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Boston Dynamics joins forces with its former CEO to speed the learning of its Atlas humanoid robot
Boston Dynamics Wednesday announced a partnership designed to bring improved reinforcement learning to its electric Atlas humanoid robot. The tie-up is with the Robotics & AI Institute (RAI Institute), earlier known as The Boston Dynamics AI Institute. Both organizations were founded by Marc Raibert, a former MIT professor who served as Boston Dynamics’ CEO for […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Softbank could soon buy Renee James’ Ampere chip company for about $6.5B
And it's the latest in an ongoing saga over the company's future ownership. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Sonos lays off 200 ahead of rumored set-top box release
Sonos announced that it has laid off 200 people in a letter posted to its site Wednesday. The news follows a 100-person layoff in August. Both rounds arrive in the wake of a disastrously botched update to the Sonos app that alienated broad swaths of the premium audio hardware firm’s extremely loyal fanbase. The new […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/5/2025
Researchers created an open rival to OpenAI’s o1 ‘reasoning’ model for under $50
AI researchers at Stanford and the University of Washington were able to train an AI “reasoning” model for under $50 in cloud compute credits, according to a new research paper released last Friday. The model known as s1 performs similarly to cutting-edge reasoning models, such as OpenAI’s o1 and DeepSeek’s R1, on tests measuring math […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/5/2025
Steam now warns you if an ‘early access’ PC game might be abandoned
Steam’s early access program helps small to medium-sized developers get an idea off the ground, but not every game actually does. Now, Valve has a notice designed to warn Steam users when they visit an early access game’s store page if it’s been a minute since the last update. If the dev’s lofty goals for […]
2/5/2025
Qwertykeys halts keyboard shipments to US over tariff costs and confusion
The keyboard company Qwertykeys has temporaily halted all shipments to the United States in response to President Trump’s tariffs on Chinese goods going into effect. The company says it’s working on ways to mitigate shipping costs and that the tariffs have made it so that “all keyboards from China to the U.S. are now subject […]
2/5/2025
Scout Motors sued over plan to sell EVs direct to consumers
Scout Motors’ plan to eschew traditional dealerships and sell EVs directly to consumers is running into legal trouble. A group of Volkswagen and Audi dealers filed a lawsuit this week against Scout Motors, the EV that spun out of Volkswagen. The lawsuit, which was first reported by Automotive News, seeks to block Scout’s direct-to-consumer sales […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/5/2025
Bench burned through $135 million before shutting down
A clearer picture of Bench's downfall is emerging thanks to new bankruptcy filings, which show the accounting startup burned $135 million before collapsing. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/5/2025
A comprehensive list of 2024 and 2025 tech layoffs
A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/5/2025
XOi raises $230M, acquires Specifx to expand its tech for field service technicians
Field service engineers may not be the first group of customers that come to mind when you think about lucrative opportunities in B2B technology. But that same blind spot speaks of the opportunity in the space for those who are stepping up and targeting “the job site.” One of the players in that space, XOi […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/5/2025
Google tells employees why it’s ending DEI hiring goals
Google is joining Meta, Amazon, and other big tech companies in winding down its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. In a Wednesday memo to employees that I obtained (and you can read below), Google’s head of HR, Fiona Cicconi, said there will no longer be DEI hiring targets due to the company’s status as […]
2/5/2025
Google ditches DEI hiring goals
Google will no longer have diversity hiring targets and will review its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, according to an email sent to employees seen by the Wall Street Journal. Google now joins other tech companies rolling back DEI practices, especially as DEI practices come under fire from conservative groups. Amazon and Meta have also […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/5/2025
Ford lost $5 billion on EVs in 2024
Ford’s electric vehicle and software business lost $5.1 billion in 2024, up from $4.7 billion lost in 2024. And the automaker doesn’t anticipate any relief this year, when it predicts it will lose as much as $5.5 billion on its EV business. Ford reported its fourth quarter and full-year earnings on Wednesday, beating Wall Street […]
2/5/2025
The biggest breach of US government data is under way
Elon Musk's DOGE has taken control and accessed large swathes of Americans' private information held by the U.S. federal government. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/5/2025
There’s a hidden message in Amazon’s event invites
Amazon sent out five different invites to its upcoming product event, and when pieced together, they spell out a familiar word: Alexa, the name of the company’s digital voice assistant. We assumed the event would be about Alexa’s long-heralded renaissance, and given this message, plus Amazon telling Reuters that the event will be Alexa-focused, it seems certain the new Alexa […]
2/5/2025
Sonos lays off 200 employees as its struggles continue
Things at Sonos are getting worse before they get better — if they’re going to get better. Today the company laid off approximately 200 employees, The Verge has learned. The news was announced at around 4PM ET, and a letter to employees from interim CEO Tom Conrad was posted on Sonos’ website shortly thereafter. “One […]
2/5/2025
All the news on Qi2 wireless charging
The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) has (finally) released the new Qi2 standard that will help new devices and chargers line up perfectly, thanks to the magic of magnets. Version 2.0 of the Qi wireless charging standard supports up to 15W charging so that iPhone owners don’t have to get expensive MagSafe-certified accessories to enjoy optimal […]
2/5/2025
Amazon reportedly gears up to release next-gen Alexa
Amazon may be gearing up to release a next-gen, AI-powered Alexa experience, according to Reuters. Per the outlet’s report, Amazon plans to preview an upgraded version of Alexa, the company’s smart home assistant that runs on a number of first- and third-party devices, at an event on February 26. The revamped Alexa is said to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/5/2025
Paragon spyware used to target citizens across Europe, says Italian government
WhatsApp said users in several European countries were targeted with Paragon spyware, according to the Italian government. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/5/2025
What’s on your desk?
Many of us work from home, and so one of the most important places in those homes is our workspaces — in other words, our desks. Everyone’s workspace is different. What kind of desk — and desk chair — do you use? Is your workspace neat and organized or filled with tchotchkes and toys? Do […]
2/5/2025
ChatGPT drops its sign-in requirement for search
ChatGPT no longer requires you to log in to use the AI chatbot’s search engine, OpenAI announced on Wednesday. With the feature, ChatGPT will surface responses based on information from the web while presenting a list of sources it used to inform its answer. OpenAI first launched its search engine to paid ChatGPT subscribers last […]
2/5/2025
Apple rumored to kick off M5 chip production using TSMC performance-enhanced 3nm node
South Korean website claims that TSMC has started high-volume production of Apple's M5 processors using N3P fabrication process.
2/5/2025
Why IQ is a poor test for AI
During a recent press appearance, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that he’s observed the “IQ” of AI rapidly improve over the past several years. “Very roughly, it feels to me like — this is not scientifically accurate, this is just a vibe or spiritual answer — every year we move one standard deviation of IQ,” […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/5/2025
Newer Sony cameras can now upload images to Google Drive and Lightroom
Sony has updated its Creators’ Cloud platform so that images uploaded to a user’s cloud storage from select Sony cameras can be automatically transferred to Google Drive or Adobe Lightroom. With Google Drive, you can save photos for backup and sharing, and with Adobe Lightroom, images can be processed almost immediately, even by a remote […]
2/5/2025
Huawei manages to pull $118 billion in revenue despite strict U.S. sanctions and restrictions
Huawei's consumer business has bounced back since August 2023, following the launch of new smartphones featuring domestically produced chipsets that bypass U.S. sanctions.
2/5/2025
Reddit tells communities threatening Elon Musk and DOGE workers to cool down
Reddit has seen an increase in rule-breaking posts across “several communities,” and it has issued a temporary ban on one that featured users calling for violence against people who work for the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). That community, r/WhitePeopleTwitter, was given a 72-hour ban on Tuesday, as reported by Engadget. Screenshots shared […]
2/5/2025
As GLP1s boom, dietician startups Berry Street, Fay each nab $50M rounds
For decades, the US healthcare system has struggled to address the diet-related chronic illnesses affecting nearly half of all adults. That changed in recent years with the discovery of Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs that help people lose weight. While insurance covers these medications, doctors frequently require patients to see a nutritionist as part of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/5/2025
Look at this keyboard
Hey, real quick: look at this keyboard. There’s something cool about it. It’s a mechanical keyboard. It’s a laser keyboard. It’s a magnetic induction keyboard. It has the new switches. It has the old switches. It’s very thin. It’s got a weird layout. It has a trackpoint. Or a screen. It has cool keycaps. It […]
2/5/2025
Ransomware payments dropped in 2024 as victims refused to pay hackers
Ransomware payments fell by more than one-third in 2024 as an increasing number of victims refused to negotiate with hackers. In a report published Wednesday, crypto forensics firm Chainalysis said that while ransomware gang leak sites posted more victims than in previous years during 2024, fewer victims gave in to the hackers’ demands. Chainalysis reported […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/5/2025
Step up your monitor game with the Alienware AW2724DM for just $199
Grab Alienware's AW2724DM for just $199, a great value 1440p high refresh rate gaming monitor.
2/5/2025
Stripe makes $1.1 billion crypto bet as it closes on Bridge acquisition
Stripe has closed on its $1.1 billion purchase of stablecoin platform Bridge – marking the payment giant’s largest acquisition to date and tangible push into crypto. Co-founded in 2022 by Coinbase and Square alumni Zach Abrams and Sean Yu, San Antonio, Texas-based Bridge built an API that helps companies accept stablecoins. The pair raised $58 […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/5/2025
Nintendo says it’s ‘taking risks’ to meet Switch 2 demand
Nintendo is gearing up for the Switch 2’s launch sometime in 2025, and president Shuntaro Furukawa says that the company is “taking risks and proceeding with production so that we can meet as much demand as possible,” according to a machine translation of an earnings Q&A. The company had some trouble keeping the original Switch […]
2/5/2025
Longer-lasting laptops: the modular hardware you can upgrade and repair yourself
When it comes to improving the sustainability of consumer electronics, there’s a growing movement to design devices with a focus on upgradability and repairability that can extend their longevity, instead of just making them easier to recycle after a few years of use. At one time, nearly every laptop maker was caught up in a […]
2/5/2025
The Elon Musk Act aims to ban ‘special government employees’ from having federal contracts
U.S. Democratic Representative Mark Pocan plans to introduce a bill designed to ban “special government employees” like Elon Musk from having federal contracts so they can’t steer spending towards their own self-interest. The proposed bill is called the ELON MUSK Act, which stands for Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy. “No […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/5/2025
iOS App Store apps with screenshot-reading malware found for the first time
Apps distributed through both Apple and Google’s app stores are hiding malicious screenshot-reading code that’s being used to steal cryptocurrency, the cybersecurity software firm Kaspersky reported today. It’s the “first known case” of apps infected with malware that uses OCR tech to extract text from images making it into Apple’s App Store, according to a […]
2/5/2025
New target of Paragon spyware comes forward
The latest target of Paragon spyware openly questions if he was targeted by the Italian government. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/5/2025
Herman Miller made a convertible standing desk that actually looks great
Herman Miller has announced a new height-adjustable desk that doesn’t look like one. Instead of relying on just two columns to raise and lower its work surface, the Spout Sit-to-Stand Table uses four cylindrical legs, each containing their own motor. The design makes the Spout table easier to move around (it even includes optional wheels), […]
2/5/2025
‘The biggest heist in American history’: DC is just waking up to Elon Musk’s takeover
The long block outside of the US Treasury Department on Tuesday was lined with protesters. They flooded across the street with signs bearing slogans: “Nobody elected Muskâ€; “This is illegal”; “Stop the coup.†It was one of multiple DC protests targeting billionaire Elon Musk’s reported access to core government payment systems, attended by Democratic members […]
2/5/2025
Workday cuts nearly 2,000 employees
Enterprise HR platform Workday is the latest tech company to announce layoffs in recent weeks. The Silicon Valley-based company laid off 1,750 employees on Wednesday, as originally reported by Bloomberg and confirmed independently by TechCrunch. That total represents approximately 8.5% of head count. Unlike many other tech companies, including Meta and Microsoft, Workday has not […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/5/2025
Nvidia DLSS4, MFG, and full ray tracing tested on RTX 5090 and RTX 5080
The time crunch for the launch of the RTX 5090 and 5080 cards meant we weren't able to fully investigate MFG, DLSS4, and full RT the way we'd like. We'll be updating those sections of the reviews, but here's the deeper dive into how the new technologies impact the gaming experience. It's not all sunshine and roses and doubled performance.
2/5/2025
VW and Audi dealers are suing Scout over its no-dealers plan
A coterie of Florida car dealers filed a lawsuit this week against Scout Motors over its direct-to-consumer sales model. The complaint alleges that Scout, which operates under the Volkswagen Group, is in violation of Florida law which blocks automakers from trying to bypass dealers by selling directly to consumers. The suit, which was filed by […]
2/5/2025
A reviews site embroiled in AI scandal is back from the dead
Last summer, the staff at Gannett’s consumer reviews site Reviewed received terrible news: the media giant was shuttering the entire vertical and would be laying off dozens of employees. Effective November 1st, Reviewed would cease operations. Gannett blamed Google’s changing search algorithm, which had “degraded [its] business model.” The shuttering was a blow to the […]
2/5/2025
Google pulls incorrect Gouda stat from its AI Super Bowl ad
Google has edited Gemini’s AI response in a Super Bowl commercial to remove an incorrect statistic about cheese. The ad, which shows a small business owner using Gemini to write a website description about Gouda, no longer says the variety makes up “50 to 60 percent of the world’s cheese consumption.” In the edited YouTube […]
2/5/2025
USPS had ceased accepting parcels from China and Hong Kong late Tuesday, potentially affecting numerous PC parts — service was restored by early Wednesday
The USPS is working with the CBP to build a system that will efficiently check every arriving parcel from China to charge import duties.
2/5/2025
Amazon announces February product event
Amazon sent out invites today for a February event in New York City. The invite gives few clues as to what will be announced at the event, which will be hosted by Panos Panay and the Amazon Devices & Services team on February 26th. However, a blue swirly logo behind the words “You’re invited” does […]
2/5/2025
The Gemini AI app can now show its thinking
Google is bringing its experimental “reasoning” artificial intelligence model capable of explaining how it answers complex questions to the Gemini app. The Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking update is part of a slew of Gemini 2.0 AI rollouts announced by Google today, including its latest Gemini 2.0 Pro flagship model. This comes as the search giant […]
2/5/2025
AI’s biggest stage awaits – TechCrunch Sessions: AI tickets available
AI is heating up, and we’re diving in! TechCrunch Sessions: AI is officially open for registration. Secure your spot now and save up to $300 on select tickets before prices rise From startup founders to AI investors to aspiring innovators — TC Sessions: AI is where the entire AI ecosystem comes together. Whether you’re building, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/5/2025
Tickets on sale: TechCrunch All Stage 2025, formerly known as Early Stage
Founders and investors, it’s time! TechCrunch Early Stage has evolved into TechCrunch All Stage 2025, returning to Boston on July 17. Get your tickets now and save up to $310 on select ticket types, securing your spot at the best rates. Register here for your All Stage ticket at unbeatable prices. All Stage covers all […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/5/2025
Google launches new AI models and brings ‘thinking’ to Gemini
Google launched its much-anticipated new flagship AI model, Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental, on Wednesday. The announcement was part of a series of other AI model releases. The company is also making its “reasoning’ model, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking, available in the Gemini app. Notably, Google is releasing these AI models as the tech world remains […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/5/2025
Bandai’s live-action Gundam movie is getting a theatrical release
For a while, it looked like the first live-action Gundam movie was going to make its debut on Netflix, but Bandai now plans to put the movie in theaters. Though details about the film are still very slim, Bandai and Legendary announced today that their live-action Gundam feature will now be written and directed by […]
2/5/2025
Hardware leaker claims RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti GPUs will use 8-pin power connectors
A leaker claims Nvidia's RTX 5060-class GPUs will use the same power connectors as the 4060-class GPUs, despite requiring 100 watts more in the PSU department. Grains of salt sprinkled liberally, as the 4060 Ti Founders Edition used a 16-pin connector.
2/5/2025
Beats Studio Buds Plus are matching their record low with $50 off
We’re still awaiting a new pair of Powerbeats Pro to drop sometime this year, but if you’re a Beats fan in need of a solid pair of wireless earbuds to bridge the gap, you’re in luck. The Beats Studio Buds Plus are on sale for their all-time low of price of $119.99 (about $50 off) […]
2/5/2025
The end of Squid Game and Stranger Things solidifies Netflix’s new era
Netflix has a busy year of premieres ahead, but it might be most notable for what’s ending. As the streaming service continues to push into a new era full of live events, reality TV, and ad sales, it’s also saying goodbye to arguably its two biggest franchises, with both Stranger Things and Squid Game wrapping […]
2/5/2025
Raspberry Pi Pico Spacewar controller brings vintage space combat to the 21st century
Tominator2000 has created Raspberry Pi Pico-powered controllers that can be used to emulate the Spacewar! combat game originally designed back in 1962.
2/5/2025
Disney is doubling down on its plan to make ESPN the future of sports streaming
Disney wants to win the sports streaming war by making ESPN available “however the consumer wants it, wherever the consumer wants it,” Disney CEO Bob Iger said during an earnings call on Wednesday. The entertainment giant aims to give viewers multiple ways to watch ESPN, whether it’s through a standalone app slated to launch this […]
2/5/2025
Musk moves to dismiss suit over Tesla’s alleged use of AI-generated ‘Blade Runner’ imagery
Attorneys for Elon Musk intend to move to dismiss a case that accuses the Tesla CEO, who is also the head of President Donald Trump’s DOGE organization, of using AI-generated, copyright-violating “Blade Runner”-inspired images at a Tesla press event. In a filing submitted to the U.S. District Court Central District of California, Western Division late […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/5/2025
Moore Threads GPUs allegedly show 'excellent' inference performance with DeepSeek models
VMoore Threads deploys DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B distilled model on its MTT S80 and MTT S4000 graphics cards, confirms that the GPUs can run CUDA code.
2/5/2025
Comcast is adding Dolby Atmos to its ‘4K’ Super Bowl broadcast this year
From a presentation standpoint, Super Bowl LIX will largely be sticking to the status quo on Sunday. Fox Sports is capturing the game in 1080p HDR and upscaling that to 4K for its own networks and the free Tubi live stream. Comcast just announced that it’ll be airing the game in Dolby Vision, which it […]
2/5/2025
I’m typing this on the world’s largest keyboard, a 178-key best designed to make you more productive
The Hyper7 R4 is a macro lover’s dream, but its unique layout poses challenges.
2/5/2025
Jurassic World Rebirth’s new trailer makes it sound like a video game
The larger Jurassic Park franchise feels like it should be telling stories about dinosaurs having taken over the entire planet at this point, but the new trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth makes it seem like the movie is going to retread old territory with a bit of a video game-inspired twist. Set five years after […]
2/5/2025
Nintendo shares more info on its Switch 2 direct
As we settle in for the long, excruciating wait for more tangible news on the Switch 2, Nintendo has thrown us a little extra nugget of information. While we knew the company was planning to share more about the Switch 2 on April 2nd, now we have a time: 9 AM ET / 6 AM […]
2/5/2025
Kagi search engine won’t bill you next month if you forget to use it
Kagi, a paid alternative to Google Search, now says it will credit your account if you subscribe and forget to use it. The company introduced what it calls “Fair Pricing” in a blog post yesterday, writing that any time you don’t use any of your searches during a full billing cycle, it will apply a […]
2/5/2025
USPS backtracks, will accept parcels from China after all
The US Postal Service has reversed yesterday’s surprise decision to stop accepting inbound parcels from China and Hong Kong. It will continue to accept international shipments from the two countries, though it warns of “disruption” to deliveries. USPS previously announced that it was temporarily halting all packages shipped from China and Hong Kong. The decision […]
2/5/2025
Cherry Ventures raises a new $500M fund for early stage and beyond, but will it be enough?
It’s sometimes said that European VC doesn’t have the firepower to compete with VCs in the U.S., which regularly raise billion-dollar+ funds these days. Perhaps further evidence of this view persists in the news that Berlin-based Cherry Ventures has closed its latest fund at $500 million, to be split between early-stage rounds and follow-on rounds […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/5/2025
Rift of the NecroDancer’s story is an intro to some incredible music
Rift of the NecroDancer, a new music game from the creators of the music roguelike Crypt of the NecroDancer, solves the problem of exploring a big library of tracks with a simple idea: a story mode. In Rift, you have to press buttons in time with notes that appear on lanes in front of you, […]
2/5/2025
CodeSignal wants you to practice soft skills with its AI-powered guide
Startups and big tech companies have aggressively used AI to help developers write code or learn programming better. People have used chatbots to prepare for different scenarios in life, like interviews. Tech assessment platform CodeSignal, which introduced a learning platform for technical subjects with AI assistants last year, launched soft skill courses on its platform today […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/5/2025
AMD CEO confirms the RX 9070 series will arrive in early March — Promises 4K mainstream gaming
AMD CEO Lisa Su promises to bring high-quality 4K gaming to the masses, with the RX 9070 series, launching in early March.
2/5/2025
Six ways to send a message to your representatives
We are living through what can charitably be called interesting times, and one of the questions that many people are asking is: “What can I do?†One answer to that question — no matter what side of the political spectrum you fall on — is to contact your federal or local representatives and let them […]
2/5/2025
Shein hit with consumer protection action in EU as bloc unboxes strategy to tackle low-cost ecommerce risks
Chinese ecommerce and fast fashion giant Shein is facing fresh scrutiny in the European Union in relation to consumer protection rules following the launch of a coordinated action by the bloc’s Consumer Protection Cooperation Network (CPCN). The action is being conducted with reference to the EU’s Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, Consumer Rights Directive, Unfair Contracts […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/5/2025
DJI explains why it won’t stop drones from flying over the White House — and what happens in a US ban
Time is not on DJI’s side. The world’s largest drone maker has less than a year to convince the Trump administration to save its products from an automatic US ban — at a time when drone fears have been stoked more than ever. Some of those fears were exacerbated by DJI’s own bad timing: days […]
2/5/2025
Modern Synthesis is making compostable materials that last a lifetime
Modern Synthesis’s fibers can be manipulated in ways that simple plant fibers cannot. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/5/2025
Adafruit's Fruit Jam is a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 powered, credit card sized computer
Adafruit released a blog post detailing plans to create a new PCB called Fruit Jam inspired by the Raspberry Pi Pico Ichigo Jam upgrade.
2/5/2025
Google scraps promise not to develop AI weapons
Google updated its artificial intelligence principles on Tuesday to remove commitments around not using the technology in ways “that cause or are likely to cause overall harm.” A scrubbed section of the revised AI ethics guidelines previously committed Google to not designing or deploying AI for use in surveillance, weapons, and technology intended to injure […]
2/5/2025
Former Whoop exec’s new app Alma uses AI for all things nutrition
Generative AI models have demonstrated to app developers that combining a robust knowledge base with the right model can enable them to offer users services — once reliant on costly professionals like therapists or executive assistants — at a fraction of the price. Former VP of product at fitness company Whoop, Rami Alhamad, has a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/5/2025
AMD outsells Intel in the datacenter for the first time in Q4 2024
AMD's datacenter business unit reports record sales, leaves Intel behind.
2/5/2025
Uber to Austin: get ready for Waymo
Uber is getting ready for the launch of Waymo’s public robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, prompting customers to join a list of people interested in riding in the Alphabet-owned company’s AVs when they finally go live. It also revealed photos of the new co-branded robotaxis that will operate across a swath of the Texas capital […]
2/5/2025
Waymo just popped up on the Uber app in Austin ahead of robotaxi launch
Uber customers in Austin may notice a new offer when they open the app and hail a ride: an invitation to signal their interest in a Waymo robotaxi. For now, this doesn’t translate into a Waymo picking them up. But it will soon. The “interest list,” which launched Wednesday, is part of a partnership between […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/5/2025
Your packages are about to get slower and more expensive
The United States Postal Service announced Tuesday that it’s temporarily suspending inbound packages from China and Hong Kong, a move that’s likely to create delays and problems for packages from other destinations too. The suspension comes after President Trump used an executive order imposing a 10 percent tariff on Chinese goods to also close a […]
2/5/2025
Router maker Zyxel tells customers to replace vulnerable hardware exploited by hackers
The Taiwanese hardware maker says it has no plans patch the flaws impacting legacy router models © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/5/2025
Microsoft’s Build developer conference starts on May 19th
Microsoft Build is once again being held in Seattle this year, just over the lake from Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington. The developer conference will start on May 19th and run through May 22nd at the Seattle Convention Center. Microsoft hasn’t provided any hints about what the company plans to launch at Build, but it’s […]
2/5/2025
European AI startups have raised $8 billion in 2024
In just a few days, France will host the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit, with heads of state flocking to Paris to meet global tech leaders. They’ll most likely announce some big investments and diplomatic agreements focused on safety or the environmental impact of artificial intelligence. Ahead of the summit, early-stage VC firm Galion.exe, growth investment […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/5/2025
European AI startups raised $8 billion in 2024
In just a few days, France will host the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit, with heads of state flocking to Paris to meet global tech leaders. They’ll most likely announce some big investments and diplomatic agreements focused on safety or the environmental impact of artificial intelligence. Ahead of the summit, early-stage VC firm Galion.exe, growth investment […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/5/2025
Hitachi Ventures raises $400M fund to invest in everything from fusion to AI
The size of the new fund is a vote of confidence in a range of deep tech verticals. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/5/2025
Google wants Search to be more like an AI assistant in 2025
Google Search is in the midst of a “journey” around AI, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said during the company’s earnings call on Tuesday. The start of that journey was AI overviews, a controversial and monumental shift in how Google delivers information to billions of Search users. But that was just the beginning. “As AI continues […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/5/2025
Krafton leads Cashfree’s $53M funding at $700M valuation
Cashfree, an Indian payments startup that facilitates and processes more than $80 billion for its customers each year, has raised $53 million in a new round of funding as it gears up to deepen its presence in some international markets. Krafton, maker of sleeper hit titles such as PUBG and BGMI, led Cashfree’s Series C […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/5/2025
Brightpick’s new warehouse robot can reach 20-foot-high shelves
Brightpick, a maker of autonomous mobile robots, on Tuesday announced a lofty addition to its current line. The appropriately named Giraffe system is notable for its large, retractable platform capable of reaching up to 20 feet (6 meters) in height to pick items from warehouse shelves. It’s a novel approach to warehouses with ceilings well […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/5/2025
Alphabet praises DeepSeek, but it’s massively ramping up its AI spending
Alphabet is shrugging off concerns sparked by DeepSeek over AI spending, boosting its capital expenditures to a whopping $75 billion. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/5/2025
Apex Legends: everything you need to know about the Titanfall battle royale
Instead of making Titanfall 3, developer Respawn took the franchise in a completely different direction with Apex Legends. A free-to-play battle royale game that mashes together elements of Overwatch and Fortnite, Apex Legends was a complete surprise when it launched, but it has turned out to be a big hit early on, luring tens of […]
2/4/2025
Elgato’s Wave Link 2.0 promises clear vocals in any environment
Elgato is releasing a new version of its audio stream control software Wave Link that includes new AI-powered voice enhancements for your mic. It also has a new OS-level management system to redirect audio streams to certain apps, split audio to yourself and your audience, add audio effects, and quickly mute channels. The latest version […]
2/4/2025
Snap says TikTok uncertainty benefited its business
During Snap’s fourth-quarter earnings call on Tuesday, CEO Evan Spiegel said that the uncertainty surrounding TikTok’s future has positively affected its business. “We’re not trying to draw too many conclusions from some of the engagement lift we saw when [TikTok] went dark for that brief period of time. I would say that the overall environment […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
A16z hires acquitted former Marine Daniel Penny as an investor
Powerhouse venture firm Andreessen Horowitz has hired Daniel Penny as an investor, its webpage confirms. Penny is the former Marine who was tried last year and found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of a homeless man on a New York City subway. After the man acted erratically, Penny held him in […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
Google has ‘very good ideas’ for native ads in Gemini
Google’s Gemini AI assistant doesn’t have ads today, but the company has “very good ideas” for ways they could show up down the road, CEO Sundar Pichai said on an investor call this afternoon. Right now, you can access Gemini for free or pay for a subscription to use advanced features, but it sounds like […]
2/4/2025
Apple Invites is at its best for people already in Apple’s world
Apple launched a new app today, called Apple Invites, which lets you create, share, and manage invitations for events. With it, you can generate a quick digital invitation that, when shared with your friends, lets them gather all the info about the event, RSVP, and add it to their calendar. That includes your Android friends, […]
2/4/2025
AMD pulls up the release of its next-gen data center GPUs
AMD says that it plans to launch its next major data center GPUs, the AMD Instinct MI350 series, sooner than originally announced. During the company’s Q4 2024 earnings call Tuesday, AMD CEO Lisa Su said AMD plans to sample the MI350 with “lead customers” this quarter, and “accelerate” production shipments to “mid-year.” “So, we had […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
Here’s OpenAI’s new logo
OpenAI just gave itself a full rebrand, complete with a new typeface, logo, and color palette, as explained to Wallpaper in an interview about the process behind the changes. You’ll have to look closely to spot the difference between the redrawn logo and its old one, but a side-by-side comparison shows the updated “blossom” with […]
2/4/2025
Turmoil at OpenAI: what’s next for the creator of ChatGPT?
