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Google Chat now has its own take on Slack’s Huddles

Google Chat is rolling out instant voice meetings — similar to Slack’s Huddles — that let you quickly switch to a voice or video call from within a chat. Google is not giving the feature a new n...

HongShan, spun out of Sequoia last year, is reportedly struggling to invest its huge war chest

India, already an IPO bright spot, prepares for bigger surge in 2025

India has bucked the global trend in initial public offerings this year, establishing itself as a rare bright spot for tech listings while other major markets face continued headwinds. The world’s m...

FTC reportedly opens antitrust investigation into Microsoft

The FTC has launched an antitrust investigation into Microsoft, according to multiple reports that corroborate earlier reporting by the Financial Times. The agency is said to be looking into whether M...

Time spent online by adults in the UK jumped by nearly an hour in 2024 says Ofcom

Adults are spending an average of 4 hours and 20 minutes each day online across smartphones, tablets and computers in the U.K., according to figures from Ofcom’s annual Online Nation report diving i...

US to Introduce New Restrictions on China’s Access to Cutting-Edge Chips

The new limits, which are expected to be announced Monday, are intended to slow China's ability to build large and powerful AI models.

Uber’s subscription service reportedly target of FTC probe

The Federal Trade Commission is investigating Uber over whether it broke consumer protection laws by allegedly automatically signing people up for its Uber One subscription service and making it hard ...

Alibaba releases an ‘open’ challenger to OpenAI’s o1 reasoning model

A new so-called “reasoning” AI model, QwQ-32B-Preview, has arrived on the scene. It’s one of the few to rival OpenAI’s o1, and it’s the first available to download under a permissive license...

Spotify cuts developer access to several of its recommendation features

Spotify will no longer allow developers building third-party apps with its Web API to access several features within the music streaming platform, such as song and artist recommendations, the company ...

Investigators think a Chinese ship purposefully cut critical data cables  

European investigators believe that a Chinese commercial ship purposefully dragged its anchor in order to slash through two critical data cables. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal ...

DIY and synth-curious? Try putting together the analog POM-400 from Teenage Engineering

The Pocket Operator Modular 400 from Teenage Engineering is an analog modular synthesizer that you put together yourself. If you’re at all interested in DIY kits or synths, this might be a great wee...

T-Mobile says telco hackers had ‘no access’ to customer call and text message logs

The phone giant said hackers did not access the contents or logs of customer phone calls or text messages, during an industry-wide attack on phone and internet companies. © 2024 TechCrunch. All right...

Threads now lets you swipe between different feeds right from the home screen

Threads is rolling out a redesign that keeps your feeds visible on the home screen, Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Wednesday. The redesign allows you to quickly swipe between different feeds...

Notta AI Review: Transcribe Multiple Languages At Once!

Ever struggled to keep up with fast meetings, long interviews, or complex lectures? We’ve all been there, jotting down notes while trying to catch every important word. But what if you could elimina...

Google Gemini’s Imagen 3 lets players design their own chess pieces

Google Labs, the experimental arm of the tech giant, has introduced a new online project that offers an entertaining variation of the game of chess. The web experiment is named GenChess, which, as the...

This Week in AI: AI gets creative in the kitchen

Hiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. It’s nearly Thanksgiving, and you know what that means: stuffing your fac...

Meta’s Threads is developing its own take on Bluesky’s ‘Starter Packs’

Hoping to quell some of the momentum behind social network Bluesky, a competitor to X and Meta’s Threads, Meta is developing a feature that takes inspiration from one of Bluesky’s more popular add...

OpenAI moves to trademark its o1 ‘reasoning’ models

OpenAI has filed a trademark application for its latest AI model, o1, as the firm moves to shield its IP. On Tuesday, OpenAI submitted paperwork to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to regi...

Marc Andreessen, Joe Lonsdale, and all the other VCs reportedly in the running for DOGE and other Trump committees

With Elon Musk playing such a high-profile role in Donald Trump’s transition team, Musk’s buddies, many of them Silicon Valley venture capitalists, are reportedly being tapped to help out. For ins...

How AI-Led Platforms Are Transforming Business Intelligence and Decision-Making

Imagine a retail company anticipating a surge in demand for specific products weeks before a seasonal shopping event. Or consider a healthcare provider accurately predicting patient influx during peak...

ElevenLabs’ new feature is a NotebookLM competitor for creating GenAI podcasts

Voice AI startup ElevenLabs on Wednesday introduced a feature that lets you upload different types of content to create a multispeaker podcast for you, similar to Google’s NotebookLM. The feature, c...

TuSimple co-founder demands liquidation, sues company for control of his shares

Xiaodi Hou, the co-founder and former CEO of self-driving truck startup TuSimple, is demanding that the board immediately liquidate the company and return all remaining funds – roughly $450 million ...

Elon Musk’s AI company may release a consumer app

xAI, Elon Musk’s AI company, is reportedly preparing to release a standalone consumer app. That’s according to The Wall Street Journal, which reports that the upcoming app will be similar to OpenA...

How Good Are People at Detecting AI?

As AI advances, AI-generated images and text are becoming increasingly indistinguishable from human-created content. Whether in the form of realistic deepfake videos, art or sophisticated chatbots, th...