Technology [en]

Apple’s ‘Mythic Quest’ is ending with an updated p...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu “Mythic Quest,” the Apple TV+ workplace comedy about the making of a popular online roleplaying game, is ending after 4 seasons. A fresh version of the show’s 4th period finale — first aired on March 26, and now the...

OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintel...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Safe Superintelligence (SSI), the AI startup led by OpenAI’s co-founder and erstwhile chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, has raised an additional $2 billion in backing at a $32 billion valuation, according to the Financial Times. The startup had alrea...

Cofertility’s extremist model for women: frost y...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu In fresh years, focus on career and delayed matrimony age is driving any women to consider preserving their fertility through egg freezing. But the steep cost of the procedure, estimated at $10,000 to $15,000 per attempt, means many women...

Trump exempts smartphones, laptops, and semiconduc...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu The Trump administration is carving out large tariff exemptions for the tech industry. While president Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would hold many of the market-shaking tariffs that he’d announced the erstwhile week, he kept a universal...

Week in Review: Jeff Bezos’ secret EV startup

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Welcome back to Week in Review! We’ve got tons of cool stuff for your reading pleasance this week: Jeff Bezos backs EV startup Slate; a Meta whistleblower accuses the company of collusion; Waymo may usage interior camera data; and...

The xAI–X merger is simply a good deal — if you’re...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu When Elon Musk announced that his AI startup, xAI, had acquired his social media company, X (formerly known as Twitter), in an all-stock deal, it raised any eyebrows. But in many ways, the deal made sense. xAI’s chatbot, Grok,...

Forerunner’s long game: As startups stall before I...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Thirteen years ago, Forerunner Ventures began helping to usher in a fresh era of consumer startups, including Warby Parker, Bonobos, and Glossier. no has gone through a conventional IPO process. Warby Parker was taken public through a peculiar p...

Meta’s vanilla Maverick AI model ranks below rival...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Earlier this week, Meta landed in hot water for utilizing an experimental, unreleased version of its Llama 4 Maverick model to accomplish a advanced score on a crowdsourced benchmark, LM Arena. The incidental prompted the maintainers of LM Arena.....

The most interesting startups showcased at Google ...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Google Cloud announced a long list of awesome AI startups as customers during its Cloud Next conference this week

Meta adds Stripe CEO Patrick Collison and Dina Pow...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Banking executive and erstwhile presidential advisor Dina Powell McCormick and Stripe co-founder and CEO Patrick Collison are joining the board of Meta, according to a study from Axios. Powell McCormick spent 16 years in respective leadership role...

Law professors side with authors battling Meta in ...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu A group of professors specializing in copyright law has filed an amicus brief in support of authors suing Meta for allegedly training its Llama AI models on ebooks without permission. The brief, filed on Friday in the U.S. District...

38 consumer startup founders lobby over Trump tari...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Small businesses could be crushed under president Trump’s increased tariffs, according to an open letter by 38 female consumer product founders. While Trump paused his tariff increases for 90 days for various countries – setting the rate at 10%...

TechCrunch Mobility: Jeff Bezos backs a secretive ...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu 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! Tariffs, tariffs, tariffs. If there is 1 certainty in this uncertain...

Nikola founder Trevor Milton accused of trying to ...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu A court proceeding on the sale of bankrupt electrical truck startup Nikola’s assets to Lucid Motors was going smoothly on Friday. No objections had been filed to the transaction, and Delaware bankruptcy justice Thomas Horan verbally approved it wi...

Blue Water Autonomy comes out of stealth promising...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu A fresh ship-building startup called Blue Water Autonomy has emerged from stealth with the promise of developing captain-less naval ships. The Boston, Massachusetts-based company has raised a $14 million seed circular from Eclipse VC, Riot, and Imp...

Ex-OpenAI staffers file amicus brief opposing the ...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu A group of ex-OpenAI employees on Friday filed a proposed amicus brief in support of Elon Musk in his suit against OpenAI, opposing OpenAI’s planned conversion from a non-profit to a for-profit corporation. The brief names 12 erstwhile OpenAI...

