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Patronus AI lands $50M to build ‘digital worlds’ that stress-test AI agents

Jun 25, 2026 at 20:19 · TechCrunch

Agent-testing startup Patronus AI, founded by former Meta AI researchers, is experiencing nearly insatiable demand, i...

Polymarket says hackers stole users’ funds

Jun 25, 2026 at 19:58 · TechCrunch

The prediction market giant Polymarket said it's refunding users who had funds stolen due to a third-party breach.

Xbox follows Apple with price increases

Jun 25, 2026 at 19:39 · TechCrunch

The company says the increases are being driven by rising memory and console storage prices, with costs more than 2.5...

Jun 25, 2026 at 20:19

Patronus AI lands $50M to build ‘digital worlds’ that stress-test AI agents

Agent-testing startup Patronus AI, founded by former Meta AI researchers, is experiencing nearly insatiable demand, its investor says.

Jun 25, 2026 at 19:58

Polymarket says hackers stole users’ funds

The prediction market giant Polymarket said it's refunding users who had funds stolen due to a third-party ...

Jun 25, 2026 at 19:39

Xbox follows Apple with price increases

The company says the increases are being driven by rising memory and console storage prices, with costs mor...

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Jun 25, 2026 at 20:19 TechCrunch

Patronus AI lands $50M to build ‘digital worlds’ that stress-test AI agents

Agent-testing startup Patronus AI, founded by former Meta AI researchers, is experiencing nearly insatiable demand, its investor says.
Jun 25, 2026 at 19:58 TechCrunch

Polymarket says hackers stole users’ funds

The prediction market giant Polymarket said it's refunding users who had funds stolen due to a third-party breach.
Jun 25, 2026 at 19:39 TechCrunch

Xbox follows Apple with price increases

The company says the increases are being driven by rising memory and console storage prices, with costs more than 2.5x higher than previo...
Jun 25, 2026 at 19:14 TechCrunch

Notion Mail shuts down amid agent takeover

The company said it is discontinuing its email inbox in favor of its AI agent offering as users are increasingly handing over the reins o...
Jun 25, 2026 at 17:52 TechCrunch

a16z-backed Base Power is offering cheaper electricity to the power grid that needs it most

Base Power is skipping the PJM's troubled interconnection queue by placing its batteries at people's homes, offering backup services in e...
Jun 25, 2026 at 17:38 TechCrunch

Anthropic’s Claude is winning over paid consumers, a market owned by ChatGPT

Despite ChatGPT's commanding market lead, consumers who pay for AI have been increasingly choosing Anthropic's Claude, data shows.

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SusHi Tech Tokyo isn’t a conference — it’s a deal room with 60,000 people

When 60,000 attendees descend on Tokyo Big Sight April 27–29, the headline numbers are hard to ignore: 750 startup exhibitors, 151 sessions, city leaders from 49 countries. But ...

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ChatGPT’s new Images 2.0 model is surprisingly good at generating text

ChatGPT Images 2.0, the newest image-generation model from OpenAI, shows just how much AI capabilities have evolved over the last few years.

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Sam Altman throws shade at Anthropic’s cyber model, Mythos: ‘fear-based marketing’

This week, during a podcast appearance, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called out his competitor's new cybersecurity model, noting that the company was using fear to make its product sou...

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TechCrunch Apr 21, 2026 at 17:11 Startups
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Clarifai deletes 3 million photos that OkCupid provided to train facial recognition AI, report says

The photo deletion comes after an FTC settlement with Clarifai. The company had asked OkCupid — whose executives had invested in Clarifai — to share data in 2014, according to c...

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AI Dungeon maker Latitude unveils Voyage, a platform for creating AI-powered RPGs

Latitude's new AI-native platform, Voyage, aims to help gamers create their very own role-playing game.

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AI Dungeon AI-native AI-powered RPGs Latitude Creating Ai Powered
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TechCrunch Apr 21, 2026 at 16:00 Startups
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Former Pinterest team redesigns email with Extra — and it’s actually good

Extra, from a team of former Pinterest designers and engineers, reimagines email around your life instead of the traditional inbox.

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Ransomware negotiator pleads guilty to helping ransomware gang

A former employee of a cybersecurity firm pleaded guilty to aiding ransomware criminals to maximize their profits, with the goal of taking a cut of the ransom.

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Bond, a new social media platform, wants to use AI to help you kick your doomscrolling habit

Bond wants you to get off the couch and get back into the real world, its creator says. The new platform's AI system is designed to motivate users to do things away from the app.

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TechCrunch Apr 21, 2026 at 15:02 Startups
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YouTube expands its AI likeness detection technology to celebrities

YouTube is expanding its AI likeness detection tool to celebrities, giving talent and their reps a way to find and remove deepfakes.

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TechCrunch Apr 21, 2026 at 13:41 Startups
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Revolut eyes valuation of up to $200B in eventual IPO

Fintech giant Revolut, which secured a full banking license in the U.K. in March after years of waiting, was most recently valued at $75 billion in a secondary share sale.

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What’s the key to better vegan cheese? Microbreweries, one startup says.

AuX Labs says it has found a better way to make vegan cheese that tastes and feels like the real thing — and costs the same.

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TechCrunch Apr 21, 2026 at 11:00 Startups
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Yelp’s updated AI assistant can answer questions and book a restaurant or service in one conversation

With its latest update, Yelp is letting people ask questions, get restaurant reservations, order food delivery, and book service professionals, all through its updated AI assist...

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