OpenAI is launching a new way for developers to build applications that appear directly inside of ChatGPT's conversations.| TechCrunch
The federal contract shows ICE spent $825,000 on vans equipped with “cell-site simulators” which allow the real-world location tracking of nearby phones and their owners.| TechCrunch
OpenAI's new restructuring plan has implciations for its corporate future, especially if the organization hopes to one day IPO.| TechCrunch
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Think TikTok or Instagram Reels, but every single video you come across is essentially just AI slop.| TechCrunch
Paddy Cosgrave, the co-founder of the Web Summit tech conference, is returning to his role as CEO after resigning in October over controversial statements| TechCrunch
Paddy Cosgrave has stepped down as CEO of Web Summit, the 14-year-old conference business that he co-founded and which has gone on to host one of Europe's| TechCrunch
Web Summit, the big tech conference brand that runs events in several cities and whose 70,000 person flagship event in Lisbon is taking place next month,| TechCrunch
Cuts to Techstars’ staff and its decision to shutter certain accelerators came after it missed its 2023 revenue goals, according to documents outlining| TechCrunch
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Europe is suffering from a big hangover after the tech investment party of the 2020-2021 period. That said, compared to pre-pandemic levels, VC investment Europe is suffering from a big hangover after the tech investment party of the 2020-2021 period. That said, compared to pre-pandemic levels, VC investment in European startups is up over the last year, and reached $60 billion, according to a new report. However, the anomaly of the surge in investment over the pandemic stands in marked contr...| TechCrunch
Giant Ventures, a U.K.-based VC that has made a habit of investing on both sides of the Atlantic, is launching two new funds, totaling $250 million. Its| TechCrunch
The downturn in the technology sector -- dragged by inflation, higher interest rates and geopolitical events -- continues to persist, and one of the most| TechCrunch
Lattice, a platform that helps with workforce people management -- the ability to carry out performance reviews, employee feedback and praise; tools to| TechCrunch
Dublin-based Frontline Ventures has released details of its new €70 million ($83.8 million) Frontline Seed Fund III, which will be aimed at European B2B| TechCrunch
Frontline Ventures, based in Dublin and London, has announced a new $80 million fund designed to assist U.S. tech companies expanding into Europe. The new| TechCrunch
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Facebook Dating's AI assistant is supposed to help users build their profiles and find the matches they're looking for.| TechCrunch
As rumored, OpenAI is expanding its ambitious Stargate data center project to the Middle East.| TechCrunch
It's possible that AI could birth the first one-person, billion-dollar company. But its implications for society can't be ignored.| TechCrunch
Avara, the company behind Aave, Lens, and Family, is announcing a $31 million funding round led by Lightspeed Faction. With Lens, Avara is building a| TechCrunch
Smart Eye, the publicly traded Swedish company that supplies driver monitoring systems for a dozen automakers, has acquired emotion-detection software| TechCrunch
The modern world is dependent on a vast network for extracting, processing, transporting and ultimately consuming hydrocarbons like crude oil and natural| TechCrunch
Meta unveiled new versions of its AI-powered smart glasses, as well as a gesture-indicating wristband.| TechCrunch
Meta showed off its newest AI-powered smart glasses, which have a display and are controlled by a wristband, at Meta Connect 2025.| TechCrunch
The new smart glasses are geared toward runners, cyclists, and other athletes.| TechCrunch
Elon Musk announced that a new version of X's direct messaging feature, XChat, was rolling out with support for features like vanishing messages, encryption, and the ability to share files, alongside its audio and video calling support.| TechCrunch
The internet was a revolution because it reorganized a large part of the economy and society around the network structure, becoming a fantastic medium for commerce, finance, power and culture. It also definitely changed our perception of time and space. We now live in a globalized and connected world where information flows at the speed of light. But what about data?| TechCrunch
OpenAI may soon let users sign in to third party services with their ChatGPT accounts, and is currently trying to gauge developer interest.| TechCrunch
Mark S. Zuckerberg, an attorney, says that he's losing business because his Facebook business profile keeps getting disabled.| TechCrunch
TV Time, a popular TV and movie tracking and recommendations app with more than 30 million registered users, disappeared from Apple's App Store for| TechCrunch
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TechCrunch spoke to experienced coders about their time using AI-generated code about what they see as the future of vibe coding.| TechCrunch
After integrating Meta AI into WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, Meta is rolling out a stand-alone AI app. Unveiled at Meta's LlamaCon event| TechCrunch
