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Climate tech companies are pivoting to critical minerals
We’re over a year into the second Trump administration here in the US, and support for climate causes is weak.
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Nvidia’s Vera chip is the US$200 billion bet Jensen Huang doesn’t want you to overlook
The Nvidia Vera chip is rarely the headline when earnings beat estimates, but it should be. When Nvidia reported Q1 revenue of US$81.62 billion on Wednesday, beating analyst estimates of US$78.86 billion, and guided Q2 at US$91 billion–well above Wall Street’s US$86.84 billion forecast–the numbers d
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Tech researchers are suing the Trump administration over the future of online safety
Since its earliest days back in office, the Trump administration has been going after researchers who study and try to counter hate speech, harassment, propaganda, and disinformation online. Now, some of those researchers are fighting back.
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Anthropic says it’s about to have its first profitable quarter
Anthropic has told its investors that it will more than double revenue to around $10.9 billion in its second quarter, and deliver an operating profit for the first time, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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Jensen Huang says he’s found a ‘brand new’ $200B market for Nvidia
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang is, perhaps, one of the greatest corporate hype men of all time when it comes to his company.
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SpaceX Listed Grok’s ‘Spicy’ Mode as a Risk in Its IPO Filing
that AI features such as Grok’s “Spicy" and “Unhinged” modes, which allow the chatbot to generate raunchy image or voice responses with fewer safety filters, could expose the company to regulatory scrutiny and reputational damages, according to a filing submitted Wednesday as part of the company’s p
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Nvidia posts another record quarter, reveals $43B of holdings in startups
Nvidia announced another record revenue figure after market close on Wednesday, reporting financial results for the quarter ending April 26. Over those three months, the company brought in $81.6 billion in revenue (up 20% from the previous quarter) and a record $75.2 billion in data center revenue.
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xAI burned $6.4B last year — SpaceX’s IPO filing shows why the spending is far from over
Elon Musk’s xAI lost $6.4 billion from operations on just $3.2 billion in revenue in 2025, according to SpaceX’s IPO filings. And the losses are poised to grow.
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Clouted wants to take the guesswork out of making short videos go viral
It feels like short video clips from podcasts, songs, and movies are suddenly everywhere on social media right now, and that’s not an accident.
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SpaceX Is Spending $2.8 Billion to Buy Gas Turbines for Its AI Data Centers
committed to spending over $2.8 billion in recent months to buy gas turbines to power data centers for its artificial intelligence unit, the company revealed in a regulatory filing on Wednesday.The relatively large investment shows that Musk is continuing to double down on gas turbines, even after S
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OpenAI claims it solved an 80-year-old math problem — for real this time
OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds familiar to you, it’s because this isn’t the first time OpenAI has made such a bold claim.
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Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25 billion per month for compute
Earlier this month, Anthropic surprised the AI world with a deal to buy 300 megawatts’ worth of compute — securing the entire output of the Colossus 1 data center near Memphis, Tennessee. Turns out, compute at that scale isn’t cheap.
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Musk’s xAI is being sued over its data center generators. Now, it’s buying $2.8B more.
Elon Musk’s xAI has gotten itself in hot water over its use of polluting generators at its data center near Memphis, Tennessee.
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OpenAI barrels toward IPO that may happen in September
A day after Elon Musk lost his lawsuit that threatened OpenAI’s structure, leadership, and finances, the AI giant is ready to move forward with its initial public offering, sources told the Wall Street Journal. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman reportedly hopes that his company will be ready to go p
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I Gave My OpenClaw Agent a Physical Body
my OpenClaw a real robot arm to play with. The results just about blew my own neural network.The AI agent was able to configure the arm, use it to see and slowly grab things, and even train another AI model to pick up and place specific objects.
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IrisGo, a startup backed by Andrew Ng, looks to become the AI desktop buddy you never knew you needed
Industry insiders say the next big thing in AI is “proactive” systems: agents that can anticipate a user’s needs — and fulfill them — before the user even knows what those needs are. One startup that’s looking to make headway in this area is IrisGo.
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Startup Battlefield 200 applications close in 1 week: Window to nominate and apply for the most promising startups closes May 27
Your shot at VC access, global visibility, TechCrunch coverage, and $100,000 in equity-free funding is gone in a week. Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27.
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OpenAI barrels towards IPO that may happen in September
A day after Elon Musk lost his lawsuit that threatened OpenAI’s structure, leadership, and finances, the AI giant is ready to move forward with its initial public offering, sources told the Wall Street Journal. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman reportedly hopes that his company will be ready to go p
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Buckle up: Google is set to remake search with agentic AI in 2026
Last year marked the beginning of Google’s explicit focus on AI search, and this year’s I/O solidified that shift.
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Startup Battlefield 200 applications close in one week: Window to nominate and apply for the most promising startups ends May 27
Your shot at VC access, global visibility, TechCrunch coverage, and $100,000 in equity-free funding is gone in a week. Startup Battlefield 200 applications close May 27.