Before heading on a trip to Tahoe last weekend, GM offered me the use of the company’s 9,000-pound monument to excess – the new electric Escalade IQL, starting at $130,405 – for a week to test-drive. Before you continue, note…
People in the European Union are now allowed to access alternative app stores thanks to the Digital Markets Act, a regulation designed to foster increased competition in the app ecosystem. Like Apple’s App Store, alternative app marketplaces allow for easy…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently addressed concerns about the environmental impact of artificial intelligence. Speaking at an event hosted by The Indian Express, Altman dismissed certain claims as exaggerated while acknowledging broader energy challenges. Altman specifically labeled concerns about AI’s…
Wikipedia editors have decided to remove all links to Archive.today, a web archiving service that has been linked over 695,000 times across the online encyclopedia. Archive.today, which also operates under domain names like archive.is and archive.ph, is widely used to…
Microsoft announced a major gaming shakeup on Friday. Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer is departing the company, along with Xbox President Sarah Bond. Spencer will be replaced by former Instacart and Meta executive Asha Sharma. With Sharma’s most recent role…
Time is running out to secure the biggest savings of the year for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. The Super Early Bird pricing offer ends on February 27 at 11:59 p.m. PT, giving you just one week to save up to $680…
An 18-year-old who allegedly killed eight people in a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, Canada, reportedly used OpenAI’s ChatGPT in ways that alarmed the company’s staff. Jesse Van Rootselaar’s chats describing gun violence were flagged by tools that monitor the…
The generative AI boom created a startup a minute. But as the dust begins to settle, two once-hot business models are looking more like cautionary tales: LLM wrappers and AI aggregators. Darren Mowry, who leads Google’s global startup organization, says…
Sarvam, an Indian AI startup focused on building models for local languages and users, launched its Indus chat app for web and mobile users on Friday. This move enters a fast-growing market dominated by global players like OpenAI, Anthropic, and…
Late last year, New York Assembly member Alex Bores became the target of a campaign by a pro-AI super PAC to thwart his congressional bid. The group, Leading the Future, is armed with more than one hundred million dollars from…
