AI Pulse
The latest on AI from across the internet.
- Day 3 of the TechCrunch Sessions: AI Trivia Countdown — Your next shot at winning big
- Google quietly released an app that lets you download and run AI models locally
- Serious About AI? The conversations that count start in 5 days at TechCrunch Sessions: AI
- A guide to using Edits, Meta’s new CapCut rival for short-form video editing
- Ransomware kingpin “Stern” apparently IDed by German law enforcement
- Micro Center nerd store fills the Fry’s vacuum with its return to Silicon Valley
- This video doorbell camera has just as many features are my Ring - and no subscription required
- What Is Google One? A Breakdown of Plans, Pricing, and Included Services
- Real TikTokers are pretending to be Veo 3 AI creations for fun, attention
- ‘One day I overheard my boss saying: just put it in ChatGPT’: the workers who lost their jobs to AI
- 🔮 The cheat codes of technological progress
- Azure AI Search Unveils Agentic Retrieval for Smarter Conversational AI
- Shimmers, floating toolbars, and radical transparency: Here’s what iOS 26 could look like
- OpenSearch 3.0 Now Generally Available, with a Focus on Vector Database Performance and Scalability
- Artificial Intelligence Software Development Services: What They Are and Why Your Business Needs Them
- QwenLong-L1 solves long-context reasoning challenge that stumps current LLMs
- Elon Musk is lobbying lawmakers on driverless vehicle rules
- Salesforce ‘Reduced Some Hiring Needs’ With AI: What It Means
- ZeniMax union reaches tentative agreement with Microsoft
- ElevenLabs debuts Conversational AI 2.0 voice assistants that understand when to pause, speak, and take turns talking
- New ChatGPT Scam Infects Users With Ransomware: ‘Exercise Extreme Caution’
- Google and DOJ tussle over how AI will remake the web in antitrust closing arguments
- AI-Powered Video Insights Are Coming to Google Drive — Here’s When You’ll Get Them
- Amazon Fire Sticks enable “billions of dollars” worth of streaming piracy
- CheerpJ WebAssembly JVM previews Java 17 support
- Yep, X was down again
- Perplexity offers training wheels for building AI agents
- CDC updates COVID vaccine recommendations, but not how RFK Jr. wanted
- TechCrunch Mobility: A ride-sharing pioneer comes for Uber, Tesla loses more ground, and dog-like delivery robots land in Texas
- Spy-catcher saw “stupid” tech errors others made. FBI says he then made his own.
- Trump Administration Orders US Chip Design Software Firms to Stop Sales to China
- MariaDB’s acquisition of Codership: Why enterprises should care
- DOGE left United States Institute of Peace office with water damage, rats, and roaches
- It’s not your imagination: AI is speeding up the pace of change
- 🔮 AI & growth: Tyler Cowen’s 20-year outlook
- Texas AG loses appeal to seize evidence for Elon Musk’s ad boycott fight
- ‘I still think I’m dreaming’: Kai Cenat’s ‘Streamer University’ now has its first graduating class
- My picks for the best robot vacuums for pet hair of 2025: Roomba, Eufy, Ecovacs, and more
- Best robot mowers of 2025: I tested the best models on the market, and these are my favorites
- Trump administration to claw back $3.7B in clean energy and manufacturing awards
- Want a humanoid, open source robot for just $3,000? Hugging Face is on it.
- Which LLM should you use? Token Monster automatically combines multiple models and tools for you
- This new YouTube Shorts feature lets you circle to search videos more easily
- Why incels take the “Blackpill”—and why we should care
- Testing a robot that could drill into Europa and Enceladus
- How Enterprise Teams Scaled Digital Transformation: Real Agile Solutions That Work
- After Supreme Court loss, ISPs ask Trump admin to block state affordability laws
- How practical AI prevailed over hype at Red Hat Summit 2025
- Automattic says it will start contributing to WordPress again after pause
- Teradata partners with Fivetran to assist data centralization in VantageCloud
- Startups Weekly: AMD acquisition and other moves to scale AI startups
- Microsoft's Copilot for Gaming arrives in beta - how to try it on your phone
- How a decade-old patent dispute could upend Uber’s business
- The challenges of translating The Last of Us to the television audience | The DeanBeat
- The Gmail app will now create AI summaries whether you want them or not
- Angular v20 arrives with eyes on generative AI development
- Eight things we learned from WhatsApp vs. NSO Group spyware lawsuit
- The Guide #193: Meet Ernesto, the viral America’s Got Talent contestant … who doesn’t exist
- This startup is bringing photos—and even video—to 911 calls
- White House investigating how Trump’s chief of staff’s phone was hacked
- X’s new DM feature, XChat, is rolling out in beta
- Google Maps can’t explain why it falsely labeled German autobahns as closed
- RFK Jr.’s fluoride ban would ruin 25 million kids’ teeth, cost $9.8 billion
- Google will face off with the DOJ in the final day of a historic antitrust trial
- AI doesn't have to be a job-killer. How some businesses are using it to enhance, not replace
- Gemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt out
- Barclays Bank signs 100k license Copilot deal with Microsoft
- Your last opportunity to vote on the TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 agenda lineup
- TechCrunch Sessions: AI Trivia Countdown — Ready to test your AI knowledge?
