timef 06/01/2025
- Sam Altman biographer Keach Hagey explains why the OpenAI CEO was ‘born for this moment’ techcrunch.com2025-06-01 23:43:54
In “The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future,” Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey examines our AI-obsessed moment through one of its key figures — Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI. Hagey begins with Altman’s Midwest childhood, then takes readers through his career at startup Loopt, accelerator Y Combinator, […]
- Day 4 of TechCrunch Sessions: AI Trivia Countdown — Flex your brain, score big on tickets techcrunch.com2025-06-01 22:15:00
TechCrunch Sessions: AI hits UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall on June 5 — and today’s your shot at AI trivia glory and two tickets for the price of one. Answer a few brain-busting questions on artificial intelligence, and if you ace it, you might just find a special promo code waiting in your inbox. Every day […]
- Video game union announces first contract with Microsoft techcrunch.com2025-06-01 22:03:46
Unionized quality assurance testers at video game holding company ZeniMax announced Friday that they have reached a tentative contract agreement with Microsoft, which acquired ZeniMax in 2021. This represents Microsoft’s first union contract in the United States. It’s been a little over two years since approximately 300 QA testers announced that they were unionizing through […]
- 4 days to go: TechCrunch Sessions: AI is almost in session techcrunch.com2025-06-01 22:00:00
Artificial intelligence has no shortage of visionaries—but the ones who matter are executing. In 4 days, TechCrunch Sessions: AI brings those builders, researchers, funders, and enthusiasts under one roof at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall. This isn’t a parade of AI hype or a string of over-edited keynotes. It’s a single day designed for clarity, candor, […]
- Left-leaning influencers embrace Bluesky without abandoning X, Pew says techcrunch.com2025-06-01 05:01:57
It’s no surprise that many big, left-leaning social media accounts have recently joined Bluesky — but a new analysis from the Pew Research Center attempts to quantify that shift. This comes as an update to Pew’s news influencer report released in November 2024, which did not include Bluesky in its numbers. The report focused on […]
- NAACP calls on Memphis officials to halt operations at xAI’s ‘dirty data center’ techcrunch.com2025-06-01 04:05:44
The NAACP is calling on local officials to halt operations at Colossus, the “supercomputer” facility operated by Elon Musk’s xAI in South Memphis. As reported in NBC News, leaders from the civil rights group sent a letter Thursday to the Shelby County Health Department and Memphis Light Gas and Water criticizing the organizations’ “lackadaisical approach […]
- Meta plans to automate many of its product risk assessments techcrunch.com2025-06-01 01:51:56
An AI-powered system could soon take responsibility for evaluating the potential harms and privacy risks of up to 90% of updates made to Meta apps like Instagram and WhatsApp, according to internal documents reportedly viewed by NPR. NPR says a 2012 agreement between Facebook (now Meta) and the Federal Trade Commission requires the company to […]
- Week in Review: Perplexity Labs wants to do your work techcrunch.com2025-06-01 01:06:00
We've got a ton of stories for you this week, including a new AI-powered browser from Arc; not one but TWO hacks; Gemini email summaries; and much more.
- Space Forge raises $30M Series A to make chip materials in space techcrunch.com2025-06-01 00:00:00
Space Forge, a U.K. startup headquartered in Cardiff, Wales, recently raised a £22.6 million (approximately $30 million) Series A to make wafer materials in space, where unique conditions unlock new possibilities.
