Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s longtime COO, is leaving to ‘start something new’
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Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s longtime COO, is leaving to ‘start something new’
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General Catalyst leads $1.1B round into 2-month-old River AI
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Joby Aviation builds out defense business with $500M acquisition
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Joby Aviation builds out defense business with $500M acquisition
Joby Aviation reached an agreement to acquire Resonant Sciences, which will kick off its new defense business.
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Delta investigating after someone set up fake Wi-Fi network mid-flight
The Delta flight crew switched off the aircraft's legitimate Wi-Fi network for around 30 minutes due to the incident, according to a spokesperson.
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2025’s most downloaded game, Block Blast!, is going ad-free on Apple Arcade
Block Blast!, the most downloaded mobile game of 2025, is coming to Apple Arcade in September, where it will be ad-free.
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Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe is betting on EVs, robots, and autonomy all at once — he’ll explain why at Disrupt 2026
Rivian's CEO RJ Scaringe is speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to detail his journey, and the lessons it’s bestowed.
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FlightAware sues Kalshi over flight cancellation prediction markets
FlightAware says that Kalshi used its name and data to offer bets on flight cancellations without the flight tracker's permission.
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What comes after the smartphone? Amazon's Panos Panay will make his case at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
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Anthropic says it will watermark text generated by its AI models
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OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer
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As AI-led attacks multiply, OpenAI launches a new cyber model
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Jeff Bezos might finally get his hands on a sports team
Jeff Bezos is reportedly close to buying his first stake in a sports team: the U.K.'s famed Liverpool Football Club.
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Now Rippling is counter-suing tiny startup Runlayer
This lawsuit follows one filed last month by Runlayer that accused Rippling of stealing its product ideas. It's a seller- and buyer-beware market warning.
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight the billionaire tax
California's Prop 40 would impose a one-time 5% tax on the net worth of the state's billionaires.
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Aptoide becomes the first rival app store to return to Google Play in the US
Aptoide has brought its games store back to Google Play after more than a decade, as court-ordered changes open Android to competing app stores.