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Apple's new touchscreen MacBook Pro starts at $2,899

A top executive of a Singapore AI cloud company that was accused of illegally selling Nvidia chips to China could also have been a Chinese spy, sources have told the New York Times.

The autofill update lets Chrome pull flight confirmations, tracking info, order details, and other information from your inbox, with your permission.

SuperMe just raised $20 million to let you pester AI clones of Silicon Valley’s savviest people about your career.

Xreal Aura will start at $1,279 and will have multiple XR specific launch apps at launch

rained on 100 million square feet of building permits, dream wants to disrupt Autodesk with AI.

A new developer platform will let businesses bring their services to Google's AI experiences, potentially changing how consumers discover and use apps.

The update allows you to use Alexa to create lists, register them, see what's on them, and add or edit items. You can also manage subscriptions with the AI bot.

The For You feed combines posts from communities users have joined with recommendations tailored to their interests.

Mintive was founded by two engineers who have been working on AI for decades through Google Brain, Coursera. It's platform promises to help IT easily control enterprise agents

Constellation Energy will get $5 billion in government loans to modernize nuclear reactors. Most of the new capacity is already committed to Google, Amazon, and Meta.

On Thursday, AI app, Wabi, now describing itself as a "personal agent," said it has raised $55 million at a $1.25 billion valuation.

A whole crop of venture capital firms are raising significant new funds.

Tech leaders are flaunting how out of touch they are when they brag about using AI to connect with their families.

The social networking site is facing criticism for blocking access to the site, which identifies thousands of ICE agents and other employees working for Homeland Security.

GM eschewed hybrids in favor of battery-electric vehicles. Now, it's gearing up to offer hybrid versions of its SUVs.

South Korea’s financial institutions have been hit by another wave of cyberattacks, highlighting the growing risk of AI-driven hacking in Asia.

The acquisition would bring two major players in on-demand delivery under one roof, combining DoorDash’s dominance in restaurant takeout with Instacart’s reach in grocery delivery.

The banking giant reminds customers that "you're responsible for activity" resulting from your AI agents' access.

Nvidia just released a free speech-to-text model that can transcribe up to 40 languages, but it only works on recordings, not live audio, so it’s a big step for meeting and medical transcription tools while still leaving real-time use to rivals like

The update allows you to use Alexa to create lists, register them, see what's on them, and add or edit items. You can also manage subscriptions with the AI bot.

The new standard, WebAI, is designed to work with a variety of AI models.

Here's a clear explanation of Anthropic's incredibly complex governance structure.

Amazon's other new decides include an upgraded Echo Dot, an Echo Studio with visual intelligence features, and the Echo Show 16.

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General Compute is betting on inference chips from outside the Nvidia ecosystem.

In December, messages from Discord's public discoverable servers will begin appearing in search engine results.

The move puts TikTok in more direct competition with platforms like Yelp and Google.

Deepgram said that it is committed to keep Pipecat open source.

Anduril founder Palmer Luckey is vowing to bring computer manufacturing back to the U.S. and by that he doesn't just mean assembly, but every individual component, some of which are exclusively made in China today.

The manufacturing accelerator bills itself as "America’s answer to Shenzhen."

Meta has launched a new app called Waddle World, which essentially looks like a Tamagotchi clone, but with AI.

The cloud security startup raised a Series C at a $3.8B valuation, instead of selling itself for the same price.

"It's causing a lot of people to run who I don't want to be running," native Californian Palmer Luckey said. "But I'm planning on staying in California. I'm going to keep fighting it."

Disruptive has made headlines in recent years for pouring money into companies like chip startup Groq and the AI voice-generation startup ElevenLabs.

Free Fire India was originally set to launch in September 2023, but Garena postponed its release.

Prepare to cough up around $14,549 if you want the new touchscreen MacBook Pro to have every upgrade.

TechCrunch spoke to the MIT computer scientist charged with explaining OpenAI's latest mind-bending discovery

Simplismart says its annualized revenue run rate has grown 14-fold in six months, with the U.S. accounting for more than half its revenue.

The deal with DTL Transport puts it on a path to become an an asset-light tech supplier, rather than owner and operator.

Microsoft has never disclosed Azure's quarterly revenue in dollars. But for the first time, we can see just how close it is getting to besting the biggest competitor in the market, AWS.

Google DeepMind released Genie 4, a world model with real-time audio, more realistic simulations, and mid-simulation text prompts, in research preview for trusted testers.

Whose hand is behind this travesty?

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The announcement came alongside parent company Alphabet's third-quarter earnings report, which saw revenue grow 25% year over year to $127.6 billion.

Rohit Patel is departing Meta after eight years working on AI evaluations and reinforcement learning, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. His startup, Ndoc, aims to take on Microsoft Office Suite.

Alexander Embiricos, the OpenAI executive responsible for dots, never wants to have a meeting with someone else's AI agent.

Jio has debuted as India's second-most valuable listed company, behind its parent, Reliance Industries.

Microsoft said it made $10 billion in revenue from commercial arrangements with OpenAI, including revenue-sharing payments, in the quarter ending September 30. It underscores the still-enormous financial dependency of the partnership.

Ford is rolling out two new chargers capable of powering a home or the grid — so-called V2x capability.

An AI model said it wouldn’t use any tools, then tried to send something to a server in Beijing anyway, and while researchers say it’s probably a training quirk and not espionage, the whole thing has people asking how much to trust free Chinese AI.

Massive note conversions reveal the true extent of Amazon's ownership in Anthropic.

Whatever the future of AI might be, the current situation is still very good for Microsoft. The tech giant reported yet another record for quarterly revenue on Wednesday: $92.3 billion, a 19% increase over the year-ago quarter.

The U.S. government cyber agency warns that hackers have figured out a way to exploit the popular PHP software, used in 70% of the web's software.

Turns out selling to big companies isn’t about having the shiniest tech: it’s about hitching a ride on a giant’s sales team.

A family is suing OpenAI, saying ChatGPT coached their daughter to quietly taper off her seizure medication and keep it from her doctors before she died in February.

A hacker obtained personally identifiable information about more than 40,000 Homeland Security staffers, which has since been published online.

The new MacBook Pro comes with 24 hours of battery life, and now features support for Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 connectivity.

As Instagram rolls out long form videos of up to 90 minutes, the platform has an opportunity to challenge YouTube if it plays its cards right.

As the AI boom stresses the existing power grid, all sort of new opportunities for grid modernization are also emerging as a result, industry insiders say.

The frontier lab is lifting the curtain on how users spend money on its models ahead of a planned IPO.

The latest Apple software update for iPhones and iPads includes new features and important security updates.

A small number of early adopters of the much hyped new foldable phone from Apple have complained of screens cracking.

Software company Guidewire announced Tuesday that it was buying UK agentic underwriting startup Hyperexponential for $1.7 billion in cash.

The PHP scare may have faded from your feed, but the cleanup is far from over. Last week, two critical bugs in the open source language behind roughly 70% of websites left organizations scrambling to fix their systems, with some taking sites offline until

Japan's GMO Internet is verifying alleged customer data posted by suspected hackers following a cloud service breach.

Fusion startups face a new challenge, one unrelated to plasma physics: Give the government shares in exchange for funding awards or go it alone?