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Week in Review: Cluely helps you cheat on everything

Tech Crunch Social

Welcome back to Week in Review! We’ve got tons of news for you this week: Slate EVs spotted in the wild; Airbnb pricing updates; a hack at Blue Shield; and much more. Let’s go! Get a clue: Cluely ...

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Amazon’s big book sale just happens to overlap with Independent Bookstore Day

Tech Crunch Commerce

Amazon is raising eyebrows with the timing of its big book sale for 2025, which runs from April 23 to 28 — which means it’s competing directly with Independent Bookstore Day. As writer Maris Kreis...

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Government officials are kind of bad at the internet

Tech Crunch Security

Perhaps no one in the world has made such catastrophic tech flubs this year as U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. The saga started when the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, repo...

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Lately’s new gamified app helps people arrive on time

Tech Crunch Startups

A new app called Lately launched on the App Store a few weeks ago, targeting people with ADHD to help them arrive on time and rewarding them for doing so. The service is designed to help users manage ...

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The OpenAI mafia: 15 of the most notable startups founded by alumni

Tech Crunch Startups

Move over, PayPal mafia: There’s a new tech mafia in Silicon Valley. As the startup behind ChatGPT, OpenAI is arguably the biggest AI player in town. Its meteoric rise to a $300 billion valuation ha...

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Instagram Edits topped 7M downloads in first week, a bigger launch than CapCut’s

Tech Crunch Apps

Instagram Edits, Meta’s newly released video creation app, had a bigger debut than its direct competitor, ByteDance’s CapCut, once did. The new app, which today helps users craft videos for Instag...

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Musk’s xAI Holdings is reportedly raising the second-largest private funding round ever

Tech Crunch AI

Elon Musk’s xAI Holdings is in talks to raise $20 billion in fresh funding, potentially valuing the AI and social media combo at over $120 billion, according to a new Bloomberg report that says talk...

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Novel method detects microbial contamination in cell cultures

MIT School of Engineering

Ultraviolet light “fingerprints” on cell cultures and machine learning can provide a definitive yes/no contamination assessment within 30 minutes.

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DoorDash seeks dismissal of Uber lawsuit

Tech Crunch Transportation

DoorDash has asked a California Superior Court judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Uber that accuses the food delivery company of stifling competition by intimidating restaurant owners into exclusive ...

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TechCrunch Mobility: Slate’s ‘transformer’ EV truck breaks cover and Tesla’s dueling realities

Tech Crunch Transportation

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Busy week, so let’s get to i...

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Anthropic sent a takedown notice to a dev trying to reverse-engineer its coding tool

Tech Crunch AI

In the battle between two “agentic” coding tools — Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex CLI — the latter appears to be fostering more developer goodwill than the former. That’s at ...

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Deel files countersuit against Rippling as rivalry escalates

Tech Crunch Startups

In the latest development of an increasingly public dispute between HR and payroll services rivals, Deel has filed a countersuit against Rippling. To recap: Rippling publicly announced on March 17 tha...

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Slate Auto eyes former Indiana printing plant for its EV truck production

Tech Crunch Transportation

Slate Auto, the buzzy new EV startup that broke stealth this week, is close to locking in a former printing plant located in Warsaw, Indiana as the future production site for its cheap electric truck,...

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TechCrunch StrictlyVC in Athens in May will feature a special guest: Greece’s prime minister

Tech Crunch TC

We’re thrilled to announce that Greece’s prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, will be joining us at our upcoming StrictlyVC event in Athens, co-hosted with Endeavor, on Thursday night, May 8, at t...

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The TechCrunch Cyber Glossary

Tech Crunch Security

This glossary includes the most common terms and expressions TechCrunch uses in our security reporting, and explanations of how — and why — we use them.

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Phillip Burr, Head of Product at Lumai – Interview Series

Unite AI Interviews

Phillip Burr is the Head of Product at Lumai, with over 25 years of experience in global product management, go-to-market and leadership roles within leading semiconductor and technology companies, an...

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The New Rules of Data Privacy: What Every Business Must Know in 2025

Unite AI Thought Leaders

In 2025, data privacy is no longer a niche concern delegated to legal teams and IT departments. It’s a boardroom-level priority, directly tied to trust, reputation, and long-term viability. Accordin...

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ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

Tech Crunch AI

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with ...

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Startups Weekly: Tech IPOs and deals proceed, but price matters

Tech Crunch Startups

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. This week confirmed that deals can still h...

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An OpenAI researcher who worked on GPT-4.5 had their green card denied

Tech Crunch AI

Kai Chen, a Canadian AI researcher working at OpenAI who’s lived in the U.S. for 12 years, was denied a green card, according to Noam Brown, a leading research scientist at the company. In a post on...

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Artificial intelligence enhances air mobility planning

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Lincoln Laboratory is transitioning tools to the 618th Air Operations Center to streamline global transport logistics.

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Google’s AI search numbers are growing, and that’s by design

Tech Crunch AI

Google started testing AI-summarized results in Google Search, AI Overviews, two years ago, and continues to expand the feature to new regions and languages. By the company’s estimation, it’s been...

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Roelof Botha, the head of Sequoia Capital, is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Tech Crunch TC

We’re thrilled to announce that Roelof Botha, the managing partner of Sequoia Capital and one of the most influential figures in the venture capital world, will join us live onstage at TechCrunch Di...

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Last day to boost your brand and host a Side Event at TechCrunch Sessions: AI

Tech Crunch TC

This is your last chance to put your brand at the center of the AI conversation during TechCrunch Sessions: AI Week — with applications to host a Side Event closing tonight at 11:59 p.m. PT. From Ju...

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