The world’s hottest AI company went through three CEOs in under a week and ended up with the same one it had at the start — so what happened, and what’s next? On November 17th, 2023, OpenAI’s nonprofit board abruptly announced that co-founder and CEO Sam Altman was out. The shake-up came just shy of […]
2/4/2025
Miist, founded by a 25-year-old, wants people to vape their way out of smoking addiction and migraines
As a university student, Dalton Signor was troubled by how many people around him smoked or vaped, including his grandmother and 14-year-old sister. Signor (pictured center) felt that existing smoking cessation medicines, whether patches, gums, or lozenges, are not very effective because they take too long to start working. “They take about 30 minutes to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
Google expects to spend $75 billion this year on the AI race
Google parent company Alphabet expects to invest “approximately $75 billion” in capital expenditures in 2025, according to a statement from CEO Sundar Pichai in Alphabet’s Q4 2024 earnings release. Capital expenditures have become a hot topic as of late as big tech companies race to build infrastructure to support their growing AI ambitions, and today’s […]
2/4/2025
Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website
Google removed a pledge to not build AI for weapons or surveillance from its website this week. The change was first spotted by Bloomberg. The company appears to have updated its public AI principles page, erasing a section titled “applications we will not pursue,” which was still included as recently as last week. Asked for […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
Spyware maker Paragon confirms U.S. government is a customer
Israeli spyware maker Paragon Solutions confirmed to TechCrunch that it sells its products to the U.S. government and other unspecified allied countries. Paragon’s executive chairman John Fleming said in a statement to TechCrunch on Tuesday that, “Paragon licenses its technology to a select group of global democracies — principally, the United States and its allies.” […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
Age of Empires is the latest Microsoft franchise coming to PS5
Microsoft is bringing its storied real-time strategy series Age of Empires to the PlayStation 5, starting with Age of Mythology: Retold and its Immortal Pillars expansion pack, both launching on March 4th. Microsoft is continuing to evolve the Xbox platform with cloud gaming that works on almost any device, and bringing more of its biggest […]
2/4/2025
Okta competitor SailPoint races toward $11.5B IPO
Cybersecurity company SailPoint is hoping to sell $1 billion worth of stock in its upcoming IPO and offer another signal that IPOs will become hot again. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
Figure drops OpenAI in favor of in-house models
Figure AI founder and CEO Brett Adcock announced Tuesday that the humanoid robotics firm is exiting a deal with OpenAI. The Bay Area-based robotics company has instead opted to focus on in-house AI, owing to a “major breakthrough.” Adcock was tightlipped in terms of specifics, but he promised to deliver “something no one has ever […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
You can grab a year of Peacock Premium for just $30
If you’d like to catch up on Oscar-nominated films like The Wild Robot ahead of the awards show next month, you might want to check out Peacock’s latest promotion. Through February 18th, new and lapsed subscribers can get one year of ad-supported Peacock Premium for $29.99 if you sign up now. That’s over half off […]
2/4/2025
Hugging Face researchers aim to build an ‘open’ version of OpenAI’s deep research tool
A group of developers at AI dev platform Hugging Face, including Thomas Wolf, the company’s co-founder and chief scientist, say they’ve built an “open” version of OpenAI’s deep research tool. Deep research, which OpenAI unveiled during an event Sunday, crawls the web to compile research reports on any subject. While impressive, deep research is currently […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
I plugged an Nvidia RTX 5090 into a gaming handheld
Two weeks ago, I showed you how the world’s fastest graphics card works in a small form factor PC. To my surprise, Nvidia’s RTX 5090 Founders Edition delivered the vast majority of its performance even in a 12.7-liter desktop with a five-year-old CPU. It made me wonder: what if I plugged this card into a […]
2/4/2025
AppleCare Plus is getting more expensive
Apple raised the cost of its monthly AppleCare subscription prices for iPhones by 50 cents, MacRumors reports. The 50 cent price hike applies to both standard AppleCare Plus and AppleCare Plus with Theft and Loss monthly plans for Apple’s current iPhone lineup. So, for example, the standard AppleCare Plus for the iPhone 16 will cost […]
2/4/2025
G.Skill intros 96GB DDR5-6800 CL32 and 32GB DDR5-6400 CL28 memory kits for Intel-based machines
G.Skill has introduced a pair of new memory modules, one boasting 6800MHz speeds at up to 96GB of capacity. The other is targeted at low-latency featuring 6400MHz speeds and a CL timing of 28.
2/4/2025
Threads now lets you share your custom feeds
Threads will now let you share the custom feeds you’ve created, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Tuesday. This means other users can pin your custom feed to their homepage, giving them access to the same stream of curated content. Threads first rolled out custom feeds in November, which you can use to track your […]
2/4/2025
Amazon continues renewable energy spree with 476 MW purchase
Amazon’s power bill has been soaring lately as it adds data centers to deal with rising demand for AI and cloud services. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
A review of Tapestry, an app powered by the growing open web
A new app called Tapestry, which launched Tuesday, aggregates and organizes information from across the web and social networks in a single place. It is, in some ways, like this generation’s FriendFeed, for those old enough to remember the earlier attempt from the Web 2.0 era to aggregate feeds and social media updates in a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
China reopens antitrust probe into Google, Nvidia, and Intel may be next
China reopens investigations targeting Google and Nvidia to gain leverage in upcoming negotiations with U.S. President Trump. Intel could be next.
2/4/2025
Instagram’s Threads: all the updates on the new Twitter competitor
As Twitter continues to flail about under Elon Musk, all eyes are on the newly launched Instagram Threads as a potential replacement. Meta launched Threads on iOS, Android, and the web on July 5th — a little bit ahead of schedule. Two days in, Mark Zuckerberg said Threads has registered over 70 million accounts, and […]
2/4/2025
After a bruising year, Sonos readies its next big thing: a streaming box
After the most tumultuous nine months in Sonos’ history, the brand is trying to find its footing again. Even as work continues to rehabilitate the company’s beleaguered mobile app, Sonos is planning to take a big swing in a new product category: it’s getting into video for the first time. In the coming months, Sonos […]
2/4/2025
Steam Deck, ROG Ally, and more: all the news about the handheld PC gaming revolution
In July 2021, Valve revealed the Steam Deck, a Switch-like handheld device packed with features including a huge variety of control options, a 7-inch touchscreen, the ability to connect to external displays, and a quick suspend / resume feature. The device began shipping in February 2022, starting at $399. With an unprecedented degree of support […]
2/4/2025
Nomad’s new USB-C cable can charge your iPhone and Apple Watch at the same time
Nomad has announced a new USB-C cable designed to charge multiple devices simultaneously. Instead of copying Anker’s homework and releasing a charging cable with dual USB-C connectors on one end, Nomad’s new Universal Cable for Apple Watch features an inline charging puck for Apple’s smartwatch on one end. It seems ideal for travelers wanting to […]
2/4/2025
E-fuels startup will make diamonds before powering jet planes
Circularity’s process uses 40% less energy than competing CO2-to-fuel pathways. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
TED Talks has put out an all-call for a new leader
Chris Anderson, who has run TED for 25 years, is looking to bestow the operation on anyone who has a good plan for its future, he announced in a blog post. TED is best known for its TED Talks, where ideas from tech to humor have been explored. It has featured famed tech moguls (Bill […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
AMD patches a critical microcode vulnerability affecting Zen 1 to Zen 4 EPYC CPUs
A key AMD microcode vulnerability impacting Epyc CPUs has been fixed.
2/4/2025
Challenging Bluesky, Threads now allows for public custom feeds
Meta’s Threads is doubling down on support for custom feeds as it faces challenges from the growing social network Bluesky, now with over 30 million users, which also offers custom feeds as one of its key features. On Tuesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that users can now set their custom feeds to be public […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
This Week in AI: Billionaires talk automating jobs away
Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. You might’ve noticed we skipped the newsletter last week. The reason? A chaotic AI news cycle made even more pandemonious by Chinese AI company DeepSeek’s sudden rise to prominence, and the response from practically ever corner […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
An angel investor was so intrigued by this startup, he joined as a co-founder
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week we’re looking at a startup out to help people navigate long-term care, a flurry of activity in Africa, another fintech company shutdown, and more. To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important fintech stories delivered to your inbox every Tuesday at 8:00 a.m. PT, subscribe here. The […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
AMD is rumored to hold an RDNA 4 launch event later this month — RX 9000 GPUs still planned for March
AMD is rumored to unveil the RX 9070 series later this month, with potential details on pricing and performance.
2/4/2025
ASP.NET Core on .NET Framework servicing release advisory: ASP.NET Core 2.3
ASP.NET Core 2.1 has been reshipped as ASP.NET Core 2.3 to help users on the unsupported ASP.NET Core 2.2 move to a supported version. The post ASP.NET Core on .NET Framework servicing release advisory: ASP.NET Core 2.3 appeared first on .NET Blog.
2/4/2025
Okta lays off 180 employees – nearly one year after last workforce reduction
U.S. access and identity management giant Okta laid off 180 employees on Tuesday, the company confirmed to TechCrunch – just over one year after it let go of 400 workers. The company separately conducted a workforce reduction in February of 2023 that affected 300 employees. While Okta did not share how many employees it has […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
China may probe Intel for antitrust: report
Amid China’s retaliation to recently-announced U.S. tariffs, Intel may find itself in the hot seat with China’s regulators. China is apparently considering an antitrust probe into semiconductor giant Intel, according to reporting from the Financial Times. This would be in addition to the set of tariffs against the U.S. that China announced on Monday. Per […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
EU puts out guidance on uses of AI that are banned under its AI Act
The first compliance deadline kicked in a couple of days ago for the European Union’s AI Act, a risk-based framework for regulating uses of artificial intelligence — banning a narrow selection of so called “unacceptable risk” use-cases of AI, such as social scoring that could lead to detrimental or unfavourable treatment; or harmful manipulation using […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
A comprehensive list of 2024 and 2025 tech layoffs
A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
Cruise announces layoffs as GM acquires defunct robotaxi company
Defunct robotaxi company Cruise has begun to lay off employees today, sources tell The Verge. The layoffs come two months after General Motors said it would no longer fund Cruise, and would instead shift its spending toward advanced driver assist and personally owned autonomous vehicles. Cruise held an all-hands meeting today, in which it announced […]
2/4/2025
Fox plans to launch a streaming service by the end of 2025
Fox is getting ready to launch a standalone streaming service by the end of 2025. During an earnings call on Tuesday, Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch said the streaming service would offer a “holistic” streaming package featuring sports and news from the network’s existing brands, according to a transcript. Murdoch positioned the streaming service as a […]
2/4/2025
The Nintendo Switch closes in on a major milestone
The Switch is on track to complete a major milestone for Nintendo this year. As of the end of 2024, the Nintendo Switch has sold over 150 million units in the eight years since its release. That’s an impressive number, and yet…that’s still not enough to make it the company’s best selling piece of hardware […]
2/4/2025
Cruise to slash workforce by 50% after GM cuts funding to robotaxi operations
Cruise is laying off 50% of its workforce as the robotaxi program ends. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
Deel unloads $300M in secondary sale, brings General Catalyst on as an investor
Fintech-turned-HR outfit Deel is trying to lay the groundwork for an IPO. On Tuesday, it said its annual revenue run rate climbed to $800 million in 2024 after growing by 70%. The startup, which helps businesses globally hire, manage and pay employees remotely, also said it has sold $300 million in secondary shares to General […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
DSTLRY, the comic books marketplace, launches new customization features for artists
DSTLRY, a venture-backed digital comic books marketplace, on Tuesday added a pair of features designed to bring customization to the platform. The first feature, dubbed Commissioned Digital Remarques, allows creators to add personalized sketches and signatures to digital comics. The second, Unlimited Digital Covers, expands platform-wide access to alternative comic book covers. Commissioned Digital Remarques […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
How Max Altschuler accidentally founded a VC firm that just raised another $54M
Four years after accidentally launching a VC firm, GTMfund founder Max Altschuler has raised a second oversubscribed $54 million fund. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
Verizon bundles Google AI into its wireless plans for an extra $10
Verizon is adding a new option to bundle Google One AI Premium into its wireless myPlan and myHome internet plans, the company announced today. The add-on will be available for an extra $10 per month, or about half of the $19.99 Google charges for the subscription on its own, starting on February 6th. Google One […]
2/4/2025
Expand your storage with a 4TB WD Black SN850X M.2 SSD for only $269 at Amazon
Click the Amazon coupon for a small saving on the 4TB WD Black SN850X, and pick up this fantastic SSD for $269.
2/4/2025
Apple launches Invites, a new app for creating custom invitations
Apple on Tuesday launched a new app called “Invites” that allows users to create custom invitations for any occasion. With Invites, users can create and share invitations on their iPhone, RSVP, contribute to Shared Albums, and curate event soundtracks. To create an invitation, you need an iCloud+ subscription. However, anyone can RSVP, regardless of whether […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
Former Tesla engineer heading government agency reportedly outlines ‘AI-first strategy’
Thomas Shedd, the former Tesla engineer now serving as the director of Technology Transformation Services, reportedly outlined an “AI-first strategy” for the U.S. government department. According to a report from Wired citing multiple sources, the Musk ally described the plan to run the office like a “startup software company” during a Monday meeting. The New […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
Deepfake videos are getting shockingly good
Researchers from TikTok owner ByteDance have demoed a new AI system, OmniHuman-1, that can generate perhaps the most realistic deepfake videos to date. Deepfaking AI is a commodity. There’s no shortage of apps that can insert someone into a photo, or make a person appear to say something they didn’t actually say. But most deepfakes […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
This 4K projector’s periscope arm lets you install it almost anywhere
Fujifilm has announced a new ultra-short throw projector with its lens attached to an articulated arm that can pivot and rotate. Unlike most UST projectors that require moving the entire unit to reposition where an image is being projected, the FP-ZUH6000 can switch between projecting on walls, ceilings, and even floors while remaining mounted in […]
2/4/2025
LogicStar is building AI agents for app maintenance
Swiss startup LogicStar is bent on joining the AI agent game. The summer 2024-founded startup has bagged $3 million in pre-seed funding to bring tools to the developer market that can do autonomous maintenance of software applications, rather than the more typical AI agent use-case of code co-development. LogicStar CEO and co-founder Boris Paskalev suggests […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
Infinity Nikki taught me a painful lesson
I’ve been having a great time with Infinity Nikki. I do my dailies, grind for materials, and desperately search for an outfit that works with the single ugliest piece of clothing in the game: a red vest. But as I’ve progressed, the game has given me — a gacha newbie — an unfortunate crash-course education […]
2/4/2025
Two space startups have merged to create the next generation of telescopes
On a clear spring evening in Michigan, the stars aligned — just not in the way Upfront Ventures partner Nick Kim expected. He’d just led a $9.5 million seed round for OurSky, a software platform for space observational data, and was eager to see what its telescope partner PlaneWave Instruments could do. But when they […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
Apple leaks event-planning ‘Invites’ feature
Apple seems to have accidentally confirmed its rumored events planning feature ahead of an official announcement. An update to its iCloud page lists “Invites” as one of the key features of its iCloud Plus subscription, even though the feature is not yet available. The branding was spotted earlier by MacRumors. “Upgrade to iCloud+ to get […]
2/4/2025
Meta says this is the make or break year for the metaverse
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth is giving the metaverse a year to become a hit, according to an internal forum post reported by Business Insider. That time period will determine whether Reality Labs’ mixed reality efforts are “the work of visionaries or a legendary misadventure,” he writes. Bosworth details his expectations early in the post: We […]
2/4/2025
Accidental wildfire alerts prompt probe from Congress
House of Representative members from California want to know what led to accidental evacuation alerts that fomented confusion during devastating Los Angeles fires in January. The Palisades and Eaton wildfires broke out in early January, killing at least 29 people and destroying more than 16,000 structures. In the midst of the chaos, some 10 million […]
2/4/2025
From toilets to chips — Toto's electrostatic chucks are becoming a crucial element of modern fabs
From toilet to semiconductor fab: Toto is expanding business in an unexpected direction.
2/4/2025
Korean retail RTX 5090 spotted for sale in China — Chinese shoppers plunder Japan and Taiwan, too
A clearly Korea-sourced Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card has been spotted for sale on an online Chinese marketplace. There are also recent reports of Chinese GPU shoppers visiting Japan and Taiwan.
2/4/2025
Spotify reports its first full year of profitability, adds 35M monthly active users
On Tuesday morning, Spotify announced its fourth-quarter earnings, marking its first full year of profitability since its inception 17 years ago. The operating income for the quarter reached a record €477 million ($509.48 million) and amounted to €1.4 billion ($1.495 billion) for the 2024 fiscal year. Spotify also reported an addition of 35 million monthly […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
The timeline apps are here, and they’re awesome
The folks at Iconfactory, which once made a wonderful Twitter client called Twitterrific, launched a new app on Tuesday. It’s called Tapestry, and it’s a cross between a social app and a news reader. The app can ingest feeds of all kinds: someone’s Bluesky posts, your favorite YouTube creator’s videos, a blog’s new posts, all […]
2/4/2025
OpenAI’s Operator agent helped me move, but I had to help it, too
OpenAI gave me one week to test its new AI agent, Operator, a system that can independently do tasks for you on the internet. Operator is the closest thing I’ve seen to the tech industry’s vision of AI agents — systems that can automate the boring parts of life, freeing us up to do the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
Sotira lands $2M to help brands offload and monetize their surplus inventory
An estimated 20% to 30% of all inventory in the U.S. is surplus, with much of it ending up in landfills. A startup called Sotira wants to help address this problem: It leverages AI to help companies offload and monetize their surplus inventory. Sotira partners with brands to offload millions of pounds of surplus grocery, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
Snap unveils AI text-to-image model for mobile devices
Snap has unveiled an AI text-to-image model for mobile devices that will power some of Snapchat’s features in the coming months. The company said on Tuesday that the model can produce high-resolution images in around 1.4 seconds on an iPhone 16 Pro Max. The new diffusion model runs entirely on the device, which reduces computational […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
California bill would make AI companies remind kids that chatbots aren’t people
A new bill proposed in California (SB 243) would require AI companies to periodically remind kids that a chatbot is an AI and not human. The bill, proposed by California Senator Steve Padilla, is meant to protect children from the “addictive, isolating, and influential aspects” of AI. In addition to limiting companies from using “addictive […]
2/4/2025
Users report bricked or unstable RTX 5090 and 5080 cards — root cause to be determined
Several issues including initialization failures and PCIe 5.0 compatibility are reportedly plaguing Nvidia's RTX 50-series GPUs.
2/4/2025
Team behind Twitterrific launches a multi-feed app called Tapestry
After Elon Musk took over Twitter, the company blocked third-party clients in 2023, including ones like Twitterrific, Tweetbot, and Fenix. Iconfactory, the company behind Twitterrifc, finally launched its multi-feed app called Tapestry on Tuesday, which allows you to add sources like RSS, YouTube, Bluesky, Podcasts, Mastodon, Reddit, Tumblr, Micro.blog, GO Comics, and more to unified […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
LinkedIn amps up vertical video tools as uploads jump 36%
Video reigns supreme on social media like TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube. And now, video is becoming a bigger business for LinkedIn. The Microsoft-owned social network for the working world has yet to go full TikTok. But with a big boost of usage — today it said that video uploads jumped by 36% compared to last […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
Adobe Acrobat’s AI chatbot can now summarize contract jargon
Adobe is adding features to Acrobat’s AI Assistant that should help users to better understand contracts. The new “contract intelligence capabilities” allow the PDF management software’s chatbot to automatically recognize when files and scanned documents are contracts and summarize complicated language to make it easier for users to understand. The Acrobat AI Assistant is available […]
2/4/2025
Walkstar is a new iOS app that pauses songs when you stop moving
There are plenty of pedometer and step counter apps in the world, but this new app has a fun twist. Walkstar, which launched Tuesday in the App Store, enhances your workout by syncing your tunes with your movement. The moment you pause, the music fades away, making it a perfect motivator for those looking to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
U.S. RTX 50 laptop pricing starts from $1,899 for an RTX 5070 Ti toting Asus ROG Strix G16
Listings for laptops with Nvidia 50-series laptop GPUs are starting to appear on US manufacturer web stores and online retailers.
2/4/2025
Space is the next frontier in Fantastic Four: First Steps’ new trailer
Thankfully, the new teaser for Marvel’s Fantastic Four: First Steps doesn’t spoil all that much of the film, but it does give you a sense of just how big a problem Galactus is going to be for the MCU. Rather than rehashing the details of how Reed Richards (Pedro Pascal), Sue Storm (Vanessa Kirby), Sue’s […]
2/4/2025
Samsung’s S25 Ultra and the end of the flagship phone
After almost exactly 18 years, you could make the argument that the tech industry has finally finished what the iPhone started. It’s not that there’s no innovation left in phones, or that there aren’t other big ideas to be had about the devices we carry around, but the specific thing the first iPhone was — […]
2/4/2025
DeepSeek research suggests Huawei's Ascend 910C delivers 60% Nvidia H100 inference performance
Nvidia's GPUs remain the best solutions for AI training, but Huawei's own processors can be used for inference.
2/4/2025
Canada’s StackAdapt snaps up $235M for its AI-based programmatic platform
While the U.S. and Canada duke it out over tariffs between the two countries, a tech company based out of Toronto is announcing a major round of funding led by a homegrown VC. StackAdapt, a programmatic advertising startup, says that it has raised $235 million in equity funding, with Teachers’ Venture Growth (TVG) — the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
Grubhub security breach compromises customer and driver data
Food delivery company Grubhub has confirmed that it suffered a security breach, with user, driver, and merchant data compromised, including hashed passwords and partial credit card details. Grubhub says that it noticed “unusual activity” that it traced back to an account used by a third-party service provider for its customer support team. The account’s access […]
2/4/2025
‘Scared and betrayed’ — workers are reeling from chaos at federal agencies
As the third week of Donald Trump’s presidency begins, workers across federal agencies are scrambling to find their footing among the chaos. From the US Agency for International Development and the Department of Agriculture, to the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Labor, federal workers are facing an onslaught of changes that threaten to […]
2/4/2025
Archive raises $30M to solve fashion’s pollution problem with online resales
The fashion industry has concerned Emily Gittins since adolescence. The sector is, after all, one of the most polluting in the world. According to some sources, it is responsible for nearly 10% of the earth’s CO2 emissions and more than 20% of all water waste. Yet people still want more, fast. “The way we consume […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
Inmotion Hosting VPS and Shared Hosting Review
Inmotion Hosting provides a variety of VPS and shared hosting plans, suitable for various requirements and budgets. Unfortunately, our experience testing the VPS was particularly poor.
2/4/2025
Spotify finally turned a profit for a full year
Spotify raked in enough cash and new subscribers in 2024 to celebrate its first full year of profitability since the service was launched in 2008. The announcement comes as part of Spotify’s fourth-quarter earnings release, with net profits at €1.14 billion (around $1.17 billion) for the whole of 2024, compared to the €532 million (around […]
2/4/2025
Opera’s new browser might save you from doomscrolling
Norway-based Opera has announced a new browser, Opera Air, with a focus on mindfulness and mental wellbeing. It includes break reminders, breathing exercises, and a suite of relaxing soundscapes to help users both focus and de-stress. “The web is beautiful but it can be chaotic and overwhelming,” says Mohamed Salah, Opera’s senior director of product. […]
2/4/2025
Egypt’s Khazna banks $16M for its financial super app and expansion into Saudi
A large portion of Egypt’s population lacks access to traditional banking, forcing many to rely on cash transactions and informal lending. Khazna, a fintech startup founded in 2019, is tackling this issue by offering financial services tailored for low- and middle-income workers. The company provides solutions like salary advances, digital payments, and microloans to help […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
China opens Google antitrust probe in retaliation to tariffs
China has launched an antitrust investigation into Google as part of a salvo of responses to US tariff increases, including its own retaliatory tariffs and export controls. China’s State Administration for Market Regulation announced the Google probe on Tuesday over suspicions the US search giant had violated Chinese antimonopoly laws, according to a machine translation […]
2/4/2025
Grubhub confirms data breach affecting customers and drivers
U.S. food delivery giant Grubhub says hackers accessed the personal details of customers and drivers after breaching its internal systems. Grubhub is a popular food-ordering and delivery platform with over 375,000 merchants and 200,000 delivery providers using its platform in more than 4,000 U.S. cities. New York-based Wonder Group acquired the company last fall in […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
OpenAI doubles down on Asia, partners with Kakao after its big deal with SoftBank
On the heels of Chinese AI firm DeepSeek making a huge splash in OpenAI’s American backyard, OpenAI is diving into expanding in Asia, with major commercial deals that will also help it train its AI on more Asian-language content and user behavior — a gateway to doing more business in these markets in the future […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
Waabi and Volvo team up to build self-driving trucks at scale
Self-driving truck startup Waabi is partnering with Volvo Autonomous Solutions to jointly develop and deploy autonomous trucks, an important milestone as it gets closer to a commercial launch. The tie up also marks Volvo’s second partnership to co-develop self-driving big rigs with a startup partner. In May 2024, Volvo teamed up with Aurora Innovation to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
SoftBank-backed billionaire to invest $230M in Indian AI startup Krutrim
Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal is investing $230 million into an AI startup he founded as the country pushes to establish itself in a field dominated by U.S. and Chinese firms. Aggarwal is largely financing the investment in Krutrim through his family office, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. In a post on X […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
Opera launches a mindfulness-focused browser with break reminders and soundscapes
Norway-based browser maker Opera on Tuesday launched a new browser called “Opera Air,” which focuses on mental well-being and mindfulness with features like break reminders, breathing exercises, soundscapes, and binaural beats for better focus. The company said that people use browsers for a lot of their work online, and it wanted to ship a browser […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
AI agents for e-commerce startup, founded by Google and DeepMind alums, raises $10M seed
AI is changing how we shop online, making our experiences more personalized. Smart assistants recommend products, negotiate deals, and even handle customer service. Big retailers and smaller businesses are using AI to improve search, supply chains, and checkout. If AI companies (and their investors) have their way, shopping will soon be focused on chatting with […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
Neuralk-AI is developing AI models specifically designed for structured data
Tabular data is a broad term that encompasses structured data that generally fits into a specific row and column. It can be a SQL database, a spreadsheet, a .CSV file, etc. While there has been tremendous progress on artificial intelligence applied to unstructured and sequential data, these large language models are fuzzy by design. They […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
China hits back at Trump tariffs with Google antitrust investigation
China said Tuesday it has launched an antitrust investigation into Google, part of a swift retaliation after the U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a 10% tariff on Chinese goods. The probe by China’s State Administration for Market Regulation will examine alleged monopolistic practices by the U.S. tech giant, which has had its search and internet […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
WWE Raw runs into its first streaming problems on Netflix
Netflix and WWE nearly made it a whole month of streaming Raw without any major technical hiccups, but that streak was broken on Monday night. Throughout the February 3rd episode, some viewers were annoyed by the feed intermittently cutting out to a black screen. Audio would also drop whenever these glitches occurred. The problems never […]
2/4/2025
Accel backs Indian AI startup building ‘ChatGPT for presentations’
Presentations.ai has raised $3 million in a seed round led by Accel to scale its AI-powered software for generating presentations. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
Can anyone stop President Musk?
