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At His Final Adobe Summit Keynote, Shantanu Narayen Pins Hope on Human Creativity
At Adobe Summit 2026, Shantanu Narayen’s farewell keynote with Jensen Huang framed AI as a force set to expand creative work, not replace it.
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How Scaler is Navigating the AI Era of Free Upskilling
Learning from ChatGPT costs nothing. So how does a $710 million edtech firm reinvent itself?
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Mphasis Acquires TAP for CAD 10 Mn, Targets CAD 20 Mn Earnout
The deal adds Continuum AI platform to strengthen NeoIP roadmap and expand retail, consumer packaged goods AI offerings.
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AWS Confirms $35 Bn India Investment by 2030 to Scale Citizen Cloud Infra
At the AWS Summit Bengaluru 2026, AWS’ Sandeep Dutta said the fresh commitment would build on its existing $40 billion investment in India.
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Incoming Apple CEO John Ternus Already Driving AI Overhaul Ahead of Leadership Transition: Report
Apple's incoming CEO, John Ternus, is said to have already begun reshaping parts of the company's operations with a particular emphasis on AI. Ternus' formal transition into the Cupertino-based tech giant's top role was recently confirmed and is set to take place in September. However, a report suggests that Apple's current Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering is already focusing on integrating AI more deeply into the company's internal operations.
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Electric, But Not Aatmanirbhar: The Hidden Import Trap in India's Induction Boom
India's induction cooktop industry relies heavily on imported components, with 40% of essential parts needed for production coming from abroad.
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Cursor May Be Acquired by SpaceX for $60 Billion This Year
This deal is a part of the partnership between the two companies, focusing on building advanced AI coding models.
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What to Expect at AWS Summit Bengaluru 2026?
The summit will feature 150+ sessions, hands-on workshops, and networking opportunities for business leaders, and developers.
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SpaceX is working with Cursor and has an option to buy the startup for $60 billion
SpaceX said it has struck a deal with Cursor to develop a next generation “coding and knowledge work AI,” which includes a surprising provision—an option to buy the popular software development platform for $60 billion later this year. Partnering with and potentially purchasing a leader in the hottest AI product category can only be seen in the context of SpaceX’s much-anticipated public offering. Investors seeking more value in the IPO might see its engagement with Cursor as another way to extract value from Elon Musk’s increasingly sprawling tech conglomerate. The deal won’t shock those who follow the industry closely. Last week, it was reported that xAI would beginrenting computing powerfrom its data centers to Cursor, with the coding startup using tens of thousands of xAI chips to train its latest AI model. And last month, two of Cursor’s most senior engineering leaders, Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg,left the company to join xAI, where both report directly to Musk. SpaceX described the partnership as a project combining Cursor’s “product and distribution to expert software engineers” with SpaceX’s Colossus supercomputer, which the company claims has the equivalent compute power of a million Nvidia H100 chips. SpaceX also said that at some undisclosed point later this year, it will either pay Cursor $10 billion for its work or acquire the company for $60 billion. Last week, TechCrunchreportedthat Cursor was eying a $50 billion valuation in an upcoming private fundraising round. That figure itself reflects an astonishing series of leaps. Cursor was valued at just $2.5 billion in January of last year, climbed to $9 billion by last May May, and was assigned a $29.3 billion post-money valuation when it closed on $2.3 billion in Series D funding in November. Either figure would represent a significant expense for SpaceX, which is widely seen to be losing money following the acquisition of xAI and the social media network X and is planning extensive capital investment. The brief statement did not say if either deal could be paid in SpaceX stock. In the meantime, the move could shore up weaknesses at each company, but it also reveals them. Neither Cursor nor xAI has proprietary models that can match the leading offerings from Anthropic and OpenAI — the same companies now competing directly with Cursor for the developer market. Cursor still uses and sells access to Claude and GPT models even as both firms roll out their own coding tools, an awkward arrangement that this new SpaceX partnership may be designed to eventually escape.
