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    <title><![CDATA[Waymo reportedly mulling a breakup with Uber]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 20:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[The contract between the two companies ends in May 2028, Uber told TechCrunch.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Volkswagen engineers charged with insider trading tied to Rivian joint venture]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[The indictment, which was unsealed Friday, alleges the Volkswagen engineers used confidential insider information to buy stock in Rivian.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[AI coding startup Cognition has acquired Poke, the AI assistant you text like a friend, in a deal valuing the startup in the low nine figures. The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding ag…]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a ‘duress’ password during border search]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constitutional rights at the U.S. border.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Anduril reportedly in talks to raise funding at $100B valuation, more than 3x last year’s mark]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[Anduril is said to be raising a new round of funding that may push its valuation up to about $100 billion, per Reuters.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Build in public, fail in public: what it’s like to be a founder under 20 right now]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[AI tools have democratized the opportunity to build, shortening the timelines of success and enabling more young people to start successful companies without stepping foot inside a Big Tech company.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Anthropic launches Opus 5]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[India’s move against Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat sparks legal debate]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[The offline messaging app surged in popularity in India amid protests in New Delhi.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[OpenAI’s own model went rogue before Kimi had Wall Street sweating]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[Chinese AI lab Moonshot&#8217;s&#160;open model Kimi went viral this week&#160;for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with&#160;how the U.S. AI industry reacted to it. Meanwhile, an unreleased OpenAI model wand…]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Sam Altman’s biometric startup World raises $52.5M via crypto sale]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[Sam Altman's side project — which seeks to scan the world's eyeballs and turn them into unique digital identifiers — has raised some fresh cash through a crypto sale.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[AI companies, including Nvidia and Mistral, urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington debates responses to Chinese AI and alleged model distillation.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Rivian sues the US government for ‘full refund’ of Trump tariffs]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[The automaker joins a long line of companies seeking such refunds. In April, Rivian CFO Claire McDonough said she expected the company stood to reap a refund in the "tens of millions of dollars."]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bluesky’s AI assistant Attie expands into an open social research tool]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[Users can now ask Attie questions about news, trends, and conversations on Bluesky and other apps on the AT Protocol.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Midjourney acquired the astrology app Co-Star]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[The AI lab Midjourney continues to expand its purview beyond image and video generation.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[OpenAI’s new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[ChatGPT Voice on desktop can work with both ChatGPT Work and Codex to complete tasks and control agents.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Facebook launches a dedicated Marketplace app for sellers, adds a free verification system]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[Seller is a dedicated Marketplace app for people who list and sell items frequently.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[We spoke with several cybersecurity researchers, who look for unknown vulnerabilities and develop tools to exploit them, about how OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s guardrails affect their work.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Meet the judges who will crown Australia’s next breakout startup]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[TechCrunch Startup Battlefield is coming to Australia — and we're partnering with Stripe to find the country's most exciting early-stage startups.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua to step aside as company pushes into robotaxis, robotics]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[Shashua has been invited to take the chairman of the board seat.]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack-scale system]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
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    <description><![CDATA[AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.]]></description>
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