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While the ActivityPub integration is a main selling point for Ghost 6, this major release includes a number of other changes and new additions.

For the first time in more than five years, OpenAI is launching a new open language model that appears to be state-of-the-art.

In a debate likely to get louder as AI agent usage grows, some people say Perplexity crawling blocked websites isn’t a simple matter.

The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act, known as the EU AI Act, has been described as “the world’s first comprehensive AI law” by the European Commission.

The removal of age restrictions is intended to provide younger students with access to the AI research tool, allowing them to better understand their class materials.

The company announced that it took down over 6.8 million WhatsApp accounts linked to criminal scam centers targeting people around the world.

Cognition is also laying off 30 employees. Those who take the buyout are expected to work 80+ hour weeks.

The AI audio-generation unicorn ElevenLabs announced the launch of a new model that allows users to generate music that’s cleared for commercial use.

This announcement comes as the Trump administration is also mulling over its approach to AI chip export restrictions.

Cisco disclosed a data breach including customer names, organization names, addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers of Cisco.com users.

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The service features a library of nearly 10,000 hours of content from Lionsgate, Warner Bros. Discovery, and FilmRise, alongside select Roku Original titles.

Google DeepMind has revealed Genie 3, its latest foundation world model that the AI lab says presents a crucial stepping stone on the path to artificial general intelligence, or human-like intelligence. 

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 marks 20 years of driving the startup world forward — and you’ve got just two days left to join the movement and save up to $675 on your ticket. From October 27–29, Moscone West becomes the home base for over 10,000 movers and makers in the tech world. Join us in San … Read more

Though Spotify launched its audiobooks service in the U.S. back in 2022, household members on Duo and Family plans have long been left out. Spotify says that will now change.

Security researchers say they have evidence that ransomware gangs are hacking into large companies that rely on fully-patched SonicWall firewalls. The researchers say it’s likely the flaw is a “zero-day” bug currently unknown to SonicWall.

The companies will see their AI tools offered via a new federal contracting platform, the Multiple Awards Schedule (MSA), which would let government agencies access AI tool sellers with pre-negotiated contracts, rather than negotiating with vendors individually. 

The class-action suit was brought by users of period tracking app, Flo, who alleged that the tech giant collected private menstrual health data without users’ consent and used it for ad-tracking purposes.

When Parthi Duraisamy was a consultant at McKinsey’s Dubai office, he discovered that the American Express cards his company relied on for corporate expenses were rarely accepted in the Middle East. This forced Duraisamy to cover significant travel expenses out of pocket and file endless expense reports. “It was a constant pain,” Duraisamy explained on … Read more

Uzbekistan’s Uzum has raised $65.5 million in a new funding round co-led by China’s Tencent and the New York- and London-based VR Capital, with participation from U.S.-based FinSight Capital.

Indian startup Jeh Aerospace has secured $11 million in a new funding round to help ease global supply chain bottlenecks.

Dribbble is enforcing its terms of service that lets it take a cut of designers’ work, and kicking out those who don’t comply. One top designer has had enough, and is building his own startup instead.

The discoveries by an AI-based bug hunter are significant, as it shows these tools are starting to get real results, even if they still need a human.

The company has spent more than three years claiming the factory would become an “important” EV hub. But it has barely produced anything there.

Today, Rivian can sell EVs directly to consumers in 25 states and Washington D.C.

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.

Internet giant Cloudflare says it detected Perplexity crawling and scraping websites, even after customers had added technical blocks telling Perplexity not to scrape their pages.

OpenAI’s consumer chatbot ChatGPT to hit a new milestone of 700M weekly users.

Elon Musk says the company will bring back Vine’s archive of videos back online.

Elon Musk continues to position Grok as an unfiltered, boundary-pushing AI.