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Carried interest repeal could stifle investments in startups, NVCA says
On Thursday, President Trump asked Republican lawmakers to end tax breaks on carried interest. The tax break allows private equity ...
Report: OpenAI’s ex-CTO, Mira Murati, has recruited OpenAI co-founder John Schulman
OpenAI co-founder John Schulman, who left AI company Anthropic earlier this week after a mere five months, is reportedly joining ...
Amazon doubles down on AI with a massive $100B spending plan for 2025
Amazon is joining other Big Tech companies by announcing huge AI spending plans for 2025. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights ...
Orgs demand action to mitigate AI’s environmental harm
A group of more than 100 organizations has published an open letter calling on the AI industry and regulators to ...
WhatsApp is making it easier to create communities
WhatsApp’s never-ending feature additions continue. Spotted in the latest beta release for Android, which went out today to those enrolled ...
Government agency removes spoon emoji from work platform amid protests
According to a New York Times report, on Thursday, the U.S. government’s General Services Administration (GSA) removed the spoon emoji ...
Tinder will try AI-powered matching as the dating app continues to lose users
Tinder hopes to reverse its ongoing decline in active users by turning to AI. In the coming quarter, the Match-owned ...
Pour one out for Cruise and why autonomous vehicle test miles dropped 50%
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iPhone 17 Case CAD Render Shows Up Several Months Before Apple’s Official Announcement, Showing A Pixel-Like Rear Cutout And Hinting At A Design Change
The evidence signaling a major design change for the iPhone 17 continues to pile up, as a tipster has shared ...
OpenAI now reveals more of its o3-mini model’s thought process
In response to pressure from rivals including Chinese AI company DeepSeek, OpenAI is changing the way its newest AI model, ...
DOGE staffer steps down after racist posts emerge
A 25-year-old Doge staffer resigned over racist posts on X. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Early Meta employee sues for sexual harassment, gender discrimination
One of Meta’s earliest employees is suing the company for sexual harassment, sex discrimination, and retaliation, according to a lawsuit ...
AT&T’s new feature tells you why a business is calling
A business number is calling you out of the blue – what do they want? With the new Reason for ...
Tracking the EV battery factory construction boom across North America
A wave of automakers and battery makers — foreign and domestic — have pledged to produce North American–made batteries before ...
AMD Surpasses 100 Million Gaming Consoles This Generation
Chipmaker AMD revealed in their Q4 Earnings Call that this console generation has been incredibly strong, with the company’s cumulative ...
Snap CEO helps launch LA wildfire recovery program
Snap CEO Evan Spiegel and the chief executive of the California Community Foundation, Miguel Santana, are launching a program focused ...
Amazon Alexa is getting a generative AI upgrade later this month
Amazon was an early mover in the “digital assistant” field with Alexa, which was backed by cheap but capable hardware ...
Entertainment Software Association announces Interactive Innovation Conference 2026
It’s been announced by the Entertainment Software Association that the first-ever Interactive Innovation Conference, also known as “iicon,” will be ...
Martin Shkreli Blasts The Peddlers Of The SPX6900 Meme Coin As “Degenerates” Who “Belong In A Psychiatric Ward”
That Martin Shkreli, one of the most hated C-suite executives in America, absolutely abhors meme coins is not, in and ...
Decision reversed: T-Mobile can continue to make this claim in its television ad
The NARB reverses a decision made by the NAD and says that T-Mobile’s “Save 20% every month vs. the other ...
Trump wants a TikTok deal, but China still might let it die
President Donald Trump boasted that he would save the popular social media platform TikTok from a ban in the U.S. ...
Realme P3 Pro spotted on Geekbench ahead of launch
The Realme P3 series is due to launch in India later this month and we now have another sighting of ...
Researchers created an AI reasoning model on par with OpenAIs o1 for less than $50
The floodgates have opened for building AI reasoning models on the cheap. Researchers at Stanford and the University of Washington ...
Hi-Rez Studios Lays Off Developers from Smite Team
The last layoffs from Hi-Rez Studios came in late 2024, and now they have seemingly conducted layoffs again this week. ...
Revealing interesting data, Verizon spills the “t” with the 2024 Consumer Connections report
Verizon releases its Consumer Connections report for 2024 loaded with interesting data.
Tesla Dojo: Elon Musk’s big plan to build an AI supercomputer, explained
Dojo is Tesla’s custom-built supercomputer that’s designed to train its “Full Self-Driving” neural networks. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. ...
T-Mobile app officially breathed its last with a solemn final message
After multiple signs and reminders from T-Mobile, the original app is no more.
Ford goes protectionist as EV losses top $5B
Ford CEO Jim Farley has a question about President Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada, and China: ...
Former Bioware & EA Devs Reveal New ARPG, Cloudheim
Cloudheim is a brand-new multiplayer action RPG from the independent studio Noodle Cat Games. This game comes from a studio ...
