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Inside one London founder house rewriting the founder-house rules

Six twentysomethings in East London have built what they say is the anti-San Francisco hacker house. The goal is a “holistic improvement in ...
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Hugging Face CEO calls for ‘radical transparency’ after ‘unprecedented’ OpenAI hack

In Brief Posted: 9:33 AM PDT · July 26, 2026 Image Credits: Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto and Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto / Getty Images ...
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TechCrunch Mobility: Uber bets on its former CEO

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility , your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it. To ge...
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Monday.com is the latest tech company to blame AI for layoffs — here are 20 others

Monday.com, the Tel Aviv-based work management software company known for its colorful, customizable project-tracking boards, this week beca...
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Warner Bros. lawsuit accuses Amazon of illegally poaching executives

In Brief Posted: 1:55 PM PDT · July 25, 2026 Image Credits: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg / Getty Images ...
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The hacker who humiliated spyware makers and was never caught

Over the last few decades, several mysterious hackers have captured the public’s imagination, but none quite like Phineas Fisher. A decade a...
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Kalshi demands Netflix take down trailer for ‘Prediction Games’ documentary

Prediction market Kalshi sent Netflix a cease-and-desist letter on Friday demanding that the streaming service take down the trailer for an...
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Librarians are hosting viral ‘Avoiding AI’ workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech

“Everybody’s on their phone at my program!” joked Charlie Bailey, a librarian in South Philadelphia. He’s just asked his audience to pull ou...
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One fallen power line exposed a growing AI data center problem. Here’s how to fix it.

A power line went down outside of Washington, DC, this week. Normally, the grid would only need a few seconds to recover from such an event....
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I tried out OpenAI’s new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else

OpenAI launched its first piece of hardware last week — a fancy little keypad built to pair with ChatGPT. Micro, which was developed in coll...
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