SpaceX reportedly in talks to buy EchoStar’s Boost Mobile
SpaceX is in talks to buy Boost Mobile or secure access to its network, as Elon Musk looks to turn Starlink into a direct competitor to the major US mobile carriers, The Washingto…
North Korean hackers used AI in crypto heists record $6bn Binance theft
North Korean hackers may be using AI to plan and carry out cryptocurrency thefts, according to security experts cited in a Bloomberg report published on Monday. They point to the …
Ford launches a ‘privacy promise’ and explains how and why it uses customer data
Ford said it's making an "explicit commitment" to its customers that "their vehicle data is safe" with the company.
Deutsche Bank reportedly upgrades US tech after $2tn Nasdaq selloff
Deutsche Bank has turned positive on US technology stocks again, upgrading the sector to overweight, Reuters reported on Monday. An overweight rating means the bank advises client…
ADNOC signs deal with OpenAI and G42 to deploy Frontier AI agents
Abu Dhabi’s state oil company ADNOC has signed a multi-year agreement with OpenAI and G42 to bring AI agents into its operations. The deal was announced today, during a visit to t…
Borrowed reading: stories from our extended colleagues
Five stories worth your time from our extended colleagues at CIO, Computerworld, Macworld, and PCWorld.
OpenAI might rebrand its data centers as ‘AI compute campuses’
Data centers are deeply unpopular. But what if we called them something else?
AI can make tech CEOs’ lives easier. What about everyone else?
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TechCrunch Mobility: A new, bigger AV boom is here
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
Instagram is offering YouTubers up to $500K, Business Insider reports
Instagram is paying some YouTubers to bring their long videos across. It has offered select creators $50,000 to $500,000 to post long-form work to Features, its new 90-minute form…
Binance resumes withdrawals following $6.3 billion breach
The cryptocurrency exchange said it's now covered 95% of the stolen assets.
NASA asks industry to rescue Hubble before it falls from orbit
Hubble has no engine of its own, and it is slowly sinking. NASA now wants companies to say how they could lift the 36-year-old telescope higher, service it, or steer it down safel…
Pixel 11 Pro Fold: Sturdy rectengale in a wide wide world
Google made a sturdy phone, but there is increasing competition in the foldable world.
Google’s Suncatcher satellite runs AI in orbit and sends a haiku home
Google’s prototype data centre satellite has run an AI model in orbit and sent its answer back to Earth. The onboard Gemma 4 model wrote a haiku about being in space, Travis Beals…
Judge rejects xAI’s bid to dismiss NAACP lawsuit over its gas turbines
A federal judge in Mississippi has refused to throw out the NAACP’s Clean Air Act lawsuit against xAI. The case is over the gas turbines that power its Colossus 2 data centre. Jud…
Palantir CTO tells Stratechery he doesn’t regret working with Anthropic
Palantir was caught in Anthropic’s clash with the US Department of War, its chief technology officer, Shyam Sankar, told Ben Thompson for Stratechery, in an interview published on…
Here’s what ‘renoa’ — the first new fiber in 25 years — feels like
Startup Everbloom's new material, renoa, is the first new fiber in 25 years, and it feels very familiar.
Anthropic renames Claude Max plans and drops Ultra’s five-hour limit
Anthropic has renamed its two Claude Max plans and dropped the five-hour usage limit on the more expensive one. It now calls the $100-a-month Max 5x plan Max, and the $200 Max 20x…
Developers say Claude Code now refuses work on recreating existing games
Game developers have been hitting refusals from Claude Code since late October, some on projects they say they have a right to build. Bruno Ferreira reported the complaints for To…
Salesforce to buy Rune in its most significant national security deal
Salesforce has agreed to buy Rune Technologies. The US startup’s AI software helps the military plan supplies near the front line. Salesforce announced the deal on Thursday. Rune …
Google in talks to join Trump’s Golden Dome programme, Bloomberg reports
Alphabet’s Google is in talks with the US Defense Department to help protect the data behind Golden Dome, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Sana Pashankar and Kiel Porter cited people…
French MPs vote for a €0.055 tax on every gigabyte sent to users
France’s National Assembly has voted to tax companies for every gigabyte of data they send to French internet users. The measure, an amendment to the 2027 budget, would charge con…
EU tells countries to pause national social media bans for a year
The European Commission has told EU countries to put national social media bans for children on hold for 12 months. It wants a single EU law instead. Austria is the first country …
Meta built a humanoid robot with China’s Fourier, The Information reports
Meta has built a prototype humanoid robot with Chinese robotics company Fourier in about three months, and the two are already working on a second version. Jyoti Mann reported the…