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Apple might import more iPhones from India to side...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Apple is considering importing more iPhones from India to side-step the 54% additional tariffs on goods imported from China that U.S. president Donald Trump announced last week, the Wall Street diary reported, citing anonymous sources. The company...

IBM releases a fresh mainframe built for the age ...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu IBM is releasing the latest version of its mainframe hardware that includes fresh updates meant to accelerate AI adoption. The hardware and consulting company on Monday announced IBM z17, the latest version of its mainframe computer hardware. This f...

Google is allegedly paying any AI staff to do not...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Retaining top AI talent is tough amid cutthroat competition between Google, OpenAI, and another heavyweights. Google’s AI division, DeepMind, has resorted to utilizing “aggressive” noncompete agreements for any AI staff in the U.K. that bar them fr...

Microsoft reportedly fires staff whose protest int...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu On Monday, Microsoft reportedly terminated the roles of 2 software engineers, Ibtihal Aboussad and Vaniya Agrawal, who protested the company’s reported dealings with the Israeli military during Microsoft’s Copilot and 50th anniversary event last wee...

Amazon says its AI video model can now make minut...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Amazon has upgraded its AI video model, Nova Reel, with the ability to make videos up to 2 minutes in length. Nova Reel, announced in December 2024, was Amazon’s first foray into the generative video space. It competes with...

How 1 tweet wreaked havoc on the stock market

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Amid a morning of pandemonium on Wall Street, a popular news aggregator on X, known as Walter Bloomberg, posted a false study declaring that president Trump was considering a 90-day pause on his controversial tariff proposal. This news was...

Nikola founder Trevor Milton wants to buy the bank...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Nikola founder Trevor Milton, who was late pardoned after being convicted of securities fraud, is trying to buy the assets of his erstwhile company out of bankruptcy, according to fresh court filings and a individual acquainted with the matter.....

Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen’s high-stakes test amid...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu At 11 a.m. in California last Thursday, the day after president Donald Trump declared sweeping fresh tariffs under what he dubbed “Liberation Day,” Ryan Petersen was live on camera, fielding questions from a virtual area packed with more than...

HP ZBook Fury G1i 18" Early Preview: Blackwell Pow...

storagereview.com 3 miesięcy temu The HP ZBook Fury G1i 18" packs desktop-class power with Intel Ultra 9 CPUs, NVIDIA RTX PRO graphics, and innovative hot-swappable SSD storage. HP recently announced the ZBook Fury G1i, the newest addition to their renowned workstation lineup. Availa...

Meta exec denies the company artificially boosted ...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu A Meta exec on Monday denied a rumor that the company trained its fresh AI models to present well on circumstantial benchmarks while concealing the models’ weaknesses. The executive, Ahmad Al-Dahle, VP of generative AI at Meta, said in...

Analyst says Apple, Tesla have biggest vulnerabili...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives slashed his price targets for Apple and Tesla over the weekend as president Trump’s tariffs endanger to disrupt both businesses. “The tariff economical Armageddon unleashed by Trump is simply a complete disast...

Former Tesla exec Drew Baglino’s fresh startup is...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Heron Power is raising between $30 million to $50 million for a Series A, according to a report.

Waymo may usage interior camera data to train gen...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Waymo is preparing to usage data from its robotaxis, including video from interior cameras tied to rider identities, to train generative AI models, according to an unreleased version of its privacy policy found by investigator Jane Manchun Wong. T...

Google’s AI Mode now lets users ask complex questi...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Google is bringing multimodal search to AI Mode, its Google Search experimentation that lets users ask complex, multi-part questions and follow-ups to dig deeper on a topic. Users who have access to AI Mode can now tap the feature...

Shopify CEO tells teams to consider utilizing AI b...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu In a fresh memo to employees, Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke made a bold policy change: teams must show why AI can’t execute a occupation before they’re permitted to ask for more headcount and resources. “Before asking for more headcount...

Nintendo says it is ‘actively assessing’ the impac...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser said that the company did not origin in possible tariffs from the U.S. erstwhile deciding on the pricing for its Nintendo control 2 console, according to Wired. Nintendo unveiled its highly anticipat...

