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Amazon updates Q Business to let companies build public-facing chatbots

Rivian’s reportedly sitting on a stockpile of tariff-free batteries

Apple notifies new victims of spyware attacks across the world

OpenAI rolls back update that made ChatGPT ‘too sycophant-y’

Troubled startup CaaStle is now facing two new lawsuits and more allegations

Amazon’s first 27 internet satellites launch to space

OpenAI upgrades ChatGPT search with shopping features

Temu adds ‘import charges’ after Trump tariffs

StrictlyVC heads to london and Athens this May: Featuring Prime Minister of Greece and Europe’s leading tech and VC voices

Early cancer detection startup Craif raises $22M

4chan is back online, says it’s been ‘starved of money’

Here are Latin America’s biggest startups based on valuation

The RealReal founder Julie Wainwright has a startling new memoir

Google’s DeepMind UK team reportedly seeks to unionize

Google will stop supporting early Nest thermostats on October 25

Anthropic sent a takedown notice to a dev trying to reverse-engineer its coding tool

Slate Auto eyes former Indiana printing plant for its EV truck production

The TechCrunch Cyber Glossary

Mark Zuckerberg really wants to make Facebook cool again

Chess.com reaches 200 million members

19 US fintech startups have raised over $50M in 2025 so far

DOJ reportedly probes Disney-FuboTV deal over competition concerns

Vibe coding helps Supabase nab $200M at $2B valuation just seven months after its last raise

Burning questions (and some answers) about Bluesky’s new verification system

Feds accuse Uber of charging customers for subscriptions without consent

Tariff turmoil may have killed the tech M&A market’s comeback

PHNX Materials found a way to decarbonize concrete using dirty coal waste

Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away

Palantir exec defends company’s immigration surveillance work

OpenAI’s o3 AI model scores lower on a benchmark than the company initially implied

Kids sure love video game movies

Your politeness could be costly for OpenAI

Uncovered emails showed how Meta struggled to keep Facebook culturally relevant

Congress has questions about 23andMe bankruptcy

Robots run a half marathon, slowly

TechCrunch Mobility: Lyft buys its way into Europe, Kodiak SPACs, and how China’s new ADAS rules might affect Tesla

White House replaces covid.gov website with ‘lab leak’ theory

ChatGPT is referring to users by their names unprompted, and some find it ‘creepy’

Automakers selling cars in China banned from using ‘autonomous driving’ in ads

AI benchmarking platform Chatbot Arena forms a new company

OpenAI is reportedly in talks to buy Codeium for $3B, with news expected later this week

Rivian’s first non-Amazon van customer is HelloFresh

Apple says zero-day bugs exploited against ‘specific targeted individuals’ using iOS

OpenAI partner says it had relatively little time to test the company’s o3 AI model

Figma sent a cease-and-desist letter to Lovable over the term ‘Dev Mode’

Anthropic forms a new team to grow its AWS business

Rippling is trying to serve Deel’s CEO, but bailiffs can’t find him

Meet Neptune, a TikTok alternative where creators can hide likes and follower counts 

Hertz says customers’ personal data and driver’s licenses stolen in data breach

More good news for New York startups: Lerer Hippeau raised another $200M

Access to future AI models in OpenAI’s API may require a verified ID

Apple reportedly working on a Vision Pro that plugs into your Mac

Jim Zemlin on taking a ‘portfolio approach’ to Linux Foundation projects

Could an Amazon driver could be the one who saves your life?

Apple’s ‘Mythic Quest’ is ending with an updated Season 4 finale

OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence reportedly valued at $32B

Ex-OpenAI staffers file amicus brief opposing the company’s for-profit transition

GM cuts 500 jobs because of weak demand for BrightDrop electric vans

ChatGPT became the most downloaded app globally in March

Bluesky’s latest update adds chat reactions and an Explore page, similar to X

Bezos-backed EV startup Slate Auto’s pickup truck spotted in the wild

The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce

Canoo CEO can buy bankrupt EV startup’s assets, judge rules

More good news for New York startups: Lerer Hippeau raised another $200M

No, Stripe is not becoming a bank

At last, MrBeast weighs in on the global economic crisis du jour

Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen’s high-stakes test amid tariff turmoil: ‘You can’t be freaking out’

Meta exec denies the company artificially boosted Llama 4’s benchmark scores

Former Tesla exec Drew Baglino’s new startup is rethinking the electrical transformer

Want to stay young? Peter Diamandis says survive the next 10 years

Meta’s benchmarks for its new AI models are a bit misleading

BBC seeks more prominent credit in Apple and Google News

White House reportedly blames auto-suggested iPhone contact for Signal scandal

DOGE reportedly planning a hackathon to build ‘mega API’ for IRS data

Meta releases Llama 4, a new crop of flagship AI models

‘A Minecraft Movie’ is on-track for a $135M opening weekend

Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen still sees opportunity in global trade despite Trump’s tariffs

Devin, the viral coding AI agent, gets a new pay-as-you-go plan

Microsoft reportedly pulls back on its data center plans

Studio Ghibli hasn’t commented on OpenAI’s onslaught of AI copies, but the fan subreddit has

You might be following Second Lady Usha Vance on Instagram now

OpenAI seeks to convene group to advise its nonprofit goals

WordPress maker Automattic lays off 16% of staff

Who are climate-conscious consumers? Not who you’d expect, says Northwind Climate

Mark Cuban backs Skylight, a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s underlying technology