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Microsoft won’t stop buying AI chips from Nvidia, AMD, even after launching its own, Nadella says

Microsoft says its own chip leapfrogs those made by other cloud providers like Amazon and Google. But it needs more.
techcrunch 22h ago 10°

Bluesky issues its first transparency report, noting rise in user reports and legal demands

Bluesky's first transparency reports tackle moderation, regulatory compliance, account takedowns, and more. The number of government legal requests went up fivefold.
techcrunch 16h ago 10°

OpenClaw’s AI assistants are now building their own social network

The viral personal AI assistant formerly known as Clawdbot has a new shell — again. After briefly rebranding as Moltbot, it has now picked OpenClaw as its new name.
techcrunch 47h ago 10°

Music publishers sue Anthropic for $3B over ‘flagrant piracy’ of 20,000 works

Originally, these music publishers had filed a lawsuit against Anthropic over its use of about 500 copyrighted works.
techcrunch 46h ago

OpenAI’s Sora app is struggling after its stellar launch

Sora's mobile app downloads fell 45% in January, and consumer spending dropped.
techcrunch 43h ago

Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot

With Microsoft spending many billions on data centers, and rumors that no one is using its AI, CEO Satya Nadella shared some usage numbers.
techcrunch 38h ago

How Sequoia-backed Ethos reached the public market while rivals fell short

The profitable life-insurance platform was one of the first major tech companies to test the 2026 public markets.
techcrunch 22h ago

Russian hackers breached Polish power grid thanks to bad security, report says

The Polish government accused a Russian government hacking group of hacking into energy facilities taking advantage of default usernames and passwords.
techcrunch 18h ago

Instagram might soon let you remove yourself from someone’s Close Friends list

Since the feature's launch in 2018, users haven't been able to remove themselves from someone else's Close Friends list.
techcrunch 43h ago

Fintech firm Marquis blames hack at firewall provider SonicWall for its data breach

The fintech giant said it plans to "seek recoupment of any expenses" from its firewall provider SonicWall after a 2025 data breach exposed customer firewall configurations.
techcrunch 21h ago

Anthropic brings agentic plug-ins to Cowork

The company says you can use plug-ins to "tell Claude how you like work done, which tools and data to pull from, how to handle critical workflows, and what slash commands to expose so your team gets more consistent outcomes."
techcrunch 14h ago

a16z partner Kofi Ampadu to leave firm after TxO program pause

Kofi Ampadu, the partner at a16z who led the firm's Talent x Opportunity (TxO) fund and program, has left the firm.
techcrunch 15h ago

OnlyFans considering selling majority stake to Architect Capital

This isn't the first time in recent memory that OnlyFans has been in talks to sell off its business.
techcrunch 15h ago

Physical Intelligence, Stripe veteran Lachy Groom’s latest bet, is building Silicon Valley’s buzziest robot brains

If co-founder Lachy Groom has any doubts, he doesn’t show it. He’s working with people who've been working on this problem for decades and who believe the timing is finally right, which is all he needs to know.
techcrunch 17h ago

Informant told FBI that Jeffrey Epstein had a ‘personal hacker’

The hacker allegedly developed zero-day exploits and offensive cyber tools and sold them to several countries, including an unnamed central African government, the U.K., and the United States.
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