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X, formerly Twitter, announced on Friday that it has partnered with Polymarket, naming it the platform’s official prediction market partner. Launched in 2020, Polymarket allows users to bet on the outcomes of real-world events using cryptocurrency. Although the companies didn’t announce specifics about the partnership, they shared that they will be launching “an integrated product to deliver data-driven insights and recommendations.” Polymarket predictions will be combined with X data to deliver live insights, with real-time annotations of market moves from Grok and relevant X posts, Polymarket explained in a press release. The product will be the first in “a suite…

EleutherAI, an AI research organization, has released what it claims is one of the largest collections of licensed and open-domain text for training AI models. The dataset, called the Common Pile v0.1, took around two years to complete in collaboration with AI startups Poolside, Hugging Face, and others, along with several academic institutions. Weighing in at 8 terabytes in size, the Common Pile v0.1 was used to train two new AI models from EleutherAI, Comma v0.1-1T and Comma v0.1-2T, that EleutherAI claims perform on par with models developed using unlicensed, copyrighted data. AI companies, including OpenAI, are embroiled in lawsuits…

Nucleus Genomics, a genetic testing startup founded by 25-year-old Kian Sadeghi, initially launched in 2021 with the goal of calculating a patient’s risk for specific diseases.  But it’s been courting controversy for years with products that claim to tell people how their genetics correlate to a host of complex issues, including their IQ.  On Wednesday, it ratcheted up the controversy to an earsplitting level when it announced a new product called Nucleus Embryo with a tweet that said: “Every parent wants to give their children more than they had. For the first time in human history, Nucleus adds a new…

LoveFrom, the creative firm founded by former Apple chief designer Jony Ive, played a role in the development of Rivian’s first electric bike, according to multiple sources who spoke to TechCrunch.  For about 18 months, a handful of LoveFrom staff worked alongside Rivian’s design team and engineers within a skunkworks program led by Specialized’s former chief product and technology officer Chris Yu. LoveFrom’s work on the micromobility project ended in fall 2024, according to the sources.  LoveFrom and Rivian declined to comment.  Rivian’s skunkworks program, which eventually grew to a team of about 70 people hailing from Apple, Google, Specialized,…

If you’ve been following Anthropic, you’ll know it’s been a busy year for the AI startup. Back in March, the company ⁠announced that it raised $3.5 billion⁠ at a $61.5 billion valuation in a round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Since then, it’s ⁠launched a blog for its Claude models⁠ and, according to Bloomberg reporting, ⁠partnered with Apple⁠ to power a new “vibe-coding” software platform. Instead of our usual Friday news rundown, today’s episode of Equity brings you a conversation from this week’s TechCrunch Sessions: AI event in Berkeley. Our friend and co-host Max Zeff sat down with Jared Kaplan,…

The blowup between the president of the United States and the world’s richest man has played out on social media in real time, the latest, perhaps ultimate example of how X has become Elon Musk’s personal platform, his own reality show where anyone can tune in to watch the mercurial twists and turns of his unpredictable personality.And tune in they did. The feud has birthed countless memes, hot takes and speculation, with some X users bringing out the popcorn emojis while rejoicing that the site has returned to its “fun” roots — back when it was called Twitter. While it’s…

Brett Adcock, co-founder and CEO of the humanoid robotics startup Figure AI, made a rare public appearance at the Bloomberg Tech conference on Thursday. Figure has recently been the subject of a couple news articles that questioned its progress with marquee customer BMW. Figure objected so strenuously to at least one of these reports that Adcock publicly threatened to sue the publication. When asked about the skepticism surrounding the BMW relationship and whether it is a pilot or has commercial value to the company, Adcock replied with an explanation of the technical benefit of having robots on a factory floor…

NEW YORK (AP) — The world’s richest man could lose billions in his fight with world’s most powerful politician.The feud between Elon Musk and Donald Trump could mean Tesla’s plans for self-driving cars hit a roadblock, SpaceX flies fewer missions for NASA, Starlink gets fewer overseas satellite contracts and the social media platform X loses advertisers.Maybe, that is. It all depends on Trump’s appetite for revenge and how the dispute unfolds.Joked Telemetry Insight auto analyst Sam Abuelsamid, “Since Trump has no history of retaliating against perceived adversaries, he’ll probably just let this pass.”Turning serious, he sees trouble ahead for Musk.“For…

The feud between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump may be bad for the MAGA camp, but it’s proven to be beneficial for X, which has seen engagement soaring over the past 24 hours. According to new data from Sensor Tower, the app formerly known as Twitter skyrocketed up the U.S. App Store’s top charts, landing at the 23rd overall spot on June 5 — up from an average rank of No. 68 over the last 30 days. X also saw an average rank of No. 58 over the past six months. The ranking changes could be influenced by increased…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump wants to counter the threats drones pose to national security under new rules released Friday, while also aiming to make it easier for Americans to fly faster than the speed of sound and expedite the development of the flying cars of the future.The three executive orders will encourage the Federal Aviation Administration to expedite rules to allow companies to use drones beyond their operators’ line of sight, while also imposing restrictions meant to help protect against terrorism, espionage and public safety threats.Drones are already used in a variety of ways, including bolstering search and…