Elon Musk has an uncanny ability to sort out which of America’s rules are real. It turns out punishment from the National Labor Relations Board isn’t real, punishment from NASA isn’t real, and punishment from the FAA isn’t real. The Delaware Chancery Court is extremely real. Based on the past two weeks, the Delaware Chancery […]
2/4/2025
Treasury Department sued over DOGE takeover
President Donald Trump’s administration is being sued over Elon Musk’s alleged “massive and unprecedented†intrusion into the American government’s payment systems. The suit, filed in a Washington, DC federal court Monday evening by the advocacy group Public Citizen, calls for the court to stop the “unlawful, ongoing, systematic, and continuous disclosure of personal and financial […]
2/4/2025
Adam Candeub, a vocal critic of Big Tech, will reportedly join the FCC
Adam Candeub, a known critic of Big Tech, looks poised to join the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Candeub will be general counsel of the FCC, reports Semafor, which cites direct confirmation from FCC chairman Brendan Carr. TechCrunch has reached out to the FCC for more information. Candeub has long been a vocal critic of Section […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
Ontario cancels, then restores, $68 million Starlink contract after protesting US tariffs
On Monday, Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, one of Canada’s most populous provinces, announced on X that the province’s government would be “ripping up” its $68 million ($100 million CAD) contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet service. The news came soon after President Donald Trump announced a 25% tariff on nearly all Canadian […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/4/2025
The best indie games we’re playing right now
Splashy blockbuster games are great, but there are there are a huge number of indie and smaller video games worth playing, too. Whether they’re pushing the boundaries of the medium and or offering a creative spin on classic ideas, indie games can be just as interesting as big-budget epics. Sometimes, though, indie games can fly […]
2/4/2025
SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son says AGI will arrive ‘much earlier’ than he thought
SoftBank isn’t just part of the group investing $500 billion into Project Stargate to build American AI infrastructure capacity for OpenAI. It’s also making a Japanese joint venture with OpenAI, will spend $3 billion deploying OpenAI tech across SoftBank companies, and claims it will revolutionize business with AI agents through a new AI system called […]
2/3/2025
Sony and CBS are in a Jeopardy! distribution feud
Sony Pictures Television says it’s taking over the distribution rights for top game shows Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! from Paramount-owned CBS starting the week of February 10th, reports Bloomberg, while CBS is fighting back by seeking a temporary restraining order. In October, Sony sued CBS for allegedly not putting in enough effort to grow […]
2/3/2025
Stripe brings aboard new head of ‘startup and VC partnerships’
Asya Bradley, a former fintech founder and investor, has joined payments giant Stripe as its new head of Startup & Venture Capital Partnerships. Bradley announced the news on February 2 in a post on LinkedIn, though her bio shows that she joined Stripe back in November. Neither Stripe nor Bradley were immediately available for comment. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/3/2025
Naver-backed Cinamon wants to make 3D video animation easier using AI
It’s never been easier to create and publish art than it is now, and if you believe the companies building tech around AI, the production process is going to get even more efficient. That’s especially the case with video production, with companies of all sizes using large language models to build tools that let you […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/3/2025
Shein and Temu depend on a 100-year-old tariff loophole that Trump wants to close
President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff threats have been touch and go. As it stands currently, the 25 percent tax on goods from Mexico and Canada is on ice for a month, but a 10 percent tariff on Chinese goods is set to take effect on Tuesday, via an executive order of questionable legality. Nestled within […]
2/3/2025
The best TV deals to upgrade your setup ahead of the Super Bowl
Missed out on all the terrific TV deals we saw during Black Friday and Cyber Monday? That’s okay, because the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl have historically been one of the better times of the year to snag a discounted set. In fact, Amazon, Best Buy, Woot, and a number of retailers are […]
2/3/2025
No, DeepSeek isn’t uncensored if you run it locally
DeepSeek's model is censored at both the application and training layers, a Wired investigation shows. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/3/2025
Meta says it may stop development of AI systems it deems too risky
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to make artificial general intelligence (AGI) — which is roughly defined as AI that can accomplish any task a human can — openly available one day. But in a new policy document, Meta suggests that there are certain scenarios in which it may not release a highly capable AI […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/3/2025
Apple’s attempt to intervene in the Google Search antitrust trial is denied
US District Court Judge Amit Mehta denied Apple’s emergency request to halt the Google Search monopoly trial that could dismantle their lucrative search that’s reportedly worth as much as $18 billion a year. The order came in late Sunday, with Judge Mehta saying Apple hasn’t demonstrated satisfactory reasons for its emergency motion to stay that […]
2/3/2025
Hulu might be rebooting Buffy the Vampire Slayer
It looks like Buffy the Vampire Slayer is coming back from the dead (again) as part of a new Hulu series. Deadline reports that Hulu is close to finalizing a pilot order for a Buffy the Vampire Slayer follow-up set to be directed by Chloé Zhao and written by Nora and Lilla Zuckerman (Poker Face). […]
2/3/2025
Meta spends big to make its Ray-Ban glasses a true mainstream hit
Meta isn’t shy about its ambitions to make its Ray-Ban smart glasses a mainstream gadget. So much so, it’s made not one but two Super Bowl ads featuring not one, but two Marvel actors. (And Kris Jenner.) And as a little cherry on top, Meta announced it’s creating a limited edition Super Bowl version of […]
2/3/2025
Intel receives $536 million from EU following antitrust fine reversal
The chipmaker received the amount as default interest from the European Commission following an appeal against a €1.06 billion ($1.1 billion) fine levied in 2009
2/3/2025
EA wants the community to help shape the next Battlefield
EA has announced a new “Battlefield Labs” community testing program to give people the opportunity to test the next Battlefield game. You can sign up for the program now, and EA says that the “first phase” of testing will go live in “the coming weeks” for invited players in Europe and North America. As I […]
2/3/2025
DeepSeek: The countries and agencies that have banned the AI company’s tech
DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company, is raising the ire of regulators around the world. DeepSeek’s viral AI models and chatbot apps have been banned by a growing number of countries and government bodies, which have expressed concerns over DeepSeek’s ethics, privacy, and security practices. Corporations have banned DeepSeek, too — by the hundreds. The biggest […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/3/2025
Journalist targeted on WhatsApp by Paragon spyware: ‘I feel violated’
An Italian investigative journalist said he was the target of a spyware attack disclosed by WhatsApp. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/3/2025
Audi will try to make its model names make more sense
Audi is launching a new global nomenclature system for its vehicles to more clearly represent a vehicle’s type, size, shape, and powertrain. The updated system will still begin with letters like A for “low-floor” vehicles or Q for “high-floor” ones. That will be followed by numbers 1 through 8 that help represent the size or […]
2/3/2025
RTX 5090 gaming laptops listed overseas starting at $3,780
Digital Machine has unveiled its RTX 50-series laptops, which include the RTX 5070 Ti, RTX 5080, and RTX 5090. The cheapest RTX 5090 laptop starts at $3,786.22.
2/3/2025
Elon Musk is staging a takeover of the federal budget
In the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency, Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have reportedly gained access to core parts of the American government’s payment systems, including systems that affect Social Security and Medicare benefits — as federal workers and government officials struggle to respond. DOGE, an unofficial “department†which Trump […]
2/3/2025
Trump says new US sovereign wealth fund could purchase TikTok
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday to create a U.S. sovereign wealth fund and suggested that it could be used to purchase TikTok. The fund is expected to be created in the next 12 months by the U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments, though it’s not immediately clear how. Trump has said previously […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/3/2025
Apple’s latest AirPods have dropped below $100 for the first time
If you missed out on the steep AirPods discounts we saw during Black Friday, now is your chance. Right now, the second-gen AirPods Pro with USB-C are on sale at Walmart, Best Buy, and Target starting at $169 ($81 off), which is just $16 shy of their all-time low. Meanwhile, the AirPods 4 have dropped to a record […]
2/3/2025
Big Tech has been silent on Trump’s tariffs
President Trump announced tariffs as high as 25 percent on goods imported from Canada, China, and Mexico over the weekend. But some of the biggest names in tech and gaming – who could be significantly impacted by the tariffs – have stayed quiet about them. Shortly after the tariffs were announced, The Verge reached out […]
2/3/2025
EcoFlow says subscriptions aren’t required for advanced features… yet
EcoFlow has confirmed that it’s currently testing new advanced features for its PowerStream Balcony Solar System that were made available to a small group of testers “on a paid basis.” After other EcoFlow users raised concerns last week about the possibility of having to pay subscription fees for features on devices they already own, the […]
2/3/2025
Data brokers can keep selling your social security number, says new CFPB chief
Treasure Secretary Scott Bessent has been named the Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the bureau announced today. Bessent quickly instructed the agency to “to stop all rulemaking, communications, litigation, and other activities,” reports Bloomberg Law. A source inside the CFPB told Bloomberg Law that his order “appeared to shut down the […]
2/3/2025
All the news about Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs
Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs are just around the corner, with the first releases — the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 — dropping on January 30th. The RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 will follow that with their own releases in February, but some are already getting a sneak peek at the software benefits of the […]
2/3/2025
Japan tightens chipmaking export controls amid US-China tech tensions
Japan makes it harder for Chinese entities to obtain chipmaking tools, advanced processors, and cryogenic cooling from Japanese companies.
2/3/2025
Chinese algorithm claimed to boost Nvidia GPU performance by up to 800X for advanced science applications
The PD-General framework improved computational speed by up to 800 times on a consumer-grade Nvidia RTX 4070 compared to traditional serial processing methods.
2/3/2025
Adaptive Charging could soon extend the lifespan of your Pixel Watch
Google could soon bring its Adaptive Charging battery protection feature from its Pixel phones to the Pixel Watch line. The feature is designed to preserve battery health by preventing overcharging, and hinges on its ability to predict your charging schedule. Android Authority spotted code strings that reference Adaptive Charging in the latest version of the […]
2/3/2025
Save $500 on this OTT Acer Predator Helios 18 gaming laptop
Save $500 on the MSRP of this Acer Predator Helios 18 gaming laptop.
2/3/2025
Ontario cancels $100 million Starlink contract in protest at U.S. tariffs
Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, one of Canada’s most populous provinces, announced on X that the province’s government would be “ripping up” its $100 million contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet service. The news comes soon after President Donald Trump announced this weekend a 25% tariff on nearly all Canadian imported goods, causing […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/3/2025
Ontario cancels $68 million Starlink contract in protest at US tariffs
Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, one of Canada’s most populous provinces, announced on X that the province’s government would be “ripping up” its $68 million ($100 million CAD) contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet service. The news comes soon after President Donald Trump announced this weekend a 25% tariff on nearly all Canadian […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/3/2025
Engineer turns old 3D printer into a tattoo gun that you definitely shouldn't use at home
YouTuber makes and documents a 3D printer as a tattoo machine.
2/3/2025
Uber wants to make riding with a service animal easier
Uber introduced a new feature designed to make it easier for people with disabilities to ride with service animals. For years, Uber’s policies toward service animals have been in accordance with state and federal law: they are allowed to ride at all times at no extra cost. But now the company is allowing customers to […]
2/3/2025
NetChoice sues to block Maryland’s Kids Code, saying it violates the First Amendment
NetChoice has filed its 10th lawsuit in an ongoing fight against a broad slate of state internet regulations — this time against a Maryland law billed as protecting kids from inappropriate material online. It’s the latest effort to oppose what NetChoice calls an unconstitutional speech code in disguise. NetChoice has become one of the fiercest — […]
2/3/2025
First native iPhone porn app arrives in EU
A native pornography app for iOS is coming to the EU via the approved alternative app store AltStore PAL, made possible by Europe’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). On Monday, the AltStore announced the launch of Hot Tub, an aggregator that offers iOS users a way to search and play videos from a variety of adult […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/3/2025
Hot Tub, the first native iPhone porn app, arrives in EU
A native pornography app for iOS is coming to the EU via the approved alternative app store AltStore PAL, made possible by Europe’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). On Monday, the AltStore announced the launch of Hot Tub, an aggregator that offers iOS users a way to search and play videos from a variety of adult […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/3/2025
Tech enthusiasts brace for Trump tariff price hikes on new components
We examine the new Trump tariffs on Canada, China, and Mexico and consider their potential impacts on PCs, components, and peripherals.
2/3/2025
Trump agrees to a one-month pause on Mexico tariffs
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo and US President Donald Trump announced the US is pausing tariffs against Mexico for one month, as previously reported by Bloomberg. Sheinbaum Pardo said the sides “had a good conversation” that resulted in agreements about border security and weapons trafficking. “Mexico will immediately reinforce the northern border with 10,000 members […]
2/3/2025
All the news about EV charging in the US
The state of electric vehicle charging in North America is shaping up like the smartphone charging wars — but focused on much more expensive hardware. Right now, like USB-C and Android phones, the Combined Charging System (CCS, Type 1) plug is on a greater variety of cars. Meanwhile, Tesla’s plug was long compared to Apple […]
2/3/2025
Cloudflare is making it easier to track authentic images online
Cloudflare has launched a new feature to help people quickly verify the authenticity of online images. The web security and hosting provider has adopted the Adobe-led Content Credentials system, which applies a digital metadata tag to images and video that tracks who owns it, where it’s been posted, and if it’s been manipulated — including […]
2/3/2025
Bookshop CEO Andy Hunter’s crusade to save books from Amazon
Today, I’m talking with Andy Hunter, the CEO of Bookshop.org. Bookshop, at its core, is a website that lets local bookshops all over the country — and in a few other countries — sell their books online. If you want a book, you go to Bookshop and click buy — it’s just as easy as […]
2/3/2025
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: Secure your ticket at this year’s lowest rates
Missed the 2-for-1 deal for TechCrunch Disrupt 2025? No problem! Super Early Bird prices are still available, with savings of up to $1,130 on individual tickets and up to 30% on group passes. These savings are only good until the end of this month. Celebrate 20 years of TechCrunch Disrupt from October 27-29 at Moscone […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/3/2025
Modern Discord hacked into Windows 95 and 98, slimmed down version keeps core functionality intact
Windows 95 and 98SE get a functioning open-source backport of Discord.
2/3/2025
The Beatles won a Grammy last night, thanks to AI
The Beatles’ AI-assisted track “Now and Then” won the Grammy for Best Rock Performance on Sunday night, marking the first time that a song of its kind has taken home the award. No, Paul McCartney did not use AI to create some creepy LennonGPT bot. Instead, he used noise reduction systems to clean up a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/3/2025
OpenAI’s new trademark application hints at humanoid robots, smart jewelry, and more
Last Friday, AI startup OpenAI filed a new application to trademark products associated with its brand — “OpenAI” — with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Normally, this wouldn’t be newsworthy. Companies file for trademarks all the time. But in the application, OpenAI hints at new product lines both nearer-term and of a more […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/3/2025
What PowerSchool won’t say about its data breach affecting millions of students
The hack has the potential to be one of the biggest of the year, but the edtech giant is refusing to answer important questions © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/3/2025
Kobo’s e-readers are now $10 more expensive
Kobo has increased the price of three of its e-readers following a similar price increase by the company in January 2023. The seven-inch Kobo Libra Colour, as well as the six-inch Kobo Clara Colour and Kobo Clara BW, are all now $10 more expensive, as spotted by TheeBookReader. The prices of the larger (and aging) […]
2/3/2025
Ontario is ‘ripping up’ Starlink contract in response to US tariffs
The Canadian province of Ontario is canceling a $100 million CA (about $68 million USD) contract with Starlink in response to tariffs US President Donald Trump issued on Canada over the weekend, reports The Associated Press. Ontario Premier Doug Ford wrote on X today that the region is also “banning American companies from provincial contracts” […]
2/3/2025
The first ‘approved’ iPhone porn app is coming to Europe
The first “Apple approved” porn app for iPhone is rolling out in Europe, via AltStore PAL’s alternative iOS app marketplace. AltStore PAL developer Riley Testut says that Hot Tub, which describes itself as an ad-free “adult content browser,” has made it through Apple’s notarization review for fraud, security threats, and functionality, and will be available […]
2/3/2025
Hero’s all-in-one, AI productivity app takes on Google’s Calendar and others
People often use multiple apps for notes, schedule management, and to-dos. But why not combine them all in one app? That’s the ethos behind Hero, an all-in-one productivity app with an AI assistant (of course!). The iOS app was developed by former Meta employees Brad Kowalk and Seung W. Lee. Both met while working on […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/3/2025
What is Bluesky? Everything to know about the X competitor
Is the grass greener on the other side? We’re not sure, but the sky is most certainly bluer. It’s been two years since Elon Musk purchased Twitter, now X, leading people to set up shop on alternative platforms. Mastodon, Post, Pebble (two of which have already shuttered operations) and Spill have been presented as potential […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/3/2025
Civilization VII is all about establishing your unique legacy
Sid Meier developed the first Civilization game in 1991 and has contributed to every iteration since. When I visited Firaxis Games last year, I saw that the company maintains the very computer Meier used to develop the game, which can still be booted up and played. Walking through the halls of the studio, I saw […]
2/3/2025
Japanese RTX 50 retailer apologizes for lottery-fueled mayhem — unruly crowd caused injuries, damaged nearby kindergarten
The owner of the Akihabara computer store which held an RTX 50 product release lottery has issued a sweeping apology to customers, neighbors, and everyone else who got caught up in the chaos last week.
2/3/2025
RTX 5090 cable melting claim debunked — Investigation points at prior RTX 4090 FE cabling usage
A Hong Kong media outlet was scared by two melted 16-pin cables; initially mistakenly attributed to RTX 5090 testing.
2/3/2025
Riot raises $30 million for its cybersecurity product suite focused on employees
French startup Riot has raised a $30 million Series B round after reaching $10 million in annual revenue in 2024. Originally focused on educating employees about cybersecurity risks, the company now wants to go one step further and nudge employees so that they minimize their attack surface. Left Lane Capital is leading today’s round with […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/3/2025
Samsung chief Jay Y. Lee cleared of all charges in 2015 merger case
A Seoul appeals court on Monday upheld the acquittal of Samsung Electronics Executive Chairman Jay Y. Lee in accounting fraud and stock manipulation in a case related to a controversial 2015 merger of two Samsung affiliates, Cheil Industries and Samsung C&T. The Seoul High Court dismissed the prosecution’s appeal in the case involving Lee, who […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/3/2025
Nvidia counters AMD DeepSeek benchmarks, claims RTX 4090 is nearly 50% faster than 7900 XTX
Nvidia published RTX 5090, RTX 4090 DeepSeek benchmarks against the RX 7900 XTX, countering AMD's performance claims that the RX 7900 XTX is faster than the RTX 4090.
2/3/2025
That AI-restored Beatles song won Grammy for Best Rock Performance
The Beatles have won their eighth competitive Grammy award thanks to a little help from artificial intelligence. The 2023 track “Now and Then” — which Billboard reports is the first song knowingly created with AI assistance to earn a Grammy nomination — was awarded Best Rock Performance on Sunday, beating out competition from Green Day, […]
2/3/2025
Microsoft 365 is losing its free VPN feature
Microsoft is getting ready to remove the VPN feature from its Microsoft 365 subscription later this month. Originally designed as a privacy feature, the VPN in Microsoft 365 utilizes the Microsoft Defender app to encrypt internet traffic and hide IP addresses. Microsoft is now removing this privacy protection feature from Microsoft 365 on February 28th. […]
2/3/2025
Tana snaps up $25M, with its AI-powered knowledge graph for work racking up a 160k+ waitlist
An app that helps people and teams in the working world simplify their to-do lists — ideally by organising and doing some of the work for them — has remained one of the unsolved goals in business technology. Leaning into AI, on top of battle scars from once building Google Wave, a startup called Tana […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/3/2025
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng receives a hero’s welcome back home
DeepSeek founder Lian Wenfeng is being hailed as a hero in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, where he grew up and reportedly returned for the Lunar New Year, joined by bodyguards. Wenfeng—who, at 40, is already a billionaire due to his hedge fund, High-Flyer—is apparently even more beloved by locals following DeepSeek’s breakthrough research, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/3/2025
India expands Aadhaar authentication for businesses, raising privacy concerns
India has expanded its Aadhaar authentication service to let businesses such as those in e-commerce, hospitality, and healthcare use the biometrics of individuals to authenticate their identity. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/3/2025
ChatGPT’s agent can now do deep research for you
OpenAI has revealed another new agentic feature for ChatGPT called deep research, which it says can operate autonomously to “plan and execute a multi-step trajectory to find the data it needs, backtracking and reacting to real-time information where necessary.” Instead of simply generating text, it shows a summary of its process in a sidebar, with […]
2/3/2025
From ChatGPT to Gemini: how AI is rewriting the internet
Big players, including Microsoft, with Copilot, Google, with Gemini, and OpenAI, with GPT-4o, are making AI chatbot technology previously restricted to test labs more accessible to the general public. How do these large language model (LLM) programs work? OpenAI’s GPT-3 told us that AI uses “a series of autocomplete-like programs to learn language” and that […]
2/3/2025
OpenAI unveils a new ChatGPT agent for ‘deep research’
OpenAI is announcing a new AI “agent” designed to help people conduct in-depth, complex research using ChatGPT, the company’s AI-powered chatbot platform. Appropriately enough, it’s called deep research. OpenAI said in a blog post published Sunday that this new capability was designed for “people who do intensive knowledge work in areas like finance, science, policy, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/3/2025
Dub: the copy trading app that has teens talking
Social media changed everything from news consumption to shopping. Now, Dub thinks it can do the same for investing through an influencer-driven marketplace where users can follow the trades of top investors with a few taps. Think of it as TikTok meets Wall Street. Founded by 23-year-old Steven Wang — a Harvard drop-out who began […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/2/2025
DeepSeek might not be as disruptive as claimed, firm reportedly has 50,000 Nvidia GPUs and spent $1.6 billion on buildouts
SemiAnalysis says that DeepSeek and its venture capitalist partner spent some $1.6 billion dollar on AI hardware from Nvidia, says SemiAnalysis.
2/2/2025
Automakers brace for ‘massive’ impact of Trump’s tariffs
Your next car purchase is probably going to be more expensive, thanks to President Donald Trump. Around 5.3 million vehicles are built in Canada and Mexico, 70 percent of which are destined for the United States. Those vehicles will soon be subject to 25 percent tariffs, which were just announced by the Trump administration. And […]
2/2/2025
Intel heralds XeSS passing the 150 games milestone, but only two titles support XeSS 2.0
Intel XeSS passes the milestone for being supported in over 150 games.
2/2/2025
Apple reportedly launching a new event invite feature code-named Confetti
Apple will be giving iCloud users a new way to invite people to parties, meetings, and other events, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The company has code-named the service Confetti, and it could launch as early as this week, Gurman says. There aren’t many details about how it will actually work, but Confetti is reportedly […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/2/2025
This 14-inch Apple MacBook Pro (2024) laptop is only $1,589 at Amazon
This Apple MacBook Pro 2024 laptop is currently marked down to its lowest price to date—$1,589 at Amazon instead of its usual $1,799.
2/2/2025
RTX 5090 orders could take up to 16 weeks to fulfill at major UK retailer, shop stops taking pre-orders
A large UK retailer warns customers of up to 16-week wait times before existing RTX 5090 orders can be fulfilled.
2/2/2025
Nvidia RTX 3090 sent in to repairer was missing the GPU and all its memory chips
Alex from NorthridgeFix was in despair after a customer sent him an 'insane RTX 3090' for repair, missing its GPU and VRAM.
2/2/2025
PDP’s Riffmaster guitar controller is receiving a rare $20 discount
Last month, Fortnite Festival, the game’s Rock Band-like music mode, rolled out local multiplayer on PlayStation and Xbox. It’s a great addition if you and up to three buddies want to relive the halcyon days of ‘07 on a single TV, particularly if you’re using a nostalgia-inducing peripheral like the PDP Riffmaster — which is now […]
2/2/2025
The tech industry’s layoffs and hiring freezes: all of the news
Over the last couple years, it feels like we’ve heard news of mass layoffs and hiring freezes from tech companies nearly every week, and since the beginning of 2024, there’s been a new wave of layoffs and firings. In the first few days of January 2024 alone: And all that adds to the tens of […]
2/2/2025
Amazfit Helio Smart Ring review: bargain bin bust
Smart rings are in the middle of a renaissance. That’s great because we finally have way more options than just an Oura Ring. The downside is most of Oura’s would-be rivals are launching their first, maybe second-gen smart rings. Meaning, if you want an Oura Ring alternative, there’s a good chance you’ll have to put […]
2/2/2025
Google’s X spins out Heritable Agriculture, a startup using AI to improve crop yield
Google’s X “moonshot factory” this week announced its latest graduate. Heritable Agriculture is a data- and machine learning-driven startup aiming to improve how crops are grown. As the firm noted in an announcement post published Tuesday, plants are incredibly efficient and impressive systems. “Plants are solar powered, carbon negative, self-assembling machines that feed on sunlight […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/2/2025
I tried the tech that makes hands-free smart locks actually work
Imagine walking up to your front door and it unlocks — even opens — automatically as you approach. It may sound like the stuff of smart home dreams, but it could soon be a reality, thanks to ultra-wideband (UWB) technology arriving on smart locks. With its precise, real-time location capabilities, UWB enables a smart lock […]
2/2/2025
All the smart home news, reviews, and gadgets you need to know about
The smart home holds so much promise. It can make life more convenient with lights that turn on as you walk in a room, doors that unlock as you approach, and robots that clean your floors. It can also make your home safer, more energy efficient, and even a little more fun. (Have you tried […]
2/2/2025
AI systems with ‘unacceptable risk’ are now banned in the EU
As of Sunday in the European Union, the bloc’s regulators can ban the use of AI systems they deem to pose “unacceptable risk” or harm. February 2 is the first compliance deadline for the EU’s AI Act, the comprehensive AI regulatory framework that the European Parliament finally approved last March after years of development. The […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/2/2025
Glorious GMMK 3 Review: Customized mainstream gaming
Glorious' new GMMK 3 keyboard line lets you build your own gaming keyboard.
2/2/2025
Verbatim pledges 'stable supply of optical disks' after Sony Japan's recordable Blu-ray exit
Verbatim has pledged to continue supporting the recordable optical media market in Japan after Sony's manufacturing closure.
2/2/2025
Intel Core Ultra 7 255H lands 32% faster than the 155H in PassMark's single-core benchmark
Arrow Lake on mobile delivers impressive results versus Meteor Lake, thanks to the newer cores and an updated process node.
2/2/2025
A better way to buy and read books
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 69, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, get ready for some web-slingin’, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about Elon Musk’s gamer habits and spy satellites and […]
2/2/2025
Shein app returns to India via Reliance deal
Chinese fast-fashion retailer Shein has relaunched in India through a partnership with Reliance Retail, nearly five years after it was banned amid diplomatic tensions between New Delhi and Beijing. The new Shein India Fast Fashion app, developed and launched by billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Retail, marks the firm’s significant return to one of Asia’s largest […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/2/2025
Canada will retaliate against Trump with tariffs on US goods
Canada will set its own tariffs against US goods in retaliation to broad 25 percent tariffs President Donald Trump announced Saturday on Canadian imports. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a 25 percent tariff on a total of $155 billion worth of American goods — $30 billion of that on Tuesday when Trump’s tariffs go into […]
2/2/2025
The NTSB chooses Elon Musk’s X to update the press on plane crashes
The National Transportation and Safety Board will only update the press about the plane crashes in Washington, DC and Philadelphia on X — not over email, as reported earlier by The Desk. The agency announced on Saturday that it will use its @NTSB_Newsroom account to share ”news conferences or other investigative information.“ The NTSB later […]
2/1/2025
US tariffs: how Trump’s tax is impacting big tech and beyond
President Donald Trump has announced that he’s imposing a tariff on goods from some of the US’s biggest trade partners: Canada, Mexico, and China. Under the executive orders signed on February 1st, Canada and Mexico will face a 25 percent tariff, while goods from China will be subject to a 10 percent tax. Energy resources […]
2/1/2025
Senator warns of national security risks after Elon Musk’s DOGE granted ‘full access’ to sensitive Treasury systems
U.S. senator says Musk's access to Treasury systems represents a "national security risk." © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/1/2025
X expands lawsuit over advertiser ‘boycott’ to include Lego, Nestlé, Pinterest, and others
X is now suing more advertisers in an antitrust lawsuit focusing on what the company’s CEO Linda Yaccarino has claimed is a “systematic illegal boycott.” The company formerly known as Twitter first filed the lawsuit against the World Federation of Advertisers and its brand safety initiative the Global Alliance of Responsible Media in August 2024. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/1/2025
Trump imposes sweeping tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China
The US is officially imposing tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China. President Donald Trump announced that goods imported from Mexico and Canada will face a 25 percent tariff, while goods from China will face a 10 percent tariff. There will also be a lower 10 percent tariff on energy resources from Canada. In a series […]
2/1/2025
WEP 982 III Precision Soldering Station Review: Putting the heat where you need it
The WEP 982 III is designed for precision soldering, and it brings hot-swappable soldering iron tips to a budget price tag.
