Polymarket reportedly paid creators to post deceptive videos about fake bets
Many of those videos were reportedly filmed on “near-perfect copies” of the Polymarket website, while featuring trades and winnings that were not real.
The Download: perimenopause misinformation and China’s latest AI leap
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TechCrunch Mobility: A new robotaxi scorecard shows China’s dominance
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
When the Trump administration cracks down on Anthropic, who benefits?
On the new episode of Equity, we discussed what actually prompted the administration’s latest moves against Anthropic, and what this might mean for the AI ecosystem.
Beyond Siri: Here are the practical AI features coming to your iPhone in iOS 27
Siri’s AI overhaul may have grabbed the headlines at WWDC, but some of Apple’s most useful AI features are arriving elsewhere in iOS 27.
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’
“These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.””
In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search
So … what’s your In the Weights score?
Your Buyers Are Already Using AI Search — Here’s How You Make Sure Your Real Estate Brand Is on the First Page
As AI-powered search rapidly changes how consumers discover and validate businesses, we’re entering a new era where authority, third-party credibility and trusted digital signals matter more than follower counts alone.
We Told Our Client to Ditch Their ‘Safe’ Content — and Engagement Jumped 4,646%. Here’s How You Can Do It, Too.
Don’t post the same content as everyone else. Here’s why that’s killing your reach — and the format that fixes it.
Founders Fund’s outlier bet on humanely killed fish
Shinkei makes a refrigerator-sized robot called Poseidon to kill fish quickly and humanely.
Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic
Jumper isn’t the only big name leaving Google DeepMind.