A 20-minute pitch wins Indian startup Pronto backing from Lachy Groom | TechCrunch
Lachy Groom, one of Silicon Valley’s most closely watched solo investors, decided to back Indian startup Pronto just 20 minutes
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Barry Diller trusts Sam Altman. But 'trust is irrelevant' as AGI nears, he says. | TechCrunch
Billionaire media mogul Barry Diller doesn’t think OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is untrustworthy, despite recent reporting to the contrary. On
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Snap says its $400M deal with Perplexity 'amicably ended' | TechCrunch
Snap no longer has a deal with Perplexity, the company revealed on Wednesday as part of its quarterly earnings report.
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Is xAI a neocloud now? | TechCrunch
On Wednesday, xAI and Anthropic announced a surprise partnership that has the Claude-maker buying out “all of the compute capacity
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Microsoft's AI data center push is colliding with its clean power goals | TechCrunch
Microsoft is weighing whether to delay or scale back one of its most ambitious clean energy goals as its rapid
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Robinhood's venture fund IPO attracted 150,000+ retail investors, CEO says | TechCrunch
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev is touting the success of the fintech’s new Ventures Fund Iwhich allows retail investors to invest
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How Elon Musk left OpenAI, according to Greg Brockman | TechCrunch
In late August 2017, key figures at OpenAI (then a small nonprofit research lab) gathered to discuss how they would
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SpaceX may spend up to $119 billion on 'Terafab' chip factory in Texas | TechCrunch
SpaceX, Elon Musk’s space company that also houses his AI company, xAI, is considering spending $55 billion, at least initially,
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Chrome on Android now supports approximate instead of precise location sharing | TechCrunch
Chrome on Android now lets users share their approximate location with websites rather than their precise location, Google announced this
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Tinder owner Match Group is slowing hiring to pay for its increased use of AI tools | TechCrunch
You might think the big story out of Match Group’s first-quarter earnings is Tinder’s turnaround. The dating app’s revenue is
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