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Vibe coding platform Base44 launches own model as AI startups seek defensibility
Base44, the vibe coding platform that Wix acquired for $80 million just one year ago — when the company was barely six moths old and had a team of eight — has started rolling out its own AI model to support its users in creating apps with natural language. The move...
Chamath Palihapitiya raises $135M Series A for his AI coding startup, takes CEO role
Chamath Palihapitiya, best known for his venture capital firm Social Capital and the All-In podcast, announced Monday that the AI coding startup he founded raised a sizable Series A. The company, 8090 Labs, closed a $135 million round led by Salesforce Ventures with...
DeepSeek open sources DSpark, a new framework to speed up LLM inference by up to 85%
Even as the geopolitical conversation around AI continues to grow more fraught following the U.S. government's actions to limit the new models from Anthropic and OpenAI, Chinese open source darling DeepSeek is back with yet another open release that could once again...
Gemini’s personalized AI image generation is now free for US users
Google announced on Monday that the Gemini app is now offering its personalized Nano Banana-powered image generation feature to a broader audience. Starting today, all eligible users in the U.S. can access the feature for free, a service that was previously only...
Watch out, Amazon: The Kobo eReader now has a Goodreads rival
Another challenger to the Amazon Kindle-Goodreads book-tracking empire has emerged. On Monday, the reading tracker StoryGraph teamed up with Rakuten’s Kobo, the maker of a more open e-reader (and Kindle alternative), allowing book lovers to automatically track their...
Waymo and Uber quietly part ways in Phoenix
Waymo robotaxis are no longer available on Uber’s ride-hail app in Phoenix, Arizona, ending a nearly three-year partnership in the city, both companies confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday. Uber said it is readying the launch of a separate autonomous vehicle partnership...
Anthropic and Gov. Newsom forge deal allowing California government to use Claude at half price
Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and Anthropic have made a deal that allows California government agencies to use Claude at a discounted price. This agreement comes at a time when businesses are struggling to manage the hefty costs of enterprise subscriptions to AI tools....
South Korean tech giants commit over $550B to ease ‘RAMageddon’
The world’s two largest memory chip companies plan to invest $518 billion (~800 trillion won) to build four new memory fabs in southwestern South Korea, a region that has historically attracted little semiconductor investment. The announcement is part of the country’s...
Trump administration threatens 92 GW of new electricity supply with red tape
Permitting delays pushed by the Trump administration threaten to derail 92 gigawatts of clean power, even as electricity demand from AI data centers skyrockets. Already, permitting changes and federal funding withdrawals have led to the cancellation of 7 gigawatts of...
Bluesky embraces long-form content to counter X Articles
Elon Musk’s X lets you write long-form content on the platform through its Articles feature, but only if you’re a paid subscriber or business. The decentralized social networking startup Bluesky has a different idea. On Thursday, Bluesky rolled out a new version of...
Hackers are trying to steal Signal users’ backups in new wave of phishing attacks
Hackers are targeting Signal users in an attempt to steal their chat backups as part of a new hacking campaign, TechCrunch has learned. On Wednesday, Washington Post analyst Josh Rogin posted a screenshot of a new kind of attack against Signal users, where hackers...
Anthropic raises $65 billion, nears $1T valuation ahead of IPO
Anthropic has snagged $65 billion in funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation in its latest funding round, marking what could be the AI startup’s last private fundraising before debuting on the public markets. The Series H round was co-led by Altimeter Capital,...
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 is here with 3X cheaper fast mode and near-Mythos level alignment
Anthropic today released Claude Opus 4.8, an upgrade to its flagship model that ships at the same price as its predecessor, alongside a dramatically cheaper "fast mode" tier and a new feature that lets the model spawn hundreds of parallel subagents for codebase-scale...
Control within connection: How data sovereignty is rewriting the rules of critical infrastructure
Presented by EquinixDigital systems are central to economic resilience. But the governance models supporting them were designed for a bygone era, when systems were smaller, often centralized, and rarely crossing multiple jurisdictions. This structural mismatch is...
Anthropic releases Opus 4.8 with new ‘dynamic workflow’ tool
On Thursday, Anthropic released Opus 4.8, the newest version of its most advanced publicly available model. The model is available everywhere, with standard pricing at the same level as the previous Opus release. The new model comes just 41 days after Opus 4.7 was...
How DeepSeek’s radical architecture is shattering Silicon Valley’s token moat
DeepSeek’s announcement over the weekend that it has made its 75% price cut permanent on its flagship V4 Pro model is a disruptive assault on the capital-heavy business models of Silicon Valley’s frontier labs. The reduction on DeepSeek V4 Pro directly undercuts...
Waymo’s newest robotaxi is Chinese-made, built to make money, and now accepting riders
Waymo has started giving select riders in Los Angeles, Phoenix, and San Francisco access to its newest robotaxi: an all-electric, minivan-like vehicle that is designed to lower costs and handle the use and abuse of hundreds of thousands of riders. Waymo said Thursday...
U.S. says troops were targeted with location data, as senator warns ad industry is a ‘national security threat’
The U.S. Department of Defense has confirmed that adversaries have targeted and surveilled serving military personnel on the battlefield using commercial location data, the latest demonstration of how information collected from phones and computers can be abused to...
How long is Anthropic’s lease with SpaceX? Opinions vary.
Earlier this month, xAI signed a major compute deal with Anthropic, pledging billions of dollars a month for exclusive use of the company’s Colossus cluster. It was a coup for both companies, giving xAI some much-needed revenue and helping Anthropic catch up in the...
Sesame, the conversational AI startup from Oculus founders, launches its iOS app
On Thursday, the AI startup Sesame, co-founded by Oculus’s founders and others from the VR company that sold to Meta, released a public preview of the conversational AI agents it’s been developing for over a year. With its new iOS app, Sesame is rethinking the...
Slate Auto will start taking orders for its low-cost EV on June 24
Slate Auto, the electric vehicle startup backed by Jeff Bezos and LA Dodgers owner Mark Walter, has announced that it will officially start taking orders for its low-cost electric vehicle on June 24, ahead of the first deliveries late this year. The company sent out...
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Cool Phablets and Other Top Tech You Can Buy in 2018
If you are a devoted technophile, 2018 will definitely provide you with plenty of reasons to spend your money. From phablets and laptops to other innovative tech gadgets, this promises to be a banner year. Whether you have some holiday gift money burning a hole in...
Cyber Security a Growing Concern for Canadians
The number of Canadians concerned about cyber security has gone up in 2017. This is according to the latest Factbook report released by CIRA (Canadian Internet Registration Authority). According to the data, 3 out of 4 Canadians are concerned about possible...
Top reasons to use a photo scanning service
Every day we take photographs with our digital cameras or smartphones, and sometimes we even print them out. We also flick through old memories and reminisce over images from decades ago. But however careful you are with physical photo prints, there is always the risk...
Inkless Fingerprinting and 3D Imaging: Advances in Forensic Science Methods
In the old days, police detectives and forensics specialists had to rely on logic and clues left at a crime scene to determine “who done it”. Today, however, technology is taking the place of old-school detective work. Here are some of the most promising technologies,...