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Meta burned $19 billion on VR last year, and 2026 won’t be any better

Meta burned $19 billion on VR last year, and 2026 won’t...

The reported financial losses follow a series of layoffs at the VR unit.

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TechCrunch Mobility: RIP, Tesla Autopilot, and the NTSB investigates Waymo

TechCrunch Mobility: RIP, Tesla Autopilot, and the NTSB...

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on ...

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Science fiction writers, Comic-Con say goodbye to AI

Science fiction writers, Comic-Con say goodbye to AI

Some of the major players in science fiction and pop culture are taking firmer s...

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Humans& thinks coordination is the next frontier for AI, and they’re building a model to prove it

Humans& thinks coordination is the next frontier for AI...

Humans&, a new startup founded by alumni of Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Go...

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ChatGPT is pulling answers from Elon Musk’s Grokipedia

ChatGPT is pulling answers from Elon Musk’s Grokipedia

Information from the conservative-leaning, AI-generated encyclopedia developed b...

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This founder cracked firefighting — now he’s creating an AI gold mine

This founder cracked firefighting — now he’s creating a...

The nozzle is just the beginning – what company founder Sunny Sethi calls "the m...

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Todoist’s app now lets you add tasks to your to-do list by speaking to its AI

Todoist’s app now lets you add tasks to your to-do list...

The feature, now public, lets you create to-do's and action items by speaking na...

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X copies Bluesky with a ‘Starterpacks’ feature that helps you find who to follow

X copies Bluesky with a ‘Starterpacks’ feature that hel...

X says the new feature, similar to Bluesky's Starter Packs, will arrive in the c...

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A timeline of the US semiconductor market in 2025

A timeline of the US semiconductor market in 2025

From leadership changes at legacy semiconductor companies to wishy washy policy ...

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Sources: Project SGLang spins out as RadixArk with $400M valuation as inference market explodes

Sources: Project SGLang spins out as RadixArk with $400...

SGLang, which originated as an open source research project at Ion Stoica’s UC B...

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Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Apple is reportedly developing an AI wearable

Not to be outdone by OpenAI, Apple is reportedly develo...

Should this wearable materialize, it could be released as early as 2027, accordi...

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Moxie Marlinspike has a privacy-conscious alternative to ChatGPT

Moxie Marlinspike has a privacy-conscious alternative t...

Confer is designed to look and feel like ChatGPT or Claude, but your conversatio...

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How YC-backed Bucket Robotics survived its first CES

How YC-backed Bucket Robotics survived its first CES

Now, the startup is turning its attention to building the business, fundraising ...

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Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows

Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows

Threads’ daily mobile usage has quietly surpassed X as Meta leans on cross-promo...

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TechCrunch Mobility: ‘Physical AI’ enters the hype machine

TechCrunch Mobility: ‘Physical AI’ enters the hype machine

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for all things “future of transpor...

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Sequoia to invest in Anthropic, breaking VC taboo on backing rivals: FT

Sequoia to invest in Anthropic, breaking VC taboo on ba...

Sequoia Capital is reportedly joining a blockbuster funding round for Anthropic,...