A WIRED investigation found public statements from officials detail a much closer link between Project Nimbus and Israel Defense Forces than previously reported....
Tech founders painted a vision of employees clocking into virtual workplaces. But the adoption of VR at work has been slow....
Elon Musk's paid blue-check system on X deceives users and can be abused by malicious actors, the European Union said today....
After a quarter century the community-driven site hasn’t changed much. And don’t ask it to license its archive to AI....
Robotics researchers are exploring how large language models can give physical machines more smarts....
A new resolution echoes what 16 members of Congress have already said to the White House: It must do more to free one of the most storied crypto-focused federal agents in history....
Arab and Muslim workers at Meta allege that its response to the crisis in Gaza is one-sided and out of hand. “It makes me sick that I work for this company,” says one employee....
Sam Altman is touting AI’s ability to sway people's behavior. His company is also wrestling with the risks....
In the latest iOS overhaul prompted by European Union rules, the smartphone maker will give third-party developers access to its payment technology....
Former Big Tech workers intended to disrupt Wednesday’s AWS Summit in New York to protest the company’s $1.2 billion contract with Israel....
Even techno-optimists hesitate to say teaching is best left to the bots, but there’s a debate about where to draw the line....
Reports of intimate images and video posted online without consent are growing, and deepfakes add a horrifying new dimension to the problem. Google insiders say they’ve struggled to get executives to act....
The US military has abandoned its half-century dream of a suit of powered armor in favor of a “hyper enabled operator,” a tactical AI assistant for special operations forces....
From “delves” to “showcasing,” certain words boomed in usage after LLMs became mainstream....
Fortnite creator Epic Games says Apple rejected its App Store rival for being too similar to its own—a move it deemed “arbitrary, obstructive,” and in violation of EU rules....
Former customers of bankrupt crypto exchange Mt. Gox are preparing to be reunited with their lost bitcoin—and it’s a $9 billion windfall....
The new Labour government could bring about a renaissance in UK tech and bolster the country’s precarious post-Brexit startup pipeline. That’s if politics don’t get in the way....
Hiya, folks, and welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. This week in AI, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down “Chevron deference,” a 40-year-old ruling on federal agencies’ power that required courts to defer to agencies’ interpretations of congressional laws. Chevron deference let agencies make their...
It’s easier than ever to make a deepfake of another person’s voice or face, but at least YouTube is making some small changes that make it slightly easier to report a video that uses your likeness without consent. You can now submit YouTube takedown requests...
Cloudflare, the publicly-traded cloud service provider, has launched a new, free tool to prevent bots from scraping websites hosted on its platform for data to train AI models. Some AI vendors, including Google, OpenAI and Apple, allow website owners to block the bots they use...
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What’s the common thread between Tesla, building startups, General Motors, venture capital and Lyft? Jon McNeill, co-founder and partner of DVx Ventures, joins TechCrunch editor Kirsten Korosec on Equity to discuss how Elon Musk’s pay package has influenced founders, when it makes sense to go...
Ashwin Nandakumar and Ashwin Jainarayanan were working on their doctorates at adjacent departments in Oxford, but they didn’t know each other. Nandakumar, who was studying oncology, one day stumbled across a curious dataset for prostate cancer, with which he needed sequencing help. “I reached out...
Andreessen Horowitz is betting the house on crypto. (Yes, really.) This spring, the VC firm schooled a new batch of founders that it hopes can prove the technology is good for more than scams and speculation....
CoinDCX, India’s leading cryptocurrency exchange, is expanding internationally through the acquisition of BitOasis, a digital asset platform in the Middle East and North Africa, the companies said Wednesday. The Bengaluru-based startup said BitOasis’s team is joining CoinDCX, with the original leadership continuing to manage the...
For the past couple of years, innovation has been accelerating in new materials development. And a new French startup called Altrove plans to play a role in this innovation cycle. The deep tech startup has already raised €3.7 million (around $4 million at current exchange...
The Labour Party, which is leading in UK election polls, has proposed making it easier for companies to build new server farms—risking a new type of conflict in communities across the country....
For the past couple of years, innovation has been accelerating in new materials development. And a new French startup called Altrove plans to play a role in this innovation cycle. The deep tech startup has already raised €3.7 million (around $4 million at current exchange...
The Indian social media platform Koo is shutting down after acquisition talks with Dailyhunt fell through. Despite securing over $60 million in funding from prominent investors like Tiger Global and Accel, Koo faced significant challenges in expanding its user base and generating revenue over the...
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