Amazon to pay $2.5B in FTC settlement over 'deceptive' Prime tactics: The company will be required to pay a $1 billion civil penalty and provide $1.5 billion in refunds back to an estimated 35 million consumers harmed by the company's "deceptive Prime enrollment practices," the FTC says. Read More |
Elon Musk's xAI offers Grok to federal government for 42 cents : xAI has reached a deal with the U.S. GSA to sell Grok to federal agencies for 42 cents over 18 months, undercutting OpenAI and Anthropic. Read More |
OpenAI says GPT-5 stacks up to humans in a wide range of jobs: A new test from OpenAI aims to understand how close AI is to outperforming humans at economically valuable work. Read More |
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| OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pulse to proactively write you morning briefs: Pulse is part of a broader shift in OpenAI's consumer products, which are lately being designed to work for users asynchronously instead of responding to questions. Read More |
Microsoft cuts cloud services to Israeli military unit over Palestinian surveillance: The investigation was sparked by a story in The Guardian that reported that Unit 8200, the elite Israel military intelligence unit, was using Azure cloud storage to house data on phone calls obtained through the surveillance of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Read More |
What top VCs want from AI founders: Inside the investor lens with Jon McNeill, Aileen Lee, and Steve Jang at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: Jon McNeill (DVx Ventures), Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures), and Steve Jang (Kindred Ventures) share what AI founders need to know now: from defensibility to term sheets. TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 takes place October 27–29 in San Francisco. Register before tomorrow ends to save up to $668. Read More |
Viral call-recording app Neon goes dark after exposing users' phone numbers, call recordings, and transcripts: Call recording app Neon was one of the top-ranked iPhone apps, but was pulled offline after a security bug allowed any logged-in user to access the call recordings and transcripts of any other user. Read More |
Juicebox raises $30M from Sequoia to revolutionize hiring with LLM-powered search: The recruiting startup has over 2,500 customers, including recruiters at Perplexity, Ramp, and OpenAI. Read More |
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Tesla asks EPA not to roll back emissions rules as Trump calls climate change a 'con job': The company's regulatory policy team is trying to clean up a mess that CEO Elon Musk spent $300 million to help create. Read More |
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