- Last week: Few exhibit tables left to claim at TechCrunch All Stage
- Your Gmail inbox now includes Gemini summaries by default - how to stop them
- Tesla’s best-selling Model Y could be dethroned by this newly launched Chinese EV model
- 2025 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 first drive: Engineered for insane speed
- Any wall can be turned into a camera to see around corners
- Bluesky is most definitely alive and kicking
- How the Loudest Voices in AI Went From ‘Regulate Us’ to ‘Unleash Us’
- Fueling seamless AI at scale
- Just 6 days left — ready for some unfiltered AI truths at TechCrunch Sessions: AI?
- Bitkraft doubles down on Web3 games with added leaders
- 5 projects Perplexity's new Labs AI tool can whip up for you now - in minutes
- Ayzenberg Group aims to accelerate the growth of game companies with better marketing
- Elon Musk counts the cost of his four-month blitz through US government
- Report: Elon Musk’s drug use ramped up during the 2024 presidential campaign
- Dell has $14BN AI server backlog, warns projects are 'nonlinear'
- FBI investigating efforts to impersonate White House chief of staff Susie Wiles
- Barb Wixom and MIT CISR on managing data like a product
- How AI coding agents could destroy open source software
- New botnet hijacks AI-powered security tool on Asus routers
- I Converted My Photos Into Short Videos With AI on Honor’s Latest Phones. It’s Weird
- When Your Go-To Leadership Style Stops Working
- HBR’s Best Practices for Supporting Employee Mental Health
- Should you still learn a second language if AI can translate for you?
- US imposes new rules to curb semiconductor design software sales to China
- Grocery platform Misfits Market acquires The Rounds to further its mission of reducing food waste
- Hackerangriff auf Arcona Hotels
- AWS’ Serverless MCP Server to aid agentic development of managed applications
- Blue Origin boss: Government should forget launch and focus on “exotic” missions
- States of Guernsey terminates IT contract with Agilisys
- Rocket Report: Northrop backs Firefly and names its rocket; Xodiac will fly no more
- AI agents make great teammates, but don't let them code alone - here's why
- Google Releases MedGemma: Open AI Models for Medical Text and Image Analysis
- Google fixes bug that led AI Overviews to say it’s now 2024
- Microsoft Announces AI Agent and Platform Updates at Build 2025
- Crims defeat human intelligence with fake AI installers they poison with ransomware
- Novel PumaBot slips into IoT surveillance with stealthy SSH break-ins
- Avery Dennison takes culture-first approach to AI transformation
- 96% of IT pros say AI agents are a security risk, but they're deploying them anyway
- In a world first, Brazilians will soon be able to sell their digital data
- The agentic AI assist Stanford University cancer care staff needed
- 2025.22: What LLMs Could Be in the Workplace
- CampFire Studio will launch Soulmask DLC on June 5
- Void Blizzard nimmt NATO-Organisationen ins Visier
- This interactive AI video generator feels like walking into a video game - how to try it
- The AI search wave is real. Can media survive it?
