Celsius Founder Alex Mashinsky Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison
After pleading guilty to two counts of fraud, the founder of failed cryptocurrency platform Celsius will serve 12 years in federal prison....
08 maio, 2025
ChatGPT’s deep research tool gets a GitHub connector to answer questions about code
OpenAI is enhancing its AI-powered “deep research” feature with the ability to analyze codebases on GitHub. On Thursday, OpenAI announced what it’s calling the first “connector” for ChatGPT deep research, the company’s tool that searches across the web and other sources to compile thorough research...
08 maio, 2025
Ex-Synapse CEO reportedly trying to raise $100M for his new humanoid robotics venture
Sankaet Pathak’s last startup, fintech Synapse, filed for bankruptcy in 2024 amid issues with partner Evolve Bank & Trust. Tens of millions of dollars in deposits made by consumers, mostly customers of fintechs that worked with Synapse, remain unaccounted for. Yet according to The Information,...
08 maio, 2025
Social media startup Fizz sues Instacart and Partiful for trademark infringement over new Fizz app
Social media startup Fizz is suing grocery delivery giant Instacart and party planning app Partiful for trademark infringement, the company announced on Thursday. Earlier this week, Instacart launched a new drinks and snack delivery app for parties called Fizz and announced that Partiful had integrated Fizz...
08 maio, 2025
Meta taps former Google DeepMind director to lead its AI research lab
Meta has chosen Robert Fergus to lead its Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) lab, according to Bloomberg. Fergus had been working at Google DeepMind as a research director for roughly five years, per his LinkedIn. Prior to Google, he worked as a researcher scientist at Meta....
08 maio, 2025
Google launches ‘implicit caching’ to make accessing its latest AI models cheaper
Google is rolling out a feature in its Gemini API that the company claims will make its latest AI models cheaper for third-party developers. Google calls the feature “implicit caching” and says it can deliver 75% savings on “repetitive context” passed to models via the...
08 maio, 2025
Donald Trump’s UK Trade Deal Could Secure Jaguar’s Resurrection
A US deal to drop car tariffs from 25 to 10 percent could bolster UK luxury car sales—but only for the first 100,000 vehicles. This is particularly welcome news for Jaguar Land Rover....
08 maio, 2025
Google rolls out AI tools to protect Chrome users against scams
Google announced on Thursday that it’s rolling out new AI-powered defenses to help combat scams on Chrome. The tech giant will begin using Gemini Nano, its on-device large language model (LLM), on desktop to protect users against online scams. It’s also launching new AI-powered warnings...
08 maio, 2025
Exhibit your startup at TechCrunch Sessions: AI while you still can!
If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to act, this is it. You have just 24 hours left to secure your exhibit table at TechCrunch Sessions: AI and position your brand at the center of the conversation shaping the future of the AI industry....
08 maio, 2025
Sequoia leads $1.5B tender offer for sales automation startup Clay
It took seven years of hard work for Kareem Amin, co-founder and CEO of sales automation startup Clay, to see the company’s product finally take off in 2022. Since then, the startup has experienced explosive growth, reached a valuation exceeding a billion dollars, and expanded...
08 maio, 2025
OpenAI launches a data residency program in Asia
OpenAI is introducing a new data residency program in Asia, the company announced Thursday, following the rollout of its data residency program in Europe in February. The new program, which is available for OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise, ChatGPT Edu, and the OpenAI API, aims to help...
08 maio, 2025
Amazon’s newest AI tool is designed to enhance product listings
Amazon said Thursday it is releasing a new generative AI-powered tool to help merchants improve their listings with missing details or attributes. Sellers often have hundreds of products listed on Amazon, and they need to update information related to them from time to time, which...
08 maio, 2025
Asking chatbots for short answers can increase hallucinations, study finds
Turns out, telling an AI chatbot to be concise could make it hallucinate more than it otherwise would have. That’s according to a new study from Giskard, a Paris-based AI testing company developing a holistic benchmark for AI models. In a blog post detailing their...
08 maio, 2025
Why Hims & Hers turned to the autonomous vehicle industry to find an AI-savvy CTO
Hims & Hers, the telehealth and wellness company, has hired a veteran of the autonomous vehicle industry as its next chief technology officer. The move, according to Hims & Hers co-founder and CEO, Andrew Dudum, was intentional. Hims & Hers on Thursday said its next...
08 maio, 2025
Instacart CEO Fidji Simo is joining OpenAI
Simo, already a board member at OpenAI, will transition out of Instacart over the next few months and join the AI company full-time as Application CEO....
