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Fashion rental app By Rotation and Uber partner to help deliver ski wear

Fashion rental app By Rotation and Uber partner to help deliver ski wear

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this insightful post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Startups,By Rotation,Fashion,Uber โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: By Rotation, one of the UK's most popular fashion rental platforms, on Wednesday announced a partnership with ride-sharing app Uber. From now until May 31, By Rotation users in the UK can rent clothes from others in their area and have them delivered via Uber within 60 minutes at a 10% discount. Although the discount applies to all users, the service is geared toward those who rent ski equipment. By Rotation said that 30% of ski renters on its platform are looking for…
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Everything you need to know about the viral personal AI assistant Clawdbot (now Moltbot)

Everything you need to know about the viral personal AI assistant Clawdbot (now Moltbot)

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,agentic ai,clawdbot,personal assistants ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The latest wave of AI excitement has brought us an unexpected mascot: the lobster. Clawdbot, an AI personal assistant, went viral within weeks of its launch, and will retain its crustacean theme despite having to change its name to Moltbot after a legal challenge from Anthropic. But before you jump on the bandwagon, here's what you need to know. True to its tagline, Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot) is โ€œAI that actually does thingsโ€ โ€” whether that's managing your calendar, messaging through your favorite apps,…
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OpenAI launches Prism, a new AI workspace for scientists

OpenAI launches Prism, a new AI workspace for scientists

๐Ÿš€ Read this must-read post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,OpenAI,OpenAI For Science,scientific research ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: On Tuesday, OpenAI launched a new scientific workspace software called Prism that is available for free to anyone with a ChatGPT account. Prism is designed as an AI word processor and research tool for scientific papers, and is deeply integrated with GPT-5.2, which can be used to evaluate claims, review prose, or search for previous research. Prism is not designed to conduct research alone and without human guidance. Executives believe it will speed up the work done by human scientists, and have…
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Anduril has invented a new drone flying competition where jobs are the prize

Anduril has invented a new drone flying competition where jobs are the prize

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,Robotics,Startups,TC,anduril,Palmer Luckey ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Palmer Luckey's eyes light up, and he speaks a mile a minute, when discussing his company's new recruiting event: the AI โ€‹โ€‹Grand Prix. This is a drone flying competition with a twist. Instead of humans operating drones, drones must operate autonomously. Humans will be tested on their skills in writing software that makes drones outperform their competitors. There are prizes ranging from a $500,000 pool distributed among the highest-scoring teams, to jobs at Anduril, and the chance to bypass the company's standard hiring cycle.…
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Bluesky teases the roadmap for 2026: better discovery feed, real-time features, and more

Bluesky teases the roadmap for 2026: better discovery feed, real-time features, and more

โœจ Explore this trending post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Apps,Social,TC,Bluesky,social media,Threads,X ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Social network Bluesky is teasing its roadmap for next year, focusing on things like improving the app's algorithmic Discover feed, providing better recommendations to its users on who to follow, giving the app a real-time feel, and more. At the same time, the company admitted that it needs to work on getting the โ€œfundamentalsโ€ right as well. Launched publicly in early 2024 after an invitation-only period, the decentralized X and Threads alternative has since expanded to over 42 million users, according to data obtained…
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Amazon agrees to pay consumers $309 million in return policy settlement

Amazon agrees to pay consumers $309 million in return policy settlement

โœจ Check out this insightful post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Commerce,Government & Policy,Amazon โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Amazon has reached a settlement valued at more than $1 billion to resolve claims that it failed to properly refund customers for their returns. The settlement includes more than $600 million that has already been distributed or will soon be paid out in refunds, as well as additional money that will be paid to affected consumers, according to court documents. Under the settlement, Amazon will pay $309.5 million into a non-recourse common fund, a pool of money allocated to members of the…
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Google’s affordable AI Plus plan is rolling out in all markets, including the US

Google’s affordable AI Plus plan is rolling out in all markets, including the US

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,Google,gemini โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Google announced on Tuesday that its affordable Google AI Plus plan is now available in all markets where its AI plans are available. This includes the US, where it will cost $7.99 per month. This expansion brings the low-cost plan to 35 new countries and regions, following its previous launch in dozens of global markets, which began with Indonesia last September. The plan includes access to Gemini 3 Pro and Nano Banana Pro in the Gemini app, Flow's AI moviemaking tools, research and writing assistance…
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The CEOs of Anthropic and OpenAI condemn ICE violence, praise Trump

The CEOs of Anthropic and OpenAI condemn ICE violence, praise Trump

๐Ÿ’ฅ Read this insightful post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,Government & Policy,Anthropic,dario amodei,OpenAI,sam altman ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: In an NBC News segment Monday night, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei expressed concern about "some of the things we've seen in the last few days," referring to violence by Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis. Amodei emphasized the importance of preserving democracy at home, both on NBC and in a Channel X post that specifically referred to "the horror we are seeing in Minnesota." He said on NBC that he believes in arming democracies to defend against authoritarian states, and that "we…
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The price gap between Waymo and Uber is narrowing

The price gap between Waymo and Uber is narrowing

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Transportation,autonomous vehicles,Lyft,Obi,robotaxis,Tesla,Uber,Waymo โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: A trip in a Waymo robo-taxi still costs more, on average, than a similar trip in a human-driven Uber or Lyft car. But that gap is narrowing, according to new data published by Obi, a company that aggregates real-time fares and pick-up times across many ride-hailing services. There are two factors working together behind the change. Waymo cut its prices, at least in the San Francisco Bay Area where data was pulled, while rides on the Uber and Lyft networks rose, according to…
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Amazon is closing its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh physical stores

Amazon is closing its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh physical stores

๐Ÿ’ฅ Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Commerce,Amazon,whole foods โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: RIP, Amazon stores: gone and probably soon forgotten. Amazon announced Tuesday that it will close its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh stores, and will instead expand its same-day grocery delivery capacity, as well as its Whole Foods Market footprint. These stores have been used to grow Amazon's cashless Just Walk Out technology, which tracks the items customers pick up, allowing them to pay for their groceries without a more formal checkout process. The company is instead focusing on offering this technology to third parties,…
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