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‘Slow-cial’ app Roost forces you to slow down to the speed of a carrier pigeon
Somewhere above the Great Plains, a virtual woodpecker is on its way to Alaska to deliver a message to my anonymous pen pal. At the same time, a zebra finch named Tucker soars into Manhattan to send a friend my shabby doodle of the Cool S. These messages take hours or...
OpenAI launches GPT-Live, a full-duplex voice upgrade that lets ChatGPT talk more like a person
OpenAI on Wednesday launched GPT-Live, a pair of new voice models that fundamentally redesign how people talk to ChatGPT — replacing the company's existing Advanced Voice Mode with an architecture that can listen and speak simultaneously, much like an actual human...
Crypto VC firm Paradigm raises $1.2B to invest in ‘technical frontier’ startups
Crypto VC firm Paradigm has raised $1.2 billion — its third venture fund and fourth overall — with the aim of investing in the “technical frontier,” the firm’s founder Matt Huang announced Wednesday. For Paradigm, the technical frontier will stretch beyond its...
Prime Intellect raises $130M Series A to help enterprises build their own AI agents
Prime Intellect, a startup that provides computing power and specialized software tools that help companies build AI agents, has raised a $130 million Series A at a $1 billion valuation. The massive round was led by Radical Ventures, with participation from Nvidia...
Another massive data breach exposed millions of driver’s license numbers
U.S. insurance provider AssuranceAmerica has confirmed a data breach affecting the personal information and driver’s license numbers of 6.9 million people, making it the largest known spill of Americans’ driver’s license information this year. Founded in 1998,...
These AI startups are growing revenue at faster and faster rates
As companies old and new rush to capitalize on AI, many AI startups say that their revenue is not just growing, but also rapidly accelerating, hitting their next milestones in shorter timeframes. The following list of startups have reported a pattern of such flywheel...
Solo GP Ashley Smith announces second $25M fund to back startups in AI, security and more
Vermilion Cliffs Ventures announced Wednesday the close of a $25 million Fund II. The firm was founded in 2023 by operator-turned-investor Ashley Smith, who runs it as one of the few solo women GPs in venture capital. Speaking to TechCrunch, Smith said this fund will...
Apple to produce Made in America wireless chips with Broadcom
Apple has signed a $30 billion+ multiyear deal with Broadcom to design and produce more than 15 billion U.S.-made custom wireless connectivity chips for Apple products. As part of the deal, Apple will put $1.5 billion in capital expenditure investment to help expand...
Venus Williams-backed WeWard can now lock your apps until you hit your steps
WeWard, an app that offers users rewards for logging their steps, is launching a feature called “Walking Mode” that allows users to restrict their use of chosen apps until they hit a certain step count. The feature is supposed to motivate people to walk while also...
Anthropic brings Mythos to the masses with Claude Fable 5, its most powerful generally available model ever
Anthropic today launched two new AI models — Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 — marking the company’s first broad release of the powerful “Mythos-class” AI capabilities it previously made available only to participating organizations in its restricted cybersecurity...
Anthropic’s Claude Fable is a version of Mythos the public can access today
Anthropic is bringing its most powerful AI model to the general public for the first time, but it’s doing it with guardrails. On Tuesday, the AI firm launched Claude Fable 5, the first publicly available version of its Mythos model. Anthropic says Fable 5 excels at...
Rivian starts deliveries of its all-important R2 SUV
Rivian began officially handing over the first R2 SUVs to paying customers on Tuesday, marking the beginning of a new chapter for the buzzy all-electric automaker as it tries to reach mass-market scale. Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe has said the R2 is “maybe the...
Apple’s foldable iPhone could be just around the corner
Apple’s long-awaited foldable iPhone may be on track for a fall release, according to hidden files that researcher @M1Astra found in the iOS 27 developer beta. This could mean that when Apple unveils its newest hardware in September, we might finally see its take on...
It’s not FAANG anymore. It’s MANGOS.
With SpaceX about to break records with an IPO on Friday, Anthropic about to break records with its pending IPO, and OpenAI racing to match or best its archrivals with its own potentially record-breaking IPO, the tech industry will soon have a new set of public...
Apple says it may remove some apps from the App Store if they don’t attract users
Apple is warning developers that some of their apps may not be able to call the App Store home forever. In its newly refreshed App Review Guidelines released this week, the tech giant said it may begin removing apps in certain well-established categories if they’re...
iOS 27 features we didn’t see onstage
The new Siri AI was the star of the show at Apple’s WWDC 2026 event, and while iOS 27 isn’t bringing major changes, it’s still got many small features that could improve everyday usage for iPhone users. Here is a non-exhaustive list of features that Apple didn’t talk...
Every World Cup fan deserves a seat. Norton Neo says its free browser is the ticket
Presented by Norton For 39 days this summer, the planet will be doing roughly the same thing at the same time. The 2026 World Cup spans 104 matches across 16 cities in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, with billions of people likely to watch over the course of...
Sandstone raises $30M to bring AI to in-house legal teams
With Harvey and Legora burning through eight-figure funding rounds, legal tools have proven to be one of the fastest-growing and most hotly contested verticals among AI startups. But while those tools focus on private practice, some startups believe there’s still...
Lovable says it has hit $500M in annualized revenue, with 1 million new projects a week
Europe’s fast-growing vibe coding startup, Lovable, tells TechCrunch it has surpassed $500 million in annualized revenue run rate. Lovable last discussed its revenue in February, when the company said it crossed $400 million. In August, 2024, Lovable said it could hit...
How an e-scooter founder raised $5 million to build space data centers
Here’s one metric for tracking SpaceX’s IPO later this week: The company has changed the venture industry’s perspective on long-term, capital-intensive space so much that a talented founder with no space experience can fund a space data center company. Orbital, a new...
Evotrex raises $30M to build the RV that doesn’t need a charging station
Evotrex has been around for just two years, but the startup is already planning to build and sell its first hybrid RV travel trailers next year, targeting around 1,000 units annually. To get there, Evotrex has closed a $30 million Series A funding round, bringing its...
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Social Media and How It Shapes the Microfinance Industry
The good thing about microfinance is that it provides people with opportunities to start their business. Given the availability of this loan option and the lower interest rate, they become more confident to take the loan out and make the most of it. A lot of people...
How guest blogging can improve your website
Today the places that most people get their information, whether it’s regarding general news, entertainment, sport or technology, all seem to be sourced from the internet. Perhaps some people get all their news for free from social media while others for premium...
Under Investigation: Social Media Use by Law Enforcement
Four out of Five officers use social media for investigation purposes. Find out how below:
Businesses Get Big Boosts From Retargeting Ads
Even before the days of digital marketing, placing a single ad in one location or publication was never enough. Customers needed to see ads on television, in magazines, on busses, and on billboards, and they needed to see ads multiple times before actually making a...