AI video startup Moonvalley raised a fresh $43M, S...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Los Angeles-based startup Moonvalley, which is developing AI tools for video creation, has raised a fresh $43 million in venture capital, according to an SEC filing. The filing, which lists 11 unnamed investors, comes about a week after Moonvalley ...

UK’s request for Apple backdoor should not be hea...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu A UK surveillance court said the backdoor order targeting Apple iCloud can be heard partially in public.

Krea’s founders snubbed postgrad grants from the K...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Overwhelmed with trying to keep up with the different models you can now usage to build your content utilizing AI? A startup called Krea that’s looking to solve this problem specifically for designers and another visual creatives has now...

Meta Llama 4: Mixture-of-Experts Boost AI Efficien...

storagereview.com 3 miesięcy temu Meta unveils Llama 4, a powerful MoE-based AI model family offering improved efficiency, scalability, and multimodal performance. Meta has introduced its latest AI innovation, Llama 4, a collection of models that enhance multimodal intelligence capab...

IBM acquires Hakkoda to proceed its AI consultanc...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu IBM on Monday said it has acquired Hakkoda, a data and AI consultancy based in fresh York. The acquisition would “further expand” IBM’s ability to bring consultants and AI to clients, peculiarly customers in industries like financial services, publ...

SignalFire raises over $1B as LPs embrace data-dri...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Thirteen years ago, erstwhile Chris Farmer founded early-stage venture firm SignalFire with data analysis at the core of its investment strategy, many were skeptical about the approach — conventional wisdom dictated that nascent companies didn’t ha...

OpenAI reportedly mulls buying Jony Ive and Sam Al...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu OpenAI is said to have discussed acquiring the AI hardware startup that erstwhile Apple plan lead Jony Ive is building with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. According to The Information, OpenAI could pay around $500 million for the fledgling company,...

Someone hacked ransomware gang Everest’s leak site...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu "Don't do crime," the ransomware gang's dark web leak site reads.

Want to stay young? Peter Diamandis says last the...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Peter Diamandis, a futurist with degrees from both MIT and Harvard, has spent much of the past 2 decades evangelizing a imagination of an “abundant future” driven by exponential technologies that will lengthen our lives. The serial entrepreneur and...

Meta’s benchmarks for its fresh AI models are a b...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu One of the fresh flagship AI models Meta released on Saturday, Maverick, ranks second on LM Arena, a test that has human raters compare the outputs of models and choose which they prefer. But it seems the version of...

BBC seeks more prominent credit in Apple and Googl...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu The British Broadcasting corp has filed a complaint with a UK antitrust regulator complaining that aggregators like Apple News and Google News minimize credit for the stories they feature. Apple Insider reports that the BBC is asking the UK’s...

White home reportedly blames auto-suggested iPhon...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu How did Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg get added to a Signal group chat with Trump administration officials discussing their plans for an airstrike in Yemen? The simplest explanation: National safety advisor Mike Waltz had Goldberg saved...

Microsoft releases AI-generated Quake II demo, but...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Microsoft has released a browser-based, playable level of the classical video game Quake II. This functions as a tech demo for the gaming capabilities of Microsoft’s Copilot AI platform — though by the company’s own admission, the experience isn’t.....

DOGE reportedly planning a hackathon to build ‘meg...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) plans to host a hackathon next week focused on the creation of a “mega API” that will supply access to payer data, according to Wired. Wired says the hackathon is being organized...

Meta releases Llama 4, a fresh crop of flagship A...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Meta has released a fresh collection of AI models, Llama 4, in its Llama household — on a Saturday, no less. There are 4 fresh models in total: Llama 4 Scout, Llama 4 Maverick, and Llama 4 Behemoth. All...

Deel’s comms chief departs amidst spying suit fro...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Elisabeth Diana, head of communications at human resources Deel, is no longer with the company, according to her LinkedIn profile. Bloomberg first reported the news that Diana had resigned from Deel, which was late accused of planting a spy...

‘A Minecraft Movie’ is on-track for a $135M beginn...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu The large screen adaptation of video game mega-franchise Minecraft brought in $58 million on Friday, putting it on-track for a $135 million beginning weekend domestically — or possibly even more. That would give “A Minecraft Movie” the biggest ope...

