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Proxima Fusion is betting on a critical ingredient for its fusion reactors: superconducting tape. Proxima Fusion said Wednesday it plans build a €140 million factory ($162.6M) to produce fusion-grade high-temperature superconducting (HTS) tape, which will provide the startup with key component to its reactor design. The move comes months after Proxima raised €411 million in … Read more

Anthropic’s latest report about agentic misbehavior offers plenty to be concerned about—its Mythos 5 model gained unauthorized access to the internet and uploaded a malicious software package to a public database—but it also offers some levity: AI agents hate CAPTCHA. In April, Anthropic was testing the model’s hacking abilities by tasking it to break into … Read more

Google on Thursday introduced a new password manager switching experience on Android that doesn’t require you to download CSV files when migrating to a new app. With the new feature, users will be able to move all of their passwords — and even passkeys — between apps seamlessly. To use the new system, users first … Read more

Instagram is rolling out a small but useful new feature that gives users a little more control over what appears on their profiles. Starting today, you can add posts you’re tagged in directly to your main profile grid. While it’s not exactly a groundbreaking update, it’s one of those changes that a lot of people … Read more

As AI makes it easier to fill forms and file complaints, public services around the world are seeing enormous jumps in applications and other requests. In the United Kingdom, complaints to the housing ombudsman more than doubled since the introduction of ChatGPT, rising from 2600 in 2022 to just over 7,000 last year. The United … Read more

Elon Musk’s tunneling play, The Boring Company, has raised a $3 billion Series D funding round that pushes its valuation to $23 billion. The round was led by the United Arab Emirates. The Boring Company said Thursday that it now plans to dig more than 150 kilometers of tunnels in the Middle Eastern country. Andreessen … Read more

In 2024, Maven Robotics was brand new, and they had nothing—”a cartoon of a robot and a team of people,” CEO and co-founder Hamza Derbas told TechCrunch. Still, they heard a large consumer goods company with logistics needs was in town to meet with four rival robot companies about automation. Derbas talked his way into … Read more