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Spotify now lets you share what you’re streaming in real time with friends

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Spotify now lets you share what you're streaming in real time with friends | TechCrunch

You can tap a friend’s listening activity to play the track, save it, open the menu, or react with an emoji.

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Warner Bros. Discovery rejects Paramount’s bid again, calls it a ‘leveraged buyout’

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Warner Bros. Discovery rejects Paramount's bid again, calls it a 'leveraged buyout' | TechCrunch

The studio's board unanimously rejected Paramount Skydance's revised $108.4 billion bid, calling the proposal a "leveraged buyout" that w...

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Spotify lowers monetization threshold for video podcasts

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Spotify lowers monetization threshold for video podcasts | TechCrunch

Spotify is dropping the minimum episode requirement to three, minimum consumption hours to 2,000, and engaged audience member threshold to 1,000 ov...

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Roblox now requires all users globally to complete age checks to access chat

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Roblox now requires all users globally to complete age checks to access chat | TechCrunch

Once users complete an age check, they can access age-based chat, which means they can only communicate with others in a similar age group.

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Intel spinout Articul8 raises more than half of $70M round at $500M valuation

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Intel spinout Articul8 raises more than half of $70M round at $500M valuation | TechCrunch

Articul8's valuation for its current funding round marks a roughly fivefold increase since its Series A.

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McKinsey and General Catalyst execs say the era of ‘learn once, work forever’ is over

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McKinsey and General Catalyst execs say the era of 'learn once, work forever' is over | TechCrunch

Calacanis, General Catalyst's Taneja, and McKinsey's Sternfels discussed how AI is reshaping technology and the labor force.

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Meta’s Manus news is getting different receptions in Washington and Beijing

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Meta's Manus news is getting different receptions in Washington and Beijing | TechCrunch

Chinese officials are reportedly reviewing whether the Meta deal violates technology export controls, potentially giving Beijing leverage it wasn&#...

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CES 2026: Everything revealed, from Nvidia’s debuts to AMD’s new chips to Razer’s AI oddities

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CES 2026: Everything revealed, from Nvidia’s debuts to AMD’s new chips to Razer’s AI oddities  | TechCrunch

CES 2026 is in full swing in Las Vegas, with the show floor open to the public after a packed couple of days occupied by press conferences from ...

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Wearable health devices could generate a million tons of e-waste by 2050

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Wearable health devices could generate a million tons of e-waste by 2050 | TechCrunch

The most surprising part is that the plastic isn't the biggest problem.

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A viral Reddit post alleging fraud from a food delivery app turned out to be AI-generated

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A viral Reddit post alleging fraud from a food delivery app turned out to be AI-generated | TechCrunch

When fake content goes viral, the damage has already been done, even if the post is debunked.

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Mobileye acquires humanoid robot startup Mentee Robotics for $900M

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Mobileye acquires humanoid robot startup Mentee Robotics for $900M | TechCrunch

Mentee Robotics was co-founded by Mobileye president Amnon Shashua.

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xAI says it raised $20B in Series E funding

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xAI says it raised $20B in Series E funding | TechCrunch

Nvidia is among the many investors, but xAI has not disclosed if these investments come in the form of equity or debt.

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California lawmaker proposes a four-year ban on AI chatbots in kid’s toys

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California lawmaker proposes a four-year ban on AI chatbots in kids' toys | TechCrunch

“Our children cannot be used as lab rats for Big Tech to experiment on,” Senator Steve Padilla said. He just introduced a bill to ban AI chatbo...

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The most bizarre tech announced so far at CES 2026

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The most bizarre tech announced at CES 2026 | TechCrunch

From an AI panda pet to an anime girl hologram for your desk, here are the wildest products at CES 2026.

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Intel is building a handheld gaming platform including a dedicated chip

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Intel is building a handheld gaming platform including a dedicated chip | TechCrunch

Intel has been building chips designed for gaming PCs for years but the company is now moving into handheld devices too.

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LMArena lands $1.7B valuation four months after launching its product

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LMArena lands $1.7B valuation four months after launching its product | TechCrunch

LMArena, which started as a UC Berkeley research project, has raised about $250 million total and become a unicorn in about seven months.

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Founder of spyware maker pcTattletale pleads guilty to hacking and advertising surveillance software

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Founder of spyware maker pcTattletale pleads guilty to hacking and advertising surveillance software | TechCrunch

Bryan Fleming, the founder of hacked stalkerware company pcTattletale, pleaded guilty to federal charges linked to the running of his now-defunct M...

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Nvidia to accelerate Siemens chip-design tools using its GPUs

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Nvidia to accelerate Siemens EDA tools using its GPUs

Nvidia announced today at CES 2026 that it would help Siemens electronic design automation (EDA) software run on its GPUs in an attempt to speed up...

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How World Cup champion Mario Götze built a parallel career as an angel investor

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How World Cup champion Mario Götze built a parallel career as an angel investor | TechCrunch

Companion M, Götze’s personal investment vehicle, now has a portfolio of more than 70 companies, two of which became unicorns in 2025

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Threads is developing in-message games

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Threads is developing in-message games | TechCrunch

Launching in-message games would give Threads an edge over competitors like X and Bluesky, which don’t offer built-in games.