Perplexity is reportedly in talks to raise up to $1B at an $18B valuation

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March 20, 2025 · 2 min · 396 words · James Ellis

Pruna AI open sources its AI model optimization framework

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March 20, 2025 · 4 min · 817 words · Robert Burgess

Rerun’s open source AI platform for robots, drones, and cars revs up with $17M seed

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March 20, 2025 · 3 min · 608 words · Brittany Buck

SoftBank to acquire semiconductor designer Ampere in $6.5B all-cash deal

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March 20, 2025 · 3 min · 555 words · David Bass

Solar notches another win as Microsoft adds 475 MW to power its AI data centers

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March 20, 2025 · 3 min · 500 words · Michael Ponce

Tesla recalls Cybertrucks for exterior panels that fall off

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March 20, 2025 · 3 min · 550 words · James Garcia

Threads adds new features to highlight topics and limit replies

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March 20, 2025 · 4 min · 832 words · Michael Taylor

TikTok to start pushing Amber Alerts to users’ For You feeds

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March 20, 2025 · 2 min · 421 words · Brian Martinez

Time is ticking! Vote for the TechCrunch Sessions: AI speaker you want to see

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March 20, 2025 · 4 min · 661 words · Angela Skinner

X sues India over ‘unrestrained censorship’

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March 20, 2025 · 2 min · 411 words · Mark Owen

A key DeepMind robotics researcher left Google, and Nvidia has already backed his stealth startup

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March 19, 2025 · 3 min · 428 words · Theresa Blankenship

Academics accuse AI startups of co-opting peer review for publicity

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March 19, 2025 · 4 min · 774 words · David Lane

Agentic AI startup AMT aims to be ‘Google Adwords for influencers,’ raises seed round

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March 19, 2025 · 4 min · 764 words · Benjamin Morris