Will Meta Really Have to Sell Instagram and WhatsApp?
On this episode of "Uncanny Valley," we unpack the trial between Meta and the FTC....
16 abril, 2025
OpenAI launches a pair of AI reasoning models, o3 and o4-mini
OpenAI announced on Thursday the launch of o3 and o4-mini, new AI reasoning models designed to pause and work through questions before responding. The company calls o3 its most advanced reasoning model ever, outperforming the company’s previous models on tests measuring math, coding, reasoning, science,...
16 abril, 2025
OpenAI debuts Codex CLI, an open source coding tool for terminals
In a bid to inject AI into more of the programming process, OpenAI is launching Codex CLI, a coding “agent” designed to run locally from terminal software. Announced on Wednesday alongside OpenAI’s newest AI models, o3 and o4-mini, Codex CLI links OpenAI’s models with local...
16 abril, 2025
Digital frame maker Aura introduces the Aspen, a $299 frame with more intelligent features
Aura, a digital photo frames company founded by early Twitter employees, is introducing its latest model, Aspen, which adds new technology to the device and its accompanying mobile app. In addition to hosting your digital photos in its 12-inch HD display, the device now also...
16 abril, 2025
Meet The AI Agent With Multiple Personalities
A new AI agent from the startup Simular switches between different AI models depending on the task at hand....
16 abril, 2025
We’ve entered an era of Fintech Maximalism according to Mark Goldberg
“We are in a period of what I’ll call fintech maximalism,” says Chemistry founder and GP Mark Goldberg. “By that, I mean the companies that grew up in the last five to ten years in fintech, those that quietly executed through the winter of the...
16 abril, 2025
Startup funding hit records in Q1. But the outlook for 2025 is still awful.
Startups attracted $91.5 billion in venture capital funding in Q1, according to the latest report from data provider PitchBook. This figure not only exceeds the previous quarter’s allocation by 18.5% but also represents the second-highest quarterly investment in the last decade. Despite this seemingly positive...
16 abril, 2025
Microsoft researchers say they’ve developed a hyper-efficient AI model that can run on CPUs
Microsoft researchers claim they’ve developed the largest-scale 1-bit AI model, also known as a “bitnet,” to date. Called BitNet b1.58 2B4T, it’s openly available under an MIT license and can run on CPUs, including Apple’s M2. Bitnets are essentially compressed models designed to run on...
16 abril, 2025
Deck raises $12M to ‘Plaid-ify” any website using AI
Deck, a startup that claims to be building “the Plaid for the rest of the internet,” has raised $12 million in a Series A funding round — about nine months after closing its seed financing, it tells TechCrunch exclusively. The new raise, led by Infinity...
16 abril, 2025
TechCrunch All Stage: Full agenda revealed
The ultimate founder summit returns — now bigger than ever! Formerly TechCrunch Early Stage, TC All Stage is bringing together founders and VCs from every stage, not just early stage. We’re thrilled to unveil the full breakout session lineup at TC All Stage. Packed with...
16 abril, 2025
Less than a month left to claim your brand’s spotlight at TechCrunch Sessions: AI with an exhibit table
TechCrunch Sessions: AI is right around the corner — and the deadline to reserve your exhibit table is nearly gone. If you’ve got an AI innovation worth shouting about, now’s your moment. Don’t sit on the sidelines while others take the spotlight. Put your product...
16 abril, 2025
Bolt’s Ryan Breslow pins his hopes on a new app that takes on Coinbase, Zelle, and PayPal
Ryan Breslow is officially back. While the founder of one-click checkout company Bolt re-assumed its helm as CEO in March, Breslow is unveiling Wednesday a new “superapp” that he hopes will formally mark his return as the fintech’s leader. He describes the new product as...
16 abril, 2025
Capsule captures $12M to build the next version of its AI video editor for brands
Capsule is upgrading its AI-powered video editing assistant for marketing, sales, and media teams following the close of a $12 million round of Series A funding, the company announced on Wednesday. The upgraded editor will include new features like AI suggestions and support for real-time...
16 abril, 2025
AMD expects $800M charge due to US’s license requirement for AI chips
AMD says that the U.S. government’s license control requirement for exporting AI chips to China and certain other countries may have a material impact on its earnings. If AMD doesn’t successfully obtain a license, the company could be on the hook for roughly $800 million...
16 abril, 2025
A dev built a test to see how AI chatbots respond to controversial topics
A pseudonymous developer has created what they’re calling a “free speech eval,” SpeechMap, for the AI models powering chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and X’s Grok. The goal is to compare how different models treat sensitive and controversial subjects, the developer told TechCrunch, including political criticism...
