timef 04/06/2025
- DOGE reportedly planning a hackathon to build ‘mega API’ for IRS data techcrunch.com2025-04-06 04:14:37
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) plans to host a hackathon next week focused on the creation of a “mega API” that will provide access to taxpayer data, according to Wired. Wired says the hackathon is being organized by two DOGE staffers at the Internal Revenue Service — Gavin Kilger and Sam Corcos, who’s […]
- Meta releases Llama 4, a new crop of flagship AI models techcrunch.com2025-04-06 04:01:30
Meta has released a new collection of AI models, Llama 4, in its Llama family — on a Saturday, no less. There are four new models in total: Llama 4 Scout, Llama 4 Maverick, and Llama 4 Behemoth. All were trained on “large amounts of unlabeled text, image, and video data” to give them “broad […]
- Deel’s comms chief departs amidst spying lawsuit from Rippling techcrunch.com2025-04-06 02:48:00
Elisabeth Diana, head of communications at human resources Deel, is no longer with the company, according to her LinkedIn profile. Bloomberg first reported the news that Diana had resigned from Deel, which was recently accused of planting a spy at rival company Rippling. TechCrunch reached out to Diana but had not heard back at the […]
- ‘A Minecraft Movie’ is on-track for a $135M opening weekend techcrunch.com2025-04-06 02:29:16
The big screen adaptation of video game mega-franchise Minecraft brought in $58 million on Friday, putting it on-track for a $135 million opening weekend domestically — or potentially even more. That would give “A Minecraft Movie” the biggest opening of the year, beating out “Captain America: Brave New World” (which earned $88.8 million during its […]
- Week in Review: Nintendo unveils the Switch 2 techcrunch.com2025-04-06 01:05:00
Welcome back to Week in Review! Tons of stuff for you today, including Nintendo’s Switch 2; capacity issues at OpenAI; a story that deserves the Hollywood treatment; and much, much more. Let’s go! It’s finally (almost) here: After almost 10 years, Nintendo finally released its Switch successor, the Switch 2. According to TechCrunch’s Amanda Silberling, […]
