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Private investors have been falling over themselves to get a piece of Anthropic, given the AI model maker is growing at a dizzying pace. Multiple investors told TechCrunch that the company’s $65 billion fundraise at a $965 billion valuation, announced last week, was greatly overs

CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said concerns surrounding AI-powered cyber threats are becoming a growing tailwind for the company, but investors expecting to see that impact in the first quarter were looking too soon. "You're talking about Mythos breaking in the middle of April. Ou

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky has had enough of merely being an artificial intelligence kingmaker. He now plans to back a new AI lab of his own. The news, broken by Bloomberg and confirmed to TechCrunch by a person familiar with the situation, marks Chesky as one of many Silicon Valley

It may appear that humanoid robots capable of handling any task have almost arrived—especially when tech companies showcase them performing acrobatic feats or handling household chores. But there is still a significant gap between these robot demonstrations and proving that the s

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CNBC's Jim Cramer said Thursday's rally showed investors remain resilient and eager to buy stocks. "This market has a huge appetite," the "Mad Money" host said. "One that could shrug off a bear…and still be hungry for more." The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied to a record hi

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Using an ad blocker is good for your security, privacy, and even the FBI recommends them to defend from online harms. But as much as ad blockers are great for cleaning up your browsing experience, these tools often do little to prevent the pervasive tracking from ads within apps.

Off the Wire Press Releases WASHINGTON, June 4, 2026 — The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), today announced an historic $1 billion strategic partne

Off the Wire Press Releases TACC staff and systems advance JupyterHub development while supporting Texas telescope data operations June 4, 2026 — The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX), which recently completed the largest survey ever taken of the early univer

With just two weeks to go, StrictlyVC Los Angeles is quickly approaching. On Thursday, June 18, at The Aerospace Corporation Campus in El Segundo, investors, founders, and tech leaders will gather for an evening of conversation exploring some of the most consequential shifts taki

AT&T and Verizon lost an attempt to overturn fines for selling users’ real-time location data without consent, as the Supreme Court ruled today that the Federal Communications Commission process for issuing financial penalties did not violate the right to a jury trial. AT&T convi

Off the Wire Press Releases June 4, 2026 — Data volumes are growing rapidly, AI applications are becoming more complex, and many questions in science and industry can only be addressed with specialized computing power. This is precisely where High Performance Computing (HPC) come

In November 2017, TechCrunch brought Startup Battlefield to Australia for the first time. Fifteen startups from across Australia and New Zealand took the stage in Sydney, pitched in front of investors and judges, and competed for a shot at the global stage. It was one day. One st

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Off the Wire Press Releases RENO, Nev., June 4, 2026 — CIQ, the enterprise software company behind Rocky Linux and the Fuzzball AI and HPC orchestration platform, today announced full multi-cloud support for Fuzzball across CoreWeave, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platf

As more people rely on large language models to provide pat answers to complex questions, state governments are understandably worried about those LLMs spouting what they see as dangerous propaganda promoted by foreign adversaries. To help combat this problem, the government-spon

Bitcoin is getting pummeled to kick off June as the market loses its dominant narrative and liquidity continues to rotate into other assets. The combination has left the flagship cryptocurrency vulnerable to further downside pressure as investors scale back risk and capital shift

Quantinuum closed little changed in its Nasdaq debut on Thursday, bringing its market value to $15.7 billion. Shares opened trading at $68 per share, hitting a session high of $71.35 a share. The company raised $1.68 billion in an upsized IPO after it priced at $60 per share, abo

Dashlane said that attackers mounted a coordinated hacking campaign against a large base of its users in an attempt to recover as many encrypted password vaults as possible. The password manager provider said fewer than 20 personal user vaults were downloaded before it shut down

Take your OpenClaw box back to the future with retro Mac Mini, Mac Studio docks — Wokyis tempts Nintendo and Apple lawyers, while adding a screen, ports, and style to your modern Mac IP laws? Where we’re going, we don’t need IP laws Tucked in the corner of the ID-Cooling booth he

Critics hope to keep Elon Musk from escaping a strict data-privacy order imposed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) shortly before he took over Twitter. The FTC order placed restrictions on X’s data use for 20 years, while requiring regular independent audits and granting the

Just when you thought the AI data center boom couldn’t get any crazier, Meta has gone and built data centers in tents. The strategy appears to borrow in equal parts from Tesla and xAI. In a bid to cut construction time in half, Meta has built six tents — or “rapid deployment stru

Poke, a startup that turns using AI agents into something as simple as sending a text message, has become the first AI agent approved to run on Apple’s Messages for Business platform. Previously, the platform was designed for businesses — airlines, retailers, hotel chains, and ot

AMD's Frank Azor pushes back against claim that FSR 4.1 won't be ported to RDNA 3.5 GPUs — says 'no such decision' has been made Azor posted about reports on X. During Computex, multiple reports cited that AMD was potentially skipping FSR 4.1 integration on RDNA 3.5 iGPUs, leavin

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Helion, the fusion startup backed by Sam Altman, announced on Thursday that it had raised $465 million in a new funding round that values the company at $15.5 billion. The cash infusion lands as Helion is racing to complete Orion, its first power plant. The startup has set an agg

Corporate America is trying to figure out how to rein in rising artificial intelligence spending. That's helping payment software giant Ramp. The spend-management company announced a $750 million funding round at a $44 billion valuation on Thursday. The round was led by ICONIQ, G

Kevin O’Leary agreed to halve the size of his planned 40,000-acre data center in Utah amid mounting pressure from residents and activists, as reported earlier by local affiliate ABC4. The Shark Tank star sent a letter to Utah Senate President J. Stuart Adams on Thursday, saying t

The cable industry’s primary lobby group is seeking a waiver of the Federal Communications Commission ban on foreign routers, warning of potential chaos if cable Internet service providers can’t change some of the components in routers they offer to home broadband users. In March

Despite having tiny brains, bumblebees have demonstrated a remarkable ability to socially learn how to use tools, solve simple puzzles, and cooperate to achieve a goal. It seems they can also solve object-manipulation tasks without any previous training, according to a new paper

ZutaCore has secured $100 million in Series C funding, with participation from Mitsubishi Electric, Carrier Ventures, Samsung Electronics, and others through its corporate venture arm, Samsung Ventures. The investment is aimed at accelerating global commercialization, expanding d

Vibe coding needs infrastructure. Supabase is trying to provide it. The startup, which makes back-end tools for building artificial intelligence apps, said on Thursday that it raised $500 million at a valuation of $10.5 billion, the latest sign that venture investors are seeking

Artificial Intelligence NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart Today, we are excited to announce the day-zero availability of NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. With this launch, you can now deploy the Nemotron 3 Ultra model using

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Meta’s Oversight Board, the independent governing body that makes policy recommendations to the tech company, said Thursday that Meta’s account deactivations lack due process, violations are doled out without clarity, and there’s little customer support for appeals. The board, wh

Off the Wire Press Releases June 4, 2026 — When most people picture a supercomputer, they imagine endless rows of compute and storage racks, blinking lights and machines thinking faster than humans can conceive. What they don’t visualize is the system quietly working underneath i