Google says it has removed Gemma from its AI Studio after a U.S. senator accused the AI model of fabricating accusations of sexual misconduct against her.
In a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Senator Marsha Blackburn — a Republican …
A gruesome killing in her own family inspired South African Leonora Tima to create a digital platform where people, mostly women, can talk about and track abuse.
Leonora's relative was just 19 years old, and nine months pregnant, when…
University of Surrey researchers have developed a new approach to improve artificial intelligence (AI) performance by mimicking the networks of the human brain.
According to a study published in Neurocomputing, mimicking the brain's n…
Your social media feed is being taken over by AI video slop. There's one giveaway that can help you spot the fakes – does it look like it was filmed on a potato?
It's over. You're going to fall for it. You probably have already. In …
Typically, when a company acquires another, it will absorb the new company’s branding or integrate it with its own identity. Grammarly is doing something different: After acquiring email client Superhuman in July, the company is renaming i…
WhatsApp is adding a new way to access your encrypted backups with passkey support. This means if you lose your device, you can use methods like fingerprint, face, or the screen lock code of your previous device to access WhatsApp’s backup…
YouTube is conducting a “voluntary exit program” with severance for U.S.-based employees, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Wednesday. The news was first reported by Sources.
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan told employees about the progra…
Tim Cook says Apple has plans to embed more third-party AI tools into the company’s operating systems. “Our intention is to integrate with more people over time,” Cook said in an interview with CNBC. Apple has already embedded ChatGPT in…
Design platform Figma said today that it has acquired AI-powered image and video generation company Weavy. The startup will join Figma under a new brand called Figma Weave.
Figma said that 20 people from Weavy will join t…
Threads, Meta’s X rival, continues to ship new features at a rapid pace. Shortly after the launch of communities and disappearing “ghost posts,” the social networking app on Thursday introduced new tools that will give users more control o…
The titans of the technology sector are ramping up their spending on artificial intelligence, as they rush to reap the benefits of an AI boom that has pushed stocks to record highs.
Earnings reports from Meta, Alphabet and Microsoft o…
Creative suite company Canva launched its own design model on Thursday that understands design layers and formats to power its features. The company also introduced new products and features, updates to its AI assistant, and the ability to…
Nvidia has hit a new milestone, becoming the first company in the world to reach a market value of $5tn (£3.8tn).
The US chip giant has rapidly climbed from a niche graphics-chip designer to an AI titan, as euphoria about the potentia…
The latest iPhones have seen "a tremendous response" across the globe, said Apple boss Tim Cook as the tech giant released its latest financial results.
The firm unveiled its thinnest iPhone, the Air, in September, along with upgraded…
You’re going to start seeing more warnings in Chrome when accessing insecure sites. Starting next October, Chrome will soon warn users when they visit a public website without an encrypted HTTPS connection.
Chrome already issues a…
OpenAI is offering its ChatGPT Go plan available free of charge for one year to users in India who sign up during a limited promotional period starting November 4, as the company looks to expand in one of its top markets.
On Tuesday, Op…
Teenagers are trying to figure out where they fit in a world changing faster than any generation before them. They’re bursting with emotions, hyper-stimulated, and chronically online. And now, AI companies have given them chatbots designed…
YouTube on Wednesday showed off several new updates aimed at improving its TV user interface.
Key updates include the introduction of QR codes that let you identify and shop for items in tagged videos, AI-powered upscaling, and improve…
In India and around the world, worshippers are turning to purpose-built AI for religious worship and spiritual guidance. What happens when the machines become our new spiritual middlemen?
Faced with the questions and challenges of m…
Self-driving truck startup Waabi shared Tuesday at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 the launch of a new autonomous truck made in partnership with Volvo, the Volvo VNL Autonomous truck.
The unveiling comes eight months since the Uber- and Nvidia-…
Netflix is looking to vertical video as a way to experiment with new content types, said CTO Elizabeth Stone, speaking at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 conference on Tuesday. The exec noted the company didn’t want to compete directly with …
OpenAI has completed its conversion to a for-profit entity, a move that could allow it to raise billions of dollars in investment and potentially clear the way for a stock market debut.
As part of the arrangement, OpenAI and Microsoft…
French-owned Group Vivendi Africa (GVA), the parent company of CanalBox, is preparing to launch high-speed fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) internet services in Ghana, beginning with Accra and Kumasi.
The move marks the company’s entry into i…
Born from a desire to make boats go faster, today the hydrofoil is being revived as a cleaner form of water transport by helping boats rise above the waves.
It would have made an unusual sight in 1860s France – a rowing boat ris…
The year was 1965.
On a Sunday in Jaunti, a small village on Delhi's outskirts, a hardened Indian farmer stretched out his hand to a visiting farm scientist.
"Dr sahib, we will take up your seed," he said.
