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Instagram looks to take on streaming services with longer-form, episodic and live formats for its TV app
Instagram is exploring new formats in an apparent effort to bring its platform to more TV users. The social network, which launched a TV app last year, says it’s going to experiment with longer-form content, episodic series, and Live TV. Instagram said it is exploring...
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Lucid Motors’ new CEO cuts 18% of staff to ‘simplify the company’
Lucid Motors is laying off 18% of its workforce, or around 1,500 employees, just four months after the EV maker cut 12% of its staff. The company said on Monday that it has also “eliminated the second shift” of EV production at its factory in Casa Grande, Arizona. The...
Seedcamp raises $320M for its new fund to expand its US footprint
After 18 years of focusing on Europe, early-stage investor Seedcamp said on Monday that it had raised $320 million for its latest fund which will see it expanding its presence in the United States. Fund VII is the investment firm’s largest so far, double the $180...
Klue hack results in data breach at several cybersecurity firms
A hacking group has taken credit for a breach at market intelligence provider Klue that allowed hackers to steal reams of data from the company’s corporate customers, which include some of the biggest names in cybersecurity. Vancouver-based Klue, which lets companies...
Ethan Thornton is trying to do everything all at once
Ethan Thornton dropped out of MIT at 19 to build weapons. The first one, a hydrogen-powered system he prototyped with parts from Home Depot and Amazon, didn’t work out — “hydrogen was just a bad bet in general,” he told me this past week at TechCrunch’s StrictlyVC...
Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dies in plane crash
Claude Guillemot, co-founder of French video game company Ubisoft, died Friday at the age of 69. According to French media (via Bloomberg), Guillemot died in a plane crash in the French resort town of La Baule. He was one of two people aboard the plane, both of whom...
Polymarket reportedly paid creators to post deceptive videos about fake bets
Polymarket has been paying online creators to post deceptive videos that show them making lucrative bets on the prediction market, according to a new investigation in the Wall Street Journal. The WSJ said that it analyzed 1,100 videos about Polymarket and also viewed...
TechCrunch Mobility: A new robotaxi scorecard shows China’s dominance
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Today is Juneteenth, a U.S. federal holiday marking the end of slavery in...
Open source tool maker Grafana Labs says hackers stole its code, refuses to pay ransom
Grafana Labs, the maker of its eponymous popular open source web visualization software, confirmed it had been hacked but that it refused to pay the hackers who had threatened to release the company’s codebase. In a series of posts on social media, the lab said its...
South Korea’s LetinAR is building optics behind AI glasses
Imagine you’re riding a motorcycle at 160 kilometers per hour when an arrow appears, floating on the road ahead, telling you exactly where to turn. No phone, no dashboard. Just your helmet, and a lens the size of a thumbnail. This is not a concept video. It’s heading...
Apple’s Siri revamp could include auto-deleting chats
Privacy will be a major theme when Apple unveils a new version of Siri at the Worldwide Developers Conference in June, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The Siri relaunch is widely seen as Apple’s big chance to reestablish its relevance in artificial intelligence....
Why trust is a big question at the Elon Musk-OpenAI trial
Lawyers for Elon Musk and OpenAI made their closing arguments this week, and now it’s up to jurors to decide whether OpenAI did anything wrong as it’s transformed into a slightly-more-for-profit organization. But as Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I noted on the...
Architectural patterns for graph-enhanced RAG: Moving beyond vector search in production
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become the de facto standard for grounding large language models (LLMs) in private data. The standard architecture — chunking documents, embedding them into a vector database, and retrieving top-k results via cosine similarity...
If you’re giving a commencement speech in 2026, maybe don’t mention AI
Commencement season has come around again — and this year, at least a couple speakers have discovered that it’s tough to get graduating students excited about a future shaped by artificial intelligence. Last week, Gloria Caulfield, an executive at real estate firm...
TechCrunch Mobility: The AI skills arms race is coming for automotive
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! There is a bit of a theme emerging in transportation — and really every...
For Eclipse, the $2.5B Cerebras win is just the start of realizing its physical-world thesis
When Lior Susan started Eclipse Ventures in 2015, the firm’s thesis of digitizing the physical world wasn’t particularly popular in Silicon Valley. “It was the era of enterprise software and SaaS, and it felt fairly lonely the first couple of years,” Susan said on...
The enterprise risk nobody is modeling: AI is replacing the very experts it needs to learn from
For AI systems to keep improving in knowledge work, they need either a reliable mechanism for autonomous self-improvement or human evaluators capable of catching errors and generating high-quality feedback. The industry has invested enormously in the first. It's...
The haves and have nots of the AI gold rush
The vibes around the current AI boom aren’t great, even in the tech industry, according to a lengthy social media post from Menlo Ventures partner Deedy Das. Das described San Francisco as “pretty frenetic right now,” as “the divide in outcomes is the worst I’ve ever...
Marketing operating system Nectar Social raises $30M Series A led by Menlo
AI-powered marketing platform Nectar Social announced Thursday that it raised a $30 million Series A round led by Menlo Ventures and its Anthology Fund, which was created alongside Anthropic. The company, which officially exited stealth last year, is an agentic...
Research repository ArXiv will ban authors for a year if they let AI do all the work
ArXiv, a widely used open repository for preprint research, is doing more to crack down on the careless use of large language models in scientific papers. Although papers are posted to the site before they are peer-reviewed, arXiv (pronounced “archive”) has become one...
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