2/1/2025
RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060 may arrive in March to steal AMD's spotlight — Chaintech hints at higher Average Selling Prices
Taiwanese manufacturers suggest the RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060 will arrive next month.
2/1/2025
Google’s AI Super Bowl ad is wrong about cheese
Google just debuted a series of Super Bowl ads showing how small businesses use Gemini AI across all 50 states, but the cheese lovers out there might notice something a little off about its Wisconsin one. As spotted by @natejhake on X, the ad shows Gemini AI generating text that says Gouda accounts for “50 […]
2/1/2025
Adobe exec Scott Belsky departs for indie movie studio A24
Adobe’s chief strategy officer Scott Belsky announced this week that he will be joining A24, the independent movie studio behind “Civil War,” “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” and many more titles. Belsky first joined Adobe in 2012 through the acquisition of Behance, leaving briefly in 2016 to become a VC at Benchmark but eventually returning […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/1/2025
DeepSeek gets Silicon Valley talking
Welcome back to Week in Review. This week we’re looking at DeepSeek’s major boost in the U.S.; Elon Musk admitting he was wrong about FSD; teens losing trust in Big Tech; and more! Let’s do it. DeepSeek went viral this week after its AI models led Wall Street analysts and technologists to question whether the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/1/2025
RTX 5090 gets new $25 KryoSheet thermal pad option from Thermal Grizzly
Thermal Grizzly has updated its cooling solutions with an all-new 44 x 37mm KryoSheet optimized for the RTX 5090’s GB202 die.
2/1/2025
Backdoor uncovered in China-made patient monitors — Contec CMS8000 raises questions about healthcare device security
The CISA and FDA have released security warnings about the Contec CMS8000, which is used for patient monitoring.
2/1/2025
Here are all the IPOs reported to be in the works for 2025
These companies have confidentially filed to go public in recent years. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/1/2025
Trump fires CFPB head Rohit Chopra
President Donald Trump has fired Rohit Chopra, the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). In a letter posted to X, Chopra confirmed his “term as CFPB Director has concluded.” Chopra was notified of his removal via an email from the White House, according to a report from the Associated Press. During Chopra’s tenure, […]
2/1/2025
Alienware's award-winning 34-inch curved QD-OLED gaming monitor is now discounted to its lowest price ever
You can purchase the Alienware AW3423DWF 34-inch curved QD-OLED gaming monitor for its lowest price ever at Amazon—just $609 instead of its recommended $899.
2/1/2025
Edward Snowden slams Nvidia's RTX 50-series 'F-tier value,' whistleblows on lackluster VRAM capacity
Infamous former NSA contractor and whistleblower Edward Snowden has unexpectedly shared his opinion on RTX 50 series VRAM quotas.
2/1/2025
Incredibly tiny pressure-sensitive mouse can be latched onto a keychain like a sleek car remote
Astract Japan introduces a follow-up to its CapacMouse Neo, the CapacMouse Pro.
2/1/2025
It took more than a decade for a surreal RPG to get its final translation
In 2008, Mortis Ghost made a game with his friend, composer Alias Conrad Coldwood. It was a surreal roleplaying game about a baseball player fighting ghosts called Off. He shared it for free on a French-speaking forum, where it garnered a small audience. One player was a French artist who was inspired to make a […]
2/1/2025
Here are the apps battling to be become the ‘TikTok for Bluesky’
TikTok’s potential U.S. ban has sparked a flurry of development within the open social web community. Several new applications are being built that could one day serve as a TikTok replacement for those who favor the open source, decentralized social network Bluesky and the technology that powers it, the AT Protocol. Though the TikTok ban […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/1/2025
Venture debt lenders will play a big role in fire sales and startup shutdown this year, experts say
When accounting startup Bench abruptly failed last month, the shutdown was forced when the company’s lenders called in the startup’s loan. In late 2023, the digital freight company Convoy faced financial challenges, leading venture lending firm Hercules Capital to assume control of the company to recover its investments. Divvy Homes, which sold for about $1 […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/1/2025
AMD rumored to launch the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D alongside RDNA 4 GPUs in late March
A French publication suggests AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D/9900X3D chips won't arrive until the end of Q1.
2/1/2025
How to hide files and folders on Windows
While your Windows computer should be pretty well locked down with a password or maybe even some kind of biometric protection, it’s impossible to guarantee that no one else is ever going to get access to it, whether it’s a thief swiping your unlocked laptop from a coffee shop or one of your kids wanting […]
2/1/2025
How to delete X and move on with your life
As Elon Musk’s X sees a decline in daily active users, some people are deciding to ditch the social network entirely, whether that’s for Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, or perhaps, better yet, nothing at all. Since the Tesla and SpaceX CEO bought Twitter in 2022, numerous alternatives have cropped up, seeking to ensnare people who are […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/1/2025
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and President Trump reportedly discussed AI policy, DeepSeek, and hardware export controls in a meeting
Nvidia and the White House provide vague descriptions of topics Donald Trump and Jensen Huang discussed during their Friday meeting.
2/1/2025
The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra isn’t so ‘ultra’ anymore
When you yell “Can you just Google it?†at your AI assistant, it’s fair to say that the AI assistant is not doing its job. I was browning some beef on the stove and trying to determine when my husband’s flight was landing. I didn’t have the flight number, but there are only so many […]
2/1/2025
AI agents could birth the first one-person unicorn — but at what societal cost?
Thanks to the advent of cloud computing and distributed digital infrastructure, the one-person micro-enterprise is far from a novel concept. Cheap on-demand compute, remote collaboration, payment processing APIs, social media, and e-commerce marketplaces have all made it easier to “go it alone” as an entrepreneur. But what about scaling that one-person business into something meatier […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/1/2025
India pledges fresh billion for startups
India announced a new $1.15 billion Fund of Funds for startups on Saturday while unveiling sweeping regulatory reforms and an ambitious nuclear energy program, as New Delhi seeks to boost tech innovation and clean energy in the world’s fifth-largest economy. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, presenting the federal budget for 2025-26, said the fund builds on […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/1/2025
Autonomous vehicle testing in California dropped 50%. Here’s why.
Tech companies developing self-driving vehicle technology have tapped the brakes on testing on California’s public roads, according to new data from the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles. The agency reported Friday a total of 4.5 million autonomous vehicle test miles were logged in 2024, a 50% drop from the previous year. That figure covers two […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2/1/2025
The drone pilot who took out an LA firefighting plane pleads guilty to escape jail
On January 9th, 56-year-old Peter Akemann flew his DJI Mini 3 Pro drone far beyond the legal limit of his ability to see — and into a Super Scooper water dumping plane fighting the Los Angeles Palisades wildfires, grounding it for repairs after punching a hole in its left wing. Now that authorities have traced […]
1/31/2025
YouTube’s new Discord-like Communities are rolling out to more creators
YouTube is expanding the availability of its dedicated community space feature to more creators on the site, giving them more opportunities to connect with their fans without needing to lean on another platform like Discord. Only available for access via mobile devices, Communities first launched during the Made for YouTube event last fall, letting the […]
1/31/2025
Microsoft Paint is getting a Copilot button, too
Windows Insiders will soon see a Copilot icon in one more place: Paint. Insiders in the Canary and Dev channels will see the new button thanks to an update rolling out now, putting AI tools in one location. Clicking the Copilot button in the task bar will reveal a dropdown menu with generative features like […]
1/31/2025
OpenAI used this subreddit to test AI persuasion
OpenAI used the subreddit, r/ChangeMyView, to create a test for measuring the persuasive abilities of its AI reasoning models. The company revealed this in a system card – a document outlining how an AI system works – that was released along with its new “reasoning” model, o3-mini, on Friday. Millions of Reddit users are members […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/31/2025
Sam Altman: OpenAI has been on the ‘wrong side of history’ concerning open source
To cap off a day of product releases, OpenAI researchers, engineers, and executives, including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, answered questions in a wide-ranging Reddit AMA on Friday. OpenAI the company finds itself in a bit of a precarious position. It’s battling the perception that it’s ceding ground in the AI race to Chinese companies like […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/31/2025
Netflix has cancelled The Sandman
Though Netflix is planning to bring back a number of its ongoing series in the coming months, the streamer has decided to cancel its adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman. Netflix announced today that The Sandman will conclude with its upcoming second season. In a statement about the show coming to an end, Sandman showrunner […]
1/31/2025
Mistral board member and a16z VC Anjney Midha says DeepSeek won’t stop AI’s GPU hunger
Midha says R1 won't stop AI from spending billions.It means they will do more with the compute power they can obtain. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/31/2025
BioWare hit with layoffs as it shifts to next Mass Effect
BioWare now has fewer than 100 employees after laying off “around two dozen” staffers and shifting others to different projects at EA, Bloomberg reports. The changes follow BioWare’s own “Studio Update” published this week where GM Gary McKay said the studio had “worked diligently over the past few months to match many of our colleagues […]
1/31/2025
Donald Trump’s data purge has begun
Key resources for environmental data and public health have already been taken down from federal websites, and more could soon vanish as the Trump administration works to scrap anything that has to do with climate change, racial equity, or gender identity. Warnings floated on social media today about an impending purge at the Centers for […]
1/31/2025
MLCommons and Hugging Face team up to release massive speech data set for AI research
MLCommons, a nonprofit AI safety working group, has teamed up with AI dev platform Hugging Face to release one of the world’s largest collections of public domain voice recordings for AI research. The data set, called Unsupervised People’s Speech, contains more than a million hours of audio spanning at least 89 different languages. MLCommons says […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/31/2025
‘Hundreds’ of companies are blocking DeepSeek over China data risks
Some companies are blocking DeepSeek over concerns their data will end up with the Chinese government. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/31/2025
How to stop your MacBook from turning on when you open the lid
In 2016, Apple started including an auto power-on feature for its new MacBook models that activated when you opened the notebook lid or plugged in USB-C power when the lid was open. This is a cool little convenience if you don’t want the added step of pressing the power button — plus it could get […]
1/31/2025
Elon Musk is reportedly taking control of the inner workings of US government agencies
People working for, or with, Elon Musk are reportedly taking over the inner workings of multiple government agencies, including the Office of Personnel Management and the Treasury Department. The Washington Post reported Friday that the highest-ranking career official at Treasury is leaving the department after “a clash” with people working for Musk’s so-called Department of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/31/2025
Apple reportedly gives up on its AR video glasses project
While Mark Zuckerberg and Meta press forward with augmented glasses projects buoyed by its million-selling set of smart Ray-Bans, Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman says that Apple just pulled the plug on an AR glasses project. Codenamed N107, they’re described as something that would’ve looked similar to regular glasses but with added displays in the lenses […]
1/31/2025
Guo’s Conviction Partners adds Mike Vernal as GP, raises $230M fund
When in mid-2022 Sarah Guo left Greylock to launch her own AI-focused fund, Conviction Partners, she indicated that she was tagging the word “Partners” to the firm’s name because she would eventually bring on other GPs. Now, more than two years later, Guo is being joined by Mike Vernal, who was a partner at Sequoia […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/31/2025
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is trying to duck a deposition in an OpenAI copyright lawsuit
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is trying to avoid being deposed in a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, according to new court filings. In response, lawyers for the plaintiff — the Authors Guild — have filed a motion to compel testimony from Amodei and his Anthropic co-founder, Benjamin Mann. Authors Guild’s lawyers claim that Amodei and Mann, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/31/2025
Build Intelligent Apps with .NET and DeepSeek R1 Today!
Learn how to easily integrate DeepSeek R1 with .NET applications using the Microsoft.Extensions.AI library. The post Build Intelligent Apps with .NET and DeepSeek R1 Today! appeared first on .NET Blog.
1/31/2025
Common Side Effects’ creators see the US healthcare system as the show’s villain
In Adult Swim’s Common Side Effects from Joe Bennett (Scavengers Reign) and Steve Hely (American Dad!), the discovery of a strange mushroom that can heal any sickness or injury is either a miracle or a doomsday scenario, depending on who you ask. The plant is a godsend to people suffering from debilitating illnesses, but its […]
1/31/2025
Sony just axed the 60fps Bloodborne mod with a DMCA takedown
A popular Bloodborne framerate mod is no longer available thanks to a DMCA takedown request from Sony. Australia-based Twitch streamer Lance McDonald first developed the mod back in 2020 before making it available to download in 2021. Lance announced today in a post on X that Sony Interactive Entertainment asked them to remove download links […]
1/31/2025
CFPB fines fintech Wise, alleging it charged deceptive fees
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has hit UK-based remittance company Wise with about a $2 million fine for what it described as “a series of illegal actions.” Those actions include advertising inaccurate fees and failing to properly disclose exchange rates and other costs, the CFPB alleges. Specifically, the agency claims that the fintech company […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/31/2025
Nvidia says its new GPUs are the fastest for DeepSeek AI, which kind of misses the point
Nvidia is touting the performance of DeepSeek’s open source AI models on its just-launched RTX 50-series GPUs, claiming that they can “run the DeepSeek family of distilled models faster than anything on the PC market.” But this announcement from Nvidia might be somewhat missing the point. This week, Nvidia’s market cap suffered the single biggest […]
1/31/2025
Apple will pay $20M to settle Watch battery swelling suit, ‘denies wrongdoing’
Apple has agreed to pay $20 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit over battery swelling on the Apple Watch. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in 2019, the suit alleges that the problem affected the first four Apple Watch models. Battery swelling is pretty much what it sounds like: […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/31/2025
Exacluster with 144 Nvidia H200 AI GPUs detailed by its designer: Hydra Host enters the scene
Hydra Host facilitated building the machine, enables its monetization when not utilized using its Brokkr platform.
1/31/2025
Meta turns to solar — again — in its data center-building boom
The announcement comes as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg maintains the company’s ambitious AI strategy, which will require hefty capital investments in data centers. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/31/2025
Stablecoins are finding product market fit in emerging markets
Five years ago, SpaceX launched Starlink, which has since grown into its biggest revenue driver, expanding to over 100 countries. But as Starlink scaled, it faced a major hurdle: accepting payments in developing markets, where traditional banking infrastructure is unreliable, slow, and prone to blocking transactions. Many local banks across Africa, Latin America and Asia […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/31/2025
Sonos soundbars and speakers are up to $250 off for the Super Bowl
I would have preferred any other Super Bowl matchup than another showdown between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles, but the world doesn’t revolve around me. Regardless, I love a good championship football game, especially one enhanced by an immersive sound system. If you’re in need of a home theater audio upgrade yourself, […]
1/31/2025
This investor wants you to sign an NDA to build Legos together
Investor, former GitHub CEO, and all around Tech Guy™ Nat Friedman has posted a strangely enticing offer on X. His post reads, “Need volunteers to come to my office in Palo Alto today to construct a 5000 piece Lego set. Will provide pizza. Have to sign NDA. Please DM.” Thanks to the investigative reporting of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/31/2025
Most RTX 50-series GPUs sold out in five minutes at Newegg — entire inventory evaporated in just 20 minutes
Newegg's RTX 50 stock was gone in 20 minutes, raising questions about the quantity available at launch.
1/31/2025
Sam Altman’s ousting from OpenAI has entered the cultural zeitgeist
The lights dimmed as five actors took their places around a table on a makeshift stage in a New York City art gallery turned theater for the night. Wine and water flowed through the intimate space as the house — packed with media — sat to witness the premiere of “Doomers,” Matthew Gasda’s latest play […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/31/2025
OpenAI launches new o3-mini reasoning model with a free ChatGPT version
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman teased exactly two weeks ago that o3-mini would ship in “a couple of weeks,” and it’s arriving on time today. OpenAI is launching its latest o3-mini reasoning model inside ChatGPT and its API services and making a version with rate limits available to free users of ChatGPT for the first time. […]
1/31/2025
OpenAI launches o3-mini, its latest ‘reasoning’ model
OpenAI on Friday launched a new AI "reasoning" model, o3-mini, the latest in the company's o1 family of reasoning models. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/31/2025
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to meet President Trump at White House today
CEO of Nvidia is set to meet U.S. President Trump at the White House to discuss the ongoing situation.
1/31/2025
Swiss tax authority forced to buy Bahamas domain name after URL typo
What do you do if a web address you printed on a physical flyer contains a typo, and you send that flyer to more than 100,000 households? Well, if you’re the Swiss canton (“state”) of Basel-Stadt, you buy the domain that contains the typo, and create a redirect to the correct URL. As Swiss news […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/31/2025
Microsoft is forming a new unit to study AI’s impacts
Microsoft says that it’s creating a new unit, the Advanced Planning Unit (APU), within its Microsoft AI business division that will help the company understand the societal, health, and work implications of AI the company hopes to build. Microsoft AI, which encompasses Microsoft’s Copilot, Bing, and Edge products, is becoming core to Microsoft’s growth strategy […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/31/2025
MultiVersus’ next season will be its last
MultiVersus will go offline at the end of its next season, Warner Bros. Games announced on Friday. The free-to-play brawler’s fifth and final season starts on February 4th and runs through May 30th, 2025, after which you’ll only be able to play against AI opponents or through local co-op. It will also no longer be […]
1/31/2025
Pick up an iBUYPOWER desktop PC (with RTX 4070 Super) for a fraction of the price of an RTX 5090 — now just $1,399
Pick up a competent pre-built gaming rig from Costco for $1,399, featuring an Intel 14th gen processor and Nvidia RTX 4070 Super GPU.
1/31/2025
Ugreen’s new wallet tracker is thinner and cheaper than the rest
Ugreen has announced another Apple AirTag alternative with its new Finder Slim wallet tracker. It’s not only much thinner than an Apple AirTag, at just 1.7mm thick, the Finder Slim is also thinner than the 2.4mm Chipolo Card Spot, the 2.8mm Pebblebee Card Universal, the 2.5mm Tile Slim, and the 2.6mm Eufy SmartTrack Card E30. […]
1/31/2025
DeepSeek: Everything you need to know about the AI chatbot app
DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI lab DeepSeek broke into the mainstream consciousness this week after its chatbot app rose to the top of the Apple App Store charts (and Google Play, as well). DeepSeek’s AI models, which were trained using compute-efficient techniques, have led Wall Street analysts — and technologists — to question whether the U.S. can maintain its […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/31/2025
Custom feed builder Graze is building a business on Bluesky, and investors are paying attention
A startup called Graze, which lets you build your own feeds for the Bluesky social network, has caught investors’ attention. In addition to offering tools to easily build, customize, publish, and manage Bluesky feeds, Graze will soon allow feed creators to monetize their efforts with advertising, sponsored posts, and subscriptions. In other words, Graze has […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/31/2025
WeDoSolar pivots to B2B, after stake acquired by Chinese solar giant
Last year Wind and solar energy overtook fossil fuels to provide 30% of the EU’s electricity. With that in the background, startups in the solar space have been riding a generational change in how we get our power. In 2022 we covered how a small B2C European startup planned to bring solar to homes via […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/31/2025
WhatsApp disrupts spyware campaign targeting journalists
WhatsApp says it disrupted a spyware campaign last month that targeted journalists and civil society members, according to reports from The Guardian and Reuters. The campaign originated from an Israeli spyware company called Paragon Solutions and impacted around 90 users. WhatsApp told The Guardian that it has reached out to affected users, saying it had […]
1/31/2025
Google’s latest Nest Learning Thermostat is down to one of its best prices to date
If you’re tired of watching your heating bill soar every month, now is a good time to invest in Google’s latest Nest Learning Thermostat. Normally $279.99, right now Amazon, Best Buy, and Google are selling the smart thermostat in all three color options for $239.99 ($40 off), which is just $10 shy of its lowest […]
1/31/2025
Apple will pay $20 million to settle Apple Watch battery swelling lawsuit
Apple has agreed to a $20 million settlement in a class action lawsuit over battery swelling in early Apple Watch models. If you experienced the issue and owned an Apple Watch Series 0, 1, 2, or 3, you may be eligible for a small payout. The lawsuit, Smith et al. v. Apple Inc, was filed […]
1/31/2025
Intel co-CEO confirms Nova Lake is on track for 2026 — some parts will be produced externally
Intel's next-generation desktop CPUs, codenamed "Nova Lake," will launch in 2026.
1/31/2025
AI startup Perplexity sued for alleged trademark infringement
Perplexity, the venture-backed startup building AI-powered search products, has been sued in federal court for allegedly violating another company’s trademark. In a complaint filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, attorneys representing a company called Perplexity Solved Solutions accuse Perplexity of infringing on its trademark rights by using the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/31/2025
Apple asks court to halt Google search monopoly case
Apple wants to ensure it has a voice in the remedies trial for the Justice Department’s search monopolization case against Google, and filed an emergency motion to stay the proceedings while it appeals the district court’s denial of its request to be more directly heard in the case. The remedies phase of the trial is […]
1/31/2025
A brief history of mass-hacks
Hackers are increasingly abusing bugs in popular enterprise software to target big companies in mass-hacking campaigns © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/31/2025
DeepSeek: all the news about the startup that’s shaking up AI stocks
DeepSeek is shaking up the AI industry with cost-efficient large language models it claims can perform just as well as rivals from giants like OpenAI and Meta. The Chinese startup says its flagship R1 reasoning model is capable of achieving “performance comparable” to OpenAI’s o1 equivalent, while the newly released Janus Pro multimodal AI model […]
1/31/2025
AI is ‘an energy hog,’ but DeepSeek could change that
DeepSeek startled everyone last month with the claim that its AI model uses roughly one-tenth the amount of computing power as Meta’s Llama 3.1 model, upending an entire worldview of how much energy and resources it’ll take to develop artificial intelligence. Taken at face value, that claim could have tremendous implications for the environmental impact […]
1/31/2025
Blackmagic’s free camera app brings remote control and tablet support to Android
Blackmagic Design has announced that it’s finally bringing several advanced features already available for the iOS version of its free camera app to Android. The Blackmagic Camera for Android 2.0 update released this week allows several smartphones running the app to be monitored and controlled from a single device, including, for the first time, a […]
1/31/2025
U.S. investigates whether DeepSeek smuggled Nvidia AI GPUs via Singapore
The U.S. government believes that DeepSeek illegally obtained Nvidia GPUs through Singapore, now accounting for 22% of its revenue. Nvidia denies any wrongdoing.
1/31/2025
How to file and pay your 2024 taxes online
The holidays are over, a new year is here, and along with all the various upheavals that we are facing (including some possible changes in tax law), most of us have to deal with our annual income taxes. Sorry about that. Tax day this year falls, for most of us, on the traditional April 15th. […]
1/31/2025
Sundance 2025: all the latest movie reviews and updates from the festival
A new year means a new Sundance Film Festival, and a fresh crop of promising original features that could go on to become awards season darlings in a few months. It might be hard to top last year’s festival where Dìdi, A Different Man, and I Saw the TV Glow all made strong showings. But […]
1/31/2025
ViewSonic VX1655-4K-OLED portable monitor review: 4K OLED goodness in a slim package
The ViewSonic VX1655-4K-OLED has excellent fundamentals as a portable monitor, but fumbles with the integrated speakers.
1/31/2025
TikTok traffic is recovering, but it’s still not back in app stores
TikTok’s traffic is almost back to normal despite its delayed return to US app stores, according to Cloudflare Radar data seen by CNBC. The “DNS traffic for TikTok-related domains” is around 10 percent lower than the levels before its abrupt shutdown, David Belson, Cloudflare’s head of data insight, told CNBC. To compare, TikTok’s traffic dipped […]
1/31/2025
Backed by Mayo Clinic, Nutrix’s hardware monitors worker stress
Stress isn’t just bad for you — it’s also bad for your employer. Factoring in absenteeism, diminished productivity, turnover, medical costs, and accidents, the nonprofit American Institute of Stress estimates that workplace stress costs U.S. businesses over $300 billion annually. One way to measure stress is by monitoring cortisol levels. Even influencers know this, with […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/31/2025
Tata Technologies says ransomware attack hit IT assets, investigation ongoing
India's Tata Technologies has disclosed a ransomware attack affecting its IT assets. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/31/2025
WhatsApp says it disrupted a hacking campaign targeting journalists with Paragon spyware
The Meta-owned company said the campaign was linked to Israeli spyware maker Paragon. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/31/2025
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: Last 24 hours for 2-for-1 Pass
Final hours for 2-for-1 Passes! One of the best Super Early Bird Deals for TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 will be wrapping up in just 24 hours for the rest of the year. The 2-for-1 Pass lets you bring a friend, colleague, or business partner, for nearly free. Buy one pass at the Super Early Bird rate […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/31/2025
Nvidia's RTX 50-series drivers feel half-baked, focus too much on MFG
Nvidia needed to modify its drivers to support the new Blackwell GPUs. It also recommended some changes in how people benchmark graphics cards, specifically related to MFG. Neither of these things appears to have been beneficial for Nvidia's latest GPUs, on the whole.
1/31/2025
This old phone reads poetry to you using a Raspberry Pi Zero
Maker and developer Rootkid is using a Raspberry Pi Zero to power an old phone, giving it the ability to read poems to you when you lift the receiver.
1/31/2025
Nvidia introduces DLSS Smooth Motion, DLSS Override, improved model for RTX Video Super Resolution reduces VSR power consumption by 30%
The latest Nvidia App and Game Ready drivers offer a handful of new features for all RTX GPUs.
1/31/2025
Microsoft releases new Surface Copilot+ PCs for Business — starts at $1,499.99 and powered by Intel Lunar Lake chips
Microsoft is releasing the Surface Laptop and Surface Pro on February 18, both of which are powered by Intel Lunar Lake chip.
1/31/2025
The TechCrunch Cyber Glossary
This glossary includes the most common terms and expressions TechCrunch uses in our security reporting, and explanations of how — and why — we use them. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/31/2025
Asus publishes GeForce RTX 5090 prices: $3,099 for range-topping model
Asus plans to charge significantly more than Nvidia's MSRP for its GeForce RTX 5080 and GeForce RTX 5090 products. It has "special launch day pricing" on the base models that drops them $200, but of course those sold out, because everything did.
1/31/2025
Intel delays key Xeon data center processor amid massive losses — Clearwater Forest pushed back to 1H 2026
Intel delays key Xeon data center processor amid massive losses — Clearwater Forest pushed back to 1H 2026
1/31/2025
US nonprofit healthcare provider says hacker stole medical and personal data of 1M+ patients
Community Health Center (CHC), a Connecticut-based nonprofit healthcare provider, has confirmed that a hacker accessed the sensitive data of more than a million patients. In a filing with Maine’s attorney general on Thursday, CHC said it detected suspicious activity on its network on January 2 and determined that a “skilled criminal hacker” had accessed its […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/31/2025
Apple Intelligence will support more languages starting in April
Apple’s AI suite, Apple Intelligence, will soon be available in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and simplified Chinese, along with localized English versions for India and Singapore. During the company’s Q4 2024 quarterly results call on Thursday, CEO Tim Cook said that the company will roll out support for these additional languages in […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/31/2025
In another challenging year for startups, higher valuations and revenue give reason for hope
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. The aftermath of DeepSeek’s launch was arguably the biggest tech story of the week, especially for anyone keeping a close eye on public markets. But private companies, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/31/2025
Intel has already received $2.2B in federal grants for chip production
Semiconductor giant Intel Corporation has already received $2.2 billion in federal grants from the U.S. Department of Commerce through the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act, the company shared during its Thursday earnings call. Dave Zinsner, Intel’s co-interim CEO, executive vice president, and CFO, said the Silicon Valley-based company received the first tranche of $1.1 billion […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/31/2025
Intel cancels Falcon Shores GPU for AI workloads — Jaguar Shores to be successor
Intel's next-generation AI and HPC GPU will only be used internally, Jaguar shores will be the real successor for Gaudi 3 in the AI space.
