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Why is an Amazon-backed AI startup making Orson Welles fan fiction?: This is a bad idea. Read More

EU fines Google $3.5B over adtech 'abuse': This is the EU's largest antitrust penalty ever — and Trump has already threatened to "nullify" it. Read More

The growing debate over expanding age verification laws: As age and identity verification laws become more mainstream, this legislation could have a dire impact on privacy. Read More

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Musk's $1T pay package is full of watered-down versions of his own broken promises: Musk used to say Tesla would make 20 million cars and one million humanoid robots per year. The company's board wants far less than that in exchange for $1 trillion. Read More

OpenAI reorganizes research team behind ChatGPT's personality: OpenAI is shuffling the team that shapes its AI models' behavior, and its leader is moving on to another project within the company. Read More

Cutting through the equity noise: Don't miss this powerhouse panel at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: Leaders from Pulley, 645 Ventures, and Epigram Legal join the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27-29 in San Francisco. Register to join. Read More

Screw the money -- Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement sucks for writers: Writers aren't getting this settlement because their work was fed to an AI -- this is just a costly slap on the wrist for Anthropic because it illegally downloaded books instead of buying them. Read More

Natron's liquidation shows why the US isn't ready to make its own batteries: The sodium-ion battery startup went from announcing a $1.4 billion factory to filing for liquidation in just over a year. Natron's troubled journey illustrates the challenges in making batteries in the U.S. Read More

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