timef 08/09/2025
- Impersonators are targeting companies with fake TechCrunch outreach techcrunch.com2025-08-09 08:36:41
Hi, thanks as always for reading TechCrunch. We want to talk with you quickly about something important. We’ve discovered that scammers are impersonating TechCrunch reporters and event leads and reaching out to companies, pretending to be our staff when they absolutely are not. These bad actors are using our name and reputation to try to […]
- Sam Altman addresses ‘bumpy’ GPT-5 rollout, bringing 4o back, and the ‘chart crime’ techcrunch.com2025-08-09 05:06:30
The Reddit AMA got spicy as users peppered OpenAI with the questions, and some asked the company to bring back its previous model.
- RIP Microsoft Lens, a simple little app that’s getting replaced by AI techcrunch.com2025-08-09 03:41:19
Microsoft is killing Lens, a handy mobile scanning app with over 90 million downloads.
- Former Googlers AI startup OpenArt now creates ‘brainrot’ videos in just one click techcrunch.com2025-08-09 03:01:21
OpenArt launched a new feature to help creators make AI-generated brain rot videos.
- Don’t let your competitor steal the brand spotlight — secure your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 techcrunch.com2025-08-09 01:45:00
For 20 years, startups have come to TechCrunch Disrupt to meet their first investors, land their biggest partnerships, and spark the idea that takes them to the next level.
- NASA and Google are building an AI medical assistant to keep Mars-bound astronauts healthy techcrunch.com2025-08-09 01:17:35
The multi-modal tool, which includes speech, text and images, runs inside Google Cloud’s Vertex AI environment.
- How to use Instagram Map and protect your privacy techcrunch.com2025-08-09 00:53:44
Following concerns about safety, Instagram head Adam Mosseri reassured users that the feature is opt-in, and noted that some people are “confused” about how the feature works.
- Pinterest CEO says agentic shopping is still a long way out techcrunch.com2025-08-09 00:33:18
Pinterest CEO Bill Ready talks about the agentic web and where the social network will fit in the AI era.
- OpenAI priced GPT-5 so low, it may spark a price war techcrunch.com2025-08-09 00:10:04
Developers who have had early access are touting GPT-5's pricing as much better than competing models.
- SoftBank reportedly bought Foxconn’s Ohio factory for the Stargate AI project techcrunch.com2025-08-09 00:00:51
Foxconn spent years promising electric vehicles would be built at the former Chevy Cruze factory. Now it will make AI servers.
