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Khosla-backed Mazama Energy just raised $135M to drill deeper into super-hot-rock geothermal
Crusoe raises $3.9B to build massive data centers and small modular “AI factories”
Google DeepMind launches institute to widen the AGI debate
Amazon-owned Zoox’s 100-robotaxi limit in Nevada is about to disappear
PrismML hopes its tiny LLM will change how we all use AI
The FAA’s plan to fix air traffic? $875 million worth of AI
The fix for rogue AI agents could be more AI
OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior
Is the AI safety debate about safety or control?
UN turns to Google to make its global data ready for AI agents
Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal
Waymo restarts San Antonio service 5 months after flooding troubles
Even the King of England has his hesitations about AI
Base Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire
Pinterest teases a new ‘Restyle’ feature that lets you redesign your room with AI
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Events schedule: NMI, Backblaze, PeakXV Partners, Augment, and more to host
Apple will let EU apps use less alarming tracking consent screens
Roku’s new Labs hub brings experimental apps to the big screen
Last call: Disrupt volunteer application closes soon 
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