Prince Andrew advisor pitched Jeffrey Epstein on investing in EV startups like Lucid Motors | TechCrunch
Electric vehicle startup Lucid Motors was scrambling to raise a Series D funding round in 2017. It had courted Ford
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Maybe AI agents can be lawyers after all | TechCrunch
Last month, I wrote about Mercor’s new benchmark measuring AI agents’ capabilities on professional tasks like law and corporate analysis.
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How AI is helping solve the labor issue in treating rare diseases | TechCrunch
Modern biotech has the tools to edit genes and design drugs, yet thousands of rare diseases remain untreated. According to
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Amazon and Google are winning the AI capex race — but what's the prize? | TechCrunch
Sometimes, it can seem like the AI industry is racing to see who can spend the most money on data
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Exclusive: Pacific Fusion finds a cheaper way to make its fusion reactor work | TechCrunch
Fusion power’s biggest question remains unanswered: how do you ensure the cost to start the fusion reaction isn’t higher than
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Trump’s critical mineral reserve is an admission that the future is electric | TechCrunch
The Trump administration announced this week the U.S. government would work to build a $11.7 billion stockpile of critical minerals.
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ElevenLabs CEO: Voice is the next interface for AI | TechCrunch
ElevenLabs co-founder and CEO Mati Staniszewski says voice is becoming the next major interface for AI – the way people
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Exclusive: Positron raises $230M Series B to take on Nvidia's AI chips | TechCrunch
Semiconductor startup Positron has secured $230 million in Series B funding, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The outfit plans to use
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Exclusive: Gradient’s heat pumps get new smarts to enable old-building retrofits | TechCrunch
New York City and others like it are filled with old buildings that are for the most part fine, except
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Coalition demands federal Grok ban over nonconsensual sexual content | TechCrunch
A coalition of nonprofits is urging the U.S. government to immediately suspend the deployment of Grok, the chatbot developed by
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