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Google spared from ad-business breakup, but judge orders changes to how it operates

Google has dodged an effort to break up its ad business, but a judge said Wednesday that the company will need to adjust its business to benefit competitors.

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Wired38m ago
Democrats Have a Plan to Force Trump’s Associates to Cooperate With Investigations

Donald Trump’s West Wing renovations and DC arch could be on the chopping block, should Democrats win the midterms—they could also be leverage.

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TechCrunchToday 8:19 PM
OpenAI’s new reasoning technique alarms AI safety experts

OpenAI’s new Astra model will use “recurrent depth,” a technique that allows the model to operate outside of the sequential thinking that characterizes most reasoning models.

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TechCrunchToday 8:12 PM
MapQuest is now the No. 1 US app after bucking Trumps Lake America renaming

The once-dominant mapping app has surged to the top of Apple’s U.S. App Store after refusing to adopt Trump’s “Lake America” name, drawing more than half of its 2026 U.S. downloads in just six days.

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TechCrunchToday 7:35 PM
It sure looks like hackers breached a major ID card verification service

An identity theft search site claimed to have more than 150 million driver's license photos stolen from an ID verification service. The crime site has now shut down.

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TechCrunchToday 7:25 PM
Delivery Hero board backs Ubers $15B takeover bid

If approved, the combined company would become one of the largest food delivery platforms in the world.

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WiredToday 6:41 PM
Trump Administration Sides With OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Lawsuit

The US government wrote a letter in support of OpenAI’s argument that training AI on others' intellectual property is fair use.

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WiredToday 6:32 PM
ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database

As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database.

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WiredToday 6:20 PM
These Russian Mathematicians Taught AI Models How to Talk to Each Other Without Using Words

A startup called Mostik has a wild new approach to combining the capabilities of AI models.

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TechCrunchToday 5:18 PM
Pangrams Max Spero on why AI detection is harder than Real or Fake

The internet has a trust problem, andit’snot just because social media feeds are filling up with AIslop. AI-generated text and images are now making their way into job applications, product reviews,and even insurance claims, leaving platforms and users alike scrambling to figure ...

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TechCrunchToday 5:12 PM
X shifts US creator payouts from Stripe to X Money

X says U.S. creator payouts will now be handled through its X Money payments service, a change that appears to replace the previous Stripe-powered payout system.

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TechCrunchToday 5:09 PM
US government sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material

"The United States has a strong interest in continuing to develop a robust and competitive artificial intelligence industry that sets the standard for the practice and procedure of AI use globally," the brief reads.

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TechCrunchToday 4:54 PM
Enhanced geothermal notches another win as Google buys 400 MW from Fervo

Fervo's deal with Google could expand to 1 gigawatt of geothermal power, enough to supply a very large AI data center in Utah.

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TechCrunchToday 4:04 PM
Wonderful more than doubles its valuation to $5B in under 6 months

Wonderful said it will use its $550 million Series C funding to develop products faster, expand its FDE teams, and meet demand for its products.

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TechCrunchToday 4:01 PM
Indias richest man now wants to turn aging computers into AI-ready PCs

Jio is betting it can turn an aging computer into an AI-ready PC for as little as about $11 for two months.

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