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New research suggests that AI memory systems can degrade model performance and encourage sycophantic tendencies.

Backed by Alexis Ohanian’s 776 and Kindred Ventures, Zest uses transaction data and AI to generate restaurant recommendations based on users’ real dining habits and the places they frequent.

AI coding agent startup Niteshift has raised a $7 million seed round from a who's who of angels. It's betting companies will want power over, not lock-in with model makers.

Most of the value in SpaceX's IPO is effectively a call option on the company's ambitious space data center plans.

Through the acquisition, WMG aims to better track when its artists' work is used in AI-generated content or for training AI models.

The funding round was led by Norwest, with participation from S Capital VC, Cerca Partners, and Oceans Ventures. Snowflake Ventures also participated as a strategic investor.

Electricity demand from AI data centers is pushing everyone — including automakers like GM and Ford — into the energy storage business.

Fusion power startup Avalanche Energy said its reactor prototype heated a plasma to over 10 million degrees C.

The exec, Emad Dlala, has left just a few months after being promoted to SVP of engineering and digital, TechCrunch has learned.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp says AI will drive the most important political decisions in the U.S. and shouldn't be decided by party lines.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren noted Elon Musk's "uniquely unchecked" power as SpaceX's majority shareholder and other concerns in a letter to the SEC.

Self-driving freight truck technology company Einride rose significant in its first day of trading on the Nasdaq after a SPAC deal.

AI Financial Corp. says it has mitigated some of the concerns that prompted it to say earlier that it may not be able to stay in business.

The $70 billion package will fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection through the end of President Donald Trump's term.

North Carolina has invested heavily in AI startups OpenAI and Anthropic while avoiding a direct stake in SpaceX.

Unless Congress acts, a key provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act will expire at the end of this week.

Crypto traders are currently pricing the SpaceX pre-IPO perpetual future on Hyperliquid at $162, about 20% above the company's fixed IPO share price of $135.

Inflation jumped to a three-year high in May as the Iran war continued to fuel higher energy prices.

The proposed rules from the commission will now face a public comment period.

Amazon has been spinning out more of its in-house logistics offerings for others to access, posing a growing threat to industry incumbents.

The companies aim to start operations in Philadelphia, Phoenix and other metros by 2027 as the retailer advances its fast delivery push.

Super Micro is the latest company tied to the AI boom to announce that it's tapping the capital markets.