- Passwortlose Authentifizierung wird für CISOs immer wichtiger
- Los desafíos de la era de la ‘IA en todas partes’, a fondo en Data & AI Summit 2025
- How AI coding agents could infiltrate and destroy open source software
- This benchmark used Reddit’s AITA to test how much AI models suck up to us
- F-strings with superpowers: What’s new in Python 3.14 beta
- A wake-up call for real cloud ROI
- “AI 비서가 팀 단위로 지원하는 효과”···퍼플렉시티, AI 프로젝트 10분 완성 도구 ‘랩스’ 출시
- “ROI는 어디에?” AI 도입을 재고하게 만드는 실패 사례
- Block transforms Square into Bitcoin payment gateway 😳🪙; Robinhood targets UK's active traders with advanced desktop platform launch 🖥️📈; PayPal secures strategic regulatory victory in India ✅🇮🇳
- 오픈AI는 ‘NO’, 아마존엔 ‘YES’···뉴욕타임스, AI 훈련용 데이터 첫 계약
- 칼럼 | 글쓰기가 IT 리더를 더 성장시키는 이유
- For CEOs, AI tech literacy is no longer optional
- Hackerangriff auf Außenministerium alarmiert Nato und EU
- Police chiefs highlight digital priorities
- Securing Windows 11 and Server 2025: What CISOs should know about the latest updates
- The CSO guide to top security conferences
- Barts Health deploys new system for de-identification of medical images
- ICO reprimands Manchester Police for CCTV failings
- LLM 신뢰해도 될까?··· “모델 절반이 ‘보안 위험’ 등급”
- 브로드컴 “프라이빗 클라우드 선호 뚜렷··· 기업 69%가 이전 고려”
- “美 CISO 평균 연봉 6억,상위 1%는 60억원 넘어···보안 예산은 여전히 부족” IANS 설문조사
- Musk Tried to Torpedo OpenAI UAE Deal Unless His Company Was Included
- 아웃시스템즈, 매출 5억 유로 돌파 및 신임 CEO 선임 발표
- 정철환 칼럼 | 변화의 바람에 맞설 것인가? 따를 것인가?
- Best home automation systems 2025: I'm a smart home reviewer and these are the top ones
- Grammarly secures $1B in nondilutive funding from General Catalyst
- The secret to success with transformational M&A? It’s the people
- Tesla Robotaxi 🚗, Perplexity Labs 📝, habits of exceptional startups 🚀
- An update on US consumer sentiment: In response to tariffs, most consumers plan to adjust spending
- Warning: Threat actors now abusing Google Apps Script in phishing attacks
- FLUX.1 Kontext enables in-context image generation for enterprise AI pipelines
- New AI test can predict which men will benefit from prostate cancer drug
- Palantir's Trump bonanza continues with Fannie Mae contract to fight fraud
- The new ‘Hunger Games’ movie is holding an open casting call—and TikTok’s wacky auditions do not disappoint
- Top 30 startups announced for VivaTech 2025 Innovation of the Year Award
- Fortnite makes its data API public to offer creators more insights
- Amid rising prices, Disney+ and Hulu offer subscribers some freebies
- Poisoned models in fake Alibaba SDKs show challenges of securing AI supply chains
- Anthropic CEO frets about 20% unemployment from AI, but economists are doubtful
- Speak With Claude AI App in Real-Time Interactions: How to Use Voice Mode
- Inside the AI revolution: Top insights and breakthroughs from our partners at TechCrunch Sessions: AI
- Nepo babies are using the ‘holy airball’ TikTok trend to humble brag about their famous parents
- Google AI Overviews Says It’s Still 2024
- Self-Adapting Drones for Unpredictable Worlds
- AI could erase half of entry-level white collar jobs in 5 years, CEO warns
- Trump’s Crackdown on Foreign Student Visas Could Derail Critical AI Research
- Disney+ launches fan perks with Disney Pinnacle by Dapper Labs
- Hugging Face unveils two new humanoid robots
- Gemini in Google Drive may finally be useful now that it can analyze videos
- Black Forest Labs’ Kontext AI models can edit pics as well as generate them
- Tinder tests letting users set a ‘height preference’
- Delaware attorney general reportedly hires a bank to evaluate OpenAI’s restructuring plan
- Man who stole 1,000 DVDs from employer strikes plea deal over movie leaks
- Your next gaming dice could be shaped like a dragon or armadillo
- Emotive voice AI startup Hume launches new EVI 3 model with rapid custom voice creation
- Unlocking data’s true potential: The open lakehouse as AI’s foundation
- As AI models start exhibiting bad behavior, it’s time to start thinking harder about AI safety
- Enigmatic hominin species studied using 2 million-year-old proteins
- Perplexity’s new tool can generate spreadsheets, dashboards, and more
- AI video just took a startling leap in realism. Are we doomed?
