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2 days left to save up to $210 on your TechCrunch All Stage pass

Posted on June 21, 2025 by Techme101

Time is almost up! Regular bird pricing for TechCrunch All Stage ends this Sunday, June 22, at 11:59 p.m. PT. That means you have just 2 days left to lock in savings of up to $210 on your ticket to … Continue reading →

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Easy returns cause big trouble for Amazon sellers, but return rates show signs of slowing

Posted on June 21, 2025 by Techme101

Returns are causing big trouble for Amazon sellers, leading them to hike prices and reduce business on Amazon. But some changes may be slowing return rates.

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Rippling spy says men have been following him, and his wife is afraid

Posted on June 21, 2025 by Techme101

If becoming a corporate spy sounds exciting, let this newest affidavit from confessed Rippling spy Keith O’Brien serve as a warning.

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Cluely, a startup that helps ‘cheat on everything,’ raises $15M from a16z

Posted on June 20, 2025 by Techme101

The controversial AI startup was founded earlier this year.

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Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab closes on $2B at $10B valuation

Posted on June 20, 2025 by Techme101

Thinking Machines Lab, the secretive AI startup founded by OpenAI’s former chief technology officer Mira Murati, has closed a $2 billion seed round at a $10 billion valuation.

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‘Wall-E With a Gun’: Midjourney Generates Videos of Disney Characters Amid Massive Copyright Lawsuit

Posted on June 20, 2025 by Techme101

A week after Disney and Universal filed a landmark lawsuit against Midjourney, the generative AI startup’s new V1 video tool will make clips of Shrek, Deadpool, and other famous creations.

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TechCrunch Mobility: Applied Intuition’s eye-popping valuation, the new age of micromobility, and Waymo’s wild week 

Posted on June 20, 2025 by Techme101

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Waymo might be the largest commercial robotaxi operator — offering 250,000 paid … Continue reading →

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Seriously, What Is ‘Superintelligence’?

Posted on June 20, 2025 by Techme101

In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we talk about Meta’s recent investment in Scale AI and its move to build a superintelligence AI research lab. So we ask: What is superintelligence anyway?

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Meta approached Perplexity before massive Scale AI deal

Posted on June 20, 2025 by Techme101

Meta recently invested $14.3 billion into Scale AI and tried to buy another startup called Safe Superintelligence, as CNBC previously reported.

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Anthropic says most AI models, not just Claude, will resort to blackmail

Posted on June 20, 2025 by Techme101

Several weeks after Anthropic released research claiming that its Claude Opus 4 AI model resorted to blackmailing engineers who tried to turn the model off in controlled test scenarios, the company is out with new research suggesting the problem is … Continue reading →

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