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Tesla invests $2 billion in Elon Musk’s XAI

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🔥 Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Transportation,Elon Musk,Tesla,xAI ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Three weeks ago, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, revealed that it had raised $20 billion in a Series E funding round. Now we know that Tesla is among its investors. Tesla revealed in a letter to shareholders on Wednesday that it has invested $2 billion in xAI, the startup behind the Grok chatbot that also owns Musk's social media company This is a truly circular deal and Tesla shareholders voted against it last year. In November, shareholders were asked, in a non-binding action,…

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Microsoft took in $7.6 billion from OpenAI last quarter

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✨ Read this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Enterprise,Microsoft,OpenAI 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The relationship between Microsoft and OpenAI may be very tense, but because OpenAI is seeing unprecedented revenue growth, Microsoft, one of its major investors, is benefiting greatly. When the software giant reported its latest quarterly earnings on Wednesday, it dropped this rather large nugget: Its net income rose by $7.6 billion from its investment in OpenAI. OpenAI reportedly has a 20% revenue sharing agreement with Microsoft (although neither company has ever confirmed this publicly). Bloomberg reported that the software giant has invested more than $13…

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Trump’s Energy Department eases nuclear safety rules

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💥 Read this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Climate,Government & Policy,Department of Energy,In Brief,nuclear fission,nuclear power,Trump Administration 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Over the past few months, nuclear energy startups have raised significant amounts of money — more than $1 billion so far. Data centers and their thirst for electricity were one of the driving forces. But recent changes in federal nuclear safety policies could serve as another accelerant that helps pave the way for rapid reactor development at a potential cost to human health and the environment. The Trump administration has quietly changed the way the Department of…

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Meta spent $19 billion on VR last year, and 2026 won’t be any better

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💥 Check out this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Social,Mark Zuckerberg,Meta,metaverse,reality labs,VR 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Earlier this month, Meta laid off 10% of the staff at Reality Labs, its virtual reality unit, laying off up to 1,000 employees. Now, in a development that appears directly related, the company has revealed that the unit lost several billion dollars last year. On Wednesday, Meta's earnings report showed that its beleaguered VR business lost about $19.1 billion in 2025, slightly more than it lost in 2024 (that year, losses hovered around $17.7 billion). The report showed that the unit recorded…

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Zuckerberg teases proxy trading tools and major AI rollout in 2026

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🚀 Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,agentic commerce,earnings,Mark Zuckerberg,Meta ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Mark Zuckerberg says Meta users will start seeing new AI models and products from the company within months. “In 2025, we rebuilt the foundations of our AI program,” Zuckerberg said on a call with investors on Wednesday, referring to the recently restructured AI lab. “Over the coming months, we will begin shipping our new models and products... and I expect us to steadily push the boundaries throughout the new year.” But although Zuckerberg did not provide timelines or specific products, he did highlight…

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Mark Zuckerberg says a future without smart glasses is ‘hard to imagine’

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💥 Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Gadgets,Mark Zuckerberg,Meta,SMART Glasses 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Mark Zuckerberg talked about his ambitions for Meta's AI-powered smart glasses business during Meta's Q4 2025 earnings call on Wednesday. After shifting its investment in Reality Labs away from the Metaverse, Meta is doubling its production of wearable AI devices, as well as its own AI models. “Billions of people wear glasses or contact lenses to correct vision,” Zuckerberg said. “I think we're in a similar moment to when smartphones arrived, and obviously it was only a matter of time until all…

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AI security startup Outtake raises $40M from Iconiq, Satya Nadella, Bill Ackman and other big names

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✨ Read this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,Startups,TC,digital identity,ICONIQ,outtake 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Outtake, which makes a powerful cybersecurity platform to help organizations detect, investigate and remove identity fraud, has raised a $40 million Series B funding round. While this may not seem like a lot given the huge amounts of money some AI companies are raising, the names involved in this funding read like the tech industry's who's who. The round was led by ICONIQ's Murali Joshi, who has led the company's investments in companies like Anthropic, Datadog, Drata, 1Password, and others. Angels who have invested…

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AI data classification company Handshake is buying Cleanlab, an acquisition target of several other companies

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🚀 Discover this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Startups,acquihire,data labeling,handshake,M&A 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: AI data classification startup Handshake has acquired data auditing startup Cleanlab, the companies tell TechCrunch. Handshake started in 2013 as a platform to hire college graduates, and launched a human data labeling company about a year ago to serve AI prototype companies. Cleanlab, founded in 2021, is a startup that provides software to improve the quality of data produced by human labelers. The purpose of the transaction is primarily to acquire talent, also known as acquisition, and add nine key Cleanlab employees to Handshake's…

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WhatsApp will now charge its AI-powered chatbots to operate in Italy

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✨ Read this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Apps,AI chatbot,Meta,WhatsApp ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Meta announced on Wednesday that it will charge developers a fee to run chatbots on WhatsApp in regions where regulators force the company to allow them. The move comes after the company's ban on third-party chatbots on WhatsApp went into effect on January 15. For now, Meta will charge developers in Italy, where the country's competition watchdog asked the company to suspend its policy last December. The new pricing for non-template responses will begin on February 16, the company said. Meta plans to charge…

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Chrome competes with AI browsers with tighter Gemini integration and proxy features for standalone tasks

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✨ Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Apps,Google,Google Chrome,gemini,nano banana 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 2025 was the year in which a host of AI browsers were launched from companies like OpenAI, Perplexity, Opera, and The Browser Company with the aim of replacing Chrome with features like sidebar assistants and automated tasks. Now, Google is showcasing its capabilities in the field of artificial intelligence by adding similar features to Chrome, which is the largest browser in the world by market share. While Google brought Gemini to Chrome last September, the assistant lived in a floating window. With this…

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