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Fake Ryzen 7 9800X3D bought from Amazon was actually an old AMD FX chip disguised by IHS sticker
A TechTuber and hardware reviewer has shared images of a counterfeit AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D and its packaging - bought new and direct from Amazon.
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Raspberry Pi 5 powers cyberpunk themed brain scanner in a custom 3D printed case
The Civitas Universe has put together a cool Raspberry Pi cyberdeck that scans brains and features a cool cyberpunk theme in a custom 3D-printed case.
37 minutes ago
Showcase your innovation — exhibit at TechCrunch Sessions: AI
On June 5, 1,200 of the brightest minds in AI and VC leaders will converge in Zellerbach Hall at UC Berkeley for TechCrunch Sessions: AI — the must-attend AI event of the year. What does this mean for your startup? A prime opportunity to showcase your breakthrough to a crowd hungry for AI innovation. We’ve […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Maximize your brand: Secure an exhibit table at TechCrunch All Stage 2025
On July 15, 1,200 founders and VCs across all stages will gather at SoWa Power Station in Boston for TechCrunch All Stage 2025 — the ultimate summit for startup founders. What does this mean for you? A golden opportunity to showcase your brand to a powerhouse crowd eager to scale. It’s easy — just head […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Supercharge your brand visibility with an exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025
From October 27-29, TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 will bring together over 10,000 startup pioneers, VC leaders, and tech enthusiasts at Moscone West in San Francisco—the epicenter of innovation set to reshape the future of technology. What’s in it for your startup? A golden opportunity to put your innovation in front of an eager audience for all […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Microsoft appears to be working on 3D gaming experiences for Copilot
Microsoft appears to be working on 3D gaming experiences for Copilot, its AI-powered chatbot platform, according to a new job listing. The listing, published this week, seeks a senior software engineer based in Beijing specializing in 3D rendering engines, particularly engines typically used to build web browser-based video games (Babylon.js, three.js, and Unity). “Are you […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
56 minutes ago
Lego’s new Mario Kart set super-sizes Mario
Lego has announced a new addition to its Mario Kart collection that first debuted last August. But don’t expect Lego’s latest Super Mario set to fit in with the rest of the racers. At 12.5 inches long and 8.5 inches tall, this set, featuring Mario in his standard racing kart from the game, is Lego’s […]
59 minutes ago
Nvidia RTX 5050, RTX 5060, and RTX 5060 Ti specs leak — expect 8GB/16GB flavors and higher TGPs
Specifications revealed by Kopite suggest that Nvidia's budget RTX 5060 and RTX 5050 GPUs will be limited to just 8GB of memory.
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ServiceNow to buy Moveworks for $2.85B to grow its AI portfolio
ServiceNow said on Monday that it has agreed to acquire Moveworks, which develops enterprise-focused automation and AI tools. ServiceNow will pay $2.85 billion for Moveworks in a mix of cash and stock. The former expects the deal to close in the second half of 2025. Bloomberg reported the deal late on Sunday night. As of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Nirvana keeps on truckin’ with $80M at a $830M valuation for its AI-powered insurance
As the U.S. trucking industry gears up for the negative impacts of new Trump tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada, a startup building a new kind of trucking insurance — a critical cost for truck drivers — has raised some money to grow, and (it hopes) help truckers weather the changes. Nirvana, an AI-based […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
2 hours ago
Lenovo Yoga Slim 9i review: The most luxurious ultrabook
Lenovo’s Yoga Slim 9i is exceptionally stylish and has an outstanding OLED screen, though we wish it had more ports and longer battery life.
2 hours ago
Six thoughts on Apple’s new M3 iPad Air
This year’s iPad Air was a surprise to me. Apple launched the last Air less than a year ago, and that was a very good device that could already support Apple Intelligence — and most of Apple’s recent gadget upgrades have been about supporting Apple Intelligence. I figured Apple might launch a better Magic Keyboard […]
2 hours ago
Rocket Companies to acquire Redfin in $1.75B deal
Redfin is being acquired in an all-stock transaction that values the real estate listing platform at $1.75 billion. The acquiring company is Rocket Companies, a Detroit, Michigan-based finance and real estate holding firm that operates various brands including Rocket Mortgage, Rocket Money (formerly Truebill), and Rocket Loans. The new combined entity essentially pools the two […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Rocket Companies to acquire Redfin for $1.75B
Redfin is being acquired in an all-stock transaction that values the real estate listing platform at $1.75 billion. The acquiring company is Rocket Companies, a Detroit, Michigan-based finance and real estate holding firm that owns various brands including Rocket Mortgage, Rocket Money (formerly Truebill), and Rocket Loans. The combined entity will essentially pool the two […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Neom is reportedly turning into a financial disaster, except for McKinsey & Co.
A new WSJ report suggests that Saudi Arabia’s now eight-year-old Neom project — a futuristic, carbon-neutral, 105-mile-long linear city envisioned by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — has become a financial sinkhole. Plagued by delays and cost overruns, the country, which has already shelled out $50 billion, could reportedly face another 55 years of construction, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Death Stranding 2 is coming on June 26th
Death Stranding’s sequel continues to look absolutely bonkers. The upcoming game — known as Death Stranding 2: On the Beach — got a fresh trailer and a long-awaited release date of June 26th during a presentation at SXSW. The PlayStation 5 exclusive will cost $69.99 and is available for pre-order starting on March 17th. Those […]
09/03/2025
Some Chromecasts are giving ‘Untrusted device’ errors today
Reports are cropping up today that second-generation Chromecasts and music-streaming Chromecast Audio devices are failing, displaying an error on the device they’re trying to cast from that seems to imply the streamers may no longer be supported, reports 9to5Google. Text from screenshots of the error posted to Reddit reads, “Untrusted device” and continues, saying the […]
09/03/2025
Manus probably isn’t China’s second ‘DeepSeek moment’
Manus, an “agentic” AI platform that launched in preview last week, is generating more hype than a Taylor Swift concert. The head of product at Hugging Face called Manus “the most impressive AI tool I’ve ever tried.” AI policy researcher Dean Ball described Manus as the “most sophisticated computer using AI.” The official Discord server […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
09/03/2025
Japan’s service robot market projected to triple in five years
Faced with an aging population and labor shortages, Japanese businesses are increasingly relying on service robots to supplement their workforce, according to Bloomberg. Research firm Fuji Keizai projects the country’s service robot market to nearly triple by 2030, to ¥400 billion ($2.7 billion). Potentially driving that growth: The Recruit Works Institute projects that the country […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
09/03/2025
Here’s what the newest iPhone Air leaks say about its design
Apple is expected to release its thinnest phone yet later this year with the iPhone 17 Air. Rumors have held that the phone will be thinner than the 6.9mm iPhone 6 was, but recent leaks give us a better idea than we’ve had before of what to expect. Rumors of the iPhone 17 Air’s dimensions […]
09/03/2025
Colossal CEO Ben Lamm says humanity has a ‘moral obligation’ to pursue de-extinction tech
The CEO of Colossal, a startup that aims to use genetic editing techniques to bring back extinct species, including the wooly mammoth, assured audiences at SXSW that the company has no plans to create a real-life Jurassic Park — lest there was any doubt. “Modern conservation isn’t working […] and we’re gonna need a ‘de-extinction’ […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
09/03/2025
Forza Horizon 5 will require a Microsoft account on PS5
The PS5 version of Forza Horizon 5 will require you to link a Microsoft account to your PlayStation Network account in order to play the game, according to a FAQ on the game’s official website. The FAQ says that players will be prompted to link the two the first time they load the game. And […]
09/03/2025
Tammy Nam joins AI-powered ad startup Creatopy as CEO
Creatopy, a startup that uses AI to automate the creation of digital ads, has brought on a new CEO: Tammy H. Nam. Nam was previously COO and CMO at photo-editing startup PicsArt, and before that the CEO of video streamer Viki. She told TechCrunch via email that Creatopy was looking for a US-based executive who […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
09/03/2025
Apple’s smart home hub reportedly delayed by Siri challenges
Apple announced this week that the “more personalized” version of Siri that it promised last year has been delayed — and according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, that’s also postponed the launch of the company’s planned smart home hub. In a statement, Apple said the upgraded Siri features, which are part of its broader Apple Intelligence […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
09/03/2025
Musk may still have a chance to thwart OpenAI’s for-profit conversion
Elon Musk lost the latest battle in his lawsuit against OpenAI this week, but a federal judge appears to have given Musk — and others who oppose OpenAI’s for-profit conversion — reasons to be hopeful. Musk’s suit against OpenAI, which also names Microsoft and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as defendants, accuses OpenAI of abandoning its […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
09/03/2025
AMD's Zen 6-based desktop processors may feature up to 24 cores
AMD's Zen 6-based CPUs will feature 12-core CCDs, therefore up to 24 cores in AM5 configurations.
09/03/2025
How to stop doomscrolling
The world is bad sometimes, but it feels even worse if you can’t stop staring into the all-consuming abyss that is the 6-inch screen of a smartphone, following you through space and time. It taunts you with its compact, light build that’s small enough to slip into your pocket and take anywhere — yet its […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
09/03/2025
Elgato Wave Neo Review: I hope you got this as part of a bundle
The Elgato Wave Neo is a sub-$100 plug-and-play USB mic that's easy to set up — maybe a little too easy.
09/03/2025
Compal Infinite Laptop built around screen that extends from 14- to 18-inches, horizontally
Manufacturer Compal Electronics has won an iF Design Award 2025 for a previously unseen design with a horizontally extending screen.
09/03/2025
Apple’s plans for a smart display suffer a Siri-related setback
Late last week, Apple delayed its big Siri AI upgrade, and it seems that will take the company’s rumored smart display with it. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter, Apple has postponed the device because it at least partially “relies on the delayed Siri capabilities.” It’s been rumored for months now […]
09/03/2025
AMD's 16-core 9950X3D chip allegedly lands 14% faster than last-gen in PassMark
A few Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPUs have been tested in PassMark, delivering 14% higher performance than the last-generation Ryzen 9 7950X3D.
09/03/2025
'Self-replaceable batteries' return with the Dynabook Portégé Z40L-N business laptop
Dynabook's latest business laptop features the latest Intel Core Ultra Series 2 processors and a user-replaceable battery
09/03/2025
Netgear Orbi 870 Wi-Fi 7 mesh router review: Solid performance can’t mask high price and feature regression
The Orbi 870 continues the tradition of offering strong performance and a high price tag.
09/03/2025
Nvidia RTX 50 owners get another Hotfix, with 572.75 addressing crashes and clock speeds
Team Green dropped another hotfix to address a black screen issue.
09/03/2025
Run Windows 11 on Raspberry Pi 5 with Botspot Virtual Machine
Install Windows 11 for Arm on the Raspberry Pi 5 using the simplest installation method that we have ever encountered.
09/03/2025
Some nice upgrades for Apple’s best gadgets
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 74, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, sorry in advance for my terrible TV taste, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about Bybit, Walmart, and sports analytics; […]
09/03/2025
Retroid offered very limited returns for its unfixable handheld
The Retroid Pocket Mini has an unfixable issue that’s causing certain graphical effects for emulated games not to work properly. Retroid, the China-based company that makes the Pocket Mini, announced on Discord that it will accept returns of the device but only during a limited March 8th to March 14th window — and capped at […]
09/03/2025
The Last of Us season 2 gets an explosive new trailer
Warner Bros. Discovery just released a new trailer for the second (and maybe last) season of The Last of Us, offering an action-packed view of the fraught world Pedro Joel Miller (Pedro Pascal) and his daughter Ellie (Bella Ramsey) are facing. Things look bleak for both of them, and the show’s fungal-based zombies don’t seem […]
08/03/2025
New DOJ proposal still calls for Google to divest Chrome, but allows for AI investments
The US Department of Justice is still calling for Google to sell its web browser Chrome, according to a Friday court filing. The DOJ first proposed that Google should sell Chrome last year, under then-President Joe Biden, but it seems to be sticking with that plan under the second Trump administration. The department is, however, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
08/03/2025
Google scrubs mentions of ‘diversity’ and ‘equity’ from responsible AI team webpage
Google has quietly updated the webpage for its Responsible AI and Human Centered Technology (RAI-HCT) team, the team charged with conducting research into AI safety, fairness, and explainability, to scrub mentions of “diversity” and “equity.” A previous version of the page used language such as “marginalized communities,” “diverse,” “underrepresented groups,” and “equity” to describe the […]© 2024 TechCrunch.For personal use only.
08/03/2025
Trump’s DOJ still says Google should be broken up
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is still pushing to break up Google, according to a revised proposal filed Friday with federal Judge Amit Mehta. As in its proposal last year, the DOJ says Google should be forced to sell its web browser, Google Chrome, and potentially Android, as punishment for being a monopolist, as […]
08/03/2025
Judge allows authors’ AI copyright lawsuit against Meta to move forward
A federal judge is allowing an AI-related copyright lawsuit against Meta to move forward, although he dismissed part of the suit. In Kadrey vs. Meta, authors including Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Ta-Nehisi Coates have alleged that Meta has violated their intellectual property rights by using their books to train its Llama AI models, and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
08/03/2025
Nvidia RTX 5090's 16-pin power connector hits 150C in reviewer's thermal camera shots
Some thermal imagery shared on Twitter/X underlines how toasty-hot power connectors servicing Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 graphics cards can get.
08/03/2025
Seagate hard drive controversy persists as scammers discover methods to alter reliability metrics
Scammers have found a new way to manipulate operating hours in FARM logs, making it harder for users to distinguish new drives from old ones.
08/03/2025
Week in Review: OpenAI could charge $20K a month for an AI agent
Welcome back to Week in Review. This week we’re looking at OpenAI potentially charging $20,000 a month for a specialized AI agent, the unexpected return of early-internet darling Digg, a company genetically engineering mice to have mammoth-like fur, and more! Let’s do this. OpenAI could charge up to $20,000 per month for specialized AI “agents.” […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
08/03/2025
Core i9, RTX 4060, 64GB gaming laptop drops to all-time low price of $2,249
The Asus ROG Strix G18 gaming laptop is currently on sale at Amazon for $2249, the lowest price we've seen for it since it first launched.
08/03/2025
AMD's RX 9070 is on track to become the best-selling GPU on Amazon — RDNA 4 already ranks as the top bestseller in Amazon Germany and UK
Amazon lists AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and non-XT as some of the top-selling GPUs across the globe.
08/03/2025
Check your DVDs for disc rot — Warner Bros. says it’s replacing them
If you, like me, still have your DVD collection hanging around, now is a good time to dust off your DVD player and make sure they haven’t succumbed to disc rot. That’s because many of the discs produced by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (WBHE) between 2006 and 2008 are failing prematurely, the company acknowledged in […]
08/03/2025
9 US AI startups have raised $100M or more in 2025
Last year was a monumental year for the AI industry in the U.S. and beyond. There were 49 startups that raised funding rounds worth $100 million or more in 2024, per our count at TechCrunch. Three companies raised more than one “mega-round” last year, and seven companies raised rounds at $1 billion or larger. How […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
08/03/2025
The Apple Watch Series 10 just received its first $100 discount
The biggest Apple news of the week was the announcement of a sky blue MacBook Air and an M3-powered iPad Air; however, in the deals world, it was all about the Apple Watch Series 10. That’s because, right now, Apple’s flagship smartwatch is on sale at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy in its 42mm base […]
08/03/2025
Chevy Silverado EV vs Rivian R1T: How two EVs handled the iconic Mint 400 off-road race
Something special went down in the desert outside of Las Vegas this weekend: two EVs took on the Mint 400 for the first time. Since the Mint 400 launched back in 1969, vehicles in this iconic desert endurance race have been powered by dead dinosaurs. Spectators and race participants alike are used to the smell […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
08/03/2025
5 devices to help ease your smartphone addiction
The downsides of doomscrolling and screen addiction are well documented, but while many of us would like to spend less time glued to a smartphone, it’s easier said than done. Much has been written about the so-called dumbphone revival, where individuals regain some respite from pings and push notifications by downgrading to a basic feature […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
08/03/2025
It’s a great moment for classic RPGs
Suikoden is a game that I’ve been meaning to play for years. A highly regarded roleplaying game from the original PlayStation era, it’s renowned for its sprawling storyline and huge cast of playable characters. That also makes it pretty intimidating, and I’ve had a copy sitting on my PS Vita just waiting for when I […]
08/03/2025
Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPU spotted with 24,064 CUDA cores, 96GB GDDR7, and 600W — 11% more cores than RTX 5090
Nvidia's next-gen Blackwell workstation GPUs, which carry 96GB of GDDR7 memory and over 24,000 CUDA cores, have reportedly surfaced in listings.
08/03/2025
In defense tech, Lithuania’s sovereign VC fund is one step ahead
Europe is waking up to the need to invest in defense, and so are European VCs. But with a painful history of Soviet occupations, Lithuania didn’t wait for the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to reach its third anniversary to commit 5% to 6% of its GDP to military spending — and fund […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
08/03/2025
The best entertainment of 2025
Free time is a rare thing — which is all the more reason to make sure you’re downtime isn’t going to waste. To help out, we’ve put together this list of our favorite games, TV shows, and movies from 2025. It’s a space designed to make the process of finding something to play or watch […]
08/03/2025
Russia sees tech boom amid sanctions — microelectronics industry sees massive hiring surge and increased salaries
Despite sanctions, Russian electronics and computer hardware manufacturers expanded their workforce by an average of 13% in 2024.
08/03/2025
FSP MP5 and NP7 Air Coolers Review: Simple and effective
We tested FSP’s MP5 and NP7 air coolers with Intel’s i7-14700K and Core Ultra 9 285K CPUs. The MP5 stands out for an entry-level cooler.
08/03/2025
MainFrames is a charming platformer that takes place inside computers
MainFrames is a perfect example of a game with a clever idea that doesn’t overstay its welcome. In the new indie platformer, you play as an adorable floppy disk that traverses computer desktops. The aesthetic is ridiculously charming: the many characters sprinkled throughout the game are so dang cute, and the levels are filled with […]
08/03/2025
Micron shows off world's fastest PCIe 6.0 SSD, hitting 27 GB/s speeds — Astera Labs PCIe 6.0 switch enables impressive sequential reads
Micron has revealed its first PCIe 6.x data center solution, with a paired SSD and Astera Labs network switch sending data bidirectionally at PCIe 6.x speeds.
08/03/2025
Cooler Master MWE Gold 850 V3 power supply review
The Cooler Master MWE Gold 850 V3 is a competitively priced, reliable, and efficient power supply offering most users solid performance and future-proof features.
08/03/2025
How Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip failed me without actually breaking
When the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 7 arrives, likely this July, it could be a pretty decent upgrade over the Z Flip 5 I own. It’ll reportedly have a slightly bigger battery than the Flip 6, which had a slightly bigger one than the Flip 5, plus a much bigger outer screen. Unfortunately, I can’t […]
08/03/2025
How to fix Salmon Skin Problems in 3D Prints
Fix those wavy lines appearing across your 3D print using these four techniques.
08/03/2025
Cursor in talks to raise at a $10B valuation as AI coding sector booms
Investor interest in AI coding assistants is exploding. Anysphere, the developer of AI-powered coding assistant Cursor, is in talks with venture capitalists to raise capital at a valuation of nearly $10 billion, Bloomberg reported. The round, if it transpires, would come about three months after Anysphere completed its previous fundraise of $100 million at a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
08/03/2025
Jim Jordan subpoena pushes YouTube to restore ‘free speech’ like Meta
Meta may have caved on their content moderation policies for the sake of “free speech”, but there’s a world of other Big Tech companies out there – and more social media platforms for conservatives to de-censor. On Thursday, Rep. Jim Jordan subpoenaed Alphabet, the parent company of Google, demanding documents that show whether YouTube removed […]
07/03/2025
A Reddit moderation tool is flagging ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent content
Reddit’s automatic moderation tool is flagging the word “Luigi” as potentially violent — even when the content isn’t. Earlier this week, a moderator from r/popculture saw Reddit’s AutoModerator system flag a post about the video game Luigi’s Mansion 3 because it included the word “Luigi,” giving them instructions to “check for violence.” A Reddit spokesperson, […]
07/03/2025
Inside the high-wire business of MrBeast
The biggest YouTuber in the world is looking beyond videos to build a multibillion-dollar empire. For the last several months, Jimmy Donaldson, aka MrBeast, has been talking with investors about raising $200 million in a funding round that would value his holding company, Beast Industries, at more than $5 billion. An investor pitch deck I’ve […]
07/03/2025
Mickey 17 is a big middle finger to space-obsessed strongmen
The well-deserved hat trick that director Bong Joon Ho pulled off at the Oscars in 2020 with Parasite all but ensured that studios would fight tooth and nail to back his next cinematic project. It was always going to be difficult for Bong to top what he accomplished with Parasite — a shapeshifting masterpiece of […]
07/03/2025
Apple dodges a second Apple Watch ban
AliveCor has suffered another setback in its long-running patent case against Apple. Today, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has upheld a decision that the medical device maker’s EKG patents are not actually patentable. As a result, the Apple Watch won’t face a second import ban from the International Trade Commission (ITC). […]
07/03/2025
Volkswagen is bringing back physical buttons
Volkswagen is planning a return to physical buttons in its future vehicles over haptic sliders and touchscreen toggles for vital functions such as climate controls. The automaker’s design head Andreas Mindt told Autocar that the company “will never, ever make this mistake again” and promises to bring together physical controls for volume, heating controls, fan […]
07/03/2025
Microsoft reportedly ramps up AI efforts to compete with OpenAI
Microsoft is accelerating its push to compete with OpenAI, its longtime collaborator, by developing its own powerful AI models and exploring alternatives to power products like Microsoft’s Copilot bot. Microsoft has developed its own AI “reasoning” models comparable to models like OpenAI’s o1 and o3-mini, the The Information reports. OpenAI is said to have refused […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
07/03/2025
SXSW 2025: What we’re paying attention to
TechCrunch will be on the ground at SXSW 2025 — the annual tech, music, comedy, and film conference that kicked off Friday in Austin — in search of the zeitgeist of this AI-centric era. Yup, we’re one sentence in and AI has already made its entrance. And why not? A quick scan of the massive […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
07/03/2025
Uranium is in the crosshairs of the US-Canada tariff battle
President Donald Trump’s tariff threats could raise the price of uranium used to fuel US nuclear reactors, which could have ripple effects on a tenuous nuclear renaissance spurred by the growth of energy-hungry data centers. The US gets more than a quarter of its uranium from Canada, more than from any other country. The Trump […]
07/03/2025
Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having ‘profound’ security and privacy issues
Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned Friday that agentic AI could come with a risk to user privacy. Speaking on stage at the SXSW conference in Austin, Texas, the advocate for secure communications, referred to the use of AI agents as “putting your brain in a jar,” and cautioned that this new paradigm of computing — […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
07/03/2025
Intuitive Machines’ second moon lander is dead
Intuitive Machines’ Athena lunar lander is dead, just one day after it touched down at the moon’s south pole and tipped over. Luckily, the company says it was able to “accelerate several program and payload milestones” and deploy a few of the experiments that were riding shotgun before Athena’s lander ran out of juice. The […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
07/03/2025
US lawmakers have already introduce hundreds of AI bills in 2025
Just over two months into 2025, the number of pending AI bills in the U.S. has grown to 781, according to an online tracking tool. The tool, maintained by consulting firm MultiState, shows that the number of pending U.S. bills pertaining to AI now exceeds the total number of AI bills proposed in all of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
07/03/2025
Discord is discussing an IPO
Discord is in early stage discussions with bankers to IPO. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
07/03/2025
What is Instagram’s Threads app? All your questions answered
Twitter alternatives — new and old — have found audiences willing to try out a newer social networks since Elon Musk took over the company in 2022. Mastodon, Bluesky, Spill and T2 are some of the social media platforms people are among them. So is Meta’s Threads platform. What is Threads? How do you create […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
07/03/2025
Threads tests adding ‘interests’ on profiles to connect users with topical discussions
Meta’s Threads has begun testing a new feature that would allow people to add their interests to their profile on the social network. Instead of only advertising to profile visitors the sort of topics you might post about, the new interests feature will also direct users to active conversations about the topic. The company thinks […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
07/03/2025
Netflix’s plan to spend $18 billion on content is ‘not anywhere near the ceiling’
Netflix plans to spend around $18 billion on content this year – and chief financial officer Spencer Neumann thinks that number could increase down the line. “We are not anywhere near a ceiling,” Neumann said during the Morgan Stanley Tech, Media, and Telecom Conference this week, as reported by Variety. “I think we are still […]
07/03/2025
Google removes ‘underrepresented’ language from its grant website
Just weeks after Google said it would review its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, the Google for Startups Founders Fund webpage is peppered with changes. Most notably Google is now using past tense to describe all of its fund programs for underrepresented founders. This is a change that took place after December, according to the internet […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
07/03/2025
JD Vance is posting through it
Vice President JD Vance is a busy man. Over the past three weeks, he’s traveled to France and Germany, addressed the crowd at a massive conservative conference, berated the Ukrainian president, and visited the US-Mexico border. Despite his busy schedule, Vance seemingly always finds time to engage in one of his favorite hobbies: posting. During […]
07/03/2025
Google debuts a new Gemini-based text embedding model
Google on Friday added a new, experimental “embedding” model for text, Gemini Embedding, to its Gemini developer API. Embedding models translate text inputs like words and phrases into numerical representations, known as embeddings, that capture the semantic meaning of the text. Embeddings are used in a range of applications, such as document retrieval and classification, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
07/03/2025
LG’s new air conditioner directs cool air towards people it detects.
The Artcool AI Air doesn’t look as artsy as LG’s previous Artcool air conditioners, but it does offer improved energy efficiency by detecting the room’s layout and the position of its occupants so it can direct airflow right to them. The company hasn’t announced pricing or availability, nor does it detail what technology the Artcool […]
07/03/2025
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, acquires one-million-square-foot property in Memphis
xAI, Elon Musk’s AI company, has acquired a one-million-square-foot property in Southwest Memphis to expand its AI data center footprint, according to a press release from the Memphis Chamber of Commerce. The new land will host infrastructure to complement xAI’s existing Memphis data center. “xAI’s acquisition of this property ensures we’ll remain at the forefront […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
07/03/2025
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, acquires 1 million-square-foot property in Memphis
xAI, Elon Musk’s AI company, has acquired a 1 million-square-foot property in Southwest Memphis to expand its AI data center footprint, according to a press release from the Memphis Chamber of Commerce. The new land will host infrastructure to complement xAI’s existing Memphis data center. “xAI’s acquisition of this property ensures we’ll remain at the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
07/03/2025
AI bots now play Mafia with each other on public website, and almost all of them are terrible at it
A developer has created a way for multiple LLM chatbots to play Mafia against each other, with a ranking, full transcripts and a leaderboard.
07/03/2025
TechCrunch Sessions: AI speaker applications close today, submit yours now
On June 5, TechCrunch Sessions: AI will kick off — and you can be part of the industry-changing conversations that will be taking place. We have an open invitation for members of the AI community to lead breakout sessions and discussions with over 1,200 startup founders, VC leaders, and AI aficionados attending our newest event, which […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
07/03/2025
AMD: RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT MSRPs are real, but some cards will be priced at a premium
Typical versions of Radeon RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT will retail for $549 and $599, but factory-overclocked premium boards will cost more, says Frank Azor.
07/03/2025
AI-powered ‘more personalized Siri’ is delayed
Apple is delaying the rollout of the “more personalized Siri” experience it promised as part of its rollout of Apple Intelligence. According to a statement from the tech giant published on Friday by Apple blog Daring Fireball, the company admits it will “take us longer than we thought to deliver” on these new Siri features. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
07/03/2025
Startups Weekly: Startups raised funding to help others navigate challenges
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. Sometimes problems are just that: problems. But often, they are also fodder. This week brought us a mix of startups facing adversity, sometimes of their own doing, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
07/03/2025
The M4-powered Mac Mini has returned to its Black Friday sale price
Apple might have just updated the Mac Studio with M4 Max and M3 Ultra chips, but if all you need is a good daily driver, they’re completely overkill. The M4-powered Mac Mini is probably the better option in most instances, especially since the desktop is currently matching its all-time low of $529 ($70 off) at […]
07/03/2025
Apple delays upgraded Siri: it’s taking ‘longer than we thought’
Apple’s more personalized Siri features need a little more time in the oven. Company spokesperson Jacqueline Roy gave this statement to Daring Fireball today announcing the delay: Siri helps our users find what they need and get things done quickly, and in just the past six months, we’ve made Siri more conversational, introduced new features […]
07/03/2025
Physical game media might perish because of the 25% tariffs on imported discs
According to analysts, disc-based games may become prohibitively expensive if currently planned tariffs are enacted.
07/03/2025
Crypto funds seized by the government may go into a ‘digital Fort Knox’
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to establish a Bitcoin reserve held by the US government. The reserve, which crypto czar David Sacks has likened to a “digital Fort Knox,” will include the assets the government collected as part of criminal or civil forfeitures – currently estimated at around 200,000 Bitcoin. Along with […]
07/03/2025
Health expert warns of leaning too heavily on AI for social connections
With the rise of AI companions who serve as online friends or romantic interests, experts are questioning how the technology affects our real-world social connections and relationships. According to Kasley Killam, author of the social health-focused book “The Art and Science of Connection: Why Social Health is the Missing Key to Living Longer, Healthier, and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
07/03/2025
AMD is launching its latest Ryzen 9 X3D gaming processors on March 12th
AMD is announcing that its latest gaming-oriented Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D processors will be available next week. The new chips improve on the 9800X3D, which is widely considered as the best gaming CPU. The new ones feature 16 Zen 5 cores and second-generation 3D V-Cache technology that could help those looking to do more […]
07/03/2025
The Nintendo Switch 2 will have NFC and Wi-Fi 6, FCC filings show
The Nintendo Switch 2 is already official, but there’s a lot we still don’t know — like, will Nintendo’s new handheld support the NFC-equipped Amiibo figurines that can wirelessly unlock content in games? Today, it seems likely they will, because filings at the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) reveal the console will support NFC. They even […]
07/03/2025
AMD's 9000-series GPUs sell for up to $2,000 as opportunistic scalpers take control
Scalpers are selling RX 9070 XT GPUs starting at $700 all the way to over $2,000.
07/03/2025
'You can now jailbreak your AMD CPU' — Google researchers release kit to exploit microcode vulnerability in Ryzen Zen 1 to Zen 4 chips
A team of Google researchers has discovered an exploit allowing users to write and insert their own microcode on AMD chips and is now distributing the instructions for free.
07/03/2025
SpaceX’s latest Starship explosion lights up the sky over the Caribbean again
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before. Similar to the aftermath from SpaceX’s failed seventh test flight on January 16th, yesterday’s explosion following the launch of Starship’s eighth test flight created another spectacle in the night sky as debris rained down over parts of the Caribbean causing flights to be delayed and diverted in […]
07/03/2025
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.
07/03/2025
US charges admins of Garantex for allegedly facilitating crypto money laundering for terrorists and hackers
The administrators of Garantex, Aleksej Besciokov and Aleksandr Mira Serda, allegedly knew their crypto exchange was used to launder money, according to U.S. prosecutors. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
07/03/2025
Netflix brought back A Different World of AI-upscaled nightmare fuel
Thanks to AI upscaling technology, the version of A Different World that’s currently on Netflix won’t look how you remember it did when it aired. And not in a good way. The “HD” remaster of the 1980s sitcom being streamed is a nightmarish mess of distorted faces, garbled text, and misshapen backgrounds. People started spotting […]
07/03/2025
RTX 5090 GPUs aren't being recalled for being a fire hazard after all — Nvidia and MSI refute accusations
MSI has refuted accusations of an RTX 5090 recall, assuring customers its GPUs are free from the reported "fire-hazard".
07/03/2025
Google adds a Gemini panel to Calendar to help you manage your schedule
Google is testing a new AI-powered Gemini side panel within Google Calendar that lets users quickly and conversationally check their schedule, create an event, and look up event details. The feature is available as part of the tech giant’s early access testing program, Google Workspace Labs. You can access Gemini by clicking the “Ask Gemini” […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
07/03/2025
Apple’s The Studio makes moviemaking look like a crucible in latest trailer
Behind every big budget movie production there is a team of executives who know that getting too involved in the creative side of things can lead to disastrous results. Common sense usually tells them to let the artists do their thing in peace, but in the world of Apple TV Plus’s new comedy series The […]
07/03/2025
Japanese telco giant NTT Com says hackers accessed details of almost 18,000 organizations
Unidentified hackers breached NTT Com’s network to steal personal information of employees at thousands of corporate customers © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
07/03/2025
Russian propoganda is reportely influencing AI chatbot results
Russian propaganda may be influencing certain answers from AI chatbots including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Meta’s Meta AI, according to a new report. NewsGuard, a company that develops rating systems for news and information websites, claims to have found evidence that a Moscow-based network named “Pravda” is publishing false claims to affect the responses of AI […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
07/03/2025
This illuminating Raspberry Pi Pico project wants to improve your photos and YouTube videos
Arnov Sharma built a Raspberry Pi Pico studio light from scratch that can be controlled using push buttons to adjust the LEDs with precision.
07/03/2025
CollX raises $10M to grow its card collection marketplace
CollX, a company offering an online trading card marketplace, has raised $10 million in Series A funding. The round was co-led by Austin-based Brand Foundry Ventures and Philadelphia-based 114 Ventures, both of which were previous investors in the company. Other investors such as Next Coast Ventures, FJ Labs, and Ben Franklin Technology Partners also participated […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
07/03/2025
Lenovo joins growing China exodus as manufacturers flee US tariffs — OEM moving production lines to India
Lenovo announced that it will move 100% of its laptop manufacturing capacity to India in the next three years.
07/03/2025
Google screwed up Pixel vibrations again
Google’s Pixel devices are having a weird change with their notification and call vibrations after the March 2025 update. Multiple people have posted on the Google Pixel subreddit complaining about the change, with one user describing it as a “hollow feeling” vibration with “less thunk” post-update. This wouldn’t be the first time Google has messed […]
07/03/2025
Elon Musk ally leading CHIPS Act office purge — only 14% of original staff remain after dismissals
Elon Musk ally Michael Grimes is leading the downsizing of the CHIPS and Science Act office.
07/03/2025
AMD announces $699 Ryzen 9 9950X3D and $599 Ryzen 9 9900X3D arrive March 12th
AMD will release its anticipated Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D chips on March 12th, making a play for the absolute top-dog seat in gaming performance.
07/03/2025
Last day to apply to be a TechCrunch Sessions: AI speaker
TechCrunch Sessions: AI kicks off on June 5 in Zellerbach Hall at UC Berkeley — and we want AI leaders to take part in industry-changing conversations. Make your mark by leading breakout sessions and discussions with over 1,200 startup founders, VC leaders, and other industry pioneers at TC Sessions: AI. But don’t wait, you have […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
07/03/2025
Four book logging apps to keep you reading
A lot of us are feeling tense these days, to say the least. So when you’re being bombarded by disturbing news flashes or angry videos online, it might be a good idea to turn to an old-fashioned method of escape — like a book. If you’re a dedicated reader, though, it may not be enough […]
07/03/2025
Chinese lawmaker proposes law to allow Chinese companies to hide their foreign suppliers
Chinese lawmaker proposes a way to make detection of illegal supplies to China harder by allowing government backed companies to hide suppliers.
07/03/2025
Apple’s chip bumps, big and small
Apple updated a couple of its most-loved products this week, both in relatively minor ways. The iPad and iPad Air both got new processors and not much else, the MacBook Air got a new processor and a new color, and the Mac Studio got a new processor. All this is both good news, and thoroughly […]
07/03/2025
Meta’s next Llama models may have upgraded voice features
Meta’s next major “open” AI model may have a voice focus, per a report in Financial Times. According to the piece, Meta is planning to introduce improved voice features with Llama 4, the next flagship in its Llama model family, which is expected to arrive in “weeks.” Reportedly, Meta has been particularly focused on allowing […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
07/03/2025
X now lets you query Grok by mentioning it in replies
X is actively working to expand the reach of xAI’s Grok model to more users on the platform. Multiple users noted today that people can now mention Grok in replies and ask a question to get an explanation about a post. Users of the Elon Musk-owned social media platform could already access Grok through a button […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
07/03/2025
Sovol SV06 Plus ACE review: Super size your prints
Sovol is back with a bigger version of the open source SV06, the SV06 Plus ACE.
07/03/2025
MWC 2025 was all about the odds and ends
Mobile World Congress shows us the best and wackiest new ideas in mobile tech every year, with a side of jamón and “Oh, shit, was that the king of Spain who just walked by?†It’s a real trip. But this year’s conference was a mix of unusually odd oddities, including phone camera concepts I swear […]
07/03/2025
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You can be in with a chance to win a $300 Amazon gift card for sharing your thoughts about our coverage.
07/03/2025
Apple M3 Ultra benchmark seen on Geekbench — beats M4 Max in multi-core, but not single-core
An early benchmark result of the Apple M3 Ultra shows the CPU beating every other Apple silicon in the multi-score result.
07/03/2025
ASRock B860I Lightning Wifi Motherboard Review: Is Wi-Fi 7 important to you?
ASRock’s budget Mini-ITX B860I Lighting offers good value and is well-rounded, but it lacks Wi-Fi 7, which its peers do not.
07/03/2025
Nvidia's RTX 5060 and 5060 TI rumored launch in 'ten days' — but don't expect any stock until April
A hardware leaker claims that Nvidia's mainstream RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti GPUs could launch in just 10 days, with stock landing on shelves a month later.
07/03/2025
AMD grabs GPU market share from Nvidia as GPU shipments rise slightly in Q4
Shipments of AMD's discrete graphics cards for desktops hit historical low in 2024, but in the last quarter of the year the company's market share skyrocketed as Nvidia was in tight supply.
