​Toronto police said this is the “first known instance” of an SMS blaster being used in Canada.  

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​Skyroot’s valuation has more than doubled since 2023 as the Indian rocket startup prepares for the country’s first private orbital launch.  

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​Moonshot’s annualized recurring revenue topped $200 million in April, driven by rapid growth in paid subscriptions and API usage.  

​Users will be able to create a podcast from Codex or Claude Code and import it to Spotify  

​Spotify’s AI DJ feature now supports French, German, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese.  

​Earlier this week, five people who touch every layer of the AI supply chain sat down at the Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills, where they talked with TechCrunch about everything from chip shortages to orbital data centers to the possibility that the whole architecture that undergirds the tech is wrong.  

​The investment comes as Pronto scales to 26,000 daily bookings and the market heads toward a potential $18 billion size.  

​Barry Diller defended OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, while warning that AGI remains an unpredictable force needing guardrails.