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SoftBank says it will invest up to €75B to build French data centers | TechCrunch

SoftBank Group announced today that it plans to spend up to €75 billion (around $87 billion) to expand...

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Gaming

Xbox will soon let players buy games directly in its Android app following Google antitrust ruling | TechCrunch

Xbox president Sarah Bond announced that players will soon be able to play and purchase Xbox games directly...

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In Brief

Federal employees can download TikTok on their work phones again | TechCrunch

The Department of Justice says that federal employees can now download TikTok on their government devices, according to...

AI

AI agents are flooding public services with new requests | TechCrunch

As AI makes it easier to fill forms and file complaints, public services around the world are seeing...

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Startups

Trump’s DOJ gains oversight of OpenAI’s green-card employee sponsorships | TechCrunch

The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced on Wednesday that OpenAI, and its once-subsidiary Statsig, signed a settlement...

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AI

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells Trump ‘we’re not going to let [an AI slowdown] happen’ | TechCrunch

While Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was onstage at the All-In Summit on Monday morning in Los Angeles, he...

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - SEPTEMBER 8: Greek Member of the European Parliament (The Left group in the European Parliament - GUE/NGL Coalition of the Radical Left) Stelios Kouloglou is listening during a session of the Committee of Inquiry to investigate the use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware of the European Parliament on September 8, 2022 in Brussels, Belgium. Stélios Koúloglou is a journalist, writer and politician member of SYRIZA. According to experts, developed initially in North Macedonia, by the Cytrox company, then in Israel, the Predator spyware hacks the targeted phone, and can access the messages and conversations of its user. (Photo by Thierry Monasse/Getty Images)
Security

Politician who investigated spyware abuses had his phone hacked with Pegasus spyware | TechCrunch

Security researchers have confirmed that a European politician had his phone hacked with the Pegasus spyware while serving...

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In Brief

The FAA’s plan to fix air traffic? $875M worth of AI | TechCrunch

The Federal Aviation Administration has been struggling to manage an air traffic control shortage throughout the country. The...

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AI

Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal | TechCrunch

New unredacted information in the copyright lawsuit The New York Times brought against OpenAI and Microsoft three years...

Government & Policy

Even the king of England has his hesitations about AI | TechCrunch

King Charles hosted a private summit Thursday with some of the most prominent names in AI and the...