07/03/2025
Startup claims its Zeus GPU is 10X faster than Nvidia's RTX 5090: Bolt's first GPU coming in 2026
Bolt Graphics's RISC-V-based Zeus GPU features upgradeable memory, breakthrough performance, and enhanced energy efficiency.
07/03/2025
Intuitive Machine’s lunar landing goes sideways again
The second lunar lander made by Intuitive Machines has touched down on the Moon, but like the private aerospace company’s first spacecraft, it may not be upright. The Athena vehicle for Intuitive Machines IM-2 mission landed yesterday just 100 miles from the lunar south pole, but there’s uncertainty around its orientation which may impact the […]
07/03/2025
FBI says scammers are targeting US executives with fake BianLian ransom notes
The FBI is warning that scammers are impersonating the BianLian ransomware gang using fake ransom notes sent to U.S. corporate executives. The fake ransom notes, first reported by U.S. cybersecurity company GuidePoint Security, claim that hackers have gained access to an organization’s network to steal sensitive data, and threaten to publish the stolen data unless […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
07/03/2025
Android phones are getting lock screen widgets this year
Google has announced that lock screen widgets are coming to Android 16 phones later this year. Widgets have been available on the lock screen of the Pixel Tablet since last year, but Google is now bringing them to phones and more tablets. All widgets will support the lock screen by default, though app developers will […]
07/03/2025
Apple has 90 days to allow app sideloading in Brazil
Apple has been told it has to allow alternative app stores on iOS in Brazil within 90 days, as reported by Brazilian publication Valor International and 9to5Mac. Apple has already been forced to allow third-party app stores on iOS in the EU due to the Digital Markets Act. The judge who issued today’s ruling said […]
07/03/2025
SpaceX Starship spirals out of control in second straight test flight failure
SpaceX’s Starship spiraled out of control while in space during a test flight on Thursday, marking the second launch in a row that the vehicle has run into a fatal problem on its way to orbit. The company launched Starship using its Super Heavy booster and things looked normal for the first eight minutes of the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
Gundam GQuuuuuuX will stream on Amazon next month
English-speaking Gundam fans won’t have to wait long before they can stream dubbed versions of the franchise’s newest (and most difficult to pronounce) series. Today, Amazon Prime announced that it has secured the rights to stream dubbed and subbed versions of Gundam GQuuuuuuX, a new show produced by studio Khara, directed by Kazyua Tsurumaki, and […]
06/03/2025
FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) plans to vote on an inquiry to explore alternatives to GPS, FCC chair Brendan Carr says in a blog post. Carr says that while GPS has been “indispensable,” the technology “isn’t infallible” and that “disruptions to GPS have the potential to undermine the nation’s economic and national security.” Carr says […]
06/03/2025
Google co-founder Larry Page reportedly has a new AI startup
Google co-founder Larry Page is building a new company called Dynatomics that’s focused on applying AI to product manufacturing, according to The Information. Page is reportedly working with a small group of engineers on AI that can create “highly optimized” designs for objects and then have a factory build them, per The Information. Chris Anderson, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
A second Intuitive Machines spacecraft just landed on the moon — and probably tipped over
Intuitive Machines has landed a second spacecraft on the moon, just one year after accomplishing the feat for the first time ever. Unfortunately, much like that first attempt, it seems the company’s spacecraft may have tipped on its side. The lunar lander, called Athena, touched down on the moon’s surface at around 12:30 p.m. ET […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
Anthropic’s Claude Code tool had a bug that ‘bricked’ some systems
The problematic code changed file permissions that broke some systems, users say. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
Scale AI is being investigated by the US Department of Labor
Scale AI is being investigated by the U.S. Department of Labor for compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
ChatGPT doubled its weekly active users in under 6 months, thanks to new releases
OpenAI’s flagship AI chatbot, ChatGPT, returned to solid growth in the latter half of 2024, according to a new report published on Thursday by VC firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). While it took ChatGPT nine months to grow from 100 million weekly active users in November 2023 to 200 million in August 2024, it’s now taken […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
Hacked health firm HCRG demanded journalist ‘take down’ data breach reporting, citing UK court order
DataBreaches.net declined to comply, citing a lack of jurisdiction. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
Hugging Face’s chief science officer worries AI is becoming ‘yes-men on servers’
AI company founders have a reputation for making bold claims about the technology’s potential to reshape fields, particularly the sciences. But Thomas Wolf, Hugging Face’s co-founder and chief science officer, has a more measured take. In an essay published to X on Thursday, Wolf said that he feared AI becoming “yes-men on servers” absent a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
Shield AI raises $240M at a $5.3B valuation to commercialize its AI drone tech
Shield AI is now one of the U.S.'s biggest defense tech startups by valuation, raising $240 million at a $5.3 billion valuation in its latest round. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
Nvidia denies allegations that laptop RTX 50 GPUs are also missing ROPs
RTX 50 series laptop GPUs are reportedly missing ROPs, just like the RTX 5090, RTX 5080, and RTX 5070 Ti. However, Nvidia has countered these reports, stating there are (at the very least no longer) any problems with them.
06/03/2025
AMD says the $549 RX 9070 is real, but doesn’t deny reports of possible bait-and-switch
Yesterday, reviewers agreed: AMD is finally beating Nvidia with its RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT graphics cards, assuming they actually launch with sufficient stock at their $549 and $599 prices. But this morning’s launch, while better than recent Nvidia launches in terms of supply, may not have met that bar — and AMD would […]
06/03/2025
AMD says the $549 RX 9070 is real but doesn’t deny reports of possible bait and switch
Yesterday, reviewers agreed: AMD is finally beating Nvidia with its RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT graphics cards, assuming they actually launch with sufficient stock at their $549 and $599 prices. But this morning’s launch, while better than recent Nvidia launches in terms of supply, may not have met that bar — and AMD would […]
06/03/2025
Logitech G915 TKL on sale at $119.99 — RGB mechanical keyboard at 48% off, lowest price in years
The Logitech G915 TKL wireless RGB mechanical gaming keyboard is on sale at nearly half off.
06/03/2025
Now Google Maps is starting to use Android 16’s live update notifications
Google Maps is the first app we’re seeing adopt Android 16’s new Live Updates feature, according to Android Authority. Users on Android 16 beta 2.1 can now see the time until their next turn and estimated time to arrival on the status bar of their device. Google introduced the Live Updates feature in its first […]
06/03/2025
Russian crypto exchange Garantex seized by law enforcement operation
An international coalition of law enforcement agencies seized the official website of Garantex, which has previously been sanctioned by the U.S. and E.U. governments. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
Anker’s 8-in-1 charging station has dropped to a new low price
If you’re planning on giving your desk or workspace a good spring cleaning, Anker’s MagGo Magnetic Charging Station (8-in-1) is a relatively affordable way to rid your life of excess cable clutter. That’s especially true right now, as Anker’s versatile charging gadget is down to an all-time low of $49.99 ($20 off) at Amazon in […]
06/03/2025
Intel will keep using TSMC's services even when 18A is ramped up: 'It is a good supplier'
Intel is set to continue outsourcing some of its products to TSMC even when 18A and other advanced nodes are fully ramped.
06/03/2025
Nvidia denies reports that its RTX 50 laptop GPUs are missing ROPs, too
Remember when Nvidia categorically told us that “no other Nvidia GPUs” had shipped, or would be shipping, with missing render units? Well, you can imagine our surprise to read that the company’s RTX 50-series laptop GPUs might be affected as well, with Heise Online and HardwareLuxx reporting that Nvidia has asked manufacturers to check their […]
06/03/2025
Christie’s AI art auction reportedly exceeds expectations
Nearly 6,500 artists demanded in an open letter that fine art auction house Christie’s cancel its first show dedicated solely to works created with AI. Yet, the show, Augmented Intelligence, went on — and reportedly exceeded expectations. According to Christie’s, the show brought in more than $700,000, with many lots reaching beyond their high estimates. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
ChatGPT on macOS can now directly edit code
The new version for macOS can edit code in supported developer tools, including Xcode, VS Code, and JetBrains. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
Spotify says it’s fixing the bug that caused Premium users to hear ads
Spotify has acknowledged an issue that’s causing some of its paid Premium subscribers to encounter ads when trying to play music. In an X post published on Thursday by Spotify’s customer service account, the company said it’s looking into the problem and linked to its Community website where the issue has been documented by users […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
Jackbox games are coming to smart TVs
Jackbox Games are going to be available on smart TVs as part of a new cloud streaming service, according to a blog post. Jackbox aims to launch a beta of the service on “one or two smart TV platforms in the Spring of 2025.” Generally, Jackbox titles are offered in bundles called “Party Packs” that […]
06/03/2025
What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor
Mistral AI, the French company behind AI assistant Le Chat and several foundational models, is officially regarded as one of France’s most promising tech startups and is arguably the only European company that could compete with OpenAI. But compared to its $6 billion valuation, its global market share is still relatively low. However, the recent […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
VW’s cheapest EV will have Rivian DNA and who is bidding for Canoo’s assets
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! TechCrunch’s transportation team — well at least myself and senior reporter Rebecca Bellan — are hittin’ the road. Destination: SXSW, the annual tech, music, film, and culture […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
.NET AI Template Now Available in Preview
Announcing the first preview of the .NET AI Template, for Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and the .NET CLI. Get started building amazing AI apps with .NET. The post .NET AI Template Now Available in Preview appeared first on .NET Blog.
06/03/2025
Founder of battery startup Our Next Energy returns as CEO following new funding
ONE also announced the close of a new funding round. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
TechCrunch Sessions: AI speaker applications close tomorrow, submit yours today
On June 5, TechCrunch Sessions: AI will kick off — and you can be part of the industry-changing conversations that will be taking place. We have an open invitation for members of the AI community to lead breakout sessions and discussions with over 1,200 startup founders, VC leaders, and AI aficionados attending our newest event, which […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
OpenAI’s ex-policy lead criticizes the company for ‘rewriting’ its AI safety history
A high-profile ex-OpenAI policy researcher, Miles Brundage, took to social media on Wednesday to criticize OpenAI for “rewriting the history” of its deployment approach to potentially risky AI systems. Earlier this week, OpenAI published a document outlining its current philosophy on AI safety and alignment, the process of designing AI systems that behave in desirable […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
Mistral’s new OCR API turns any PDF document into an AI-ready Markdown file
Large language models work particularly well with raw text. Companies that want to create their own AI workflow know that it has become extremely important to store and index data in a clean format so that this data can be reused for AI processing. That’s why Mistral is launching a new API today for developers […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
Intangible AI, a no-code 3D creation tool for filmmakers and game designers, raises $4M
Intangible AI, now backed by $4 million in seed funding, offers an AI-powered creative tool that allows users to create 3D world concepts with text prompts to aid creative professionals across a variety of industries. The company’s mission is to make the creative process accessible to everyone, including professionals such as filmmakers, game designers, event […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
What went wrong with Skype?
Skype was Microsoft’s biggest-ever acquisition in 2011, a deal brokered by former CEO Steve Ballmer when the company was trying to compete with the rise of the iPhone. But after spending $8.5 billion on Skype, Microsoft dropped the ball again and again over the past 14 years, to the point where Skype was so irrelevant […]
06/03/2025
Brother denies firmware blocks third-party toner and ink use
Brother denies leveraging firmware updates to prevent printers from using third-party toner or ink supplies.
06/03/2025
Ontario cancels Starlink deal over US tariffs — Italy may follow due to US pullback from Europe
Ontario, Canada, is canceling its contract with Starlink due to the tariffs the U.S. placed on Canadian goods, while Italy is having second thoughts about the White House's pullback on its European security commitments.
06/03/2025
Why VCs ghost founders, or reject deals and never speak to the founder again
Getting ghosted is never fun. Especially if you’re a founder seeking capital from investors. It’s similar to dating. You might be left wondering “Why is this person not getting back to me? Did I do something wrong?” Did the investor hate the product? Did they not care for me personally?” It’s enough to drive anyone […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
DuckDuckGo leans further into GenAI as its AI chat interface exits beta
Private search engine DuckDuckGo is leaning further into the generative AI opportunity. The non-tracking search engine has been dabbling with expanding the role of AI assistance in its product for the past year, including launching a chatbot-style interface last fall — available at Duck.ai. In a blog post Thursday, the company said the service is […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
Armis buys Otorio for $120M to beef up cybersecurity in physical spaces
More consolidation is playing out in the security industry as platform players scoop up technology to give them deeper expertise in growing business areas. Thursday, Armis, a $4.2 billion specialist in cyber exposure management, said it would be acquiring Otorio, a specialist in securing industrial and physical environments. Terms of the deal are not being […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
TSMC expands investments in the U.S. to $165 billion with new fabs and R&D center: A closer look
TSMC is set to build a major semiconductor production hub in the U.S. for $165 billion, but the plans still need to be set.
06/03/2025
How Uber’s new product chief is gearing up for robotaxis
Uber executive Sachin Kansal has a reputation for dogfooding — the tactic of using one’s own products and services to root out problems and make improvements. As he ascended Uber’s executive ladder over the past eight years, Kansal ratcheted up 700 trips delivering food or people to their destinations. Lengthy reports, often dozens of pages […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
Faireez raises $7.5M for AI-powered hotel-style housekeeping for condo residents
Faireez, which aims to bring “5-star hotel-style housekeeping” to multifamily buildings, is emerging from stealth with $7.5 million in seed funding, the startup told TechCrunch exclusively. Founded in 2023, New York-based Faireez’s goal is to make the cleaning services it offers as customized as possible. It offers a subscription model where each building is assigned […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
Reddit adds new tools to help users contribute and connect across its platform
Reddit announced on Thursday it’s introducing a set of new tools to make it easier for users to participate on its platform. The features are designed to help users find communities, ensure their posts don’t break any rules, and understand how to contribute across the social network. Combined, the features are meant to enhance the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
Reddit will tell you if your post breaks the rules before you publish it
Reddit is introducing some new features for posts that should make it easier to know if your post meets a subreddit’s rules and if it’s for the appropriate community, according to a blog post. The new Rules Check will flag a potential issue as you’re writing the post. As shown in a GIF of the […]
06/03/2025
Telo’s electric MT1 mini-truck gets a new preproduction prototype
Telo Trucks, the company building a compact, modular electric pickup truck, revealed its new preproduction prototype in Los Angeles. The San Carlos, California-based startup recently closed a $5.4 million funding round and is working with bespoke manufacturing partner Aria Group (which has built EV restomods including for companies like Everrati) to enter the next development […]
06/03/2025
This Raspberry Pi Pico protractor has all of the angles covered!
Yaluke has created a Raspberry Pi Pico-powered protractor that can be used to calculate rotation data for simulating steering wheels when driving.
06/03/2025
Cybercriminals arrested for stealing hundreds of concert tickets through StubHub exploit
Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour ended last year, but authorities have finally apprehended a pair of thieves who managed to steal hundreds of tickets by exploiting a loophole in StubHub’s back end. Per The Hollywood Reporter, two cybercriminals who stole and re-sold hundreds of digital tickets to different concerts and sporting events like the U.S. Open […]
06/03/2025
The MagicX Zero 40 has a vertical display to properly handle DS games
With Nintendo exhausting its supply of DS repair parts, fans of the dual-screen handheld may have another way to play when their original hardware finally dies. The MagicX Zero 40 is yet another handheld emulator but with a peculiar design incorporating a four-inch vertically-oriented 800×480 touchscreen display allowing emulated DS titles to be played like […]
06/03/2025
AMD teams up with Cisco, Nokia, and Jio Platforms for Open Telecom AI platform
AMD, Cisco, Nokia, and Jio Platforms will develop an open platform for telecommunication machines with advanced security based on AMD's processors and telco technologies from Cisco and Nokia.
06/03/2025
TSMC's Arizona chip fab production is sold out through late 2027
As TSMC's capacities are fully booked through late 2027, its customers asked for more capacity in the U.S., says C.C. Wei.
06/03/2025
Where to buy AMD's Radeon RX 9070 series graphics cards
We've compiled a list of several major US retailers to help you find AMD's latest RX 9070 series GPUs.
06/03/2025
Google DeepMind, Cohere, and Twelve Labs explain how founders can build with their AI models at TechCrunch Sessions: AI
There seems to be a new, more impressive AI model every week. Given the rapid pace, how can founders best position themselves to build on top of this technology? At TechCrunch Sessions: AI, on June 5 in Zellerbach Hall at UC Berkeley, we’ll host a panel on “How Founders Can Build on Existing Foundational Models” […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
Flying is still safe for now — but the FAA isn’t
I was on a flight back to New York the other day, and something really odd happened when we landed: the passengers burst into applause. I’ve only ever seen that happen after a flight with really bad turbulence or a big delay. But this was a totally boring flight that took off and landed on […]
06/03/2025
Netflix follows Paul vs. Tyson fight with another boxing stream in July
Netflix is airing another live boxing match. The service will exclusively stream a rematch between Amanda Serrano and Katie Taylor on Friday, July 11th, according to an announcement on Thursday. The two boxers previously went head-to-head on Netflix in the leadup to the boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul last November, which ended […]
06/03/2025
TSMC's $100 billion U.S. deal shows Taiwan's ruling party is 'selling out Taiwan,' say critics
Critics say that TSMC's move to invest more in the U.S. will lead to the reduction of Taiwan's strategic importance on the global stage.
06/03/2025
The Take It Down Act isn’t a law, it’s a weapon
It’s internet safety law season again. After a narrow failure to pass the Kids Online Safety Act in 2024, Congress is now advancing the Take It Down Act, which criminalizes nonconsensual intimate imagery (NCII, once dubbed “revenge porn,” including AI-generated content) and sets requirements for web platforms to remove it. The bill has gained support […]
06/03/2025
Anthropic submits AI policy recommendations to the White House
A day after quietly removing Biden-era AI policy commitments from its website, Anthropic submitted recommendations to the White House for a national AI policy that the company says “better prepare[s] America to capture the economic benefits” of AI. The company’s suggestions include preserving the AI Safety Institute established under the Biden Administration, directing NIST to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
Turing, a key coding provider for OpenAI and other LLM producers, raises $111M at a $2.2B valuation
As AI companies race to improve the accuracy of Large Language Models and apps built on top of them, a startup that has emerged as a key partner in fulfilling that effort is announcing a significant round of funding to expand. Turing, which works with armies of engineers to contribute code to AI projects — […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
The Corvette ZR1’s 233-mph run had to start in a virtual world
Last October, the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 set a top speed of 233 mph on consecutive runs around a closed track. That’s not the fastest street-legal production car in the world: the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+ will, as the name implies, top 300 mph. What’s special about the ZR1, then? Its $174,995 starting price may […]
06/03/2025
1Password is making it easier to find passwords based on your location
1Password introduced a new feature today that will make it easier to find the login, password, or access code you’re looking for, based on where you’re using the app. It will now let you add a specific physical location to items, and they’ll automatically appear in the new Nearby section of the app’s home tab, […]
06/03/2025
Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D hit retail on March 12, according to official AMD outlet in China
AMD's official store at JD.com has put up listings for the Ryzen 9 9950X3D and 9900X3D, set to retail starting March 12.
06/03/2025
World's first 'body in a box' biological computer uses human brain cells with silicon-based computing
The computer integrates lab-grown neurons that develop on a silicon chip, enabling them to transmit and receive electrical signals.
06/03/2025
NASA is making sacrifices to keep the Voyager mission alive
It’s been 47 years since the twin Voyager spacecraft started their historic mission. Having travelled through interstellar space, farther from Earth than any other human-made objects, their nuclear batteries are depleting — but NASA is taking measures to squeeze as much life out of the aging probes as possible. The Voyagers’ radioisotope power system loses […]
06/03/2025
A year later, OpenAI still hasn’t released its voice cloning tool
Late last March, OpenAI announced a “small-scale preview” of an AI service, Voice Engine, that the company claimed could clone a person’s voice with just 15 seconds of speech. Roughly a year later, the tool remains in preview, and OpenAI has given no indication as to when it might launch — or whether it’ll launch […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
Crogl, armed with $30M, takes the wraps off a new AI ‘Iron Man suit’ for security analysts
AI agents are marching across the world of IT, and on Thursday a startup called Crogl is debuting its contribution to the field: an autonomous assistant for cybersecurity researchers to help them analyse thousands of daily network alerts to find and fix actual security incidents. The assistant — described by Crogl’s CEO and co-founder Monzy […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
Republican senators show little interest in scrapping CHIPS Act, despite Trump's call
Trump pushes Republicans to repeal CHIPS Act, but lawmakers are reluctant citing economic impact and legislative hurdles.
06/03/2025
Amazon Eero 7 Wi-Fi 7 mesh router review: Dual-band wireless with entry-level pricing
Amazon’s Eero 7 delivers respectable performance starting at $169.99.
06/03/2025
DuckDuckGo is amping up its AI search tool — but will still let you leave it behind
DuckDuckGo has big plans for embedding AI into its search engine. The privacy-focused company just announced that its AI-generated answers, which appear for certain queries on its search engine, have exited beta and now source information from across the web — not just Wikipedia. It will soon integrate web search within its AI chatbot, which […]
06/03/2025
Intel shareholder lawsuit dismissed — complaints stemmed from single-day $32B devaluation in 2024
Judge did not find enough evidence that Intel and its management did anything wrong with its financial reporting.
06/03/2025
Chinese researchers reveal self-encrypting molecular HDD technology supporting 100TB+ capacities
Scientists propose to use self-assembled Ru LPH molecular coatings for next-generation hard disk drives, but there are major obstacles.
06/03/2025
UK quietly scrubs encryption advice from government websites
The UK is no longer recommending the use of encryption for at-risk groups following its iCloud backdoor demands © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
A quarter of startups in YC’s current cohort have codebases that are almost entirely AI-generated
With the release of new AI models that are better at coding, developers are increasingly using AI to generate code. One of the newest examples is the current batch of Y Combinator, the storied Silicon Valley startup accelerator. A quarter of the W25 startup batch have 95% of their codebases generated by AI, YC managing […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
Renaissance Fusion raises €32M to radically simplify complex fusion reactors
The startup is betting that by simplifying stellarators, it can make fusion power cheaper and easier to maintain. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
Alpine Eagle secures funding from European backers for counter-drone tech amid rising threats
The war in Ukraine has brought drones to the forefront of modern warfare, creating a surge in demand for counter-drone systems. However, legacy solutions to counter drones, such as ground-based defense systems and cyber warfare, often come with a hefty price tag. For German startup Alpine Eagle, these solutions fall short: When now-ubiquitous $500 first-person […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
Infineon teams up with India’s CDIL to build chips for light EVs, energy storage solutions
Infineon Technologies has partnered with CDIL Semiconductors to tap into emerging business cases including light EVs and battery storage solutions in India. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
06/03/2025
Our first look at Apple’s sky blue MacBook Air
Aside from a new color, the M4 MacBook Air looks a whole lot like last year’s model. And we’ve got the hands-on experience and pictures to prove it. Apple’s got five main updates for its refresh of the 13- and 15-inch MacBook Airs for 2025. First, it’s got a similar M4 chip to the base […]
06/03/2025
12 Chinese hackers charged with US Treasury breach — and much, much more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced today it has criminally charged 12 Chinese nationals it says are behind attacks that hit more than 100 US organizations, including the Treasury, in a string of attacks going as far back as 2013. The DOJ accuses the people of carrying out their attacks either on their own or […]
06/03/2025
Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content
Reddit will now issue warnings to users who “upvote several pieces of content banned for violating our policies” within “a certain timeframe,” starting first with violent content, the company announced on Wednesday. “This will have no impact on the vast majority of users as most already downvote or report abusive content,” a Reddit employee says […]
05/03/2025
The Trump administration wants to review all prospective citizens’ social media accounts
The Trump administration may soon demand the social media accounts of people applying for green cards, US citizenship, and asylum or refugee status. US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) — the federal agency that oversees legal migration, proposed the new policy in the Federal Register this week — calling this information “necessary for a rigorous […]
05/03/2025
Trump wants to kill the CHIPS Act — says chipmakers are coming to the USA to avoid tariffs
Trump tells the Senate President to get rid of the CHIPS Act and use the money allocated for it to reduce debt instead.
05/03/2025
Tapbots teases a new Bluesky app, Phoenix, saying it can’t ‘survive on Mastodon alone’
There’s a new Bluesky app in the works from a popular developer of iOS applications. Tapbots, the company behind the popular Mastodon client Ivory, born out of its earlier efforts with Tweetbot (RIP), is readying a new app called Phoenix, designed for Bluesky’s growing social network of over 32 million users. In a post on […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Canoo’s CEO is buying the bankrupt EV startup’s assets
The CEO of Canoo is buying nearly all of the defunct EV startup’s assets out of bankruptcy, according to a court filing. A new entity controlled by the CEO, Anthony Aquila, has offered to purchase “substantially all” of the assets for $4 million in cash. The sale will also wipe clean a more-than-$11 million debt […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Trump gives automakers one-month tariff reprieve to move operations from Canada, Mexico to US
President Donald Trump has delayed tariffs on automobile imports from Canada and Mexico for one month after requests from executives at the Big Three automakers — General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis — with the expectation that automakers will move any offshore operations to the United States by April 2. The reprieve, which Politico first reported, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Eric Schmidt argues against a ‘Manhattan Project for AGI’
In a policy paper published Wednesday, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, and Center for AI Safety Director Dan Hendrycks said that the U.S. should not pursue a Manhattan Project-style push to develop AI systems with “superhuman” intelligence, also known as AGI. The paper, titled “Superintelligence Strategy,” asserts that an aggressive […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Here’s how to preorder Apple’s new MacBook Air and Mac Studio
Shortly after introducing the new iPad and iPad Air, Apple has announced a slew of new Macs. The M4-powered MacBook Air starts at $999 in its 13-inch configuration, while the 15-inch variant starts at $1,199. You can also buy the new Mac Studio with an M4 Max chip starting at $1,999, or an M3 Ultra-powered […]
05/03/2025
Big Tech is now slightly less silent on Trump’s tariffs
President Donald Trump’s tariffs on goods imported from Mexico, Canada, and China are in effect, but Big Tech companies have remained mostly silent despite the potential impact tariffs could have on their businesses. I’ve written about this twice already: once shortly after Trump announced them in February, and again a week later after the initial […]
05/03/2025
The hottest AI models, what they do, and how to use them
Confused about which AI model to use? Check out this comprehensive list of the most advanced models out there. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Volkswagen’s cheapest EV ever is the first to use Rivian software
Volkswagen’s ultra-cheap EV called the ID EVERY1 — a small four-door hatchback revealed Wednesday — will be the first to roll out with software and architecture from Rivian, according to a source familiar with the new model. The EV is expected to go into production in 2027 with a starting price of 20,000 euros ($21,500). […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Revenue prediction startup Gong surpasses $300M ARR, indicating potential IPO path
Gong, a startup that helps companies predict their revenue from potential sales, has surpassed $300 million in annualized recurring revenue, the company announced on Wednesday. Since its founding in 2016, Gong has used AI to analyze customer interactions. The addition of generative AI capabilities in recent years has helped to fuel the company’s growth. “We’re […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Car prices expected to increase by as much as $12,000 thanks to Trump’s tariffs
Car prices are already at record highs, and President Donald Trump’s tariffs — if they stay in place — could send them into the stratosphere. The situation remains extremely fluid, with Trump administration officials today announcing a one-month reprieve for the auto industry, according to Politico. But if tariffs stay in place, sticker prices could skyrocket by […]
05/03/2025
Prime Video tests AI dubbing for select movies and TV series
Prime Video is now experimenting with AI-assisted dubbing for select licensed movies and TV shows, as announced by the Amazon-owned streaming service on Wednesday. According to Prime Video, this new test will feature AI-assisted dubbing services in English and Latin American Spanish, combining AI with human localization professionals to “ensure quality control,” the company explained. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Catalan court says NSO Group executives can be charged in spyware investigation
The ruling said that a lower court can charge two NSO Group co-founders and a former executive of two affiliate companies for the alleged hacking of a lawyer. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Kia’s EV9 will soon be able to power your home
Kia EV9 owners can soon take advantage of the SUV’s Vehicle-to-Home power backup capabilities with the availability of a bi-directional charger coming in June. The new Wallbox Quasar 2 electric vehicle charger is the first home EV power connector in the US that works with the EV9 and is now up for preorder for owners […]
05/03/2025
OpenAI reportedly plans to charge up to $20,000 a month for specialized AI ‘agents’
OpenAI may be planning to charge up to $20,000 per month for specialized AI “agents,” according to The Information.The publication reports that OpenAI intends to launch several “agent” products tailored for different applications, including sorting and ranking sales leads and software engineering.One, a “high-income knowledge worker” agent, will reportedly be priced at $2,000 […]
05/03/2025
Not all cancer patients need chemo. Ataraxis AI raised $20M to fix that.
Ataraxis AI has raised a $20.4 million Series A to make cancer treatment more personalized. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Not all cancer patients need chemo — Ataraxis AI raised $20M to personalize treatment
Ataraxis AI has raised a $20.4 million Series A to make cancer treatment more personalized. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Apple adds AI-powered app review summaries with iOS 18.4
As part of the iOS 18.4 software update, currently in public beta, Apple is introducing AI-powered summaries of App Store reviews. The new feature will leverage Apple Intelligence, the company’s built-in AI technology, to offer an overall summary based on the reviews others have left on the App Store. The review summaries will be generated […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 AI model comes to more ChatGPT users
OpenAI has begun rolling out its newest AI model, GPT-4.5, to users on its ChatGPT Plus tier. In a series of posts on X, OpenAI said that the rollout will take “1-3 days,” and that it expects rate limits to change. GPT-4.5 launched first for subscribers to OpenAI’s $200-a-month ChatGPT Pro plan last week. “We’d […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Maker builds Raspberry Pi-powered temperature gun using a Pico 2
Arnov Sharma has created a temperature gun from scratch using a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 as the main board.
05/03/2025
The Volkswagen ID. EVERY1 is an affordable EV for the masses
Volkswagen is bringing up the lights on the ID. EVERY1 show car that it says will become the promised €20,000 (about $20,800 USD) affordable EV that will hopefully turn around the automaker’s struggling business. As market leaders like Tesla continue to promise — but not deliver — the elusive entry-level EV, VW is hoping to […]
05/03/2025
Corsair guarantees defect-free RTX 50-series GPUs in its pre-built systems — reports only one instance of missing ROPs
Corsair has addressed the ongoing RTX 50 ROP pandemic, promising users of defect-free GPUs on its pre-built systems.
05/03/2025
Former NSA official says federal worker cuts will have ‘devastating impact’ on cyber and national security
Former top U.S. cybersecurity official Rob Joyce told lawmakers on Wednesday that cuts to federal probationary employees will have a “devastating impact” on U.S. national security. Joyce, who was the director of cybersecurity for the National Security Agency until retiring in 2024, was providing testimony to the U.S. House Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Ryan Breslow is back as CEO of fintech Bolt, after years of controversy
Ryan Breslow is once again the CEO of Bolt, the fintech company told TechCrunch on Wednesday. Bolt shared a communication that recently went out to investors in which Breslow wrote that “following a challenging few years,” he had been reinstated as Bolt’s CEO with “unanimous approval” of the board of the one-click checkout company. Justin […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Amazon Prime Video is getting into the wrestling business with new AEW deal
All Elite Wrestling and Amazon’s Prime Video today announced a multi-year deal that will see the streaming service carry AEW’s pay-per-view events in the US, Canada, and the UK. Their partnership will start this coming weekend with AEW Revolution, which airs Sunday night. Unlike Thursday Night Football and other sports content that comes included with […]
05/03/2025
Ahead of a possible $4 billion IPO, CoreWeave’s founders already pocketed $488 million
CoreWeave’s initial S-1 document for its upcoming IPO is full of surprises. Backed by Nvidia, CoreWeave runs an AI-specific cloud service from its network of 32 data centers that together have more than 250,000 Nvidia GPUs as of the end of 2024, according to the company. Since then, it has also added a number of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Netflix’s live push continues with John Mulaney’s late-night talk show
Netflix is diving deeper into live content with a new late-night talk show hosted by comedian John Mulaney. Starting March 12th, Netflix will air Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney every Wednesday at 10PM ET. The late-night show, which Netflix will stream live for 12 weeks, will feature chats with celebrity guests. It marks the second […]
05/03/2025
Google Search’s new ‘AI Mode’ lets users ask complex, multi-part questions
Google is launching a new “AI Mode” experimental feature in Search that looks to take on popular services like Perplexity AI and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Search. The tech giant announced on Wednesday that the new mode is designed to allow users to ask complex, multi-part questions and follow-ups to dig deeper on a topic directly within […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Anna Patterson’s Ceramic.ai looks to help enterprises build AI models faster and more efficiently
Anna Patterson has had a storied career in Silicon Valley. She founded three startups, including search engine upstarts Xift and Cuil, as well as recall.archive.org, which became the Internet Archive. She was the vice president of engineering at Google, and later on started Gradient Ventures, an AI-focused seed fund. And she isn’t done building. Patterson […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Google is adding more AI Overviews and a new ‘AI Mode’ to Search
The AI-ification of Google Search continues to accelerate: the company announced on Wednesday that it will start showing AI Overviews for even more kinds of queries, and that users around the world, even those who are logged out of Google, will start seeing them too. There’s an even more ambitious AI search tool coming to […]
05/03/2025
Hyundai pairs up with Yandex spinoff Avride to develop robotaxis
Hyundai Motor Company and Avride have agreed to jointly develop autonomous vehicles in a tie up that will deepen the relationship between the two companies. The deal will focus on autonomous vehicle technology designed for robotaxis. The two companies will also look into other use cases for the technology, including autonomous delivery services using Avride’s […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Justice Department charges Chinese hackers-for-hire linked to Treasury breach
The individuals are accused of hacking over 100 U.S. organizations over the course of a decade © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Anthropic quietly removes Biden-era AI policy commitments from its website
Anthropic has quietly removed from its website several voluntary commitments the company made in conjunction with the Biden Administration in 2023 to promote safe and “trustworthy” AI. The commitments, which included pledges to share information on managing AI risks across industry and government and research on AI bias and discrimination, were deleted from Anthropic’s transparency […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Flex, a Brex for business owners, has raised $25M at a $250M valuation
Flex, which offers personal finance software and payments infrastructure for business owners, has raised $25 million in equity funding while securing a $200 million credit facility, it told TechCrunch exclusively. The equity funds were raised at a valuation of “just under $250 million.” The company last raised a $20 million Series A announced in September […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Delta Airlines bets on ‘blended-wing’ flight to reduce emissions
Delta Airlines is backing a startup that wants to design more fuel efficient, blended-wing-body aircraft, in the hopes of reducing its carbon footprint and making air travel more sustainable. The airline said today that it will help support the development of startup JetZero’s blended-wing-body (BWB) demonstrator aircraft that aims to cut fuel consumption, emissions, and […]
05/03/2025
Growth at all costs is destroying the internet. PR maven Ed Zitron says that’s an opportunity for startups
If you spend any amount of time online, you probably noticed that your user experience keeps getting worse. Websites are waterlogged with autoplay ads, pop-ups, and tracking scripts. Customer service chatbots are useless, despite the promises of generative AI. Social media algorithms boost rage-bait to keep you scrolling and engaged. Dating apps hide all the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Firm says AI-assisted security analyzer found 16 bugs in OpenRISC CPU core in under 60 seconds
Caspia Technologies has shared performance details of its CODAx AI-assisted security linter, designed to smartly check processor designs for security violations.
05/03/2025
Nintendo wins piracy lawsuit against file-sharing site
Nintendo has won its legal battle against Dstorage, the French company it accused of hosting pirated games on its file-sharing site 1fichier.com. In a press release sent to outlets like Eurogamer and GBATemp, Nintendo says a French Court agreed that 1fichier.com is “liable for failing to remove or block access to unauthorised copies of Nintendo […]
05/03/2025
EU must ‘fully’ apply its market fairness rulebook on Google, search rivals urge
The European Union is once again being urged to expand its investigation of Google under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). The big aim of the EU’s flagship competition reform — which came into force last spring — was to level the digital playing field by forcing platform giants into fairer dealing with rivals and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
YouTube brings its more affordable ‘Premium Lite’ subscription to the US
YouTube is expanding its pilot of a new Premium Lite subscription plan to the United States, the company announced today. Priced at $7.99 per month compared to the $13.99 charge for regular YouTube Premium, the cheaper tier offers “most” videos without ads — including “gaming, fashion, beauty, news, and more.” The major exception is music. […]
05/03/2025
AI pioneers scoop Turing Award for reinforcement learning work
Two trailblazing computer scientists have won the 2024 Turing Award for their work in reinforcement learning, a discipline in which machines learn through a reward-based trial-and-error approach that lets them adapt within constrained or dynamic environments. Andrew G. Barto, a professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst; and Richard S. Sutton, a professor at […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
This Raspberry Pi Snake console totally bites — in a good way
Arnov Sharma has put together a cool Raspberry Pi-powered handheld console for playing the classic game Snake on a Matrix.
05/03/2025
YouTube launches a $7.99 per month, ad-free Premium Lite subscription
YouTube on Wednesday announced a new premium subscription tier called Premium Lite, which would allow users to watch “most” videos ad-free for $7.99 per month. As an entry-level subscription, the new tier would not offer the other benefits of the full YouTube Premium ($13.99 per month) subscription like downloads, background play, or the ability to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Google’s Shopping tab has a new AI tool that takes your fashion idea and suggests similar clothing
On Wednesday, Google announced the launch of a new AI image feature for its Shopping tab, designed to help users find clothing items they envision by allowing them to search using their own words. The company is also expanding its AR beauty and virtual try-on tools. The new feature, “Vision Match,” is now available in […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Apply to speak at TechCrunch Sessions: AI before time runs out
Are you a leader in the AI space? Make your voice heard as a TechCrunch Sessions: AI speaker. At TechCrunch Sessions: AI, you can help shape what’s next in the AI industry — and share your expertise with 1,200 AI founders, investors, and industry pioneers. Help drive the next wave of innovation on June 5 […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Why I love the Logitech MX Vertical wireless mouse
Victoria Song is a senior reviewer at The Verge who mostly focuses on health tech and wearables and who, she says, occasionally has “existential crises over silly gadgets I bought on TikTok against my better judgment.” One of her favorite gadgets is the Logitech MX Vertical wireless mouse. When did you get the Logitech MX […]
05/03/2025
Artificial Intelligence comes to smart pens, includes handwriting-to-text and ChatGPT
The "One Smart AI Pen" concept by Zakwan Ahmad gets launched for crowdfunding on Kickstarter.
