timef 07/18/2025
- Meta refuses to sign EU’s AI code of practice techcrunch.com2025-07-18 21:52:44
Meta will not sign the EU's new rules, calling the implementation "over-reach"
- ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot techcrunch.com2025-07-18 21:03:17
A timeline of ChatGPT product updates and releases, starting with the latest, which we’ve been updating throughout the year.
- Netflix starts using GenAI in its shows and films techcrunch.com2025-07-18 20:21:46
Netflix said it used gen AI for the first time for a scene in an Argentinean show called El Atonata.
- Perplexity sees India as a shortcut in its race against OpenAI techcrunch.com2025-07-18 12:29:34
Perplexity is quietly expanding into India to compete with OpenAI in the next phase of AI adoption.
- ‘Utopian’ city California Forever announces huge tech manufacturing park techcrunch.com2025-07-18 06:44:05
Solano Foundry is a 2,100-acre manufacturing park that can host 40 million square feet of advanced tech manufacturing space.
- Anthropic tightens usage limits for Claude Code – without telling users techcrunch.com2025-07-18 05:04:34
Since Monday morning, Claude Code users have been hit with unexpectedly restrictive usage limits. The problems, many of which have been aired on Claude Code’s GitHub page, seem to be concentrated among heavy users of the service, many of whom are on the $200-a-month Max plan. Users are only told “Claude usage limit reached,” and […]
- Microsoft is buying tons of carbon removal from Xprize startup Vaulted Deep techcrunch.com2025-07-18 03:03:19
Microsoft's data center boom has been imperiling its 2030 carbon negative pledge, so the tech giant is turning to Vaulted Deep, which operates like a reverse oil company.
- Hadrian raises $260M to build out automated factories for space and defense parts techcrunch.com2025-07-18 02:16:15
Hadrian wants to revolutionize American manufacturing through automation.
- After raising over $3M, popular VC-backed beauty brand Ami Colé is shuttering techcrunch.com2025-07-18 01:59:00
Diarrha N'Diaye-Mbaye, one of the first among the small number of Black women to raise more than $1 million in venture capital, announced on Thursday the closure of her award-winning beauty startup Ami Colé.
- OpenAI launches a general purpose agent in ChatGPT techcrunch.com2025-07-18 01:00:03
OpenAI announced the launch of ChatGPT agent, which the company claims to be its most capable AI agent product yet.
- Twitch starts testing vertical video streams techcrunch.com2025-07-18 00:53:52
Twitch's tests are not widespread at this point, as Appsensa's research only found a handful of references in the app's code that mentioned the tests would focus on just "a few streamers" for the time being.
- Meta appoints generative AI VP to run Threads techcrunch.com2025-07-18 00:43:51
Meta appointed Connor Hayes, Meta's VP of product for generative AI, to become the head of Threads.
- Rivian restarting work on its Georgia factory, emails show techcrunch.com2025-07-18 00:15:28
Emails obtained through a public records request show Rivian has resume the prep work for its planned factory in Georgia.
- Substack raises $100M from Chernin Group, Andreessen Horowitz, Skims CEO and more techcrunch.com2025-07-18 00:10:33
The New York Times reports that the funding brings Substack's valuation to $1.1 billion, almost 70% higher than its 2021 valuation of $650 million.
- Jack Dorsey pumps $10M into a nonprofit focused on open source social media techcrunch.com2025-07-17 12:01:00
Jack Dorsey backs nonprofit 'and Other Stuff' with $10M to build open social technology.
- Apple News+ adds a new game that uses emoji and Genmoji to solve puzzles techcrunch.com2025-07-17 12:00:00
Released to coincide with World Emoji Day, the new Emoji Game is part logic, part word game that's inspired by how we use emojis to communicate.