Week in Review: Nintendo unveils the control 2

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Welcome back to Week in Review! Tons of stuff for you today, including Nintendo’s control 2; capacity issues at OpenAI; a communicative that deserves the Hollywood treatment; and much, much more. Let’s go! It’s yet (almost) here: After almost......

SF Mayor Lurie to tech CEOs: ‘How can we get you b...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie wants to bring his city back to its glory days. And he’s convinced tech leaders — who frequently pitch utopian ideals of their own — can aid him deliver. “I’m a mayor that is...

ChatGPT adoption skyrockets in India, but monetiza...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu ChatGPT has seen India as its largest marketplace by monthly active users and the second largest by downloads, per the external data seen by TechCrunch.

TechCrunch Mobility: Tesla takes a hit, tariff cha...

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! Over the 13 years reporting on Tesla and its CEO, Elon...

How Kalshi helped prediction markets go mainstream...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Kalshi is the largest prediction marketplace in America, creating an full trading economy around political, sports, and cultural events. To some, including respective states, it’s an illegal effort that requires gambling licenses. To others, inclu...

OpenAI’s models ‘memorized’ copyrighted content, f...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu A fresh survey appears to lend credence to allegations that OpenAI trained at least any of its AI models on copyrighted content. OpenAI is embroiled in suits brought by authors, programmers, and another rights-holders who accuse the company of......

AI has opened a fresh era in venture capital acco...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Forerunner has seen a number of high-profile successes, showing an ability to get ahead of consumer trends with investments in Oura, Chime, the Farmer’s Dog, and beyond in non-B2C companies. To get a sense of how that happened, and...

DeepSeek: Everything you request to know about t...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu DeepSeek has gone viral. Chinese AI laboratory 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...

Meta officially says goodbye to its US fact checke...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Meta will no longer have any fact-checkers in the U.S. come Monday, according to Chief Global Affairs Officer Joel Kaplan. Meta announced this crucial policy change in January erstwhile it besides loosened its content moderation rules. The timin...

Mach CEO on building defence tech company in your...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Mach CEO Ethan Thornton has been building weapons systems of varying shapes and sizes since advanced school, but his ambitions have turned into a company that late landed a contract with the U.S. military and a plan to develop...

GitHub Copilot introduces fresh limits, charges f...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu GitHub Copilot, Microsoft-owned GitHub’s AI coding assistant, could shortly become costlier for any users. On Friday, GitHub announced “premium requests” for GitHub Copilot, a fresh strategy that imposes rate limits erstwhile users control to...

Trump extends TikTok ban deadline by 75 days

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu President Donald Trump has extended the deadline for the TikTok ban by 75 days. Trump shared a post on fact Social on Friday stating that he is signing an executive order to let for more time to finalize a...

Protester interrupts Microsoft Copilot keynote, sa...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu A protester interrupted Microsoft’s Copilot-focused keynote Friday afternoon, calling attention to the company’s reported dealings with the Israeli military. “Shame on you,” the protester said. “You claim that you care about utilizing AI for good, bu...

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie thinks his city i...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu The perception of San Francisco has been on the decline for years due to a number of factors. The city’s mayor, Daniel Lurie, joined TechCrunch’s Maxwell Zeff to talk about Lurie’s efforts to turn that around. Lurie highlighted his...

Startups Weekly: Stay tuned for the Rippling espio...

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. This week reminded us that different startups share a different approach...

Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen inactive sees chance ...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu Flexport’s business is built on supply chains, and the fresh tariffs the U.S. is placing upon its trading partners have plunged global trade into chaos. Flexport founder and CEO Ryan Petersen joined TechCrunch Editor in Chief Connie Loizos for...

Gemini 2.5 Pro is Google’s most costly AI model y...

techcrunch.com 3 miesięcy temu On Friday, Google released API pricing for Gemini 2.5 Pro, an AI reasoning model with industry-leading performance on respective benchmarks measuring coding, reasoning, and math. For prompts up to 200,000 tokens, Gemini 2.5 Pro costs $1.25 per milli...