05/03/2025
Broadcom urges VMware customers to patch ‘emergency’ zero-day bugs under active exploitation
Security experts warn of ‘huge impact’ of actively exploited hypervisor flaws that allow sandbox escape © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 review: Excellent value, if supply is good
The AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT looks set to deliver highly competitive mainstream performance at a great price — perhaps too great. We'll need to see what retail availability looks like, but the performance in rasterization, ray tracing, and AI workloads has improved a lot, closing the gap between AMD and Nvidia GPUs.
05/03/2025
Apple updates the Mac Studio with M4 Max and M3 Ultra options
In addition to a new M4-powered MacBook Air, Apple on Wednesday also launched a new Mac Studio, its desktop computer for professionals who need top-of-the-line performance. The company is trying something new with the Mac Studio as it lets you choose between the M4 Max or the M3 Ultra. The Mac Studio starts at $1,999. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Apple launches new MacBook Air with M4 chip
Apple has introduced a new MacBook Air on its website, offering improved performance while retaining the familiar design. The new laptop is equipped with Apple’s M4 chip, the most recent addition to the M-series chip lineup. The MacBook Air comes in two sizes. Customers can choose between a 13-inch and a 15-inch display. Pricing starts […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Where to buy Nvidia's RTX 5070 graphics card — All AIB models across major US retailers listed
The RTX 5070 is finally available for purchase and here's where you can get one for yourself, assuming they haven't all disappeared already.
05/03/2025
Dyson’s high-tech hairdryer for professionals will soon be available to everyone
Since its launch just over a year ago, Dyson’s upgraded Supersonic r hairdryer has only been available for purchase by salons and professional stylists. But today the company announced the styling tool will be available to everyone in the US starting tomorrow, and in April for those in Europe, according to a report by Yahoo. […]
05/03/2025
GibberLink lets AI agents call each other in robo-language
A weekend hackathon project that lets AI agents talk on the phone with each other in a robotic language, one that’s incomprehensible to humans, has gone viral on social media over the past week. The project, called GibberLink, was created by two Meta software engineers during a hackathon competition in London, hosted by ElevenLabs and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Apple debuts M3 Ultra in refreshed Mac Studio with up to 512GB memory
Apple is refreshing the Mac Studio, its tiny workstation, with its M4 Max and new M3 Ultra chips.
05/03/2025
Apple's MacBook Air gets M4, new color, and a lower price
The 2025 MacBook Air has Apple's M4 processor, comes in a new "sky blue" color and starts at $999 for the 13-inch version and $1,199 for the 15-inch laptop.
05/03/2025
Apple announces MacBook Air with M4 chip and a price cut
Apple just updated the MacBook Air with an M4 processor, a new sky blue color option, and — most surprising of all — a lower price. The 13-inch starts at $999, while the 15-inch begins at $1,199. They’re available to order now and launch on March 12th. Both 13- and 15-inch models of the MacBook […]
05/03/2025
Apple launches new Mac Studios with M4 Max and M3 Ultra chips
After over a year and a half, Apple is updating the Mac Studio with a curious new quirk: it straddles two generations, with an M4 Max for the base model and an M3 Ultra for the upgraded model. You can preorder both versions at Apple’s site for $1,999 (M4 Max) and $3,999 (M3 Ultra), and […]
05/03/2025
I wore a one-horsepower exoskeleton to the world’s biggest tech show
It was a cold Thursday afternoon in Las Vegas, and I was running late for my last appointment of the show. There was no telling how long an Uber might take, now that thousands upon thousands of CES 2025 attendees were leaving town and competing for space on the roads. “No problem,†I told myself. […]
05/03/2025
AMD Radeon RX 9070 / 9070 XT review: Nvidia gets some big next-gen competition
Nvidia’s dominance over the latest generation of graphics cards ends today. AMD might have surrendered the high end of the GPU market, but its new $549 Radeon RX 9070 and $599 RX 9070 XT look set to bring Nvidia back to reality, at least in the midrange. After a disappointing $549 RTX 5070, a $749 […]
05/03/2025
CIA director says US has paused sharing intelligence with Ukraine
The confirmation of the pause on intelligence sharing follows a heated exchange between the U.S. and Ukrainian presidents © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
This little AI phone has some wild ideas
It was just a year ago that I had my first demo of the Humane AI pin — which was also my last, as it turned out. But another AI gadget at this year’s MWC is trying to take off where Humane crashed and burned, and in ways it’s even weirder than the AI pin. […]
05/03/2025
Experts don’t think AI is ready to be a ‘co-scientist’
Last month, Google announced the “AI co-scientist,” an AI the company said was designed to aid scientists in creating hypotheses and research plans. Google pitched it as a way to uncover new knowledge, but experts think it — and tools like it — fall well short of PR promises. “This preliminary tool, while interesting, doesn’t […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Hyundai teams up with Yandex spinoff Avride to develop robotaxis
Hyundai is teaming up with Yandex spinoff Avride to jointly develop fully driverless cars for autonomous ridehailing, the companies announced today. The partnership will enable Avride to deploy 100 Hyundai Ioniq 5 SUVs retrofitted with autonomous driving technology this year. Avride currently operates fleets of sidewalk delivery robots in several cities and aims to launch […]
05/03/2025
The questions ChatGPT shouldn’t answer
Chatbots can’t think, and increasingly I am wondering whether their makers are capable of thought as well. In mid-February OpenAI released a document called a model spec laying out how ChatGPT is supposed to “think,†particularly about ethics. A couple of weeks later, people discovered xAI’s Grok suggesting its owner Elon Musk and titular President […]
05/03/2025
U.K.’s competition authority says Microsoft’s OpenAI partnership doesn’t quality for investigation
Britain’s competition authority, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), said Wednesday that Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI doesn’t qualify for investigation under the merger provisions of the U.K.’s Enterprise Act 2002, the country’s anticompetitive practices law. “Overall, taking into account all of the available evidence […] the CMA does not believe that Microsoft currently controls OpenAI’s […]© 2024 TechCrunch.For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Grain emerges from stealth with $50M to help any business hedge against FX volatility
Foreign exchange fluctuations can make or break a business that trades across borders, but keeping up and responding to the FX market can be tricky if you’re anything smaller than the world’s largest enterprises. Today, a startup called Grain is emerging from stealth with a product that it says will let finance teams at companies […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Latest Turing Award winners again warn of AI dangers
Two trailblazing scientists who today received this year’s Turing Award for creating fundamental artificial intelligence training techniques are using the spotlight to shine concern on the dangers of rushing AI models out for public consumption. University of Massachusetts researcher Andrew Barto and former DeepMind research scientist Richard Sutton warned that AI companies are not thoroughly […]
05/03/2025
Kevin Rose, Alexis Ohanian acquire Digg
Here’s a blast from the past: Digg, one of the web’s early news aggregators, is now back under the ownership of its original founder Kevin Rose. Notably, he’s being joined as co-owner by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian (both pictured above). Digg and Reddit were once fierce rivals in the online social news aggregation space, launching […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Nvidia's shortages are limiting PC GPU market growth, looming tariffs also impacting sales
GPU shipments grew by 6.2% late last year despite shortages, but researchers predict that the graphics card market will decrease by 1% annually from 2024 to 2028.
05/03/2025
Photo of Elon Musk’s new gaming PC reveals odd component choices – is he rocking an RTX 4060?
A recent photo of Elon Musk’s DOGE gaming PC at the White House appears to show a badly-balanced build.
05/03/2025
ARM to sign $250M chip deal with Malaysia
The SoftBank-backed chipmaker has signed an agreement with the Malaysian government to bolster the country's chip design ecosystem. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Digg is coming back, thanks to its founder — and Reddit’s
Sometime last fall, Kevin Rose started thinking seriously about Digg again. A smidge over two decades ago, he’d launched a social and link sharing website that, for years, was known as “the homepage of the internet.” Since then, Digg had been through several owners and many pivots, Rose had gone on to several other careers, […]
05/03/2025
Volvo’s ES90 is a high-riding electric sedan with 434 miles of range
Volvo has pulled back the curtain on its upcoming ES90 electric sedan with 434 miles of range and a tech stack that includes Nvidia’s powerful Drive AGX Orin computer in a dual setup. Volvo has been trickling news out about the ES90 over the past several weeks, but today’s announcement includes our first full look […]
05/03/2025
Apple is challenging U.K.’s iCloud encryption backdoor order
Apple is challenging a U.K. Government data access order in the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), the Financial Times reports. The order targeted iCloud backups that are protected by end-to-end encryption. Last month, press leaks revealed the existence of the January order asking Apple to build a backdoor in iCloud’s encrypted backups. U.K. officials are exercising […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Darwinbox, the HR upstart from India, raises $140M to take on Deel and Rippling
Darwinbox, an Indian startup building a SaaS platform for hiring, onboarding and employee administration, has raised $140 million to take on the likes of Rippling and Deel as it seeks to expand internationally, especially in the U.S. The funding is being co-led by KKR and Partners Group, and is a mix of primary and secondary […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
From high school science project to $18.3M: AI-accelerated enzymes are coming for fast fashion’s plastic waste
A U.K. startup, originating from founder Jacob Nathan’s high school science project on using enzymes to break down plastic waste, has secured an oversubscribed $18.3 million in Series A funding. Founded in 2019 in London, Epoch Biodesign now a 30+ strong multidisciplinary team of chemists, biologists and software engineers. It will be using the new […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
CoreWeave acquires AI developer platform Weights & Biases
Nvidia-backed data center company CoreWeave has acquired AI developer platform Weights & Biases for an undisclosed sum. According to The Information, CoreWeave spent $1.7 billion on the transaction. Weights & Biases was valued at $1.25 billion in 2023, and it recently filed for an IPO. Lukas Biewald, Chris Van Pelt, and Shawn Lewis founded Weights & Biases […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
CoreWeave partner EcoDataCenter racks up half a billion dollars to build more sustainable buildings for AI
EcoDataCenter, a Swedish company that builds eco-friendly data centers used by major compute providers to handle their AI traffic, has raised nearly half a billion dollars — $478 million (€450 million) to be exact — in anticipation of more demand. The equity funding, which is coming from a group of unnamed institutional investors, will be […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Meta brings its anti-fraud facial recognition test to the UK after getting a thumbs up from regulators
Last October, Meta dipped its toe into the world of facial recognition — an area where it has had a tricky record — with an international test of two new tools: one to stop scams based on likenesses of famous people, and a second facial recognition feature to help people get back into compromised Facebook […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Defense tech startup Epirus raises $250M Series D to counter drone swarms
Defense tech startup Epirus has raised a $250m Series D to expand its counter-drone solutions. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Cadillac’s new electric Escalade IQL will be the longest SUV in production
Cadillac is taking its large and can-charge electric Escalade IQ and making it just a longer to accommodate some more luggage and leg room for third-row passengers. The new version, called the Escalade IQL, now surpasses the length of the longest gas-powered Escalade, while also adopting the ICE version’s boxier silhouette. When it goes into […]
05/03/2025
Quantexa nabs $175M at a $2.6B valuation to double down on data analytics for AI
London startup Quantexa has made its name over the years with an enterprise platform that employs AI and data analytics to fight money laundering and fraud. Today, it is announcing new funding of $175 million to double down on that business while also moving deeper into another hot area: using its technology to help organizations […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Key ex-OpenAI researcher subpoenaed in AI copyright case
Alec Radford, a researcher who helped develop many of OpenAI’s key AI technologies, has been subpoenaed in a copyright case against the AI startup, according to a court filing Tuesday. The filing, submitted by an attorney for the plaintiffs to the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California, indicated that Radford was served […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Daredevil: Born Again is a rough reboot with a promising future
Before Disney Plus and its parade of post-Endgame Marvel series, shows like Daredevil gave the studio a convenient way to infuse the MCU with a grittier, more dramatic energy. Being a Netflix project, the original Daredevil could go harder with its action and darker with its nuanced depiction of the man without fear. And with […]
05/03/2025
Judge rejects Musk’s attempt to block OpenAI’s for-profit transition
A federal judge in Northern California denied Elon Musk’s motion for an injunction that would have halted OpenAI’s planned transition into a for-profit company, Bloomberg reported. Musk failed to provide enough evidence necessary for an injunction, U.S. District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled Tuesday. However, Rogers said the court is prepared to hold an […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
05/03/2025
Aspiration co-founder and board member defrauded investors of $145M, prosecutors say
The fintech startup has been under federal scrutiny for years for questionable financial and carbon accounting practices. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
04/03/2025
CFPB lets banks off the hook and drops Zelle lawsuit
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today dismissed a lawsuit against Early Warning Services, the company that runs the Venmo-like Zelle payment platform, as well as the three banks that share ownership of it, reports CNBC. The CFPB, which enforces regulations against the financial services industry, had claimed in its December 2024 lawsuit that the […]
04/03/2025
Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition cards won’t launch until later this month
Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition cards won’t launch alongside other 5070s. Reviews of the new $549 graphics card just dropped today, but in an email to The Verge, Nvidia GeForce global PR director Ben Berraondo says the RTX 5070 Founders Edition will be available “later in March.” That means that people who want it […]
04/03/2025
Best Buy and Target CEOs say prices are about to go up because of tariffs
Target and Best Buy say Trump’s tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China could raise prices in their stores as soon as this week. During an interview with CNBC, Target CEO Brian Cornell said consumers will “likely see prices increase over the next couple of days,” while Best Buy CEO Corie Barry similarly told investors that […]
04/03/2025
Amazon reportedly forms a new agentic AI group
Amazon has formed a new group within AWS dedicated to creating AI agents, systems that help people automate parts of their lives, Reuters reported on Tuesday. In an email to staff seen by Reuters, AWS CEO Matt Garman said agentic AI has the potential to be “the next multi-billion business for AWS.” A longtime AWS […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
04/03/2025
X updates Communities with new filters, sorting options, and a way to see your own posts
X is bringing more attention to Communities, a feature that allows X users to connect and engage in discussions around a given topic, similar to how it’s done on Reddit. Today, tabs to access popular Communities are pinned to the top of the app’s homepage alongside your For You feed and other Lists. Now, you’ll […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
04/03/2025
African VC LoftyInc Capital launches third fund for seed and Series A, reaches $43M first close
One of Africa’s most active investors, known for early bets on unicorns like Flutterwave, Andela, and Wave, has secured fresh capital to invest in startups across the continent. This comes as funding deals and volumes in Africa saw only a slight dip last year, according to a report by VC firm Partech. LoftyInc Capital, which […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
04/03/2025
YouTube warns creators an AI-generated video of its CEO is being used for phishing scams
YouTube is warning creators about a new phishing scam that attempts to lure victims using an AI-generated video of its CEO Neal Mohan. The fake video has been shared privately with users and claims YouTube is making changes to its monetization policy in an attempt to steal their credentials, according to an announcement on Tuesday. […]
04/03/2025
The crypto industry got what it paid for
The crypto market never closes, so it was fitting President Donald Trump made the announcement on a Sunday: he was going to reward the billionaires who funded his presidential run. “A U.S. Crypto Reserve will elevate this critical industry after years of corrupt attacks by the Biden Administration,†Trump wrote in a post on Truth […]
04/03/2025
Andy Dunn’s new app Pie uses AI to help you make friends
“We’re a long way from pants,” Andy Dunn, founder of online fashion retailer Bonobos, told TechCrunch. Now, the former CEO is taking on a completely different challenge: he wants to help people make friends. Dunn’s newest venture, Pie, is a social app focused on bringing people together in real life. With an $11.5 million Series […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
04/03/2025
Foundation Capital, an early backer of Solana and Cerebras, raises $600M fund
Foundation Capital has come a long way since it was forced to scale down its fund size from $750 million in 2008 to $282 million (its sixth main fund) in 2013. On Tuesday, the 30-year-old firm announced that it raised a $600 million eleventh flagship fund, which is 20% larger than the predecessor $500 million […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
04/03/2025
The best stuff we’ve seen at MWC so far
Mobile World Congress 2025 is well under way in Barcelona, Spain, and while there’s still two days left, the mobile-focused show has already delivered lots of new laptops, smartphones, concepts, and innovative accessories. Some of the biggest announcements were made over the weekend, so we want to make sure you didn’t miss anything. Here are […]
04/03/2025
Here’s where you can preorder the new entry-level iPad and M3 iPad Air
As predicted, Apple announced not one but two new iPads this week. The new entry-level iPad starts at $349, while the 11-and 13-inch iPad Airs start at $599 and $799, respectively. Both tablets are set to arrive on March 12th, though you can preorder them from Apple and Best Buy starting today, March 4th. Unsurprisingly, both […]
04/03/2025
Klarna CEO doubts that other companies will replace Salesforce with AI
The founder and CEO of IPO-bound fintech Klarna took to X to once again explain why his company ditched Salesforce’s flagship CRM product about a year ago in favor of its own homegrown AI system. But this time, Sebastian Siemiatkowski emphasized that he doesn’t think others will — or should — follow his lead. “I […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
04/03/2025
Amazon is reportedly developing its own AI ‘reasoning’ model
Amazon reportedly wants to get in on the AI “reasoning” model game. According to Business Insider, Amazon is developing an AI model that incorporates advanced “reasoning” capabilities, similar to models like OpenAI’s o3-mini and Chinese AI lab DeepSeek’s R1. The model may launch as soon as June under Amazon’s Nova brand, which the company introduced […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
04/03/2025
Google still limits how Gemini answers political questions
While several of Google’s rivals, including OpenAI, have tweaked their AI chatbots to discuss politically sensitive subjects in recent months, Google appears to be embracing a more conservative approach.When asked to answer certain political questions, Google’s AI-powered chatbot, Gemini, often says it “can’t help with responses on elections and political figures right now,” TechCrunch’s […]For personal use only.
04/03/2025
Hackers launder most of Bybit’s stolen crypto worth $1.4B
Experts note that this is just the first step for the alleged North Korean hackers to profit from the historic heist. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
04/03/2025
Nvidia RTX 5070 Founders Edition won't be available on launch day, coming 'later in March'
Nvidia has unofficially confirmed that the Founders Edition variant of the RTX 5070 will only be available later this month.
04/03/2025
YouTube will soon restrict creators from mentioning certain online gambling sites
YouTube is tightening its policies on gambling content. The platform has announced that it will soon prohibit creators from verbally referring to gambling services not approved by Google, as well as displaying their logos and linking to them in videos. The new rules, which go into effect on March 19th, may also put age restrictions […]
04/03/2025
Monster Hunter Wilds is breaking Capcom’s sales records
Though only out for a grand total of four days, Monster Hunter Wilds has sold an astonishing 8 million copies. That’s according to Capcom, reporting that the monster hunting action RPG has become the company’s fastest selling title ever. The Monster Hunter franchise has racked up a number of superlatives for its publisher with 2018’s […]
04/03/2025
Apple reportedly challenges the UK’s secretive encryption crackdown
Apple is pushing back against the UK’s secret order to give the government access to encrypted iCloud files. The company has filed an appeal with the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, which deals with complaints about the “unlawful intrusion” of UK intelligence services and authorities, according to a report from the Financial Times. As noted by FT, […]
04/03/2025
China doubles US research output on next-gen chips amid export bans — trade war fuels a research wave
China is far outpacing US-based studies on next-gen chip technologies, with PRC-based authors making up 50% of the top-cited microchip research essays since 2018.
04/03/2025
Nintendo announces a new Switch OLED bundle ahead of the Switch 2
The Nintendo Switch is now eight years old and the company is announcing what could be its final retail bundle push before the introduction of the Switch 2. The new bundle includes the Nintendo Switch OLED system with a digital copy of Super Mario Bros. Wonder and a 3-month Nintendo Switch Online individual membership for […]
04/03/2025
OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor lays out the bull case for AI agents
We still didn’t get a straight up definition of exactly what an AI agent is during Bret Taylor’s Mobile World Congress fireside chat in Barcelona on Tuesday. The Sierra founder and OpenAI board chair preferred to side-step CNN moderator Anna Stewart’s question asking how “agentic AI” is “any different to a GenAI chatbot” by suggesting […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
04/03/2025
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 remake launches in July
After a whole lot of teasing, it’s now official: remakes of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 and 4 are on the way. Activision officially announced the new release — called Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 + 4 — which will include remakes of both seminal skateboarding games and is launching on Xbox, PlayStation, PC, and […]
04/03/2025
TechCrunch Sessions: AI speaker applications close March 7, submit yours today
On June 5, TechCrunch Sessions: AI will kick off — and you can be part of the industry-changing conversations that will be taking place. We have an open invitation for members of the AI community to lead breakout sessions and discussions with over 1,200 startup founders, VC leaders, and AI aficionados attending our newest event, which […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
04/03/2025
Sony’s new beta program lets you test PS5 updates early
Sony is launching a new PlayStation beta program to offer “an easier, more consolidated way for gamers to sign up to participate in future PlayStation betas across a wide range of PlayStation experiences,” according to a blog post by Sony’s Sid Shuman. By signing up for the beta program (technically called the “Beta Program at […]
04/03/2025
AI now ‘analyzes’ LA Times articles for bias
Yesterday morning, billionaire Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong published a letter to readers letting them know the outlet is now using AI to add a “Voices” label to articles that take “a stance” or are “written from a personal perspective.” He said those articles may also get a set of AI-generated “Insights,” which appear […]
04/03/2025
Google’s March Pixel Drop adds AI-powered scam detection and live location sharing with friends
Google on Tuesday announced new software updates for the Pixel phones as part of its “Pixel Drop” program for March. Pixel Watches and all Android devices are also receiving some new features with this release. The most notable parts of the update include using AI to detect scams in messages and calls, better categorization in […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
04/03/2025
Google Messages is using AI to detect scam texts
Google Messages is introducing an AI feature that aims to help protect Android users from text message scams. The new AI-powered scam detection tool was announced today alongside other new features, including live location sharing in the Find My app for Android users and features specifically for Pixel owners like multicamera streaming support and new […]
04/03/2025
Microsoft’s new Copilot app for Windows has an improved UI
Microsoft is finally rolling out a native version of its Copilot Windows app, nearly a year after turning it into a basic web app. A new Copilot app is rolling out to Windows Insiders this week that’s built using native XAML and includes a new side panel and an improved UI. The Copilot app on […]
04/03/2025
The NAND market faced a 6.2% revenue loss in Q4 24 — forecast projects a further 20% hit in Q1 25
TrendForce reports that the NAND flash industry suffered a 6% revenue drop in Q4 24 and is expected to plummet by 20% further in Q1 25.
04/03/2025
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg talks succession — ‘I don’t want to pass it to a committee’
Calls for WordPress co-founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg to step down from his leadership role have increased in recent months amid his controversial fight and legal battle with hosting company WP Engine. Mullenweg not only intends to stay, he’s also thinking about how he plans to manage succession planning. He doesn’t want to pass […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
04/03/2025
Cohere claims its new Aya Vision AI model is best-in-class
Cohere for AI, AI startup Cohere’s nonprofit research lab, this week released a multimodal “open” AI model, Aya Vision, the lab claimed is best-in-class. Aya Vision can perform tasks like writing image captions, answering questions about photos, translating text, and generating summaries in 23 major languages. Cohere, which is also making Aya Vision available for […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
04/03/2025
Solar installer Sunnova races to raise cash as it issues ‘going concern’ warning
The entire solar industry has been bracing for a rough road ahead. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
04/03/2025
Didi reportedly seeking funds for self-driving unit at $5B valuation
Chinese ride-hail firm Didi is on the hunt for fresh funds for its autonomous vehicle technology unit that could value it at $5 billion, according to Bloomberg News. Investor interest in self-driving cars is high in China on the backs of IPOs from WeRide and Pony AI, which have a market capitalization of $4.7 billion […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
04/03/2025
Donald Trump wants to delete ‘climate’ from federal websites — here’s how you can track the changes
The Trump administration has been hacking away at federal government websites, taking down information about climate change and anything deemed “woke.” Now, there’s an online tool you can use to track the changes and find missing information. Researchers initially developed the Federal Environmental Web Tracker to document similar changes during the first Trump administration, and […]
04/03/2025
The team behind Shredder’s Revenge and Streets of Rage 4 is making a fantasy beat ’em up
Dotemu, the studio and publisher best-known for retro revivals like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge and Streets of Rage 4, has announced its next game — and this time it’s a brand-new property. Called Absolum, and it’s a fantasy beat ‘em up with roguelike elements; it’s being described as a “rogue ‘em up.” Dotemu […]
04/03/2025
Split Fiction doesn’t need to be original when the co-op play is this good
Split Fiction, the new game from It Takes Two developer Hazelight Studios, doesn’t do anything particularly new. The game is a straightforward co-op adventure that strings together disparate sci-fi and fantasy games like links on a chain. If you bundled together the sci-fi and fantasy sections as separate entities, they wouldn’t form a cohesive experience […]
04/03/2025
Chinese government shifts focus from x86 and Arm CPUs, gov't promoting RISC-V chips heavily
Chinese government will encourage domestic chip developers to design processors based on the RISC-V ISA.
04/03/2025
Nintendo GameCube modified to run PowerPC Windows NT and Doom
Nintendo GameCube and Wii's PowerPC architecture makes a barebones functioning port of Windows NT possible.
04/03/2025
Microsoft updates Windows 11 CPU support for OEM systems to include 8th to 10th Gen Intel CPUs
Microsoft relisted the Intel 8th, 9th, and 10th Gen CPUs it had previously removed from the list of Windows 11-supported CPUs.
04/03/2025
What if your phone’s camera was much, much bigger?
The cameras on our phones won’t stop getting bigger. Xiaomi’s new 15 Ultra is dominated by an enormous ring of cameras on the back, Nothing has rethought its camera layout from scratch to fit a periscope into the Phone 3A Pro, and consistent rumors suggest that even Apple is going to strap a big ol’ […]
04/03/2025
CFPB staff and leaders clash about whether they’re allowed to work
Leadership and staff at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) are clashing in court over whether the Trump administration is seeking to wind down the agency and if it has allowed workers to continue their legally required duties. Now, a key agency executive is expected to testify in a hearing next week, after a judge […]
04/03/2025
On a quest to revive the woolly mammoth, Colossal Biosciences has created a woolly mouse
Colossal Biosciences, known for its outlandish goal to resurrect the woolly mammoth by 2028, is claiming steady progress. It’s evidence: Genetically engineering mice to have mammoth-like fur. To engineer the woolly mouse, the company’s scientists found mouse versions of mammoth genes and then used CRISPR to edit mice embryos, Dr. Beth Shapiro, chief science officer […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
04/03/2025
TSMC's $100B US investment only accounts for 7% of company's output — Taiwan gov't gives official blessing for project
After the initial hype of TSMC's major U.S. investment, TSMC is clarifying its commitments to Taiwan and its shareholders; the move is not an abandoning of Taiwan.
04/03/2025
A new version of Monopoly replaces cash and math with a mobile app
Hasbro announced a new version of Monopoly that simplifies gameplay by replacing cash and the banker with a mobile app that handles all of the game’s transactions. With Monopoly App Banking, a smartphone or tablet takes over the role of banker and keeps track of every player’s money and properties. It will make the game […]
04/03/2025
OpenAI launches $50M grant program to help fund academic research
OpenAI on Monday said it is supporting a new consortium called NextGenAI that would focus on supporting AI-assisted research at top universities. NextGenAI, whose 15 founding academic partners include Harvard, the University of Oxford and MIT, will be funded with $50 million in research grants, compute funding, and API access from OpenAI, the company said. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
04/03/2025
Funding to women-founded startups declined 12% in 2024, but that wasn’t far behind the broader market
Venture investment to startups founded by women in Europe declined 12% in 2024, but it was in line with the 11% decrease in venture investment overall. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
04/03/2025
AMD's new RX 9000 GPUs only officially support UEFI systems
Radeon RX 9000 series GPUs will require UEFI for optimal performance and may not work as expected on older CSM/Legacy Modes.
04/03/2025
This Google change is breaking some digital photo frames
Google is changing the way apps can access Google Photos libraries, which is creating problems for owners of some digital photo frames. While the change is designed to make your photo library more private, it’s also breaking how digital photo frames — such as those made by Aura and Cozyla — automatically update slideshows on […]
04/03/2025
Apple refreshes the iPad, but doesn’t add Apple Intelligence
For the first time in more than two years, there’s a new base-model iPad on the market. Apple just announced the 11th-generation iPad with a press release, but unlike the new products Apple has launched lately, this one doesn’t come with Apple Intelligence. The new iPad comes equipped with an upgraded A16 chip, along with […]
04/03/2025
Polish space agency says it’s investigating a cyberattack
Poland’s space agency (POLSA) says it is working to restore services following a cybersecurity incident. POLSA, the Polish government agency responsible for the country’s space activities, said in a post on X that it had “immediately disconnected” its network from the internet after detecting the cyberattack on Sunday. POLSA’s website remains offline at the time […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
04/03/2025
Apple launches a new iPad Air with M3 chip
Apple has introduced new 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Air models with the M3 chip. The new iPad Air can be pre-ordered starting Tuesday, and will launch on March 12. The 11-inch model starts at $599 and the 13-inch starts at $799. The iPad Air with M3 comes in four colors. While the new iPad Air […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
04/03/2025
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 review: $549 price and performance look decent on paper
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 lands at the upper end of what used to be the mainstream price segment, but we strongly doubt the $549 MSRP will be in effect any time soon, outside of a limited number of cards. In fact, the entire consumer GPU market is in a bad state right now as far as pricing and availability go.
04/03/2025
Swap banks $40M to build tools for merchants to deal with tariffs and other cross-border trading nightmares
Cross-border trade could become significantly more challenging with the wave of new tariffs getting introduced across different markets. Today, in a timely piece of news, a London-founded startup called Swap — which is building tools for e-commerce companies to better navigate the cross-border trading world — is announcing $40 million in funding to expand. Iconiq […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
04/03/2025
Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals
Right to repair crusader Lois Rossmann has shared a new video encapsulating his surprise, and disappointment, that Brother has morphed into an 'anti-consumer printer company.'
04/03/2025
Apple launches a new M3-powered iPad Air
The iPad Air is a tricky tablet. At times, it has been the most compelling of Apple’s lineup, the Goldilocks-perfect combination of features and price. Other times, it starts to feel like an awkwardly placed option, both too expensive and not good enough. With the new model, which Apple just announced via a press release, […]
04/03/2025
Scrunch AI is helping companies stand out in AI search
As more people turn to AI chatbots like ChatGPT to look things up on the internet, the way companies approach their online presence has to change. Scrunch AI wants to help enterprises better prepare for a world in which more AI bots and agents visit their website than humans do. Scrunch AI says its platform […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
04/03/2025
Peak Design Roller Pro review: rethinking the carry-on
Let me lay my cards on the table: I’m a big fan of Peak Design bags and have been for almost a decade. That’s why I jumped at the chance to review the company’s first roller bag with admittedly high expectations. Like Peak Design’s new Outdoor Backpack I recently reviewed, the four-wheel roller bag didn’t […]
04/03/2025
Alienware has a $549 QD-OLED gaming monitor
2024 was the year OLED cemented its victory — and 2025 might let more gamers actually afford the glorious screens. Today, Alienware says it will try* to bring the price of a QD-OLED gaming panel down to $549 this summer with the AW2725D, a new 27-inch 2560 x 1440 QHD monitor that’ll offer OLED’s incredible […]
04/03/2025
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 review: definitely not a $549 RTX 4090
The RTX 50-series launch hasn’t gone smoothly so far. Severely limited stock, high prices, and manufacturing issues have left PC gamers frustrated. Now, Nvidia is trying to get things heading in the right direction with the RTX 5070, a GPU that it promised would deliver $1,599 RTX 4090-like performance for $549. It doesn’t, and it […]
04/03/2025
How to mirror your Samsung phone on Windows
If you’re a Windows and Android user who has been envying the iPhone mirroring capabilities of macOS, there is a similar feature you can use — albeit with a caveat. First, the good news: this is a free tool that’s built right into Windows 11, with no extra download required. It works as part of […]
04/03/2025
The James Bond Cinematic Universe
Bald head. Big muscles. Once a renowned businessman, now making a series of questionable decisions in order to obtain more political power. Weird side hobbies, some involving rockets. Perfect recipe for a Bond villain! Also a decent description of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. So maybe it’s appropriate that Amazon has struck a deal to give […]
04/03/2025
Trump imposes tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China
President Donald Trump has followed through on his temporarily delayed tariff threats. The US will impose a 25 percent tariff on goods imported from Mexico and Canada, while China will face an additional 10 percent tariff on top of the 10 percent tax previously enacted. On Monday, Trump dashed hopes that a deal could be […]
04/03/2025
Samsung heard you like weird screens so it brought some to MWC
For a phone show, there’s an awful lot of cool non-phone stuff at Mobile World Congress this year. Take Lenovo’s ThinkBook Flip concept, which answers the question: “What if your laptop unfolded, and then unfolded again?” Samsung’s Display group has been apparently thinking along the same lines, because it has some interesting new folding concepts […]
04/03/2025
LlamaIndex launches a cloud service for building unstructed data agents
Agents are the next big thing in AI. Some define these “agents” differently from others, but the general idea is, they’re AI-powered tools that can perform tasks autonomously. The agent hype has reached a fever pitch, but one startup was relatively early to the game: LlamaIndex. Founded by former Uber research scientists, Jerry Liu and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
04/03/2025
The future of BMW is being built at a battery factory in Germany
While other automakers rethink their plans as the global appetite for EVs slows down, BMW is vowing to stay the course. The German automaker says it still plans to offer an EV in every vehicle segment across all of its brands, including Mini and Rolls-Royce. And most importantly, BMW is investing billions of dollars in […]
04/03/2025
AMD's mobile X3D chips come to desktops — Minisforum's $599 MoDT debuts with Ryzen 9 7945HX3D
Minisforum just launched a mini-ITX motherboard that comes equipped with an AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D chip for the ultimate compact gaming machine.
04/03/2025
Hotel management platform Mews books $75M round led by Tiger Global
Despite clouds of uncertainty looming over the economy and geopolitics, people still want to travel. Demand for travel is in fact expected to grow by 12% this year, working out to 1.75 billion “arrivals,” according to analysts at Oxford Economics. To meet that demand, Mews, which provides a SaaS platform for hotel management, has raised […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
04/03/2025
Uber users in Austin are getting matched with Waymo robotaxis
Uber users in Austin now have a choice between a Waymo robotaxi and a human driver. The two companies officially launched Tuesday the “Waymo on Uber” robotaxi service in Austin as part of a partnership that has deepened in recent months. The launch comes just days before SXSW, the annual tech, music, film, and comedy […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
04/03/2025
Waymo is now available exclusively on Uber in Austin
Today’s the day: Waymo’s unlikely partnership with Uber is now live in Austin, Texas. The former rivals have joined forces in the hopes of accelerating the transition to autonomous vehicles, and as of today, any Austin resident with a desire to take a trip in a fully driverless robotaxi can open their Uber app and […]
04/03/2025
Mistral urges telcos to get into the hyperscaler game
Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch brought a sales pitch to Mobile World Congress on Tuesday, urging delegates at the world’s biggest telecoms confab in Barcelona to invest in building data center infrastructure and “becoming hyperscalers” to boost the regional AI ecosystem. “We would welcome more domestic effort in making more data centers,” he said during an on-stage […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
04/03/2025
Mach Industries, founded by 21-year-old Ethan Thornton, lands US Army contract, builds weapons factory
Sequoia-backed Mach Industries, the defense tech founded by 21-year-old Ethan Thornton, landed a contract with the U.S. Army and has plans for its first factory, Thornton told TechCrunch. The factory will be 115,000 square feet in Huntington Beach, California, where Mach’s headquarters is located, CEO Thorton said. While that sounds like an expensive zip code […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
04/03/2025
Nothing’s Phone 3A and 3A Pro use AI to organize all your stuff
The Nothing 3A phones were just announced with a new take on the company’s “make tech more fun again” ethos. These devices have improved hardware over the Phone 2A, updated cameras, and a new feature called the Essential Space to store and index your miscellaneous screenshots, voice memos, and photographs, all through a dedicated button. […]
04/03/2025
Cino cracks bill-splitting at the moment of payment, raises seed round
While Venmo or Splitwise are effectively ‘debt collector’ tools, which require one person to pay a full bill and then request funds from others, neither have cracked bill-splitting at the moment of payment. European startup Cino, which has come up with just such a product, has now raised €3.5m in a Seed funding round led […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
04/03/2025
Dutch startup QuantWare seeks to fast-track quantum computing
Big tech companies aren’t sleeping on quantum chips: Amazon Web Services introduced Ocelot; Microsoft, Majorana; and Google, Willow. But although all of these can be considered to be breakthroughs, quantum startups often focus on more practical advancements — and they are making progress. Founded in 2020, Dutch startup QuantWare is one of these, which claims […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
04/03/2025
Moonwatt secures $8.3M to dial up solar’s staying power with sodium-ion storage
The drive to decarbonize our economies through electrification and clean energy continues to generate momentum around battery technologies, as storage has a key role to play in enabling the green transition. While renewables are clean sources of energy compared to burning fossil fuels, their power output isn’t always consistent. In the case of solar — […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
04/03/2025
Trump Administration cuts may threaten AI research efforts
The Trump Administration has fired a number of National Science Foundation employees who had been handpicked for their expertise in AI, threatening the agency’s ability to sustain key AI research, Bloomberg reported. One of the affected departments inside NSF, called the Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships, was instrumental in funneling government grants focused on […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
04/03/2025
People are using Super Mario to benchmark AI now
At least we can watch AI play Mario. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
03/03/2025
General Catalyst loses three top investors as the firm expands beyond venture, contemplates IPO
Three key investors have left General Catalyst amidst a series of recent changes at the firm, which now describes itself as an “investment and transformation company,” TechCrunch has learned. The departed managing directors include Deep Nishar and Kyle Doherty, who co-led General Catalyst’s late-stage strategy known as Endurance, and Adam Valkin, one of the three […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
03/03/2025
You can now talk to Google Gemini from your iPhone’s lock screen
Google Gemini users can now access the AI chatbot directly from the iPhone’s lock screen, thanks to an update released on Monday first spotted by 9to5Google. Users can now call up Gemini Live, Google’s relatively real time voice feature for its AI chatbot, before they unlock their phone by adding a Gemini widget to their […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
03/03/2025
Singapore arrests alleged Nvidia chip smugglers
Singapore just arrested 3 men for allegedly smuggling Nvidia chips. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
03/03/2025
Trump purge hits Chips Act office, two-fifths of staff to be terminated: Report
Two-fifths of the staff of the U.S. Chips Program Office are to be terminated, with 60 employees leaving today.
