Grok, the chatbot from Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has gained a canvas-like feature for editing and creating documents and basic apps.
Called Grok Studio, the feature was announced on X late Tuesday. It’s available for both free and pa…
Google on Wednesday said it suspended 39.2 million advertiser accounts on its platform in 2024 — more than triple the number from the previous year — in its latest crackdown on ad fraud.
By leveraging large language models (LLMs) and …
Samsung has announced new versions of its rugged tablets and smartphones designed for use in environments where they’re going to get dirty, wet, and knocked around. Both the Galaxy XCover7 Pro and Galaxy Tab Active5 Pro feature improved …
Opera Mini, with over 100M users worldwide, now offers AI integration in its browser
According to Opera surveys*, 89% of Nigerians and 80% of South Africans are interested to try an AI tool integrated in the browser
Opera Mini now …
OpenAI is working on its own X-like social network, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
While the project is still in early stages, we’re told there’s an internal prototype focused on ChatGPT’s image generation…
OpenAI on Monday launched a new family of models called GPT-4.1. Yes, “4.1” — as if the company’s nomenclature wasn’t confusing enough already.
There’s GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano, all of which OpenAI says “excel” at codin…
In the wake of criticism over the underwhelming performance of its AI products, especially in areas like notification summaries, Apple on Monday detailed how it is trying to improve its AI models by analyzing user data privately with the a…
Samsung has, by all accounts, halted the rollout of its long-awaited One UI 7 update following the discovery of a bug that prevented some Galaxy S24 owners from unlocking their phones.
The pause was first reported by leaker and ti…
Android is launching a new security feature that will force devices to reboot themselves if you haven’t unlocked them for a while, making it harder for other people to access the data inside. The feature included in the latest Google Pla…
Nokia and The Ministry of Digital Transition and Administration Reform of the Kingdom of Morocco have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) during GITEX Africa 2025 in Morocco. This strategic agreement underscores both parties' commi…
Alphabet and Nvidia have joined prominent venture capital investors to back Safe Superintelligence (SSI), a startup co-founded by OpenAI's former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever that has quickly risen to become one of the most valuable art…
SpaceX's Starlink satellite system is now available in Somalia, owner Elon Musk wrote on social media platform X on Sunday, while a Somalia government official confirmed the company has been given a licence to operate in the country.
"W…
A trial in the landmark antitrust case against social media giant Meta kicks off in Washington on Monday.
The US competition and consumer watchdog alleges that Meta, which already owned Facebook, bought Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp …
The Trump administration is carving out big tariff exemptions for the tech industry.
While President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would delay many of the market-shaking tariffs that he’d announced the previous week, he kept a uni…
Demand for solar energy in power-starved Nigeria has soared in the last decade thanks to worsening grid reliability and rising fuel costs. That’s drawn investor interest to Arnergy, a cleantech startup meeting that need. The company just…
WhatsApp has rolled out a dozen new features across chats, calls, and channels that make it easier to manage group conversations, alongside other general quality-of-life improvements. One of the more notable additions is a new “Online” ind…
Billionaire Elon Musk has just been countersued by OpenAI, but that isn’t stopping his AI company, xAI, from making its flagship Grok 3 model available via an API.
It has been several months since xAI unveiled Grok 3, the company’s an…
OpenAI announced on Thursday that it’s starting to roll out a new memory feature in ChatGPT that allows the chatbot to tailor its answers to users based on the contents of their previous conversations.
The company says the feature, wh…
Although there has been significant pushback from artists regarding the proliferation of AI design tools and the content used to train generative models, the companies making the software for creative work are nevertheless building AI in…
The Manx government is set to introduce a new system to categorise indecent images of children to enable the use of artificial Intelligence (AI).
Under the change, sentencing guidelines will refer to categories used in England and Wales…
Social network Bluesky is rolling out a new version of its software, which adopts some of the features former X users have missed. Nope, it’s not an edit button! Instead, the open social network is adding support for chat reactions in its …
AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other top AI labs are increasingly being used to assist with programming tasks. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in October that 25% of new code at the company is generated by AI, and Meta CEO Mark Zuck…
Microsoft has begun the rollout of an AI-powered tool which takes snapshots of users' screens every few seconds.
The Copilot+ Recall feature is available in preview mode to some people with Microsoft's AI PCs and laptops.
It is the…
Apple is considering importing more iPhones from India to sidestep the 54% additional tariffs on goods imported from China that U.S. president Donald Trump announced last week, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing anonymous sources.
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Tech company Yahoo has removed several pages and other sections from its corporate website in recent months relating to its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies, TechCrunch has learned.
A section of Yahoo’s website that was …
It sounds like something from a science fiction movie, but Stephen Eisele is confident that one day his company will open a data centre on the Moon.