16 abril, 2025
A year after Elon Musk’s takeover, UK revenues for X plummeted
X has not been fairing well in the U.K., previously a major source of revenue for the social network prior to Elon Musk’s arrival. Still named Twitter UK Ltd, revenues and profits for X’s UK entity collapsed by over 60% in the year after Musk...
16 abril, 2025
Hammerspace, an unstructured data wrangler used by Nvidia, Meta and Tesla, raises $100M at $500M+ valuation
Artificial intelligence services at their heart are massive data plays: you need data — a lot of it — to build the models, and then the models need efficient ways to ingest and output data to work. A company called Hammerspace has built a system...
16 abril, 2025
Google used AI to suspend over 39M ad accounts suspected of fraud
Google on Wednesday said it suspended 39.2 million advertiser accounts on its platform in 2024 — more than triple the number from the previous year — in its latest crackdown on ad fraud. By leveraging large language models (LLMs) and using signals such as business impersonation and...
16 abril, 2025
Opera adds its Aria AI assistant to Opera Mini browser
Norway-based browser company Opera said today that it is making its AI assistant Aria available to Opera Mini users on Android. This move will help users with low-end devices and data constraints access better AI features. Aria AI can help users get the latest news and...
16 abril, 2025
TS Anil, CEO of Monzo, is joining our StrictlyVC London lineup
StrictlyVC, the boutique brand powered by TechCrunch and known for evening events that invite headliners into smaller rooms to connect with live audiences, is headed back to London on May 13 — and its latest speaker lineup is one of its strongest yet. Joining the...
16 abril, 2025
Grok gains a canvas-like tool for creating docs and apps
Grok, the chatbot from Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has gained a canvas-like feature for editing and creating documents and basic apps. Called Grok Studio, the feature was announced on X late Tuesday. It’s available for both free and paying Grok users on Grok.com “Grok...
15 abril, 2025
Nvidia H20 chip exports hit with license requirement by US government
Semiconductor giant Nvidia is facing unexpected new U.S. export controls on its H20 chips. In a filing Tuesday, Nvidia said it was informed by the U.S. government that it will need a license to export its H20 AI chips to China. This license will be...
15 abril, 2025
Figma, ignores the fear, files paperwork for an IPO
Design software startup Figma announced Tuesday it has filed its confidential paperwork for an IPO. We won’t know more until that paperwork becomes public, which, best-case scenario would be in about a month. However, with the stock market in groundhog mode — seeing its shadow...
15 abril, 2025
Telli, a YC alum, raises pre-seed funding for its AI voice agents
Former Y Combinator startup telli is helping companies alleviate the bottleneck that occurs when a high-volume of customers try to, for example, book appointments. Its AI voice agents kick in and handle basic operations while handing off more-complex processes to human operators. The Berlin-based startup...
15 abril, 2025
OpenAI may ‘adjust’ its safeguards if rivals release ‘high-risk’ AI
In an update to its Preparedness Framework, the internal framework OpenAI uses to decide whether AI models are safe and what safeguards, if any, are needed during development and release, OpenAI said that it may “adjust” its requirements if a rival AI lab releases a...
15 abril, 2025
India’s BluSmart swept up in Gensol investigation alleging misuse of EV loans
India’s market regulator launched a probe Tuesday into Gensol Engineering after finding alleged misuse of electric vehicle loans. BluSmart, a ride-hailing startup connected to Gensol that was once seen as an emerging Uber rival in the South Asian market, has also been swept up into...
15 abril, 2025
Figma sent a cease-and-desist letter to Lovable over the term ‘Dev Mode’
We may be witnessing the makings of a new tech industry feud between competitors. Figma has sent a cease-and-desist letter to popular no-code AI startup Lovable, Figma confirmed to TechCrunch. The letter tells Lovable to stop using the term “Dev Mode” for a new product...
15 abril, 2025
OpenAI hires team behind GV-backed AI eval platform Context.ai
Context.ai, a startup building evaluations and analytics for AI models, announced Tuesday that its co-founders will join OpenAI. Context.ai plans to wind down its products following the acqui-hire, per a message on the company’s website. When reached for comment, OpenAI declined to reveal the terms...
15 abril, 2025
Anthropic forms a new team to grow its AWS business
In a sign of Anthropic’s increasingly cozy relationship with Amazon, Anthropic has formed a new team to recruit AWS customers to use its AI products. The team, which Anthropic appears to have begun hiring several months ago, aims to “accelerate” the adoption of Anthropic’s AI...
15 abril, 2025
Anthropic’s Claude can now read your Gmail
Anthropic announced on Tuesday that its AI chatbot, Claude, now integrates with Google Workspace, allowing it to search and reference your emails in Gmail, scheduled events in Google Calendar, and documents in Google Docs. The integration is rolling out in beta first to subscribers to...
15 abril, 2025
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