03/03/2025
Creator monetization platform Passes sued over alleged distribution of CSAM
Passes, a direct-to-fan monetization platform for creators backed by $40 million in Series A funding, has been sued for allegedly distributing Child Sexual Abuse Material (also known as CSAM). While its guidelines do not allow for creators to post nude photos or videos, as opposed to competitors like OnlyFans, a creator has sued Passes, alleging […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
03/03/2025
MWC hears two starkly divided views of AI’s impact
Two sharply different visions of AI were platformed on stage at the Mobile World Congress trade show on Monday. The true believer’s case for the technology’s potential — to merge with and transform human life for the better — was offered up by futurist and singularity priest Ray Kurzweil, who also has a research role […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
03/03/2025
TSMC announces $100 billion investment in US chipmaking
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. – the world’s biggest chipmaker – will invest at least $100 billion to expand chip manufacturing in the US. During a press conference on Monday, President Donald Trump said the funding would go toward building two additional chip manufacturing facilities in Phoenix, Arizona. The $100 billion investment builds upon the $65 […]
03/03/2025
TSMC and Trump announce $100 billion investment in the US, including three fabs
President Donald Trump, alongside with TSMC CEO CC Wei, just announced in the White House that the company is investing $100 billion to expand its Arizona facility.
03/03/2025
Self-driving cars: Google and others map the road to automated vehicles
Google and a number of automakers are spearheading the movement to get automated vehicles on America’s roads. Self-driving cars are street legal in three states, and Google’s fleet has collectively logged over 300,000 miles of time on the road. However, there are several obstacles in the path of widespread adoption, with legal and moral opposition […]
03/03/2025
Google Play is going to start highlighting apps with widgets
Google is making some changes to Google Play on Android devices to better highlight apps that include widgets, according to a blog post. The changes include a new search filter for widgets, widget badges on app detail pages, and a curated editorial page dedicated to widgets. “Historically, one of the challenges with investing in widget […]
03/03/2025
The author of SB 1047 introduces a new AI bill in California
The author of California’s SB 1047, the nation’s most controversial AI safety bill of 2024, is back with a new AI bill that could shake up Silicon Valley. California state Senator Scott Wiener introduced a new bill on Friday that would protect employees at leading AI labs, allowing them to speak out if they think […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
03/03/2025
Logitech’s best gaming mouse has fallen to its lowest price ever
If you’re looking for a top-notch gaming mouse you can use for both work and play, Logitech’s G Pro X Superlight 2 is a great option that’s currently on sale for its best price to date. Right now, you can buy it at Walmart in select colors starting at $113.99 ($45 off) or at Best […]
03/03/2025
Google Play update makes it easier to find Android apps with widgets
Google announced Monday a series of changes to its widgets system on Android that will make it easier for app developers to reach their users. Widgets, which offer at-a-glance views of an app’s most important information — like the day’s weather or upcoming meetings on your calendar — are a key aspect of Android home […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
03/03/2025
Ramp has more than doubled its annualized revenue to $700 million
Fintech startup Ramp has crossed $700 million in annualized revenue as of January of this year, according to a source familiar with the company’s internal operations. The company had crossed $100 million in annualized revenue before its third birthday in March 2022, passed $300 million by August 2023, and now effectively more than doubled that […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
03/03/2025
The FTC is being hit by terminations
At least a dozen probationary staffers at the Federal Trade Commission were terminated last week, The Verge has learned. The terminations took place across the agency, according to two sources familiar with the matter, one of whom said that included both the Bureau of Consumer Protection and Bureau of Competition. The sources did not definitively […]
03/03/2025
TechCrunch Sessions: AI speaker applications close March 7
On June 5, TechCrunch Sessions: AI will kick off — and you can be a part of the industry-changing conversations that will be taking place. We have an open invitation for members of the AI community to lead breakout sessions and discussions with over 1,200 startup founders, VC leaders, and AI aficionados attending our newest event, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
03/03/2025
TSMC pledges to spend $100B on US chip facilities
Chipmaker TSMC said that it aims to invest “at least” $100 billion in chip manufacturing plants in the U.S. over the next four years as part of an effort to expand the company’s network of semiconductor factories. President Donald Trump announced the news during a press conference Monday. TSMC’s cash infusion will fund the construction […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
03/03/2025
Google releases SpeciesNet, an AI model designed to identify wildlife
Google has open-sourced an AI model, SpeciesNet, designed to identify animal species by analyzing photos from camera traps. Researchers around the world use camera traps — digital cameras connected to infrared sensors — to study wildlife populations. But while these traps can provide valuable insights, they generate massive volumes of data that take days to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
03/03/2025
Lee Enterprises ransomware attack hits freelance and contractor payments
The ransomware attack is affecting Lee's ability to pay outside vendors, including freelancers and contractors, TechCrunch has learned. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
03/03/2025
SwitchBot launches cut-your-own smart shades
SwitchBot’s inexpensive, adjustable smart roller shades are finally here. First announced in September, the SwitchBot Roller Shades go on sale today at switch-bot.com, claiming to be the world’s first adjustable smart shades. This means you don’t need to worry about getting your measurements right before ordering, as you can adjust the width of both the […]
03/03/2025
The iPhone 15 Pro will get Visual Intelligence with iOS 18.4
Apple’s latest iOS 18.4 developer beta adds the Visual Intelligence feature, the company’s Google Lens-like tool, to the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max, as reported by 9to5Mac. Apple had told Daring Fireball that the feature would be coming to those iPhones in a future software update, but didn’t say which. Barring any […]
03/03/2025
Podcasting platform Podcastle launches a text-to-speech model with more than 450 AI voices
Podcast recording and editing platform Podcastle is now joining other companies in the AI-powered, text-to-speech race by releasing its own AI model called Asyncflow v1.0. An API for developers will also be available, allowing them to directly integrate the text-to-speech model in their apps. Thanks to the new model, the company is able to offer […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
03/03/2025
Microsoft’s new Dragon Copilot is an AI assistant for healthcare
Microsoft has announced Microsoft Dragon Copilot, an AI system for healthcare that can, among other things, listen to and create notes based on clinical visits. The system combines voice-dictating and ambient listening tech created by AI voice company Nuance, which Microsoft bought in 2021. According to Microsoft’s announcement, the new system can help its users […]
03/03/2025
YouTube is stepping up its efforts to sell you other streaming services
YouTube is preparing a big redesign of its TV app that will make it look more like Netflix, according to a report from The Information. The new design, which is expected to launch “in the next few months,” will reportedly display paid content from various streaming services on the homepage. YouTube currently lets you explore […]
03/03/2025
Unlock new possibilities for AI Evaluations for .NET
Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Evaluations library is now open source, and a new Azure DevOps plug-in is available to make reporting in your CI pipelines easier than ever. The post Unlock new possibilities for AI Evaluations for .NET appeared first on .NET Blog.
03/03/2025
T-Mobile’s parent company is making an ‘AI Phone’ with Perplexity Assistant
Deutsche Telekom is building a new Perplexity chatbot-powered “AI Phone,” the companies announced at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona today. The new device will be revealed later this year and run “Magenta AI,” which gives users access to Perplexity Assistant, Google Cloud AI, ElevenLabs, Picsart, and a suite of AI tools. The AI phone […]
03/03/2025
AMD's Ryzen 7 9700X on sale for $289 — get a killer CPU for 20% off plus Monster Hunter Wilds for free
One of AMD's best CPUs is on sale for only $289, the cheapest it's been since holiday flash sales.
03/03/2025
Google upgrades Colab with an AI agent tool
Google Colab has integrated Google Labs' Data Science Agent to help data scientists and ML engineers quickly clean their data and get insights on the datasets they upload. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
03/03/2025
Google brings Gemini widgets to iPhone as it looks to seize on Siri’s weaknesses
Google’s Gemini app for iOS and iPadOS now includes a handful of lockscreen widgets that make it easier (and faster) to access the AI assistant’s various features. As noted by 9to5Google, the app’s latest update adds six widgets in total, with each of them letting you hop right into a particular Gemini function. The company […]
03/03/2025
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian joins Frank McCourt’s TikTok bid
Reddit co-founder and investor Alexis Ohanian has joined billionaire Frank McCourt’s bid to acquire TikTok as a strategic adviser specializing in social media, Reuters reports. “He has that broad portfolio of experience … of where social media was and, I think, a keen understanding of where it’s evolving,” McCourt told Reuters. “Where he can help […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
03/03/2025
No part of Amazon is ‘unaffected’ by AI, says its head of AGI
“There’s scarcely a part of the company that is unaffected by AI,” said Vishal Sharma, Amazon’s VP of Artificial General Intelligence, on Monday at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. He also dismissed the idea that open-source models might reduce compute needs and demurred over the question of whether European companies would change their GenAI strategies in […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
03/03/2025
Chinese firms get Blackwell chips by ordering through nearby countries, defying U.S. bans
Chinese businesses have been reportedly acquiring several of Nvidia's latest chips despite the export controls that the U.S. has put up.
03/03/2025
The US faces ‘devastating’ losses for weather forecasts, federal workers say
The federal agency that produces weather forecasts and leads research on climate and the oceans has canceled leases for research centers and slashed its staff to “devastating” effect, current and former employees tell The Verge. Last week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) laid off hundreds of probationary employees, who make up roughly 10 […]
03/03/2025
Amazon’s Panos Panay on the long road to Alexa’s AI overhaul
Today, I’m talking with Panos Panay, who’s in charge of devices and services at Amazon. That includes everything like Alexa, Ring security cameras, Eero Wi-Fi routers, and the Project Kuiper satellite internet service that’s meant to compete with Starlink. Panos and I talked the day after he announced Alexa Plus, the new AI-powered version of […]
03/03/2025
Fintech startup Ramp nearly doubles valuation to $13B in secondary share sale
Expense management startup Ramp has nearly doubled its valuation to $13 billion after a $150 million secondary share sale, the company announced Monday morning. New and existing backers including VC Stripes, GIC, Avenir Growth, Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Lux Capital, 137 Ventures and Definition Capital bought the secondaries from employees and early investors. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
03/03/2025
Anthropic raises $3.5B to fuel its AI ambitions
AI startup Anthropic on Monday announced it raised $3.5 billion at a $61.5 billion post-money valuation, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The Series E, which also had participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Cisco Investments, D1 Capital Partners, Fidelity Management & Research Company, General Catalyst, Jane Street, Menlo Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures, brings the company’s total […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
03/03/2025
Google’s Pixel 7 Pro is on sale for just $199.99 (update: sold out)
Update, March 3rd:Â The Google Pixel 7 Pro has sold out at Best Buy. It may be a few years old at this point, but the Google Pixel 7 Pro is still a good investment given it currently costs less than some of the best budget phones on the market. Right now, you can pick up […]
03/03/2025
Cozy cats live in a Raspberry Pi-powered luxury automated smart house
Visible_Turnover3952 has created a Raspberry Pi-powered cat house with luxurious smart home features and automated systems to keep them cozy.
03/03/2025
What to know about TikTok’s uncertain future in the US and the people who want to buy it
TikTok, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, has been at the center of controversy in the U.S. for four years now due to concerns about user data potentially being accessed by the Chinese government. Just this past month, the app experienced a temporary outage in the U.S. that left millions of users in suspense before […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
03/03/2025
Alibaba launches RISC-V-based XuanTie C930 server CPU — AI/HPC chip ships this month, more designs to follow
Alibaba announces its new XuanTie C930 HPC CPU, built on RISC-V to boost China's domestic CPU market.
03/03/2025
Lenovo showcases a USB-C connected AI Stick with a 32 TOPS NPU on board
Lenovo unveiled the Lenovo AI Stick at MWC 2025. It features an NPU with 32 TOPS.
03/03/2025
BYD cars now have an on-vehicle DJI drone launch platform
EV maker BYD unveiled “Lingyuan,” a vehicle-mounted drone launching system developed in collaboration with DJI that is available for all of the company’s vehicles, reports Chinese state media outlet Xinhua. The system is only available in China, like BYD’s vehicles, and costs 16,000 yuan (or about $2,197). BYD’s video below, reposted by YouTube channel ShanghaiEye, […]
03/03/2025
Tim Cook teases a new Apple ‘Air’
Apple CEO Tim Cook just teased the launch of a new device coming to its Air lineup this week. In a post on X, Cook posted a short video with the text, “There’s something in the air” alongside a caption saying “this week.” Though Cook doesn’t specify which device Apple plans to launch, it’s likely […]
03/03/2025
Doctor Who is ready to take the long way around again in new season 2 trailer
A little doom and dread always helps Doctor Who hit that much harder, and the show’s new season 2 trailer makes it seem like it’s going to come out swinging when it returns to Disney Plus in a few weeks. Though many of the Doctor’s (Ncuti Gatwa) companions have been amazed by their adventures to […]
03/03/2025
MSI quietly raises prices of its supposed RTX 5070 Ti MSRP models
MSI has quietly increased the official price of RTX 5070 Ti models initially advertised as MSRP models.
03/03/2025
US said to halt offensive cyber operations against Russia
The reported policy shift comes as the U.S. government signals a change in its threat assessment of Russia © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
03/03/2025
Google’s Chrome extension cull hits more uBlock Origin users
Google is disabling the original uBlock Origin ad blocker for more Chrome browser users, alongside other extensions that are no longer supported as the browser migrates to its new extension specification, Manifest V3. According to Google, the new standard aims to improve privacy and security, but also removes a feature that some ad blocking extensions […]
03/03/2025
Mozilla rewrites Firefox’s Terms of Use after user backlash
Critics said the new terms implied Mozilla was asking users for the rights to whatever data they input or upload through Firefox. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
03/03/2025
UK probes how TikTok, Reddit, and Imgur protect child privacy
The U.K.’s privacy watchdog has launched investigations into three social media companies over how they go about protecting the privacy of children on their respective platforms. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced today that it’s looking into how TikTok uses personal information of 13- to 17-year-olds to recommend videos, “in light of growing concerns” around […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
03/03/2025
Chinese buyers are getting Nvidia Blackwell chips despite U.S. export controls
Upholding export controls on semiconductor chips made in the U.S. made chips may be harder than Washington D.C. thinks. Chinese buyers are getting their hands on computing systems with Nvidia’s Blackwell chips through third-party traders located in other regions, the Wall Street Journal reported. Buyers in Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam are buying these resources for […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
03/03/2025
Conan O’Brien comments on AI during his opening monologue at the Oscars
When hosting the 2025 Oscars last night, comedian and late-night TV host Conan O’Brien addressed the use of AI in his opening monologue, reflecting the growing conversation about the technology’s influence in Hollywood. “We did not use AI to make this show,” O’Brien said. His remarks were clearly a reference to the use of generative AI […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
03/03/2025
T-Mobile and Perplexity announce new ‘AI phone’ priced at under $1K
It was inevitable that this year at MWC in Barcelona, at least one carrier would announce a major effort at building a smartphone with a top AI company. And here it is: T-Mobile, the mobile telco owned by Deutsche Telekom (DT), said that it is building an “AI Phone,” a low-cost handset created in close […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
03/03/2025
Deutsche Telekom and Perplexity announce new ‘AI Phone’ priced at under $1K
It was inevitable that this year at MWC in Barcelona, at least one carrier would announce a major effort at building a smartphone with a top AI company. And here it is: Deutsche Telekom (DT), said that it is building an “AI Phone,” a low-cost handset created in close collaboration with Perplexity, along with Picsart […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
03/03/2025
The hidden danger lurking in your server infrastructure? Its own cooling system
Cooling your server rack shouldn't expose you to a destructive water leak. Two-phase direct-to-chip cooling from Accelsius is a safer, more efficient cooling method that minimizes the risk of water leaks so you can protect your tech investments.
03/03/2025
Stability AI optimized its audio generation model to run on Arm chips
AI startup Stability AI has teamed up with chipmaker Arm to bring Stability’s Stable Audio Open, an AI model that can generate audio including sound effects, to mobile devices running Arm chips. While a number of AI-powered apps can generate audio, like Suno and Udio, most rely on cloud processing, meaning that they can’t be […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
03/03/2025
All the news about Netflix’s gaming efforts
Netflix is making a big push into video games. The company first dabbled in games with interactive titles like Black Mirror: Bandersnatch and a Carmen Sandiego game. But starting in 2021, it made gaming a much bigger priority — Netflix hired a former EA exec and let people play a selection of mobile games for free as […]
03/03/2025
Samsung showcases 500 Hz OLED monitor and foldable gaming handheld at MWC 2025
Samsung highlights the latest advancements in OLEDs across screen sizes, market segments, at Mobile World Congress 2025.
03/03/2025
As Skype shuts down, its legacy is end-to-end encryption for the masses
iMessage, Signal, and WhatsApp have made E2EE the default for messaging, but Skype paved the way decades ago. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
03/03/2025
HackerPulse wants to help enterprises spot engineering bottlenecks
HackerPulse builds dashboards of information pulled from engineering tools to show how and where engineers spend their time. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
03/03/2025
HP Omen 32 OLED 4K 240 Hz gaming monitor review: Speedy, colorful, precise, and flexible
HP’s Omen 32 OLED combines a professional and a gaming monitor into a single screen with 4K resolution, Quantum Dot color, 240 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR10 and wide gamut color. It’s impressively fast, colorful, precise and flexible.
03/03/2025
Jolla founders take the wraps off an AI assistant to power up their push for privacy-friendly GenAI
Jolla, the erstwhile mobile maker turned privacy-centric AI business — via sister startup, Venho.ai — has taken the wraps off an AI assistant that’s touted as a “fully private” alternative to letting data-mining cloud giants crawl all over your personal information. The AI assistant is designed to integrate with apps like email, calendar and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
03/03/2025
Nvidia and Broadcom continue trialing Intel 18A test chips: Report
A new report suggests that Broadcom and Intel are continuing to test the Intel 18A manufacturing process, amid reports of setbacks for contract manufacturing customers.
03/03/2025
Nvidia's poor RTX 50 compute test results due to missing 32-bit OpenCL support, says PassMark
PassMark reports that Nvidia has dropped 32-bit OpenCL support, rendering legacy code unusable on Blackwell (RTX 50) hardware.
03/03/2025
Blue Ghost private lander reaches the Moon intact
The Blue Ghost spacecraft has landed on the moon, making history as the first private lander to “successfully” achieve this feat according to its creator, Firefly Aerospace. The Texas-based commercial aerospace firm announced on Sunday that its lander had “softly touched down on the Moon’s surface in an upright, stable configuration.” This is technically the […]
03/03/2025
Cloudsmith raises $23M to improve software supply chain security
The software supply chain is notoriously porous: a reported 81% of codebases contain high- or critical-risk open source vulnerabilities. A single vulnerability can have a far-reaching impact on the wider software supply chain, as evidenced by the likes of the Log4Shell exploit that saw millions of applications exposed to potential remote code execution hacks via […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
03/03/2025
Opera unveils an AI agent that runs natively within the browser
Browser company Opera has unveiled a new AI agent called Browser Operator that can complete tasks for you on different websites. In a demo video, the company showed the AI agent finding a right pair of socks from Walmart; securing tickets for a football match from the club’s site; and looking up a flight and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
03/03/2025
Driverless racecar sets a new autonomous speed record
Look out: there’s a new fastest robot in the world. A Maserati MC20 Coupe with no one in the driver seat set a new land speed record for autonomous vehicles, reaching 197.7 mph (318 km/h) during an automotive event at the Kennedy Space Center last week. The Maserati was running self-driving software developed by Politecnico […]
03/03/2025
Uber is piloting accounts for teenagers in India
Uber has started testing its teenagers-focused service, Uber for Teens, in India. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
03/03/2025
Google’s Gemini now lets you ask questions using videos and what’s on your screen
Google is adding new features to its AI assistant, Gemini, that let users ask it questions using video and content on the screen in real time. At the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2025 in Barcelona, the company showed off a new “Screenshare” feature, which lets users share what’s on their phone’s screen with Gemini and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
03/03/2025
Hulu prematurely ended its Oscars stream right before the final awards
Hulu subscribers watching the Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday night were outraged when the streaming service ended its broadcast before the show was actually over. Viewers saw a “thank you for watching” message that falsely claimed “the live event has now ended” — despite the fact that the Best Actress and Best Picture Oscars were […]
03/03/2025
Lenovo debuts new ThinkPads and an RTX 5070-powered Yoga
At Mobile World Congress, Lenovo is announcing new ThinkPads, including the first T-series convertible, and a beefy Nvidia RTX 5070-powered Yoga Pro 9i Aura Edition.
03/03/2025
Lenovo's new concept laptops include solar panels and tall, foldable screens
Lenovo brought concept laptops with 3D screens, foldable OLED, and solar panels to Mobile World Congress, along with new ideas for 3D gestures and AI accessories.
03/03/2025
Infinix’s new concepts use solar power to charge your phone
Chinese phone brand Infinix is known to show off a flashy concept, and at this year’s MWC the company is looking skyward for inspiration. It’s showing a phone with an integrated solar panel on the back, as well as a solar charging phone case. They’re both in the concept phase, but the demo units I […]
02/03/2025
Lenovo’s new concept laptop can be charged by the sun
Lenovo has announced a new concept laptop at Mobile World Congress that encourages you to work outside by reducing your dependence on power cables. The Yoga Solar PC is an early proof of concept device featuring a solar panel integrated into the laptop’s lid. It can harness light from any source to boost its battery, […]
02/03/2025
Lenovo’s ThinkBook Flip puts an extra-tall folding display on a laptop
Lenovo has another funky experiment it’s announcing at Mobile World Congress: the ThinkBook “codename Flip” AI PC Concept. It’s a productivity / business laptop with a flexible display, allowing it to be used as a traditional 13.1-inch clamshell, a folded-up 12.9-inch tablet, or a laptop with an extra-tall 18.1-inch vertical screen. The ThinkBook Flip uses […]
02/03/2025
Lenovo’s ThinkPad X13 gets even lighter
Lenovo may have some cool new flippy-screened and solar-powered laptops it’s showing off at Mobile World Congress this year, but it’s also announcing the generational notebook updates you’ll actually be able to buy within the coming months. Some of the new models include a redesigned and super lightweight ThinkPad X13 notebook, the first T-Series convertible […]
02/03/2025
Lenovo’s concept laptop add-ons include multiple monitors and an emoji friend
Lenovo is throwing ideas at the wall with new modular accessories for the magnetic Magic Bay connector of its ThinkBook 16P Gen 6 laptop. The company announced at Mobile World Congress four different proof-of-concept add-ons that may or may never be released, and they’re as cool as they are quirky: There aren’t many details on […]
02/03/2025
Signal is the number-one downloaded app in the Netherlands. But why?
Privacy-focused messaging app Signal has been flying high in the Dutch app stores this past month, sitting many days as the most downloaded free app on iOS and Android for all categories, per data from multiple app-tracking platforms such as Sensor Tower. The app has experienced surges in popularity through the years, often in response […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
02/03/2025
Apple might not release a truly ‘modernized’ Siri until 2027
Apple is struggling to rebuild Siri for the age of generative AI, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who says the company might not release “a true modernized, conversational version of Siri” until iOS 20 comes out in 2027. That doesn’t mean there won’t be big Siri updates before then. A new version Siri will reportedly […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
02/03/2025
Flora is building an AI-powered ‘infinite canvas’ for creative professionals
With just a few words, AI models can be prompted to create a story, an image, or even a short film. But according to Weber Wong, these models are all “made by non-creatives for other non-creatives to feel creative.” In other words, they’re not built for actual creative professionals. That’s something Wong is hoping to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
02/03/2025
Trump names Bitcoin and others as part of coming ‘Crypto Strategic Reserve’
In a pair of social media posts today, President Donald Trump named some cryptocurrencies he says will be part of a Crypto Strategic Reserve being created by an executive order he signed in January. Those include Bitcoin and Ether, which he says “will be the heart of the Reserve.” Trump said in the first of […]
02/03/2025
2TB MSI Spatium M461 SSD is on sale for $84 — just 4 cents per GB
The MSI Spatium M461 2TB SSD is marked down on the official MSI website to just $84, down from its usual $99.
02/03/2025
FAA staff reportedly ordered to find funding for deal with Musk’s Starlink
Officials at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday ordered staff “to begin finding tens of millions of dollars for a Starlink deal” to upgrade air traffic control communications, anonymous sources have told Rolling Stone. The story follows reports that Starlink may be taking the job from Verizon, which already has a multibillion-dollar contract with […]
02/03/2025
Next-gen Snapdragon X2 chips for PCs to boost core count from 12 to 18, says report
Significant new details of a next-generation Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 processor for Windows PCs have emerged from import-export documentation.
02/03/2025
Trump calls for creation of a ‘crypto strategic reserve’
President Donald Trump is throwing his support behind the creation of a federal reserve of cryptocurrency assets — he specifically mentioned XRP, Solana, and Cardano, but not Bitcoin or Ethereum. In January, Trump issued an executive order calling for the formation of a working group that would study and make recommendations around crypto policy, including […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
02/03/2025
Siri’s real AI upgrade could still be years away
Apple Intelligence was supposed to finally deliver a more natural version of Siri, but now, people who work in Apple’s AI department believe the company won’t release a ”true modernized, conversational version of Siri … until iOS 20 at best in 2027,“ writes Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter. Apple is expected to roll […]
02/03/2025
Full Xbox 360 decompilation for PC debuts with Sonic Unleashed Recompiled
Sonic Unleashed is the first Xbox 360 game to receive a native port via Recompilation on PC, and the tools used have been open sourced.
02/03/2025
Aviron’s $2,499 gamified treadmill will keep you on your toes
Aviron’s home fitness equipment operates on a simple principle: People hate working out. But many of those same people love playing video games. Perhaps the only thing standing between them and a more active lifestyle is some health competition and well-timed distraction. It’s the same gamification concept that made Nintendo’s Wii and VR games like […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
02/03/2025
Huge OS and RAM usage swings in Steam Survey likely to have been influenced by China influx
Steam just released its February 2025 Hardware Survey, and we saw some interesting results.
02/03/2025
HMD’s new earbuds can top off your phone’s battery
HMD announced a new set of earbuds today with a case that doubles as a backup phone battery. The aptly named wireless Amped Buds come in a Qi2 charging case that uses reverse wireless charging to boost your phone’s charge. With a slim design and a 1,600mAh battery, it’s a portable case that offers just […]
02/03/2025
Efabless shuts down, fate of Tiny Tapeout chip production projects unclear
The fate of the Tiny Tapeout TT08 and TT09 chip production projects is now unclear, as production enabler Efabless has shut down.
02/03/2025
Windows 11 Task Manager update will show accurate CPU utilization, align with industry standards
Microsoft just released a Dev and Beta Channel that updated Task Manager to ensure that the way it calculates your CPU utilization is more accurate.
02/03/2025
Xiaomi 15 Ultra review: ugly phone, beautiful camera
After two years telling anyone who’d listen that Chinese manufacturer Vivo made the best cameras in any smartphone, last year’s Xiaomi 14 Ultra changed my tune. It became my favorite phone and camera, handling everything from holiday snaps to product review photoshoots. With the 15 Ultra, Xiaomi took the best and made it better with […]
02/03/2025
Xiaomi Buds 5 Pro are the first to deliver on Qualcomm’s promise of Wi-Fi earbuds
Xiaomi has given a European launch to its Buds 5 Pro, the first earbuds to use Qualcomm’s S7 Pro chip to stream audio over Wi-Fi, in addition to Bluetooth, with no increase in power consumption. Qualcomm announced the technology in October 2023, and this is the first hardware to launch. The Buds 5 Pro were […]
02/03/2025
Xiaomi brings its 15 and 15 Ultra flagships to Europe — but the US misses out
Just days after revealing the 15 Ultra in China, Xiaomi has announced a UK and European launch for its latest flagship phone, together with the base Xiaomi 15. There’s no sign of the Pro model, but there is an array of tablets, earbuds, and fitness trackers appearing alongside the phones. The 15 and 15 Ultra […]
02/03/2025
Defective RTX 5080 takes up to 11% performance hit in gaming — Larger impact at higher resolutions
Testing by Gamers Nexus reveals that RTX 5080s with missing ROPs can lose up to 11% performance in games.
02/03/2025
Last chance! Last 24 hours to save up to $325 on TechCrunch Sessions: AI
Tonight is the night and the clock is winding down to register for TechCrunch Sessions: AI at our Super Early Bird pricing. Register before 11:59 p.m. PT so you can save up to $325 on passes! TC Sessions: AI will bring you invaluable insights into the cutting-edge and ever-evolving world of AI through expert-led main […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
02/03/2025
The TechCrunch AI glossary
Artificial intelligence is a deep and convoluted world. The scientists who work in this field often rely on jargon and lingo to explain what they’re working on. As a result, we frequently have to use those technical terms in our coverage of the artificial intelligence industry. That’s why we thought it would be helpful to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
02/03/2025
'Fire the Intel board and rehire Pat Gelsinger,' argues former Intel CEO Craig Barrett
Craig Barrett suggests that dividing up Intel is the wrong move to take right now, especially as it just had a breakthrough in chip technology.
02/03/2025
SteelSeries Aerox 9 Wireless Review: More buttons - less weight
There aren’t that many MMO mice on the market with massive amounts of programmable buttons in comparison to FPS mice, SteelSeries has provided some big-brand competition to the Razer Naga, Corsair Scimitar, and Logitech G600 in the form of the Aerox 9 Wireless MMO/MOBA mouse.
02/03/2025
Our favorite speakers, headphones, and other music gear
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 73, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, belated happy Pokémon Day, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about the Zizians and fancy suits and Heavyweight, watching Suits […]
02/03/2025
Mark Cuban offers to fund government tech unit that was cut in the middle of the night
Billionaire investor Mark Cuban waded into the latest government tech shake-up on Saturday, posting an unexpected offer of support for newly laid-off federal workers on the social network Bluesky. His message, which quickly gained traction, urged the displaced engineers and designers to turn the upheaval to their advantage. “If you worked for 18F and got […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
02/03/2025
Samsung reveals Galaxy A56 with more AI and a modest spec bump
Samsung is bringing even more AI to its line of budget-friendly phones. The new Galaxy A56, A36, and A26 now come with what the company calls “awesome intelligence,” enabling an array of new AI-powered image editing features already available with Samsung’s pricier S25 lineup. One of these features is Best Face, an AI tool that […]
01/03/2025
Researchers explore how to build shapeshifting, T-1000-style robots
Researchers have developed small robots that can work together as a collective that changes shape and even shifts between solid and “fluid-like” states — a concept that should be familiar to anyone still haunted by nightmares of the T-1000 robotic assassin from “Terminator 2.” A team led by Matthew Devlin of UC Santa Barbara described […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
01/03/2025
Ikea registered a Matter-over-Thread temperature sensor with the FCC
Ikea has registered its first Thread device, a new Matter-supporting temperature and humidity sensor called the “Timmerflotte,” with the FCC, reports HomeKit News. A diagram from the filing, which was spotted by CybermodStudios, shows a circular device that’s powered by two AAA batteries and features a QR code and 11-digit number for Matter setup. The […]
01/03/2025
OpenAI launches GPT-4.5, its largest model to date
Welcome back to Week in Review. This week we’re diving into OpenAI’s newest, biggest model GPT-4.5, Microsoft pulling the plug on Skype, how Anthropic used Pokémon Red to train its Claude 3.7 Sonnet model, the unexpected return of Fyre Festival, and more! Let’s get into it. OpenAI announced the launch of GPT-4.5, the much-anticipated AI […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
01/03/2025
What can a 100-pixel video teach us about storytelling around the world?
Since its founding in 2007, the Mumbai-based collaborative studio CAMP has used surveillance, TV networks, and digital archives to examine how we move through and record the world. In addition to their film and video projects, the wildly prolific studio runs a rooftop cinema in Mumbai and maintains several online video archives, including the largest […]
01/03/2025
DeepSeek claims ‘theoretical’ profit margins of 545%
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek recently declared that its AI models could be very profitable — with some asterisks. In a post on X, DeepSeek boasted that its online services have a “cost profit margin” of 545%. However, that margin is calculated based on “theoretical income.” It discussed these numbers in more detail at the end […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
01/03/2025
Asus ROG Strix 27-Inch QHD IPS monitor is only $199 at Amazon
Right now at Amazon, you can find the Asus ROG Strix XG27ACS 27-inch QHD gaming display for one of its lowest prices to date.
01/03/2025
Ben Horowitz donates Cybertruck fleet to the Las Vegas police
Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz has donated a fleet of Tesla Cybertrucks to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police, the department has confirmed to TechCrunch. The Cybertruck fleet is the latest entry in a list of gifts Horowitz has given to the Las Vegas police — a relationship TechCrunch revealed in detail late last year. The […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
01/03/2025
New email tells federal employees to list recent accomplishments weekly
Federal workers started getting emails on Friday night, “asking them to provide a list of accomplishments from the week,” reports The New York Times. According to the outlet, the message told workers they’ll now be expected to provide such a list every Monday by 11:59PM ET. This time around, the Times writes that “employees who […]
01/03/2025
DeepSeek brings disruption to parallel file systems, releases powerful new open-source Fire-Flyer File System
DeepSeek's 3FS file system is now open-source and is a no-brainer for AI-HPC model training, boosting efficiency and training more data-driven models.
01/03/2025
Nvidia Hotfix arrives to address black screen issues remaining after Thursday's driver release
Nvidia Hotfix arrives to address black screen issues missed in Thursday's driver release and related to DP-connected monitors.
01/03/2025
Amazon’s latest Fire TV Stick 4K Max is more than 30 percent off
Planning on spending your Sunday watching the 97th annual Academy Awards or catching up on the latest episode of Severance? If you don’t already own a smart TV, Amazon’s latest Fire TV Stick 4K Max can make setup easy and inexpensive, especially now that it’s down to just $39.99 ($20 off) at Amazon, Best Buy, […]
01/03/2025
RTX 5070 appears on Best Buy at MSRP — Asus Prime listed for $549.99 days before official launch
Best Buy puts up a listing for the RTX 5070 a few days before its official availability date, and it's at MSRP.
01/03/2025
How to get rid of the new Apple Mail redesign
There are three inevitabilities in life: death, taxes, and tech platforms making design changes that are universally disliked. The latest victim to this phenomenon is the Apple Mail app, which got a major redesign in iOS 18. This update is also rolling out on iPads and MacBooks. The new Apple Mail design separates emails into […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
01/03/2025
AMD VP teases RDNA 4 compatibility with ROCm, but doesn't reveal official launch date
AMD's VP of AI Software has addressed concerns about RDNA 4's readiness with ROCm, demonstrating a live sample and teasing day-one support.
01/03/2025
How to find images in Google Photos
Google Photos makes backing up photos and videos from your phone pretty seamless: set it to work in the background and all your precious memories are saved to the cloud without you having to do anything else.  The smoothness of this process does tend to mean you can find yourself with a rather gigantic collection, […]
01/03/2025
‘Uber for guns’ app Protector lets you hire armed body guards like you would an Uber — but does anyone need this?
In a TikTok video with over 3 million views, a woman in a fluffy, maximalist coat sits in the back seat of a luxury SUV, parked in the middle of a New York City street. Atop the 6-second video, a line of text reads, “our bodyguards got us matcha.” The camera zooms in on two […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
01/03/2025
Google's newest moonshot delivers internet by firing lasers through the air — Taara project upgrades to tiny 13mm photonic chips placed 1km apart
Taara, Google's current underdog project run by its X research lab, seeks to replace fiber optic cables with above-ground light transmitters.
01/03/2025
HP says 90% of products for the U.S. will be made outside of China by October
HP expects the vast majority of products sold in the U.S. to be made outside of China, Dell plans to pass costs increased to end users, if it cannot mitigate.
01/03/2025
Angry Miao claims new gaming mouse offers ‘infinite battery’ — premium tri-mode mouse maker makes dubious claims
Angry Miao boasts that its new premium tri-mode gaming mouse offers ‘infinite battery’ but it looks like it really offers extremely fast charging.