1/31/2025
Pentagon scrambles to block DeepSeek after employees connect to Chinese servers
The Pentagon is rushing to block DeepSeek on its network after some employees used the service, which stores data in China. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/30/2025
Apple tops 1 billion subscriptions, nearly $100B in services revenue in 2024
Apple’s iPhone sales may be down, but the company’s Services division, which includes the App Store, iCloud, Music, TV+, and other subscriptions, is still soaring. The Cupertino-based tech giant reported Thursday its Services business had an all-time revenue high of $26.3 billion for the quarter ended December 28, up 14% year-over-year. Services generated nearly $100 […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/30/2025
Apple CEO says DeepSeek shows ‘innovation that drives efficiency’
Apple CEO Tim Cook said DeepSeek’s AI models represent “innovation that drives efficiency” during an earnings call Thursday while fielding questions from analysts about the iPhone maker’s AI ambitions. “In general, I think innovation that drives efficiency is a good thing. And, you know, that’s what you see in that model,” said Cook, responding to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/30/2025
Google quietly announces its next flagship AI model
Update: Some users on social media report that the changelog has been updated to remove mention of Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental. The references have disappeared for this reporter as well. A Google spokesperson told TechCrunch that an “out-of-date release note” was “published in error.” The original story follows: Google took the low-key route for the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/30/2025
Intel won’t bring its Falcon Shores AI chip to market
Intel is effectively killing Falcon Shores, its next-generation GPU for high-performance computing and AI workloads. The move comes as Intel tries to correct course after a number of disappointing product launches and historic losses, while competitors like AMD and Nvidia gain ground. Intel co-CEO Michelle Johnston Holthaus said during the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call Thursday […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/30/2025
Apple quarterly revenue increases, even as China sales decline 11%
Apple’s latest earnings were a mixed bag, with slipping iPhone sales countered by rising revenue. Reporting after the bell Thursday, the iPhone maker’s overall revenue in the first quarter of 2025 beat Wall Street expectations, with a 4% bump to $124.3 billion over the same time last year. Apple reported net income of $36.33 billion, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/30/2025
Elon Musk reveals Elon Musk was wrong about Full Self-Driving
For nearly nine years, Elon Musk has promised Tesla vehicles had the hardware needed to support a self-driving car. This week, he made his latest admission that many are not. Musk said on a conference call Wednesday evening that Tesla cars equipped with so-called Hardware 3 will need an upgrade before they can support unsupervised […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/30/2025
OpenAI said to be in talks to raise $40B at a $340B valuation
OpenAI may have billions of dollars in the bank. But it’s gearing up to raise billions more, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Per The WSJ, OpenAI is in talks to secure up to $40 billion in a funding round that would value the startup at $340 billion. SoftBank would lead the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/30/2025
Controversial genetics testing startup Nucleus Genomics raises $14M Series A
The company, founded by 25-year-old Kian Sadeghi, announced a $14 million Series A, bringing its total funding to about $32 million. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/30/2025
Seagate responds to fraudulent hard drives scandal, says resellers should only buy from certified partners
Seagate says it had nothing to do with used hard drives fraudulently sold as new ones, and recommends resellers to only buy from certified Seagate partners.
1/30/2025
A GPU deal you can get your hands on today — grab the ASRock Creator Radeon RX 7900XTX for $864
ASRock's Creator Radeon RX 7900XTX is available at a small discount.
1/30/2025
XPG Fusion Titanium 1600 PSU Review
The XPG Fusion Titanium 1600 delivers unparalleled power and efficiency, making it a top-tier choice for demanding systems, but its unearthly price limits its appeal.
1/30/2025
RTX 50-series paper launch saw RTX 5090, RTX 5080 fly off the shelves — Micro Center, Best Buy, and Newegg are all out of stock
RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 inventory has run dry at most major US retailers.
1/30/2025
Facebook admits that the Linux topic crackdown was 'in error' and has been fixed
Facebook's heavy-handed censoring of Linux groups and topics was made 'in error,' the social media juggernaut has admitted.
1/30/2025
Reviewer reports RTX 5080 FE instability — PCIe 5.0 signal integrity likely the culprit
Suspected signal integrity losses have forced reviewers to switch to PCIe Gen 4.0.
1/30/2025
Microsoft Snapdragon X Copilot+ PCs get local DeepSeek-R1 support — Intel, AMD in the works
Microsoft makes DeepSeek locally available on Copilot+ PCs. Model to arrive first on Qualcomm Snapdragon X processors — Intel and AMD chips to follow.
1/30/2025
The Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 (2024) OLED gaming laptop with RTX 4060 is now $500 off
The 2024 Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 OLED goes on sale for $1,099.
1/30/2025
Chinese chipmaker ships record-breakers: YMTC quietly begins shipping 5th Gen 3D TLC NAND
Analysis of YMTC's 294-layer 3D NAND indicates that the company continues to advance despite U.S. sanctions.
1/30/2025
Asus comments on Q-Release Slim damaging GPUs, issues official removal guidelines
Asus says its new Q-Release Slim graphics cards removal mechanism does not damage graphics cards to a degree that they stop working. The company advises following the official removal guidelines.
1/30/2025
Aurora supercomputer is now fully operational, available to researchers
Intel's Ponte Vecchio-based Aurora is now available for a broad range of researchers
1/30/2025
Rapidus to reportedly install 10 EUV chipmaking tools at its fab in Japan
Rapidus's IIM-1 and IIM-2 will feature 10 EUV lithography systems.
1/30/2025
Nvidia stock drops again thanks to rumors of expanded China chip sanctions by Trump administration
The Trump administration is reportedly considering expanding the bans and sanctions against China, which could mean that the Nvidia H20 chip will no longer be legal to sell in the country.
1/29/2025
AMD claims RX 7900 XTX outperforms RTX 4090 in DeepSeek benchmarks
AMD has published benchmarks of DeepSeek's AI model with its flagship RX 7900 XTX that show the GPU outperforming both the Nvidia RTX 4090 and RTX 4080 Super using DeepSeek R1.
1/29/2025
Apple silicon is vulnerable to side-channel speculative execution attacks "FLOP" and "SLAP"
Apple Silicon is extra prone to stolen information thanks to some yet-unpatched speculative execution attacks.
1/29/2025
AMD released instructions for running DeepSeek on Ryzen AI CPUs and Radeon GPUs
AMD has provided instructions on how to run DeepSeek R1 on its latest consumer-based Ryzen AI and RX 7000 series CPUs and GPUs.
1/29/2025
Comcast's L4S low-latency tech promises up to a 78% latency reduction, testing begins in select cities
Comcast has starting rolling out its new low-latency tech, L4S.
1/29/2025
Dell's 32-inch curved S3222DGM gaming monitor is only $195 — the lowest-ever price I've seen it on sale
Pick up the 32-inch Dell S3222DGM gaming monitor for only $195.
1/29/2025
Ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger's startup chose China's DeepSeek instead of OpenAI
Pat Gelsinger credited DeepSeek's creative engineering for driving competition and making AI more affordable.
1/29/2025
Wake up in style with this Raspberry Pi Pico Game Boy Pokémon-themed alarm clock
Mod Room My has assembled a beautiful Pokémon-themed alarm clock using a Raspberry Pi Pico that fits inside an original Game Boy.
1/29/2025
Japanese retailer will host a lottery to give buyers a chance to purchase an RTX 5090 or RTX 5080
Japanese electronics retailer Goodwill Nagoya Osu will conduct a lottery for customers who line up at the store by 10:20 a.m. on January 31 to determine who can buy an RTX 5090 or RTX 5080 GPU.
1/29/2025
Creality K2 Plus Review: Now in Color
Creality’s long-awaited new flagship 3D printer is bigger, better, and in color.
1/29/2025
Spitballing Nvidia's RTX 5090 GPU die manufacturing costs — die could cost as little as $290 to make
Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5090 is an expensive product to build, but it makes Nvidia a lot of money.
1/29/2025
Where to buy Nvidia's RTX 5080 graphics card - get ready for tomorrow's launch
After a new Nvidia RTX 5080 GPU? Check our lists for all the RTX 5080 models and retailer links.
1/29/2025
AI research team claims to reproduce DeepSeek core technologies for $30 — relatively small R1-Zero model has remarkable problem-solving abilities
PhD-candidate Jiayi Pan led a team at UC Berkeley that reproduced the core technology of DeepSeek R1-Zero for just $30, showing how AI could become affordable to just about anyone.
1/29/2025
Huawei adds DeepSeek-optimized inference support for its Ascend AI GPUs
Chinese AI firm DeepSeek is using Huawei’s AI chips to run its wave-making R1 large language model.
1/29/2025
TSMC founder says Tim Cook told him in 2011 that Intel did not know how to be a foundry
Founder of TSMC remembers how his company managed to land a supply contract with Apple.
1/29/2025
MSI delays RTX 5090 shipments until February 6 — Prebookings go live on January 30
MSI has pushed back RTX 5090 shipments by one week as it likely faces difficulties with supply.
1/29/2025
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition review: Incremental gains over the previous generation
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition is a big step down from the 5090, at least in some cases. It's also a relatively small step up from the previous generation 4080 Super it replaces. Without multi-frame generation, it offers only minor gains, and with MFG, it's more about marketing than real performance benefits.
1/29/2025
Lenovo Legion R27fc-30 27-inch 280 Hz gaming monitor review: Remarkable performance and value
Lenovo delivers remarkable value from its Legion R27fc-30. It’s a 27-inch FHD VA curved gaming monitor with 280 Hz, Adaptive-Sync HDR and wide gamut color. It also boasts premium gaming performance and speed for relatively little money.
1/29/2025
Microsoft and OpenAI investigate whether DeepSeek illicitly obtained data from ChatGPT
Sources at Open AI believe DeepSeek unlawfully distilled data from ChatGPT, Open AI and Microsoft begin investigation.
1/29/2025
US introduces act to add tax credits for chip designers, extends credits for chip production, too
The STAR Act extends the semiconductor manufacturing tax credit beyond 2026 and expands it to include research and development.
1/29/2025
German Seagate customers say their 'new' hard drives were actually used – resold HDDs reportedly used for tens of thousands of hours
German publication Heise.de reports that over fifty of its readers received used hard drives when they were supposed to receive brand-new models.
1/29/2025
Lucky buyer snags a RTX 4070 Super for $350 in Walmart clearance sale
Walmart customer snags RTX 4070 Super for just $350, over 50% off its original MSRP during a Walmart clearance sale.
1/28/2025
January Windows security updates are breaking audio on PCs using external DACs
Bad January security updates are breaking USB 1.0 external DACs on recent Windows and Windows Server versions.
1/28/2025
Chinese-made DeepSeek AI model records extensive online user data, stores it in China-based servers
From personal information to hardware specifications to even how you type, DeepSeek says it’s collecting swathes of data from its online users.
1/28/2025
DeepSeek's AI breakthrough bypasses industry-standard CUDA for some functions, uses Nvidia's assembly-like PTX programming instead
DeepSeek used PTX ISA to fine-tune its AI model training.
1/28/2025
Nvidia says 'Press Build'-stamped GPU dies in RTX 5090s are not juiced up — performance is identical to retail counterparts
Nvidia has shot down speculation that it sent third-party reviewers binned RTX 5090 Founders Edition models featuring higher performance than retail counterparts.
1/28/2025
Nvidia finally admits looming RTX 50-series GPU shortage — RTX 5090, RTX 5080 stockouts may happen
Nvidia admits to having a limited supply of RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 GPUs and says "stockouts may happen" for these graphics cards.
1/28/2025
Sam Altman said startups with only $10 million were 'totally hopeless' competing with OpenAI, DeepSeek's disruption says otherwise
Sam Altman's comments on the prospects of AI startups may have come back to bite him after the dramatic debut of DeepSeek.
1/28/2025
ElevenLabs has raised a new round at $3B+ valuation led by ICONIQ Growth, sources say
Companies that want to build AI voice into their products are rushing to work with ElevenLabs, the startup that develops synthetic voice technology like voice cloning and dubbing tools. Now ElevenLabs is turning up the volume on its business with a huge series C raise, just a year after a sizable series B. The New […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/24/2025
X expands its vertical video feed to global users
X has started expanding its dedicated vertical video feed to users outside the U.S., TechCrunch has exclusively learned and confirmed with the company. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/24/2025
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 tickets now on sale: Lowest rates ever
We’re kicking things off earlier than ever! TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 tickets are officially on sale. Don’t miss your chance to snag them at the lowest rates of the year! Immerse yourself in the epicenter of tech innovation at Disrupt 2025! From October 27 to 29, Moscone West in San Francisco transforms into the global hub […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/24/2025
Waymo lobbyist activity in SF skyrocketed in 2024
Waymo lobbyists had a busy 2024. A recent review of lobbyist disclosure data by the San Francisco Examiner revealed Waymo paid lobbyists to meet with San Francisco government officials 348 times last year, more than double the 137 times it reported in 2023. The pop in lobbyist activity is in sync with Waymo’s expansion in […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/24/2025
Open source alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp raise funds on Kickstarter
The developer behind Pixelfed, Loops, and Sup, open source alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp, respectively, is now raising funds on Kickstarter to fuel the apps’ further development. The trio is part of the growing open social web, also known as the fediverse, powered by the same ActivityPub protocol used by X alternative Mastodon. The […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/24/2025
Vendors safeguard 16-pin connector on RTX 5090 with thermal pads — helps dissipate excess heat
Custom RTX 5090 models now include thermal pads on the backside of the 16-pin power connector.
1/24/2025
Stargate will use solar and batteries to power $100B AI venture
Solar farms can be completed far faster than nuclear reactors and natural gas power plants. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/24/2025
Samsung's massive 55-inch Odyssey Ark 4K OLED gaming monitor drops to $1,799
Samsung's massive 55-inch Odyssey Ark 4K OLED gaming monitor drops to $1,799.
1/24/2025
RTX 5090 runs 2°C hotter with thermal paste than liquid metal — Arctic MX-6 vs. stock LM tested
An RTX 5090 Founders Edition card was benchmarked with thermal paste, featuring a mere 2-degree temperature difference compared to the card's out-of-the-box liquid metal TIM.
1/24/2025
RTX 5090 scalpers sell Blackwell flagship GPU for up to $7,000 — 2X-3X scalper markup over MSRP
Pre-reserved booking slots for the RTX 5090 might involve a substantial markup over MSRP.
1/24/2025
iOS 18 hits 68% adoption across iPhones, per new Apple figures
Apple released new figures Friday, highlighting user adoption of iOS 18. Released in public form back in September 2024, the mobile operating system is now installed on 68% of compatible devices. That number jumps to 78% on iPhones released in the last four years. As for the remaining iPhones out there, 19% are running iOS […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/24/2025
Nvidia starts phasing out Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs — GeForce driver support status unclear
Nvidia has revealed Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta architectures are considered feature-complete and will be frozen in an upcoming CUDA release.
1/24/2025
Neko Health’s unicorn-sized Series B is larger than some Series C rounds
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. This week was supposed to be a short one in the U.S., as it started with a holiday. But Inauguration Day kept some founders busy, and the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/24/2025
The EU wants to talk to US tech companies ahead of Germany’s upcoming election
The European Union will give tech and social media companies a “stress test” to see how they handle misinformation ahead of Germany’s election next month. European Commission officials have invited tech companies, including X, Meta, Snap, TikTok, Google, Microsoft, and LinkedIn, to a meeting on January 31, according to multiple news outlets. During this meeting, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/24/2025
The AI industry’s pace has researchers stressed
To outside observers, AI researchers are in an enviable position. They’re sought after by tech giants. They’re taking home eye-popping salaries. And they’re in the hottest industry of the moment. But all this comes with intense pressure. More than half a dozen researchers TechCrunch spoke with, some of whom requested anonymity for fear of reprisals, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/24/2025
People are benchmarking AI by having it make balls bounce in rotating shapes
The list of informal, weird AI benchmarks keeps growing. Over the past few days, some in the AI community on X have become obsessed with a test of how different AI models, particularly so-called reasoning models, handle prompts like this: “Write a Python script for a bouncing yellow ball within a shape. Make the shape […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/24/2025
US users dumped RedNote after Trump paused the TikTok ban
In the days leading up to the TikTok ban in the U.S. on Sunday, U.S. users flooded the Chinese app RedNote, which offered a similar experience to their favorite short-form video app. The app, which is listed in the U.S. App Store under its Chinese name Xiaohongshu, quickly became the No. 1 free app in […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/24/2025
Zen 5-powered gaming handheld launches with modular controller design — Ayaneo 3 starts at $699
Ayaneo is launching the third generation of its flagship handheld console, which features an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 chip and three different controller sets.
1/24/2025
French e-bike startup Angell nears bankruptcy
Angell, a French smart electric bike startup, has announced in an email to customers that the company is declaring insolvency and approaching a court to ask for judicial liquidation. “It’s over for Angell,” said company co-founder and CEO Marc Simoncini on Instagram. (He also happens to be a judge on the French version of “Shark […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/24/2025
Kodiak has made its first driverless truck deliveries to customer Atlas Energy
Kodiak Robotics has officially handed off two autonomous trucks to customer Atlas Energy Solutions, marking the startup’s first commercial launch. Atlas, a provider of proppant (i.e., sand) and oilfield logistics, received its first Kodiak-equipped trucks in December and began driverless operations in an off-road environment in West Texas’s remote Permian Basin shortly after. The company […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/24/2025
Threads is testing ads in the US and Japan
Meta’s X rival Threads said Friday that it is now testing ads with select brands in the U.S. and Japan. Instagram head Adam Mosseri said that the company will listen to feedback before expanding this experiment in other markets. “We know there will be plenty of feedback about how we should approach ads, and we […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/24/2025
Sam Altman’s World now wants to link AI agents to your digital identity
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the technology world by surprise on Thursday with the release of Operator, his company’s first AI agent that can act autonomously on the web. But OpenAI is not Altman’s only venture that’s trying to capitalize on the popularity of AI agents. Altman’s World project now wants to create tools that […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/24/2025
The new Doom's RT system requirements may ignite The Dark Ages for your wallet
Doom: The Dark Ages get system requirements with Ray Tracing as a baseline.
1/24/2025
Maker builds their own pocket sequencer using a Raspberry Pi Pico 2
Arnov Sharma is using a Raspberry Pi Pico to power his custom pocket-sized sequencer that uses 25 buttons and custom features.
1/24/2025
Flip, the TikTok Shop rival, launches a creator fund that grants up to $100M of equity value
Flip is a social commerce app that lets shoppers become creators. They can share honest reviews and earn cash based on engagement on the platform. As Flip competes with TikTok Shop and other platforms in a highly competitive market, it has introduced a new creator fund that offers a unique opportunity to help it stand […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/24/2025
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will have 1.3M GPUs for AI by year-end
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company plans to significantly up its capital expenditures this year as it aims to keep pace with rivals in the cutthroat AI space. In a Facebook post Friday, Zuckerberg said that Meta expects to spend $60 billion-$80 billion on CapEx in 2025, primarily on data centers and growing […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/24/2025
OpenAI’s Stargate project reportedly doesn’t have the money it needs
Stargate — the massive infrastructure project to build data centers for OpenAI in the U.S. — lacks a fully developed plan and hasn’t secured funding yet, according to a report from the Financial Times. Backed by OpenAI, SoftBank, Middle East AI fund MGX, and others, Stargate would funnel around $100 billion — and upward of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/24/2025
Apple admits next-gen CarPlay is late, but still in development
Though Apple rarely misses self-imposed deadlines, it’s done so with the next generation of CarPlay. The company originally teased the update back in 2022. With this new version, CarPlay will integrate seamlessly with the instrument cluster to provide information on speed, climate control, and other car data. Apple had promised an initial rollout for a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/24/2025
Student builds open-source laptop in 6 months — uses 4K AMOLED screen and has 7h battery life
Student Brian Huang builds a fully open-source laptop in six months as part of his senior school project.
1/24/2025
Asus' Q-Release Slim feature is reportedly damaging some GPU PCIe connectors
Users have reported that Asus' Q-Release Slim mechanism is scraping off their GPU's PCIe connectors.
1/24/2025
India set to launch its first semiconductor chip based on 28nm this year
The Indian Minister for Railways, Communications, Electronics, and Information Technology announced that the first chip will arrive in the second half of 2025
1/24/2025
Intel proposes easily repairable and sustainable modular PC design for laptops and mini PCs
Intel proposes using multiple boards in laptops and mini-PCs to enhance upgradability and repairability.
1/24/2025
Chinese semiconductor production equipment makers set sales records
Sales of China-based makers of chipmaking tools AMEC, Naura, and ACM Research expect record sales in 2024 amid curbs for Western companies to supply to China.
1/24/2025
Seeed Studio debuts Raspberry Pi 5 PCIe 3.0 HAT with dual M.2 slots for $45
Offers one lane of PCIe 3.0 bandwidth per-slot, or a total of 8 GT/s for both slots combined
1/23/2025
JetBrains launches Junie, a new AI coding agent for its IDEs
JetBrains, the company behind coding tools like the IntelliJ IDE for Java and Kotlin (and, indeed, the Kotlin language itself), on Thursday launched Junie, a new AI coding agent. This agent, the company says, will be able to handle routine development tasks for when you want to create new applications — and understand the context […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
Trump orders formation of working group to evaluate crypto stockpile
President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the formation of a working group to propose federal regulations for “digital assets” — including cryptocurrencies, digital tokens, and stablecoins — and evaluate a national crypto stockpile. Ex-PayPal COO and founder of VC firm Craft Ventures David Sacks, Trump’s pick for crypto an AI ‘czar,’ will lead the working […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
OpenAI says it may store deleted Operator data for up to 90 days
OpenAI says that it might store chats and associated screenshots from customers who use Operator, the company’s AI “agent” tool, for up to 90 days — even after a user manually deletes them. OpenAI has a similar deleted data retention policy for ChatGPT, its AI-powered chatbot platform. However, the retention period for ChatGPT is only […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
Everyone wants MrBeast on their TikTok bid, but he hasn’t committed yet
MrBeast is in talks to join a number of bids to buy TikTok, but he hasn't chosen any of them exclusively yet. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
Anthropic’s new Citations feature aims to reduce AI errors
In an announcement perhaps timed to divert attention away from OpenAI’s Operator, Anthropic Thursday unveiled a new feature for its developer API called Citations, which lets devs “ground” answers from its Claude family of AI in source documents such as emails. Anthropic says Citations allows its AI models to provide detailed references to “the exact […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
Fitbit fined $12M over Ionic smartwatch burns
Fitbit has settled with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) over a long-standing defect that caused some wearers to sustain burns. The deal finds the Google-owned fitness company paying a $12.25 million penalty for the issues surrounding its Ionic smartwatch. The issue dates back to 2018, continuing on into 2020. Fitbit agreed to recall […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
Cyberpunk 2077 2.21 patch adds DLSS 4 support days before RTX 50 series debut
Cyberpunk 2077 recived a new update officially introducing DLSS 4 into the game. The update goes live just days before DLSS 4 officially launches with Nvidia's top-end RTX 50 series GPUs on January 30th.
1/23/2025
Threads rolls out a post scheduler, ‘markup’ feature, and more
While Meta lures TikTok creators to Instagram and Facebook with cash bonuses, its X competitor Instagram Threads is now making things easier for creators, brands, and others who need more professional tools to manage their presence on the app. On Thursday, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced a small handful of new features coming to Threads, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
Where to buy Nvidia's RTX 5090 graphics card
The RTX 5090 is Nvidia's latest GPU release, but where can you get your hands on one?
1/23/2025
Tom Brady’s Autograph merges with digital fitness company Future
Autograph, the $3.1 billion valuation NFT company co-founded by Tom Brady, is merging with the digital fitness company Future. As part of the merger, Brady will join the board of directors of Future and serve as co-chair of the company. Brady co-founded Autograph in 2021 to find ways to connect athletes and artists with fans, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
Hidden Waymo feature let researcher customize robotaxi’s display
Security researcher Jane Wong found a hidden feature that let her change the top display of a Waymo robotaxi. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
Trump’s not happy with how EU regulators have treated US tech giants
President Donald Trump isn’t happy with how European Union regulators have treated U.S.-based tech companies including: Google, Meta, and Apple. On stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Trump put EU regulators on blast. He said that the EU’s cases against these U.S. tech companies are “a form of taxation,” according to Bloomberg reporting. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
Bedrock Energy wants geothermal to make data centers cooler and offices more comfortable
To cut costs and minimize geothermal’s footprint, Bedrock drills deeper. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
Epic brings third-party titles to its mobile game store
Epic Games is adding third-party games to its mobile app store, and helping developers cover associated iOS fees. The company is launching a free games program, and will cover the cost for all titles from developers that participate in the program on iOS or iPadOS devices. With this program, Epic will roll out new free games […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
US retailer lists RX 9070 preorders starting March 23 — AMD ad suggests RDNA 4 was set for January
RDNA 4, likely initially planned for January, will arrive in March.
1/23/2025
Nvidia RTX 5080 is reportedly available in Vietnam — RTX 5080 build on hold without driver support
Retailers are already selling iGame GeForce RTX 5080 Ultra W OC 16GB-V in Vietnam.
1/23/2025
OpenAI and SoftBank are reportedly putting $19B each into Stargate
We may now know roughly how much money SoftBank and OpenAI are contributing toward Stargate, the massive infrastructure project to build data centers for OpenAI across the U.S. SoftBank and OpenAI each plans to commit $19 billion of capital to Stargate, according to The Information. The two companies would then both own 40% of the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
Corsair USB4 external SSD boasts speeds up to 4,000 MB/s — $139 for 1TB, $199 for 2TB, $359 for 4TB
Corsair has unveiled a new external SSD that is compatible with USB4 and Thunderbolt 4. It can achieve speeds of up to 4,000 MB/s and supports select iPhones with MagSafe compatibility.
1/23/2025
RTX 5080 is 22% faster than the RTX 4080 per leaked benchmarks — falls short of the RTX 4090
Geekbench puts the RTX 5080 (up to) 22% faster than its predecessor.
1/23/2025
Android 16’s first beta version brings iOS-style live notifications
After releasing two developer beta versions last year, Google introduced the first public beta for Android 16 on Thursday. New features include live updates on the lock screen (like Live Activities on iOS), Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec for high-quality video recording, and a framework for developers to make their apps adaptable for different screen […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
Substack introduces a $20M funding guarantee to entice creators to migrate to its platform
Substack on Thursday announced the launch of its Creator Accelerator Fund, which provides a $20 million funding guarantee aimed at helping creators grow their audience and move their paid subscribers from another subscription-based platform to Substack. The company says the fund is designed to ensure that creators will retain all of their current revenue during […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
X sees a jump in consumer spending on mobile, despite decline in daily active users
Social network X has grown its in-app revenue over the past year, despite a decline in active users, new data shows. Global consumer spending in the X mobile app across both iOS and Android has climbed by 76.3% year-over-year, when comparing two similar periods in January, according to data from app intelligence firm Appfigures. However, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
Logitech repair program offers OEM replacement parts for 20+ devices — available in 62 countries
Logitech partners with iFixit to create Logitech Repair Hub to offer OEM replacement parts for over 20 devices.
1/23/2025
Company develops copper-diamond composite for better heatsink cooling — lower CPU and GPU temps
E6, a De Beers Group company, is developing a copper-diamond composite material to serve as a more effective heatsink.
1/23/2025
Canoo craters and Trump comes for EVs
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! We’re just a few days into a new Trump administration, and it’s already a firehose of executive orders, declarations, and even pardons. A few have crossed into […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
OpenAI launches Operator, an AI agent that performs tasks autonomously
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman kicked off this year by saying in a blog post that 2025 would be big for AI agents, tools that can automate tasks and take actions on your behalf. Now, we’re seeing OpenAI’s first real attempt. OpenAI announced on Thursday that it is launching a research preview of Operator, a general-purpose […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
After pivoting from crypto to payroll, Rollfi gets acquired
Kirubha Perumalsamy co-founded Rollfi during crypto’s heyday in 2021 to help companies process digital payments. When crypto crashed, Rollfi pivoted to become an embedded payroll company, partnering with financial services companies to offer payroll and benefits services to their clients. The pivot was enough of a success for Rollfi to be acquired for an undisclosed […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
Roli releases a 49-key educational keyboard and generative AI play
Roli on Thursday announced its latest educational product at the NAAM audio show in Anaheim. The simply named Roli Piano builds on products like the Roli Airwave and Piano M, more than doubling the latter’s key count to 49. The Piano is much like its predecessor in most ways, with MIDI keys that light up […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
Chinese hackers compromise South Korean VPN — malicious code found inside NSIS installer
ESET researchers uncovered a supply chain attack on a South Korean VPN by the China-aligned APT group PlushDaemon
1/23/2025
Perplexity launches an assistant for Android
AI-powered search engine Perplexity has launched an “agent,” of sorts, called Perplexity Assistant, which Perplexity says uses reasoning, search, and apps to help with daily tasks. Perplexity Assistant, which is available for Android devices as of Thursday in the Perplexity app, can take “multi-app actions,” the company says, like hailing a ride or searching for […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
Spacetech Voyager is aiming for a multi-billion valuation IPO
Voyager Technologies has reportedly filed its confidential paperwork to go public, hoping for a $2 billion to $3 billion valuation. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
Brave will allow you to tune search results with upvotes and downvotes
Brave Search said Thursday that it is adding a new feature called Rerank that will allow users to tune search results by upvoting or downvoting certain websites. The feature, which will be available to all users, will appear on the top right of the search results page. When users open the panel, they will be […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
A comprehensive list of 2024 and 2025 tech layoffs
A complete list of all the known layoffs in tech, from Big Tech to startups, broken down by month throughout 2024. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
Noctua pitches its PC fans as home heating boosters — active fans beat natural convection
Noctua appears to be attempting to break out of its PC DIY niche. A recently published blog post advises using fans throughout the residence for efficient home heating.
