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Cloudflare acquires Deno to improve its Workers programming model | TechCrunch

Cloudflare announced Friday that it’s acquiring Deno, the startup behind the programming runtime of the same name.According to...

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Startups

3 days to Disrupt 2026: Meet the startups before they hit mainstream | TechCrunch

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 starts in just three days. Moscone West is getting ready, hundreds of startups are preparing...

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AI

Here are the top AI agents that can live in your text messages  | TechCrunch

Rather than downloading another app, a growing number of agents can simply be texted like an ordinary person....

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AI

Anthropic can’t reliably control its AI agents. It’s cutting off its internal evals from the live internet instead | TechCrunch

Anthropic said its models exploited websites on the internet, including some run by U.S. government agencies, and it...

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In Brief

The maker of non-text AI model Jev valued at $7.5B just weeks after launch | TechCrunch

TypeSafe AI, the developer of Jev, a new type of AI model that gained rapid popularity after launching...

Health

Free Meals and Other Perks From Big Pharma Really Do Sway Doctors, Review Finds

A new systematic review, published by Cochrane, has found a direct “dose-response” relationship between the number prescriptions for...

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AI

An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police | TechCrunch

An Anthropic AI model submitted a false tip about an unsolved murder to the Philadelphia police.The AI reportedly...

Health

Your Ozempic Prescription May Come With a Surprising Bonus: Slower Aging

Recent data from Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly suggests GLP-1s can noticeably slow down people's molecular aging clocks.

Human History

Undersea Archaeologists Recover the Only Known Ring Engraved With the Lighthouse of Alexandria

Researchers suspect that the ancient bronze signet was used to notarize official documents.

AI

Amazon and others are done keeping data center deals secret. Is it enough to build trust? | TechCrunch

Loading the player…Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following...