AI chipmaker Groq has confirmed a $650 million funding round, roughly six months after Nvidia signed a non-exclusive licensing agreement for its chip technology and hired away founder and CEO Jonathan Ross, president Sunny Madra, and other key employees. The deal, which sources have described as a “not-acqui-hire” worth approximately $20 billion in licensing fees, […]
Political action committees backed by cryptocurrency companies have poured more than $8 million into media campaigns supporting candidates in Tuesday’s primary elections across New York, Maryland, and Utah, marking one of the most concentrated efforts by the digital asset industry to influence US congressional races this cycle. Where the money is going According to Federal […]
TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026, scheduled for November 4 in Boston, is offering Early Bird ticket savings of up to $190 per pass through June 26 at 11:59 p.m. PT. The one-day conference, designed for over 1,000 founders and investors, focuses on growth, execution, and building lasting connections. TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 will take place on […]
Dash is evaluating the Philippines as a potential launch market for its cryptocurrency payment services, drawn by the country’s appetite for digital finance and lower-cost transaction alternatives. However, industry participants caution that dealing with the local regulatory framework remains a multi-year process, even as the government streamlines corporate registration. Dash assesses Philippine market for payment […]
A Japanese corporate pension fund serving approximately 1,200 small and medium-sized enterprises is preparing to allocate roughly 1% of its assets to cryptocurrency during fiscal 2026, according to a report from Nikkei. The move signals growing acceptance of digital assets among Japan’s traditionally conservative institutional investors. Pension fund details and strategy The Nationwide Business Corporate […]
Nobel laureate John Jumper, a key architect of the AlphaFold AI model, announced Friday that he is leaving Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join rival AI company Anthropic. The move, disclosed in a post on X, marks another high-profile departure from the Alphabet-owned lab and signals Anthropic’s aggressive push to recruit top-tier AI […]
I opened a Google Doc to write an article last week, and I was immediately confronted with a text box inviting me to “write with Gemini.” I looked for some button to swipe away the garish AI display, but I could not find it. It made me mad. Now, instead of writing the article I’m […]
When iPod creator Tony Fadell saw a Back Market advertisement for the iPod Shuffle in a New York City subway station, he was startled. The poster’s tagline, “Zero screen time,” highlighted a device he helped design over 20 years ago. For Fadell, it was a surreal moment in a station full of people streaming music […]
Signal President Meredith Whittaker issued a stark warning about AI chatbots during a Bloomberg interview published June 20, 2026, telling users that tools like ChatGPT and Claude are not their friends and should not be trusted with sensitive personal data. Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned in a June 2026 Bloomberg interview that AI chatbots like […]
Thomas Dimson and Joey Flynn, former OpenAI designers, have launched a new website called In the Weights that lets you check how well AI models remember you. The tool queries multiple large language models (LLMs) — including Grok, Gemini, GPT, Claude, and Llama — and assigns a strength score based on how consistently and confidently […]
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