"The way we see it is that by putting the data centre in space, you're really offerin…
Video games are the biggest form of entertainment in the world, but sometimes they bleed into people's lives offline in surprising and disturbing ways.
Christian Dines' hands were twitching. As though he were still gripping his vi…
An EU decision on whether Apple and Meta have breached landmark tech rules aimed at curbing their market power will be issued in the coming weeks, antitrust chief Teresa Ribera told European Parliament lawmakers on Tuesday.
The European…
Instagram head Adam Mosseri says the company is looking to improve the app’s search functionality, admitting this is an area where Instagram could do more to compete. The remarks, made on a recent episode of the “Build Your Tribe” podcas…
China on Wednesday said that any deal for TikTok had to comply with Chinese law, reiterating an earlier stance when asked about U.S. President Donald Trump's move to extend the deadline for the TikTok sale by 75 days.
Trump extended the…
Taiwan's Foxconn sees Japan as a big opportunity for growing its electric vehicle business and hopes to agree on partnerships with Japanese companies as soon as possible, an executive in charge of the business said on Wednesday.
Foxconn…
Snapchat is introducing Sponsored AI Lenses, a new ad format that lets brands engage with consumers in an immersive way. While Snapchat has offered brands the opportunity to pay for sponsored lenses on the platform for years, now they can …
President Donald Trump has for a second time extended the deadline that would have required TikTok to be sold or face a ban in the US.
A bipartisan law passed by Congress last year mandates TikTok's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, …
Amazon has upgraded its AI video model, Nova Reel, with the ability to generate videos up to two minutes in length.
Nova Reel, announced in December 2024, was Amazon’s first foray into the generative video space. It competes with models…
In a recent memo to employees, Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke made a bold policy change: teams must demonstrate why AI can’t perform a job before they’re permitted to ask for more headcount and resources.
“Before asking for more headcount and…
Batteries for electric vehicles are notoriously difficult to recycle, but growing demand for the rare metals they contain is leading to innovative new ways of retrieving them from used power cells.
I am standing in a lab where bat…
IBM is releasing the latest version of its mainframe hardware that includes new updates meant to accelerate AI adoption.
The hardware and consulting company on Monday announced IBM z17, the latest version of its mainframe computer har…
Meta is expanding Teen Accounts - what it considers its age-appropriate experience for under 18s - to Facebook and Messenger.
The system involves putting younger teens on the platforms into more restricted settings by default, with pa…
For years, U.S.-based tech companies have tapped into India’s vast and increasing internet user base for growth. OpenAI is no exception. But while the AI lab claims that India is one of its fastest-growing ChatGPT markets, third-party da…
US President Donald Trump has granted TikTok a second 75-day extension to comply with a law that requires the hugely popular video app to either sell its US operation or face a ban in the country.
"We do not want TikTok to 'go dark',"…
Meta Platforms on Saturday released the latest version of its large language model (LLM) Llama, called the Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick.
Meta said Llama is a multimodal AI system. Multimodal systems are capable of processing and i…
Microsoft's joint venture Wicresoft will cease its China operations from Tuesday, a move that will lead to the layoff of about 2,000 staff, Chinese media outlet Caijing reported on Monday, citing sources.
The move is in line with Micros…
X is bringing in stricter rules around parody accounts.
From 10 April, accounts which impersonate another user or person must use key words such as "fake" or "parody" at the start of their account names.
The platform will also requ…
South Africa's healthcare sector weakened by underfunding, lack of skills and fragmented infrastructure
"There was a time when cybercriminals held off from attacking the world's healthcare institutions for reasons of ethics. But no mor…
The caller identity app Truecaller said that it crossed the 450 million user mark earlier this week. The company said that it added 50 million users in the past 10 months and 15.5 million users since the beginning of 2025.
India is th…
Ehang earlier this week said it was the first in the world to obtain a certificate for operating a pilotless aerial vehicle that can carry humans.
The certification clears the way for flying taxis to become a viable method of transporta…
As YouTube Shorts continues to compete with TikTok, the platform is announcing new upcoming features to help creators publish engaging short-form videos.
Creators will get access to an improved video editor, the ability to generate AI…
X’s plan to boost revenue by selling off dormant usernames on its service is starting to shape up. According to recent changes found in X’s web application, the company is setting up a “handle inquiry” process that will allow Verified Or…
Spotify announced Gen AI ads, among other changes to its advertising business, at an event in New York City on Thursday. Notably, the company introduced a new programmatic offering, the Spotify Ad Exchange (SAX), which allows advertisers…
As TikTok’s fate in the United States remains uncertain, the tech giant has quietly started testing a new “TikTok for Artists” insights platform that is designed to help artists build their careers, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. T…
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