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Users turn to jailbreaking their older Kindles as Amazon ends support
Many people are jailbreaking their Kindles following the news that Amazon is ending technical support for older models. On May 20, Amazon will end support for the following Kindle devices: Kindle 1st Generation Kindle 2nd Generation Kindle DX Kindle DX Graphite...
Intercom, now called Fin, launches an AI agent whose only job is managing another AI agent
The company formerly known as Intercom just did something that no major customer service platform has attempted at scale: it built an AI agent whose sole job is to manage another AI agent.Fin Operator, announced Thursday at a live event in San Francisco, is a new...
How RecursiveMAS speeds up multi-agent inference by 2.4x and reduces token usage by 75%
One of the key challenges of current multi-agent AI systems is that they communicate by generating and sharing text sequences, which introduces latency, drives up token costs, and makes it difficult to train the entire system as a cohesive unit. To overcome this...
RJ Scaringe has raised more than $12B across three startups and investors still want more
Investors can’t seem to get enough of RJ Scaringe or his ideas. In less than a decade, the serial entrepreneur best known for his EV company Rivian, has raised more than $12.3 billion from venture capital firms, as well as strategic and institutional investors for his...
General Catalyst posted VC rage bait and it worked, especially on a16z
One of the most entertaining moments in VC this week was a piece of rage-bait marketing from General Catalyst. In a now-viral post on X that parodies the old Mac vs. PC commercials, the venture firm — better known as GC — posted a “VC vs GC” video on Wednesday. The VC...
A hotel check-in system left a million passports and driver’s licenses open for anyone to see
A hotel check-in system left more than 1 million customer passports, driver’s licenses, and selfie verification photos to the open web after a security lapse. The data is now offline after TechCrunch alerted the company responsible. The hotel check-in system, called...
Silicon Valley’s vacationland needs a new energy provider just as AI is driving prices up
It’s no secret that AI data centers have been straining the grid. But Silicon Valley has been relatively insulated from it all, thanks to high land and power prices that have pushed hyperscaler projects elsewhere. The tech elite might soon get a taste of the power...
Tesla reveals two Robotaxi crashes involving teleoperators
Tesla Robotaxis have crashed at least twice since July 2025 while a teleoperator was remotely driving the vehicles, according to newly unredacted information submitted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Both crashes happened in Austin,...
Claude’s next enterprise battle is not models: it’s the agent control plane
New VB Pulse data shows Microsoft and OpenAI leading enterprise agent orchestration, but Anthropic’s first measurable foothold points to a larger fight over who controls the infrastructure where AI agents run.For the last two years, the enterprise AI race has mostly...
Exclusive: Runway launches $10M fund, Builders program to support early stage AI startups
Runway is moving beyond building AI video models and into shaping what gets built on top of them. The AI video generation startup has launched a $10 million venture fund to invest in early-stage companies building across AI, media, and world simulation, the company’s...
The company behind ClassPass and Mindbody just got a lot bigger with a $7.5B merger
The fitness industry is consolidating fast — and the latest deal is one of the biggest yet. Playlist, the parent company behind fitness brands Booker, ClassPass, and Mindbody, has officially merged with EGYM, a startup known for its smart gym equipment, AI-driven...
Waymo starts robotaxi services at San Antonio International Airport
Waymo’s robotaxi service is going live at its fourth airport today: San Antonio International. The company said its vehicles will drop off riders curbside at the terminals, and pick up passengers at the airport’s designated ride-share area. This is the first airport...
Speechify’s Windows app uses local models for transcription and dictation
Voice AI company Speechify just launched a native Windows app that employs locally stored models to enable dictation across apps, and reading aloud articles, documents, or PDFs using its library of voices. The company is taking on the likes of Wispr Flow, Willow, and...
With its new app store, Ring bets on AI to go beyond home security
With now more than 100 million cameras in the field, Amazon-owned Ring is ready to take advantage of its sizable footprint with the launch of a new app store that will expand its cameras’ capabilities. Focused initially on areas like elder care, workforce analytics,...
Google is now letting users in the US change their Gmail address
Google said on Tuesday that it is now rolling out a way for users in the U.S. to change their Gmail address without starting over or losing access to their data. Users who have access to this feature can go to their Google Account settings, navigate to Personal info>...
Softr launches AI-native platform to help nontechnical teams build business apps without code
Softr, the Berlin-based no-code platform used by more than one million builders and 7,000 organizations including Netflix, Google, and Stripe, today launched what it calls an AI-native platform — a bet that the explosive growth of AI-powered app creation tools has...
Nvidia-backed ThinkLabs AI raises $28 million to tackle a growing power grid crunch
ThinkLabs AI, a startup building artificial intelligence models that simulate the behavior of the electric grid, announced today that it has closed a $28 million Series A financing round led by Energy Impact Partners (EIP), one of the largest energy transition...
Airbnb is introducing a private car pick-up service
Airbnb announced Tuesday it is expanding its services feature with a new category for car pick-ups across 125 cities around the world. The company is partnering with transportation company Welcome Pickups to let users book a private car service in cities including...
The Silicon Valley congressional race is getting ugly
The primary isn’t until early June, but the CA-17 race between five-term incumbent Ro Khanna and tech founder Ethan Agarwal is already getting nasty. Agarwal entered the race in March, backed by a roster of prominent tech billionaires largely in response to Khanna’s...
Allbirds is selling for $39 million. It raised nearly 10 times that amount in its IPO.
Allbirds, the wool sneaker brand that became a kind of unofficial uniform for the Silicon Valley set, has agreed to sell all of its assets and intellectual property to American Exchange Group for $39 million — which is roughly one-tenth of the $348 million it raised...
15% of Americans say they’d be willing to work for an AI boss, according to new poll
Would you trade your manager for a chatbot? A growing number of Americans are saying yes. According to a Quinnipiac University poll published Monday, 15% of Americans say they’d be willing to have a job where their direct supervisor was an AI program that assigned...
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Just like in the world of fashion, trends in the web design arena tend to vary. While a few of them are critical requirements, such as responsive design, others are simply high-tech or industry-led moves such as the development of flat design. It is wise to pick and...
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