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We’re in the final stretch. Exhibitor tables for TechCrunch All Stage, happening July 15 in Boston, are almost completely sold out — and less than 48 hours remain before booking officially closes. TC All Stage is built for founders  This … Continue reading →

Apple said developers generated $1.3 trillion in sales in 2024 through its App Store, of which 90% did not involve paying the company a commission.

Anthropic says that it has released a new set of AI models tailored for U.S. national security customers. The new models, a custom set of “Claude Gov” models, were “built based on direct feedback from our government customers to address … Continue reading →

Cellebrite said the deal will help with the “accelerated identification of mobile vulnerabilities and exploits.”

PalmPay, an African digital bank fintech, is in talks to raise between $50 million and $100 million in a Series B round, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. It’s unclear what valuation it hopes to get, but its … Continue reading →

In a Bloomberg interview tonight, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai pushed back against concerns that AI could eventually make half the company’s 180,000-person workforce redundant. Instead, Pichai stressed the company’s commitment to growth through at least next year. “I expect we … Continue reading →

Despite what some experts have characterized as an environment increasingly hostile to AI R&D, North America continues to receive the bulk of AI venture dollars, according to data from investment tracker PitchBook. Between February and May of this year, VCs … Continue reading →

It’s becoming a little easier to build sophisticated robotics projects at home. Earlier this week, AI dev platform Hugging Face released an open AI model for robotics called SmolVLA. Trained on “compatibly licensed,” community-shared datasets, SmolVLA outperforms much larger models … Continue reading →

A group of cybercriminals known as Interlock is advertising stolen data from Kettering Health, which includes patients’ data.

CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski told the crowd at London SXSW that his company plans to balance employees and AI workers.