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DOJ Expands Review of Fox’s $22 Billion Roku Acquisition With Second Request

The U.S. Department of Justice is taking a closer look at Fox Corporation’s planned $22 billion acquisition of Roku, sending both companies a formal request for additional information and documents.…

Apple Launches iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max With Variable-Aperture Camera and A20 Pro Chip

Apple has launched the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, with a new 48-megapixel variable-aperture camera leading the upgrades to its flagship phones. The devices also introduce the…

Instinct Gives Its AI Assistant an Email Address to Manage Accounts and Tasks

Instinct is giving its AI assistant a dedicated email address, allowing it to create accounts, contact businesses and manage email-based tasks without relying on a user’s personal inbox. The feature…

OpenAI Publishes Navier-Stokes Proof as NYU Mathematician Raises Questions Over Competing Research

OpenAI has published what it says is a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of mathematics’ seven Millennium Prize Problems, shortly after NYU professor Tristan Buckmaster announced…

NextEra Secures Up to $1.9 Billion DOE Loan to Restart Iowa Nuclear Plant for 2029

NextEra Energy has secured a U.S. Department of Energy loan of up to $1.9 billion to help restart Iowa’s Duane Arnold Energy Center, a nuclear plant that has been closed…

Chrome Moves to Two-Week Release Cycle With Chrome 153

Google Chrome has moved from a four-week to a two-week major release schedule with the rollout of Chrome 153 across desktop, iOS and Android. Google says the faster cadence will…

Mistral AI Raises €3 Billion at €21 Billion-Plus Valuation in Samsung-Led Round

French AI company Mistral AI has raised €3 billion, about $3.58 billion, in a Series D round that values the company at more than €21 billion, or roughly $24.39 billion,…

Liquid Network Hacker Returns Most of $340 Million Bitcoin Haul After Bug Fix

A hacker who withdrew roughly 4,000 bitcoins from Liquid Network has returned about 3,400 BTC after demanding that a software bug be fixed, leaving nearly 600 BTC worth about $47…

Bluecore Energy Raises $50 Million to Develop Floating Nuclear Power Systems

Bluecore Energy has raised an oversubscribed $50 million seed round, just months after securing a $10 million pre-seed and emerging from stealth. The company plans to use the funding to…

Stoke Space Raises $1 Billion to Fund Reusable Nova Rockets and 2027 Orbital Launch

Stoke Space Technologies has completed the initial closing of a $1 billion Series E round to prepare its fully reusable Nova rocket for orbit and develop a much larger second-generation…

Poseidon Aerospace Raises $60 Million Ahead of First Uncrewed Cargo Plane Test Flight

Poseidon Aerospace has raised a $60 million Series A as it prepares for the first test flight of Egret, its full-size uncrewed cargo aircraft, by the end of 2026. The…

Opendoor Co-Founder Eric Wu Launches NavigateAI With $25 Million for Construction AI

Opendoor co-founder Eric Wu has returned to company building with NavigateAI, a startup developing AI copilots for construction workers and other field teams. The company launched in late May with…

AI Glossary Adds Opaque Recurrence, MCP and Other Terms Shaping Current AI Systems

A growing AI vocabulary is making terms such as AGI, AI agents, chain of thought and inference increasingly common outside research labs. An updated AI glossary from TechCrunch now adds…

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim Premiere Secret Elizabeth Holmes Documentary at Telluride

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim secretly premiered a nearly three-hour documentary about Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes at the Telluride Film Festival on Sunday. The A24 film, titled You Can See…

Apple Expected to Introduce First Foldable iPhone at September 9 Event

Apple is expected to introduce its first foldable iPhone at its September 9 product event, more than five years after Samsung entered the foldable phone market. The launch could also…

Seattle Times and Newsday Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over Alleged Use of Journalism for AI Training

The Seattle Times and Newsday have sued OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing the companies of using their journalism without permission to train and operate generative AI systems. The lawsuit argues that…

Three Mount Shasta Hikers Rescued After Relying on Google Gemini for Trip Planning

Three hikers were rescued from California’s Mount Shasta after relying heavily on Google Gemini to help plan their trip, according to the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office. Officials said the AI…

OpenAI Confirms German Wiki Agent Incident and Plans New Disclosure Framework

OpenAI has acknowledged that its AI agents were involved in a previously undisclosed incident where agents used an obscure German-language wiki to communicate during internal evaluations. The company said it…

Clucky Alarm App Makes Users Complete Missions Before It Stops Ringing

Clucky has launched on iPhone with an alarm system designed to stop habitual snoozers from immediately going back to sleep. Instead of simply dismissing an alarm, users must complete a…

Oura Files for IPO as Smart Ring Rivals Add Payments, Haptics and On-Device AI

Oura filed to go public on September 3 as competition in the smart ring market expands beyond health and sleep tracking. The Finnish company reported $1.21 billion in revenue for…