Granola's notepad app has become a popular tool among venture capitalists who use it to record meetings and augment notes using AI technology. That made| TechCrunch
Granola takes a more collaborative approach to working with AI.| TechCrunch
Srinivas went on to note that the same growth trajectory is possible, especially with the new Comet browser that it's working on.| TechCrunch
Clockwise, a time management and smart calendar tool, has raised $45 million in Series C funding led by Coatue, with participation from Atlassian Ventures| TechCrunch
Apple launched a new security feature for iPhone 17 and iPhone Air designed to reduce the effect of memory corruption bugs, and in turn make spyware and zero-days more difficult to hack into iPhones.| TechCrunch
Forty workers went on strike in February, alleging that Google leveraged unfair labor practices to interfere with union organizing.| TechCrunch
YouTube podcasting head Kai Chuk announced Thursday that podcasts will be added to YouTube Music soon.| TechCrunch
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At launch, Spotify's redesign will be mobile-only but it will arrive on more devices in the future.| TechCrunch
Michael Mignano has joined the consumer practice of the sprawling venture firm Lightspeed Venture Partners, after previously co-founding the podcasting| TechCrunch
Spotify earlier this year began beta testing new features to make podcasts more interactive through the use of listener polls and Q&As. Today, the| TechCrunch
Spotify is going after podcasts in a major way in 2019. The music streaming service today confirmed that it has snapped up two podcast networks -- Gimlet| TechCrunch
YouTube confirmed a new podcasts destination is live for U.S. users, as the company is getting serious about investments in podcasts and potential ad revenue.| TechCrunch
Spotify has been slowly making its video podcast tools available to a larger set of creators.| TechCrunch
Spotify expands access to publish video podcasts to creators across five key markets, plus the introduction of new tools like support for subs, embeddable videos, and more.| TechCrunch
Spotify has already invested around $1 billion in podcasting between its acquisitions, exclusive deals and other partnerships. Now, it wants people to do| TechCrunch
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The startup entered into receivership after selling its customer list to Turo.| TechCrunch
Fancy overseeing whether Big Tech is playing by European Union privacy rules? The Irish government has posted job ads for two additional commissioners to Fancy overseeing whether much of Big Tech is playing by European Union privacy rules? Job ads have been posted for two additional commissioners to lead Ireland's Data Protection Commission...| TechCrunch
Meta has lost a first bid to get an injunction slapped on a ban Norway's data protection authority imposed on its consentless behavioral ad targeting in Meta has lost a first bid to get an injunction slapped on a ban imposed on its consentless behavioral ad targeting in July by Norway's data protection authority.| TechCrunch
Major privacy complaints in Europe targeting the legality of Meta’s core "personalized" ads business model have finally been settled.| TechCrunch
Meta has been temporarily banned from running behavioral advertising on Facebook and Instagram in Norway -- unless it obtains users' consent to the processing.| TechCrunch
Meta's planned Twitter killer, Threads, isn't yet publicly available but it already looks like a privacy nightmare...| TechCrunch
A long-anticipated judgement today by the Court of Justice of the European Union looks to have comprehensively crushed Meta's ability to deny European users a free choice over its tracking and profiling.| TechCrunch
The German Federal Cartel Office (FCO) has announced Meta will roll out a new account center incoming that will see it provide users of its social networking services with a greater degree of choice over whether they allow it to combine data on their activity across its services or not.| TechCrunch
The Digital Markets Act (DMA), the European Union's plan to curb the market power of Big Tech, now technically applies.| TechCrunch
Italy's data protection watchdog laid out what OpenAI needs to do for it to lift an order that ChatGPT stop processing locals' data.| TechCrunch
Meta is starting the new year with more privacy fines for its business in Europe following enforcement of complaints over the legal basis it claims to run behavioral ads.| TechCrunch
In what looks like bad news for adtech giants like Facebook and Google, MEPs in the European Parliament have voted for tougher restrictions on how| TechCrunch
After two years coming down the pipe at tech giants, Europe's new privacy framework, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is now being applied| TechCrunch
Restaurant owners have a lot of responsibilities and a wide array of skills to handle those responsibilities. That said, building a website isn't usually| TechCrunch
Fortnite is back on iOS -- well, kind of. Through Nvidia's streaming game service GeForce Now, mobile users on iOS and Android will be able to play a| TechCrunch
After Epic Games picked a fight with Apple over the sizable chunk of fees the company takes on transactions in its mobile ecosystem, it looks like the| TechCrunch
