GM will send batteries — new and old — to Redwood Materials, which will assemble them into large packs capable of supporting data centers and the grid.
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Of course, Grok’s AI companions want to have sex and burn down schools
xAI's first AI companions on the Grok app are a lustful anime girl and a homicidal panda.
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Amazon’s Kuiper satellites to get boost from rival SpaceX
Amazon is looking to its main competitor to get its next batch of Kuiper satellites to orbit.
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The Chainsmokers’ Mantis Ventures closes $100M third fund
The fund brings Mantis' assets under management to $225 million.
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US Army soldier pleads guilty to hacking telcos and extortion
Cameron Wagenius had already pleaded guilty to other charges earlier this year.
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A former OpenAI engineer describes what it’s really like to work there
A senior engineer describes the thrill, chaos, and exhaustion of working at OpenAI this past year while launching its coding agent Codex.
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Meta fixes bug that could leak users’ AI prompts and generated content
The tech giant fixed the security flaw, netting a security researcher $10,000 for privately disclosing the bug.
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Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab is worth $12B in seed round
Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says that her new startup, Thinking Machines Lab, was valued at $12 billion in its seed round.
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AV startup Pronto.ai acquires off-road autonomous vehicle rival SafeAI
Pronto.ai CEO Anthony Levandowski said the move is meant to help bolster his company's ranks with like-minded talent and complimentary technology.
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Monday, July 14, 2025
Tesla finally enters India — nine years after Elon Musk first teased its debut
Tesla has made its long-awaited entry into India with the opening of its first showroom in Mumbai.
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Meta is reportedly using actual tents to build data centers
Meta and Mark Zuckerberg are in a hurry to build their superintelligence tech. The company has been poaching AI researchers, while CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Monday that Meta is building a 5-gigawatt data center called Hyperion. The urgency is palpable. As SemiAnalysis reported last week and Business Insider noted, Meta is so eager to […]
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Nvidia is set to resume China chip sales after months of regulatory whiplash
Nvidia announced Monday that it’s filing applications to restart sales of its H20 artificial intelligence chips to China, capping a spasmodic few months that saw the Trump administration impose restrictions, then quickly reverse course after a high-profile dinner meeting. The company expects to receive U.S. government licenses soon and begin deliveries shortly after, according to […]
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Brian Singerman’s new fund has a twist, and Peter Thiel as a big backer
Former Founders Fund GP Brian Singerman and co-founder and managing partner of Quiet Capital, Lee Linden, are seeking over $500 million for a new fund called GPx, three people familiar with their strategy told TechCrunch. A significant portion of GPx's fund, potentially as much as 50%, will come from Founders Fund co-founder Peter Thiel, these people said.
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Meta built its AI reputation on openness — that may be changing
Top members of Meta’s new Superintelligence Lab discussed pivoting away from the company’s powerful open source AI model, Behemoth, and instead developing a closed model. This would mark a major philosophical shift for Meta.
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Former Sequoia partner Matt Miller raises $355M for new fund — with Sequoia’s backing
Former Sequoia partner Matt Miller has already locked in $355 million for his new fund, Evantic, which is also backed by Sequoia, TechCrunch learned.
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