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The U.S. may soon receive $600 million worth of Iranian oil that was seized earlier in the war, putting an ancient body of maritime law back in focus

The U.S. may soon receive $600 million worth of Iranian...

The legal channel the administration is using to seize the tankers is known as p...

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Your 401(k) is funding the AI boom. Here’s what that means for your retirement

Your 401(k) is funding the AI boom. Here’s what that me...

The passive-investing revolution was supposed to spread risk. Instead, it has ti...

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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says he spends three hours a day on recruitment—and if his hiring managers don’t like his input, he tells them to leave

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says he spends three hours a da...

'I probably spend three hours a day recruiting,' Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says. A...

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The U.S.-China relationship is on ‘tactical autopilot’ after the Xi-Trump summit. Maybe that’s not so bad

The U.S.-China relationship is on ‘tactical autopilot’ ...

The two countries keep pulling apart, but a summit short on substance suggests t...

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PrismML brings its tiny LLMs to Qualcomm-powered smart glasses

PrismML brings its tiny LLMs to Qualcomm-powered smart ...

Prism's larger goal is open-weight AI that runs on devices and makes better use ...

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Bring your co-founder, partner, or colleague and get 50% off a second TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass

Bring your co-founder, partner, or colleague and get 50...

Buy one pass to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and get 50% off a second of the same tic...

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Nexterity wants to automate the hard, dangerous part of pipefitting

Nexterity wants to automate the hard, dangerous part of...

The startup's robot can tighten or loosen four bolts at a time, and it fits in a...

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Waymo is scaling fast: Here’s what the fleet data shows

Waymo is scaling fast: Here’s what the fleet data shows

In the past month, Waymo has expanded its fleet in Texas by 49%. There are other...

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Lightspeed targets $250M for new India fund, focusing on early-stage AI

Lightspeed targets $250M for new India fund, focusing o...

The venture firm is aligning its India fundraising cycle with its global funds f...

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Billionaire Nike cofounder Phil Knight gives $1 billion to his alma mater: ‘This is no time to abandon’ higher education

Billionaire Nike cofounder Phil Knight gives $1 billion...

Phil and Penny Knight are funding a new engineering college at the University of...

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China now makes up a record 40% of all global container exports—and it’s a sign Trump’s tariffs meant to punish Chinese firms have fallen flat

China now makes up a record 40% of all global container...

“The tariff policies of the last two years have been an unmitigated disaster. Th...

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Vietnam is finally a FTSE emerging market—yet it’s the country’s banks, not its exporters, that’ll benefit most

Vietnam is finally a FTSE emerging market—yet it’s the ...

The upgrade could channel $6 billion in capital from foreign investors to Vietna...

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Meta plans to spend $145 billion this year, more than every military budget except the U.S., China and Russia

Meta plans to spend $145 billion this year, more than e...

The $145 billion is roughly a 101% markup from the company’s capex from 2025.

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Xi Jinping has made China’s hard-tech rise core to his policy—and U.S. containment is only fueling those plans

Xi Jinping has made China’s hard-tech rise core to his ...

The U.S. once saw China as a “fast follower” in tech. It now confronts a country...

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Meta admits Muse’s likeness to OpenClaw isn’t a coincidence

Meta admits Muse’s likeness to OpenClaw isn’t a coincid...

Meta says Muse was built from scratch, but acknowledges the AI assistant was "he...

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Apple could take on Whoop with a new fitness tracker, report says

Apple could take on Whoop with a new fitness tracker, r...

Apple may be developing a new fitness tracker as part of its new generation of h...

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Qualcomm launches two new smartphone chips with emphasis on AI

Qualcomm launches two new smartphone chips with emphasi...

Qualcomm said that its new top chip can run 30B mixture-of-expert model locally.

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Snorkel AI triples valuation to $3.5B as demand for AI training data booms

Snorkel AI triples valuation to $3.5B as demand for AI ...

The seven-year-old startup has raised a $350 million Series E to fuel its data-a...