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For the 20th anniversary of TechCrunch, Disrupt 2025 (taking place October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco) gets real about one of the most pressing founder questions: compensation and …
Pulley, 645 Ventures, and Epigram Legal join the Disrupt 2025 agenda Read More
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings met with and sent an open letter to OpenAI to express their concerns over the safety of ChatGPT, particularly …
Attorneys general warn OpenAI ‘harm to children will not be tolerated’ Read More
OpenAI is reorganizing its Model Behavior team, a small but influential group of researchers who shape how the company’s AI models interact with people, TechCrunch has learned. In an August …
OpenAI reorganizes research team behind ChatGPT’s personality Read More
Dot, an AI companion app that aimed to be a friend and confidante, is shutting down, the company announced on Friday. On a message published on its website, the startup …
Personalized AI companion app Dot is shutting down Read More
Around half a million writers will be eligible for a payday of at least $3,000, thanks to a historic $1.5 billion settlement in a class action lawsuit that a group …
Screw the money — Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement sucks for writers Read More
Common Sense Media, a kids-safety-focused nonprofit offering ratings and reviews of media and technology, released its risk assessment of Google’s Gemini AI products on Friday. While the organization found that …
Google Gemini dubbed ‘high risk’ for kids and teens in new safety assessment Read More
Tesla spent $400,000 advertising on Elon Musk’s social media platform X in 2024, according to a new regulatory filing. But the automaker appears to be on track to spend just …
Tesla’s ad spend on X has shrunk to almost nothing Read More
Isotopes came out of stealth on Thursday with a healthy $20 million seed round. It offers an AI agent to solve a problem that data analytics products have struggled with …
Scale AI’s former CTO launches AI agent that could solve big data’s biggest problem Read More
Snapchat is launching a new Lens that lets users create and edit images using a text-to-image AI generator, the company told TechCrunch exclusively. The new “Imagine Lens” is available to …
Snapchat’s new Lens lets you create AI images using text prompts Read More
X’s long-awaited encrypted DM feature, XChat, is becoming more widely available. Though the feature shipped in beta in May, XChat is now accessible for more users, including those who do …
X’s encrypted DM feature, XChat, is rolling out more broadly Read More