCrunch

    Amazon is starting to roll out its redesigned Fire TV mobile app to customers, the company announced on Thursday. While you could previously only use the app as a backup remote, the updated experience lets you browse and discover content directly from your phone, manage your watchlist on the go, and play titles on your read more

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  • The Polycrisis Sublime of the Whitney Biennial

    As my friend Anthony Elms pointed out to me recently, the Whitney Biennial is a kind of neither-here-nor-there entity: too big for a tight thesis to be legible, too small to provide a true scope of what’s happening in the United States art world. (He should know: He curated a floor of the 2014 edition.) read more

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    The Polycrisis Sublime of the Whitney Biennial

  • BYD rolls out EV batteries with 5-minute ‘flash charging' — but there's a catch | TechCrunch

    Chinese automaker BYD unveiled a new battery pack Thursday that the company says is capable of charging from 10% to 70% in five minutes. Taking it to almost 100% takes about four minutes more. Recharge times like those would nullify concerns about electric vehicles’ charging times— one of the few places where internal combustion engines read more

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    BYD rolls out EV batteries with 5-minute ‘flash charging' — but there's a catch | TechCrunch

  • Guggenheim Union Rallies at Carol Bove Reception

    News “We’re out here rallying to put pressure on the museum to come back to the bargaining table with a bit more movability on their positions,” said one of the workers. Drew Reynolds, Guggenheim Museum educator and union chair, rallied with their coworkers for a fair contract yesterday evening. (all photos Rhea Nayyar/Hyperallergic) It was read more

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    Guggenheim Union Rallies at Carol Bove Reception

  • Italian prosecutors confirm journalist was hacked with Paragon spyware | TechCrunch

    Italian authorities confirmed that a journalist who was alerted by WhatsApp last year of a suspected spyware attack on his phone was indeed hacked. In a press release sent to journalists on Thursday, the public prosecutors’ offices in Rome and Naples, which are investigating the spyware scandal in the country, said that a technical report read more

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    Italian prosecutors confirm journalist was hacked with Paragon spyware | TechCrunch

  • The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston Solves a Big Mystery (But Not That One)

    The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, vexed for decades by one of the art world’s most dramatic mysteries, cracked a case of less but still some significance when conservators identified the original fabric for a set of chairs in need of restoration in the museum’s Dutch Room—the site of the greatest art heist of all time. read more

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    The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston Solves a Big Mystery (But Not That One)

  • ByteDance’s AI Ambitions Are Being Hampered by Compute Restraints and Copyright Concerns

    Move over Sora 2, there’s a hot new AI video model in town. In early February, ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.0, a major upgrade to its flagship video model, which had previously remained fairly obscure. Its powerful capabilities immediately shocked the AI ecosystem in China, even among audiences who had once been skeptical of AI-generated video read more

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    ByteDance’s AI Ambitions Are Being Hampered by Compute Restraints and Copyright Concerns

  • Sprüth Magers Removes AI-Assisted David Salle Painting Amid Copyright Controversy

    A painting inDavid Salle’s new exhibitionatSprüthMagersin Los Angeles has been removed from view after critics questioned whether the painter copied another artist’s work. Salle’s painting,Hatchet (2025), features as its primary subject a woman in a black-and-white dress—her face cropped by the edge of the canvas—brandishing a sledgehammer.The exhibition, titled “My Frankenstein,”opened on February 24, and read more

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    Sprüth Magers Removes AI-Assisted David Salle Painting Amid Copyright Controversy

  • Trump’s White House Ballroom Proposal Faces Preservation Concerns Ahead of Federal Vote

    A federal planning commission is set to vote Thursday on President Donald Trump’s proposal to build a massive ballroom at the White House, a plan critics say would dramatically alter the scale and historic layout of the presidential residence. The National Capital Planning Commission will consider the proposal for a roughly 90,000-square-foot addition to the read more

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    Trump’s White House Ballroom Proposal Faces Preservation Concerns Ahead of Federal Vote

  • Cursor is rolling out a new kind of agentic coding tool | TechCrunch

    As agentic coding spreads, the working life of a software engineer has become dazzlingly complex. A single engineer might oversee dozens of coding agents at once, launching and guiding different processes as necessary. It’s a lot to keep track of, and human engineers’ attention has quickly become the limiting resource. Cursor launched a new tool read more

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    Cursor is rolling out a new kind of agentic coding tool | TechCrunch

  • X revamps Creator Subscriptions with new features, like exclusive threads and shareable cards | TechCrunch

    Elon Musk-owned X announced on Thursday that it’s revamping the social network’s Creator Subscriptions offering with a number of new features, including exclusive threads, a refreshed subscriptions paywall, a new dashboard, and a shareable subscriptions card, among other changes. The company believes these updates will allow creators to attract more fans and provide better experiences, read more

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  • Olafur Eliasson: A symphony of disappearing sounds for the Great Salt Lake

    Announcement As the lake’s ecological crisis worsens, the artist’s new site-specific installation in Salt Lake City renders audible what is increasingly at risk of vanishing. Olafur Eliasson testing A symphony of disappearing sounds for the Great Salt Lake (2026); commissioned for Wake the Great Salt Lake; supported by Salt Lake City Art Council, Salt Lake read more

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  • Where Did the IMLS’s Funding for Museums and Libraries Go? Into Trump’s ‘Freedom Truck’ Road Show, It Seems 

    Have you always wished that you could visit a museum devoted to U.S. history, like maybe the one at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., but wished that rather than a brick-and-mortar museum in the nation’s capital, it could be on a tractor trailer in, say, Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, or Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania? Well, the read more

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    Where Did the IMLS’s Funding for Museums and Libraries Go? Into Trump’s ‘Freedom Truck’ Road Show, It Seems 

  • The Controversies Finally Caught Up to Kristi Noem

    After a tenure marked by controversy and a contentious week of Congressional hearings, secretary Kristi Noem is out as head of the Department of Homeland Security. President Donald Trump announced in a Truth Social post on Thursday that Noem would be replaced by Senator Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, a staunch Trump ally and immigration hard-liner. read more

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    The Controversies Finally Caught Up to Kristi Noem

  • Roblox launches real-time AI chat rephrasing to filter out banned language | TechCrunch

    Roblox is introducing a real-time, AI-powered chat rephrasing feature that automatically replaces banned words with more respectful language, the company announced on Thursday. The new feature goes beyond Roblox’s current text filter, which simply replaces banned words and phrases with the “#” symbol. But Roblox says that when users encounter strings of “####,” conversations can read more

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    Roblox launches real-time AI chat rephrasing to filter out banned language | TechCrunch

  • Why Fandom Discourse Feels Extra Cringe Right Now

    In late November, Emily did something she hadn’t done in a very long time: She got back on Tumblr and started discussing fandom. Specifically, Heated Rivalry, the surprise Crave smash hit series about a love story between two closeted hockey players, based on a queer hockey romance series that itself started out, in part, as read more

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    Why Fandom Discourse Feels Extra Cringe Right Now

  • FYI: Impersonators are (still) targeting companies with fake TechCrunch outreach | TechCrunch

    Hi, thanks as always for reading TechCrunch. We want to talk with you quickly about something important. A growing number of scammers are impersonating TechCrunch reporters, editors, and event leads and reaching out to companies, pretending to be our staff when they absolutely are not. (Here is a list of all of our actual staff.) read more

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