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Top Lucid Motors executive departs amid new CEO’s leadership shakeup

Emad Dlala, a top executive at EV-maker Lucid Motors, has left the company just months after being promoted to a leading role, TechCrunch has learned.

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OpenAI unveils Lockdown Mode to protect sensitive data from prompt injection attacks

OpenAI announced a new feature that it says will provide additional protection from prompt injection attacks, where malicious chatbot instructions are hidden in webpages and

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Benchmark raises its first-ever growth fund as part of $2B capital raise

Benchmark Capital, the storied Silicon Valley VC firm known for early investments in eBay, Snap, Uber, and Twitter, is breaking with one of its signature

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Erin Brockovich takes aim at data center secrecy

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has a new mission: Bringing more transparency to data center construction and the impact those data centers have on nearby communities.

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Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket explodes during testing in Florida

Blue Origin’s New Glenn mega-rocket just exploded during testing at a launch site in Cape Canaveral, Florida, according to live streams from NASASpaceFlight.com and SpaceFlight

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What ClickUp’s mass layoff tells us about the future of work

AI’s biggest champions have argued for some time that the technology will usher in an era of unprecedented productivity gains, richly rewarding workers who harness

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AI is being used to resurrect the voices of dead pilots

In the latest sign of these AI-heavy times, the National Transportation Safety Board temporarily removed access to its docket system after discovering that voices of

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Google just declared itself a contender in AI design at IO 2026

Google announced at its annual Google I/O event on Tuesday that it’s launching Pics, a new AI-powered design and image-generation app for Google Workspace. The

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The haves and have nots of the AI gold rush

The vibes around the current AI boom aren’t great, even in the tech industry, according to a lengthy social media post from Menlo Ventures partner

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Notion just turned its workspace into a hub for AI agents

Productivity software maker Notion is stepping into the agentic era. In a livestreamed product announcement on Wednesday, the company, known best for its collaborative note-taking