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Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’

Jun 20, 2026 at 20:32 · TechCrunch

"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”

In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search

Jun 20, 2026 at 19:41 · TechCrunch

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Every new iOS 27 feature that’s worth knowing about

Jun 20, 2026 at 15:00 · TechCrunch

While it's not flashy like Apple’s new Siri AI and Apple Intelligence upgrades, there are still a number of additions...

Jun 20, 2026 at 20:32

Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’

"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”

Jun 20, 2026 at 19:41

In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search

So ... what's your In the Weights score?

Jun 20, 2026 at 15:00

Every new iOS 27 feature that’s worth knowing about

While it's not flashy like Apple’s new Siri AI and Apple Intelligence upgrades, there are still a number of...

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Jun 20, 2026 at 20:32 TechCrunch

Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’

"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”
Jun 20, 2026 at 19:41 TechCrunch

In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search

So ... what's your In the Weights score?
Jun 20, 2026 at 15:00 TechCrunch

Every new iOS 27 feature that’s worth knowing about

While it's not flashy like Apple’s new Siri AI and Apple Intelligence upgrades, there are still a number of additions to iOS 27 worth loo...
Jun 20, 2026 at 00:47 TechCrunch

He made your free video player run smoothly. Now he’s doing that for robots.

French serial entrepreneur and open-source legend Jean-Baptiste Kempf has been building Kyber, an infrastructure layer to control remote ...
Jun 19, 2026 at 21:45 TechCrunch

Go eyes robotaxis and acquisitions after Japan’s biggest IPO of 2026 — here’s why it matters

Go's IPO — Japan's biggest so far this year — has done more than provide a much-needed boost to the country's languishing listing season....
Jun 19, 2026 at 16:50 TechCrunch

Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M

Fusion startups have raised $7.1 billion to date, with the majority of it going to a handful of companies.

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The slowtech revolution is here to kill your phone addiction and rescue your attention span

“People just really want to take back control of their time, their lives, their attention... They’re down for whatever helps them do that.”

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Collecting robot training data is dirty, unglamorous work. Some AI labs are already paying XDOF to do it.

If physical AI is going to match the accomplishments of LLMs, there's a data problem that needs to be solved.

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AI Already Paying Collecting Collecting Robot
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Pramaana Labs raises $27M seed round from Khosla Ventures to bring formal verification to AI

Pramaana will focus on highly sensitive verticals like law, drug discovery, and tax preparation — where errors can be costly and reliability is at a premium.

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Pinterest launches an experimental AI shopping app called ‘Ask Pinterest’

Pinterest has launched 'Ask Pinterest,' an experimental AI-powered shopping app that lets users seek recommendations and inspiration through a conversational interface.

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AI-powered Ask Pinterest Conversational Conversational Interface
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Anthropic’s latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests

Anthropic's popularity with business users is growing so well that the latest beef with the government might actually boost it, data from Ramp suggests.

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Qualcomm wants to be the chip inside whatever replaces your smartphone, and it just announced two products toward that end

Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said Tuesday that the company is working on over 40 different AI wearable devices — including jewelry, earbuds with cameras, pins, and watches — a si...

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Aggressively Amon Computing Platform Including Jewelry
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TechCrunch Jun 16, 2026 at 18:13 Startups
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Bug in FIFA World Cup internal system gave anyone ability to modify TV stream

A security researcher said a flaw in FIFA’s online platforms allowed her to access several internal systems, including one that could have allowed her to take control of the TV ...

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Allowed Bug Fifa FIFA World Cup
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TechCrunch Jun 16, 2026 at 18:00 Startups
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Android 17 launches with new multitasking tools as Google expands Gemini features

Google has released Android 17 and Wear OS 7, introducing new multitasking features, parental controls, security tools, and smartwatch upgrades. The launch is also accompanied b...

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TechCrunch Jun 16, 2026 at 17:50 Startups
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Mobileye’s US robotaxi launch will put it on both sides of the AV business

Mobileye apparently wants to own some of the robotaxi market, even if that puts it in direct competition with companies it supplies its self-driving system to.

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Apparently Apparently Wants Business Business Mobileye
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TechCrunch Jun 16, 2026 at 17:48 Startups
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Rivian cuts hundreds of workers after R2 deliveries start

The company said the cuts were part of a restructuring meant to help scale to profitability. Rivian recently pushed back its profitability goal to invest in autonomy.

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