1/23/2025
Nvidia's RTX Blackwell workstation GPU spotted with 96GB GDDR7 — ProViz GPU with a 512-bit bus
Shipping manifests indicate that Nvidia's next-generation RTX 6000 'Blackwell' graphics card may feature 96GB of GDDR7 memory, possibly a nearly full-fat GB202 graphics processor.
1/23/2025
Passbolt raises $8M for its open source password manager for teams
Password managers have become commonplace at this point. But businesses often have different needs than consumers. Teams, after all, often have to share credentials to access resources, all while IT and security teams need ways to control who has access to them. Passbolt, which is announcing an $8 million seed round Thursday, aims to become […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
MSI's silent switch mechanical keyboard debuts at $79.99 — switches with noise levels below 35dB
MSI launched a new silent mechanical keyboard with tactile switches. It is designed for users who want the feel of tactile keys without the noise associated with them.
1/23/2025
Hackers found a way to remotely unlock, start, and track millions of Subarus
As long as employees have access to such data, that information is vulnerable to evolving methods of hacking. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
Meta’s Yann LeCun predicts a ‘new AI architectures paradigm’ within 5 years and ‘decade of robotics’
Meta’s chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, says that a “new paradigm of AI architectures” will emerge in the next three to five years, going far beyond the capabilities of existing AI systems. LeCun also predicted that the coming years could be the “decade of robotics,” where advances in AI and robotics combine to unlock a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
ChatGPT suffered a major outage this morning, but OpenAI says it’s back up
OpenAI’s AI chatbot platform, ChatGPT, suffered a major outage Thursday. Early this morning, ChatGPT users started reporting issues accessing ChatGPT on the web and other platforms. According to the ChatGPT status page on OpenAI’s website, OpenAI acknowledged the problem at 5:12 a.m. Pacific, and identified the root cause a little under an hour later. “[We] […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
Coval evaluates AI voice and chat agents like self-driving cars
What do AI voice agents and self-driving cars have in common? Their performance can be evaluated in the same way, argues Brooke Hopkins, a former tech lead at Waymo. Coval, Hopkins’ new startup, looks to do just that. “When I left Waymo, I realized a lot of these problems that we had at Waymo were […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
Method is helping fintech companies like SoFi build repayment functionality into their apps
It can be challenging for developers of fintech apps to integrate repayment, balance transfer, and bill pay functionality. Devs often have to deal with a patchwork of brittle screen-scraping APIs to extract data from users’ financial institutions — or worse, tools to process mounds of physical checks and paperwork. Three friends and entrepreneurs — Jose […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
Hugging Face claims its new AI models are the smallest of their kind
A team at AI dev platform Hugging Face has released what they’re claiming are the smallest AI models that can analyze images, short videos, and text. The models, SmolVLM-256M and SmolVLM-500M, are designed to work well on “constrained devices” like laptops with under around 1GB of RAM. The team says that they’re also ideal for […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
Snap launches a new way to reward AR creators, rolls out student pricing for Spectacles
Snap announced on Thursday that it’s introducing a new “Challenge Tags” rewards program for AR developers to win cash prizes for submitting Lenses. The company also announced that it’s launching educational pricing and a student discount for Spectacles, its developer-focused AR glasses. The theme of the first Challenge Tag is humor and is open through […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
After 18 years, Blu-ray media production draws to a close — Sony shuts its last factory in Feb
Sony is shutting down its Blu-ray line, ending nearly 20 years of production.
1/23/2025
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition review: Blackwell commences its reign with a few stumbles
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition begins its reign as the fastest GPU for this generation, but there are a few mishaps along the way. We're also still working on additional testing so this is currently a work in progress.
1/23/2025
Fundraise Up claims its AI can boost nonprofit donations
Many nonprofits are stuck with outdated, expensive, and limited tech that hinders their ability to fund their mission or cause. While most consider adopting tech to be a priority, they’re faced with a number of blockers, including siloed data and issues with integration. Peter Byrnes, the co-founder of Fundraise Up, a Brooklyn-based fundraising platform for […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
Tive’s tools help companies track the status of their shipments in real time
The global supply chain is under strain, and one of the reasons is a lack of visibility into how shipments are being transported around the world. According to one recent survey, nearly half of the organizations polled reported having little-to-no visibility into their upstream supply chains. In search of a remedy, Krenar Komoni, who’d for […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
Y Combinator grad Spacium raises oversubscribed $6.3M for space re-fueling
The company raised a $6.3 million seed round led by Initialized Capital © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
SK hynix posts record revenues and profits as AI industry drives surge in HBM3 and HBM3E demand
Sales of AI memory solutions, including HBM3 and eSSDs, drove SK hynix's revenues and profits to record levels.
1/23/2025
UK reseller claims single-digit RTX 5090 inventory — Flagship GPU could sell out in seconds
Major UK retailer OCUK currently holds less than 10 RTX 5090 GPUs.
1/23/2025
Samsung to cut foundry investment in half, to $3.5B, says report — Rivals expected to invest more
Unlike industry peers, Samsung Foundry reportedly intends to cut down spending on contract chipmaking unit.
1/23/2025
Quantum VC QDNL hits €25M first-close on new fund
VC investment into Quantum computing declined by 50% last year according to the ‘State of Quantum 2024’ report, dropping from $2.2bn in 2022 to $1.2bn, with funds switching in favour of Generative AI. However, government spending on quantum was predicted to hit $40 billion over the next decade. Now a new VC European fund hopes […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
In 1991, after a 28-hour coding spree, the efforts of John Carmack 'Doomed' us all
John Carmack's incredible coding feat prior to the launch of Doom is memorialized.
1/23/2025
Everstone acquires bootstrapped Indian startup Wingify for $200M
Private equity firm Everstone has reached a deal to acquire a majority stake in Wingify, one of India’s earliest bootstrapped software-as-a-service success stories, for about $200 million, three sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The deal, finalized this week, marks a significant exit for Wingify’s founder Paras Chopra, who built the SaaS startup without […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
African fintech Moniepoint gets Visa backing, plans to work on contactless payments
Visa has joined African fintech Moniepoint as a new investor. The business banking and payments platform confirmed to TechCrunch that it received a “strategic investment” from the global payments giant as both companies look to drive financial inclusion and support the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Africa. Sources close to the deal […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
AMD RX 9070 series to benefit from 'maximum performance' tuning ahead of touted March release
AMD wants its partners to deliver as many Radeon 9000 graphics cards to retailers as possible by March.
1/23/2025
OpenAI may preview its agent tool for users on the $200 per month Pro plan
We may see OpenAI’s agent tool, Operator, released sooner rather than later. Changes to ChatGPT’s code base suggest that Operator will be available as an early research preview to users on the $200 Pro subscription plan. The changes aren’t yet publicly visible, but a user on X who goes by Choi spotted these updates in […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
UK probes Apple and Google over ‘mobile ecosystem’ market power
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is launching so-called “strategic market status” (SMS) investigations into the mobile ecosystems of Apple and Google. The investigations constitute part of the new Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (DMCCA) which passed last year and came into effect in January. The Act includes provisions for digital markets regulation […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
WhatsApp wins reprieve in India over user data sharing
An Indian tribunal on Thursday suspended restrictions that would have barred WhatsApp from sharing user data with its parent company Meta, delivering a significant victory for Mark Zuckerberg’s social media empire in its largest market by users. The ruling by the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal temporarily lifts a five-year ban imposed by India’s antitrust […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
Neko, the body-scanning startup co-founded by Spotify’s Daniel Ek, snaps up $260M at a $1.8B valuation
Stockholm startup Neko Health has made a big bet on consumers wanting to learn about their state of health and how to prevent things going wrong. Now, investors are making a big bet on Neko. The startup has raised a fresh $260 million in funding, a Series B that values Neko at $1.8 billion post-money, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
Someone bought the domain ‘OGOpenAI’ and redirected it to a Chinese AI lab
A software engineer has bought the website “OGOpenAI.com” and redirected it to DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab that’s been making waves in the open source AI world lately. Software engineer Ananay Arora tells TechCrunch that he bought the domain name for “less than a Chipotle meal,” and that he plans to sell it for more. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
Google buys part of HTC’s XR business for $250 million
Google has agreed to acquire a part of HTC’s extended reality (XR) business for $250 million, expanding its push into virtual and augmented reality hardware following the recent launch of its Android XR platform. The deal involves transferring some of the HTC VIVE engineering staff to Google and granting non-exclusive intellectual property rights, according to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
Some shareholders of a16z-backed Divvy Homes may not see a dime from $1B sale
The $1 billion acquisition of rent-to-own startup Divvy Homes, which was announced Wednesday, is expected to leave some shareholders without a payout, according to sources familiar with the deal. The terms — and Divvy’s journey from buzzy startup to acquisition target — reflects the rollercoaster ride the proptech industry has endured over the past decade. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
Raymond Tonsing’s Caffeinated Capital seeks $400M for fifth fund
Caffeinated Capital, a San Francisco venture firm started by a solo capitalist Raymond Tonsing, is raising a fifth fund of $400 million, according to a regulatory filing. The firm, an early investor in software company Airtable and defense startup Saronic, has already raised $160 million toward the fund. If Caffeinated hits its target, it will […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
Ati Motors raises $20M as India’s robotics industry grows
Ati Motors, an Indian startup building AI-powered autonomous mobile robots, has raised $20 million in a Series B round. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
Microsoft’s head of venture has resigned
Chris Young, Microsoft's head of of business development and its venture unit, M12, resigned from his role on Wednesday, the company said. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/23/2025
Nearly 10 year later, Tumblr TV launches to all as a TikTok alternative
In 2015, the blogging site Tumblr launched a GIF discovery feature called Tumblr TV as an experimental product. Now, with the U.S. TikTok ban leaving the fate of the short-form video app uncertain, Tumblr has decided it’s finally time to launch Tumblr TV, which has since evolved to support video, to all its users as […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Nearly 10 years later, Tumblr TV launches to all as a TikTok alternative
In 2015, the blogging site Tumblr launched a GIF discovery feature called Tumblr TV as an experimental product. Now, with the U.S. TikTok ban leaving the fate of the short-form video app uncertain, Tumblr has decided it’s finally time to launch Tumblr TV, which has since evolved to support video, to all its users as […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Scale AI is facing a third worker lawsuit in about a month
In this suit, workers are claiming they suffered PTSD from disturbing content. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
How to delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads
In the wake of Meta’s decision to remove its third-party fact-checking system and loosen content moderation policies, Google searches on how to delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads have been on the rise. People who are angry with the decision accuse Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg of cozying up to the Trump administration at the expense of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Rent-to-own startup Divvy Homes selling to Brookfield for about $1 billion
After a turbulent few years for proptech, Divvy Homes announced Wednesday that it is selling to a division of Brookfield Properties for about $1 billion. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI cracked when it hired Mustafa Suleyman, rival Marc Benioff says
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said that the two AI leaders, Sam Altman and Mustafa Suleyman do not care for each other. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Nvidia shows off gigantic quad-slot RTX 5090 FE cooler prototype in new video
Nvidia showed off a quad-slot precursor to the RTX 5090 Founders Edition in a new video, confirming the company was indeed experimenting with a quadruple PCIe slot Founders Edition cooler.
1/22/2025
AngelList, CoinList partner to help crypto startups raise and manage funds
Crypto is making such a big comeback that AngelList and CoinList are launching a way to help raise capital for crypto-specific founders using crypto coins. They are teaming up to launch Crypto special purpose vehicles (SPVs) and Crypto roll-up vehicles (RUVs), the companies shared with TechCrunch exclusively on Wednesday. The partnership, they said, will give […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Samsung Unpacked: Samsung teased an extra-thin S25 model at Unpacked
Samsung Unpacked’s “one more thing” was a bit of a weird one. After the presentation ended, the company rolled a brief pre-packaged video of the Galaxy Edge — not to be confused with the “Star Wars” theme park of the same name. Though limited, the reveal was confirmation of earlier rumors that the hardware giant […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Researchers develop a way to power wearables through human skin
The dream of battery-free devices has taken an unlikely turn, as Carnegie Mellon researchers debuted Power-Over-Skin. The technology allows for electrical currents to travel through human skin in a bid to power things like blood sugar monitors, pacemakers, and even consumer wearables like smartglasses fitness trackers. Researchers note the tech is still in “early stages.” […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Samsung Unpacked: Samsung’s Galaxy S25 will support Content Credentials to identify AI-generated images
Another tidbit just dropped following Wednesday’s Samsung Unpacked event. This one comes courtesy of Adobe, which notes that the new Galaxy S25 line will be the first handsets to support the Content Credentials standard, aimed at labeling AI-generated content as such. The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) group — of which Samsung is […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Crucial P310 SSD with heatsink carries a $30 to $40 premium — $105 for 1TB and $160 for 2TB
The reliable Crucial P310 NVMe SSD is now available with an integrated heatsink for an added cost.
1/22/2025
This Week in AI: OpenAI gains an invaluable infrastructure advantage
Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. OpenAI is making gains at the expense of its chief rivals. On Tuesday, the company announced the Stargate Project, a new joint venture involving Japanese conglomerate SoftBank, Oracle, and others to build AI infrastructure for OpenAI in […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Nvidia RTX 5090 FE reviews go live tomorrow at 6 AM PST — Custom AIB models will follow a day later
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition review embargo lifts tomorrow, January 23, at 6:00 AM PST. Add-in board partner card reviews can go live on January 24.
1/22/2025
Earthquake may have affected 20,000 TSMC wafers — the majority will likely have to be scrapped
More details about the impact of Taiwanese earthquake impact on TSMC emerge: up to 20,000 wafers could be affected.
1/22/2025
Case that folds around a mini-ITX motherboard launches on January 30 — 200W 80 Plus PSU included
Geometric Future will make its Model 0 Flamingo PC case available on retailers starting January 30.
1/22/2025
Streaming service Plex gets more social with public profiles and reviews
Streaming service Plex has long since grown beyond its original focus of being a home for personal media to offer a more comprehensive solution for discovering, streaming, and sharing content across services, including Plex’s own ad-supported free TV and movies. More recently, the company added social networking features, which it’s today expanding with its rollout […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Zombie nuclear reactors could be revived thanks to AI data center demand
Hoping to capitalize on the data center power boom, state-owned utility Santee Cooper is looking for partners to finish construction on two incomplete reactors. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
RTX 5070 Ti may hit the market on February 20 — European retailer confirms imminent launch
A retailer has claimed that the RTX 5070 Ti will be released on February 20, almost a month after the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 release date.
1/22/2025
Samsung’s SmartThings to introduce AI features that simplify your daily routines
On Wednesday, Samsung unveiled how SmartThings, its smart home platform, will introduce AI features that allow users to simplify their everyday life through ambient sensing technology and generative AI. At Samsung Unpacked 2025, the company said the upcoming “Home AI” features will gather insights from a user’s everyday life to create personalized experiences. Samsung shared […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Samsung’s AI-focused Galaxy S25 Ultra ships February 7 for $1,300
Samsung on Wednesday announced the latest additions to its Galaxy S flagship smartphone line at the company’s annual Samsung Unpacked 2025. As suspected, the defining characteristic of the Galaxy S25, S25+, and S25 Ultra is the company’s continued focus on mobile AI — a fact that hardly distinguishes the consumer electronics giant from the rest […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
The Samsung Galaxy S25’s side button fires up Google Gemini
A new day has dawned for the Samsung side button. At Samsung Unpacked 2025 on Wednesday, the company announced a small — but meaningful — tweak arriving on the Galaxy S25 line. As it continues to focus more efforts on mobile AI, Samsung is offering up easier access to Google Gemini, by way of the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Samsung Unpacked 2025: Google is bringing improved hearing aid features
Alongside a slew of announcements tied to Samsung’s Galaxy S25 launch at Samsung Unpacked 2025 on Wednesday, Google announced a pair of accessibility improvements for Android. This includes improvements to the screen reader, along with hearing aid functionality. The hearing aid updates arrive after Google expanded the offering as part of its Android 15 rollout. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Google makes Circle to Search more helpful
At Samsung Unpacked 2025 on Wednesday, Google announced that it’s updating Circle to Search to make it easier for users to find information and get things done. The feature, which launched last year, allows people to search from anywhere on their phone by using gestures like circling, highlighting, scribbling, or tapping. Now Google is expanding […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Samsung’s Galaxy S25 arrives with a better Google Gemini
At Samsung’s Unpacked 2025 on Wednesday, the company unveiled the Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25+, and Galaxy S25 Ultra. Google marked the occasion with a slew of Android updates, including key updates to its AI assistant, Gemini. Starting Wednesday, users can access an improved Gemini, which integrates into apps and services across a device. In a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Samsung Galaxy S25 line compared
Samsung revealed three new additions to its Galaxy smartphone line at Samsung Unpacked 2025 on Wednesday. The news didn’t bring too many surprises, as the line maintains its usual tiered system with the Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25+, and Galaxy S25 Ultra. The news finds the hardware in line with the rest of the mobile industry […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Samsung Unpacked 2025: Samsung’s AI-focused Galaxy S25 Ultra ships February 7 for $1,300
Samsung on Wednesday announced the latest additions to its Galaxy S flagship smartphone line at the company’s annual Samsung Unpacked 2025. As suspected, the defining characteristic of the Galaxy S25, S25+, and S25 Ultra is the company’s continued focus on mobile AI — a fact that hardly distinguishes the consumer electronics giant from the rest […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Samsung Unpacked: The Samsung Galaxy S25’s side button fires up Google Gemini
A new day has dawned for the Samsung side button. At Samsung Unpacked 2025 on Wednesday, the company announced a small — but meaningful — tweak arriving on the Galaxy S25 line. As it continues to focus more efforts on mobile AI, Samsung is offering up easier access to Google Gemini, by way of the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Samsung Unpacked: Google makes Circle to Search more helpful
At Samsung Unpacked 2025 on Wednesday, Google announced that it’s updating Circle to Search to make it easier for users to find information and get things done. The feature, which launched last year, allows people to search from anywhere on their phone by using gestures like circling, highlighting, scribbling, or tapping. Now Google is expanding […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Samsung Unpacked: Samsung’s Galaxy S25 arrives with a better Google Gemini
At Samsung’s Unpacked 2025 on Wednesday, the company unveiled the Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25+, and Galaxy S25 Ultra. Google marked the occasion with a slew of Android updates, including key updates to its AI assistant, Gemini. Starting Wednesday, users can access an improved Gemini, which integrates into apps and services across a device. In a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Samsung Unpacked 2025: Samsung Galaxy S25 line compared
Samsung revealed three new additions to its Galaxy smartphone line at Samsung Unpacked 2025 on Wednesday. The news didn’t bring too many surprises, as the line maintains its usual tiered system with the Galaxy S25, Galaxy S25+, and Galaxy S25 Ultra. The news finds the hardware in line with the rest of the mobile industry […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Elon Musk and Sam Altman take to social media to fight over Stargate
Billionaire Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are fighting on X about Stargate, the enormous infrastructure project to build data centers for OpenAI across the U.S. Stargate, announced Tuesday during a press conference at the White House, would funnel as much as $500 billion from investors including SoftBank and Middle East AI fund MGX […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Samsung Unpacked 2025: Here’s how to watch and what we expect
The biggest reveal from CES press conference may well have been another press conference. The hardware giant closed out the main event by teasing the company’s upcoming show. The next Samsung Unpacked event is set for today at 10 a.m. PT, 1 p.m. ET. As with all recent Unpacked events, the big show will be […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
MSI MAG A550BN PSU Review
The MSI MAG A550BN PSU offers a budget-friendly, reliable solution for entry-level builds.
1/22/2025
Livestream app Favorited, a new TikTok alternative, gets backing from a16z
This month, drama unfolded across mainstream social media platforms like TikTok, which briefly went dark in the U.S. before a rapid return. Instagram recently faced backlash after ending its third-party fact-checking program. At the same time, startups like Favorited are attracting attention from investors, creators, and viewers. On Wednesday, the livestream app announced its $1.3 […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
RTX 5090 is allegedly 39% faster than RTX 4090 in 3DMark benchmarks — beats RX 7900 XTX by 93%
Leaked 3DMark benchmark results show the RTX 5090 beating the 4090 in synthetic tests by an average of 39%.
1/22/2025
Trump administration fires members of cybersecurity review board in “horribly shortsighted” decision
The Department of Homeland security told members of the Cyber Safety Review Board that their membership was terminated. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Dewey launches a solution to save your TikTok favorites … just in case
TikTok is back online in the U.S. for the time being, but its future remains uncertain. While many apps have been scrambling to attract TikTok users and creators, a bookmarking backup service called Dewey has launched a solution that saves your favorite TikTok videos and allows you to access them at any time — even […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Wine 10.0, the latest Windows compatibility layer for Linux, has a stable release
The Wine compatibility layer for Linux hits a 10.0 stable release.
1/22/2025
YouTube launches speed controls and high-quality audio tests for Premium users
YouTube said Wednesday that it is adding new experimental features for Premium users, including high-quality audio, faster playback speed option on mobile, and the ability to “jump ahead” on the web to skip to the more intriguing part of the video. The company routinely tests new features that users can activate from youtube.com/new. The company said […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 tickets now on sale: Lowest rates ever
We’re kicking things off earlier than ever! TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 tickets are officially on sale. Don’t miss your chance to snag them at the lowest rates of the year! Immerse yourself in the epicenter of tech innovation at Disrupt 2025! From October 27–29, Moscone West in San Francisco transforms into the global hub for technology […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Anthropic reportedly secures an additional $1B from Google
Anthropic has reportedly raised around $1 billion from Google as the AI company looks to deliver a number of major product updates this year. First reported by the Financial Times, Google’s fresh investment brings the tech giant’s total stake in Anthropic to around $3 billion. Google poured $2 billion into Anthropic late last year. Anthropic, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Conduent confirms outage was due to a cybersecurity incident
U.S. government contractor Conduent, which provides technology to support services such as child support and food assistance, has confirmed that a recent outage was caused by a cybersecurity incident. Conduent confirmed the disruption, which left some U.S. residents without access to support payments, to TechCrunch on Tuesday but declined to say whether the outage was […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
AI apps saw over $1 billion in consumer spending in 2024
Demand for generative AI help drive consumer spending on apps to $150 billion globally in 2024, up 13% from the prior year. According to an annual “State of Mobile” report from app intelligence provider Sensor Tower (which acquired Data.ai, the original report’s author, last March), AI apps saw a surge of interest over the past […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Maker resurrects Toshiba T1000 with a Raspberry Pi 4 and a slew of upgrades
Nilseuropa has revitalized an old Toshiba T1000 with a Raspberry Pi 4 and packed it full of handy upgrades that lend respect to the original case.
1/22/2025
Trump open to Elon Musk or Larry Ellison buying TikTok
President Donald Trump has said he would be open to Tesla CEO Elon Musk or Oracle chairman Larry Ellison buying TikTok as part of join venture with the U.S. government. Trump was asked at a press conference on Tuesday if he was open to “Elon buying TikTok.” He responded that he would be, and added: […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Databricks closes $15.3B financing at $62B valuation, Meta joins as ‘strategic investor’
Data analytics platform Databricks has confirmed that it has closed a previously announced $10 billion in Series J equity financing at a $62 billion valuation. The San Francisco-based company also added a further $5.25 billion in debt financing, funded by JPMorgan Chase, Barclays, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, among other “leading financial institutions and alternative […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
What PowerSchool isn’t saying about its ‘massive’ student data breach
The hack has the potential to be one of the biggest of the year, but the edtech giant is refusing to answer important questions © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Ramp encroaches into digital bank territory with new treasury product
Over the years, Ramp has built a name for itself in the corporate card and expense management space. It’s branched out into travel, bill pay, and more, while raising over $1.2 billion in venture funding. Today, the six-year-old fintech startup is announcing a different kind of expansion — one that takes it into more of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Postman launches an AI agent builder on top of its API platform
Since it was founded in 2014, India-based Postman has made a name for itself as one of the most popular platforms for building and using APIs, with 500,000 organizations now using the service. Like with so many other SaaS services, though, its valuation today is reportedly down from its $5.6 billion high in 2021. But […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Windows 11 Insider Build addresses mouse stuttering, Auto HDR issues, other annoyances
Microsoft releases an update that fixes a few bugs that Windows 11 24H2 introduced.
1/22/2025
This budget 1080/1440p gaming PC is only $899 at Best Buy — the MSI Codex Z2 packs an RTX 4060 Ti and AMD Ryzen CPU
The MSI Codex Z2 with RTX4060 Ti is reduced by $300. A great 1080p budget gaming PC option.
1/22/2025
Open AI, Oracle, and SoftBank to invest $500 billion in 'Stargate' AI project
Stargate, a joint venture between Open AI, Oracle, and SoftBank, will invest $500 billion in building AI infrastructure across the U.S.
1/22/2025
Sales knowledge automation platform 1up gets a third of its customer leads from memes
When George Avetisov was the founder and CEO of cybersecurity startup HYPR, he spent a lot of time in the trenches with the company’s sales team. He quickly realized that regardless of how good his sales team was, they were consistently pulling in other departments to answer customer questions or fill out technical questionnaires. “They […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Doti gives enterprises a flexible AI-powered search experience to unlock their data silos
As enterprises look at how they can best leverage AI to increase their employees’ productivity, search is an obvious use case. In most companies, after all, data lives in multiple disconnected silos and the combination of large language models, retrieval augmented generation (RAG) and enterprise-grade integration services now makes it easier than ever to not […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Nvidia confident that RTX 50 series power connectors unlikely to melt despite higher TDP
Nvidia execs say that the RTX 5090 will not experience the melting connector issues reported in the RTX 4090.
1/22/2025
Lindus Health raises $55M to ‘fix the broken clinical trial industry’
A four-year-old London startup backed by Peter Thiel has raised a $55 million Series B round as it sets about “fixing the broken clinical trial industry.” The announcement comes as artificial intelligence is shaping up to revolutionize drug discovery and development, in turn spurring demand for a streamlined clinical trial process to help get new […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
China's second largest foundry hires former Intel executive to lead advanced node development
Hua Hong, China's second-largest contract chipmaker, hires Intel veteran as it focuses on advanced logic production.
