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Didero lands $30M to put manufacturing procurement on 'agentic' autopilot | TechCrunch
Tim Spencer realized just how complicated manufacturing procurement can be while running Markai, an e-commerce startup in Asia, during the pandemic. “We had thousands of suppliers, and we were distributing products into dozens of countries around the world,” Spencer (pictured left) told TechCrunch. His staff was overwhelmed by the manual complexity of sourcing suppliers, negotiating read more
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Anthropic raises another $30B in Series G, with a new value of $380B | TechCrunch
Anthropic has just concluded a $30 billion Series G fundraising round, the company announced on Thursday. The company’s new value is $380 billion — a huge jump from its previous Series F valuation of $183 billion. Some details of the round were reported earlier this week by Bloomberg. The new round was led by Singaporean read more
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YouTube finally launches a dedicated app for Apple Vision Pro | TechCrunch
After two years of initial hesitation, YouTube has finally unveiled its dedicated app for the Apple Vision Pro. When Apple’s headset first launched, YouTube opted for a web-based approach instead of developing a dedicated app, directing viewers to use Safari to access content. Until now, anyone wanting to watch YouTube on the headset has missed read more
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Automattic planned to target 10 competitors with royalty fees, WP Engine claims in new filing | TechCrunch
Web hosting company WP Engine has filed an amended complaint with brow-raising new allegations in its ongoing legal battle with WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg and his company Automattic (WordPress.com’s parent company). The company now claims that Mullenweg intended to target 10 different hosting companies with royalty payments for their use of the WordPress trademark and read more
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Sotheby’s Will Sell Works by El Anatsui, Sean Scully, and Others to Benefit Royal Academy of Art
Next month, during the spring sales in London, Sotheby’s will auction off ten works to raise money for the Royal Academy of Arts in London, which has been in a financial crisis since the pandemic. The works have all been donated by living or honorary Royal Academicians, in the hopes of raising enough funds to read more
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Waymo Asks the DC Public to Pressure Their City Officials
Waymo needs some help, according to an email message the self-driving developer sent to residents of Washington, DC, on Thursday. For more than a year, Waymo has been pushing city officials to pass new regulations allowing its robotaxis to operate in the district. So far, self-driving cars can test in the city with humans behind read more
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A Wave of Unexplained Bot Traffic Is Sweeping the Web
Many people suspect that these bots are part of an AI company’s effort to collect training data from web pages. In 2025, AI bots accounted for a significant portion of overall web traffic, which crawl the internet for text and other information to feed to data-hungry large language models. But there are some key differences read more
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Bonhams Unveils 57th Street Flagship With Cuban Art, Brancusi, and Boxing Legends
Bonhams has a new front door in New York, and it is not subtle. This week, the 232-year-old auction house opened its new U.S. headquarters at 111 West 57th Street, inside the restored Steinway Hall and beneath the pencil-thin tower that now looms over Billionaires’ Row. The move shifts Bonhams from its longtime Madison Avenue read more
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Senate panel hears officials on Minnesota immigration surge
Paul and Peters began the second panel by showing video of the lead-up to the shooting of Alex Pretti, who was filming federal agents before he was tackled to the ground and shot and killed. “The grant to use lethal force is so ominous … that society only allows such force to be used on read more
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Hacker linked to Epstein removed from Black Hat cyber conference website | TechCrunch
Vincenzo Iozzo, a renowned hacker linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, is no longer listed on the website of Black Hat, one of the largest cybersecurity conferences in the world, nor on the Japanese security conference Code Blue. As of Thursday, Iozzo does not appear on the official review board pages of Black Hat read more
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Apple Releases New Beta Firmware for AirPods Pro 2, AirPods Pro 3 and AirPods 4
Apple today released new beta firmware for the AirPods Pro 2, AirPods Pro 3, and AirPods 4. The firmware is limited to developers at the current time, and it has a build number of 8B5034f. Apple is not testing any iOS updates right now, so it is unclear what’s in the AirPods firmware beta. With read more
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Trump administration undermines EPA enforcement of Clean Air Act | TechCrunch
After months of telegraphing the move, the Trump administration today officially repealed the EPA’s 2009 “endangerment finding,” which found that greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane were a threat to human health and welfare. The finding had so far supported the agency’s regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. Currently, the read more
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OpenAI’s President Gave Millions to Trump. He Says It’s for Humanity
OpenAI’s president and cofounder Greg Brockman doesn’t consider himself political, which is surprising, because he was one of President Trump’s biggest individual donors of 2025. Greg and his wife, Anna Brockman, gave $25 million to MAGA Inc—a super PAC that supports President Trump—in September of last year. The pair also gave $25 million to a read more
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Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI | TechCrunch
Has AI coding reached a tipping point? That seems to be the case for Spotify at least, which shared this week during its fourth-quarter earnings call that the best developers at the company “have not written a single line of code since December.” That statement, from Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström, came alongside other comments about read more
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12,000-Year-Old Clothing Made of Animal Hide Discovered in Ice Age Caves in Oregon
A team of 13 archaeologists and scientists from universities in Oregon and Nevada have successfully dated a cache of animal hide clothing to the Late Pleistocene era, making it the oldest known sewn clothing in the world. The stitched-together hides were originally excavated, along with other materials (braided cords, knotted bark, and other fiber objects), read more
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Apple Releases Safari Technology Preview 237 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements
Apple today released a new update for Safari Technology Preview, the experimental browser that was first introduced in March 2016. Apple designed Safari Technology Preview to allow users to test features that are planned for future release versions of the Safari browser. Safari Technology Preview 237 includes fixes and updates for Accessibility, CSS, DOM, HTML, read more
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A new version of OpenAI's Codex is powered by a new dedicated chip | TechCrunch
On Thursday, OpenAI announced the release of a light-weight version of its agentic coding tool Codex, the latest model of which OpenAI launched earlier this month. GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark is described by the company as a “smaller version” of that model, one that is designed for faster inference. To power that inference, OpenAI has brought in a read more
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Aurora's driverless trucks can now travel farther distances faster than human drivers | TechCrunch
Aurora’s self-driving trucks can now travel nonstop on a 1,000-mile route between Fort Worth and Phoenix — exceeding what a human driver can legally accomplish. The distance, and the time it takes to travel it, offers up positive financial implications for Aurora — and any other company hoping to commercialize self-driving semitrucks. It takes Aurora read more
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New York’s High Line Art Announces 2026 Commissions, with Works by Katherine Bernhardt, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, and Derek Fordjour
High Line Art, the Cecilia Alemani–curated enterprise the programs and commissions public artworks for the reimagined elevated-train-track park in New York, announced its next season, to start in the spring and continue (in most cases) for around a year. In March, the High Line Billboard—a working billboard rising from the ground on 18th Street—will be read more
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A Belgian Museum Holds Colonial-Era Records About the Congo—A Minerals Company Wants Access
A museum devoted to Belgium’s colonial history in Africa has found itself involved in a dispute over access to documents pertaining to rich mineral deposits in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly colonized by the European country. The Congolese government and KoBold Metals, a mining and artificial intelligence company backed by billionaires read more
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