Amazon to pay $2.5B in FTC settlement over 'deceptive' Prime tactics: The company will be required to pay a $1 billion civil penalty and provide $1.5 billion in refunds back to an estimated 35 million consumers harmed by the company's "deceptive Prime enrollment practices," the FTC says. Read More
Elon Musk's xAI offers Grok to federal government for 42 cents : xAI has reached a deal with the U.S. GSA to sell Grok to federal agencies for 42 cents over 18 months, undercutting OpenAI and Anthropic. Read More
OpenAI says GPT-5 stacks up to humans in a wide range of jobs: A new test from OpenAI aims to understand how close AI is to outperforming humans at economically valuable work. Read More
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What top VCs want from AI founders: Inside the investor lens with Jon McNeill, Aileen Lee, and Steve Jang at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: Jon McNeill (DVx Ventures), Aileen Lee (Cowboy Ventures), and Steve Jang (Kindred Ventures) share what AI founders need to know now: from defensibility to term sheets. TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 takes place October 27–29 in San Francisco. Register before tomorrow ends to save up to $668. Read More
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