Founders Fund launches game show starring Sam Altman, Palmer Luckey, and other tech elites

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Ahead of its IPO, Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei shrugs off doubts about AI’s returns

Private investors have been falling over themselves to get a piece of Anthropic, given the AI model maker is growing at ...

Airbnb’s Brian Chesky plans to launch a new AI lab

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky has had enough of merely being an artificial intelligence kingmaker. He now plans to back a new ...

Mistrust Spreads With the Ebola Virus in Congo

In a remote mining town at the center of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola outbreak, grief and mistrust are compl...

Filtr is a new privacy tool that blocks ads in almost every iPhone and Mac app

Using an ad blocker is good for your security, privacy, and even the FBI recommends them to defend from online harms. Bu...

Fighting in Somalia’s Capital, Mogadishu: What’s Happening and Why It Matters

Gun battles erupted on Thursday, as armed groups loyal to rival politicians clashed. Residents said it was the worst fig...

Defense tech, AI, and fundraising take center stage at StrictlyVC Los Angeles on June 18

With just two weeks to go, StrictlyVC Los Angeles is quickly approaching. On Thursday, June 18, at The Aerospace Corpora...

Not to Alarm Anyone, but Flesh-Eating Screwworms Have Entered the US

A case of New World screwworm has been confirmed in South Texas, the US Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday ni...

Startup Battlefield is returning to Australia — here’s what happened the last time we came to Sydney

In November 2017, TechCrunch brought Startup Battlefield to Australia for the first time. Fifteen startups from across A...

Nose Gear on Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner Collapses, Injuring Several Workers

The airline Lufthansa said the cause of the accident at Frankfurt Airport was under investigation. The plane can weigh 2...

Wary of U.S., Carney Bets on AI Strategy for Canada

The country on Thursday released a national artificial intelligence strategy that focuses on building its sovereign capa...

Latest Israel-Lebanon Cease-Fire Shows Little Sign of Taking Hold

The U.S.-brokered deal depends on Hezbollah halting its attacks first. But the leader of the Iran-backed group rejected ...

Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents

Just when you thought the AI data center boom couldn’t get any crazier, Meta has gone and built data centers in tents. T...

Apple approves Poke as the first AI agent on its Messages for Business platform

Poke, a startup that turns using AI agents into something as simple as sending a text message, has become the first AI a...

Helion, the Sam Altman-backed fusion startup, raises $465M to build a power plant for Microsoft

Helion, the fusion startup backed by Sam Altman, announced on Thursday that it had raised $465 million in a new funding ...

The AI IPO Race Heats Up, DOGE Whistleblower Sues Elon Musk, and Instagram Gets Hacked

Articles mentioned in this episode:What’s Worth More Than Cash in San Francisco Real Estate? Anthropic StockThis Is How ...

Phoebe Bridgers Ditched the Internet to Hype Up Her New Music. It’s Working

For six years, I have found myself randomly wondering, “Is this the year Phoebe Bridgers finally puts out a new album?” ...

Meta’s Oversight Board says account bans lack due process, transparency

Meta’s Oversight Board, the independent governing body that makes policy recommendations to the tech company, said...

Meta rolls out a new AI creator assistant on Facebook

Meta announced on Thursday that it’s introducing a new AI creator assistant on Facebook that will give creators pe...