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TechCrunch Aug 27, 2026

Sprains, pain, and whiplash: Waymo and Zoox test drivers are getting hurt as robotaxis scale

Test drivers for Waymo and Zoox sustained more than two dozen injuries in 2024 and 2025 from hard braking or other…

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TechCrunch Aug 27, 2026

Australian police arrest two over TeamPCP hacks targeting Mercor, OpenAI, and others

The arrests come after a wave of cyberattacks earlier this year targeting tech companies that rely on high-profile and…

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TechCrunch Aug 27, 2026

AI’s memory crunch is coming for Android apps

Google is setting new memory-use limits for Android apps as AI data centers contribute to hardware shortages that…

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TechCrunch Aug 27, 2026

Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies

A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real…

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TechCrunch Aug 27, 2026

Plaud’s new earphones come with an eSIM-enabled case for talking to AI agents

Called Plaud One, these adopt the simple bare-bones style of Apple's AirPods, and can record calls, while their case can…

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TechCrunch Aug 27, 2026

OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers in India

OpenAI has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or the…

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TechCrunch Aug 27, 2026

Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition

Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, the popular open source AI hub, for $12.9 billion in a move that would…

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TechCrunch Aug 27, 2026

Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350M at a $2.5B valuation

The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring…

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