01/03/2025
One of my favorite pop albums is a video game — and now it’s on the PS5
Of all of my favorite games, Sayonara Wild Hearts might be the hardest to describe. It’s a rhythm game, but also you ride on a motorcycle and a dragon, wield giant swords while dodging fireballs, and teleport to a retrofuturistic VR world. It’s structured like a pop album, telling a story of love and loss, […]
01/03/2025
2 days left to save up to $325 on TechCrunch Sessions: AI tickets
Time is ticking to get AI industry insights — and major savings. There are just two days left to save up to $325 and secure your spot at TechCrunch Sessions: AI. But act fast, this special offer ends on March 2 at 11:59 p.m. PT. TC Sessions: AI is an event like no other that […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
01/03/2025
OpenAI’s startup empire: The companies backed by its venture fund
Since its founding in 2021, OpenAI Startup Fund has invested in over a dozen startups, including many of the hottest startups in AI. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
01/03/2025
Drop CSTM80 Review: Highly, easily customizable
Drop's CSTM80 keyboard is designed to be customized, with an easily replaceable top plate, but it also looks and sounds great out of the box.
01/03/2025
Asus ROG Flow Z13 (2025) review: hold up, integrated graphics are good now?
The beefy Windows gaming tablet is back, and it’s done two things I thought impossible. It made me respect integrated graphics, and it convinced me a Windows tablet can be fun. The Asus ROG Flow Z13 is a 13-inch tablet with a detachable keyboard, a bright screen, and the guts of a gaming laptop. I […]
01/03/2025
Former Intel directors strongly oppose TSMC takeover, call for Intel fabs spinoff
Former Intel directors say TSMC fabs takeover is a terrible idea, but fab spinoff to a consortium of companies is a good idea.
01/03/2025
With Alexa Plus, Amazon finally reinvents its best product
The biggest surprise at Amazon’s press conference last week was the lack of hardware announcements. Traditionally, Amazon announces dozens of new gadgets at its events, but this time, Amazon spent 70 minutes talking about software. Specifically, Alexa Plus, its new generative AI-powered Alexa voice assistant. And that was exactly the right move. Over the past […]
01/03/2025
AI-powered bookmark wants to revolutionize the way you read — $129 Mark 1 offers AI-generated summaries
Startup Mark Engineering has revealed the Mark 1, a Titanium bookmark with a screen, which can offer AI-powered insights into your reading habits.
01/03/2025
What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor
Mistral AI, the French company behind AI assistant Le Chat and several foundational models, is officially regarded as one of France’s most promising tech startups and is arguably the only European company that could compete with OpenAI. But compared to its $6 billion valuation, its global market share is still relatively low. However, the recent […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
01/03/2025
General Catalyst is reportedly weighing a potential IPO
General Catalyst, the powerhouse venture firm, is considering an IPO, Axios reported Friday morning, citing “multiple sources.” TechCrunch has reached out to the firm’s managing partner, Hemant Taneja, for comment. In the meantime, those following General Catalyst’s trajectory won’t be surprised by the prospect. Founded 25 years ago as a small Cambridge, Mass.-based venture firm, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
01/03/2025
Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data
Mozilla is revising its new Terms of Use for Firefox introduced on Wednesday following criticisms over language that seemed to give the company broad ownership over user data. With the change, “we’re updating the language to more clearly reflect the limited scope of how Mozilla interacts with user data,” the company says in a Friday […]
01/03/2025
Google’s co-founder tells AI staff to stop ‘building nanny products’
For the last couple years, it has been evident that Google co-founder Sergey Brin is back in the building. This week, he sent a clear message to hundreds of employees in Google’s DeepMind AI division, known as GDM: the pressure to win the AGI race is on. “It has been 2 years of the Gemini […]
28/02/2025
Zapier says someone broke into its code repositories and may have accessed customer data
Zapier informed customers on Friday that an “unauthorized user†accessed “certain Zapier code repositories†and may have gained access to customer information as a result. The customer data had been “inadvertently copied to the repositories for debugging purposes,†according to an email obtained by The Verge. The company says it became aware of the unauthorized […]
28/02/2025
Sergey Brin says RTO is key to Google winning the AGI race
Google co-founder Sergey Brin sent a memo to employees this week urging them to return to the office “at least every weekday” in order to help the company win the AGI race, The New York Times reports. Brin told employees that working 60 hours a week is a “sweet spot” for productivity. While Brin’s memo […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
28/02/2025
SymbyAI raises $2.1M seed to make science research easier
SymbyAI, a SaaS platform that uses AI to streamline scientific research, announced a $2.1 million seed round with participation from Drive Capital and CharacterVC, among others. Launched just last year by Aisha Livaudais and Michael House, the platform provides organized workspaces for researchers to access papers, code, data, and experiences within one place. It helps […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
28/02/2025
Startup co-founded by longevity guru Peter Attia emerges from stealth
Biograph, a company co-founded by longevity guru Peter Attia and a prominent Silicon Valley VC, has emerged from stealth. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
28/02/2025
The Verge looks back on Skype
It may be difficult to believe in this time of Zoom, Google Meet, and Slack, but at one point, Skype was one of the primary ways to make contact with friends, family, and colleagues. First released in 2003 and, after going through several owners, finally purchased by Microsoft in 2011, the app allowed you to […]
28/02/2025
OpenAI plans to integrate Sora’s video generator into ChatGPT
OpenAI intends to eventually integrate its AI video generation tool, Sora, directly into its popular consumer chatbot app, ChatGPT, company leaders said during a Friday office hours session on Discord. Today, Sora is only available through a dedicated web app OpenAI launched in December, which lets users access the AI video model of the same […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
28/02/2025
OpenAI plans to bring Sora’s video generator to ChatGPT
OpenAI intends to eventually integrate its AI video generation tool, Sora, directly into its popular consumer chatbot app, ChatGPT, company leaders said during a Friday office hours session on Discord. Today, Sora is only available through a dedicated web app OpenAI launched in December, which lets users access the AI video model of the same […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
28/02/2025
The UK will neither confirm nor deny that it’s killing encryption
The United Kingdom dealt a significant blow in its war on encryption last week that, aside from blemishing Apple’s meticulously curated privacy commitments, could have worldwide ramifications for personal data protections. And while several days have passed since Apple pulled its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) feature from UK customers, other end-to-end encryption providers like Meta, […]
28/02/2025
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.
28/02/2025
The armless PP-1 turntable is made from a solid block of aluminum
A Paris-based creative studio has announced a minimalist turntable with controls streamlined to just a play button and a volume knob. Waiting For Ideas’ PP-1 — short for Plug and Play — doesn’t even have a visible tonearm, and it’s made from a solid block of anodized aluminum requiring about 12 weeks of production time […]
28/02/2025
AMD's software stack remains a weak spot — ROCm won't support RDNA 4 at launch
When RDNA 4 GPUs arrive, AMD will not offer official support for them with the ROCm software stack. This follows AMD's trend of imperfect ROCm support for its consumer graphics cards.
28/02/2025
Researchers uncover unknown Android flaws used to hack into a student’s phone
Amnesty International said that Google fixed previously unknown flaws in Android that allowed authorities to unlock phones using forensic tools. On Friday, Amnesty International published a report detailing a chain of three zero-day vulnerabilities developed by phone-unlocking company Cellebrite, which its researchers found after investigating the hack of a student protester’s phone in Serbia. The […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
28/02/2025
Tesla Superchargers coming to dozens of Steak ‘n Shake locations
Tesla is planning to install dozens of Supercharger sites at Steak ‘n Shake locations across the country, according to an exchange between the companies on X. The companies have signed an agreement for over six sites, with over 20 more to come. And if Steak ‘n Shake gets its way, possibly 100 restaurants will see […]
28/02/2025
The Verge hires Tina Nguyen as senior reporter to cover the Trump administration
Tina Nguyen is joining The Verge as a senior reporter, covering the Trump administration, Elon Musk’s takeover of the federal government, and the tech industry’s embrace of the MAGA movement. Nguyen joins The Verge from Puck, where she was a founding partner and national correspondent covering the evolution of the MAGA political ecosystem. Before that, […]
28/02/2025
Cold Wallet’s director wanted to make a revenge thriller for the crypto era
Cold Wallet, Well Go USA’s new darkly comedic home invasion thriller from director Cutter Hodierne, becomes increasingly more absurd as it unfolds. At every turn, the movie’s heroes — a group of excitable retail investors — make unhinged choices that make them feel more like cartoons than people who have complex lives outside of Reddit. […]
28/02/2025
Google Sheets gets a Gemini-powered upgrade to analyze data faster and create visuals
Google is giving Sheets a Gemini-powered upgrade that is designed to help users analyze data faster and turn spreadsheets into charts using AI. With this update, users can access Gemini’s capabilities to generate insights from their data, such as correlations, trends, outliers, and more. Users now can also generate advanced visualizations, like heatmaps, that they […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
28/02/2025
Bluesky-based Instagram alternative Flashes launches publicly
Instagram alternative Flashes publicly launched its Bluesky-based photo-sharing app on the App Store this week, gaining nearly 30,000 downloads in its first 24 hours. The app offers a classic Instagram-like experience, allowing users to upload up to four photos and videos of up to a minute in length. Built by Berlin-based developer Sebastian Vogelsang, Flashes […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
28/02/2025
DOGE wants to lay off the ‘vast majority’ of CFPB workers, employees say
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is planning to fire the “vast majority” of employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), agency employees — some using pseudonyms for fear of retaliation — told a federal court in sworn declarations. Seven current and five former CFPB employees submitted the declarations as part of the National […]
28/02/2025
Intel delays $100 billion Ohio chipmaking site to next decade: First fab now coming online in 2030
Intel delayed launch of Ohio fabs from 2025 to 2027 – 2028, then delayed them again to 2030 – 2032.
28/02/2025
Steam’s Next Fest is full of weird-ass, cool-ass games
Steam Next Fest is going on until March 3rd, and I’ve spent a considerable amount of time wading through a seemingly endless carousel of games, filling up my Steam Deck’s internal and external memory looking for the Good Shitâ„¢. I’ve landed on four standout game demos that are worth your time now and whenever their […]
28/02/2025
Mozilla says its new Firefox terms don’t give it ownership of your data
Mozilla introduced its first Terms of Use for Firefox this week, but the company has already had to post an update to address criticisms of language that appeared to give Mozilla overly broad ownership over user data. Specifically, some users took issue with this line in the terms, as reported by TechCrunch: “When you upload […]
28/02/2025
EVgo says no to fast-charging extension cables and breakaway adapters
Electric vehicle charging network EVgo changed its terms of service Thursday to include new language explicitly prohibiting the use of high-speed DC extension cables and breakaway adapters at the company’s stations. The terms, which go into effect March 8th, are another bump in the road for enterprising companies looking to cash in on EV charging […]
28/02/2025
Nextorage launches 4TB PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe SSDs — three models on sale starting at $249
Nextorage just launched three new SSD models in the U.S., with the storage drives getting a 40 to 50% discount on Newegg for a limited time.
28/02/2025
Sapphire Nitro+ RX 9070 XT hides its 16-pin connector inside, offers cableless look
Sapphire's new RX 9070 XT Nitro+ is the first AMD GPU to sport a cableless design with the latest 16-pin power connector. It is also the first RX 9070-series GPU we've seen so far sporting the connector.
28/02/2025
Good hype for fusion, bad buzz for YC
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. Hype can be good or bad. This week, we’ve seen startups on both sides of that fence — and being on the good side warranted large funding […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
28/02/2025
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.
28/02/2025
AMD RDNA4 Navi 48 is 25% denser than Nvidia Blackwell GPUs — 53.9 billion transistors in a die smaller than GB203
Sitting at 357 mm² and with 53.9 billion transistors, Navi 48's density runs circles around RDNA 3... and Nvidia's Blackwell competition.
28/02/2025
Alkami is buying fintech Mantl for $400 million
Digital banking services provider Alkami Technology is acquiring Mantl, which has been described as “the Shopify of account opening,” for $400 million. Mantl, founded in 2016 by Nathaniel Harley and Benjamin Conant, developed software to make it easier for people to open accounts digitally at community banks and credit unions. The end goal is that […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
28/02/2025
Tesla applies for ride-hail permit in California — but there’s a catch
Tesla applied for a permit with the California Public Utilities Commission to operate a transportation service in the state — a required first step if the automaker wants to eventually operate a robotaxi service there. Tesla’s application for a transportation charter-party carrier permit was first reported by Bloomberg. TechCrunch has independently confirmed with the CPUC […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
28/02/2025
Mozilla responds to backlash over new terms, saying it’s not using people’s data for AI
Mozilla has responded to user backlash over the Firefox web browser’s new Terms of Use, which critics have called out for using overly broad language that appears to give the browser maker the rights to whatever data you input or upload. The company says the new terms aren’t a change in how Mozilla uses data, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
28/02/2025
Intel pushes Ohio chip factory opening to 2030
Intel is delaying the opening of its $28 billion Ohio chip plants yet again. In an update on Friday, Intel executive vice president Naga Chandrasekaran said the company now expects its first factory to begin operations between 2030 and 2031 – years later than its initial plan to kick off production in 2025. Meanwhile, the […]
28/02/2025
What to expect at MWC 2025
Mobile World Congress 2025 is nearly upon us, and we’re heading to Barcelona to see what the world’s smartphone manufacturers have to offer as they launch new devices, tease new features, and talk incessantly about AI. The show officially kicks off on March 3rd and runs to March 6th, but the first announcements should arrive on […]
28/02/2025
MWC 2025: all the phones, gadgets, and commentary from Barcelona
The Verge is heading to Barcelona, Spain, for Mobile World Congress 2025. We’re fresh off CES, where we saw plenty of new gadgets, from TVs to gaming handhelds and smart glasses. But, as it says right in the name, MWC 2025 is more focused on… mobile stuff. And it’s for a global audience, which means […]
28/02/2025
The biggest data breaches of 2025 — so far
School student records. Federal government data. Health records and more. Expect an unprecedented year for data breaches. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
28/02/2025
Apply to Speak at TechCrunch All Stage 2025
Founders, VCs and startup experts, now’s your chance! Have crucial scaling insights to offer? Share them with 1,200+ founders, investors, and entrepreneurs at TechCrunch All Stage 2025 presented by Fidelity, on July 15 in Boston, and share your expertise! We’re assembling the best minds from the startup and VC communities to lead exciting sessions, interactive […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
28/02/2025
Last week to apply to speak at TechCrunch Sessions: AI
AI Leaders, ready to make an impact? Do you have game-changing insights that could shape the future of AI? Share your vision with 1,200 AI founders, investors, and industry pioneers at TechCrunch Sessions: AI on June 5 at Zellerbach Hall in UC Berkeley. Take the stage, lead the conversation, and drive the next wave of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
28/02/2025
Ayaneo Flip DS and Flip KB aren't dead after all — Ayaneo claims a misunderstanding
Ayaneo Flip KB and Flip DS are abruptly un-canceled following a "clarification" from Ayaneo.
28/02/2025
Get TP-Link's superfast 2.5Gb 8-port switch for only $109 — Upgrade your LAN
Flaky WiFi setup? TP-Link's 2.5Gb 8-port switch is on sale for just $109.
28/02/2025
Apple accused of misleading consumers with Apple Watch ‘carbon neutral’ claims
Apple customers filed a class action lawsuit against the company, alleging it misled consumers with claims that certain Apple Watches are carbon neutral. For a product to be considered carbon neutral, its manufacturer has to offset or cancel out any pollution the item generates. Apple said in 2023 that “select case and band combinations” of […]
28/02/2025
Severance opens up a new kind of terror in latest episode
Severance has always been a horror story, albeit one set in a mostly generic office. That blandness is a large part of what makes it so scary: underneath the corporate speak, drab decor, and unflattering fluorescent lighting is something very sinister. And in the show’s latest episode, it uses that energy to tap into a […]
28/02/2025
Only 3 more days to save up to $325 at TechCrunch Sessions: AI
The AI revolution won’t wait — will you? Secure your seat at TechCrunch Sessions: AI before time runs out! You’ve got only three days left to save up to $325. The clock stops on March 2 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Don’t miss out on the lowest rates of the year! AI is transforming everything, and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
28/02/2025
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: Final 24 hours to save up to $1,130
The early bird gets the worm and time is running out! You have less than 24 hours left to save up to $1,130 when purchasing passes to TechCrunch Disrupt 2025. If you want massive savings on Disrupt 2025 individual passes and up to 30% on group tickets, secure your low ticket rate today. These offers […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
28/02/2025
Intel delays its Ohio chip factory to 2030
Intel’s first chip fabrication plant in Ohio may not open until 2030 at the earliest. According to a report in The Columbus Dispatch, Intel has slowed the building of its promised $28 billion semiconductor project in central Ohio for the second time this year. Construction won’t be completed until 2030, the chipmaker told the publication, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
28/02/2025
The high stakes for AI Alexa
Amazon has been trying to make virtual assistants happen for more than a decade. Alexa is, by many definitions, wildly successful, but it has so far failed to become the kind of omnipresent, omnipotent helper the company imagines. (It has also, by all accounts, failed to become a compelling business for Amazon.) This week, though, […]
28/02/2025
NHL officials will start wearing Apple Watches on ice
The Apple Watch is now the smartwatch of choice for National Hockey League officials. Apple and the NHL just announced a collaboration where on-ice officials will wear Apple Watches that are running special software to receive important in-game information. Using the custom-built NHL Watch Comms app, on-ice referees can view the game clock directly from […]
28/02/2025
Microsoft is shutting down Skype in favor of Teams
It’s the end of an era. Microsoft is shutting down Skype in May and replacing it with the free version of Microsoft Teams for consumers. Existing Skype users will be able to log in to the Microsoft Teams app and have their message history, group chats, and contacts all automatically available without having to create […]
28/02/2025
Microsoft hangs up on Skype: service to shut down May 5, 2025
After kickstarting the market for making calls over the internet 23 years ago, Skype is closing down. Microsoft, which acquired the messaging and calling app 14 years ago, said it will be retiring it from active duty on May 5 to double down on Teams. Skype users have 10 weeks to decide what they want […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
28/02/2025
Belgium investigating alleged cyberattack on intelligence agency by China-linked hackers
The hackers reportedly exploited a flaw in US cybersecurity firm Barracuda’s software to access VSSE's email server © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
28/02/2025
AMD RDNA 4 and Radeon RX 9000-series GPUs: Specifications, release date, pricing, and more revealed
AMD's RDNA 4 architecture and RX 9000-series GPUs launch March 6, beginning with the mainstream to high-end 9070 and 9070 XT. The new chips come with significantly improved ray tracing and AI hardware and should provide Nvidia's RTX 50-series some much-needed competition.
28/02/2025
LaCie Rugged SSD Pro5 Review: Fastest external storage – if you’re on an M4 Pro or Max Mac
LaCie’s Thunderbolt 5 drive is the fastest we’ve tested – but you may want to skip it even if you have TB5
28/02/2025
Meme coins aren’t subject to securities regulations, says SEC
According to the Securities and Exchange Commission, meme coins don’t meet the requirements to be protected by federal securities law. In new guidance issued on Thursday, the SEC announced that it doesn’t view most meme coins — cryptocurrencies that originate from internet memes or cultural phenomena — as securities, and that transactions around them do […]
28/02/2025
Official: AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT start at $549, ship March 6th
AMD’s answer to Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs is arriving next week — and its new graphics cards are aggressively priced against Nvidia’s $749 GeForce RTX 5070 Ti and $549 RTX 5070. The AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT ship March 6th for $549 and $599 respectively, one day after the RTX 5070 arrives. AMD […]
28/02/2025
Elon enters the circus
The shadow president paced around the stage after his speech, sunglasses on, mouth frozen in a grin, raising a chainsaw overhead to the delight of an adoring crowd as a large rectangular canvas made its way from the back of the audience toward him. He grabbed the painting, visibly thrilled. On the canvas, as onstage, […]
28/02/2025
Pineboards Modulo Series Review: All the extra features for your Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 and 5
Three new carrier boards for your Compute Module 5 and the older Compute Module 4 which bring Raspberry Pi 5 accessories to the CM5, and PoE before Raspberry Pi releases its version.
28/02/2025
OpenAI has run out of GPUs, says Sam Altman — GPT-4.5 rollout delayed due to lack of processing power
Sam Altman says that OpenAI has to stagger the release of GPT-4.5 due to GPU shortages.
28/02/2025
Singapore police bust major ring smuggling Nvidia GPUs to China-based DeepSeek: Report
China-based Deepseek illegally obtains Nvidia GPUs from Singapore, claim new media reports.
28/02/2025
Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia now works for DOGE
Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia has joined President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) service. Gebbia, a close friend of Elon Musk and fellow billionaire, announced that he’s been tasked with “improving the slow and paper-based retirement process,” though the specifics of his involvement are unclear. “Excited to share I’m bringing my designer brain and […]
28/02/2025
EA open sources four more Command & Conquer games
Electronic Arts (EA) is releasing the source code for four Command & Conquer titles under the open source GPL license. The original Command & Conquer (since subtitled Tiberian Dawn) is joined by Red Alert, Renegade, and Generals, the code for all of which can now be found on EA’s GitHub page. Only the code has […]
28/02/2025
Aurzen Zip tri-fold projector review: mirror anything (without DRM)
Tri-folds are having a moment. There’s that impressive Huawei device, my favorite 3-in-1 Apple charger, and now this: the Zip tri-fold projector from a company called Aurzen. It’s the most gadgety gadget I’ve tested in a long time. The Zip’s heft, texture, and hinge stiffness evokes quality at first touch and it’s impressively bright for […]
28/02/2025
OpenAI’s Sora is now available in the EU, UK
OpenAI is finally making its video generation model, Sora, available to users in the European Union, the U.K., Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland. The company said on Friday that ChatGPT Plus and Pro subscribers in these regions will be able to create videos using the model. The AI startup first unveiled Sora in February 2024, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
28/02/2025
Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia takes wraps off his first assignment for DOGE
Almost two weeks after The New York Times reported that Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia had joined Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency,” Gebbia clarified his role on Thursday, announcing on X that as a starting point, he’ll be leveraging his design expertise as part of an effort to overhaul the government’s notoriously slow, paper-heavy retirement […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
28/02/2025
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha warns ‘chumps’ not to buy into SPVs
Sequoia's Roelof Botha apparently sees another greed cycle brewing in venture capital where the least sophisticated investors could get hurt. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
28/02/2025
The hottest AI models, what they do, and how to use them
Confused about which AI model to use? Check out this comprehensive list of the most advanced models out there. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
28/02/2025
Kia’s next EV is the affordable, long-range EV4 sedan
Kia is launching a new EV4 sedan and hatchback with promising range figures for an affordable electric car. The vehicle was announced at Kia’s 2025 EV day event in Spain today, where the company also revealed an urban-focused EV2 small electric SUV concept and the PV5 electric passenger and cargo van. The EV4 sedan was […]
28/02/2025
SEC says meme coins are not securities
The Securities and Exchange Commission issued guidance on Thursday saying it does not view most meme coins, which are crypto tokens that originated from memes, as securities under United States federal law. As a result, the SEC says it does not believe people who purchase or hold meme coins are protected by federal securities law, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
28/02/2025
Meta is reportedly planning a standalone AI chatbot app
Meta reportedly plans to release a standalone app for its AI assistant, Meta AI, in a bid to better compete with AI-powered chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. According to CNBC, Meta could launch a standalone Meta AI app as soon as the company’s next fiscal quarter (April-June). Meta AI is currently only available […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
Meta’s AI chatbot will soon have a standalone app
Meta is planning to launch a dedicated app for its AI chatbot, according to a report from CNBC. The Verge can also confirm that Meta is working on the standalone app. The new app could launch in the second quarter of this year, CNBC says, joining the growing number of standalone AI apps, including OpenAI’s […]
27/02/2025
Snowflake grows startup accelerator with $200M in new capital
Snowflake plans to expand its startup accelerator with $200 million in additional commitments, the tech giant that specializes in cloud-based data storage said Thursday. The new injection of capital follows a string of activity by Snowflake over the past several months that illustrates that company’s growth ambitions. The Snowflake Startup Accelerator, formerly known as the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
Amazon CEO says ‘beautiful’ new Alexa hardware is coming this fall
Amazon is gearing up to launch new hardware to go along with its AI-upgraded Alexa. During an interview with Bloomberg, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said the company has a “brand new lineup of devices that are coming in the fall that are beautiful.” On Wednesday, Amazon revealed Alexa Plus, a more conversational version of the […]
27/02/2025
Cricut’s new crafting machines are more accurate, faster, and cheaper
Cricut has announced new versions of its crafting machines designed to print, cut, and emboss various materials using a collection of swappable tools. The new Cricut Maker 4 and Cricut Explore 4 are the first updates to both machines in nearly four years and offer faster cutting speeds for some materials, improved accuracy, and cheaper […]
27/02/2025
Apple will let parents share their kids’ ages to limit app access
Apple announced in a whitepaper that it plans to introduce a bunch of new child safety features, including letting parents share their kids’ age ranges with apps, refreshing the App Store’s age ratings system, and making it easier for parents to set up Child Accounts for their kids. The company says it will introduce the […]
27/02/2025
Meta fires around 20 employees for leaking confidential information
Meta has fired “roughly” 20 employees for leaking confidential information, The Verge reports. “We tell employees when they join the company, and we offer periodic reminders, that it is against our policies to leak internal information, no matter the intent,” Meta told the publication. “We recently conducted an investigation that resulted in roughly 20 employees […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
Waymo has doubled its weekly robotaxi rides in less than a year
Waymo is logging more than 200,000 paid robotaxi rides every week, according to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, who shared the stat about the tech giant’s subsidiary on X. Waymo commercially operates robotaxis in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Phoenix. The 200,000-weekly trips milestone is notable for a company that was providing only 10,000 rides a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
Twitch is letting more streamers access its monetization tools
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy published an open letter on Thursday outlining the platform’s plans for 2025, which include upcoming features, updates to the mobile experience, as well as a significant change to its monetization policy. Of note, Clancy revealed that Twitch is opening up subscriptions and “Bits,” the virtual items that viewers buy to cheer […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
Microsoft releases a Copilot app for Mac
Microsoft is releasing a native Copilot app for macOS today. Much like the Windows app, the Copilot version for Mac will provide access to the web-based version of Microsoft’s AI assistant, where you can upload images and generate images or text. The macOS version of Copilot also includes a dark mode and a shortcut command […]
27/02/2025
Nvidia gaming GPUs an afterthought as AI generates mountains of cash — RTX 50-series shortages mentioned, not explained
Nvidia just hit a record year in revenue, with data center sales bringing in most of the money. However, it seems that the gaming segment is being ignored in favor of its AI business.
27/02/2025
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the company is ‘out of GPUs’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the company was forced to stagger the rollout of its newest model, GPT-4.5, because OpenAI is “out of GPUs.” In a post on X, Altman said that GPT-4.5, which he described as “giant” and “expensive,” will require “tens of thousands” more GPUs before additional ChatGPT users can gain access. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
OpenAI announces GPT-4.5, warns it’s not a frontier AI model
OpenAI is launching GPT-4.5 today, its newest and largest model. GPT-4.5 will be available as a research preview, and OpenAI is calling it the company’s “largest and most knowledgeable model yet,” but warning that it’s not a frontier model and might not perform as well as o1 or o3-mini. GPT-4.5 will have better writing capabilities, […]
27/02/2025
Spyzie stalkerware is spying on thousands of Android and iPhone users
Another little-known phone monitoring outfit has quietly amassed half a million customers, whose email addresses are now in Have I Been Pwned. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 is better at convincing other AIs to give it money
OpenAI’s next major AI model, GPT-4.5, is highly persuasive, according to the results of OpenAI’s internal benchmark evaluations. It’s particularly good at convincing another AI to give it cash. On Thursday, OpenAI published a white paper describing the capabilities of its GPT-4.5 model, code-named Orion, which was released Thursday. According to the paper, OpenAI tested […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
OpenAI unveils GPT-4.5 ‘Orion,’ its largest AI model yet
OpenAI announced on Thursday it is launching GPT-4.5, the much-anticipated AI model code-named Orion. GPT-4.5 is OpenAI’s largest model to date, trained using more computing power and data than any of the company’s previous releases. Despite its size, OpenAI notes in a whitepaper that it does not consider GPT-4.5 to be a frontier model. Subscribers […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
Hands-on with Alexa Plus in the smart home
Oh, Alexa, how you’ve changed. The long-awaited new Alexa, Alexa Plus, is set to bring a more conversational, context-aware, and capable assistant to your smart home. With a new voice (eight of them, in fact) and a new attitude, this is the biggest change to the voice assistant since it debuted in 2014. And it […]
27/02/2025
TikTok sunsets its creator marketplace for TikTok One, a broader solution with AI tools
TikTok is preparing to sunset its creator marketplace in favor of a new, more expanded experience, the company has informed businesses and creators via email. The online platform, which connects brands with creators for collaborating on ads and other sponsorships, will stop allowing creator invitations or the creation of new campaigns as of Saturday the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
Accounting hasn’t fully embraced AI yet. Quanta just raised $4.7M to change that
Quanta, founded by a former Affirm engineer, sells an AI-powered accounting platform to software companies. It has raised a seed round led by Accel. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
Figure will start ‘alpha testing’ its humanoid robot in the home in 2025
Figure is planning to bring its humanoids into the home sooner than expected. CEO Brett Adcock confirmed on Thursday that the Bay Area robotics startup will begin “alpha testing” its Figure 02 robot in the home setting, starting later in 2025. The executive says the accelerated timeline is a product of the company’s “generalist” Vision-Language-Action […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
Sesame is the first voice assistant I’ve ever wanted to talk to more than once
I tell Amazon’s Alexa to shut up on a near daily basis. I have almost zero interest in speaking to Gemini after our first awkward chat. The hitches, misunderstandings, and lag in any given AI “conversation” mean I’m always wasting time speaking when I could be texting instead. But speaking to “Maya,” one of two […]
27/02/2025
Microsoft Copilot gets its own app for the Mac
Mac users can get access to Microsoft's AI.
27/02/2025
Meta is firing about 20 employees for leaking
Meta has fired “roughly 20†employees who leaked “confidential information outside the company,†according to a spokesperson. “We tell employees when they join the company, and we offer periodic reminders, that it is against our policies to leak internal information, no matter the intent,†Meta spokesperson Dave Arnold tells The Verge exclusively. “We recently conducted […]
27/02/2025
Here’s a new trailer for the ambitious survival game from PUBG’s creator
PlayerUnknown Productions, the studio from PUBG creator Brendan Greene (aka PlayerUnknown), has shared a gameplay trailer for Prologue: Go Wayback!, a single-player survival game that’s launching in early access on Steam this year. The studio previously shared that the game would be built with “machine-learning-driven terrain generation technology,” and in this new trailer, you can […]
27/02/2025
Microsoft Copilot gets a macOS app
Microsoft finally released a macOS app for Copilot, its free generative AI chatbot. Similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and other AI chatbots, Copilot enables users to ask questions and receive responses generated by AI. Copilot is designed to assist users in numerous tasks, such as drafting emails, summarizing documents, writing cover letters, and more. There’s also […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
Jeff Bezos is sending Katy Perry to space
Katy Perry will fly to space during Blue Origin’s next crewed mission, the Jeff Bezos-owned space company has announced. The pop star will join CBS host Gayle King and Bezos’s fiancé Lauren Sánchez aboard the New Shepard rocket this spring, marking its 11th human flight. Along with Perry and Sánchez, who is known for her […]
27/02/2025
Lucid loses its CEO, and ‘founder mode’ comes for Flexport
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! Lucid Motors delivered a surprise this week when it announced that CEO and CTO Peter Rawlinson was resigning. Speculation about the departure, which includes vacating a board […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
Stripe CEO says AI startups are growing faster than SaaS ever did and calling them wrappers ‘misses the point’
In its annual letter released Thursday, payments giant Stripe declared that it was “seeing an AI boom” with its data revealing that artificial intelligence startups are growing more rapidly than traditional SaaS companies have historically. In a chart, Stripe showed that the top 100 AI companies (by revenue) were able to achieve $5 million in […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
AI models trained on unsecured code become toxic, study finds
A group of AI researchers has discovered a curious — and troubling — phenomenon: Models say some pretty toxic stuff after being fine-tuned on unsecured code. In a recently published paper, the group explained that training models, including OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Alibaba’s Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct, on code that contains vulnerabilities leads the models to give dangerous advice, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
Asus' 5-Star ROG Strix 27-inch QHD XG27ACS 180Hz gaming monitor drops to $199 — with Monster Hunter: Wilds for free
Grab this great Asus ROG Strix XG27ACS monitor deal and also claim a free copy of Monster Hunter: Wilds for just $199.
27/02/2025
Apple introduces new child safety initiatives, including an age verification system for apps
Apple on Thursday announced a range of new initiatives designed to help parents and developers create a safer experience for kids and teens using Apple devices. In addition to easier setup of child accounts, parents will now be able to share information about their kids’ ages, which can then be accessed by app developers to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
Apple introduces new child safety initiatives, including an age-checking system for apps
Apple on Thursday announced a range of new initiatives designed to help parents and developers create a safer experience for kids and teens using Apple devices. In addition to easier setup of child accounts, parents will now be able to share information about their kids’ ages, which can then be accessed by app developers to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
Hacked, leaked, exposed: Why you should never use stalkerware apps
Using stalkerware is creepy, unethical, potentially illegal, and puts your data and that of your loved ones in danger. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
Microsoft pushes ahead with AI in gaming
Microsoft might say its top priority right now is security, but it’s been clear for months that AI is just as important. The odd division out has been Xbox, which hasn’t discussed its use of AI much in public. But that changed last week when Microsoft ripped the band-aid off and waded, somewhat clumsily, into […]
27/02/2025
WD’s Xbox expansion cards are nearly matching their Black Friday low
From Monster Hunt Wilds to Ninja Gaiden 4, there are a ton of great Xbox Series X / S games coming out this year. Luckily, if you need more storage to play them all, Western Digital’s officially licensed WD_Black C50 Storage Expansion Card for Xbox is down to its best price since Black Friday, with […]
27/02/2025
Ayaneo Flip DS & KB was canceled mid-production — only some units exist, the rest won't come
Ayaneo's much-anticipated Flip DS and Flip KB AMD Ryzen handheld PCs were canceled mid-production.
27/02/2025
Meta’s new AR glasses for research can measure heart rate
Meta has unveiled the next generation of its Project Aria augmented reality glasses for research: Aria Gen 2. Aria Gen 2, which arrives roughly five years after the first-generation Aria device, adds new capabilities to the platform, including an upgraded sensor suite and Meta’s custom silicon. Aria Gen 2 has a PPG sensor for measuring […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
Shinichirō Watanabe’s Lazarus hits Adult Swim in April
Lazarus, Shinichirō Watanabe’s upcoming anime about a world plunged into chaos by a mysterious miracle drug, finally has a premiere date. Today, Adult Swim announced today that Lazarus will debut on April 5th with encores hitting Max on Thursdays beginning April 10th. Along with the announcement, Adult Swim also dropped a new Lazarus trailer teasing […]
27/02/2025
Starlink poised to take over $2.4 billion contract to overhaul air traffic control communication
While Elon Musk hacks away at the federal bureaucracy in the name of “efficiency,” his company Starlink appears poised to steal a multibillion-dollar government contract away from Verizon. The Federal Aviation Administration is on the cusp of canceling a $2.4 billion contract to overhaul the communication system for the nation’s air traffic control system, and […]
27/02/2025
Trump’s tariffs on China, Canada, and Mexico will take effect March 4th
President Donald Trump says his 25 percent tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, and additional 10 percent tariff on Chinese imports will go into effect as scheduled on March 4th, unless imports of drugs including fentanyl are stopped or “seriously limited.” “Drugs are still pouring into our Country from Mexico and Canada at very […]
27/02/2025
Raspberry Pi 5 powers retro-futurism 1980s cyberdeck with custom milled keypad and wood finish
Nicholas LaBonte is using a Raspberry Pi to power this custom cyberdeck handheld complete with custom-milled keys and wood finishing.
27/02/2025
Framework Desktop's Noctua fan and Cooler Master heatsink pried off, Strix Halo exposed
iFixit was able to remove the cooler from a Framework Desktop engineering unit, showing off Strix Halo under the custom cooler.
27/02/2025
Archipelo comes out of stealth with $12M funding to secure human and AI-driven code
When it comes to AI software, you can build something clever, but that’s not always the same as building something that is secure. With so much software now getting written by AI, having a window into its security can be a challenge. That’s the premise of Archipelo, a San Francisco-based cybersecurity startup that is today […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
Nvidia confirms Blackwell Ultra and Vera Rubin GPUs are on track for 2025 and 2026 — post-Rubin GPUs in the works
In March, Nvidia plans to reveal more information about the Blackwell 300-series and Vera Rubin GPUs at its upcoming GTC conference.
27/02/2025
Katy Perry, Gayle King, and Lauren Sánchez headed to space on Blue Origin mission
Jeff Bezos’ rocket company, Blue Origin, announced the crew for its next mission on Thursday, which can only mean one thing: more random rich people are going to space. The crew most notably includes popstar Katy Perry and broadcast journalist Gayle King. They will be joined by two scientists — Aisha Bowe and Amanda Nguyen […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
Phison and Lonestar launched cornerstone of lunar data center into space last night — lands on the moon in early March
Phison has collaborated with Lonestar Data Holdings to launch and establish a data center on the moon.
27/02/2025
Workhelix taps years of research to help enterprises figure out where to apply AI
AI has the power to transform how people work, but getting tangible value out of AI isn’t as easy as throwing any AI application at any workflow. It can be hard for enterprises to figure out which AI applications help their business and which are just hype. Workhelix wants to solve that problem. Workhelix is […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
YC grad Deepnight nabs $5.5M for AI night vision software that disrupts a multi-billion dollar industry
The founders created military-grade night vision with AI software that began as a smartphone app. And now the military is a customer. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
Roblox is getting faster on Chromebooks
If you play Roblox on a Chromebook, things could feel faster soon. Roblox is rolling out an x86 version of the game “built specifically for Chromebooks,” where players can expect “up to 2x faster performance on x86 devices across all your favorite games and experiences,” according to a ChromeOS blog post. This will translate to […]
27/02/2025
New Nvidia GeForce driver addresses RTX 50-series GPU black screen issues
Through a new game-ready driver update, Nvidia has fixed black screen issues on RTX 50-series GPUs.