Apple last week announced new rules for EU app developers to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA). After being designated as a "gatekeeper," the EU| TechCrunch
Count Spotify among those not thrilled with how Apple has chosen to comply with the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA), which sets the stage for sideloading| TechCrunch
Apple updated its App Store guidelines to allow U.S-based developers to link out to the web for in-app purchase options.| TechCrunch
A judge this morning issued a ruling in California’s Epic Games v. Apple case, siding with the Fortnite maker on the topic of third-party payments.| TechCrunch
Apple has announced a raft of changes incoming to iOS in the European Union -- including a new fee for developers -- as the iPhone maker prepares to roll Apple has announced a raft of changes incoming to iOS in the European Union as the iPhone maker prepares to roll out its response to the bloc's ex ante competition reform, the Digital Markets Act.| TechCrunch
Apple is determined to take a slice of in-app purchases, no matter how users access apps or make their payments, it seems. After dropping commissions to| TechCrunch
Fortnite maker Epic Games is not happy about how Apple intends to comply with a district court’s injunction that permitted app developers to direct users| TechCrunch
The Supreme Court has denied both Apple and Fortnite maker Epic Games' request to appeal a lower court's ruling on the alleged anticompetitive nature of| TechCrunch
Google's defeat in its antitrust battle with Epic Games was a sweeping victory for the Fortnite maker and a significant upset to the business model| TechCrunch
During its inaugural developer conference, Anthropic launched two new AI models the startup claims are among the industry's best, at least in terms of how they score on popular benchmarks.| TechCrunch
OpenAI initially approached Anysphere, maker of the AI coding editor, Cursor, about an acquisition, but is now in talks to buy Windsurf.| TechCrunch
Windsurf, the maker of a popular AI coding assistant, is in talks to be acquired by OpenAI for about $3 billion, Bloomberg reported. If the deal happens,| TechCrunch
Anthropic's newest flagship AI model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, is a 'hybrid' model that can both 'reasoning' through and give timely answers to questions.| TechCrunch
OpenAI has launched an API for its ChatGPT text-generating system, with initial partners including Instacart, Snap and Quizlet.| TechCrunch
Generative AI like ChatGPT and DALL-E 2 have entered the mainstream -- and attracted investors' attention. But they're prompting lawsuits.| TechCrunch
The OpenAI Jobs Platform is set to launch in mid-2026 and will use AI to match candidates with businesses.| TechCrunch
Two months after making a $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI, Meta is relying heavily on its competitors to train next-generation AI models.| TechCrunch
Canva, the design and publishing platform taking on Adobe, PowerPoint and others, has acquired the free stock image providers Pexels and Pixabay and| TechCrunch
As the Kleiner Perkins empire crumbles, Meeker builds her own.| TechCrunch
After developing a facial-recognition app for Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses and doxing random people, two former Harvard students are now launching a startup that makes smart glasses with an always-on microphone.| TechCrunch
Logz.io today announced that it is adding a generative AI model to provide its users with more relevant remediation recommendations.| TechCrunch
Google Jigsaw has open-sourced a counterterrorism tool designed to help smaller companies address extremist content on their platforms.| TechCrunch
The homicide investigation comes as Burning Man long ago evolved from a countercultural gathering into a networking hub for Silicon Valley's tech elite.| TechCrunch
After a bombshell report on Meta allowing its AI chatbots to have sensual chats with minors, the company is updating its policies.| TechCrunch
A series of recent rulings from regulators dashed the Big Tech companies' hopes of finding a quick fix for their electricity needs.| TechCrunch
The company revealed three deals, including an investment in a fission startup and two development agreements to add nuclear power to the grid.| TechCrunch
Companies are eyeing nuclear power as a way to reconcile their breakneck data center growth with their commitments to hit net zero carbon emissions.| TechCrunch
In his latest onstage appearance at Station F in Paris, Altman answered questions from local entrepreneurs and shared his views about AI.| TechCrunch
Facebook continued its winning streak as other tech companies floundered, reaching 1.65 billion monthly users and surpassing estimates in its Q1 2016| TechCrunch
Trullion, an accounting automation firm, has raised $15 million in a venture capital round that brings its total to over $30 million.| TechCrunch
Government censorship has found its way to Bluesky, but there's currently a loophole thanks to how the social network is structured.Earlier this| TechCrunch
The new capabilities bring TikTok’s messaging experience more in line with that of other popular social apps and services.| TechCrunch