William A. Anders, the astronaut behind perhaps the single most iconic photo of our planet, has died at the age of 90. On Friday morning, Anders was piloting a small…
New York’s state legislature has passed a bill that would prohibit social media companies from showing so-called “addictive feeds” to children under 18, unless they obtain parental consent. The Stop…
Artists got an unpleasant surprise when they opened Photoshop this week, as they were shown a pop-up window asking them to agree to new terms…
TechCrunch Minute: Is Elon Musk putting Tesla’s AI ambitions in the slow lane?
Elon Musk has said that Tesla has ambitious plans for AI, which will require it to more than double its usage of Nvidia’s flagship AI…
TechCrunch Minute: Spotify kills the Car Thing, leading customers to demand refunds
Back in 2022, Spotify announced an in-car streaming gadget that was actually called the Car Thing — and then it discontinued the Car Thing just…
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump now has an account on the short-form video app that he once tried to ban. Trump’s TikTok account, which launched on Saturday night, features…
President Joe Biden has vetoed H.J.Res. 109, a congressional resolution that would have overturned the Securities and Exchange Commission’s current approach to banks and crypto. Specifically, the resolution targeted the…
TechCrunch Minute: Is meme tech the next big startup category?
Meme Depot, which launched earlier this week, is a startup aiming to create a new category called “meme tech.” More specifically, founder Alex Taub said…
TechCrunch Minute: What Sam Altman’s firing and rehiring reveals about OpenAI
You probably remember that back in November, OpenAI’s board fired the company’s co-founder and CEO Sam Altman. What followed was this incredibly complicated power struggle…
The families of victims of the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas are suing Activision and Meta, as well as gun manufacturer Daniel Defense. The families bringing the…
Google has been taking heat for some of the inaccurate, funny and downright weird answers that it’s been providing via AI Overviews in search. AI Overviews are the AI-generated search…
TechCrunch Minute: Meet Meta’s all white, all male AI advisory council
Meta (parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and more) announced a new AI advisory council that’s supposed to help guide the company’s decision-making around AI…
Just a month after launching its much-hyped Ai Pin, a report in Bloomberg says Humane is looking to get acquired. Specifically, the company is looking…
Blue Origin successfully launches its first crewed mission since 2022
Blue Origin has successfully completed its NS-25 mission, resuming crewed flights for the first time in nearly two years. The mission brought six tourist crew members to the edge of…
Expedia says two execs dismissed after ‘violation of company policy’
Expedia says Rathi Murthy and Sreenivas Rachamadugu, respectively its CTO and senior vice president of core services product & engineering, are no longer employed at the travel booking company. In…
TechCrunch Minute: Apple uses AI to make iPhones and iPads more accessible
Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day — perfect timing for Apple to announce new features that should make iPhones and iPads more accessible for people…
Google kicked off its annual Google I/O developer conference with a big dose of AI. The company’s core AI model Gemini is getting multiple upgrades,…
TechCrunch Minute: Everything you need to know about OpenAI’s new GPT-4o model
If you’ve been following the news around OpenAI, you’ve probably seen reports that the company is working on a search product that was going to…
The company is describing the event as “a chance to demo some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates.”
TechCrunch Minute: Streaming services are basically just cable now
The streaming world continues its transformation into the new cable bundle. Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery recently announced that they’ll be launching a bundle this…
It’s been a busy weekend for union organizing efforts at U.S. Apple stores, with the union at one store voting to authorize a strike, while workers at another store voted…
Bumble founder and executive chair Whitney Wolfe Herd raised eyebrows this week with her comments about how AI might change the dating experience. During an onstage interview, Bloomberg’s Emily Chang…
TechCrunch Minute: Hinge is taking Tinder’s place as Gen Z’s favorite dating app
In its latest earnings report, Match Group acknowledged growing pains for its dating app Tinder, where the paid user base shrank for the sixth quarter…
Biden administration plans $285M in CHIPS Act funding for digital twins
President Joe Biden’s administration is looking to fund efforts that improve semiconductor manufacturing by using digital twins. Digital twins are virtual models used to test and optimize physical objects and…
Bluesky’s most prominent backer has left its board. On Saturday, Jack Dorsey posted on X about grants for open protocols from his philanthropic Start Small initiative. This prompted someone to…
Threads users can now exert more control over who can quote their posts. This builds on a feature that already allows Threads users to limit who can reply to their…
TechCrunch Minute: Elon Musk’s big plans for xAI include raising $6 billion
TechCrunch recently broke the news that Elon Musk’s xAI is raising $6 billion at a pre-money valuation of $18 billion. The deal hasn’t closed yet, so the numbers could change.…
TechCrunch Minute: Rabbit’s R1 vs Humane’s Ai Pin — which had the best launch?
After a successful unveiling at CES, Rabbit is letting journalists try out the R1 — a small orange gadget with an AI-powered voice interface. This comes just weeks after the…
TechCrunch Minute: FTC bans noncompetes, court challenge incoming
The Federal Trade Commission voted 3-2 this week to ban noncompete agreements. While the FTC estimates that nearly one in five American workers is subject to a noncompete, these agreements…
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill this afternoon that would require TikTok owner ByteDance to sell the popular social media app or see it banned in the United…