- Tesla alum’s Heron Power closes $38M Series A to transform key grid technology
- In a victory for Palmer Luckey, Meta and Anduril work on mixed reality headsets for the military
- Video apps like Hulu “cannot be used on Nintendo Switch 2,” says support page
- Economists blame Trump tariffs, AI explosion for threatening global economy
- Hume's new EVI 3 model lets you customize AI voices - how to try it
- YouTube will soon let viewers use Google Lens to search what they see while watching Shorts
- DeepSeek’s distilled new R1 AI model can run on a single GPU
- Trump allies expect he’ll double down on tariffs after sweeping court block
- US government sanctions tech company involved in cyber scams
- Gemini can now watch Google Drive videos for you - including work meetings
- GamesBeat Summit 2025: Finding new ways for the industry to grow
- Discord lures users to click on ads by offering them new Orbs currency
- Two hospitals hit by cyber theft of mobile phone data
- Elon Musk to exit government, upset that Trump bill undermines DOGE’s work
- RFK Jr. yanks pandemic vaccine funding as Moderna reports positive results
- Tesla pleads for Senate to spare its booming energy business
- Gemma 3n Available for On-Device Inference Alongside RAG and Function Calling Libraries
- Apple’s US App Store topped $400B in developer billings and sales in 2024
- Así es el nuevo modelo de residencia inteligente de mayores implantado por el Gobierno en Granada
- What AI’s impact on individuals means for the health workforce and industry
- How crypto crime is morphing into real-life violence
- Apple's App Store quietly turned into a gold mine for developers and businesses in the last 5 years
- Minecraft sales grew 35% on both mobile and console after release of film | Sensor Tower
- Opera’s Neon Agentic AI Browser May Change How We Use the Internet
- DeepSeek’s updated R1 AI model is more censored, test finds
- Report: Apple will jump straight to “iOS 26” in shift to year-based version numbers
- Is AI making it harder for new college grads to get hired in tech?
- Look forward to having a Slack teammate, says Salesforce's Benioff
- A decade in, bootstrapped Thinkst Canary reaches $20M in ARR without VC funding
- Google Cloud’s BigLake-driven lakehouse updates aim to optimize performance, costs
- Meta AI now has 1B monthly active users
- 7 days until doors open at TechCrunch Sessions: AI
- Apple to change the way it names operating systems, report says
- Volteras wants to connect to more EVs than anyone else
- DreamPark raises $1.1M to transform real-world spaces into mixed-reality theme parks
- Trump bans sales of chip design software to China
- DeepSeek R1-0528 arrives in powerful open source challenge to OpenAI o3 and Google Gemini 2.5 Pro
- AppHarbr helps block malicious ads for mobile games
- Beyond the lakehouse: Architecting the open, interoperable data cloud for AI
- Even $5M a year can’t keep top CISOs happy
- Encharge AI unveils EN100 AI accelerator chip with analog memory
- Socialpoint’s Two Dots celebrates 11th anniversary with a vacation sweepstakes
- How Snowflake’s open-source text-to-SQL and Arctic inference models solve enterprise AI’s two biggest deployment headaches
- ELO launches to remake game marketing with community-first vision
- Burgschneider blows past Kickstarter goals for Middle-earth Brandywine Festival
- Peer launches Global Simulation as real-time digital Earth with AI agents
- Mystic Moose unveils MovieFlo.AI to make user-generated films
- Microsoft envisions Windows Update as the unified platform for all software updates
- Great Leaders Make People Feel Noticed
- The Risks of Collecting Employees’ Biometric Data
- Intel Extreme Masters moves esports tournament from Katowice to Kraków, Poland
- Microsoft Entra’s billing roles pose privilege escalation risks in Azure
- Mistral AI launches code embedding model, claims edge over OpenAI and Cohere
- How writing makes you a stronger leader
- Meet LoveJack, the dating app designed for users to find love using just five words
- Buildots raises $45M to help companies track construction progress
- ¿Qué ROI? Los fallos de la IA llevan a los CEO a replantearse su adopción
- OpenAI model modifies shutdown script in apparent sabotage effort
- Generative AI in the Real World: Danielle Belgrave on Generative AI in Pharma and Medicine
- An Interview with Plaid Founder and CEO Zach Perret About Plumbing Trust
- X hits pause on its encrypted DMs feature
- What ROI? AI misfires spur CEOs to rethink adoption
- Los agentes de IA contribuirán a la muerte de la web
- 3 Apple Intelligence features that would convince me to ditch Gemini and ChatGPT
- How ChatGPT could replace the internet as we know it
- Qubit breakthrough could make it easier to build quantum computers
- BI buyer’s guide: Top 10 business intelligence tools
- How Olipop CEO Ben Goodwin built a brand new kind of soda brand
- In Dubai’s AI job market, your passport matters
- Elon Musk’s stint in the US government is coming to an end
- 워드프레스, AI 전담팀 출범···구글·오토매틱 출신 합류
- CAF se sube a la nube en su viaje hacia una fabricación sostenible y eficiente
- Docling: An open-source toolkit for advanced document processing
- Using Microsoft Fabric to create digital twins
- ¿Están los CIO sucumbiendo al peso de las expectativas de generar valor empresarial?