27/02/2025
The Powerbeats Pro 2 can’t play music while tracking heart rate on gym equipment
Bad news for folks hoping the Powerbeats Pro 2 can replace their chest strap at the gym: while the workout buds are great at playing music and can connect to various gym equipment to track heart rate, they can’t do both at the same time. The issue was pointed out in YouTuber DC Rainmaker’s review […]
27/02/2025
Disney Plus is adding a bite-sized version of ESPN’s SportsCenter
Disney Plus will begin exclusively airing a bite-sized version of ESPN’s SportsCenter, the company announced on Thursday. The show, called SC Plus, will feature a “fast-paced” update with the day’s most important moments in sports. It debuts on March 3rd. SC Plus will be based on SportsCenter’s top 10 format, offering a quick rundown of […]
27/02/2025
Meta fixes error that exposed Instagram users to graphic and violent content
Meta has fixed an error that caused some users to see a flood of graphic and violent videos in their Instagram Reels feed. The fix comes after some users saw horrific and violent content despite having Instagram’s “Sensitive Content Control” enabled. “We have fixed an error that caused some users to see content in their […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
DoorDash will pay $16.8 million to New York delivery workers after misusing their tips
DoorDash is paying restitution after keeping tips from as many as 63,000 of its New York delivery workers thanks to a settlement with the New York Attorney General’s office, The New York Times reports. Attorney General Letitia James announced on Monday that DoorDash will pay $16.8 million, which will be spread across workers who were […]
27/02/2025
ResilienceVC bucks trend, unveils $56M fund to back fintechs working on financial inclusion
ResilienceVC, a new seed-stage fintech venture capital firm based out of Washington, D.C., is announcing its $56 million debut fund, the firm shared exclusively with TechCrunch. Founded by Tahira Dosani and Vikas Raj in 2023, ResilienceVC’s mission is a straightforward one: to back fintech companies dedicated to helping Americans find financial stability. It’s writing checks […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
Hoto’s 48-in-1 electric screwdriver set hits a record low $70
Many years ago, I built my first PC inside a repurposed Gateway chassis with just a regular old screwdriver and a grounding bracelet. I’ll spare you the ugly details, but let’s just say I wish I had tools specially made for the job. If you want to avoid pain in your own projects, you should […]
27/02/2025
In challenge to YouTube, TikTok revamps its desktop platform
In a bid to take on YouTube, TikTok is revamping its desktop platform with the addition of several new features. The company announced on Thursday that its web-based experience features a new modular layout, refreshed For You feed, a new Explore tab, immersive full-screen LIVE gaming streaming, and a floating player. The social network’s new […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
2025 TechCrunch Events Calendar
For two decades, TechCrunch has provided a front row view to the future of technology, shaping conversations that matter and spotlighting the next big things before they break — both on the page and in person at our world-renowned events. This year, as we celebrate our 20th anniversary, we’re launching our most ambitious events calendar […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
DJI’s autonomous drone-in-a-box can now launch from moving vehicles
DJI has announced the third iteration of its drone-in-a-box solution designed for autonomous missions like safely inspecting power lines and emergency response. As with previous versions, the DJI Dock 3 is small enough to be transported in the back of a pickup truck, but it’s the first that allows DJI’s new Matrice 4D and Matrice […]
27/02/2025
Amazon says its new quantum computing chip will make error correction more efficient
Amazon is making its foray into quantum computing with the launch of a new chip designed to make quantum error correction more efficient. In an announcement on Thursday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) said the chip, called Ocelot, can “reduce the costs of implementing quantum error correction by up to 90%, compared to current approaches.” Quantum […]
27/02/2025
eBay makes it easier to find fast-shipping items and local listings
eBay announced on Thursday that it has updated its platform to help buyers find fast-shipping items and local listings, thanks to changes to Search item cards and additional usage of AI. The company is making it easier to identify items with fast delivery, as search item cards now display delivery range estimates for all fast […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
FBI says North Korea ‘responsible’ for $1.4 billion Bybit heist
The U.S. government law enforcement agency said a North Korean government hacking group it calls TraderTraitor was behind the massive hack of Bybit. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: Just 2 days left to save up to $1,130
Clock’s ticking! You’ve got just 48 hours left to lock in your spot at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 and save up to $1,130 on individual ticket types or 30% on group tickets. Don’t wait — secure your pass now before prices go up on February 28 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Disrupt 2025 takes place on October […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
BoldHue review: the best foundation is the one you print
In 2022, I watched a video of mine and wanted to hide under a rock. My skin looked sallow, the dark circles under my eyes pronounced. Loved ones reassured me I was seeing things, but commenters confirmed my worst insecurities. While relating my woes to a friend, she interrupted my pity party to say I […]
27/02/2025
Five predictions for where crypto is headed in 2025
Crypto is, once again, exploding. Momentum born of a potentially friendlier regulatory atmosphere has met rising coin values, with Bitcoin more than doubling in value last year. Meanwhile, powered by advances to the underlying infrastructure, crypto is evolving beyond speculation and into real utility. That’s driving new use cases for AI and enabling seamless experiences […]
27/02/2025
Understanding Elon Musk’s polarizing ascent in the MAGA movement
Hey, and welcome to Decoder. This is Alex Heath, deputy editor at The Verge. I’m guest hosting today’s episode for Nilay. Today, we’re diving into the bromance between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump, and more specifically, how it’s impacting the changing right-wing political movement here in the United States. There’s no better place to […]
27/02/2025
4 days left to save up to $325 at TechCrunch Sessions: AI
Don’t let the world of AI pass you by. You have just four days left to secure your spot at TechCrunch Sessions: AI and get savings of up to $325. But make sure to act fast — this offer ends on March 2 at 11:59 p.m. PT. There’s never been a better time to network […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
Pokémon Legends: Z-A’s starters make their debut in new trailer
Like its predecessor, Pokémon Legends: Z-A is bringing back three classic starter pokémon to get you started on your next adventure. Though Pokémon Legends: Z-A will likely introduce a number of new creatures, Chikorita, Tepig, and Totodile will be the first three partner pokémon you can choose between as you journey into the depths of […]
27/02/2025
Apartment buildings broken into with phone in minutes — IoT-connected intercoms using default creds vulnerable to anyone with Google
A wide list of apartment complexes using IoT-connected intercoms still use the default logins from their manuals, making them easily accessible by bad actors.
27/02/2025
Just Move In raises $8M Series A for its home setup service
Fintech has fragmented into increasingly specialized, cucumber-sliced micro-services, ranging from embedded buy-now-pay-later loans to specialized neo banks to yet more payment processing systems. What opportunities remain for innovators in such a fragmented landscape? One U.K. startup, Just Move In, zoomed out and realised that the home had been overlooked by everyone in the industry. And […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
Pokémon Champions gets right to the fights
To celebrate the day when Pikachu pika’d his way into our hearts and minds almost 30 years ago, The Pokémon Company held a Pokémon Presents showcase highlighting what games and experiences to expect in the coming months. There were updates on Pokémon Legends: Z-A, a new season of Pokémon Concierge, and a totally new multiplayer […]
27/02/2025
Stripe finalizes tender sale at a $91.5B valuation, says payment volumes grew to $1.4T in 2024
Digital payments platform Stripe has yet to lay out plans to go public, but in the meantime the company has thrown past and present employees a line for some liquidity. The company on Thursday confirmed a tender offer where investors will buy up shares from those employees at a valuation of $91.5 billion. Stripe said […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
Asus ROG Astral RTX 5090 breaks four world records — Pushed beyond 3.45 GHz with 35 Gbps VRAM
Asus' ROG Astral RTX 5090 has managed to beat four world records while leading two single-GPU benchmarks.
27/02/2025
IBM closes $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition
IBM has finalized its multi-billion dollar HashiCorp acquisition, two days after the U.K.’s antitrust regulator gave the deal its blessing. An IBM spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) had also quietly greenlighted the acquisition just prior to the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) on Tuesday. Today’s announcement comes 10 […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
Pokémon Presents 2025: all the biggest news and trailers
Each Pokémon Presents stream is special in its own way, but we’re expecting big things from this year’s showcase given the imminent arrival of the Switch 2. A new console means a new generation of games like Pokémon Legends: Z-A and the franchise’s next mainline title. But there should also be some major updates for […]
27/02/2025
FBI identifies North Korea as source of $1.5 billion ByBit hack
The FBI has traced the ByBit crypto exchange hack to a group of North Korean hackers.
27/02/2025
IDC cuts PC sales forecast, blames Trump tariffs and AI PC hurdles
PC sales set to grow in 2025, but not as significantly as initially thought, according to IDC.
27/02/2025
Sony drops PlayStation VR 2 price to $399
Sony is cutting the price of its PlayStation VR 2 headset in March. The VR 2 will be discounted to just $399.99, down from the original $549 pricing when it launched in February 2023. The headset will also see a price cut in Europe (€449.99), the UK (£399.99), Japan (¥66,980), and other regions. Sony is […]
27/02/2025
Nvidia enjoys $130B annual earnings despite gaming segment 'supply constraints'
Nvidia posts record-breaking revenue, makes bold predictions amid skyrocketing demand for AI GPUs.
27/02/2025
Amazon's Ocelot quantum chip uses 'cat cubits' to 'reduce error correction by up to 90%'
Amazon AWS announces and showcases Ocelot, a new quantum computing chip touting a cheaper solution to qubit-accelerated error correction.
27/02/2025
Instagram’s Reels may get its own app
Instagram is reportedly considering spinning its Reels feature into a standalone short-form video app to take advantage of TikTok’s uncertain future in the US. Instagram head Adam Mosseri was overheard discussing the plans with staff this week according to an anonymous source cited by The Information. The Reels app is reportedly part of a Meta […]
27/02/2025
Amazon debuts Ocelot, its first quantum computing chip
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced Ocelot, its first quantum computing chip. The news brings it into line with its big cloud rivals Microsoft and Google, which have also unveiled their own quantum chips in recent months, respectively Majorana and Willow. The cloud computing giant has long been investing in the quantum computing space, starting […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
Porting Doom to Typescript Types took 3.5 trillion lines, 90GB of RAM and a full year of work
Developer Dmitri Mitropoulos has managed to get Doom running inside of Typescript Types, after a year-long effort, resulting in three and a half trillion lines of types.
27/02/2025
Xiaomi 15 Ultra is a small update with a big periscope lens
Xiaomi has announced its 15 Ultra flagship phone at a launch event in China, where it’s going on sale starting at 6,499 yuan (around $893). The Android phone joins the company’s Xiaomi 15 and 15 Pro, which went on sale there in October 2024. It is a mostly iterative upgrade on last year’s model, but […]
27/02/2025
Unique, a Swiss AI platform for finance, raises $30M
A four-year-old Swiss startup has raised a sizable chunk of change to capitalize on the burgeoning “agentic AI” movement. Unique said on Thursday that it has raised $30 million in a Series A funding round that was led by London-based VC firm DN Capital and CommerzVentures, the investment offshoot of Germany’s Commerzbank. “Agentic AI” is […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
Taktile helps fintechs build automated decision-making workflows
The automated logic behind many financial decisions — for example, decisions that determine whether a client is approved for a credit line — is hard-coded. Often, it’s not easily changed. If a head of credit at a bank wanted to adjust the bank’s lending criteria, for example, they’d likely have to raise a ticket with […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
Instagram may spin off Reels into a separate app
Meta is mulling launching a standalone app for short-form videos, The Information reported, citing an anonymous source who heard Instagram head Adam Mosseri talking about the project to staff. The project is reportedly code-named Project Ray that aims to improve recommendations for new users and existing users in the U.S., and feature more three-minute videos, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
Engwe Mapfour N1 Pro e-bike review: the new ‘premium’
Europe has an electric bike problem. Direct-to-consumer e-bikes from inexpensive Chinese brands like Engwe and countless others can be easily purchased online despite openly flouting EU restrictions. They feature throttles and powerful motors that can be easily unlocked to far exceed the 25km/h (16mph) legal speed limit — no pedaling required. Here in Amsterdam, cheap […]
27/02/2025
Google Gemini: Everything you need to know about the generative AI models
Gemini is Google’s long-promised, next-gen generative AI model family. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
iPhone 16E review: Eh, it’s alright
The iPhone 16E is everything I love and hate about iOS. FaceTime at your fingertips. A reliable camera. Simplicity. Familiarity. They’re the pillars of the iPhone experience, and Apple’s newest phone has ‘em. My husband picked up the 16E, concerned that he would have to “learn something new†to use it. He swiped around for […]
27/02/2025
Apple iPhone 16e review: An A18 chip and Apple Intelligence for $599
Apple delivered its latest budget handset, the $599 iPhone 16e, without pomp. There was no big event in person, nor was there one online. No journalists scrambled through hoards of colleagues to snap photos of the phone. Instead, CEO Tim Cook tweeted out that new hardware was on the way, days before Apple announced the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
Europe’s Relay pulls in $35M Series A after applying Asia’s model to delivery
Being somewhat later than Europe in adopting the idea of parcel delivery, much of Asia built its delivery infrastructure around e-commerce, effectively ‘Uberising’ how deliveries worked down to the last mile. Think DoorDash but for parcels, not food. This is what the founders of Europe’s Relay realized and decided to bring to the region — […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
Lonestar and Phison’s data center infrastructure is headed to the moon
Data storage and resilience company Lonestar and semiconductor and storage company Phison launched a data center infrastructure on a SpaceX rocket on Wednesday that’s headed to the moon. The companies are sending Phison’s Pascari storage — solid state drives (SSDs) built for data centers — packed with Lonestar’s clients’ data on a SpaceX Falcon 9 […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
Mint and pink: a closer look at the backflipping Framework Laptop 12
The moment Vjeran and I got to the demo room at Framework’s San Francisco event, we knew right away — the mint and pink version of the Framework Laptop 12 was the one I wanted to touch, the one he wanted to photograph and film. One of the women standing next to the demo stations […]
27/02/2025
Commercetools, a pioneer in ‘headless commerce’, lays off dozens of staff
Commercetools — a “headless commerce” platform that provides APIs to companies building online storefronts — saw a major boost in its business just a few years ago, raising money at whopping $1.9 billion valuation as the world went shopping online in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, and businesses rushed to improve their e-commerce operations. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
Shop Circle raises $60M to encircle ecommerce with an app suite
The boom in ecommerce post-pandemic meant shops moved online. However, some merchants ended up with dozens of separate app providers to accommodate everything from supply chains, inventory, and marketing. The founders of Shop Circle realized this and either built or bought many such apps. The company has now raised $60 million in a Series B […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
27/02/2025
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang shrugs off DeepSeek as sales soar
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is more bullish about Nvidia's sales than ever, despite a market panic last month induced by China's DeepSeek. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
Meta’s Oversight Board is reviewing the company’s new hate speech policies
Meta’s Oversight Board, the company’s independent group created to help with sensitive policy decisions, is preparing to weigh in on CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s recent changes to how Facebook, Instagram, and Threads handle hate speech, Engadget reported. Zuckerberg announced an overhaul of its content moderation policies in January, shortly before the inauguration of U.S. President Donald […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
With Alexa+, Amazon makes an intriguing play in the consumer agent space
Amazon shared an impressive vision of an “agentic” future on Wednesday — one in which the company’s improved Alexa, Alexa+, handles countless mundane tasks, from booking restaurants to finding appliance repairmen. If Amazon can deliver, it could be the first out to the gate with a comprehensive, consumer-focused agent tool. The company hopes to marry […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
Trump signs executive order to expand DOGE’s spending review powers
In a newly issued executive order (EO), the Trump administration has instructed the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the Elon Musk-advised initiative to reduce federal spending, to create a “centralized technological system” in every agency to record contract and grant awards. As part of the ramp-up of these systems, agency employees who approved individual contract […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
a16z hires former Republican congressman Patrick McHenry as advisor
Former North Carolina congressman Patrick McHenry announced Wednesday that he landed a job with VC firm Andreessen Horowitz. He will be a senior advisor. His post on X said little about what the job entails, except to be advocating for startups (which a16z likes to call “little tech”) with policymakers. Andreessen Horowitz did not immediately […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
Maternity clinic Millie nabs $12M Series A from an all-star, all female class of VCs
Millie, a California-based maternity clinic, founded by Anu Sharma, announced the raise of a $12 million Series A by investors including RH Capital, TMV, and Melinda French Gates’ Pivotal Ventures. Sharma was inspired to launch the company after the birth of her daughter in 2019. She faced pregnancy complications and, as the child of a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
The Xbox Wireless Controller is just $39 right now
Of the three major gaming consoles, the Xbox Series X / S may have the most diverse controller selection, but Microsoft’s basic Xbox Wireless Controller is still the best Xbox controller for most people. That’s mostly because it’s the cheapest one you can buy with native support for Xbox’s built-in wireless protocol (you can also […]
26/02/2025
Living with extreme heat might make you age faster
Exposure to extreme heat could lead to faster aging, a new study published today in the journal Science Advances suggests. Older people living in hotter areas of the US showed faster aging at the molecular level than people living in cooler areas. The study looked at measures of a person’s biological, or epigenetic, age, which […]
26/02/2025
Avride’s sidewalk delivery bots land in Japan
Avride sidewalk bots will start delivering restaurant orders and groceries in central Tokyo this week through a partnership with e-commerce giant Rakuten, the latest commercial expansion by the Yandex spinout into Northeast Asia. The Austin-based autonomous vehicle startup is one of four projects under Nebius Group, a Netherlands-based company formerly called Yandex NV that sold […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
Kick off Pokémon Day 2025 with this gorgeous short film
It’s technically already Pokémon Day in Japan, and while we’re still a few hours away from this year’s big Pokémon Presents showcase, there’s a new animated short film out that right now feels like the perfect way to get pumped up for whatever surprises Nintendo has in store. Many of the Pokémon Company’s animated projects […]
26/02/2025
These alternatives to popular apps can help reclaim your online life from billionaires and surveillance
Not every app or service wants to monetize your personal data. Here are some of our favorite alternatives to popular apps. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
Alexa Plus leaves behind Amazon’s earliest Echo devices
Amazon is bringing the new AI-powered Alexa Plus to a wide range of its existing Echo devices — but the upgrade will skip many of the earliest models. The majority of the company’s first-generation Echos won’t get support, according to the Alexa Plus FAQ page, though Amazon says they will continue to work with the standard […]
26/02/2025
Prototype RTX 50-series power connector designed to prevent melting with current overload alarm, per-pin sensing
A Chinese user has developed a prototype 16-pin connector that can determine if a certain pin is drawing too much current, preventing connector meltdowns.
26/02/2025
Here are all the tech companies rolling back DEI or still committed to it — so far
Companies around America have started cutting DEI programs and eliminating DEI commitments from public documents in response to legal and political threats from the Trump administration. Just a few weeks ago, Attorney General Pam Bondi instructed the Department of Justice to “investigate, eliminate, and penalize,” DEI programs deemed illegal in private sector companies that receive […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
Inception emerges from stealth with a new type of AI model
Inception, a new Palo Alto-based company started by Stanford computer science professor Stefano Ermon, claims to have developed a novel AI model based on “diffusion” technology. Inception calls it a diffusion-based large language model, or a “DLM” for short. The generative AI models receiving the most attention now can be broadly divided into two types: […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
Hacked crypto exchange Bybit offers $140M bounty to trace stolen funds
Bybit has already paid more than $4 million to bounty hunters who helped trace and freeze some of the stolen funds. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
AMD Radeon RX 9070 series prices leak on Micro Center — starting at nearly $700 for XT versions
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and non-XT GPU prices leak on Micro Center website.
26/02/2025
Nvidia's Priority Access program reportedly kicks off, invitations sent out for RTX 5090 customers
The first report of a Priority Access member getting an invitation from Nvidia to buy an RTX 5090 Founders Edition has been published. Nvidia is sending out emails to at least some Priority Access members an invitation to purchase either an RTX 5090 or RTX 5080 at MSRP.
26/02/2025
Turn up your storage with this 8TB WD Black SN850X SSD at an all-time low price
Western Digital's massive 8TB WD Black SN850X SSD drops to a new all-time low price.
26/02/2025
ElevenLabs is launching its own speech-to-text model
ElevenLabs, an AI startup that just raised a $180 million mega funding round, has been primarily known for its audio generation prowess. The company took a step in another technological direction by launching its first standalone speech-to-text model called Scribe. The startup, valued at $3.3 billion, has aided many other companies in providing speech-to-text services […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
Max’s ad-supported tier is losing CNN and the Bleacher Report
Though Max has always said that it planned to charge more for access to its CNN and Bleacher Report Sports add-ons, the price hikes are coming in a roundabout way targeted at subscribers to the streamer’s cheapest tier. Max announced today that it no longer intends to charge subscribers to its Standard ($16.99/month or $169.99/year) […]
26/02/2025
Streaming services keep getting more expensive: all the latest price increases
Death. Taxes. All your streaming services getting a little more expensive all the time. These are the new certainties in life, it seems. In recent years, as the streaming TV and movie business has gotten more competitive and companies around Hollywood have thrown billions into building their own platforms and libraries in order to compete […]
26/02/2025
Jeff Bezos bans Washington Post opinion writers from opposing ‘free speech and free markets’
In a move promoted as supporting freedom of speech, The Washington Post will no longer publish opinion columns that oppose the core views of Post owner and Amazon executive chair Jeff Bezos, Bezos has reportedly told staff. New York Times reporter Benjamin Mullin and Semafor reporter Max Tani published details about the move on Wednesday, […]
26/02/2025
China accuses Taiwan of giving away chip industry to the US as a 'souvenir'
China claims Taiwan's leadership is 'selling out' Taiwan's industry by making them tools for diplomatic manoeuvring.
26/02/2025
Alexa Plus’ AI upgrades cost $19.99, but it’s all free with Prime
Amazon announced a new version of its smart assistant today. Alexa Plus comes with expanded capabilities, the company appeared to demonstrate, like finding concert tickets on your behalf or ordering an Uber to pick up someone at the airport. The upgraded smart assistant will also make it easier to have more natural conversations with it, […]
26/02/2025
Pixel Watch 3 is getting ‘Loss of Pulse Detection’ in the US in March
Google announced on Wednesday that it has received FDA clearance for the Pixel Watch 3’s “Loss of Pulse Detection” feature and will be launching it in the U.S. at the end of March. The feature can detect when a user’s heart stops beating due to an event like primary cardiac arrest, respiratory or circulatory failure, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
Hinge launches a new feature for daters to privately share details with matches
Dating app Hinge launched a new feature called “Match Note” on Wednesday, allowing users to privately share information with matches that they haven’t shared publicly on their profile. Users can add a Match Note by going to their profile, similar to how they can add a text prompt. The note is always visible to new […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
Victrola’s cheapest Sonos-compatible turntable is over half off today
It’s shaping up to be a good week to be a Sonos fan. First, Sonos launched a sale for existing customers that includes steep discounts on soundbars, speakers, and headphones, and now the Sonos-ready Victrola Stream Onyx is more than 50 percent off. Now through February 28th, you can buy the two-speed, belt-driven turntable at Woot […]
26/02/2025
Pixel Watch 3 gets FDA clearance for Loss of Pulse alerts
Google just announced it’s received FDA clearance for the Pixel Watch 3’s Loss of Pulse Detection feature. It will start rolling out to US devices sometime at the end of March. The Loss of Pulse Detection feature is exactly what it sounds like: if the Pixel Watch 3 senses that you’ve lost your pulse through […]
26/02/2025
Amazon is launching Alexa.com and new app for Alexa Plus
Amazon is launching an alexa.com website and a new mobile app where Alexa Plus subscribers will be able to use the AI-powered voice assistant. We don’t have many details beyond that, but the website and the app could be handy new ways to interact with the revamped Alexa, which was announced at an event this […]
26/02/2025
China's mature chips to make up 28% of world production, creating oversupply — Western companies express concern for their survival
China's prolific output of mature chips is beginning to shock the global market, with prices sinking and companies hurting.
26/02/2025
Alexa+ can read, summarize and recall lengthy documents
At Amazon’s annual Devices & Services event on Wednesday, the company introduced Alexa+, an enhanced version of its voice assistant, now powered by generative AI. During the demonstration, Amazon showcased how users can share documents with Alexa+, allowing it to recall important details and answer questions about those documents. Mara Segal, director of Alexa, provided […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
Alexa+ can do your grocery shopping, too
Amazon is not giving up on making its Alexa a virtual shopping assistant, On Wednesday, the company announced that Alexa+, its revamped Alexa experience, will be able to help consumers grocery shop from home using more natural conversations and requests. The feature will work with Amazon Fresh or any other grocery partner working with Amazon, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
Amazon Alexa+ can do your grocery shopping, too
Amazon is not giving up on making its Alexa a virtual shopping assistant, On Wednesday, the company announced that Alexa+, its revamped Alexa experience, will be able to help consumers grocery shop from home using more natural conversations and requests. The feature will work with Amazon Fresh or any other grocery partner working with Amazon, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
Alexa+ costs $19.99 or free for Prime members
Amazon’s new and improved Alexa experience, Alexa+, starts at $19.99, or free for Prime members. Amazon says that it will roll out in early access beginning next month, and then will come to a wider group of users in waves over the subsequent months. As part of the launch of Alexa+, Amazon is launching Alexa.com, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
Amazon Alexa+ costs $19.99, free for Prime members
Amazon’s new and improved Alexa experience, Alexa+, starts at $19.99, or free for Amazon Prime subscribers. It’ll roll out in early access beginning next month in the U.S., and then will come to a wider group of users in waves over the subsequent months, Amazon said. Echo Show 8, 10, 15, and 21 devices will […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
Amazon’s new Alexa+ brings AI-powered ‘Explore’ and ‘Stories’ features for kids
As part of the reveal of Amazon’s new AI-powered Alexa+ assistant, the tech giant announced that it’s launching two new features designed for kids called “Explore with Alexa” and “Stories with Alexa.” The features, which leverage Alexa’s new AI capabilities, will be available to Amazon Kids+ subscribers. The company demonstrated the new features at a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
The ultra-rare Ryzen 7 9800X3D now available delidded for $599 with two-year warranty
Thermal Grizzly sells delidded Ryzen 7 9800X3Ds with warranty coverage, starting at $599 without VAT and shipping.
26/02/2025
Intel launches Xeon 6500/6700 processors with performance cores
Intel unveils Xeon 6500 and Xeon 6700 processors with P cores for AI, content delivery, networking, and storage applications.
26/02/2025
Amazon says that Alexa+ is ‘model agnostic’
Amazon says that the new and improved Alexa unveiled on Wednesday, Alexa+, is powered by a “model agnostic” system that’s always using the “best” AI model for any given task. Onstage at a press event in NYC, Amazon VP Daniel Rausch said that Alexa+ draws on Bedrock, Amazon’s cloud platform designed to let organizations experiment […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
Samsung unveils 10th Gen V-NAND: 400+ layers, 5.6 GT/s and hybrid bonding
Samsung's 10th Gen V-NAND uses 400+ layers, adopts Cell-on-Peripheral with hybrid bonding architecture.
26/02/2025
Oliver Cameron talks about going up against incumbents at TechCrunch Sessions: AI
TechCrunch Sessions: AI, taking place on June 5 at Zellerbach Hall in UC Berkeley, will feature a panel discussing how startups can compete against established rivals in the AI industry. The panel, “How to Launch a Product Against Entrenched Incumbents,” will look at ways small companies are managing to stay relevant in a fast-paced and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
Continue wants to help developers create and share custom AI coding assistants
A new startup wants to help developers create customized, contextual coding assistants that can connect with any model and integrate seamlessly with their development environments. Founded in June 2023 by CEO Ty Dunn and CTO Nate Sesti (pictured above), Y Combinator alum Continue has already garnered some 23,000 stars on GitHub and 11,000 Discord community […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
Capim, a Brazilian BNPL startup for dental services, lands a $26.7M Series A
Capim, a startup offering Brazilians the option to buy now, pay later (BNPL) for dental services, has raised $26.7 million in Series A funding, it tells TechCrunch exclusively. Founded in July 2021 by Marcelo Lutz and Roberto Biselli, who serve as co-CEOs, Sao Paulo-based Capim describes itself as a vertical SaaS company specializing in the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
Alexa+ can work with Prime Video and Fire TV to ‘jump to a scene’ in a movie
As part of the new Alexa+ experience Amazon introduced on Wednesday, the smart assistant will gain the ability to navigate through movies on Prime Video on your behalf. Thanks to integrations between Alexa, Prime Video, and Fire TV, Alexa+, as the upgraded assistant is called, will be able to “jump to a scene” in a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
Amazon Alexa+ can work with Prime Video and Fire TV to ‘jump to a scene’ in a movie
As part of the new Alexa+ experience Amazon introduced on Wednesday, the smart assistant will gain the ability to navigate through movies on Prime Video on your behalf. Thanks to integrations between Alexa, Prime Video, and Fire TV, Alexa+, as the upgraded assistant is called, will be able to “jump to a scene” in a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
Cellebrite suspends Serbia as customer after claims police used firm’s tech to plant spyware
Security researchers found evidence that Cellebrite was used by Serbian police to hack into the cellphones of a local journalist and an activist. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
How to hide faces and scrub metadata when you photograph a protest
While showing up at a protest can demonstrate your opinion to the world, you may not want your face — or the faces of other protesters — to be included, especially when there is the possibility that authorities will collect and use that information (as they did for tracking movements during COVID-19 social distancing). As […]
26/02/2025
Amazon unveils a new and improved Alexa, Alexa+
At an event in NYC on Wednesday, Amazon announced an upgraded Alexa experience — Alexa+ — powered by generative AI technologies. Onstage, Amazon’s devices and services chief Panos Panay called it a “complete re-architecture” of the AI assistant. “[W]hile the vision of Alexa has been ambitious and remains incredibly compelling, until right this moment — […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
Amazon announces AI-powered Alexa Plus
Amazon is finally launching the long-awaited generative AI version of Alexa that, if all goes well, will take away much of the friction that comes with talking to a speaker to control your smart home or getting info on the fly. Some of the new abilities coming to Alexa Plus include doing things for you […]
26/02/2025
Jim Keller joins ex-Intel chip designers in RISC-V startup focused on breakthrough CPUs
AheadComputing aims to build high-performance RISC-V cores for AI and general-purpose workloads.
26/02/2025
YouTube surpasses 1B monthly podcast viewers
YouTube continues to assert its dominance in the podcasting space, presenting significant competition to both Spotify and Apple Podcasts. In an announcement on Wednesday, the company revealed YouTube has surpassed 1 billion monthly active podcast viewers. This milestone highlights YouTube’s popularity in the podcast industry and emphasizes consumer preference for video-first formats. Last year, YouTube […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
Microsoft finalizes its EU sovereign cloud project
Microsoft says that it has completed a multi-year project to allow Europe-based customers using its cloud services to store and process data in the EU. The project, the EU Data Boundary for the Microsoft Cloud, began in January 2023, went on for two more years, and finally wrapped up this February, Microsoft said. With its […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
Google makes it easier to delete personal info from Search results
Google announced on Wednesday that it’s updating its “Results about you” tool to make it easier for users to protect and remove their personal information from Search results. The company says it’s improved the sign-up process and simplified requesting removals directly from Google Search. The tool can be used to proactively monitor and delete things […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
5 days left — save over $300 to TechCrunch Sessions: AI
The hub of AI awaits — don’t miss out! You have 5 more days to secure your spot at TechCrunch Sessions: AI with savings of up to $325. This offer ends on March 3 at 11:59 p.m. PT. As AI continues to be the biggest topic of conversation in the tech world, TechCrunch has you […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: 3 days left to save up to $1,130 on passes
Tick-tock! The last three days to save up to $1,130 to TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 are winding down! Get your tickets today for massive savings on Disrupt 2025 individual passes and up to 30% on group tickets. These offers end February 28 at 11:59 p.m. PT, so don’t miss out on major savings of the year. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
Raspberry Pi powers custom cyberdeck inspired music player
Tonight-we-ride has put together a cool Raspberry Pi music player with a touchscreen and customizable interface with Winamp.
26/02/2025
Lucid’s CEO steps down, as EV maker aims to double production
Lucid Motors founder and CEO Peter Rawlinson will step down, as the luxury EV company sets its sights on doubling production over the next year. Rawlinson won’t be leaving the company. Instead, he’ll be assuming the role of “Strategic Technical Advisor to the Chairman of the Board,” the company said. Chief operating officer Marc Winterhoff […]
26/02/2025
Amazon Alexa event live blog: all the news from the keynote
Amazon is set to announce new Alexa features beginning at 10AM ET this morning — and we hope a few devices accompany them. There isn’t a way to watch the event remotely, but our team is here in person to bring you all of the updates as they happen. We’re expecting Amazon to announce its […]
26/02/2025
Upcoming driver to fix Nvidia RTX 50-series black screen and BSOD issues
Nvidia has confirmed the ongoing black screen and BSOD issues will be resolved in the form of a new vBIOS and driver update.
26/02/2025
Doctor Who returns in April with an evil new cartoon villain
Ncuti Gatwa’s version of the Doctor will be back pretty soon. Disney Plus and the BBC announced that the next season of Doctor Who will start streaming on April 12th, with new episodes dropping weekly. The season will span eight episodes total. Perhaps more interesting than the date, though, is a pair of new characters […]
26/02/2025
Indonesia, Apple reach agreement to end iPhone 16 sales ban
Apple will be able to resume its iPhone 16 smartphone sales in Indonesia after the two sides came to an agreement, the Industry Ministry said during a press conference Wednesday, per a Reuters report. The ban was lifted five months after Indonesia blocked the U.S. iPhone maker from selling its iPhone 16 phones in Indonesia […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
All the news from Amazon’s AI Alexa event
The Verge is live blogging Amazon’s big Alexa event in New York City. It kicks off at 10AM ET on February 26th, and we’re expecting the company to announce a new subscription-based version of Alexa that’s beefed up with a bunch of AI features. It seems like a good time for the company to announce […]
26/02/2025
Prusa Goes to the Cloud with Optional “EasyPrint” Slicer
The new slicer aims to simplify file prep for beginners and anyone who wants to run their Prusa 3D printer from the couch.
26/02/2025
Framework Desktop hands-on: a possible new direction for gaming desktops
Framework’s mission is to “fix consumer electronics, one category at a time†by making them modular, repairable, and upgradable. It’s the only laptop maker to ever truly succeed at that “upgradable†part. But desktop PCs are already modular, so why is Framework making one? At first, I thought it saw a unique opportunity to make […]
26/02/2025
Lock screen platform Glance launches AI-powered shopping experience, gets fresh backing from Google
Lock screen platform Glance announced today that it is launching a new generative AI-based shopping experience. It will suggest different outfits on a user’s personalized avatar. The company is partnering with Google to use the company’s Gemini models and Vertex AI to deploy the experience. Separately, the company also got fresh backing from Google — […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
More than 1 billion people are now watching podcasts on YouTube every month
YouTube isn’t a podcast app, but that hasn’t stopped it from becoming the number one place people who want to consume online radio shows now turn to. According to the company, a staggering 1 billion people are tuning into podcasts every month on YouTube. That’s not just more than either Apple or Spotify can claim […]
26/02/2025
Acer Predator X32 X3 240 Hz OLED gaming monitor review: All the bells and whistles
Acer’s Predator X32 X3 is a 32-inch OLED gaming monitor with 4K resolution at 240 Hz plus a 480 Hz FHD mode. It also offers Adaptive-Sync, HDR10, and wide gamut color. It’s a luxury display with the performance to match its price tag.
26/02/2025
Google makes it easier to remove your contact information from Search results
Google is making it easier to remove and update Search results that contain your personal information. The company’s “Results about you” tool for detecting personal information like addresses and phone numbers that appear in Search has been updated to make it “easier than ever” for users to sign up and for removals to be requested […]
26/02/2025
Qualcomm wants to bring longer Android support to more phones
More Android phones could soon provide longer lifetime support updates thanks to a new agreement between Qualcomm and Google. Qualcomm announced on Monday that “up to eight consecutive years of software and security updates” will be available to Android phones running on future Snapdragon 8 and Snapdragon 7-series chips. As Android specialist Mishall Rahman points […]
26/02/2025
Dr Lisa Su broadens AMD's developer credit program — Hot Aisle to serve as pilot provider
Dr. Lisa Su is expanding AMD's Developer Credits program and is piloting it with Hot Aisle.
