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India bans real-money gaming, threatening a $23 billion industry

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India’s lower house of parliament on Wednesday passed a sweeping online gaming bill that, while promoting esports and casual gaming without monetary stakes, imposes a blanket ban on real-money games — threatening to disrupt billions of dollars in investment and significantly impact the real-money gaming industry, which could see widespread shutdowns. Titled the Promotion and […]

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Why SecurityPal is choosing ‘nuanced capital’ over more VC rounds

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During the venture capital crash of 2022, SecurityPal founder Pukar Hamal was just 14 months from running out of money. Rather than raise another round, he chose to restructure and focus on getting his business to profitability as quickly as possible — and he hasn’t raised since his $21 million Series A in 2021. On

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Deel scores a lawsuit win, but not against Rippling

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A Florida judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit filed against embattled HR and payroll provider Deel. And while Deel described this as a “Rippling-aligned” and “Rippling-supported” lawsuit, this is not the infamous lawsuit filed by its rival earlier this year that involved an alleged corporate spy. Rippling CEO Parker Conrad even went so far as

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The wait is almost over: The 2025 Startup Battlefield 200 list drops August 27

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Set your alarms. Bookmark this page. Refresh like your future depends on it. After reviewing thousands of groundbreaking applications from around the globe, TechCrunch is just days away from announcing the 2025 Startup Battlefield 200 — our handpicked cohort of the most promising early-stage startups set to take the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 this

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Anthropic says some Claude models can now end ‘harmful or abusive’ conversations 

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Anthropic has announced new capabilities that will allow some of its newest, largest models to end conversations in what the company describes as “rare, extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions.” Strikingly, Anthropic says it’s doing this not to protect the human user, but rather the AI model itself. To be clear, the

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How to build a GTM strategy that actually drives results at Disrupt 2025

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Go-to-market is often where great startups stumble — but it doesn’t have to be. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 in San Francisco this October 27–29, GTM pros Max Altschuler and Alison Wagonfeld take the Builders Stage to show founders how to build a go-to-market engine that doesn’t just support the product, but also scales with it.

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Perplexity’s bid for Google Chrome could be just the beginning

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Perplexity, the AI search startup that hasn’t even cracked 100 million monthly users, ⁠just made a $34.5 billion cash offer⁠ to buy Chrome from Google. The unsolicited bid comes as the DOJ prepares its remedy decision after ⁠ruling Google illegally maintained a search monopoly⁠. The timing makes sense, but questions remain. Perplexity won’t name its

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The wait is almost over: The 2025 Startup Battlefield 200 list drops August 27

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Set your alarms. Bookmark this page. Refresh like your future depends on it. After reviewing thousands of groundbreaking applications from around the globe, TechCrunch is just days away from announcing the 2025 Startup Battlefield 200 — our handpicked cohort of the most promising early-stage startups set to take the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt this October

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