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  • New York hits the brakes on robotaxi expansion plan | TechCrunch

    Waymo’s big chance to bring its robotaxis to the state of New York has been thwarted — for now. New York Governor Kathy Hochulwithdrew a proposal that would have amended vehicle and traffic laws to effectively legalize robotaxis in the state outside of New York City. Hochul spokesperson Sean Butler confirmed to TechCrunch that the read more

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  • The Marquis de Sade of the Upper East Side

    Editor’s Note: The following story contains mentions of sexual assault. To reach the National Sexual Assault Hotline, call 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or visit online.rainn.org. Ten days before several hundred sans-culottes and Parisian commoners, armed with filched muskets and cobblestones, stormed the Bastille, its most notorious prisoner had already been transferred. Coincidentally, it was that transferred inmate read more

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    The Marquis de Sade of the Upper East Side

  • Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair Returns to Powerhouse Arts This Spring

    Announcement Over 50 exhibitors, hands-on programming, and a juried print exhibition make up the fair’s expanded second edition. April 9–12, 2026. Booth view at Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair 2025 (all photos by Gina Curovic) Building on its momentous debut last spring, the Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair returns to Powerhouse Arts in Gowanus from read more

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    Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair Returns to Powerhouse Arts This Spring

  • Zuckerberg grilled in court over social media harms on teens | TechCrunch

    Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in court on Wednesday in a landmark trial aiming to determine if the tech giant’s social media applications are addictive and harmful to teens and kids. The trial, taking place in LA Superior Court, already revealed that Meta’s own research indicated that parental supervision couldn’t prevent teens from compulsive use read more

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  • In Congress Deposition, Billionaire Collector Les Wexner Claims He Was ‘Conned’ by Jeffrey Epstein

    Les Wexner, the billionaire founder of L Brands and a major art collector, gave testimony to the US House of Representatives on Wednesday, in a closed door deposition from his home in New Albany, Ohio. In an opening statement to the House Oversight Committee, which is conducting an investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein case, Wexner read more

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    In Congress Deposition, Billionaire Collector Les Wexner Claims He Was ‘Conned’ by Jeffrey Epstein

  • SoftBank to spend an eye-popping $33B to build huge US gas power plant | TechCrunch

    SoftBank subsidiary SB Energy is expected to build a massive 9.2 gigawatt natural gas-fired power plant on the Ohio-Kentucky border, according to a report from Bloomberg. If completed, it would be the largest power plant in the U.S., capable of powering around 7.5 million homes. With a price tag of $33 billion, the project would read more

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    SoftBank to spend an eye-popping B to build huge US gas power plant | TechCrunch

  • Altman and Amodei share a moment of awkwardness at India's big AI summit | TechCrunch

    What would have been a moment of united commitment to global tech innovation at the ongoing India AI Impact Summit instead proved an awkward one: When Prime Minister Narendra Modi prompted speakers at the event to join hands and raise them in a show of solidarity, all executives onstage obliged — except OpenAI’s Sam Altman read more

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    Altman and Amodei share a moment of awkwardness at India's big AI summit | TechCrunch

  • The 10 Best TV Shows to Stream This Month

    No matter how well your favorite streaming service’s algorithm knows you, come February, sometimes even the smartest technology can be swayed by the power of Valentine’s Day. Hence all those romance-heavy promos at the top of your screen, from Ryan Murphy’s Love Story to Netflix’s ever-proliferating Love Is Blind. But love—romantic or otherwise—can be found read more

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    The 10 Best TV Shows to Stream This Month

  • ‘Pew Pew’: The Chinese Companies Marketing Anti-Drone Weapons on TikTok

    “Pew, pew, pew!” a woman wearing sneakers and high-waisted pink trousers says cheerfully in a video uploaded to TikTok. She is standing on what appears to be an industrial rooftop while demonstrating how to use a black device resembling an oversized laser tag gun. “Jamming gun, good,” she adds, flashing a thumbs up. “Contact me!” read more

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    ‘Pew Pew’: The Chinese Companies Marketing Anti-Drone Weapons on TikTok

  • Les Wexner Claims Naivety in Epstein Deposition

    Democratic congress members cast their doubts on billionaire retail magnate and arts patron Les Wexner’s testimony regarding Jeffrey Epstein after his closed-door deposition to the House Oversight Committee (HOC) yesterday, February 18. Wexner, who had once granted Jeffrey Epstein power of attorney over his massive fortune, emphasized that he “never witnessed nor had any knowledge read more

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    Les Wexner Claims Naivety in Epstein Deposition

