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Corgi, which uses AI to provide insurance for startups, raised a $106M Series B1 at a $2.6B valuation, up from $1.3B on May 6, for a total funding of $378M (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)

Corgi, which uses AI to provide insurance for star...

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Anthropic launches Opus 4.8, saying it's "more likely to flag uncertainties about its work and less likely to make unsupported claims", at the same price as 4.7 (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

Anthropic launches Opus 4.8, saying it's "more lik...

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Elon Musk says Anthropic's Colossus deal is "a 180 day lease with 90 day notice"; SpaceX's S-1 said Anthropic "agreed to pay a monthly fee through May 2029" (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

Elon Musk says Anthropic's Colossus deal is "a 180...

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Meta's Oversight Board says Meta agreed to increase its funding by $13M, ensuring that it will be funded through 2028, reversing a planned decrease in funding (Casey Newton/Platformer)

Meta's Oversight Board says Meta agreed to increas...

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IBM plans to invest more than $10B in quantum computing over five years as it aims to build the first large-scale, error-free quantum computer by 2029 (Reuters)

IBM plans to invest more than $10B in quantum comp...

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Waymo unveils Ojai, a vehicle designed in partnership with Zeekr for robotaxi use, initially for select riders in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)

Waymo unveils Ojai, a vehicle designed in partners...

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YouTube launches new Premium podcast features, including an AI-powered recommendation tool, an "Auto speed" setting, and a new on-the-go listening mode (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

YouTube launches new Premium podcast features, inc...

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Saris, which builds AI agents to automate back-office work for banks and credit unions, raised a $28.8M Series A led by 8VC (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

Saris, which builds AI agents to automate back-off...

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Reactor, which says its AI platform can generate video in real-time with near-zero latency, emerges from stealth with a $59M Series A led by Lightspeed (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Reactor, which says its AI platform can generate v...

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Visa makes an undisclosed investment in Replit; the two will explore how Replit developers can use Visa Intelligent Commerce and the Trusted Agent Protocol (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Visa makes an undisclosed investment in Replit; th...

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Source: Groq is raising ~$650M from existing investors; the AI chipmaker earlier signed a $20B Nvidia licensing deal that saw much of its senior team depart (Dan Primack/Axios)

Source: Groq is raising ~$650M from existing inves...

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Israel-based web development company Wix is cutting 20% of its workforce, citing the "fast evolution of AI capabilities" and currency exchange rate difficulties (CJ Haddad/CNBC)

Israel-based web development company Wix is cuttin...

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Intel unveils its first dedicated handheld gaming chips, the Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme, featuring Xe3 GPU cores, arriving first in the Acer Predator Atlas 8 (Sean Hollister/The Verge)

Intel unveils its first dedicated handheld gaming ...

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Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon C, an entry-level ARM-based SoC for Windows 11 devices starting at $300 and shipping in 2026, to compete with the MacBook Neo (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon C, an entry-level ...

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Sources: at WWDC, Apple is likely to showcase how 15 years of designing custom silicon chips gives it an advantage in local AI, using a distilled Gemini model (Aaron Tilley/The Information)

Sources: at WWDC, Apple is likely to showcase how ...

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Filing: CNN sues Perplexity in New York for allegedly unlawfully copying and distributing CNN content, after failing to agree on terms with Perplexity in 2025 (Brian Stelter/CNN)

Filing: CNN sues Perplexity in New York for allege...

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YouTube adds a "custom feed" to its home page, letting users enter a prompt to create a constantly refreshed feed, available to signed-in users in the US (Andrew Romero/9to5Google)

YouTube adds a "custom feed" to its home page, let...

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Illustrations based on sources detail Apple's Siri overhaul, including a new UI, a chatbot-style app, and other major iOS 27 changes, ahead of WWDC on June 8 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Illustrations based on sources detail Apple's Siri...

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