GM cuts 500 jobs due to weak request for BrightDr...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu General Motors is laying off 500 workers at a mill in Canada due to weak request for its all-electric BrightDrop vans, according to CNBC. GM told CNBC that the cuts were not related to the ongoing trade war being...

ChatGPT became the most downloaded app globally in...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu ChatGPT became the world’s most downloaded app in March, excluding games, topping the usual contenders for the No. 1 spot, Instagram and TikTok. This is the first time the app has topped the monthly download charts and ChatGPT’s biggest...

YouTube considers a regular timer for users looki...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu YouTube is looking into possibly offering a feature that would let users to set a regular timer to limit how long they spend on Shorts. fresh findings from the beta version of the YouTube app, first reported by Android...

Stripe CEO says company management regularly asks ...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Digital payments platform Stripe invites customers to join its management squad meetings on a bi-weekly basis so it can get “candid feedback,” according to co-founder Patrick Collison. In an April 8 post on X, the fintech giant’s CEO said...

Ireland’s data regulator investigates X’s usage o...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Ireland’s data regulator, the Data Protection Commission (DPC), said Friday that it has opened an investigation into Elon Musk’s X over the social media platform’s usage of individual data collected from European users to train Grok. The DPC will.....

Parallel Systems is building autonomous electrical...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu The business of moving goods in the United States is dominated by trucks, which handles about two-thirds of the 20.2 billion tons of freight that’s transported annually. Parallel Systems founder and CEO Matt Soule wants to change that by...

Hacked papers uncover guide to serving Elon Musk...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu A fresh breach of Berkshire Hathaway-owned private jet company NetJets has revealed a guide for flight attendants serving Elon Musk, per a Bloomberg report. The memo offers an interesting glimpse into the individual preferences of the world’s rich...

Why Nest co-founder Matt Rogers is inactive bulli...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Matt Rogers says Quilt is picking up where his old startup, Nest, left off.

Spotify invests over $1M to grow its catalog of no...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Spotify announced on Friday that it plans to invest €1 million–or about $1.1 million — to boost audiobook production in languages another than English, beginning with French and Dutch. The investment indicates that Spotify is eager for more non-Eng...

OpenAI is winding down its GPT-4 AI model in ChatG...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu OpenAI will shortly quit GPT-4, an AI model it launched over 2 years ago, from ChatGPT, the company announced in a changelog on Thursday. Effective April 30, GPT-4 will be “fully replaced” by GPT-4o, the current default model for...

Less than a period to get your exhibit table for ...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu TechCrunch Sessions: AI is fast approaching. So, what does that mean for you? It means exhibit tables are nearly gone — and now’s your chance to catch 1 before they’re all sold out. If you’ve got a game-changing product...

NVIDIA and Google Cloud Partner to Bring Agentic A...

storagereview.com 3 miesięcy temu NVIDIA and Google Cloud collaborate to bring agentic AI to enterprises utilizing Google Gemini AI models through Blackwell HGX and DGX platforms. NVIDIA has announced a strategic partnership with Google Cloud to introduce agentic AI to enterprises. T...

Dropbox Chief client Officer Eric Cox plans to st...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Dropbox’s chief client officer, Eric Cox, plans to step down, according to a paper filed with the SEC on Friday. Cox will stay in his current function for “a period of time” to aid with the transition, per the...

Startups Weekly: Enjoying the reprieve

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the planet of startups. Want it in your inbox all Friday? Sign up here. Startups aren’t isolated from the world. But this week, backing news...

Microsoft inks massive carbon removal deal powered...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu The acquisition covers 12 years of emissions from CO280’s first carbon capture task at a mill on the Gulf Coast.

Leaders from Accel and Paladin Capital Group join ...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Mark your calendar — StrictlyVC London is just around the corner on 13 May. Designed for founders, entrepreneurs, and investors, this exclusive gathering promises deep VC insight and high-value connections. We’re thrilled to welcome our first pair of...

