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Supabase nabs $5B valuation, four months after hitting $2B | TechCrunch It's been a wild year of growth and fundraising for vibe-coding database of choice, Supabase.

Supabase nabs $5B valuation, four months after hitting $2B

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OpenAI’s Sora 2 is an unholy abomination The age of AI slop is upon us.

OpenAI’s Sora 2 is an unholy abomination

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Parallelized telecom quantum networking with an ytterbium-171 atom array - Nature Physics Most atom-based quantum networks emit photons at non-telecom wavelengths, requiring lossy conversion for long-distance links. A scalable approach for generating direct entanglement between atoms and telecom-band photons has now been demonstrated.

Parallelized telecom quantum networking with an ytterbium-171 atom array

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Delocalized Excitation Transfer in Open Quantum Systems with Long-Range Interactions Entangled quantum states enhance and preserve energy transfer in light-harvesting--like systems with long-range interactions, and trapped-ion experiments can simulate these processes to thereby guide ...

Delocalized Excitation Transfer in Open Quantum Systems with Long-Range Interactions

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Multimodal super-resolution: discovering hidden physics and its application to fusion plasmas - Nature Communications Sensor failures and limited resolution challenge many complex systems. Here, authors develop a multimodal AI method to generate super-resolution of a sensor using other available sensors in the system, revealing hidden dynamics in fusion plasmas and enabling cost-effective, high-resolution diagnostics.

Multimodal super-resolution: discovering hidden physics and its application to fusion plasmas

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OpenAI's SaaS era has begun. Here are the companies in the firing line. OpenAI showed off new AI tools for sales, support, and contracts, posing a direct threat to software-as-a-service leaders like Salesforce and HubSpot.

OpenAI's SaaS attack has begun. Here are the companies in the firing line.

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Self-driving trucks startup Einride raises $100M | TechCrunch Einride raised the funds five months after founder Robert Falck left the CEO role and took over as executive chairman of the board.

Self-driving trucks startup Einride raises $100M

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This Young ‘Actress’ Has All Of Hollywood Fuming The Screen Actors Guild seethed about the digital avatar in a statement where it declared why "creativity is, and should remain, human-centered."

This Young ‘Actress’ Has All Of Hollywood Fuming

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Exclusive: Mira Murati’s Stealth AI Lab Launches Its First Product Thinking Machines Lab, led by a group of prominent former OpenAI researchers, is betting that fine-tuning cutting-edge models will be the next frontier in AI.

Mira Murati’s Stealth AI Lab Launches Its First Product

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Meta plans to sell targeted ads based on data in your AI chats | TechCrunch Meta plans to use data from your interactions with AI products to sell targeted ads on Facebook and Instagram.

Meta plans to sell targeted ads based on data in your AI chats

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Former OpenAI and DeepMind researchers raise whopping $300M seed to automate science  | TechCrunch Periodic Labs has raised from a tech industry who's who, including Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, Elad Gil, Jeff Dean, Eric Schmidt, and Jeff Bezos.

Former OpenAI and DeepMind researchers raise whopping $300M seed to automate science

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Workslop is oozing into every corner of America's white-collar offices Are those weekly work memos getting longer and more annoying? Here's why.

The sludgy rise of workslop

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Electrically driven lasing from a dual-cavity perovskite device - Nature An electrically driven perovskite laser is constructed by vertically integrating a low-threshold single-crystal perovskite microcavity sub-unit with a high-power microcavity perovskite LED sub-unit.

Electrically driven lasing from a dual-cavity perovskite device

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Physicists demonstrate 3,000 quantum-bit system capable of continuous operation One often-repeated example illustrates the mind-boggling potential of quantum computing: A machine with 300 quantum bits could simultaneously store more information than the number of particles in the...

Physicists demonstrate 3,000 quantum-bit system capable of continuous operation

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Leading computer science professor says 'everybody' is struggling to get jobs: 'Something is happening in the industry' UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid said the advice he gives students is different in the AI world.

Leading computer science professor says 'everybody' is struggling to get jobs: 'Something is happening in the industry'

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Wiz chief technologist Ami Luttwak on how AI is transforming cyberattacks  | TechCrunch Ami Luttwak, CTO of Wiz, breaks down how AI is changing cybersecurity, why startups shouldn't write a single line of code before thinking about security, and opportunities for upstarts in the industry...

Wiz chief technologist Ami Luttwak on how AI is transforming cyberattacks

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TruSources to show off its on-device identity-checking tech at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 | TechCrunch Age-verification laws are a privacy and security nightmare. This startup performs age checks on-device, without users having to upload their IDs to the internet.

TruSources to show off its on-device identity-checking tech

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Tim Chen has quietly become of one the most sought-after solo investors  | TechCrunch Tim Chen, solo VC at his firm Essence VC, just closed his fourth fund, a fresh $41 million, without even trying.

Tim Chen has quietly become of one the most sought-after solo investors

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Gen Z's hiring nightmare is really about discrimination. 'Youngism' is worse than AI when it comes to eating entry-level jobs | Fortune In the U.S., federal age-bias protections under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act begin at 40, which leaves Gen Z in a legal blind spot.

Gen Z's hiring nightmare is really about discrimination. 'Youngism' is worse than AI when it comes to eating entry-level jobs

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Emergent raises $23M from Lightspeed to let consumers build apps | TechCrunch Emergent raises $23M for its vibe-coding software platform.

Emergent raises $23M from Lightspeed to let consumers build apps

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Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

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The job market is hell for us, and heaven for scammers Scammers feed on desperation, and the desperation of American workers is surging.

The job market is hell for us, and heaven for scammers

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Gen Z job crisis: Maybe there are just too many college graduates now | Fortune The percentage of Americans with a bachelor’s degree or higher is now 37.5%, up from 25.6% in 2000.

Gen Z job crisis: Maybe there are just too many college graduates now

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Bluesky says it’s getting more aggressive about moderation and enforcement | TechCrunch It sounds like Bluesky is getting serious about giving some users the boot, with the company saying it will be doing more to “enforce our moderation policies to better cultivate a space for healthy co...

Bluesky says it’s getting more aggressive about moderation and enforcement

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Chatbait Is Taking Over the Internet How chatbots keep you talking

Chatbait Is Taking Over the Internet

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This is how Gen Z is 'AI-proofing' their careers It’s about agility, foresight, and the humility to change course before it’s too late

This is how Gen Z is 'AI-proofing' their careers

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Here's How Much The Trump Family Is Worth President Trump just had the most lucrative year of his life. But percentage-wise, his three sons—Don Jr., Eric and Barron—did even better.

Here's How Much The Trump Family Is Worth

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Suzy Welch says Gen Z and millennials are burnt out because older generations worked just as hard, but they 'had hope' | Fortune "We believed that if you worked hard, you were rewarded for it," Welch said. "This is the disconnect."

Suzy Welch says Gen Z and millennials are burnt out because older generations worked just as hard, but they 'had hope'

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Microsoft CEO Concerned AI Will Destroy the Entire Company The possibility of Microsoft being made obsolete as it races to keep up is something that keeps CEO Satya Nadella up at night.

Microsoft CEO Concerned AI Will Destroy the Entire Company

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The AI boom is great for stocks, not so much for jobs The job market is teetering despite — and perhaps in part because of — the onset of advanced AI.

The AI boom is great for stocks, not so much for jobs

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