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Unauthorized group has gained access to Anthropic’s exclusive cyber tool Mythos, report claims
A group of unauthorized users has reportedly gained access toMythos, the cybersecurity tool recently announced by Anthropic. Much has been made of Mythos and its purported power — an AI product designed for enterprise security that, in the wrong hands, could become a potent hacking tool, according to the company. Now, Bloomberghas reportedthat a “private online forum,” the members of which have not been publicly identified, has managed to gain access to the tool through a third-party vendor. “We’re investigating a report claiming unauthorized access to Claude Mythos Preview through one of our third-party vendor environments,” an Anthropic spokesperson told TechCrunch. The company said that, so far, it has found no evidence that the supposedly unauthorized activity has impacted Anthropic’s systems in any way. The unauthorized group tried a number of different strategies to gain access to the model, including using “access” enjoyed by the person who was interviewed by Bloomberg. That person is currently employed at a third-party contractor that works for Anthropic, the outlet reported. Members of the group are part of a Discord channel that seeks out information about unreleased AI models, the outlet reported. The group has been using Mythos regularly since gaining access to it, and provided evidence to Bloomberg in the form of screenshots and a live demonstration of the software. Bloomberg reports that the group, which supposedly gained access to the tool on the very same day it was publicly announced, “made an educated guess about the model’s online location based on knowledge about the format Anthropic has used for other models.” The group in question is “interested in playing around with new models, not wreaking havoc with them,” the source told the outlet. Mythos was released to a select number of vendors, including big names like Apple, as part of an initiative called Project Glasswing. The limited release of the model was designed to prevent its use by bad actors. The tool could be weaponized against corporate security instead of bolstering it, Anthropic said. If true, unauthorized use of Mythos could spell trouble for Anthropic, which provided the exclusive release to allay the company’s concern for enterprise security.
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Meta will record employees’ keystrokes and use it to train its AI models
Meta has found a new source of training data for its AI models: its own employees. The company plans to use data culled from the mouse movements and keystrokes of its own staff in its pursuit to build more capable and efficient artificial intelligence. The story, which was firstreported by Reuters, shows the lengths to which tech companies are going to find new sources of training data — the lifeblood of AI models that helps the programs learn how to more effectively carry out tasks and respond to user queries. When reached for comment by TechCrunch, a Meta spokesperson provided the following statement: “If we’re building agents to help people complete everyday tasks using computers, our models need real examples of how peopleactuallyuse them — things like mouse movements, clicking buttons, and navigating dropdown menus. To help, we’re launching an internal tool that will capture these kinds of inputs on certain applications to help us train our models. There are safeguards in place to protect sensitive content, and the data is not used for any other purpose.” This trend would seem to reveal the troublesome privacy implications of the AI industry, as yesterday’s internal corporate communications are increasingly becoming fodder for a new corporate supply chain. Last weekit was reportedthat old startups were being scavenged for their corporate communications (from Slack archives, Jira tickets and other internal messaging platforms), which could be converted into AI fuel.
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Clarifai deletes 3 million photos that OkCupid provided to train facial recognition AI, report says
The AI platform Clarifai deleted 3 million photos that it says it got from OkCupid to train its facial recognition AI, according toReuters. The company also deleted any models that were trained using that data. Per the FTC’s investigation, Clarifai asked OkCupid — whose executives had invested in the company — to share data in 2014. The dating app then provided these user-uploaded photos,reports say, along with other demographic and location data. Per OkCupid’s own privacy policies, this behavior should have been prohibited. “We’re collecting data now and just realized that OKCupid must have a HUGE amount of awesome data for this,” Clarifai founder and CEO Matthew Zeiler wrote in an email to OkCupid co-founder Maxwell Krohn, according to court documents reviewed by Reuters. Though this incident appears to have taken place 12 years ago, the FTCdid not open an investigationuntil 2019, whena New York Times articleabout Clarifai mentioned that the company had used images from OkCupid to build an AI tool that could estimate someone’s age, sex, and race based on their face. The FTC and OkCupid, which is owned by Match Group,settled the lawsuitlast month. At the time, OkCupid and Match Group did not admit to the allegations that it deceived users by violating its own privacy policies, but Clarifai’s confirmation that it has deleted the data implies that the company did indeed get access to those photos. The FTC also alleged that since 2014, Match Group and OkCupid deliberately concealed this behavior and attempted to obstruct its investigation. OkCupid and Clarifai did not immediately respond to TechCrunch’s requests for comment. While the FTC isnot able to fine companiesfor this type of first-time offense, the agencydeclaredthat OkCupid and Match are “permanently prohibited from misrepresenting or assisting others in misrepresenting” the nature of their data collection and sharing. So, OkCupid and Match are prohibited from partaking in these behaviors, which are already not allowed by the FTC.
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