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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

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

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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Snap finally debuts its long-awaited AR glasses, Specs, and, oof, they aren’t cheap

For over a decade now, Snap has been working on this device. Now the glasses are finally here. So what stands out on first impression?

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Sixty percent of US consumers say ‘AI’ in brand messaging is a turnoff, survey finds

WordPress VIP’s latest survey suggests consumers are wary of AI-generated answers even as companies increasingly view AI search as an important referral channel.

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AI AI-generated Consumers Important Referral
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SpaceX is public: Everything you need to know post-IPO

TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who ...

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TechCrunch Jun 16, 2026 at 15:35 Startups
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Payments startup Flutterwave hits $3.2B valuation, backed by Ripple

African payments infrastructure company Flutterwave has hit a new valuation and landed blockchain company Ripple as an investor and partner.

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TechCrunch Jun 16, 2026 at 14:50 Startups
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Robinhood’s note on 10% layoffs shows blaming AI isn’t cutting it

Unlike many of his tech industry peers who have cut thousands of jobs citing the need to restructure to make the most of AI, Robinhood's CEO Vlad Tenev conspicuously made no men...

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TechCrunch Jun 16, 2026 at 13:15 Startups
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Probably raises $9M to build a more reliable kind of AI

Probably wants to prevent hallucinations and factual errors from reaching users, and achieve accuracy on par with deterministic systems.

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AI Probably Deterministic Deterministic Systems Hallucinations
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TechCrunch Jun 16, 2026 at 11:25 Startups
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This startup’s super metals could soon be in military drones, luxury watches, and chef’s knives

Instead of heating metals, Foundation Alloy beats them into submission. The startup has raised $22 million to scale up production of its alloys.

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Foundation Foundation Alloy Instead Luxury Watches
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TechCrunch Jun 16, 2026 at 11:00 Startups
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Threads adds new personalization and community features as it reaches 500M monthly users

The Meta-owned social platform announced a series of new features launching today, including a "Your Algo" tool that lets users control what they see in their feeds.

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TechCrunch Jun 16, 2026 at 10:30 Startups
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ChatGPT’s market share slips below 50% for first time

The chatbot still remains the most popular AI assistant worldwide with over 1.1 billion monthly users, followed by Gemini with 662 million and Claude with 245 million.

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Assistant Billion Monthly Chatbot Still ChatGPT
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TechCrunch Jun 16, 2026 at 06:59 Startups
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Malaysia’s AI agent-powered messaging app Respond.io raises $62.5M, eyes acquisitions

Respond.io, one of Malaysia's startups to watch, uses AI agents to handle high volumes of customer inquiries and charges per convo, not per seat.

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Acquisitions Agent Powered AI Customer Inquiries
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TechCrunch Jun 15, 2026 at 23:51 Startups
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Sundar Pichai faces boos, walkout at Stanford graduation ceremony over Google’s Israel, ICE ties

AI is once again at the heart of a college graduation protest — this time for the technology's use in Google's defense contracts.

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