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Amazon’s new podcast strategy: Monetize everything
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/GettyImages-2217247219.jpg?w=1024″] Amazon’s podcasting business has transformed over the past six months, according to The New York Times. Back in August 2025, the company reportedly eliminated more than 100 jobs from its podcast studio Wondery. At the time, Amazon insisted it was not shutting Wondery down, and that appears to be technically true —…
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What Tim Cook built
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/tim-cook-iphone-GettyImages-2234563479.jpg?w=1024″] Listen onApple PodcastsListen onSpotify After 15 years as Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook will be stepping down from the role in September. On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I discussed Apple’s big announcement. We reflected on how Apple has changed since Cook took over from Steve…
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TechCrunch Mobility: Elon’s admission
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/elon-tesla-getty.jpg?resize=1200,799″] Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Tesla earnings came and went, and much of it fell into the “we expected this” category. Investors seemed…
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To buy this Bay Area home, you’ll need Anthropic equity
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/GettyImages-2252871842.jpg?w=1024″] Someone’s offering an unusual deal for a 13-acre property in Mill Valley, just north of South Francisco. Homeowner and investment banker Storm Duncan has created a LinkedIn page for the home, which he said he’d “like to exchange […] for Anthropic equity.” The San Francisco Standard reports that Duncan described this as…
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SpeakOn’s dictation device is a good idea marred by platform limitations
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/SpeakOn-feat.jpg?resize=1200,675″] I constantly use dictation apps such as Wispr Flow, Willow, or Typeless to reply to messages and emails on both my Mac and my phone. But to do so, I have to use my phone’s mic or AirPods to dictate my messages, and they often don’t pick up what I am saying.…
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Anthropic created a test marketplace for agent-on-agent commerce
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/GettyImages-88622588.jpg?resize=1200,870″] In a recent experiment, Anthropic created a classified marketplace where AI agents represented both buyers and sellers, striking real deals for real goods and real money. The company admitted this test — which it called Project Deal — was only “a pilot experiment with a self-selected participant pool” of 69 Anthropic employees…
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Maine’s governor vetoes data center moratorium
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/GettyImages-2217198328.jpeg?resize=1200,800″] Maine Governor Janet Mills has vetoed a bill that would have temporarily brought permits for new data centers to a halt. If it had become law, L.D. 307 would have imposed the country’s first statewide moratorium on new data centers — lasting, in this case, until November 1, 2027. The bill also…
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OpenAI CEO apologizes to Tumbler Ridge community
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GettyImages-2194585161.jpg?w=1024″] In a letter to the residents of Tumbler Ridge, Canada, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he is “deeply sorry” that his company failed to alert law enforcement about the suspect in a recent mass shooting. After police identified 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar as a suspected shooter who allegedly killed eight people, the…
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The climate tech IPO window could finally be cracking open
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GettyImages.jpg?resize=1200,800″] Climate tech startups are capital intensive, timelines are long, and the technology is often considered “first of its kind.” What’s more, a key value proposition is addressing pollution — an externality that is, at best, poorly priced by the market. Those aren’t the qualities stock pickers tend to favor. And yet, public…
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Why Cohere is merging with Aleph Alpha
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/GettyImages-1757707025.jpg?w=1024″] Canadian AI startup Cohere is taking over Germany-based Aleph Alpha, with the blessing of their governments, in a bid to offer a sovereign alternative to enterprises in an AI landscape dominated by American players. “Sovereign AI” refers to systems where companies and governments retain full control over their own data — rather…