The scientist was MS S…
Adobe said on Tuesday that it is launching the latest iteration of its image generation model, Firefly Image 5. The company is also adding more features to the Firefly website, support for more third-party models, and the ability to genera…
Zoom founder and CEO Eric Yuan believes that AI assistants will finally allow us to shorten our workweek. Speaking onstage at the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 conference on Monday, Yuan discussed his videoconferencing product’s embrace of AI, w…
Hidden away in a lab in north-west London three black metal robotic hands move eerily on an engineering work bench. No claws, or pincers, but four fingers and a thumb opening and closing slowly, with joints in all the right places.
"W…
AI Cloud Protect safeguards AI models, workloads, and agentic AI applications from the latest cyber threats
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a pioneer and global leader of cybersecurity solutions, today announced …
Tech firms battling for supremacy in artificial intelligence are out to transform how people search the web, challenging the dominance of the Chrome browser at the heart of Google’s empire.
Chatbots that started out as AI-powered assist…
A few minutes into using ChatGPT Atlas, the new internet browser from OpenAI, I ran into quite a big road block.
This isn't like Google Chrome, which is used by roughly 60% of people. It's all built around a chatbot you're meant to ta…
An app designed to help people remember and summarise information from medical appointments using artificial intelligence (AI) has launched.
Created by Oxford-based company Aide Health, the Mirror app records appointments and gives a …
OpenAI launched an AI-powered web browser called ChatGPT Atlas this week, which makes me wonder: Is it finally time to ditch Safari?
That news was on our minds as Max Zeff, Sean O’Kane, and I discussed the browser landscape — including …
You can barely scroll through social media at the moment without seeing deepfake videos generated by artificial intelligence (AI) tools.
Platforms, such as Open AI's Sora, have gone viral due to their ability to make hyper-realistic v…
When you cross into Loudoun County, Virginia, one of the first things you notice is the hum - that's the sound of 199 data centres whirring in the background.
Few people have heard of this inconspicuous part of northern Virginia, whic…
Samsung Electronics unveiled Galaxy XR, introducing a new category of AI-native devices designed to deliver immersive experiences in a form factor optimized for multimodal AI.
As the first product built on the new Android XR platform de…
If culture is the people of a nation expressing themselves, then cybersecurity is the army that protects its ability to do that. In the modern, digital economy, the one cannot exist without the other.
Creativity is culture at the indivi…
Meta is bringing its AI-powered photo and video editing tools directly to Instagram Stories, allowing users to enter text prompts to add or remove things in photos and videos or even change it completely.
While Meta has already offer…
Microsoft released a new batch of features for its AI assistant Thursday, including an ambitious project that builds artificial intelligence directly into one of its most central products. More than a simple extension, the Copilot Mode in …
Apple may have to allow rivals to operate their own app stores on iPhones in the UK, after a ruling from the competition regulator.
This would be a significant change to Apple's infamous "closed system" where apps can only be download…
In the northern Danish city of Aalborg, the firm MyDefence makes equipment that jams and repels drones.
"We've had a big surge of interest," says chief executive, Dan Hermansen.
He says that up until early October his company was m…
Only four bottles of Asahi Super Dry beer are left on the shelves of Ben Thai, a cosy restaurant in the Tokyo suburb of Sengawacho.
Its owner, Sakaolath Sugizaki, expects to get a few more soon, but she says her supplier is keeping th…
YouTube has paid more than $8 billion to the music industry in the 12 months between July 2024 and July 2025, the company announced on Thursday.
“Today’s $8 billion payout is a testament to the fact that the twin engine of ads and subsc…
Ford Motor has put its gas and hybrid F-150 and F-Series Super Duty trucks at the top of the production priority line as it attempts to recover from losses connected to a fire at a critical aluminum supplier’s factory.
The automaker’s a…
Gabriela Cibils is on a mission – to help turn Paraguay into the Silicon Valley of South America.
When she was growing up in the landlocked country, nestled between Brazil and Argentina, she says the nation "wasn't super tech focused"…
India has long been a centre for outsourced IT support, with cities like Bangalore or Chennai being traditional hubs for such work.
But in recent years firms have been moving that work into much more remote areas, where costs for staf…
OpenAI announced on Thursday it has acquired Software Applications, Inc., the makers of an AI-powered natural language interface for Mac computers called Sky.
The software product, which had not been released to the public, is designed …
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has apologised to customers impacted by Monday's massive outage, after it knocked some of the world's largest platforms offline.
Snapchat, Reddit and Lloyds Bank were among more than 1,000 sites and services …
An overlooked technology for nearly 50 years, the first liquid air energy storage facility is finally set to power up in 2026. It's hoping to compete with grid-scale lithium batteries and hydro to store clean power, and reduce the need…
Celebrities, professional sports stars and wealthy gamblers sat at a table hoping to win big in a game of Texas Hold 'Em.
But they didn't know it was nearly impossible. They were "fishes" allegedly being targeted by the mafia in an el…
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