How can you keep your child safe online?

Tech firms are being urged to do more to stop young people accessing unsuitable material.

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Chinese AI startup Manus reportedly gets funding from Benchmark at $500M valuation

Chinese startup Manus AI, which works on building tools related to AI agents, has picked up $75 million in a funding round led by Benchmark at a roughly $500 million valuation, according to Bloomberg. The company will use the money to expand to new markets, including the U.S., Japan, and the Middle East, Bloomberg noted, […]

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Data breach at Connecticut’s Yale New Haven Health affects over 5 million

Yale New Haven Health is Connecticut’s largest healthcare provider.

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Amazon sellers raise prices after Trump’s China tariff: ‘It’s unsustainable’

Amazon third-party sellers are raising prices and looking for new suppliers after President Trump lifted tariffs on goods from China.

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Pony.ai teams up with Tencent for robotaxi services on WeChat, other apps

Pony.ai has announced an agreement with Tencent Cloud to develop autonomous driving and deploy robotaxi services on Tencent applications like WeChat. 

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TechCrunch StrictlyVC in Athens in May will feature a special guest: the Greece Prime Minister

We’re thrilled to announce that Greece Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be joining us at our upcoming StrictlyVC event in Athens, co-hosted with Endeavor, on Thursday night, May 8, at the stunning Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center. For those who might not be familiar with his background, Mitsotakis brings a fascinating blend of experiences to […]

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Bezos-backed Slate Auto debuts analog EV pickup truck that is decidedly anti-Tesla

A new American electric vehicle startup called Slate Auto has made its debut, and it’s about as anti-Tesla as it gets. It’s affordable, deeply customizable, and very analog. It has manual windows and it doesn’t come with a main infotainment screen. Heck, it isn’t even painted. It can also transform from a two-seater pickup to […]

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Faraday Future founder named co-CEO three years after being sidelined by internal probe

Troubled electric vehicle startup Faraday Future’s board of directors has appointed founder Jia Yueting as the company’s co-CEO, three years after he was sidelined following an internal probe into allegations of fraud — a probe that led to a investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission that remains ongoing. Jia will serve alongside current CEO […]

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Alphabet expects ‘slight headwind’ to ads business this year, executives say

The comments come as Alphabet and other tech companies prepare to pay up due to the Trump administration’s trade policies.

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Wait, how did a decentralized service like Bluesky go down?

It turns out that decentralized social networks can go down, too. On Thursday evening, the decentralized social network Bluesky experienced a significant outage, leaving users unable to load the app on both the web and mobile devices for roughly an hour. According to a message on Bluesky’s status page, the company was aware of the […]

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