1/22/2025
Google hit with $12.6M fine in Indonesia for monopolistic practices in payment system
Indonesia’s antitrust agency KPPU fined Google 202.5 billion Rupiahs, equivalent to $12.6 million, on Wednesday for antitrust violation related to its payment system services for the Google Play Store. The KPPU ordered the search giant to cease the mandatory use of Google Play Billing in the Google Play Store. It also asked Google to let […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Hindustan Unilever acquires Peak XV-backed Minimalist for over $340M
Hindustan Unilever has agreed to acquire beauty startup Minimalist for about $342 million, marking its latest push to expand in India’s fast-growing premium skincare market. The consumer goods giant will initially acquire a 90.5% stake in the four-year-old direct-to-consumer brand through secondary buyouts and primary investment, with the remaining 9.5% to be purchased from founders […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
UK appoints ex-Amazon executive Doug Gurr as interim chair of antitrust body
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has a new interim chairman: former Amazon executive Doug Gurr (pictured above). The announcement comes as the U.K. seeks to position itself as a pro-growth, pro-tech nation by cutting red-tape and bureaucracy, with artificial intelligence (AI) taking center stage. The country is also nearing the end of a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Indian fintech Jar turns cash flow positive
Indian fintech Jar has turned cash flow positive, an executive at the Tiger Global-backed startup confirmed on Wednesday, as it gears up to deepen its offerings. The three-year-old startup, which offers its users the ability to start their savings and investment journey, achieved the milestone while still growing by more than 10 times last year, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Vertice raises $50M for its AI-powered SaaS spend platform
Vertice has made a name for itself over the years in the crowded world of expenditure management by focusing on applying AI to optimize an area where businesses are sinking hundreds of billions of dollars annually: software and cloud spend. The London-based startup’s business has grown 13x in the three years since its inception (similar […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Truecaller brings real-time caller ID to iPhone users
Truecaller for iOS has been updated with live caller ID support for its premium iPhone users. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht
President Trump on Tuesday pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the infamous dark web exchange Silk Road, which was best known as a once-thriving online marketplace for illegal drugs. Trump announced the news in a Truth Social post, saying the pardon was in honor of Ulbricht’s mother and the Libertarian movement. In 2015, a federal […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
MrBeast is reportedly now among those trying to buy TikTok
An unlikely group, including Mr Beast and Bench acquirer Employer.com, has submitted a bid to buy TikTok. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg sanctioned by judge for allegedly deleting emails
A Delaware judge has sanctioned Sheryl Sandberg, Meta’s former COO and board member, for allegedly deleting emails related to the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal. The decision arises from a case Meta shareholders brought against Sandberg and another former Meta board member, Jeff Zients, late last year. The plaintiffs alleged that Sandberg and Zients used personal […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/22/2025
Microsoft is no longer OpenAI’s exclusive cloud provider
Microsoft was once the exclusive provider of data center infrastructure for OpenAI to train and run its AI models. No longer. As part of Stargate, the company’s massive new infrastructure deal with SoftBank, Oracle, and others, Microsoft says that it has signed a new agreement with OpenAI that gives it “first right of refusal” on […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/21/2025
OpenAI teams up with SoftBank and Oracle on $500B data center project
OpenAI says that it will team up with Japanese conglomerate SoftBank and with Oracle, along with others, to build multiple data centers for AI in the U.S. The joint venture, called The Stargate Project, will begin with a large data center project in Texas and eventually expand to other states. The companies expect to commit $100 […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/21/2025
Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang has published an open letter lobbying Trump to invest in AI
Scale AI's CEO Alexandr Wang has five recommendations for President Trump to keep the US ahead of China on AI. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/21/2025
Amperesand targets data centers as the next big customer for its solid-state transformers
Amperesand’s technology replaces the iron cores that define old transformers with silicon carbide. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/21/2025
Startup founders flooded inauguration parties hopeful for dealmaking
All throughout America’s capital, founders enjoyed the fruits of their industry’s political jockeying. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/21/2025
Meta is building Oakley smart glasses for athletes: report
Meta’s Reality Labs is expanding its lineup of AI smart glasses with a new pair of Oakley-branded spectacles targeted at athletes, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Bloomberg reports the new smart glasses, with which Meta seeks to capitalize on the Ray-Ban Meta’s success, will be based on Oakley’s Sphaera glasses, and will shift the camera […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/21/2025
Perplexity launches Sonar, an API for AI search
Perplexity on Tuesday launched an API service called Sonar, allowing enterprises and developers to build the startup’s generative AI search tools into their own applications. “While most generative AI features today have answers informed only by training data, this limits their capabilities,” Perplexity wrote in a blog post. “To optimize for factuality and authority, APIs […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/21/2025
Seagate unveils 36TB HAMR hard drive: Mozaic 3+ extended
Seagate is sampling 36TB HDDs with select customers, demonstrates platters set to enable 60TB HDDs.
1/21/2025
AI will drive storage needs by 2x over next three years, according to survey funded by Seagate
Companies using AI expect storage (including cloud storage) requirements to increase in the next three years, according to a survey funded by Seagate.
1/21/2025
Energizer announces affordable EnergyBook Classic laptops starting at a suspiciously low $199
Energizer licenser Avenir Telecom now bringing Energizer branding to cheap laptops, not just phones.
1/21/2025
Trump targets EV charging funding programs Tesla benefits from
President Donald Trump is trying to halt the flow of funding for EV charging infrastructure from two programs that Tesla has benefitted from — the latest example of how Elon Musk’s political interests seem to be at odds with his car company’s goal of advancing sustainable energy. It’s not a given that Trump’s gambit will […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/21/2025
Silverstone supports four NVMe M.2 SSDs in a single-slot PCIe card
Silverstone has released a PCIe 4.0 add-in card, giving systems four additional M.2 slots for expanded M.2 storage.
1/21/2025
Govtech giant Conduent won’t rule out cyberattack as outage drags on
At least four states reported being affected by the outage, which Conduent says is ongoing. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/21/2025
Raijintek debuts MGA-68 aluminum hall-effect keyboard with 8,000 Hz polling rate
Magnetic switches and an aluminum housing in one package.
1/21/2025
AMD exec reveals Ryzen 9 9950X3D, Ryzen 9 9900X3D gaming performance — similar to Ryzen 7 9800X3D
AMD Manager Martijn Boonstra said that the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9900X3D chips will perform similarly to the Ryzen 7 9800X3D in gaming.
1/21/2025
Intel ships Nova Lake CPUs to partners for testing — samples intended for validation and research
Validation of Nova Lake is underway as Intel is sending out test chips.
1/21/2025
Spotify’s educational audio courses could be coming to US
Spotify is expanding its streaming service to now include educational courses in addition to music, podcasts, and audiobooks. The company on Tuesday referenced one of its newer features called courses, which allow users to learn about topics in areas like business, tech, lifestyle, music, and more. The feature is initially being piloted in the U.K., […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/21/2025
Trump moves to sink offshore wind
President Trump signed an executive order that halted federal leases for offshore wind development on the outer continental shelf. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/21/2025
Meta lures TikTok creators with $5K bonuses, content deals, free verification
Meta is luring TikTok creators over to its platforms with the promise of cash bonuses, content deals, and support to grow their communities. The company announced on Tuesday that eligible TikTok creators will be able to earn “up to” $5,000 in bonuses over three months for posting Reels on Facebook and Instagram. These creators will […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/21/2025
Fujitsu claims the world’s lightest Copilot+ laptop at 1.87 lbs — device is under an inch thick
Fujitsu has just released what it claims to be the world’s lightest Copilot+ PC weighing just 848g.
1/21/2025
Funding to fintechs continues to decline, but at a slower pace
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at just how much fintech startups raised in 2024, a slew of fundraising deals, Plaid’s reported revenue growth last year, and more! To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important fintech stories delivered to your inbox every Tuesday at 8:00 a.m. PT, subscribe here. The […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/21/2025
WinForms: Analyze This (Me in Visual Basic)
Your WinForms code might have issues—maybe an Async call picked the wrong overload, or it’s leaking data into resource files. Time to call in a code-shrink! So, WinForms, Analyze This! The post WinForms: Analyze This (Me in Visual Basic) appeared first on .NET Blog.
1/21/2025
Pick up an Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 gaming laptop with RTX 4070 graphics for only $1,099
You can grab the Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 gaming laptop at Best Buy and save $500
1/21/2025
AMD seeks input from users for ROCm GPU support list — RX 6000 RDNA 2 GPUs most highly requested
An AMD engineer seeks guidance on additional GPU support the ROCm community would like to be added to AMD's list of supported ROCm devices.
1/21/2025
Stripe is laying off 300 people, but says it still plans to hire in 2025
Fintech giant Stripe is laying off 300 people, according to a leaked memo reported on Tuesday by Business Insider. The affected employees are “largely in product, engineering, and operations roles,” the memo said. Despite the layoffs, Chief People Officer Rob McIntosh said that Stripe intends to still grow its headcount by 17% “to land at […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/21/2025
RTX 5090 prototype allegedly has 24,576 CUDA cores and 800W TDP — two 16-pin connectors present
Hardware leaker HXL spotted an alleged RTX 5090 prototype on the Chinese Chiphell forums.
1/21/2025
Forum software NodeBB joins the fediverse
Before there was social media, there were internet forums. Millions of forum sites continue to operate, which is why it’s notable that one top forum software provider, NodeBB, is now joining the fediverse, also known as the open social web. The fediverse today includes apps like decentralized X rival Mastodon, Instagram alternative Pixelfed, an open […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/21/2025
Samsung Unpacked 2025: Here’s how to watch and what we expect
The biggest reveal from last week’s Samsung CES press conference may well have been another press conference. The hardware giant closed out the main event by teasing the company’s upcoming show. The next Samsung Unpacked event is set for Wednesday at 10 a.m. PT. As with all recent Unpacked events, next week’s big show will […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/21/2025
Meta will soon let you link your WhatsApp account with Instagram and Facebook
Meta announced on Tuesday that users will soon be able to add their WhatsApp account to their Accounts Center, a hub where users can manage connected experiences across their Facebook, Instagram, and Meta Quest accounts. With this integration, users will be able to cross-post their WhatsApp Status as Stories on Instagram and Facebook, getting rid […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/21/2025
IMDb founder steps down as CEO after 35 years
IMDb, the Amazon-owned online database that provides information on movies, TV shows, and celebrities, announced on Tuesday that its founder, Col Needham, is stepping down as CEO. Nikki Santoro, who has served as the Chief Operating Officer since 2021, has been appointed as his successor. Santoro’s appointment is significant, as she is the first woman […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/21/2025
Anthropic plans to release a ‘two-way’ voice mode for Claude
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says that the company plans to release a “two-way” voice mode for its chatbot, Claude, as well as a memory feature that lets Claude remember more about users and past conversations. Speaking to The Wall Street Journal at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Amodei also revealed that Anthropic expects to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/21/2025
UK plans ‘digital wallet’ for driver’s licenses and other ID, plus a chatbot powered by OpenAI
Alongside its big public push for AI investments, the U.K. government is also playing a virtual card to catapult itself into the 21st century. Today it announced plans to launch a secure digital wallet to manage government-issued credentials, alongside a chatbot — built in collaboration with OpenAI — to interact with the main GOV.UK portal. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/21/2025
Mistral AI plans IPO
French AI lab, Mistral, is working toward an initial public offering, co-founder and CEO Arthur Mensch said Tuesday in an interview with Bloomberg at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Mistral is “not for sale,” Mensch said, adding that the company plans to open an office in Singapore to focus on the Asia-Pacific region and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/21/2025
Toronto school district says 40 years of student data stolen in PowerSchool breach
Canada’s largest school board says hackers may have accessed some 40 years’ worth of student data during the recent PowerSchool breach. In a letter sent to parents this week, the Toronto District School Board (TDSB) said that the data breach affected all students enrolled in the district between September 1985 and December 2024. The school […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/21/2025
Lenovo's grenade-styled external SSD looks certain to delay you at airport security
Lenovo has revealed that it has designed a hand grenade inspired external SSD. It looks very airport-unfriendly.
1/21/2025
E-ink screen performance hits 60 Hz with 10.3-inch portable touchscreen monitor from Dasung
Chinese e-ink manufacturer Dasung just released an e-ink display that boasts a refresh rate of 60Hz.
1/21/2025
Bambu Lab: We’re not Bricking Your X1-Carbon
Bambu Lab was forced to clarify its new security measures after user community uproar. It will add "developer mode" to new firmware.
1/21/2025
Qomodo raises $13.9M to expand BNPL for Italy’s main-street retailers
Payments and financial solutions are two-a-penny at this point, but mostly for online e-commerce. What about physical stores? In 2023 Qomodo, a Milan-based “all-in-one” payment methods aggregator for physical merchants, came out with a €34.5 million ($36.9 million) pre-seed round (mostly debt), which we covered, to expand the BNPL model into other categories. It’s now […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/21/2025
TSMC restores operations after magnitude 6.4 quake halts production in Taiwan
TSMC resumes production at facilities located in two cities in Taiwan that were affected by a magnitude 6.4 earthquake.
1/21/2025
AMD Radeon RX 9070 series graphics cards global rollout set for March, confirms AMD exec
AMD's upcoming RX 9070 series GPUs are slated to officially arrive in March with a wide assortment of cards being made available at launch.
1/21/2025
HPE investigating security breach after hacker claims theft of sensitive data
A well-known hacker claims to have stolen source code and user data from the enterprise IT giant © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/21/2025
MoneyHash, which provides single access to payment services in MENA, banks $5.2M
When merchants or companies launch online, they typically start by partnering with one or two payment processors. But as they grow and expand into new regions, they often need to onboard additional payment partners to meet different customer (and sometimes regulatory) needs, a process that comes with some hurdles. That’s given rise to companies to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/21/2025
Karmen secures $9.4 million for its revenue-based financing products
French startup Karmen has secured a small funding round so that it can improve its instant financing products. The company offers short-term loans to small companies facing a working capital crunch. It’s a €9 million equity-and-debt round ($9.4 million at today’s exchange rates) with Seventure Partners buying a stake in the small startup. Financière Arbevel […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/21/2025
President Trump signs exec order to make Musk’s DOGE commission more official
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an advisory commission spearheaded by billionaire Elon Musk recommending deep cuts to federal agencies, could soon become more official, should an executive order signed by President Donald Trump pass legal muster. On Monday evening, Trump signed an order that renames the U.S. Digital Service, which was created in 2014 […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/21/2025
Trump signs exec order delaying TikTok enforcement action for 75 days
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aimed at restoring TikTok service in the U.S. The order instructs relevant government agencies to “pursue a resolution” that “protects national security” while “saving [TikTok.]” Via the order, Trump is instructing the U.S. Attorney General not to take any action for 75 days to enforce the Protecting Americans […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/21/2025
President Trump repeals Biden’s AI executive order
During his first day in office, President Donald Trump revoked a 2023 executive order signed by former President Joe Biden that sought to reduce the potential risks AI poses to consumers, workers, and national security. Biden’s executive order directed the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to author guidance that helps companies […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/21/2025
UK to unveil ‘Humphrey’ assistant for civil servants with other AI plans to cut bureaucracy
A week after the U.K. government announced a sweeping plan to make big investments into AI, it’s laying out more details around how this will take shape in the public sector. On the agenda: AI assistants to speed up public services; data sharing deals across siloed departments; and a new set of AI tools — […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/21/2025
OpenAI’s agent tool may be nearing release
OpenAI may be close to releasing an AI tool that can take control of your PC and perform actions on your behalf. Tibor Blaho, a software engineer with a reputation for accurately leaking upcoming AI products, claims to have uncovered evidence of OpenAI’s long-rumored Operator tool. Publications including Bloomberg have previously reported on Operator, which […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/20/2025
Friend delays shipments of its AI companion pendant
Friend, a startup creating a $99, AI-powered necklace designed to be treated as a digital companion, has delayed its first batch of shipments until Q3. Friend had planned to ship devices to pre-order customers in Q1. But according to co-founder and CEO Avi Schiffman, that’s no longer feasible. “As much as I would liked to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/20/2025
US safety regulators expand Ford hands-free driving tech investigation
A U.S. federal safety regulator has “upgraded” its investigation into Ford’s hands-free advanced driver assistance system known as BlueCruise — a required step before a recall can be issued. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Office of Defects Investigation launched a probe into Ford BlueCruise last April after the agency confirmed the system was active […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/20/2025
At the Microsoft Excel World Championship, selfies and a ‘hype’ tunnel
An arena. A hype tunnel, the kind through which NBA players typically streak. A competitor dressed in a jersey patterned with a six-pack abs. In a new piece, The New York Times takes readers to an event that organizers call the Microsoft Excel World Championship, a 40-minute, Las Vegas-based competition featuring 12 contestants — all […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/20/2025
Silicon Motion is developing a next-gen PCIe 6.0 SSD controller
Silicon Motion is working on the SM8466 SSD controller with a PCIe Gen6 host interface.
1/20/2025
Most GeForce Now tiers are currently sold out — Nvidia blames high demand for unavailability
Reportedly due to high demand, most GeForce Now subscription tiers are currently sold out.
1/20/2025
New MSI promotion offers up to $100 Steam codes with hardware purchases
MSI has introduced a new Steam code promotion that lasts until March 31st. Steam codes valued at up to $100 can be had for free with eligible hardware, including motherboards, power supplies, cases, and liquid coolers.
1/20/2025
Vendor rolls out two new decade-old Nvidia GT 730 GPUs — 2GB and 4GB models, starting at $45
The GT 730 makes a comeback, courtesy of Maxsun.
1/20/2025
Flipboard’s new app Surf adds its own video feed, too
After the TikTok ban went into effect on Sunday, social network Bluesky launched a custom feed for videos on its platform. Now, Flipboard’s newest app, Surf, which is dedicated to browsing the open social web and decentralized services like Mastodon and Bluesky, is taking advantage of that move to introduce a video feed of its […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/20/2025
RTX 5090 FE unboxing reveals eco-friendly packaging — an inkless box made of "paper fibers"
The RTX 5090 FE features eco-friendly, plastic-free, and inkless packaging.
1/20/2025
US AI Diffusion Policy may harm Nvidia's sales — most of the chipmaker's AI GPUs are affected
If the new U.S. export rules become effective, they will affect sales of all Nvidia GPUs to most countries.
1/20/2025
3D printer 'bone filament' simulates real bones, helps surgeons practice operations
A Redditor 3D-printed a human rib model to help build a human model for practicing a complicated surgical procedure.
1/20/2025
DeepSeek claims its reasoning model beats OpenAI’s o1 on certain benchmarks
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has released an open version of DeepSeek-R1, its so-called reasoning model, that it claims performs as well as OpenAI’s o1 on certain AI benchmarks. R1 is available from the AI dev platform Hugging Face under an MIT license, meaning it can be used commercially without restrictions. According to DeepSeek, R1 beats […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/20/2025
RedNote, Flip, Clapper and Likee claim the top of the App Store as TikTok comes back online
TikTok may be back, but that hasn’t prevented other Chinese competitors from gaining users. In the lead up to a ban on TikTok — which kicked off Sunday and lasted a day — a number of other video apps rose through the ranks and now dominate the App Store’s Top Charts. The Chinese app RedNote […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/20/2025
Overclocker hits DDR5-12054 on pure air cooling — DDR5-8000 RAM maxed out without exotic cooling
G.Skill Trident Z5 reaches a record-breaking DDR5-12054 frequency with a purely air-cooled system.
1/20/2025
The Corsair MP600 Mini 2TB SSD is now only $193 at Amazon
The Corsair MP600 Mini 2TB SSD is currently available at Amazon for one of its lowest prices to date—just $193 instead of its recommended $229.
1/20/2025
Meta confirms it will keep fact-checkers outside the U.S. ‘for now’
Meta says it plans to keep its fact-checking program in place outside the U.S. for the time being, though it could eventually expand it elsewhere. “We’ll see how that goes as we move it out over the years,” Meta’s head of global business Nicola Mendelsohn told Bloomberg in a report from Davos on Monday. “So […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/20/2025
Fake Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs are circulating in China — MSI China alerts buyers of new Zen 5 scam
Counterfeit AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D chips are currently circulating in China, according to tech forums in the country.
1/20/2025
Raspberry Pi Pico Game Boy Printer emulates the original to a T
Dr. Raphaël Boichot has managed to emulate the original Game Boy Printer using a Raspberry Pi Pico board as the main driver.
1/20/2025
MSI's upcoming RTX 50-series GPUs to feature yellow-tipped 16-pin power adapters
MSI's upcoming RTX 50-series GPUs will be shipping with yellow-tipped 16-pin PCIe power adapters to ensur users fully insert the connectors into the GPUs
1/20/2025
Liquid Web VPS Hosting Review: Very Fast
Among a wide collection of different hosting dynamics, Liquid Web’s Managed VPS stands out, with both a high price and superior performance over most competitors.
1/20/2025
Here are the types of AI companies enterprise VCs want to back in 2025
The AI startup market is sprawling, from companies looking to develop new chips, to those using AI to build robots, to others looking to use AI to create niche solutions for industry-specific workflows. There are a lot of potential areas for venture capitalists to invest in, but there are clearly a few subsectors they are […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/20/2025
NATO deploys 'sea drones' to safeguard undersea cable infrastructure
NATO will use uncrewed surface vessels or sea drones to monitor shipping in the Baltic Sea and protect undersea cable infrastructure.
1/20/2025
Nvidia's mid-January GPU driver update addresses several vulnerabilities and exploits
Nvidia releases another series of security updates for its GPU drivers.
1/20/2025
Nvidia hints DLSS 4 Frame Generation may extend support to past GPUs, including RTX 30 Series
Nvidia DLSS 4 hinted to support past generation architectures.
1/20/2025
AI vision startup Metropolis is buying Oosto (formerly known as AnyVision) for just $125M, sources say
The general hype around all things AI is not lifting all boats: Certain startups continue to struggle and are looking for exits. In one of the latest developments, TechCrunch has learned from a reliable source that Metropolis, an AI-powered parking platform, is buying Oosto, the controversial computer vision company that used to be known as […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/20/2025
Blinkit signals costly battle ahead in Indian quick commerce market
Zomato’s quick commerce unit Blinkit is accelerating its expansion and expects continued losses as competition intensifies in India’s instant delivery market. Blinkit now aims to reach 2,000 dark stores – small warehouses in residential areas that exclusively service online orders – by December 2025, a year ahead of its previous guidance, after exceeding 1,000 stores […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/20/2025
X is rolling out a dedicated vertical video feed for US users
Social network X is trying to capitalize on the removal of ByteDance apps like TikTok and Lemon8 from U.S. app stores by launching a dedicated vertical video feed. The company is adding a video tab in the app’s bottom bar for users in the U.S. to let them quickly access video content on the platform. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/20/2025
How African VC firm Oui Capital returned its first fund with Moniepoint’s unicorn exit
At a recent investor meeting, early-stage African investor Oui Capital informed limited partners that it had returned its $4 million debut fund following the sale of some shares in the business banking platform Moniepoint. The African fintech unicorn has so far proven to be a standout investment for five-year-old Oui Capital. When it launched its […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/20/2025
Bluesky launches a custom feed for vertical videos
It is the product shipping time for all social networks with TikTok’s services in the restoration phase, and the app still unavailable in the App Store and the Play Store. Bluesky said Sunday that it is launching a custom feed for vertical video in its app. Users can see a trending videos section in the explore tab […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/20/2025
How to stream Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day 2025
Donald Trump will take the presidential oath of office on Monday in front of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., once again. The event takes place at noon ET and is expected to attract considerable attention from both supporters and opponents. How to stream Trump’s inauguration You can watch the inauguration live with cable or […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/20/2025
From recruiting for Palantir to landing a plane on Highway 85: meet defense tech’s wildest power broker
Peter Conway has recruited for some of the buzziest defense and hard tech firms in Silicon Valley over the last decade, like Palantir and Mach Industries. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/19/2025
AI benchmarking organization criticized for waiting to disclose funding from OpenAI
An organization developing math benchmarks for AI didn’t disclose that it had received funding from OpenAI until relatively recently, drawing allegations of impropriety from some in the AI community. Epoch AI, a nonprofit primarily funded by Open Philanthropy, a research and grantmaking foundation, revealed on December 20 that OpenAI had supported the creation of FrontierMath. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/19/2025
The Pentagon says AI is speeding up its ‘kill chain’
Leading AI developers, such as OpenAI and Anthropic, are threading a delicate needle to sell software to the United States military: make the Pentagon more efficient, without letting their AI kill people. Today, their tools are not being used as weapons, but AI is giving the Department of Defense a “significant advantage” in identifying, tracking, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/19/2025
Meta announces a new CapCut rival called Edits
Meta today announced a new video editing app called Edits, after ByteDance’s video editing app CapCut was removed from Apple’s App Store and the Google Play Store as part of the TikTok ban. Instagram head Adam Mosseri (pictured above) said on Threads that the app will launch next month on iOS, with an Android version […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/19/2025
TikTok is restoring service in the US
Barely more than 12 hours after TikTok went dark in the United States, the video-sharing app is coming back online. “In agreement with our service providers, TikTok is in the process of restoring service,” the company said in a statement. “We thank President Trump for providing the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/19/2025
TikTok is restoring service in the US
Barely more than 12 hours after TikTok went dark in the United States, the video-sharing app is coming back online. “In agreement with our service providers, TikTok is in the process of restoring service,” the company said in a statement. “We thank President Trump for providing the necessary clarity and assurance to our service providers […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/19/2025
Maker turns old Roomba vacuum into a Raspberry Pi-powered AI dog-feeding robot
Joaquim Silveira is using a Raspberry Pi to fix up an old Roomba into an AI-driven robot that automatically dispenses dog food when a dog is detected.
1/19/2025
Snag this budget Asus TUF Gaming 24-inch IPS monitor for just $79 at Walmart
The Asus TUF VG249Q1RY 24-inch IPS gaming monitor is available right now at Walmart for just $79, down from its usual $149.
1/19/2025
TikTok goes dark in the US
TikTok has gone dark in the U.S., the result of a federal law that bans the popular short-form video app for millions of Americans — at least for now. TikTok users began receiving a message about the ban around 10:30 p.m. Eastern on Saturday evening, and the app also disappeared from the Apple and Google […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/19/2025
Trump says he will delay TikTok ban, suggests a joint venture with US ownership
TikTok went dark for users in the US on Saturday night, but it may not be gone for long. President-elect Donald Trump posted on Truth Social this morning that he will issuing an executive order Monday that will “extend the period of time before the law’s prohibitions take effect, so that we can make a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/19/2025
The first-ever ransomware dropped 35 years ago disguised as a floppy sharing 'AIDS Information'
The first-ever example of ransomware dropped 35 years ago, in December 1989.
1/19/2025
Employees of failed startups are at special risk of stolen personal data through old Google logins
As if losing your job when the startup you work for collapses isn’t bad enough, now a security researcher has found that employees at failed startups are at particular risk of having their data stolen. This ranges from their private Slack messages to Social Security numbers and, potentially, bank accounts. The researcher who discovered the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/19/2025
Bambu Lab Security Update will remove OrcaSlicer’s Access
The new Bambu Lab Security update will require users to install the “Bambu Connect” network plugin in order to use 3rd party slicers and accessories.
1/19/2025
Nvidia's Huang enjoys 'trillion dollar banquet' with 35 Taiwanese semiconductor industry chiefs
Jensen Huang invited around 35 chief executives from various Nvidia partners to lunch, which led to the media calling it the 'trillion dollar' banquet.
1/19/2025
AI isn’t very good at history, new paper finds
Top LLMs performed poorly on a high-level history test, a new paper has found. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/19/2025
Vertigo Mk1 3D printer crowdfunder touts auto-eject, bed-clearing, and more for $2,250
The Vertigo Mk1 is designed to let you queue multiple projects and 3D print them with no supervision.
1/19/2025
Doom ported to a standalone Microsoft Word document — plays well but there's no sound
A software engineer has ported Doom into a standalone 6.6MB Word document.
1/19/2025
The Asus RX 9070 XT TUF Gaming has allegedly been unboxed, suggesting ready stock at retailers
Retailers might have their hands on AMD's RX 9070 series, as suggested by a recent unboxing by Artline.
1/19/2025
RayNeo Air 2s Review: Truly basic AR glasses saved by affordable pricing
With a street price of around $300, the RayNeo Air 2s offers a good baseline for those in the market for AR glasses.
1/19/2025
Trump administration will back CHIPS and Science Act hints outgoing Commerce Secretary
Next U.S. Commerce Secretary reportedly plans to continue implementing CHIPS and Science Act program.
1/19/2025
Apple lists all apps it removed alongside TikTok in the U.S.
Amid the TikTok shutdown, in a rare move, Apple published a statement and a support document listing all affected apps that are inaccessible in the U.S. The iPhone maker typically doesn’t publish information for when it blocks apps. Notably, other ByteDance apps, including CapCut, Lemon8 — which surged in the last few months — and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/19/2025
TikTok goes dark in the US
TikTok has gone dark in the U.S., the result of a federal law that bans the popular short-form video app for millions of Americans — at least for now. TikTok users began receiving a message about the ban around 10:30 p.m. Eastern. As of Saturday evening, the app was also no longer available in the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/19/2025
Perplexity AI submits bid to merge with TikTok
With a TikTok ban looming in the United States, Perplexity AI is the latest bidder hoping to give the video app a new corporate home. CNBC first reported on Perplexity’s interest. A source with knowledge of the offer confirmed to TechCrunch that Perplexity (whose CEO Aravind Srinivas is pictured above) has submitted a bid to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/18/2025
FTC says partnerships like Microsoft-OpenAI raise antitrust concerns
The Federal Trade Commission said in a staff report issued Friday that there are potential competitive issues in partnerships between big tech companies and generative AI developers — specifically, Microsoft’s backing of OpenAI and Amazon and Alphabet/Google’s partnerships with Anthropic. “The FTC’s report sheds light on how partnerships by big tech firms can create lock-in, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/18/2025
Chinese hackers infiltrated US Treasury Secretary's PC — attackers had access to over 400 PCs
Chinese hackers accessed over 400 computers and over 3,000 unclassified files when they infiltrated the U.S. Treasury.
