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Government officials are kind of bad at the internet Perhaps no one in the world has made such catastrophic tech flubs this year as U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.…

Lately’s new gamified app helps people arrive on time A new app called Lately launched on the App Store a few weeks ago, targeting people with ADHD to help them…

The OpenAI mafia: 15 of the most notable startups founded by alumni Move over, PayPal mafia: There’s a new tech mafia in Silicon Valley. As the startup behind ChatGPT, OpenAI…

Instagram Edits topped 7M downloads in first week, a bigger launch than CapCut’s Instagram Edits, Meta’s newly released video creation app, had a bigger debut than its direct competitor, ByteDance’s…

Musk’s xAI Holdings is reportedly raising the second-largest private funding round ever Elon Musk’s xAI Holdings is in talks to raise $20 billion in fresh funding, potentially valuing the AI…

DoorDash seeks dismissal of Uber lawsuit DoorDash has asked a California Superior Court judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Uber that accuses the food delivery company of stifling competition…

TechCrunch Mobility: Slate’s ‘transformer’ EV truck breaks cover and Tesla’s dueling realities Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.…

Anthropic sent a takedown notice to a dev trying to reverse-engineer its coding tool In the battle between two “agentic” coding tools — Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex CLI…

Deel files countersuit against Rippling as rivalry escalates In the latest development of an increasingly public dispute between HR and payroll services rivals, Deel has filed a countersuit against Rippling.…

Slate Auto eyes former Indiana printing plant for its EV truck production Slate Auto, the buzzy new EV startup that broke stealth this week, is close to locking in a…