"The conversation is sort of happening in Silicon Valley around one thing, and a totally different conversation is happening among consumers."
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Wednesday, May 13, 2026
Clio’s $500M milestone arrives just as Anthropic ups the ante
Legal tech startups, including Clio, which just hit $500 million in ARR, are seeing massive customer adoption.
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Origin Lab raises $8M to help video game companies sell data to world-model builders
Origin Lab will serve as a marketplace where AI labs can buy high-quality licensed data, and video-game companies can sell it.
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Who trusts Sam Altman?
"I believe I am an honest and trustworthy business person," Altman testified in federal court.
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Rivian spinoff Mind Robotics raises another $400M
Mind Robotics, which was first revealed in late 2025, has now raised more than $1 billion to date.
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Anthropic courts a new kind of customer: small business owners
Anthropic is looking to broaden its customer base from larger enterprise customers to smaller and mid-sized businesses.
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Amazon launches an AI shopping assistant for the search bar, powered by Alexa+
Alexa for Shopping is a new personalized AI shopping assistant in the Amazon search bar that replaces its Rufus assistant.
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Anduril raises $5B, doubles valuation to $61B
After achieving $2.2 billion in revenue in 2025, the defense tech startup has raised another massive round, led by Thrive and a16z, it says.
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r/WallStreetBets really hates the SEC’s proposal to weaken quarterly reporting
The retail trading subreddit submitted the sharpest criticism yet in response to the financial regulator's idea of letting companies report twice per year.
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US lawmakers demand answers from Instructure after Canvas data breaches
U.S. House lawmakers want to know how hackers broke into education tech giant Instructure twice, and stole reams of data from students who use the company's flagship student data software Canvas.
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Introducing the 6 stages at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 — built for today’s tougher startup market
From October 13-15, TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 will feature 200+ sessions across six stages, led by 250+ tech leaders shaping the industry today. Register now to save up to $410, plus 50% off a second pass.
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Anthropic now has more business customers than OpenAI, according to Ramp data
For the first time, Anthropic has more verified business customers than OpenAI, according to this month’s AI Index from the fintech firm Ramp.
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WhatsApp adds an incognito mode in Meta AI chats
Meta said these incognito conversations are not saved, and messages will disappear by default once you close the chat.
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Poppy debuts a proactive AI assistant to help organize your digital life
Poppy is an AI-powered app that connects your calendar, email, messages, and other services to surface reminders, suggestions, and tasks based on what’s happening in your life.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2026
Medicare’s new payment model is built for AI, and most of the tech world has no idea
There is no governmental mechanism to pay for an AI agent that monitors a patient between visits, calls to check in, coordinates a housing referral, or makes sure someone picks up their medication. ACCESS creates that mechanism for the first time.
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Google launches new Android security feature to help uncover spyware attacks
Intrusion Logging is a new part of Android’s Advanced Protection Mode, which aims to help protect human rights activists, journalists, and dissidents from government spyware attack and law enforcement forensic devices.
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Google brings agentic AI and vibe-coded widgets to Android
Gemini Intelligence will also include Gboard based dictation and form filling capabilities
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Android adds a feature to stop you from doomscrolling
Google’s new Android feature, Pause Point, forces you to wait before opening distracting apps in an effort to curb addictive scrolling habits.
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Google’s ‘Create My Widget’ feature will let you vibe code your own widgets
The new feature will first launch on the latest Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel phones this summer.
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Everything Google announced at its Android Show, from Googlebooks to vibe-coded widgets
Google unveiled its new AI-first Googlebooks laptops, more agentic Gemini features, vibe-coded Android widgets, Gemini in Chrome, refreshed Android Auto, and more ahead of I/O.
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