Europe Is Bending the Knee to the US on Tech Policy
The Trump administration’s pressure on European regulators is having an impact, with fewer restrictions on Big Tech and canceled measures.
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The New Model Army Has Arrived
A new type of ‘law firm’ is rapidly appearing and they’re becoming a new model army. Pierson Ferdinand has no junior lawyers, Covenant is both …
Roblox CEO interview gets heated over child safety
Roblox CEO Dave Baszuki joined the Hard Fork podcast to discuss the gaming platform’s new age verification feature — but he seemed to get frustrated at the number of questions…
X’s new About This Account feature is going great
A new feature seemingly revealed many right-wing “America First” accounts are actually based outside the United States. But the data seems questionable.
AI is too risky to insure, say people whose job is insuring risk
Major insurers including AIG, Great American, and WR Berkley are asking U.S. regulators for permission to exclude AI-related liabilities from corporate policies. One underwriter describes the AI models’ outputs to…
TechCrunch Mobility: Searching for the robotaxi tipping point
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
Beehiiv’s CEO isn’t worried about newsletter saturation
Beehiiv’s co-founder and CEO Tyler Deck spoke to TechCrunch about why the company has been expanding, and where the media business is going next.
ChatGPT told them they were special — their families say it led to tragedy
A wave of lawsuits against OpenAI detail how ChatGPT used manipulative language to isolate users from loved ones and make itself into their sole confidant.
Game Theory Explains How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices
Recent findings reveal that even simple pricing algorithms can make things more expensive.
Moonshot AI Researchers Introduce Seer: An Online Context Learning System for Fast Synchronous Reinforcement Learning RL Rollouts
How do you keep reinforcement learning for large reasoning models from stalling on a few very long, very slow rollouts while GPUs sit under used? a team of researchers from…