by News Feed Editor | Jul 14, 2026 | Technology
Hinge founder Justin McLeod announced an $18 million fundraise for his new dating company, Overtone. McLeod stepped down from his CEO role at Hinge just last year, and Hinge owner Match Group — which also owns apps like Tinder and OkCupid — is helping to fund his new...
by News Feed Editor | Jul 14, 2026 | Technology
Lucid Motors is denying a report that it’s weighing filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Nick Twork, the company’s chief communications officer, told TechCrunch in a statement that the “rumors are completely false.” “The company has sufficient liquidity to...
by News Feed Editor | Jul 14, 2026 | Technology
A group of publishers and authors have filed a class action lawsuit against Google, accusing the tech giant of using their copyrighted works to train its AI platform, Gemini. The group of plaintiffs, which includes Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, author Scott Turow, and...
by News Feed Editor | Jul 14, 2026 | Technology
DeepSeek, the Chinese large language model developer, is preparing for a 2027 IPO debut, but it could come as early as the end of this year as it also looks to raise around $1.5 billion in new funds at about a $71 billion valuation, Bloomberg reports. The news comes...
by News Feed Editor | Jul 14, 2026 | Technology
In a recent interview, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said he can see a time in the future, perhaps only a year or two, when putting limits on Meta employees’ AI token spend will become necessary. “I think that you can imagine, at least in a year or two … that the burn...
by News Feed Editor | Jul 14, 2026 | Technology
Google Images, the tech giant’s image search engine, is taking on Pinterest with its latest redesign that turns the site into a browsable, dynamic gallery of images from across the web. Google is also adding a way for users to create AI images right in Search, as it...