08 maio, 2025
Singapore’s Vision for AI Safety Bridges the US-China Divide
In a rare moment of global consensus, AI researchers from the US, Europe, and Asia came together in Singapore to form a plan for researching AI risks....
07 maio, 2025
A ‘Trump Card Visa’ Is Already Showing Up in Immigration Forms
Donald Trump has proposed launching a “gold card” program offering US residency for $5 million. Elon Musk’s DOGE has begun rolling out the technology to enable it....
07 maio, 2025
Fastino trains AI models on cheap gaming GPUs and just raised $17.5M led by Khosla
Tech giants like to boast about trillion-parameter AI models that require massive and expensive GPU clusters. But Fastino is taking a different approach. The Palo Alto-based startup says it’s invented a new kind of AI model architecture that’s intentionally small and task-specific. The models are...
07 maio, 2025
OpenAI and the FDA are reportedly discussing AI for drug evaluations
OpenAI has met with officials from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to discuss the agency’s use of AI to speed up drug evaluations, Wired reported on Wednesday. According to the report, OpenAI and the FDA have discussed a project called cderGPT, which seems...
07 maio, 2025
Rove, founded by a 22-year-old, is helping Gen Z earn airline miles without credit cards
During his junior year study abroad, Max Morganroth, traveled to 30 countries, primarily flying in business and first class. His jet setting was funded almost entirely by airline points he collected through strategic credit card applications and miles redemptions. Morganroth told TechCrunch that just about...
07 maio, 2025
Anthropic rolls out an API for AI-powered web search
Anthropic is launching a new API that allows its Claude AI models to search across the web. Developers using it can build Claude-powered apps that deliver up-to-date info, the company said in a press release published Wednesday. The rollout of the API comes as AI...
07 maio, 2025
OpenAI and the FDA Are Holding Talks About Using AI In Drug Evaluation
High-ranking OpenAI employees have met with the FDA multiple times in recent weeks to discuss AI and a project called cderGPT....
07 maio, 2025
Amazon debuts a warehouse robot with a sense of ‘touch’
Amazon says that it has developed a new warehouse robot, Vulcan, that can “feel” some of the items it touches. The two-armed Vulcan, which can maneuver goods inside the storage compartments Amazon has in its warehouses, uses force sensors to help it know when it makes...
07 maio, 2025
BluSmart investors propose $30M in new funding to revive the Uber rival
A group of investors are considering a plan to inject another $30 million into BluSmart in a bid to revive the Indian cab-hailing startup that abruptly halted operations last month, TechCrunch has learned. The proposal from these existing investors has a catch: its contingent on...
07 maio, 2025
OpenAI wants to team up with governments to grow AI infrastructure
OpenAI is launching a program, OpenAI for Countries, that the company says will enable it to build out the local infrastructure needed to better serve international AI customers. As a part of the new program, OpenAI will partner with governments to assist with efforts like...
07 maio, 2025
ServiceNow acquires Data.World months after snatching up Moveworks
Enterprise workflow management platform ServiceNow on Wednesday announced its second AI-related acquisition this year. ServiceNow said that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Data.World, a cloud-native data catalog and data governance platform. Austin, Texas-based Data.World was founded in 2015, and previously raised more...
07 maio, 2025
Apple is looking to add AI search engines to Safari
Apple is looking at adding AI search engines from OpenAI, Perplexity, and Anthropic into Safari, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. Eddy Cue, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Services, made the statement during his testimony in the U.S. Justice Department’s lawsuit against Alphabet. Cue’s disclosure was part...
07 maio, 2025
Figma releases new AI-powered tools for creating sites, app prototypes, and marketing assets
Design company Figma today announced multiple features, including AI-powered site and web app creation, a way for marketers to create assets in bulk, and a new drawing tool. With this launch, the company is taking on other creative solutions such as Canva and Adobe, along...
07 maio, 2025
Carta abandons startup shutdown business, instead backs SimpleClosure’s $15M Series A
In February of 2024, equity management startup Carta revealed that it was getting into the startup winddown business with a new offering called Carta Conclusions. By December, the company had decided to “retire” that offering, according to a blog post. And now, SimpleClosure, a startup...
07 maio, 2025
Microsoft adopts Google’s standard for linking up AI agents
Microsoft says that it’s embracing Google’s recently launched open protocol for allowing AI “agents” to communicate with each other. On Wednesday, Microsoft announced that it would bring support for Google’s Agent2Agent (A2A) spec to two of its AI development platforms, Azure AI Foundry and Copilot...
07 maio, 2025
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