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Endurance Energy has raised a $54 million Series A to develop geothermal power plants deep in the ocean, where founder Andrew Redd says large amounts of renewable baseload energy may…

South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission has imposed a record fine of about 624 billion won, or more than $400 million, on Coupang after a data breach exposed the personal…

Anthropic has partnered with Tata Consultancy Services to bring its AI models to more enterprise customers, with TCS creating a dedicated business unit focused on deploying Anthropic’s technology across major…

Opendoor is shutting down its India operations less than two years after expanding in the country, placing the online home-buying company at the center of a debate over how AI…

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has only one direct report at the AI company, according to a new interview with Bloomberg’s Emily Chang cited by TechCrunch. The structure leaves most of…

A former xAI engineer has sued xAI and its parent company SpaceX, claiming he was fired after raising concerns about AI safety while working on Grok, the company’s chatbot. Devin…

ShinyHunters has claimed it hacked Oracle PeopleSoft servers at more than 100 organizations, many of them universities, according to a group member who spoke to TechCrunch. The alleged breaches were…

General Motors is preparing a larger push into energy storage with a new sodium-ion battery chemistry aimed at stationary power systems, as demand grows from data centers, electrification, and grid…

Amazon has signed a deal to borrow about $17.5 billion from several financial lenders, adding to the company’s recent financing activity as major technology companies continue to fund large AI…

CrowdStrike said North Korean hackers posing as remote IT workers and online recruiters accounted for 47% of all state-backed interactive intrusions targeting the technology sector during the period covered by…

Wing, the Alphabet-owned drone delivery company, is expanding its Walmart partnership to seven more U.S. cities as both companies work toward a drone delivery network across more than 270 Walmart…

Ramp says the heaviest AI users among U.S. businesses are spending thousands of dollars per employee each month on AI tools, tokens, APIs, and infrastructure. Even so, new data from…

SpaceX may face new delays in bringing Starlink to India after officials reportedly paused parts of the rollout over concerns about whether the satellite internet service would follow local rules.…

Writer researchers have published new work showing that AI memory systems can make models more likely to agree with user mistakes and less likely to give accurate answers. The research…

Zest has launched a restaurant discovery app that uses credit card transaction data and AI to recommend places based on where users actually eat, drink, and get coffee. The startup…

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 this week as a public version of its more restricted Mythos cybersecurity model, but some security researchers say the model’s safeguards block legitimate work too…

Niteshift has raised $7 million in seed funding to build cloud infrastructure for AI coding agents. The round was led by Greylock partner Jerry Chen and backed by investors including…

SpaceX is preparing for a Friday IPO that could raise $75 billion at a valuation near $1.75 trillion, drawing strong demand from institutional investors. The offering has also placed attention…

Pinterest is expanding its partnership with Amazon by letting creators connect their Amazon Storefronts directly to their Pinterest accounts. The new integration lets creators tag eligible Amazon products in Pins…

Warner Music Group has agreed to acquire Sureel AI, a startup that tracks how music and related rights are used in AI-generated content and model training. The company said the…