- Starling's Engine roars, but will it be enough? 🤔🏦; Global Payments streamlines operations with $1.1B Heartland Payroll sale to Acrisure 😳💸
- “이 보스 어떻게 깨?”···엑스박스, 게이머 전용 AI 비서 ‘코파일럿’ 베타 지원
- 칼럼 | AI 에이전트 시대, 웹의 종말을 예고하다
- 미스트랄, ‘에이전트 API’ 공개···“복잡한 작업 여러 에이전트로 분산 처리 가능”
- NVIDIA, AMD may soon start selling new AI chips in China to comply with US restrictions
- “압박을 기회로” 비즈니스 가치의 기대감에 짓눌리는 CIO를 위한 조언
- 스타트업 레프로이드, 인도 첫 데이터센터용 ‘냉각수 분배 장치’ 공개
- MoJ seeks tech for ‘prison outside a prison’
- 6 rising malware trends every security pro should know
- GDS publishes guide for government bodies to use GOV.UK Wallet
- Ada Lovelace Institute calls for new legislation on use of facial recognition technology
- Dorset Council launches parenting app
- IT e OT sempre più vicine: le opportunità, i consigli e le raccomandazioni
- How 6X GPU Power Is Revolutionizing Gaming, AI, and Industry
- 中 수곤-하이곤 합병··· 분석가 “글로벌 HPC 생태계 재편 가능성”
- 알리바바–SAP, 전략적 파트너십 체결··· “AI 기반 디지털 전환 가속화”
- The OpenAI empire - podcast
- China extends its reach into the Solar System with launch of asteroid mission
- Risk assessment vital when choosing an AI model, say experts
- 퀘스트, AI 거버넌스 강화 위한 ‘어윈 데이터 인텔리전스 15’ 공개
- Reports of Deno’s demise ‘greatly exaggerated,’ Deno creator says
- Lightspeed backs Indian home services startup Snabbit as the next big consumer trend
- DanaBot takedown shows how agentic AI cut months of SOC analysis to weeks
- Adversarial AI: The new frontier in financial cybersecurity
- iOS 26 📱, Tesla xAI merger prediction 🤖, xAI Telegram deal 💰
- Scaling gen AI in the medtech industry
- Going back to basics to unlock sustained efficiency and productivity gains in financial services
- The $2 trillion global wellness market gets a millennial and Gen Z glow-up
- The evolution of commerce media: Navigating a new era in advertising
- Global Economics Intelligence executive summary, April 2025
- Stitching a new future: How to revive the Italian fashion industry
- Author Talks: Are your employees happy at work?
- Elon Musk's xAI pays $300M to Russia's favorite messaging app to push Grok
- s3: The new RAG framework that trains search agents with minimal data
- Nvidia beats Wall Street expectations even as Trump tamps down China sales
- Founder Sahil Lavingia says he was booted from DOGE after just 55 days
- Thousands of Asus routers are being hit with stealthy, persistent backdoors
- Mistral launches new code embedding model that outperforms OpenAI and Cohere in real-world retrieval tasks
- Make a wish, because Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 sold 3.3 million copies
- Healthy man goes camping—lands in ICU for 40 days with respiratory failure
- Here’s what it’ll take for Nvidia and other US chipmakers to flog AI chips in China
- Nvidia CEO takes a shot at U.S. policy cutting off AI chip sales to China
- Security startup Horizon3.ai is raising $100M in new round
- Musk is pivoting from DC and Doge’s failures – and wants investors to know
- Nvidia expects to lose billions in revenue due to H20 chip licensing requirements
- Google’s Jules AI Coding Agent Can Assist – But Does Not Replace – Developers
- Nvidia beats estimates for Q1 results as revenues rise 69% from a year ago
- Amazon and Stellantis abandon project to create a digital “SmartCockpit”
- China’s AI Game-Changer DeepSeek Quietly Updates R1 Model; Users Report Significant Changes
- Victoria’s Secret hit by outages as it battles security incident
- Separating hype from reality: How cybercriminals are actually using AI