TechCrunch Host
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5,755 appearances
109 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 17 Aug
TechCrunch Host’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 109 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 23.
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Their origins are equally murky.
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Phineas has name-dropped Spanish-speaking anarchists, wrote the hacking team Postmortem in Spanish, and followed numerous Latin American leftist accounts on Twitter.
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They told Lorenzo that their first language is neither English nor Spanish, though they have acknowledged living in a Spanish-speaking country.
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It's all worth taking with a grain of salt, really.
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Everything I say that contains clues about my identity is half-trolling, Phineas told Lorenzo.
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I'm in the habit of saying misinformation.
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It's also possible that the Phineas persona was passed around between 2014 and 2019 and used by different individuals.
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But there is no evidence of that.
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And after 10 years of conversations, Lorenzo's gut says Phineas truly is the hacktivist that they claim to be.
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That's all for now.
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For more great reporting like this, go to TechCrunch.com.
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Alphabet investors have very publicly worried that the company's massive AI spending is not worth the money.
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With the company's latest earnings report, those investors should be able to relax a little bit.
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The takeaway, Google's cloud business, driven largely by enterprise AI adoption, is booming.
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The search giant saw Google Cloud revenue spike 82% from where it was this time last year, climbing to nearly $25 billion.
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That's well above last quarter's generous year-over-year growth, which showed a revenue jump of 63% to $20 billion.
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And it handily beats what Wall Street analysts expected for this quarter's growth.
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The expectation was $22.46 billion.
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Those cloud gains were driven largely by enterprise AI solutions and enterprise AI infrastructure adoption, the company said, while also noting that its backlog of cloud contracting work, that is, work that it hasn't yet converted into revenue, has climbed to $514 billion.
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The company's profit hit $112.1 billion, which is a massive jump from this time last year when the company reported $28.1 billion in profit, the company's earning report showed.
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