26/02/2025
ChatGPT is a terrible, fascinating, and thrilling to-do list app
Every day for the last few weeks, I’ve received a notification on my phone at 7:30 in the morning. The notification comes from ChatGPT, and it always contains the same thing: instructions for a 20-minute full-body workout and a 10-minute meditation. The instructions are simple, and I’ve actually come to appreciate the daily prodding. I […]
26/02/2025
Anagram takes a gamified approach to employee cybersecurity training
Despite employers requiring their employees to complete yearly cybersecurity training courses, human-driven cybersecurity breaches still happen. The problem could even get substantially worse as generative AI increases the scale and personalization of social engineering campaigns. Anagram, formerly known as Cipher, is taking a new approach to employee cybersecurity training that the company hopes can keep […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
Regie.ai injects sales enablement with AI, but keeps humans in the loop
There’s no sure-fire approach to sales enablement, the process of providing a sales team with the resources it needs to close deals. Some teams are deficient on the prospecting side — that is, identifying and contacting potential customers. Others require help getting deals over the finish line. To meet these diverse wants, founders Matt Millen […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
Bridgetown Research raises $19M to speed up due diligence with AI
Birdgetown Research has raised $19 million in a round co-led by Accel and Lightspeed to deploy AI agents for business decisions and M&A deals. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
Framework’s first desktop PC is optimized for gaming and local AI inference
Framework, the company that is better known for its modular, repairable laptops, just released its first desktop computer. It’s a small desktop PC that punches above its weight. The most interesting part is what’s inside the device. Framework is one of the first companies to use AMD’s recently announced Strix Halo architecture, also known as […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
Nomagic picks up $44M for its AI-powered robotic arms
Regions like the U.S. and Europe have been doubling down on rebuilding their industrial muscle, after decades of closing down factories and outsourcing the work to countries like China. To that end, a fast-growing Polish startup called Nomagic, which builds robots — specifically robotic arms — for logistics operations, is announcing $44 million in funding, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
Gozem nets $30M to expand vehicle financing, digital banking in Francophone Africa
Since its launch in 2018 as a ride-hailing service in Togo, Gozem has steadily expanded across French-speaking West Africa, integrating a wide range of services as it sought to become a super-app. The company now offers ride-hailing, commerce, vehicle financing, and digital banking across Togo, Benin, Gabon, and Cameroon. Now, in a bid to scale […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
Hackers publish sensitive patient data allegedly stolen from Australian IVF provider Genea
Genea gets a court injunction after ransomware gang Termite claims to have leaked patient information © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
Thousands of exposed GitHub repos, now private, can still be accessed through Copilot
Data exposed even briefly can live on in generative AI chatbots long after the data is made private. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
Volvo ES90 will charge faster, drive farther than other Volvo EVs
Volvo is continuing to drop hints about its upcoming high-tech electric sedan, the ES90, ahead of the EV’s official reveal next month. Today, the Swedish automaker provided new details about the ES90’s range and battery efficiency, calling it “a car that goes further and charges faster than any electric Volvo before.” That’s mostly thanks to […]
26/02/2025
ElevenLabs now lets authors create and publish audiobooks on its own platform
Voice AI company ElevenLabs is now letting authors publish AI-generated audiobooks on its own Reader app, TechCrunch has learned and the company confirmed. The announcement comes days after the company partnered with Spotify for AI-narrated audiobooks. ElevenLabs, which raised a $180 million mega-round last month, started inviting authors to try out their publishing program through […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
German startup wins accolade for its fusion reactor design
Proxima Fusion, a two-year-old, German nuclear fusion startup, has published plans for a working fusion power plant in a peer-reviewed journal, in what is being touted as a step-change in the race to generate limitless energy. Today’s nuclear fission reactors create radioactive waste, whereas nuclear fusion releases vast amounts of energy, with zero carbon emissions and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
‘We’re nowhere near done with Framework Laptop 16’ says Framework CEO
Two years ago, the last time Framework had an event in San Francisco, California, the highlight was the Framework Laptop 16 — a laptop promising the “holy grail” of upgradable graphics cards, and easily one of the most ambitious laptops ever made. But today, the Framework Laptop 16 got little mention at its new event, […]
26/02/2025
Claude: Everything you need to know about Anthropic’s AI
Anthropic, one of the world’s largest AI vendors, has a powerful family of generative AI models called Claude. These models can perform a range of tasks, from captioning images and writing emails to solving math and coding challenges. With Anthropic’s model ecosystem growing so quickly, it can be tough to keep track of which Claude […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
26/02/2025
Razer’s new Blade 18 offers Nvidia RTX 50-series GPUs and a dual mode display
Razer is adding a fresh gaming laptop to the pile of new models up for preorder today: the Blade 18. Like its smaller (but far from small) Blade 16 cousin, the new Razer Blade 18 will come with Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs and Intel Arrow Lake CPUs. But one major way it differs is its […]
26/02/2025
Samsung’s first Pro series Gen 5 PCIe SSD arrives in March
The first PCIe Gen 5 SSDs from the likes of Seagate and Crucial began hitting the market nearly two years ago, but Samsung has been notably absent with its own model. That will change in March with the arrival of the Samsung 9100 Pro series, its first consumer-ready pure PCIe Gen 5 SSD built with […]
26/02/2025
How much does ChatGPT cost? Everything you need to know about OpenAI’s pricing plans
OpenAI offers an array of plans for ChatGPT, both paid and free. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
We finally know who’s legally running DOGE
The White House has named Amy Gleason as the acting administrator of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The news, delivered by an unnamed White House official to CNBC and other media outlets, follows days of obfuscation in courtrooms, the press, and the pseudo-department itself. It designates Gleason a likely target for the nigh-continuous legal challenges […]
25/02/2025
Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup’s demo goes viral
YC deleted a controversial demo video from one of its startups, which monitors factory workers with AI cameras. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
Anthropic’s latest flagship AI might not have been incredibly costly to train
Anthropic’s newest flagship AI model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, cost “a few tens of millions of dollars” to train using less than 10^26 FLOPs of computing power. That’s according to Wharton professor Ethan Mollick, who in an X post on Monday relayed a clarification he’d received from Anthropic’s PR. “I was contacted by Anthropic who told me […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
Perplexity launches $50M seed and pre-seed VC fund
Perplexity, the developer of an AI-powered search engine, is raising a $50 million seed and pre-seed investment fund, CNBC reported. Although the majority of the capital is coming from limited partners, Perplexity is using some of the capital it raised for the company’s growth to anchor the fund. Perplexity has reportedly raised $500 million at […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
The people in Elon Musk’s DOGE universe
Meet the DOGE staffers and senior advisors in Elon Musk's inner circle, and how they got there. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
Apple is fixing a voice dictation bug that substitutes ‘Trump’ for ‘racist’
Apple has acknowledged a peculiar bug with the iPhone’s dictation feature that briefly displays “Trump” when someone says the word “racist.” The Verge has been unable to reproduce the issue, but it picked up attention on Tuesday after a video demonstrating the strange substitution went viral on TikTok and other social media. The company provided […]
25/02/2025
DOGE has an official ‘acting’ administrator, and it’s not Elon Musk, White House confirms
Amy Gleason is named as the acting administrator of DOGE, amid ambiguity over Elon Musk's role. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
Anthropic’s Claude AI is playing Pokémon on Twitch — slowly
On Tuesday afternoon, Anthropic launched Claude Plays Pokémon on Twitch, a live stream of Anthropic’s newest AI model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, playing a game of Pokémon Red. It’s become a fascinating experiment of sorts, showcasing the capabilities of today’s AI tech and people’s reactions to them. AI researchers have used all sorts of video games, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
How to secure your phone before attending a protest
Back in June 2020, when this article was first written, people were taking to the streets to organize for justice and protest against systemic racism and police brutality. It was revised two years later when people were taking to the streets to protest the possibility that the Supreme Court might overturn Roe v. Wade (and we […]
25/02/2025
Lucid Motors CEO Peter Rawlinson steps down
Lucid Motors is changing CEOs for the first time in nearly six years. The company announced Tuesday that Peter Rawlinson is stepping down from the CEO and CTO roles that he’s held since before the company went public. Lucid appointed its chief operating officer Marc Winterhoff as its interim CEO. Rawlinson will serve as “strategic […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
Apptronik’s humanoid robots take the first steps toward building themselves
Apptronik, an Austin-based maker of humanoid robots, on Tuesday announced a new pilot partnership with American supply chain/manufacturing stalwart, Jabil. The deal arrives two weeks after Apptronik announced a $350 million Series A financing round aimed at scaling up production of its Apollo robot. The Jabil deal is the second major pilot announced by Apptronik. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
OpenAI rolls out deep research to paying ChatGPT users
OpenAI announced on Tuesday that it’s rolling out deep research, its web browsing agent that creates thorough research reports, to all paying ChatGPT users. ChatGPT Plus, Team, Enterprise, and Edu subscribers will get 10 deep research queries per month. OpenAI’s Deep research was previously only available to ChatGPT Pro users, the company’s $200-a-month tier; they […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
Sonos speakers and soundbars are 25 percent off for existing customers
Since its app fiasco last year, Sonos has been busy slowly rebuilding its reputation with customers. This latest sale, which is exclusive to existing customers, seems to be a part of that strategy — and we’re not complaining, because the deals are solid. Through March 2nd, Sonos is taking 25 percent off one select Sonos […]
25/02/2025
Framous is a new Mac app for adding device frames to screenshots
A new Mac app called Framous launched on Tuesday, giving you the ability to add device frames around screenshots to make them look more professional. The helpful new tool can aid app developers, graphic designers, and even journalists who need to add an iPhone or Mac frame—also known as a mockup or template—to photos. This […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
Xbox Cloud Gaming will let you invite friends with just a link
As part of its February Xbox update, Microsoft is making it easier to invite your friends to an Xbox Cloud Gaming session by letting you generate shareable links. You can send the link through an Xbox message or by copying it to your clipboard for pasting into any messaging app you want. Players can accept […]
25/02/2025
Infinity Nikki’s spooky new event will put my cheapskate skills to the test
It’s time to put all the lessons I’ve learned about Infinity Nikki’s gacha system to the test. There’s a new event coming to the game and with that comes a new outfit I actually want this time. After the game taught me an unfortunate lesson on the gacha economy, I’ve kinda taken it easy with […]
25/02/2025
Samsung's 9100 Pro SSD boasts 14,8 GB/s read speeds, making it the world's fastest consumer drive
Samsung introduced its 9100 Pro, the first "true" PCIe 5.0 SSD from the company, with speeds of up to 14.8GB/s, potentially making it the new worlds-fastest consumer SSD and outpacing the Crucial T705. Just as importantly, it can hit that speed while only using 9W (compared to 12W on the Phison E26 drives).
25/02/2025
Apple shareholders vote down anti-DEI proposal
Apple shareholders rejected an anti-DEI proposal at its investor meeting Tuesday. The proposal was brought by a conservative group called the National Center for Public Policy Research (NPPR). It asked Apple to end its DEI activities. Boards typically ask shareholders to reject shareholder proposals, and this was one of four such shareholder proposals. This proposal […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
Why OpenAI isn’t bringing deep research to its API just yet
OpenAI says that it won’t bring the AI model powering deep research, its in-depth research tool, to its developer API while it figures out how to better assess the risks of AI convincing people to act on or change their beliefs. In an OpenAI whitepaper published Wednesday, the company wrote that it’s in the process […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
.NET 10 Preview 1 is now available!
Find out about the new features in .NET 10 Preview 1 across the .NET runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, C#, .NET MAUI, and more! The post .NET 10 Preview 1 is now available! appeared first on .NET Blog.
25/02/2025
8BitDo’s Ultimate 2 controller gets an upgrade to next-generation anti-drift sticks
8BitDo has released an upgraded version of its Ultimate controller now available to preorder through Amazon for $59.99 in purple, black, and white color options. The new 8BitDo Ultimate 2 features a similar asymmetrical stick layout to 8BitDo’s original Ultimate controller that launched in 2022, but adds additional buttons, interactive LED lighting, and tunneling magneto-resistance […]
25/02/2025
Technicolor is winding down operations
Technicolor Group, the French VFX giant that owns some of Hollywood’s most in-demand post-production houses, appears to be on the brink of collapse — putting thousands of jobs at risk. Variety reports that Technicolor has begun winding down operations after failing to secure a new round of investment necessary to keep the entire international outfit […]
25/02/2025
AMD's latest hardware bundle includes Monster Hunter Wilds with select CPUs, GPUs, and laptops
Monster Hunter Wilds is the latest game to be bundled with AMD's hardware.
25/02/2025
Warner Bros. Games is canceling its Wonder Woman game and shutting down three studios
Warner Bros. Discovery is making even more big changes to its troubled gaming efforts. As reported by Bloomberg, the company’s gaming division is canceling the Wonder Woman game announced in 2021 and shutting down three studios: Wonder Woman developer Monolith Productions, MultiVersus developer Player First Games, and Warner Bros. Games San Diego. WBD confirmed the […]
25/02/2025
Tumblr backs Tapestry, a timeline app for the open social web
Automattic-owned blogging site and social platform Tumblr has financially backed Tapestry, the newly launched app designed to organize feeds from across the open web, including RSS, Mastodon, Bluesky, and others. Launched as a Kickstarter project in January 2024, Tapestry went on to raise over $177,000 via crowdfunding for its app, which opened up to the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
Framework moves into desktops, 2-in-1 laptops at Second Gen event
Framework is adding an AMD Strix Halo-based desktop, an Intel 2-in-1, and a refreshed Framework Laptop 13 to its lineup.
25/02/2025
Framework’s first tiny Desktop beautifully straddles the line between cute and badass
Framework, the modular computer company, has just announced its first desktop PC, which is something it absolutely did not need to do — but I’m glad it did. Partly because the world needs more tiny 4.5-liter mini-ITX PCs, partly because it uses AMD’s most powerful APU ever (Strix Halo) with some actual gaming chops and […]
25/02/2025
Framework wants to fix the budget laptop with its first touchscreen machine
Framework, the modular repairable computer company, says budget laptops generally suck — and it plans to fix that this year. Today, it’s previewing a computer called the Framework Laptop 12 that’ll be its smallest laptop yet, its first with a touchscreen, its first with a 2-in-1 convertible hinge, and its first with a rubber-esque shock […]
25/02/2025
The Framework Laptop 13 has just been upgraded to AMD’s Strix Point
Framework has done it again — it’s built a new AMD-powered modular computer that fits into any previous version of its 13-inch laptop for $449, or that you can buy as a brand-new laptop starting at $899 for DIY or $1,099 entirely prebuilt for you. If you’re reading these words, I’m currently at Framework’s event, […]
25/02/2025
Donald Trump broke the law by removing climate change references from USDA websites, lawsuit alleges
The US Department of Agriculture’s decision to purge information about climate change from its websites harms organic farmers and threatens their livelihoods, a new lawsuit alleges. Since President Donald Trump stepped into office, the USDA has removed “scores of vitally important webpages” that mention climate change, the suit says. The administration has been racing to destroy public resources that […]
25/02/2025
Micron unveils DDR5-9200 memory: 1γ process technology with EUV
Micron's 1γ fabrication technology with EUV, new HKMG, and BEOL promises to increase performance while cutting power consumption for DRAM.
25/02/2025
Anker’s new USB-C HDMI cable supports 140W fast charging
Anker has released a new HDMI to USB-C cable that allows you to connect a mobile device to an external display without draining its battery. The Anker Nano USB-C to HDMI Cable Adapter, now available through Amazon for $28.99, is Thunderbolt 5 compatible and includes a USB-C port on the HDMI connector so you can […]
25/02/2025
Dark Horse is shutting down its iOS comics app
The Dark Horse Digital service is being shut down, and as part of that, the Dark Horse Comics iOS app will no longer be supported, according to an announcement. Dark Horse Comics says people should download comics they’ve purchased by March 30th, as it will end support for its iOS app and the standalone Plants vs. […]
25/02/2025
Quora’s Poe now lets users create and share custom AI-powered apps
Poe, Quora’s platform that brings together a number of AI models under one roof, has launched a new capability that lets users build visual interfaces — apps, essentially — on top of any combination of models. Called Poe Apps, the feature allows Poe users to describe the app they want to create in the new […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
Brex eyes $500M in revenue as it adds the likes of Anthropic and Robinhood as customers
Fintech Brex expects its annual net revenue to reach $500 million in 2025, according to a person familiar with the company’s operations as cited by Bloomberg and The Information. While the startup did not comment on the specific revenue projection, it did share that Brex has seen “3x overall revenue growth” year-over-year. It also told […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
Is this 32-year-old a brilliant founder, or a deceptive fraudster?
Hi there, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular fintech newsletter. We’re going on hiatus for a bit, but you can still find our must-see fintech coverage, including my columns and our daily analysis and breaking news stories, at TechCrunch.com. If you want those stories and much more in your inbox every day, sign up for our daily […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
.NET Aspire 9.1 is here with six great new dashboard features, and more!
.NET Aspire 9.1 is here! From enhanced dashboard capabilities like Resource Relationships and Localization Overrides to improved Docker integration and flexible console logs, this release is packed with tools to streamline your development process. The post .NET Aspire 9.1 is here with six great new dashboard features, and more! appeared first on .NET Blog.
25/02/2025
Microsoft makes Copilot Voice and Think Deeper free with unlimited use
Microsoft made OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model free for all Copilot users last month, and now it’s providing unlimited use of this model and Copilot’s voice capabilities to everyone. Previously, both Think Deeper (powered by o1) and Voice in Copilot had limits for free users, but Microsoft is removing these today to allow Copilot users to […]
25/02/2025
Opera integrates Bluesky, Slack, and Discord into its browser
Bluesky is getting added to the Opera web browser. On Tuesday, the Norway-based software maker announced the addition of the new social network alongside Slack and Discord, which will all be integrated into the browser’s sidebar alongside other messaging and communication services. Opera users have been able to customize their browsers with shortcuts to messaging […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
Sweden’s Lovable, an app-building AI platform, rakes in $15M after spectacular growth
Using generative AI to create software has been possibly the largest use case since it first appeared a couple years ago. But platforms like Cursor and Copilot are mostly confined to a world inhabited by trained engineers. Lovable, a Swedish AI startup, reached the front page of both Product Hunt and Hacker News last year […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
Chegg sues Google over AI Overviews
Online education company Chegg filed a lawsuit on February 24th against Google claiming that the company’s AI-generated summaries of search results have hurt its traffic and revenue, Reuters reports. It’s believed to be the first antitrust lawsuit filed by a single company over the AI Overviews feature, Reuters says. Chegg claims Google uses its power […]
25/02/2025
What to expect from Amazon’s Alexa event on Wednesday
Amazon is hosting an Alexa-focused press event in NYC on Wednesday. Considering the company hasn’t held a major device presser in nearly two years — the last one was September 2023 — we’re expecting some splashy announcements. The event will not be live streamed. However, TechCrunch will be reporting on the ground. The festivities, emceed […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
DocUnlock wants to solve a customs bottleneck
When goods enter the U.S., they have to be declared to U.S. customs so the importer can be charged the proper taxes. That applies to everything from a consumer ordering clothes from a brand based overseas to every single item on a massive container ship. When it comes to commercial importing, filling out the necessary […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
Imagination reveals new power-efficient DXTP GPU for laptops and mobile devices
Imagination's new GPU IP, DXTP, promises to bring its best yet AI GPU capabilities to low-power consumer devices.
25/02/2025
Intel has processed 30,000 wafers with High-NA EUV chipmaking tool
Intel says ASML's High-NA EUV tools have produced 30,000 wafers in a single quarter.
25/02/2025
University spin-out Afynia secures $5M seed to commercialize its microRNA panel test for endometriosis
Canadian biotech startup Afynia Laboratories, a spin-out from McMaster University in Ontario, has picked up $5 million in seed funding to commercialize a blood test for endometriosis — a medical condition that can afflict people with a uterus, causing problems like chronic pelvic pain and fertility issues. Endometriosis affects nearly 200 million people worldwide. Getting […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
Tesla reportedly launches FSD in China — or has it?
Tesla is starting to push a software update to its customers in China that appears to fulfill a long-gestating goal for the company to offer its controversial Full Self-Driving features in its largest car market. Or does it? According to Not a Tesla App, its unclear whether the version of FSD that Tesla is offering […]
25/02/2025
Taiwanese authorities detain fishy Chinese freighter suspected of cutting undersea Internet cable
An undersea internet cable running between Taiwan's main island and the offshore Penghu Islands was severed earlier today, under suspicious circumstances.
25/02/2025
Clicks’ BlackBerry-style keyboard case is coming to Android phones
The BlackBerry might be dead, but one of its best ideas — a tiny thumb-friendly keyboard for phones — lives on in the Clicks keyboard case, which will soon be available for several Android devices. Over 100,000 of the original Clicks keyboard cases have been sold around the world, the company says in a press […]
25/02/2025
Clicks brings its BlackBerry-style keyboard case to Android phones
Clicks is bringing its BlackBerry-style physical keyboard case to Android. The company on Tuesday announced the launch of three new products aimed at Android users, including Clicks keyboards for the Google Pixel, Motorola Razr+, and Samsung Galaxy. The cases are available for pre-order starting today and will initially be offered at lower price points than […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
The new Beeper app combines all of Automattic’s messaging systems
Automattic-owned Beeper has announced a new beta update to its desktop and iOS apps to finally merge its service with Texts, which Automattic acquired in 2023. You can download the desktop version or see instructions for using the iOS beta in TestFlight by going to this page. Beeper says the new desktop version is built […]
25/02/2025
YouTube is working to make ad slots less interruptive
YouTube announced it’s making changes to mid-roll ads to improve the viewing experience for users while also helping creators potentially earn more revenue. Starting May 12, the Google-owned platform is going to show fewer ads during moments that feel interruptive or may cause viewers to abandon the video — like in the middle of a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
You can get four Apple AirTags for a record low $68
Apple AirTags can help you find your lost items, but what if you need to keep track of more than one or two items, or you want to equip the whole family? The occasional deal on a four-pack can help a ton, especially when it’s down to $67.99 (about $31 off) Amazon, Best Buy, and […]
25/02/2025
UK newspapers blanket their covers to protest loss of AI protections
Major newspapers across the UK today are all on the same page for once. Specifically, their front covers, which feature the same campaign imagery protesting government proposals that could eviscerate copyright protections against artificial intelligence. Brits popping into their local store or newsagents will be greeted by a spread of bright blue pages demanding the […]
25/02/2025
Xbox’s new Fable game is delayed to 2026
Microsoft has decided to delay the release window of its upcoming Fable game to 2026. The Xbox maker originally said last year that Fable would arrive at some point in 2025, but now Xbox Game Studios chief Craig Duncan has provided an update on the game during an appearance on the official Xbox podcast. “We […]
25/02/2025
This RC purse redefines fast fashion with a top speed of 9 mph
Looking for an accessory that can keep up with your busy lifestyle? Nik Bentel Studio has created a leather purse with a remote control car built into its base. The battery-powered RC Car Bag is four wheel drive, and while its rubber tires can handle minor obstacles like discarded napkins and crumbs while zipping across […]
25/02/2025
Ron Wyden asks for rules about whether you own your digital purchases
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) has sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) chair Andrew Ferguson urging the FTC to require that companies admit when you’re not really buying an ebook or video game. Wyden’s letter, shared with The Verge, requests guidance to “ensure that consumers who purchase or license digital goods can make informed […]
25/02/2025
Chinese CPU maker Zhaoxin rolls out DeepSeek support to all processors — entire product lineup now runs DeepSeek LLMs natively
Zhaoxin, a Chinese CPU OEM, has announced that its full processor family fully supports DeepSeek models with parameters ranging from 1.5B to 671B.
25/02/2025
YouTube will show fewer ads in ‘interruptive’ slots
Starting May 12th, YouTube says it will show fewer mid-roll ads that it thinks will interrupt sentences or action sequences, and more at “natural break points” like pauses or transitions, according to a help page on the change. The company says it’s also inserting “additional, automatic ad-slots at natural break points” into older videos with manually-placed slots, […]
25/02/2025
MSI MAG B850 Tomahawk MAX Wifi Motherboard Review: a little extra on a budget
The B850 Tomahawk MAX Wifi is a budget AMD option that offers plenty for the money. You get two PCIe 5.0 M.2 sockets, 5 GbE, three rear IO USB Type-C ports, and a couple of DIY-friendly features at a reasonable price.
25/02/2025
FAA tests Starlink terminals as Musk claims Verizon tech is ‘not working’
The Federal Aviation Administration has started testing the use of SpaceX Starlink satellite internet terminals in the national airspace system, nearly two years after Verizon was awarded a $2 billion contract to perform similar work. SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk claimed on his social media platform X that the Verizon system “is not working […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
Sam Bankman-Fried’s first post from prison isn’t even good
As disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried serves the early days of his 25-year prison sentence, the crypto wunderkind-turned-criminal made his first public post on X in over two years. Bankman-Fried’s thread on X responds to Elon Musk’s recent ultimatum to federal employees: respond to his email with five bullet points of recent accomplishments, or resign. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
IBM’s $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition cleared by UK
The U.K.’s antitrust authority has given the go-ahead to IBM’s planned multibillion acquisition of infrastructure software company HashiCorp. In a brief case update published today, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it had “cleared the anticipated acquisition by IBM of HashiCorp,” and it would publish the full rationale for its decision in due course. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
The Casio Ring Watch is extremely silly, and that’s why I love it
I am the last person on earth who needs another watch. As The Verge’s resident wearables reviewer, I’m always double-wristing the latest smartwatches. I am also the last person who needs another ring after spending a whole summer wearing six of them like a high-tech mafia wife. But I never said I had good sense, […]
25/02/2025
How AI PCs are removing barriers to workplace connection
To be the best at their jobs, people need relationships in the workplace. Employees who feel comfortable taking work challenges to peers or problem solving in tandem are more likely to excel in their work. They’re also more likely to be happy, as recent research has revealed. Social connections in the workplace contribute to a […]
25/02/2025
DeepSeek reopens access to its API after three-week pause
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has reopened access to its API after halting service for nearly three weeks due to capacity constraints. On Tuesday, the company began allowing customers to top up credits for use on its API, which lets developers build apps and services on top of cloud-hosted versions of DeepSeek’s AI. Server resources remain […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
Microsoft cancels some of its AI data center leases
Microsoft is reportedly shrinking its data center footprint. The tech giant has canceled leases with multiple data center providers that total a “couple hundred megawatts” of capacity, according to Bloomberg, which cited a memo from investment bank TD Cowen. This total represents the equivalent of about two data centers. The reason for Microsoft’s move is […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
Apple’s Developer service comes to China’s WeChat
As part of its efforts to further invest in the Chinese market, Apple announced this week that it’s bringing its Apple Developer service to China’s WeChat app. The service includes news, announcements, and other upcoming activities for members of the developer community, which have typically been offered via Apple’s website and its own Developer app. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
DoorDash to pay delivery workers nearly $17M for using tips to cover wages
DoorDash has agreed to pay $16.75 million to settle a lawsuit by New York’s attorney general that accused the delivery platform of pocketing workers’ tips to cover wages. The lawsuit alleged that between May 2017 and September 2019, DoorDash used customer tips to offset the base pay it had already guaranteed to workers, instead of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
GIGABYTE’s latest AI motherboards push gaming performance forward
With the rapid introduction of computing that leverages AI, the gaming experience is set to take a step forward in 2025. In January, at CES, GIGABYTE provided a glimpse at that future when it introduced its B800 series motherboards. Built to work with Intel B860 and AMD B850 chipsets, the mainstream B800 series models are […]
25/02/2025
Mitico raises $4.3M seed round to capture CO2 using ‘prehistoric chemistry’
Mitico thinks that it has found a way to slash the cost of carbon capture using a simple salt that’s been tweaked for industrial duty. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
The future of the internet is likely smaller communities, with a focus on curated experiences
The modern internet is nearly three decades old, and it’s starting to show its age. Think back to the ’90s: some of what we built back then, though groundbreaking, now feels outdated. The Verge recently created a special issue on what we were doing online in 2004, highlighting how Web 2.0 was born. Take a […]
25/02/2025
Panasonic’s Lumix S1RII full-frame camera captures 8K video
Panasonic has announced an upgrade version of 2019’s Lumix S1R with a new sensor, smaller body, faster autofocus, and video recording that tops out at 8K at 30 frames per second. Although the Lumix S1RII’s new 44.3-megapixel back-side illuminated CMOS sensor is smaller than the 47.3-megapixel sensor in its predecessor, its improved video capabilities, including […]
25/02/2025
Trump wants tighter AI chip export restrictions but may face staffing shortage and other issues
Trump's administration believes restrictions on AI processors exports are not strict enough for close allies, also plans to persuade Japan and the Netherlands to curb services of ASML and TEL machines in China.
25/02/2025
Silent Hill 2 developer is working with Konami on a mystery game
Like Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, Konami and Bloober Team are back in action together. Bloober Team announced that it will continue its partnership with the Japanese publisher on a new project. “The trust built upon the success of Silent Hill 2 laid the foundation for signing another agreement for a new project,†the announcement […]
25/02/2025
We can’t quit electric cars — or robotaxis
There was a time, not so long ago, when people wouldn’t shut up about a revolution in automobiles. No matter where you looked, you’d find someone telling you about how self-driving, all-electric vehicles would change the way we think about car ownership, lead to a total reinvention of how cities work, change the economy, and […]
25/02/2025
ASRock issues BIOS update to address Ryzen 9 9800X3D failures, warns of 'misinformation' about failures
ASRock responds to claims that AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPUs are failing, which the manufacturer claims were caused by memory compatibility issues. A beta BIOS update has been issued to address the problem.
25/02/2025
AMD's powerful Ryzen 7 7800X3D, one of the best CPUs for gaming, is in stock 🔥and on sale for $449
AMD's Ryzen 7 7800X3D is the gaming CPU king that has beaten the last generation's competition. Now it's discounted in price at Newegg.
25/02/2025
Redalpine, Founders Fund back Magdrive’s electric thruster business
Orbital mobility took center-stage in the space industry last year, with venture capitalists funneling massive sums into startups developing tech for nimble satellite operations. So it’s no surprise that one of the most recent deals is to Magdrive, a UK-based startup that says its electric propulsion system for satellites will deliver a higher thrust in […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
Quantum Machines raises $170M, says it’s working with more than half of all quantum computing companies
Quantum computing remains a holy grail in the world of technology, but with some important breakthroughs in the last several months, investors are betting on the more promising startups in the space to make the concept of super-efficient particle- and electron-based computing a reality. In the latest development, Quantum Machines, an Israeli startup that provides […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
Adobe’s new Photoshop app for iPhone is more like the real thing
Adobe has released a powerful new Photoshop mobile app that includes many of the design, editing, and generative AI tools found on the desktop version. The app integrates with Photoshop on the web to allow creatives to work on projects across multiple devices and is globally available today on iPhone, with Android coming “later this […]
25/02/2025
Adobe launches a Photoshop iPhone app
Adobe announced on Tuesday it’s bringing its popular design and editing software Photoshop to mobile, starting with iOS. The company plans to launch a Photoshop for Android app later this year. With the new Photoshop for iPhone app, users can access both free and paid features through a mobile-friendly design that’s accessible on the go. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
Serverless cloud platform Koyeb now lets developers spin up Tenstorrent’s AI accelerators
Just a few weeks after chipmaker Tenstorrent raised nearly $700 million in funding, developers can now try out Tenstorrent’s AI accelerators on Koyeb. Tenstorrent sells AI processors built around the RISC-V instruction set architecture, and has developed its own open-source neural network library, TT-NN, and open-source low-level programming model, TT-Metalium. Tenstorrent is part of a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
Trello’s new update helps you manage Slack, email, and everything else
Trello is launching several new features this week, all designed to turn the Atlassian-owned app into something like a universal to-do list for everything in your life. By integrating with Slack (and soon Teams), email, and Siri, the company is hoping it can help you put all your important stuff in one place – and then […]
25/02/2025
‘Tesla Takedown’ wants to hit Elon Musk where it hurts
On a recent Saturday afternoon, around 50 sign-wielding protesters stood outside the Tesla showroom in Manhattan’s Meatpacking neighborhood, screaming insults at passing Tesla vehicles. “Uncool car!†“Don’t buy a Swatsticar!†“Major loser!†The excitement peaked when an unsuspecting Cybertruck suddenly pulled around the corner.
25/02/2025
Anycubic Photon Mono M7 Max Review: Bigger, Faster Resin
Need bigger resin prints? Anycubic’s Photon Mono M7 Max has got you covered.
25/02/2025
New leaks suggest Samsung’s Z Fold 7 is getting much thinner
It looks like Samsung may have an answer to Oppo’s Find N5 after all, as new leaks claim that the Galaxy Z Fold 7 will only be fractionally thicker than the world’s thinnest foldable. That’s according to renders created by OnLeaks based on leaked information. OnLeaks, together with Android Headlines, reports that the Z Fold […]
25/02/2025
Apple Watch shipments surge in India
Apple Watch shipments in India grew 141% in 2024, while the country's overall smartwatch market dipped 30% year-on-year. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gaming
Today is the third anniversary of Valve’s Steam Deck, the handheld gaming PC that all but created the market for handheld gaming PCs. It was a mess to start! But three years later, The Verge has data showing how it has dominated the nascent market. While Valve told us in November 2023 that it had […]
25/02/2025
Perfect taps $23M to fix the flaws in recruitment with AI
“Agentic AI” is the concept of the moment. Developers big and small are rushing to build apps to leapfrog the heavy lifting needed to employ generative AI in specific contexts… and investors are rushing to fund the most interesting of these. In one of the latest examples, a startup out of Israel called Perfect — […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
Argon40 teases the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 powered Upton One laptop
Arriving via crowdfunding some time in 2025.
25/02/2025
Google Gemini’s AI coding tool is now free for individual users
A free version of Gemini Code Assist, Google’s enterprise-focused AI coding tool, is now available globally for solo developers. Google announced today that Gemini Code Assist for individuals is launching in public preview, aiming to make coding assistants “with the latest AI capabilities” more accessible for students, hobbyists, freelancers, and startups. “Now anyone can more […]
25/02/2025
Google launches a free AI coding assistant with very high usage caps
On Tuesday, Google introduced a new, free consumer version of its AI code completion and assistance tool, Gemini Code Assist, and which the company calls Gemini Code Assist for Individuals. The company also rolled out Gemini Code Assist for GitHub, a code review “agent” designed to automatically look for bugs in code and offer suggestions […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
EU’s top court ruling on Android Auto antitrust referral could put interoperability requests in the fast lane
Europe’s top court has weighed in to clarify the rules around interoperability requirements on Big Tech in a referral on a case related to Google’s Android Auto platform. Back in 2021, the tech giant was hit with an €100 million antitrust fine by Italy’s competition authority for refusing to let a third-party electric car charging […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
US employee screening giant DISA says hackers accessed data of more than 3M people
The Texas-based company said hackers accessed applicants’ SSNs and financial information © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
Microsoft is testing free Office for Windows apps with ads
Microsoft has started testing a free version of Office for Windows that includes ads. Right now, you have to pay for a monthly Microsoft 365 subscription to get access to the full desktop version of Office, but Microsoft has been quietly testing an ad-supported version in certain countries. Beebom first noticed that the ad-supported version […]
25/02/2025
Thoma Bravo raises €1.8B for its first European fund
Private equity firm Thoma Bravo has closed its inaugural European fund at €1.8 billion ($1.9 billion), through which it plans to take equity stakes in mid-sized software companies across the continent. Europe has no shortage of homegrown venture capital (VC) funds — the likes of Atomico and Cherry Ventures have closed early and growth-stage funds […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
Powerplay 2: Logitech made its magic mousepad cheaper instead of better
I’ve never reviewed a perfect product, but Logitech’s Powerplay Wireless Charging System comes close. For over three years and counting, I’ve never even had to think about charging my wireless mouse. It’s so dead simple, it feels like magic, and it’s shame that most people probably can’t afford it at $120. The good news: Logitech […]
25/02/2025
Logitech PowerPlay 2 Review: An impressive downgrade
The Logitech PowerPlay 2 has a (slightly) larger charging area, is (slightly) thinner, cuts all of the original's non-charging features, and still costs $99.
