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Google’s Dreambeans, its latest AI experiment, now supports 13 Indian languages.

Apple hinted at ways that it could spur revenue through third-party “opportunities” during its Monday night earnings call.

A Kyiv startup’s pocket-sized, 10-ounce receiver lets Ukrainian troops watch the video feeds of Russian drones, though Russian moves toward digital video and AI-guided drones that emit no signals could make the victory short-lived.

Y Combinator Garry Tan has jokingly admitted that he’s suffered from “cyber psychosis” and barely sleeps sometimes because he’s so excited to be working with his AI agents. On a new episode of Walter Isaacson’s podcast, The Builders, Tan put a price tag on his passion.

At a time when people are increasingly tired of dating apps, Hinge is testing a cheaper subscription plan.

Apple says iPhone Duo production is ramping up, but it still can’t say when supply will catch up with demand as shipping delays stretch into next year.

The one-year-old startup is now valued at $300 million.

Apple says unprecedented memory chip costs will continue to rise, raising questions about future device prices as its inventory climbs to $14.5 billion.

RSI is the point at which AI grows so good at training itself that it spawns a dramatic acceleration of AI capabilities. To the AI doomers, RSI represents the cataclysm from which there is no return.

German lawmakers and a filmmaker are among the people who received notifications from Apple warning that their phones may have been hacked.

The website builder said that the job losses are part of a broader restructuring of its organization.

The New York Times is suing privacy-focused web browser company Brave for allegedly scraping the outlet’s copyrighted and unlawfully distributing it to its own customers, like Anthropic and Perplexity.

The plaintiffs said they started using YouTube as young as age 3 and other social media platforms at around age 9 and developed compulsive usage habits that they attributed to features such as autoplay and infinite scrolling.

Marvell’s planned purchase of Lumentum is one of the biggest acquisitions in tech history. And they both have the same strategic investor: Nvidia.

Readwise Books combines an ebook store, reading tracker, detailed reading stats, and AI features in a bid to challenge Amazon’s ecosystem.

SpaceX has been looking for new ways to use its Starlink network, and a tie-up with cellular operator Boost Mobile could give it the terrestrial access it needs.

Here’s a question straight out of sci-fi: What if AI could predict what you were going to do before you decided to, even in a completely new situation?

Musk recently referred to Grok Bot as having “the fastest growth of a product that I’ve ever seen in my life.”

Two startups tackling the data center water problem are joining forces in a $16 million deal.

The Ninja Crispi Microwave stands out for its FusionCrisp technology, which combines the speed of a microwave with the crispy results you’d expect from an air fryer.

Space infrastructure company Northwood Space on Monday said it had raised $375 million in a Series C round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and DFJ Growth, valuing the company at $2 billion.

This is the second wave of cyberattacks to hit supermarket refrigerators in a month, spoiling food and disrupting supplies.

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OpenAI said that ChatGPT and Codex will draw usage from the same allocation pool after this change.

Ford said it’s making an “explicit commitment” to its customers that “their vehicle data is safe” with the company.

Five stories worth your time from our extended colleagues at CIO, Computerworld, Macworld, and PCWorld.

Data centers are deeply unpopular. But what if we called them something else?

On Equity, we discuss why tech CEO statements can seem so tone deaf.

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.

The cryptocurrency exchange said it’s now covered 95% of the stolen assets.