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OpenAI COO says 'we have not yet really seen AI penetrate enterprise business processes' | TechCrunch
Earlier this month, OpenAI launched a new platform called OpenAI Frontier for enterprises to build and manage agents, but OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap said that businesses haven’t yet seen AI adoption at scale. “One of the interesting things and some of the inspiration for the work we’ve been doing lately around OpenAI Frontier is we read more
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Ailias Lets You Commission Your Own Personal Talking Man in a Box
It’s the classic awkward icebreaker: If you could invite anyone, dead or alive, to a dinner party, who would it be? Aristotle? Ailias is a company based in Surrey, UK, which promises to make that hypothetical a reality. It can reanimate historical and current legends with 3D hologram avatars that are fully conversational, knowledgeable, and read more
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Apples Second Retail Store in Mumbai Opens This Thursday
Apple has previewed Apple Borivali, its sixth store to open in India, and the company’s second store in Mumbai. The store opens on Thursday, February 26, at 1 p.m. IST. The store is in Sky City Mall, a large new shopping and entertainment complex in Borivali East, located off the Western Express Highway near the read more
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This Is the Worst Thing That Could Happen to the International Space Station
But in the worst worst-case scenario, we don’t have any control. Instead, the station will crack through the atmosphere. Sure, many pieces will likely end up in the ocean, but some might hit people, possibly in a town or a city. The station could break apart across thousands of miles and multiple continents. This would read more
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How Mexico's ‘CJNG’ Drug Cartel Embraced AI, Drones, and Social Media
“El Mencho” is dead. This weekend, Mexican Army Special Forces killed Nemesio Rubén “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes, the head of the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) in Tapalpa, Jalisco, Mexico. Following confirmation of El Mencho’s death by federal authorities, experts anticipate a profound reconfiguration of the global drug trafficking landscape, a scenario that could read more
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On Running Is Finally Ramping Up Production of Its ‘Hyper-Foam’ Spray-On Shoes
Swiss shoe company On—one of the fastest-growing footwear brands—has done very well for itself, growing into a $3 billion company on the giant puffy soles of its very garish shoes. Today, the company announced three new kicks and the opening of a new production plant in South Korea that will make many, many more—at least, read more
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The Salsa Wanderosa Lets You Go 25 Mph on Gravel Without Shaking Your Arms Off
Finally, it has my two favorite things: drop-bar handlebars and a dropper seat post. I guess I should disclose here that my everyday analog ride is also a gravel bike, and that personally, I like to tool around on a long, relaxed frame with my hands sloppily splayed this way and that on comfortable padded read more
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The Fellow Series 1 Is an Actual Game Changer for Home Espresso
Another big innovation for the Series 1 is its patented heating system. Most espresso machines use either boilers or thermoblocks to heat up the water that goes into espresso. Boilers have admirable stability, but take forever to get hot. Thermoblocks are near instant, but less stable. Fellow’s heating system falls somewhere in between, with a read more
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Google adds a way to create automated workflows to Opal | TechCrunch
Google on Tuesday announced it’s adding a new way to create automated workflows to its vibe-coding app Opal. The company said that a new agent being introduced in Opal will allow users to create mini-apps that can let them plan and execute tasks using text prompts. The feature uses the Gemini 3 Flash model and read more
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Self-driving tech startup Wayve raises $1.2B from Nvidia, Uber, and three automakers | TechCrunch
Wayve’s self-driving tech has attracted a diverse set of investors in the company’s latest $1.2 billion funding round, including three automakers, top venture and institutional firms, and returning backers Microsoft, Nvidia, and Uber.The total raise could reach $1.5 billion thanks to another $300 million from Uber contingent on deploying robotaxis, beginning in London. Everyone, it read more
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Nvidia challenger AI chip startup MatX raised $500M | TechCrunch
MatX, a chip startup founded by two former Google hardware engineers, has raised a $500 million Series B led by Jane Street and Situational Awareness, an investment fund formed by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner. The company’s goal is to make its processors 10 times better at training LLMs and delivering results than Nvidia’s GPUs. read more
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Spanish 'soonicorn' Multiverse Computing releases free compressed AI model | TechCrunch
Large language models have a problem: they are large. Multiverse Computing, a Spanish startup, is addressing this issue with compressed models that aim to close the gap between what frontier models can do and what companies can actually afford to deploy. The secret sauce is CompactifAI, a compression technology inspired by quantum computing that the read more
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Apple rolls out age-verification tools worldwide to comply with growing web of child safety laws | TechCrunch
Apple is launching new tools to comply with the growing number of age-verification laws both in the U.S. and abroad. As part of the changes, Apple will block the downloads of apps rated 18+ in Brazil, Australia, and Singapore, while also rolling out other features to comply with laws in Utah and Louisiana in the read more
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M4 iPad Air: Whats New and When Its Coming
Apple is planning to hold an “Experience” on March 4 for select members of the media, and in the days before the event, we’re expecting several product refreshes. The iPad Air is one of the new devices that could get an update, so we thought we’d highlight what’s coming. Design and Display There are no read more
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Uber engineers built an AI version of their boss | TechCrunch
Consumers probably think of Uber as a ride-hailing and food delivery company. But in the eyes of CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber is really just a giant code base with engineers that are “literally the builders of the company.” In fact, Uber’s engineers have gone so far as to replace Khosrowshahi with a chatbot that they’ll read more
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Here’s What a Google Subpoena Response Looks Like, Courtesy of the Epstein Files
Last month, the Department of Justice released over 3 million documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. While the dumps shed light on Epstein’s own social circle and activities, they also provide a rare window into the inner workings of a federal investigation, including how tech companies like Google respond to government requests for read more
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YouTubes More Affordable Premium Lite Plan Gets New Perks
YouTube today updated its Premium Lite subscription plan with new features, including background play and downloads. Subscribers will be able to watch most videos ad-free offline and in the background. Prior to now, downloads and background play were features that were limited to the more expensive Premium plan. YouTube Premium Lite is priced at $7.99 read more
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Discord delays global rollout of age verification after backlash | TechCrunch
Discord no longer plans to roll out age verification globally in March and is delaying the launch until the second half of 2026, the company announced Tuesday. Discord had faced heavy backlash from users earlier this month after it announced that all users would be put into a “teen-appropriate experience” by default until they were read more
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Instagram head pressed on lengthy delay to launch teen safety features, like a nudity filter, court filing reveals | TechCrunch
Prosecutors in a lawsuit focused on whether or not social media apps, like Instagram, are addictive and harmful, wanted to know why it took so long for Meta to roll out basic safety tools, like a nudity filter for private messages sent to teens. In April 2024, Meta introduced a feature that would automatically blur read more
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More startups are hitting $10M ARR in 3 months than ever before | TechCrunch
AI has brought the startup world the rise of a new phenomenon: startups that almost instantly hit multimillion-dollar ARR (annual recurring revenue). Stories abound of founders going from zero to $10 million, or as much as $100 million, in annual recurring revenuein a matter of months. To be fair, this alone isn’t a harbinger of read more
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