25/02/2025
Everything you need to know about Disney, ESPN, and Bob Iger’s return as CEO
Disney has had a tumultuous run since Bob Iger’s return as the company’s CEO, which came just two years after he handed the reins over to Bob Chapek. Iger has since worked to undo some of Chapek’s changes as the company contends with a streaming-focused future. Iger has big plans for the future of Disney […]
25/02/2025
Fyre Festival 2 is coming, and it already sounds bananas (and not in a good way)
Billy McFarland is back, with Fyre Festival 2. Scheduled to take place in Isla Mujeres, Mexico from May 30 to June 2, tickets just went on sale, ranging from $1,400 to a truly brazen $1.1 million — even though no artists have been confirmed, and McFarland himself isn’t sure if he can legally leave the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
Automattic-owned Beeper is releasing redesigned desktop and iOS apps
WordPress.com owner Automattic last year acquired the multi-service messaging app Beeper for $125 million and said it would merge it with Texts.com, an earlier acquisition in the same category. Now, Beeper is releasing the first set of redesigned apps for iOS and desktop in beta after the merger. In a blog post, Beeper said that […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
Nvidia admits some early RTX 5080 cards are missing ROPs, too
When Nvidia originally confirmed that some of its new RTX 50-series graphics cards had a “rare” manufacturing issue that left them missing some promised render units and a slight amount of performance as a result, it only named three affected cards: the RTX 5090, RTX 5090D, and RTX 5070 Ti. But now, Nvidia has confirmed […]
25/02/2025
Epic Games v. Apple: the fight for the future of the App Store
After months of preparation, Epic Games will finally take on Apple in court in a trial that could fundamentally change the makeup of the App Store. The fight dates back to August, when Epic added a direct payment mechanism to its hit battle royale game Fortnite in violation of Apple’s rules. The iPhone maker quickly […]
25/02/2025
1,000 artists release ‘silent’ album to protest UK copyright sell-out to AI
The U.K. government wants to move full steam ahead on big plans to use and build AI across the country, but not everyone is marching to the beat of its drum. On Monday, a group of 1,000 musicians released a “silent album,” protesting planned changes to copyright law — changes the artists say will make […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
UK’s internet watchdog toughens approach to deepfake porn
Ofcom, the U.K.’s internet safety regulator, has published another new draft guidance as it continues to implement the Online Safety Act (OSA) — the latest set of recommendations aim to support in-scope firms to meet legal obligations to protect women and girls from online threats like harassment and bullying, misogyny, and intimate image abuse. The […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
25/02/2025
Web Summit attendees aren’t buying Scale AI CEO’s push for America ‘to win the AI war’
In a bold move last month, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang took out a full-page ad in The Washington Post, telling President Trump that “America must win the AI war.” The statement sparked mixed reactions, as seen during Wang’s appearance Sunday during the opening night of Web Summit Qatar. When Wang’s interviewer Axios’s Felix Salmon […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
24/02/2025
Anthropic reportedly ups its next funding round to $3.5B
Anthropic’s next funding round is reportedly growing larger. Anthropic, which makes the AI chatbot Claude, is finalizing a $3.5 billion fundraising round that values the company at $61.5 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. Anthropic initially set out to raise $2 billion, but investors have now agreed to a larger tranche, per the WSJ. […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
24/02/2025
The quirky Alarmo clock is no longer exclusive to Nintendo’s online store
Ongoing scarcity has made it challenging to purchase Nintendo’s adorable Alarmo since its soft launch last year, but it appears those days are behind us. The $99.99 alarm clock is now readily available from third-party retailers in the US, starting with Best Buy. You can also buy it directly from Nintendo without a subscription, with […]
24/02/2025
Chegg sues Google over AI search summaries
Edtech company Chegg has sued Google claiming that the tech giant’s AI summaries of search results have hurt Chegg’s traffic and revenue. In the suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Chegg accuses Google of unfair competition — specifically reciprocal dealing, monopoly maintenance, and unjust enrichment. Google, Chegg claims, forces […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
24/02/2025
The government is still threatening to ‘semi-fire’ workers who don’t answer an email from Elon Musk
We’re nearing the deadline that Elon Musk imposed for government workers to reply to a mass email about productivity, and the results have been predictably confusing — with even a direct statement from President Donald Trump failing to clear things up. Government agencies have taken significantly different tacks toward the Musk-promoted email, which he announced […]
24/02/2025
Even Elon Musk forgets that X isn’t Twitter sometimes
Do you sometimes refer to X by its old name, Twitter? That’s okay. Even Elon Musk, the man who changed Twitter’s name to X, still occasionally refers to the social media platform he runs as Twitter. “Twitter added far more features with fewer people,” said Musk in a post on X Monday. The owner of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
24/02/2025
Freedom of speech is ‘on the line’ in a pivotal Dakota Access Pipeline trial
A pivotal trial over the embattled Dakota Access Pipeline opens today that could have grave consequences for protests in the US and the future of the environmental group Greenpeace. Members of the Standing Rock Sioux and more than 500 other tribes protested the development of the pipeline alongside demonstrators who joined from across the US nearly […]
24/02/2025
Holmes and Balwani’s appeal falls flat as court upholds fraud convictions
Elizabeth Holmes and Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani’s appeals to overturn their fraud convictions and reduce their prison sentences were denied Monday by the Northern District Court of California, which also refused to soften their $452 million joint restitution order. Holmes, the founder of Theranos, and Balwani, its former COO, were convicted in separate trials in 2022 […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
24/02/2025
Apple exec Phil Schiller testifies that he raised concerns over App Store commissions on web-based sales
Apple Fellow Phil Schiller, the executive in charge of leading the App Store, testified in court on Monday that he had originally raised concerns about the 27% commission the iPhone maker planned to charge app developers on any purchases made outside the App Store. In addition to being a potential compliance risk, he suggested that […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
24/02/2025
SpaceX thinks it knows why Starship exploded on its last test flight
SpaceX believes it knows what caused the explosion during the seventh test flight of its Starship spacecraft and Super Heavy booster on January 16th, 2025. Fires in the aft section of Starship, located between the bottom of its liquid oxygen tank and rear heat shield, caused “all but one of Starship’s engines to execute controlled […]
24/02/2025
AT&T and Verizon connect first cellphone-to-satellite video calls
Verizon and AT&T have each announced milestones in making cellphone-to-satellite video calls in partnership with satellite company AST SpaceMobile. Verizon has completed its first cellphone-to-satellite video call, while AT&T has completed its first using satellites that will be used as part of a commercial network. There’s lining up competition to T-Mobile’s arrangement with SpaceX and […]
24/02/2025
Microsoft's ad-supported version of Office only saves to OneDrive
Microsoft Office gets an add-supported model.
24/02/2025
DOGE’s HR email is getting the ‘Bee Movie’ spam treatment
Over the weekend, Elon Musk surveyed his followers on X — the platform he spent $44 billion to buy — asking whether federal employees should be required to send his team an email with a list of five things they accomplished this week. With the yes votes totaling over 70%, Musk followed through. Federal employees […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
24/02/2025
What to expect from Amazon’s big Alexa event this week
Amazon is holding a press event this week, where we expect it to finally launch its “new” Alexa. This could be the beginning of a major shift in how we use generative AI in our homes, or it could be a big disappointment. The latter seems likely, based on the delays and persistent rumors that […]
24/02/2025
This Raspberry Pi Creeper robot is bringing our Minecraft nightmares to real life
Efren Lopez has created a Raspberry Pi-powered Creeper robot from the Minecraft universe complete with an AI chip and a motorized body.
24/02/2025
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.
24/02/2025
Let’s Learn .NET: GitHub Copilot Event
Join us for an exciting Let's Learn .NET live stream event where we will explore GitHub Copilot and its capabilities. The post Let’s Learn .NET: GitHub Copilot Event appeared first on .NET Blog.
24/02/2025
Anthropic used Pokémon to benchmark its newest AI model
Anthropic used Pokémon to benchmark its newest AI model. Yes, really. In a blog post published Monday, Anthropic said that it tested its latest model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, on the Game Boy classic Pokémon Red. The company equipped the model with basic memory, screen pixel input, and function calls to press buttons and navigate around the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
24/02/2025
SpaceX says Starship self-destructed after propellant leaks caused fires and comms blackout
SpaceX said Monday that last month’s Starship explosion was brought on by a cascading series of events caused by propellant leaks — a problem the company says has been addressed ahead of an eighth test flight that could happen as early as Friday. The spaceflight company is still waiting for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
24/02/2025
SoundCloud partners with TicketMaster to let artists list events
Music streamer SoundCloud announced a partnership with entertainment company Live Nation today, allowing artists on its platform to list Ticketmaster and Universe events on their profile in a customized way. The company said it would create more promotion opportunities for artists in the future in partnership with Ticketmaster through a new promotion program but didn’t […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
24/02/2025
Khosla Ventures seeks $3.5B in fresh capital
Khosla Ventures, a firm known for early investments in OpenAI, is raising $3.5 billion across three funds, the Wall Street Journal reported. That target is 17% larger than the firm’s previous 2023 fund haul of $3 billion. About half of the new capital will be allocated to its ninth core venture fund. The remaining money will […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
24/02/2025
Annapurna’s 2025 lineup of indie games is full of tea and T-poses
Annapurna Interactive is hosting its first showcase of the year, and it’s an important one. Last year, Annapurna Interactive’s entire staff resigned en masse after negotiations to spin off the respected indie game publisher into its own independent entity broke down. Since then, those employees have formed their own company and even have a new crop […]
24/02/2025
Google Drive gets searchable video transcripts
Google has announced new searchable transcripts for videos you store in Google Drive. The feature is rolling out to all Google Workspace users, starting today and finishing by March 26th. The transcripts look a lot like those you’d see on YouTube. If one is available, it’ll appear in a sidebar next to the video as […]
24/02/2025
Argon40 teases new Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 laptop prototype
It is still early days, with no price or details as yet
24/02/2025
Anthropic’s new ‘hybrid reasoning’ AI model is its smartest yet
Anthropic is releasing Claude 3.7 Sonnet, its first “hybrid reasoning model” that can solve more complex problems and outperforms previous models in areas like math and coding. In addition to a new model, Anthropic is also releasing a “limited research preview” of its “agentic” coding tool called Claude Code. While Anthropic already powers AI coding […]
24/02/2025
Google Drive users can now access and search transcripts for videos
After launching automatically generated captions for videos last year, Google Drive is now launching searchable video transcripts. Google announced that starting Monday, Drive users can now view and search transcripts for their videos. The new feature gets rid of the need to upload a video’s audio to a transcription service like Otter. Transcripts will appear […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
24/02/2025
Anthropic launches a new AI model that ‘thinks’ as long as you want
Anthropic is releasing a new frontier AI model called Claude 3.7 Sonnet, which the company designed to “think” about questions for as long as users want it to. Anthropic calls Claude 3.7 Sonnet the industry’s first “hybrid AI reasoning model,” because it’s a single model that can give both real-time answers and more considered, “thought-out” […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
24/02/2025
Logitech's ambidextrous lightweight G Pro Wireless gaming mouse is now only $69 — an excellent choice for lefties
The Logitech G Pro wireless gaming mouse is now only $69 at Amazon.
24/02/2025
Endgame Gear KB65HE Review: Minimal looks, solid build
Endgame Gears’ KB65HE gaming keyboard combines solid build construction with highly adjustable hall effect switches from Gateron, all packaged in a small 65% form factor.
24/02/2025
AMD 9800X3D 'failures/deaths' Reddit megathread indicates the vast majority may be happening on ASRock motherboards
Ryzen 7 9800X3D's are allegedly dying at an abnormally high rate on ASRock motherboards. An ASRock Reddit moderator has created a megathread detailing the issues.
24/02/2025
Grok 3 appears to be driving Grok usage to new heights
Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, released Grok 3, its long-awaited flagship AI model, last week. Grok 3 powers the Grok chatbot apps for mobile and the web, as well as the Grok experience on the Musk-owned social network X. Given that there’s so much competition in the AI chatbot space these days, it wasn’t a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
24/02/2025
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.
24/02/2025
Andor is on the offensive in latest season 2 trailer
Though new episodes of Andor dropped individually (for the most part) during the show’s first season, Disney Plus is switching things up when the show returns this April. Along with a new Andor trailer showcasing some of the action Cassian (Diego Luna) is going to get into in the show’s second and final season, Disney […]
24/02/2025
Ember’s high-tech smart mug has fallen to its lowest price to date
Warm beverages are a winter staple, particularly when the flu is making the rounds. Keeping your favorite drinks warm is a battle if you’re not one to chug; however, the Verge-favorite Ember Mug 2 lets you sip and savor your beverage of choice at the ideal temperature all day long. And right now, Amazon and […]
24/02/2025
The SEC will not sue Robinhood over crypto
Robinhood on Monday said that the SEC has closed its investigation into Robinhood’s crypto unit and will not pursue action. This follows Coinbase saying on Friday that the SEC has dropped its lawsuit against it. The SEC, under former chair and crypto hawk Gary Gensler, was looking into a number of crypto exchanges over how […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
24/02/2025
Balatro’s PEGI 18 rating in Europe has been changed following appeal
Balatro, the hit roguelike with poker imagery and poker hands but no actual gambling, no longer has a PEGI 18 rating in Europe following an appeal, PEGI announced today. LocalThunk, the creator of Balatro, has publicly shared his frustrations the rating — the game was originally given a PEGI 3 rating, but it was bumped […]
24/02/2025
Perplexity teases a web browser called Comet
AI-powered search engine Perplexity says it’s building its own web browser. In a post on X on Monday, the company launched a sign-up list for the browser, which isn’t yet available. It’s unclear when it might be — or what the browser look like, even. But we do have a name: Comet. “Just like Perplexity […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
24/02/2025
AMD breathes life into Ryzen 5000G family with six new chips — Cezanne with up to eight Zen 3 cores and 4.6 GHz boost clocks
AMD is quietly launching six new Ryzen 5000G chips five years after its first release.
24/02/2025
Google is replacing Gmail’s SMS authentication with QR codes
Google is planning to move away from sending six-digit authentication codes through SMS messages as a two-factor authentication tool for Gmail, Forbes reports. Instead, over the next few months, QR codes will be rolled out as a replacement for SMS codes in an attempt to “reduce the impact of rampant, global SMS abuse,” Gmail spokesperson […]
24/02/2025
Three years on, Europe looks to Ukraine for the future of defense tech
Today marks three years since Russia’s illegal, unprovoked, and brutal invasion of Ukraine. The Ukrainian people have heroically fought the war with grit and determination, but they have also, against the odds, innovated on and off the battlefield. In addition to establishing a defense tech initiative called BRAVE1, the country has also hosted tech conferences like […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
24/02/2025
TikTok (with Douyin) becomes first app to reach $6B in annual consumer spending
TikTok, including its Chinese counterpart Douyin, in 2024 became the first non-game app to reach $6 billion in in-app purchase revenue in a year. According to a new report from app intelligence provider Sensor Tower, TikTok also generated a record high of $1.9 billion in gross in-app purchase (IAP) revenue in the fourth quarter of […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
24/02/2025
Australia bans government use of Kaspersky software due to ‘unacceptable security risk’
The Australian government followed the U.S., Canada, and the United Kingdom in taking action against the Russian cybersecurity giant © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
24/02/2025
Researchers accuse North Korea of $1.4 billion Bybit crypto heist
North Korea is behind the massive crypto hack, according to several blockchain monitoring firms and a well-known researcher © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
24/02/2025
Apple says it will spend $500 billion in US over next four years as it faces down Trump tariffs
Apple announced $500 billion in US spending over the next four years as it faces town tariff threats.
24/02/2025
RTX 4090M eGPU hits pre-sale for $1,260 — $1,000 cheaper than Asus's RTX 5090 mobile eGPU
Chinese mini-PC specialist Morefine jumps on the portable eGPU bandwagon with its G1 packing up to an RTX 4090M 16GB.
24/02/2025
Corsair Titan 360 RX RGB AIO review: Excellent for iCue
Corsair’s iCUE Link Titan 360 RX RGB is a strong AIO. Check out the review for our results with Intel’s i7-14700K and Core Ultra 9 285K CPUs!
24/02/2025
Conservative podcaster Dan Bongino named deputy FBI director
President Donald Trump announced Sunday night he has named conservative podcaster Dan Bongino as the FBI’s new deputy director. Bongino has worked as a New York police officer and US Secret Service agent, but has no FBI experience. Bongino is well-known in conservative media, thanks to credits like having hosted a Fox News show and […]
24/02/2025
The startup battle begins now: TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 applications are open
Pre-Series A founders, this is your moment! If you’re ready to showcase your game-changing innovations on a global stage, the battlefield awaits. Applications for TechCrunch Startup Battlefield 200 — the premier startup pitch competition — are officially OPEN. This is your shot to shine! Step onto the global stage and showcase your groundbreaking startup to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
24/02/2025
As Meta gets rid of fact-checkers, misinformation is going viral
Meta is phasing out its third-party fact-checking programs in the U.S. while it reintroduces a bonus program for creators, which pays them for viral content. The timing of these changes at Meta could intensify the prevalence of misinformation, according to ProPublica. In the past, content creators could not monetize posts that fact-checkers deemed false; but […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
24/02/2025
Apple designer Susan Kare made 32 new, Mac-inspired physical icons
Legendary Apple artist Susan Kare has released 32 new retro-inspired icons that are designed to live outside of your computer screen. Instead, the “Esc Keys” collection Kare created in collaboration with Asprey Studio consists of mechanical keyboard keycaps and wearable pendants, each featuring an 8-bit pixel art illustration like a dog, a plant, mail, and […]
24/02/2025
RTX 5080 with missing ROPs takes a 12% performance hit in synthetic benchmark
The RTX 5080 is also reported to be plagued by manufacturing flaws. Eight missing ROPs are reported to have reduced performance by up to 12%.
24/02/2025
Monster Hunter Wilds thrives on spectacle
In my first few hours with Monster Hunter Wilds, I fought against a gigantic spider in waters that were as red as blood and dodged the onslaught of a twisting dragon amid a desert storm, complete with powerful strikes of lightning terrorizing the ground around me. I went up against sandworms and giant apes and […]
24/02/2025
Vimeo CEO Philip Moyer is betting on the human touch — and AI
Today, I’m talking with Vimeo CEO Philip Moyer. You probably know Vimeo from its beginnings as an artsier, more creative competitor to YouTube. But over the last few years, and especially after it went public in 2021, Vimeo has really turned itself into an enterprise software company, selling video hosting services to companies of all […]
24/02/2025
Flexport releases onslaught of AI tools in a move inspired by ‘Founder Mode’
Freight forwarding and logistics company Flexport is rolling out a suite of new products and features, many of which use AI, in what the company says will be the first in a series of semi-annual announcements of this kind. If that sounds similar to Airbnb’s approach to seasonal product announcements, that’s because it was the […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
24/02/2025
World’s largest data center gets go-ahead from Korean govt — facility to require 3 GW of power
Investment firm SFR plans to spend $35 billion to put up a massive 3-GW data center in the South Jeolla province in South Korea.
24/02/2025
Sigma’s BF is a minimalist full-frame camera with no memory card slot
Sigma has announced a new compact 24.6-megapixel full-frame camera called the BF with a clean, minimalist design featuring just four button controls and a dial. The BF’s body is milled from a single block of aluminum, its user interface has been redesigned with a “completely new information structure compared to conventional digital cameras,” according to […]
24/02/2025
How to set up crash detection on your Android phone
Your phone comes with a number of useful features that we hope you’ll never have to use — and crash detection falls into that category. Movement sensors detect when you’re driving — and when you come to a sudden and abrupt stop. Your phone or watch can then alert emergency services, along with family and […]
24/02/2025
China's rival to Elon Musk’s Starlink has the potential to challenge its reach by 2030, says report
SpaceSail is forging international partnerships to strengthen its presence, emerging as a competitor to Elon Musk's Starlink.
24/02/2025
A single default password exposes access to dozens of apartment buildings
An unchanged credential allows anyone to virtually control door locks and elevators at dozens of apartment buildings across North America, a security researcher found. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
24/02/2025
Cambium is building an AI that helps turn waste wood into usable lumber
Cambium uses data on timber and lumber transactions in a bid to make salvage wood appealing to a range of companies. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
24/02/2025
Patlytics raises $14M for its patent analytics platform
For decades, patents have been a bone of contention in the technology world, seen by some as a way to protect intellectual property, but by critics as a blunt weapon against innovation. In the age of AI, they are once again getting revisited. New York startup Patlytics has developed an AI-enabled patent analytics platform to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
24/02/2025
Leaked RTX 5070 benchmarks show mixed results against RTX 4070 Super, 18% slower than RTX 5070 Ti
Leaked benchmarks of the $549 RTX 5070 depict patchy performance versus the RTX 4070 Super.
24/02/2025
Apple’s iPhone 17 lineup is looking a little Pixelated
Apple is several months away from launching the iPhone 17 series but a significant camera redesign may be on the horizon. Leaker Majin Bu has shared CAD renders of what are purported to be the iPhone 17, 17 Pro, 17 Pro Max, and the rumored iPhone 17 Air — with the latter three all featuring […]
24/02/2025
Intel ‘Value Pack’ CPUs roll out in South Korea — PC DIYers can save $7 with no-frills packaging
South Korean authorized Intel distributors introduced a more affordable Intel Core i4-14600K/KF value pack.
24/02/2025
Meta AI arrives in the Middle East and Africa with support for Arabic
Meta has formally expanded Meta AI to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), opening the AI-enabled chatbot to millions more people. Back in October, Meta announced it was launching Meta AI in six additional markets, including Brazil and the U.K. At the same time, the company teased gradual rollout plans for additional markets around […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
24/02/2025
What’s the deal with all these airplane crashes?
First, let’s lay out the facts. Four commercial jet crashes have occurred in the last 10 weeks: Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 on Christmas Day; Jeju Air Flight 7C2216 on December 29th; American Airlines Flight 5342 on January 29th; and Delta Connection Flight 4819 on February 17th. There have been several private airplane crashes in the […]
24/02/2025
Apple commits $500B to US manufacturing, including a new AI server facility in Houston
The U.S. government is leaning hard on tech companies to make more commitments to building their businesses in the country, and Big Tech is falling in line. On Monday, Apple laid out its own plans in that area: it will spend $500 billion over the next four years in areas like high-end manufacturing, engineering, and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
24/02/2025
Apple responds to tariff threat with a $500 billion US investment
Apple has announced plans to invest more than $500 billion in the US over the next four years, including hiring 20,000 new employees and launching a new server factory in Texas. The announcement was teased after a meeting last week between CEO Tim Cook and President Donald Trump, and comes as the company tries to […]
24/02/2025
Nvidia RTX 5080 suffers from similar missing ROP defect as 5090 and 5070 Ti: Report
Some GeForce RTX 5080 graphics cards miss eight ROPs, according to a Reddit post.
24/02/2025
Yope is sparking GenZ (and VC) interest with an Instagram-like app for private groups
Photo and video apps targeting young adults with social hooks are a dime a dozen these days, so those that show traction with 18-twentysomethings tend to catch the attention of investors looking for the next Instagram or TikTok. In the latest example, photo-sharing app Yope, which lets you share still images to private groups, says […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
24/02/2025
Key Cambridge, UK VC launches $126M fund to stem later stage flight
It’s often said that the UK and Europe lack the huge level of growth funding for later-stage startups that the US has for its own, and this is correct. According to the European Investment Fund, there are at least seven times more large-size VC funds in the US than in Europe. So the appearance of a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
24/02/2025
The lesson of Larry Ellison’s misadventures in farming
Larry Ellison’s leap into farming with his company, Sensei Farms, serves up a classic reminder: being a genius in one arena doesn’t mean success in another. As the WSJ reports, the Oracle co-founder set out to reinvent agriculture on Hawaii’s Lāna‘i Island, which he scooped up for $300 million back in 2012. Eight years and […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
24/02/2025
Grok blocked results saying Musk and Trump “spread misinformation”
Grok, Elon Musk’s ChatGPT competitor, temporarily refused to respond with “sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread misinformation,” according to xAI’s head of engineering, Igor Babuschkin. After Grok users noticed that the chatbot had been given instructions to not respond with those results, Babuschkin blamed an unnamed, ex-OpenAI employee at xAI for updating Grok’s system […]
23/02/2025
Google’s new AI video model Veo 2 will cost 50 cents per second
Google has quietly revealed the pricing of Veo 2, the video-generating AI model that it unveiled in December. According to the company’s pricing page, using Veo 2 will cost 50 cents per second of video, which adds up to $30 per minute or $1,800 per hour. Google DeepMind researcher Jon Barron contrasted this pricing with […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
23/02/2025
Hyundai’s new Tesla charging port comes up short
The 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 is as good as ever, but doesn’t play well with Tesla Superchargers at the moment. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
23/02/2025
Palantir CEO’s new book says Silicon Valley has ‘lost its way’
Palantir co-founder and CEO Alexander Karp opens his new book with a provocative declaration: “Silicon Valley has lost its way.” Over the past decade or so, as the data analytics company rose to prominence with its work for U.S. military and intelligence, Karp has largely stayed out of the limelight. Last year, in a rare […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
23/02/2025
Electric aircraft founder Kyle Clark threw out the Silicon Valley playbook
On a cool morning last November, 800 people gathered before sunrise in a South Burlington hangar to witness the maiden flight of Beta Technologies’ first electric aircraft to be built on its new scaled production line. Kyle Clark, Beta’s enigmatic founder and CEO, piloted the Alia CX300 — one of the startup’s two aircraft models […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
23/02/2025
The Space Force shares a photo of Earth taken by the X-37B space plane
On Friday, the Space Force published a picture taken last year from a camera mounted on the secretive X-37B space plane while high above the Earth. Space.com notes that the “one other glimpse†of the plane in space was while it was “deploying from Falcon Heavy’s upper stage†during its December 2023 launch. The Space […]
23/02/2025
Elon Musk claims federal employees have 48 hours to explain recent work or resign
Elon Musk tweeted Saturday that federal workers would soon get an email “requesting to understand what they got done last week.” According to the New York Times, the email from the Office of Personnel Management went to agencies across the federal government that afternoon, including the FBI, State Department, and others, with a deadline for […]
23/02/2025
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT performance estimates leaked: 42% to 66% faster than Radeon RX 7900 GRE
AMD compared its upcoming Radeon RX 9070 XT with Radeon RX 7900 GRE in presentation, discovers that the new flagship is massively faster than the previous-generation performance mainstream contender.
23/02/2025
This mental health chatbot aims to fill the counseling gap at understaffed schools
As school districts struggle to support the mental health of their students, a startup called Sonar Mental Health has built a “wellbeing companion” called Sonny to help. As described in the Wall Street Journal, Sonny is a chatbot that relies on a combination of human staff and AI. When students text their questions to Sonny, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
23/02/2025
This Raspberry Pi transparent display is made using a glass dome
VEEB Projects has put together a cool transparent Raspberry Pi display using a glass dome and a program that replicates the Pepper's Ghost effect.
23/02/2025
CS2 fans targeted by Streamjackers — viewers swindled out of crypto and Steam valuables
Cybercriminals are targeting the CS2 community with streamjacking scams. Innocents have been lured into sharing Steam credentials, and paying into crypto-doubling scams.
23/02/2025
Grok 3 appears to have briefly censored unflattering mentions of Trump and Musk
When billionaire Elon Musk introduced Grok 3, his AI company xAI’s latest flagship model, in a live stream last Monday, he described it as a “maximally truth-seeking AI.” Yet it appears that Grok 3 was briefly censoring unflattering facts about President Donald Trump — and Musk himself. Over the weekend, users on social media reported […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
23/02/2025
This Dell 27-Inch FHD IPS monitor is only $89 at Best Buy
The Dell S2721NX is currently available at Best Buy for one of its lowest prices to date — just $89 instead of its usual $159.
23/02/2025
Pong can now be played across 240 browser tabs — faviconic leverages tab favicons
A lone developer goes through the excruciating process of developing and documenting the process of a Pong port to 240 browser tabs— the tabs themselves, that is.
23/02/2025
Security researcher finds vulnerability in internet-connected bed, could allow access to all devices on network
Web-connected smart bed provider Eight Sleep revealed to be including an SSH backdoor in its beds, as well as exposing a live AWS key.
23/02/2025
Hades II just keeps getting better
Hades II just received its second major update as part of its early access development, which was a great excuse for me to jump back in. Since its initial release, I’ve logged more than 30 hours and actually held myself back from playing much more – I don’t want to get tired of the game […]
23/02/2025
Apple’s M4 MacBook Air bump may be just around the corner
Apple is readying its MacBook Air line for an update to M4 chips in March, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in today’s Power On newsletter. With the slim laptops’ spec bump, the MacBook line’s M4 transition will be complete. Gurman didn’t provide timing beyond that the laptops are coming next month, but as usual before […]
23/02/2025
Intel and Samsung Display cooperate to advance next-gen AI PCs into 'unchartered territory'
Intel and Samsung Display ink MOU to develop screens for AI devices.
23/02/2025
Intel launches new 18A website, highlights milestones and specifications
Intel tries to improve 18A image ahead of volume launch later this year.
23/02/2025
AOC Agon Pro AG346UCD Ultra-wide OLED gaming monitor review: Maximum color and solid value
AOC delivers maximum color and excellent value with the Agon Pro AG346UCD. It’s a 34-inch WQHD 21:9 Ultra-Wide QD-OLED gaming monitor with 175 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR, and a wide color gamut selling for a reasonable price.
23/02/2025
Technician warns against copper modding GPUs, fixes RTX 3080 with component damage
A GPU repair technician repairs a RTX 3080 from copper cooling electrical damage, demonstrating the dangers of copper modding a GPU.
23/02/2025
RTX 5070 Ti manufacturing defect cuts performance by up to 10% — 88 ROPs vs 96 ROPs (design)
Defective RTX 5070 Ti with eight missing ROPs sees an up-to 10% drop in performance, depending on the scenario.
23/02/2025
Cougar Revenger 4K Mouse review: Feels great, but flawed
At $70, the Cougar Revenger Pro 4K is a fantastic mouse, but the 4,000 Hz dongle struggles to make this mouse live up to its name.
23/02/2025
Our favorite apps for listening to music
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 72, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, hope you like gadgets, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading about Hasan Piker and calculator apps and car thieves and […]
23/02/2025
Chinese researchers develop method to revive lithium batteries that significantly extends their lifespan
The method involves injecting fresh lithium into degraded batteries using a specialized lithium compound, potentially extending their lifespan and improving battery sustainability.
23/02/2025
The iOS 18.4 beta brings Matter robot vacuum support
Apple released the first developer beta of iOS 18.4 yesterday, which users have since discovered contains support for robot vacuums in the Apple Home app through Matter. As spotted by 9to5Mac, Smart Home Centre confirmed the functionality using a Switchbot S10, which offers its own beta support for Matter. (Switchbot first added Matter robot vacuum support last […]
22/02/2025
Did xAI lie about Grok 3’s benchmarks?
Debates over AI benchmarks — and how they’re reported by AI labs — are spilling out into public view. This week, an OpenAI employee accused Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, of publishing misleading benchmark results for its latest AI model, Grok 3. One of the co-founders of xAI, Igor Babushkin, insisted that the company was […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
22/02/2025
US AI Safety Institute could face big cuts
The National Institute of Standards and Technology could fire as many as 500 staffers, according to multiple reports — cuts that further threaten a fledgling AI safety organization. Axios reported this week that the US AI Safety Institute (AISI) and Chips for America, both part of NIST, would be “gutted” by layoffs targeting probationary employees […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
22/02/2025
How I Podcast: Summer Album / Winter Album’s Jody Avirgan
The beauty of podcasting is that anyone can do it. It’s a rare medium that’s nearly as easy to make as it is to consume. And as such, no two people do it exactly the same way. There are a wealth of hardware and software solutions open to potential podcasters, so setups run the gamut […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
22/02/2025
The pain of discontinued items, and the thrill of finding them online
We’ve all been there. A favorite item is suddenly unavailable for purchase. Couldn’t the manufacturer have given you advance warning? Whether owing to low sales, changing habits, production costs, or even because something is a little wrong with your favorite product (shh), discontinued items are part of life. In a weekend piece, the New York […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
22/02/2025
The long wait for a glimpse of Luigi
There are so many people here that nobody can tell where the end of the line is. New people arrive, ask if there’s a line, shuffle into a blob of bodies idling and waiting for someone to give them instructions. The hallway is horribly warm — unclear if it’s from the bodies or the heat […]
22/02/2025
The fallout from HP’s Humane acquisition
Welcome back to Week in Review. This week we’re looking at the internal chaos surrounding HP’s $116 million acquisition of AI Pin maker Humane; Mira Murati’s new AI venture coming out of stealth; Duolingo killing its iconic owl mascot with a Cybertruck; and more! Let’s get into it. Humane’s AI pin is dead. The hardware […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
22/02/2025
Spotify HiFi was announced four years ago, and it’s almost here — maybe
I’m hard-pressed to find another example of a tech company announcing something and then waiting over four years to actually ship it, but that’s exactly the situation we’ve reached with Spotify and its long-delayed HiFi feature. The latest reports indicate it’s finally coming in a matter of months as part of a Music Pro package […]
22/02/2025
AMD appears unlikely to sell reference Radeon RX 9070, RX 9070 XT GPUs
AMD will announce the highly anticipated Radeon RX 9070-series graphics cards on February 28, seven days from now, at 8 AM ET via its YouTube channel.
22/02/2025
How to Create a 3D Printing Timelapse
With the right tools and software, you can capture your 3D prints growing layer by layer, condensing minutes or hours of printing into a video that is just a few seconds.
22/02/2025
Trump administration reportedly shutting down federal EV chargers nationwide
The General Services Administration, the agency that manages buildings owned by the federal government, is planning to shut down its entire network of electric vehicle chargers, according to a report in The Verge. The GSA reportedly operates a network of hundreds of EV chargers with a total of 8,000 plugs that can be used to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
22/02/2025
AT&T will let you split your bill with people on your plan
AT&T has introduced SplitPay, a new payment option that lets those sharing a phone plan with others split their payment line-by-line, so no one person has to pay the entire bill. The company says the program is available for “select postpaid wireless plans,” and that those using SplitPay can still get multi-line discounts. It sounds […]
22/02/2025
2TB PCIe 4.0 SSD is $99 at Newegg and comes with a free 32GB flash drive
The TeamGroup MP44L 2TB SSD is now available at Newegg for $99 instead of its usual price of $139.
22/02/2025
PhysX feature unlocked for RTX 5090 with RTX 3050 'helper' to enable full performance
As Nvidia has dropped support for PhysX in legacy games on its RTX 50 GPUs, a Redditor has bought a separate RTX 3050 as a dedicated PhysX card.
22/02/2025
ASUS is making a ‘Fragrance Mouse,’ and it’s coming to the US
If you were paying attention to CES this year, you may have come across the Asus Aidol 14 Air Fragrance Edition’s curious gimmick: a magnetically-attached oil diffuser in the lid that emits the aroma of essential oils once the laptop heats up. Asus has now announced a “Fragrance Mouse” to go with it; and it’s […]
22/02/2025
Explore the online world of Apple TV’s ‘Severance’
Apple has been steadily working to expand the world of the Apple TV+ series “Severance,” through online materials, e-books, podcasts, and other content – and so have its fans. Taking advantage of its platform power, the Cupertino tech giant has been able to easily distribute supplemental material that adds to the show’s storytelling abilities, offering […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
22/02/2025
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage blends its teen drama with a heavy dose of ’90s nostalgia
The fuzz of the cathode-ray tube (CRT) monitor, alongside static grains and flickering scanlines, is a touchstone for ’90s-era nostalgia. It’s shorthand for those halcyon days when technology was predominantly analog and millennial kids spent their summers shoving bulky tapes into VHS players, recording favorite bits of their after-school television shows, and making their own […]
22/02/2025
Seagate's fraudulent HDD scandal expands: IronWolf Pro hard drives reportedly also affected
Used Seagate's IronWolf Pro HDDs are also sold as new.
22/02/2025
Ionic Wind explores ionized air for cooling servers, claims a 60% cost reduction
Ionic Wind Technologies is experimenting with solid-state ionized air cooling that can simplify the cooling of data centers.
22/02/2025
Nvidia explains the missing ROPs — defective silicon in 0.5% of RTX 5090 and 5070 Ti GPUs
Nvidia says that a few RTX 5090 / 5090D and RTX 5070 Ti GPUs shipped with defective ROPs, telling affected users to contact the manufacturer for a replacement.
22/02/2025
Chinese chipmaker unveils Optane-like storage class memory
Numemory has 64Gb and 128Gb storage class memory devices with industry-standard NAND interface that could be used for SSDs, expensive SSDs.
22/02/2025
Blown capacitor kills $2,799 Asus RTX 5090 GPU and damages motherboard
A Redditor has shared a story claiming that the Asus ROG Astral GeForce RTX 5090 'caught on fire' with images of the damage.
22/02/2025
ASE developing square packaging substrate tech to replace round wafers
ASE to explore panel level packaging ahead of possible switching to glass substrates.
22/02/2025
Lenovo Legion Go S review: feels good, plays bad
The Lenovo Legion Go S was supposed to change things. It was poised to show Valve isn’t the only one that can build an affordable, portable, potent handheld gaming PC — you just need the right design and the right OS. I was intrigued when Valve’s own Steam Deck designers told me this Windows handheld […]
22/02/2025
Ray-Ban Meta Glasses review: AI-infused smart glasses for the masses
The Ray-Ban Meta glasses are actually useful, and you hopefully won’t look like a dork.
22/02/2025
AMD is in talks to sell $4 billion AI server assembly plants
Four companies expressed interest in buying AMD's AI server plant for up to $4 billion.
22/02/2025
Die in the Dungeon will keep you busy until Slay the Spire 2
Die in the Dungeon is a new roguelike deckbuilder that pulls some ideas from Slay the Spire, one of my favorite games, but adds some dice-based twists that have me hooked. In Dungeon, your goal is to survive through progressively harder maps of enemies by building a deck — but instead of collecting cards, you’re […]
22/02/2025
Enermax Revolution D.F. 12 750W ATX 3.1 power supply review
The Enermax Revolution D.F. 12 750W power supply delivers excellent power quality, solid efficiency, and compact design but faces stiff competition at its price point. It's an ideal option for performance-focused users.
22/02/2025
Nvidia confirms ‘rare’ RTX 5090 and 5070 Ti manufacturing issue
It’s true: Nvidia has just confirmed it shipped some RTX 5090, RTX 5090D, and even some RTX 5070 Ti graphics chips that were missing render units, as TechPowerUp originally reported — and that you’ll be able to get a replacement if your card was affected. Nvidia GeForce global PR director Ben Berraondo tells The Verge: […]
22/02/2025
Reddit is experiencing outages again
Following some apparent outages yesterday, Reddit is dealing with more issues Friday evening. When logged in on my desktop browser, Reddit won’t load at all — I just run into error pages. In an incognito window, the site loads, though it seems to load slower than usual. I was also able to load the site […]
22/02/2025
Elon Musk’s AI said he and Trump deserve the death penalty
Elon Musk’s OpenAI rival, xAI, says it’s investigating why its Grok AI chatbot suggested that both President Donald Trump and Musk deserve the death penalty. xAI has already patched the issue and Grok will no longer give suggestions for who it thinks should receive capital punishment. People were able to get Grok to say that […]
22/02/2025
Meta, X approved ads containing violent anti-Muslim, antisemitic hate speech ahead of German election, study finds
Social media giants Meta and X (formerly Twitter) approved ads targeting users in Germany with violent anti-Muslim and anti-Jew hate speech in the run-up to the country’s federal elections, according to new research from Eko, a corporate responsibility non-profit campaign group. The group’s researchers tested whether the two platforms ad review systems would approve or […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
22/02/2025
Grok resets the AI race
Just a few weeks after everyone freaked out about DeepSeek, Elon Musk’s Grok-3 has again shaken up the fast-moving AI race. The new model is ending the week at the top of the Chatbot Arena leaderboard, while the Grok iOS app is at the top of the App Store, just above ChatGPT. Even as Musk […]
21/02/2025
Court filings show Meta staffers discussed using copyrighted content for AI training
For years, Meta employees have internally discussed using copyrighted works obtained through legally questionable means to train the company’s AI models, according to court documents unsealed on Thursday. The documents were submitted by plaintiffs in the case Kadrey v. Meta, one of many AI copyright disputes slowly winding through the U.S. court system. The defendant, […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
21/02/2025
Nvidia confirms it is investigating RTX 50-series BSOD and black screen troubles, no timeline for a fix
An Nvidia staff member confirmed the company is still investigating RTX 50 series crashes and black screens. The staff member clarified fixes might come in the form of driver updates or VBIOS updates.