1/18/2025
New UEFI vulnerability bypasses Secure Boot — bootkits stay undetected even after OS re-install
A new UEFI flaw has been discovered that enables attackers to infect motherboard firmware, staying hidden from operating system security systems.
1/18/2025
EA will shut down the Origin app on April 2025 — company asks users to migrate to the new EA app
EA is ending support for the 32-bit Origin app just as Microsoft is ending support for the 32-bit Windows operating system.
1/18/2025
What we know about the TikTok ban
Welcome back to Week in Review. This week, we’re looking at the impacts of the looming TikTok ban in the U.S., including the “TikTok refugees” moving to Chinese app RedNote, the surge of English speakers learning Mandarin on Duolingo, and more! Let’s get into it. The Supreme Court upheld the law that will effectively ban […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/18/2025
Raspberry Pi 4 brings the Raspberry Pi stream deck to life
Last-Shake-9874 has created a Raspberry Pi 4-powered stream deck integrated with all sorts of cool apps.
1/18/2025
Get your hands on this Ryzen 9, RTX 4060 gaming laptop for $1,099
The Asus TUF Gaming A16 RTX 4060 gaming laptop is currently marked down to $1,099 at Amazon, down from its usual price of $1,299.
1/18/2025
Enthusiast mulls reviving Sony's retro micro PC — Orange Pi CM5 planned as mainboard upgrade
A fan of Sony's classic handheld Windows slider PC designs is developing a drop-in upgrade based on an Orange Pi CM5.
1/18/2025
Once high-flying proptech startups Divvy Homes and EasyKnock are the latest to struggle
Many proptech startups, born and funded during the low-interest-rate heydays, are in the throes of struggle. With investments into U.S.-based real estate startups falling from $11.1 billion in 2021 to $3.7 billion last year, according to PitchBook data, some are selling themselves off, while others are closing shop. The two most recent examples are the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/18/2025
DOJ confirms arrested US Army soldier is linked to AT&T and Verizon hacks
The alleged hacker claimed to have access to huge amounts of call records, including VP Kamala Harris and President Trump. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/18/2025
Microsoft auto-updates consumer PCs to Windows 11 24H2 — you can defer the update for five weeks
Your PC will now automatically be updated to Windows 11 24H2.
1/18/2025
TikTok says it will go dark Sunday unless Biden offers ‘definitive statement’
It remains unclear whether TikTok will still be available in US app stores Sunday, with the company claiming that President Joe Biden’s outgoing administration needs to offer “definitive” assurances that it won’t enforce the ban. On Friday, the Supreme Court upheld a law that would effectively ban TikTok in the United States if the app’s […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/18/2025
New York proposes background checks for 3D printer purchases — the bill combats 3D-printed guns
New York State Assembly Bill A02228 aims to require background checks for anyone purchasing a 3D printer capable of printing a firearm or any of its parts.
1/18/2025
The FTC is concerned about Big Tech-AI startup partnerships — Microsoft-Open AI raises alarms
The FTC warns that multi-billion-dollar partnerships between Big Tech and AI startups could lead to the monopolization of the AI and cloud computing sectors.
1/18/2025
OrangePi 4A Review: Coming for the king
OrangePi’s alternative to the mighty Raspberry Pi makes a commendable claim for the throne, but it falls far short of the gold standard.
1/18/2025
Thunderbolt 5 dock comes with built-in PCIe 4.0 SSD and four TB5 ports — pricing starts at $399
Sonnet will be the first to ship a Thunderbolt 5 dock with a built-in PCIe 4.0 SSD, which delivers 6,100 MB/s transfers and offers many connectivity options.
1/18/2025
AMD Ryzen 5 7400F sells for $115 in China — US availability and pricing remains a mystery
The AMD Ryzen 5 7400F is now available in China for $115, but there's still no word on U.S. pricing and availability.
1/18/2025
Montech’s Heritage Pro case is like a designer handbag for your Micro ATX PC
Montech’s Heritage PC case combines leather, glass and steel in a Micro ATX form factor, with a focus on airflow. It’s a niche design flex for sure, but if you’re into designer handbags and high-end gaming or content creation, this might just be the case you’re looking for.
1/18/2025
RTX 5090 beats RTX 4090 by 36% in the Blender benchmark — RTX 5090D is 40% faster than RTX 4090D
Benchmarks for the RTX 5090 and the 5090D were leaked to the Blender benchmark database, showing the cards are modestly faster than the RTX 4090.
1/18/2025
How victims of PowerSchool’s data breach helped each other investigate ‘massive’ hack
School workers say they resorted to crowdsourcing help among each other following PowerSchool's breach, fueled by solidarity and the slow response from PowerSchool. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/18/2025
Intel's Arrow Lake fix doesn't 'fix' overall gaming performance or match the company's bad marketing claims - Core Ultra 200S still trails AMD and previous-gen chips
We tested Intel's fix for its lackluster 'Arrow Lake' Core Ultra 200S and found it doesn't have any meaningful impact.
1/18/2025
EV startup Canoo files for bankruptcy and ceases operations
Seven-year-old electric vehicle startup Canoo has filed for bankruptcy and will “cease operations immediately.” The company is liquidating its assets in a Chapter 7 proceeding in the Delaware Bankruptcy Court. The company said in a press release published late Friday that it was “in discussions with foreign sources of capital” that proved unsuccessful, and also […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/18/2025
Amazon suspends US drone deliveries following crash at testing facility
Amazon has paused testing of its delivery drones following a crash involving two of its models, according to Bloomberg. It’s the latest setback for Amazon’s beleaguered Prime Air program, which aims to deliver around 500 million packages a year to customers by the end of the decade. Bloomberg reports two Amazon drones crashed in rainy […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/17/2025
ChatGPT’s head of product will testify in the US government’s case against Google
The U.S. government has picked Nick Turley, ChatGPT's head of product, to testify in its antitrust case against Google. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/17/2025
Netradyne snags $90M at $1.35B valuation to expand smart dashcams for commercial fleets
Distracted driving is one of the leading causes of car accidents and a major reason why auto insurance premiums are expected to increase in 2025. For commercial fleets, that’s a nightmare. But for California-based startup Netradyne, it’s a tailwind. Netradyne provides fleet owners, including big names like Amazon, with AI-enabled dashcams that collect vehicle data […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/17/2025
Perplexity acquires Read.cv, a social media platform for professionals
Read.cv, a social media platform for professionals that competed with LinkedIn, has been acquired by AI-powered search engine Perplexity. As part of the deal, Read.cv will begin to wind down operations Friday. Users will be able to export their data, including their profiles, posts, and messages, until May 16. “We’ve long admired Perplexity and believe […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/17/2025
TikTok ban: How to download your videos and data
The Supreme Court has upheld a ban on TikTok. Before the app goes dark on Sunday, you’re probably wondering how to back up the dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of videos you may have on the platform. Whether you want to save your favorite videos or videos you posted yourself, here’s how to do it. And […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/17/2025
AI startup Character AI tests games on the web
Character AI, a startup that lets users chat with different AI-powered characters, is now testing games on its desktop and mobile web apps to increase engagement on its platform. The games are available to Character AI’s paid subscribers and a limited set of users on the free plan. For this initial release, the company developed […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/17/2025
Bluesky saw 17x increase in moderation reports in 2024 after rapid growth
Bluesky on Friday published its moderation report for the past year, noting the sizable growth the social network experienced in 2024 and how that affected its Trust & Safety team’s workload. It also noted that the largest number of reports came from users reporting accounts or posts for harassment, trolling, or intolerance — an issue […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/17/2025
Microsoft 365 sees 43% price hike thanks to Copilot — existing customers safe until renewal
Microsoft 365 personal plans get a $3 price hike with the addition of Copilot.
1/17/2025
Custom RTX 5090, RTX 5080 listed for up to $2,800 and $1,400 overseas — initial pricing exceeds MSRP
Early listings for the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 suggest their prices might be higher than initially expected.
1/17/2025
Analysts halve Nvidia Blackwell cabinet shipment forecasts for 2025 — prediction contrasts AI boom
Industry analysts have slashed their 2025 GB200 NVL72 shipment projections by 50%, but the industry expects an explosion of AI hardware shipments.
1/17/2025
GlobalFoundries to expand New York fab — announces new $575 million advanced packaging and photonics facility
GlobalFoundries is investing around $575 million to construct an advanced packaging and silicon photonics facility at its Malta, New York site.
1/17/2025
ChatGPT’s newest feature lets users assign it traits like ‘chatty’ and ‘Gen Z’
Update: OpenAI officially announced this feature one week after some users reported the arrival, and then disappearance, of the new options. It’s possible they went live prematurely. OpenAI is introducing a new way for users to customize their interactions with ChatGPT, the company’s AI-powered chatbot. On Friday, OpenAI announced it is rolling out a new […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/17/2025
Elgato's Stream Deck+ is now $169 at Amazon - Save $30 on this content creation peripheral
Streamline your content creation with Elgato's Stream Deck+, now only $169 from Amazon.
1/17/2025
AM5 copper guard stops you from making a mess on your Ryzen CPU — also improves heat dissipation
Japanese PC accessory Ainex offers a copper AM5 plate guard to prevent you from messing up your PC build with too much thermal paste.
1/17/2025
AMD preps 32-core and 64-core Threadripper 9000 CPUs — Shimada Peak resurfaces once again
A shipping manifest reveals the core counts for AMD's upcoming Threadripper 9000 (Shimada Peak) processors, which the Zen 5 architecture will power.
1/17/2025
TikTok CEO responds to Trump, thanks him for trying to solve US ban
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew responded to comments made by Donald Trump regarding Friday’s Supreme Court ruling to ban the app in the U.S. In a video posted on TikTok, Chew said, “On behalf of everyone at TikTok and all our users across the country, I want to thank President Trump for his commitment to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/17/2025
SpaceX and Blue Origin must investigate this week’s big rocket tests, FAA says
The Federal Aviation Administration is requiring Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin to investigate what went wrong on their respective mega-rocket test flights this week. The regulator said both companies must perform what’s known as a “mishap investigation.” These probes involve the companies and the FAA working together to understand what went wrong, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/17/2025
OpenAI is trying to extend human life, with help from a longevity startup
OpenAI says it trained a new AI model called GPT-4b micro with Retro Biosciences, a longevity science startup trying to extend the human lifespan by 10 years, according to the MIT Technology Review. Retro, which is backed by Sam Altman, has been working with OpenAI for roughly a year on this research, according to the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/17/2025
Amazon bought more renewable power last year than any other company
Amazon added around 100 new renewable projects last year. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/17/2025
As TikTok faces a US shutdown, here are some alternative apps to check out
TikTok has warned of a looming shutdown in just six days, as the Supreme Court is currently weighing the law that would ban the app. So we thought it’s time to take a look at other platforms that may be able to fill the TikTok-shaped hole in our lives. The law gives TikTok parent company […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/17/2025
Big Tech expands its reach with new startup acquisitions and investments
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. This week’s newsletter is about startups, but it is also about Big Tech companies expanding their reach, both through acquisitions and through investments. Most interesting startup stories […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/17/2025
Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search
Google says it has begun requiring users to turn on JavaScript, the widely-used programming language to make web pages interactive, in order to use Google Search. In an email to TechCrunch, a company spokesperson claimed that the change is intended to “better protect” Google Search against malicious activity, such as bots and spam, and to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/17/2025
Treasury sanctions Salt Typhoon hacking group behind breaches of major US telecom firms
The US government has also sanctioned the hacker responsible for December's US Treasury hack © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/17/2025
Malware stole internal PowerSchool passwords from engineer’s hacked computer
The theft of a PowerSchool engineer's passwords prior to the breach raises further doubts about the company's security practices. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/17/2025
Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd to reclaim CEO position in March
Bumble announced today that founder Whitney Wolfe Herd is returning as CEO after stepping down from the position in 2023. Wolfe Herd will succeed Lidiane Jones, the company’s current CEO who has left for “personal reasons,” Bumble explained. Jones, the former CEO of Slack, will continue her role at Bumble until the transition takes effect […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/17/2025
Instagram Reels adds new features as TikTok is banned in the U.S.
Instagram announced a timely update to its video feature Reels this morning, alongside the news that the Supreme Court upheld the law that will ban TikTok in the U.S. on January 19. The update, says Meta, will make it easier for users to discover the content that friends and followers are liking on the platform […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/17/2025
RTX 5090 exhibits 27% higher CUDA performance than RTX 4090 — exceeds 500K points in Geekbench
The RTX 5090 has surfaced in Geekbench, showcasing a 27% uplift in synthetic scores versus the RTX 4090.
1/17/2025
Trump spoke to China’s President Xi about TikTok just ahead of Supreme Court ruling
Just ahead of today’s Supreme Court ruling — which saw the nation’s highest court uphold the law banning TikTok in the U.S. as of January 19 — Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that he had a “very good” phone call with China’s President Xi Jinping, which included discussion of TikTok. Though the U.S. president-elect […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/17/2025
Trump comments on TikTok ban
Just ahead of today’s Supreme Court ruling — which saw the nation’s highest court uphold the law banning TikTok in the U.S. as of January 19 — Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that he had a “very good” phone call with China’s President Xi Jinping, which included discussion of TikTok. In addition, the president-elect […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/17/2025
Trump comments on TikTok ban: ‘stay tuned’
Just ahead of today’s Supreme Court ruling — which saw the nation’s highest court uphold the law banning TikTok in the U.S. as of January 19 — Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that he had a “very good” phone call with China’s President Xi Jinping, which included discussion of TikTok. In addition, the president-elect […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/17/2025
Rivian finalizes $6.6B loan for its Georgia factory
Rivian and the Department of Energy have finalized a $6.6 billion loan announced in November with just a few days left until Donald Trump’s inauguration. The company will use the loan to help build out its planned factory in Georgia, east of Atlanta, with construction beginning in 2026. The first R2 SUVs are scheduled to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/17/2025
This Raspberry Pi handheld emulator looks like a Nintendo Switch but it can play many more games
Maker BBoHK has created a Raspberry Pi CM5-powered handheld that looks like a Nintendo Switch but is capable of emulating retro games.
1/17/2025
Instabase raises $100M to help companies process unstructured document data
Instabase, a company that creates software for extracting processing unstructured data from myriad document types, has raised $100 million in a Series D round of funding. The announcement comes as companies struggle under a deluge of data — data that can unlock key business insights. Indeed, most of the data that companies generate is “unstructured,” […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/17/2025
Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban
The Supreme Court has upheld the law that will effectively ban TikTok on Sunday, January 19. The decision marks the end of TikTok’s months-long legal fight against a law that essentially forces the ByteDance-owned app to shut down unless it divests its US operations. As of Sunday, it will be illegal for app stores and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/17/2025
Bureaucracy and distance mean TSMC's U.S. fabs may always be behind Taiwan
TSMC says it is close to impossible to ramp up a leading-edge node in the U.S. and bureaucracy and distance are to blame
1/17/2025
Ken Howery: the tech mogul at the center of Trump’s Greenland ambition
Surprise! Donald Trump’s big, audacious ambition to buy Greenland from Denmark has a tech angle. Ken Howery, named by U.S. President-elect Trump’s pick to be the next ambassador to the country (and thus chief broker of any deal), is one more part of the rich seam of tech people running through Trump’s upcoming administration. Part […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/17/2025
Europe orders Elon Musk’s X to submit documents on its recommendation algorithms
The European Commission (EC) says it has requested information from Elon Musk’s X related to the algorithms that determine the content it recommends to users. The EC wants to determine how those algorithms may or may not be compliant with the Digital Services Act (DSA), which imposes key obligations on online platforms operating across the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/17/2025
Thermalright Grand Vision 360 Review: It’s not a competition, it is a massacre (again)
Thermalright’s Grand Vision 360 is a surprisingly strong AIO cooler. Check out the review for our results with Intel’s i7-14700K and Core Ultra 9 285K CPUs.
1/17/2025
GM banned from sharing driving and location data with insurance companies
The order bans the automaker from selling consumers' information to data brokers for five years. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/17/2025
PCIe standards group releases draft specification for PCIe 7.0 — full release expected in 2025
PCI-SIG just released PCIe 7.0 specifications draft version 0.7, and it expects to finalize the standard this year.
1/17/2025
Apple joins UALink Consortium for open-standard AI accelerator interconnections
Apple could be finally entering AI hardware game as it joins UALink development.
1/17/2025
TSMC's Arizona Fab 21 mass produces 4nm chips at a higher price than Taiwan
TSMC confirms Arizona Fab 21 is making chips in volume, charges higher prices than Taiwanese fabs.
1/17/2025
Nord Security founders launch Nexos.ai to help enterprises take AI projects from pilot to production
A new AI orchestration startup from the founders of Lithuanian unicorn Nord Security is setting out to help enterprises put their AI projects into production, with an initial focus on bringing greater visibility, security and adaptability to large language models (LLMs). Nexos.ai, as the startup is called, is the handiwork of Tomas Okmanas (pictured above) […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/17/2025
Apple brings Store app to Indian market
Apple launched its dedicated Apple Store app in India on Friday, deepening its retail presence in the world’s most populous country as the iPhone-maker seeks to capitalize on growing consumer demand. The app, available for download on India’s App Store, lets customers purchase Apple products directly while receiving personalized shopping recommendations, the company said in […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/17/2025
FAA had to divert flights because of SpaceX Starship explosion
The Federal Aviation Administration has told TechCrunch that it had to “briefly” slow and divert a number of aircraft near the area where debris was seen falling after SpaceX’s Starship exploded during a test flight Thursday. Multiple flights could be seen entering holding patterns or completely changing course in the airspace near Puerto Rico shortly […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/17/2025
SpaceX catches Starship booster a second time, loses ship to an ‘anomaly’ in space
SpaceX caught the Starship rocket’s Super Heavy booster for a second time, after it launched the upper stage into space on Thursday during a seventh test flight of the system. Soon after the successful catch, SpaceX representatives reported the ship was lost after the company lost contact about eight and half minutes into the flight. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/16/2025
Despite VCs investing $75B in Q4 , it’s still hard for startups to raise money, data proves
After two years of relatively muted investment activity, it seems that VCs are starting to pour capital into startups at pandemic-era levels once again. But a closer look shows that they aren’t really. In the fourth quarter of last year, investors funneled $74.6 billion into U.S. startups, a substantial increase from the average of $42 […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/16/2025
New York powerhouse VC Insight Partners nabs another $12.5B after $8B in exits
Insight Partners closed another giant flagship fund after big returns in 2024. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/16/2025
Failed fintech startup Bench racked up over $65 million in debt, documents reveal
Canadian Fintech Bench had over $65 million in debt but less than $3 million in cash, documents reveal. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/16/2025
Apple pauses AI notification summaries for news after generating false alerts
Apple is pausing AI notification summaries for news and entertainment apps after facing backlash for generating inaccurate news alerts. In addition, the company is introducing changes to notification summaries as a whole to allow for greater transparency. With the latest round of developer previews for iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3, and macOS Sequoia 15.3, Apple is disabling […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/16/2025
Threads might let you add music to your posts in the future
Meta’s Threads is internally prototyping the ability to add music to posts, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. The option to add music to posts is already available on Meta’s other social apps, Instagram and Facebook. It looks like the company is now thinking about bringing the feature to Threads, its X competitor. The feature isn’t […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/16/2025
Nvidia's RTX 5090, 5080 reportedly have the same L1 cache size per SM compared to RTX 4090, 4080
L1 and L2 cache specs have been revealed for the RTX 5090 and 5080 featuring only a minor improvement over the RTX 4090 and 4080.
1/16/2025
China investigates whether CHIPS and Science Act harms its chip companies
The Chinese Ministry of Commerce alleges that U.S. subsidies to semiconductor industry harm government-funded Chinese chipmakers.
1/16/2025
Trump administration might give a boost to deep-sea mining for critical minerals
A string of nominees all previously said that they support the practice A string of nominees all previously said that they support the controversial practice. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/16/2025
Maker turns Raspberry Pi into a wireless USB flash drive for an embroidery machine
The Feral Engineer has created a wireless USB flash drive for his embroidery machine to avoid plugging a flash drive in every time he wants to use a different file.
1/16/2025
Climate tech matured in 2024 as investors favored bigger rounds, later stages
Climate tech may have had a down year in 2024, but new data also shows a maturing sector with larger deal sizes. Venture investment in the climate tech sector was down 7% to $12.9 billion, $1 billion shy of 2023’s tally, according to data in a new PitchBook report. The report found that round size […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/16/2025
Nvidia releases more tools and guardrails to nudge enterprises to adopt AI agents
Nvidia is releasing three new NIM microservices, or small independent services that are part of larger applications, to help enterprises bring additional control and safety measures to their AI agents. One of these new NIM services targets content safety and works to prevent an AI agent from generating harmful or biased outputs. Another works to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/16/2025
Cooler Master's tiny NCore 100 Max SFF ITX case hits an all-time low on Amazon
Pick up Cooler Master's small form-factor NCore 100 Max PC case for an all-time low price.
1/16/2025
China-tailored RTX 5090D has AI and cryptomining limiters — multi-GPU config is also locked
Nvidia has purportedly disabled overclocking and multi-GPU support on the RTX 5090D to ensure its performance does not exceed U.S. export regulations.
1/16/2025
Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s AT Protocol
Entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s AT Protocol, he shared in a TikTok video posted on Wednesday. In anticipation of the coming U.S. TikTok ban, which will go through on Sunday unless paused by the Supreme Court, users have been fleeing to other video platforms, including […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/16/2025
G.Skill releases DDR5-6400 C30 96GB memory kit — 64GB and 48GB kits are also in the works
G.Skill has launched new low-latency and large-capacity DDR5-6400 CL30 96GB (2x48GB) memory kits.
1/16/2025
A rising EV startup star snags $100M and Tesla’s win-lose federal funding moment
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Before we move into the news of this week, we have one more roundup of transportation tech at CES 2025. As I noted last week, autonomous vehicle […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/16/2025
Meet the .NET Team at NDC London 2025
Meet the .NET team at NDC London 2025 to explore the latest in .NET 9, Azure, and AI-powered development through keynotes, sessions, and 1:1 meetups. The post Meet the .NET Team at NDC London 2025 appeared first on .NET Blog.
1/16/2025
Trading platform eToro said to be eyeing $5B US IPO in 2025
Trading platform eToro has reportedly filed confidentially for a US IPO that could value the company at over $5 billion. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/16/2025
Instagram Threads won’t share a timeline for account portability
Will Instagram Threads truly integrate with the fediverse, also known as the open social web, to allow its users not only to interact with people on other services like Twitter alternative Mastodon but also to move their account elsewhere if they decide that Meta’s policies are no longer to their liking? Today that answer remains […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/16/2025
Ryzen Z2 Go is seemingly 10% slower than Ryzen Z1 Extreme — Legion Go S clashes with ROG Ally X
A YouTuber benchmarked the Z2 Go-powered Legion Go S against the Z1 Extreme-powered ROG Ally X and compared their FPS numbers.
1/16/2025
Nvidia shifts to CoWoS-L packaging for Blackwell GPU production ramp-up
As demand shifts for dual-die Blackwell products, Nvidia reportedly increases CoWoS-L orders while possibly reducing orders for CoWoS-S packaging technology.
1/16/2025
TikTok ban poised to be delayed as Trump explores ways to extend deadline
The U.S. ban on TikTok is poised to be delayed as the deadline falls on a holiday weekend and President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration intends to find a way to extend the deadline, Bloomberg reports. Biden officials sees the issue as one for Trump’s incoming administration, as the current administration doesn’t plan to intervene before the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/16/2025
Goldman Sachs’ David Solomon tells startups to reconsider going public
Goldman Sachs is one of the biggest investment banker “book runners” for IPOs – where banks are paid many millions of dollars for each listing they underwrite. Yet CEO David Solomon told attendees of the Cisco AI Summit in Palo Alto that startups should reconsider the idea of going public, reports the Financial Times. Solomon […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/16/2025
This MIT spinout wants to spool hair-thin fibers into patients’ brains
You can’t start a company without a healthy dose of daring, and that’s certainly the case with NeuroBionics. The MIT-spinout thinks it could one day improve the lives of millions of people who live with neurological conditions like depression, epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease. Famed investor Steve Jurvetson of Future Ventures said that if everything goes […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/16/2025
Symbotic set to take over Walmart’s robotics business
Walmart and Symbotic announced a deal Tuesday that would find the Massachusetts robotics firm taking control of the mega-retailer’s automation business. Symbotic is paying $200 million in cash for the program, plus up to $350 million in “additional contingent consideration,” depending on how the deal shakes out. The relationship is more partnership than straight acquisition, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/16/2025
Retro PC case flaunts floppy disk-style bay cover — Silverstone FLP01 will sell for around $130
Silverstone has uploaded the official product pages and manual for the upcoming FLP01 retro beige chassis.
1/16/2025
Anduril to build its billion-dollar weapons megafactory in Ohio
Today, Anduril announced it is building their massive weapons factory, Arsenal-1, in Columbus, Ohio, confirming TechCrunch’s earlier reporting. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/16/2025
Polestar digs in for another grim year
Volvo spinoff Polestar had a rough 2024, and 2025 looks like it could be just as difficult. The EV maker announced Thursday that it expects to generate less revenue in fiscal year 2024 than it did in 2023, after previously estimating sales would stay the same. That’s thanks to “fewer than expected Polestar 3 and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/16/2025
Netradyne snags $90M at $1.25B valuation to expand smart dashcams for commercial fleets
Distracted driving is one of the leading causes of car accidents and a major reason why auto insurance premiums are expected to increase in 2025. For commercial fleets, that’s a nightmare. But for California-based startup Netradyne, it’s a tailwind. Netradyne provides fleet owners, including big names like Amazon, with AI-enabled dashcams that collect vehicle data […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/16/2025
Parallels adds x86 OS support for Apple Silicon — you can now run x86 Windows and Linux distros
Parallels Desktop introduces a new experimental feature that lets you install x86_64 operating systems on your Apple-silicon Mac.
1/16/2025
Teal Health raises $10M to create at-home cervical cancer screenings
The process of getting screened for cervical cancer is quite intimidating. It’s the once-a-year, sometimes life-changing treatment, that involves the bright lights of a doctor’s office and an uncomfortable insertion that always seems to last too long. It’s no wonder why Kara Egan and Dr. Avnesh Thakor saw the potential to make this process more […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/16/2025
Starlink touts $9 a month 5GB data cap plan to Australian users — marketed as a 'Backup' option
Starlink launches an AU$15 a month service in Australia to serve as a backup connection for existing users.
1/16/2025
Montech Heritage is a premium PC case featuring synthetic leather and a carrying strap for $89
The Montech Heritage is a fairly compact PC case for m-ATX or mini-ITX builds offering support for large components.
1/16/2025
TikTok CEO plans to attend Trump inauguration
As TikTok’s fate hangs in the balance, TikTok CEO, Shou Chew, is planning to attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday, The New York Times reports. The executive will join Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk on the dais, which is where former presidents and important guests are traditionally seated. Although Trump initiated calls […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/16/2025
Swedish Army's AI drone swarm tech allows one operator to control up to 100 devices
The Swedish Army and Saab develops and deploys an AI drone swarm in less than 12 months.
1/16/2025
What is Bluesky? Everything to know about the X competitor
Is the grass greener on the other side? We’re not sure, but the sky is most certainly bluer. It’s been two years since Elon Musk purchased Twitter, now X, leading people to set up shop on alternative platforms. Mastodon, Post, Pebble (two of which have already shuttered operations) and Spill have been presented as potential […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
1/16/2025
Clop ransomware gang names dozens of victims hit by Cleo mass-hack, but several firms dispute breaches
The Russia-linked ransomware group is threatening to leak data stolen from almost 60 Cleo Software customers if ransoms aren't paid © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Intel Arc B570 review featuring the ASRock Challenger OC: A decent budget option with a few deep cuts
The Intel Arc B570 graphics cards follow on the heels of the seemingly successful B580, with reduced clocks, core counts, and memory. The end result, in theory, is about 15% less performance, for 12% less money — except at 1440p and 4K, where the 10GB VRAM tends to hurt more.
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New export regs may see Israel requiring a license to buy U.S. chips developed in the country
Under the new U.S. export rules, Israel might be unable to get enough AI processors to develop AI projects, including Intel Gaudi processors developed in Israel.