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- Day 3 of the TechCrunch Sessions: AI Trivia Countdown — Your next shot at winning big techcrunch.com2025-05-31 22:15:00
TechCrunch Sessions: AI hits UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall on June 5, and we’re kicking Day 3 of AI trivia into high gear. This is your chance to prove you know your stuff — and score a major ticket deal while you’re at it. Answer a few AI-focused trivia questions, and you could win two tickets […]
- Google quietly released an app that lets you download and run AI models locally techcrunch.com2025-05-31 22:04:46
Last week, Google quietly released an app that lets users run a range of openly available AI models from the AI dev platform Hugging Face on their phones. Called Google AI Edge Gallery, the app is available for Android and will soon come to iOS. It allows users to find, download, and run compatible models […]
- A guide to using Edits, Meta’s new CapCut rival for short-form video editing techcrunch.com2025-05-31 22:00:00
Meta shared that it was working on Edits in January after ByteDance-owned CapCut was removed from U.S. app stores.
- Serious About AI? The conversations that count start in 5 days at TechCrunch Sessions: AI techcrunch.com2025-05-31 22:00:00
In just 5 days, the sharpest minds in artificial intelligence will gather at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall for TechCrunch Sessions: AI—a one-day summit built for real insight, not recycled soundbites. Whether you’re training your first model or managing a multi-billion-dollar portfolio, this is where the future of AI feels tangible. Let’s be honest: AI has […]
- Elon Musk is lobbying lawmakers on driverless vehicle rules techcrunch.com2025-05-31 07:28:58
Musk and others in his orbit have been calling members of Congress directly, according to Bloomberg.
- Yep, X was down again techcrunch.com2025-05-31 04:54:34
People reported that photos weren't loading, its banking service XMoney wasn't working, and search wasn't returning any results, among other things.
- TechCrunch Mobility: A ride-sharing pioneer comes for Uber, Tesla loses more ground, and dog-like delivery robots land in Texas techcrunch.com2025-05-31 04:15:00
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
- DOGE left United States Institute of Peace office with water damage, rats, and roaches techcrunch.com2025-05-31 03:36:22
The chief executive of the United States Institute of Peace says Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency left the nonprofit’s Washington, D.C. headquarters in disarray, full of water damage, rats, and roaches, according to a new sworn statement first reported by Court Watch. The statement from the executive, George Moose, comes just a few days […]
- It’s not your imagination: AI is speeding up the pace of change techcrunch.com2025-05-31 03:20:43
Venture capitalist Mary Meeker just dropped a 340-page report to describe the speed at which AI is being developed, adopted, spent on, and used.
- Trump administration to claw back $3.7B in clean energy and manufacturing awards techcrunch.com2025-05-31 02:45:49
Large corporations and growing startups were wrapped up in the latest move by the Trump administration to undo Biden-era contracts.
- Automattic says it will start contributing to WordPress again after pause techcrunch.com2025-05-31 01:25:44
WordPress.com parent company Automattic is changing direction… again. In a blog post titled “Returning to Core” published Thursday evening, Automattic announced it will unpause its contributions to the WordPress project. This is despite having said only last month that the 6.8 WordPress release would be the final major release for all of 2025. “After pausing […]
- Startups Weekly: AMD acquisition and other moves to scale AI startups techcrunch.com2025-05-31 01:05:00
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups.
- How a decade-old patent dispute could upend Uber’s business techcrunch.com2025-05-31 01:00:57
A little-known patent infringement lawsuit could have big implications for Uber — and potentially dozens of other companies. Carma Technology, a company formed in 2007 by serial entrepreneur and SOSV Ventures founder Sean O’Sullivan, filed a lawsuit earlier this year against Uber alleging the company infringed on five of its patents that are related to […]
- Eight things we learned from WhatsApp vs. NSO Group spyware lawsuit techcrunch.com2025-05-31 00:25:00
The landmark trial between WhatsApp and NSO Group unearthed several new revelations.
- White House investigating how Trump’s chief of staff’s phone was hacked techcrunch.com2025-05-30 23:45:50
Hackers reportedly accessed Wiles' phone contacts, which were used to impersonate her.