Lucid Motors wins bankruptcy auction for Nikola’s ...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu EV startup Lucid Motors has emerged as a surprise winner in the bankruptcy auction for electrical trucking company Nikola’s Arizona mill and another assets, according a late Thursday night court filing. Lucid committed around $30 million in cash a...

Tesla utilized car listings skyrocketed in Marc...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu A increasing number of Tesla owners are putting their utilized vehicles up for sale, as consumers respond to Elon Musk’s political activities and the global protests they have fueled. In March, the number of utilized Tesla vehicles listed for...

Stripe CEO says he ensures his top leaders intervi...

How cook Robotics found success by turning distan...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu A fewer years ago, cook Robotics was hurting. But founder Rajat Bhageria turned it around by doing something that early-stage founders fear to do.

Fintech founder charged with fraud after ‘AI’ buyi...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Albert Saniger, the founder and erstwhile CEO of Nate, an AI buying app that promised a “universal” checkout experience, was charged with defrauding investors on Wednesday, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice. Founded i...

Yahoo removes DEI pages from its website

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Several tech companies have scaled back public commitments to DEI amid a broader crackdown by the Trump administration.

DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says Google will yet ...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu In a fresh appearance on Possible, a podcast co-hosted by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said Google plans to yet combine its Gemini AI models with its Veo video-generating models to improve the former’s under...

Cofertility lets women frost their eggs for free ...

Mira Murati’s AI startup is reportedly aiming for ...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Thinking Machines Lab, the fresh AI startup from ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is reportedly attempting to close 1 of the largest seed rounds in history. Business Insider reported on Thursday that reasoning Machines laboratory has doubled the mark ...

What is Bluesky? Everything to know about the X co...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Is the grass greener on the another side? We’re not sure, but the sky is most surely bluer. It’s been over 2 years since Elon Musk purchased Twitter, now X, leading people to set up store on alternate platforms....

AI models inactive conflict to debug software, ...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and another top AI labs are increasingly being utilized to assist with programming tasks. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in October that 25% of fresh code at the company is generated by AI, and...

BeReal, which says it has 40M monthly users, is ro...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu It’s time for BeReal to get real — it’s hard to turn a profit on a social photo-sharing app without selling ads or memberships. Now, after its €500 million exit to French mobile publisher Voodoo, BeReal is rolling out...

Bluesky’s latest update adds chat reactions and an...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Social network Bluesky is rolling out a fresh version of its software, which adopts any of the features erstwhile X users have missed. Nope, it’s not an edit button! Instead, the open social network is adding support for chat...

Bezos-backed EV startup Slate Auto’s pickup truck ...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Just 1 day after TechCrunch revealed that Jeff Bezos is backing a secretive EV startup called Slate Auto, an early version of the company’s low-cost electrical pickup truck was spotted in the wild. Reddit user u/discostranger09 posted a photo...

The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon attended the ASU+GSV Summit this week, where experts in education and technology gathered to discuss how AI will impact learning. While speaking on a panel about AI in the workforce, McMahon repeatedly referr...

Netflix’s latest period of ‘Black Mirror’ comes w...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Season 7 of “Black Mirror” premiered on Thursday, introducing a fresh mobile game connected to 1 of its episodes. The game, titled “Thronglets,” from Netflix’s own Night School Studio, serves as a companion to the episode called “Plaything.” Player...

Jobandtalent raises $103M on a down-round $1.5B va...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Jobandtalent, an AI-based “workforce as a service” marketplace that connects people with companies looking for hourly workers, announced it has raised €92 million ($103 million). The Series F — which includes participation from Atomico, BlackRock, D...

OpenAI updates ChatGPT to mention your past chats...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu OpenAI announced on Thursday that it’s starting to rotation out a fresh memory feature in ChatGPT that allows the chatbot to tailor its answers to users based on the contents of their erstwhile conversations. OpenAI says the feature, which...