  • Inside the Rolling Layoffs at Jack Dorsey’s Block

    After hundreds of workers were laid off in early February from Jack Dorsey’s Block, some of the people remaining at the company say the internal culture has devolved to a point where performance anxiety is running rampant, using generative AI is required, and overall morale is rapidly deteriorating. Block is the parent company behind the read more

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    Inside the Rolling Layoffs at Jack Dorsey’s Block

  • Dóra Maurer, Artist Beloved for Heady Films and Exuberantly Colored Paintings, Dies at 88

    Dóra Maurer, a Hungarian conceptual artist whose output in multiple mediums explored how meaning shifts across time and space, has died at 88. The Art Newspaper reported that the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts, where Maurer served as president, confirmed her passing. Maurer was one of the most important contemporary artists in Hungary. She read more

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    Dóra Maurer, Artist Beloved for Heady Films and Exuberantly Colored Paintings, Dies at 88

  • Code Metal Raises $125 Million to Rewrite the Defense Industry’s Code With AI

    Code Metal, a Boston-based startup that uses AI to write code and translate it into other programming languages, just closed a $125 million Series B funding round from new and existing investors. The news comes just a few months after the startup raised $36 million in series A financing led by Accel. Code Metal is read more

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    Code Metal Raises 5 Million to Rewrite the Defense Industry’s Code With AI

  • Freeform raises $67M Series B to scale up laser AI manufacturing  | TechCrunch

    Tech investors haven’t given up on the dream of making physical products with the same speed and ease as coding software. Executives at Freeform, a startup developing a novel 3D-printing system for metal components, told TechCrunch that the company raised a $67 million Series B to expand its manufacturing platform. Investors include Apandion, AE Ventures, read more

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    Freeform raises M Series B to scale up laser AI manufacturing  | TechCrunch

  • Perplexity’s Retreat From Ads Signals a Bigger Strategic Shift

    Perplexity is abandoning plans to put ads in its AI search product as the industry looks for sustainable business models that won’t hurt user trust. The changes are part of a larger strategic shift for the company, which has long focused on disrupting Google Search’s business. “Google is changing to be like Perplexity more than read more

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    Perplexity’s Retreat From Ads Signals a Bigger Strategic Shift

  • For open source programs, AI coding tools are a mixed blessing | TechCrunch

    A world that runs on increasingly powerful AI coding tools is one where software creation is cheap — or so the thinking goes — leaving little room for traditional software companies. As one analyst report put it, “vibe coding will allow startups to replicate the features of complex SaaS platforms.” Cue the hand-wringing and declarations read more

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    For open source programs, AI coding tools are a mixed blessing | TechCrunch

  • Fossil in Montana Seen as Evidence of Vicious Tyrannosaurus Attack

    A rare fossil in the collection of the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, is the subject of new research that suggests its shows signs of an attack by a Tyrannosaurus rex. As reported by Phys.org, the skull of an Edmontosaurus—a duck-billed creature that counts among the last dinosaurs to exist—has a Tyrannosaurus tooth read more

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    Fossil in Montana Seen as Evidence of Vicious Tyrannosaurus Attack

  • A Newly Updated Monograph Surveys Four Decades of Ai Weiwei's Career

    From his monumental, meditative installation of 100 million hand-painted porcelain sunflower seeds on the floor of Turbine Hall at Tate Modern to architectural columns wrapped in 14,000 salvaged life vests worn by refugees, artist-activist Ai Weiwei has long tapped into the power of scale, repetition, and symbols to plumb cultural heritage and expose societal issues. read more

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    A Newly Updated Monograph Surveys Four Decades of Ai Weiwei's Career

  • These former Big Tech engineers are using AI to navigate Trump's trade chaos | TechCrunch

    Sam Basu quit his job as a senior software engineer at Google in early 2023, not long after OpenAI released ChatGPT. He took a few stabs at starting new AI businesses, but nothing really stuck until he got a call from a friend who wanted help filling out customs paperwork. Basu got “very curious” and read more

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    These former Big Tech engineers are using AI to navigate Trump's trade chaos | TechCrunch

  • Reddit is testing a new AI search feature for shopping | TechCrunch

    Reddit announced on Thursday that it’s testing a new AI search tool that takes community recommendations and matches them with products from some of the company’s shopping and advertising partners. A small group of users in the U.S. will start to see search results that include interactive product carousels with pricing, images, and direct where-to-buy read more

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    Reddit is testing a new AI search feature for shopping | TechCrunch