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India weighs easing market share limits for UPI payment operators
Manish Singh 36 mins agoThe governing body overseeing India’s popular UPI payments rail is considering increasing its proposed market share cap for operators like Google Pay, PhonePe and Paytm.
Government & Policy
Palmer Luckey returns to headsets as Anduril partners with Microsoft on U.S. military tech
Connie Loizos 3 hours agoPalmer Luckey, the Hawaiian-shirt wearing founder who sold Oculus VR for $2 billion before co-founding the military tech company Anduril, is back in the headset business — in a sense.…
Transportation
CEO of self-driving startup Motional is stepping down
Kirsten Korosec 5 hours agoMotional, the autonomous vehicle startup backed by Hyundai, is shaking up its leadership ranks. Karl Iagnemma, an early pioneer in the autonomous vehicle industry whose startup Nutonomy lies at the…
Security
Craig Newmark pledges $100M to fight hacking by foreign governments
Connie Loizos 6 hours agoCraigslist founder Craig Newmark plans to donate $100 million to further strengthen U.S. cybersecurity, addressing what he sees as a growing threat from foreign governments, he tells the WSJ. Half…
Social
Bluesky addresses trust and safety concerns around abuse, spam, and more
Sarah Perez 11 hours agoThe company is in various stages of developing and piloting a range of initiatives focused on dealing with bad actors, harassment, spam, fake accounts, video safety, and more.
Fundraising
Fal.ai, which hosts media-generating AI models, raises $23M from a16z and others
Kyle Wiggers 11 hours agoFal.ai, a dev-focused platform for AI-generated audio, video, and images, today revealed that it’s raised $23 million in funding from investors including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Black Forest Labs co-founder Robin…
Transportation
Bill requiring AM radio in new cars gets closer to law
Rebecca Bellan 11 hours agoA House committee overwhelmingly voted to approve a bill that would require new cars to be built with AM radio at no additional cost to the owner. The AM for…
Hardware
HTC takes on Apple’s Vision Pro and PC Gaming with $1,000 Vive Focus Vision
Brian Heater 13 hours agoThe Vive Focus Vision has enough firepower under the hood to appeal to PC gamers tethered via the DisplayPort.
Transportation
Fisker reverses course on making Ocean owners pay for recall repairs
Sean O’Kane 13 hours agoThe reversal comes as EV startup Fisker prepares to enter the fourth month of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy process.
Apps
Three new ways to personalize your iPhone’s Home Screen in iOS 18
Sarah Perez 14 hours agoiOS 18 offers the most control over the look and feel of your iPhone’s user interface than any other version of Apple’s mobile operating system to date.
AI
LinkedIn scraped user data for training before updating its terms of service
Kyle Wiggers 14 hours agoLinkedIn may have trained AI models on user data without updating its terms. LinkedIn users in the U.S. — but not the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, likely due to those…
AI
This Week in AI: Why OpenAI’s o1 changes the AI regulation game
Kyle WiggersDevin Coldewey 14 hours agoHiya, folks, welcome to TechCrunch’s regular AI newsletter. If you want this in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. It’s been just a few days since OpenAI revealed its latest…
Security
US government ‘took control’ of a botnet run by Chinese government hackers, says FBI director
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 15 hours agoThe FBI, NSA and other U.S. government agencies detailed a Chinese-government operation that used 260,000 of internet-connected devices to launch cyberattacks.
Biotech & Health
Luminate’s hair-saving chemo helmet nears release, as new funding goes toward home cancer care
Devin Coldewey 15 hours agoThe pitch sounds a bit sci-fi: a helmet called Lily that people undergoing chemotherapy wear to prevent hair loss, which is a common side effect of the treatment.
Social
YouTube launches Communities, a Discord-like space for creators and fans to interact with each other
Aisha Malik 16 hours agoAt its Made On YouTube event on Wednesday, the company announced a new dedicated space for creators to interact with their fans and viewers. The space, called “Communities,” is kind…
Commerce
Amazon adds PayPal as a payment option to Buy with Prime
Kyle Wiggers 16 hours agoAmazon’s Buy with Prime program, which lets shoppers with a Prime membership purchase items from third-party stores and check out using their Amazon account, is getting a new payment option:…
Enterprise
Edera is building a better Kubernetes and AI security solution from the ground up
Frederic Lardinois 16 hours agoEdera, a startup looking to simplify and improve how Kubernetes containers and AI workloads are secured by offering a new hypervisor, today announced that it has raised a $5 million…
Media & Entertainment
YouTube unveils ‘Hype,’ a new way for fans to help smaller creators grow their reach
Sarah Perez 16 hours agoYouTube creators no longer have to rely solely on the recommendation algorithm, search results, or collabs to help them grow their audience. At the company’s Made On YouTube event on…
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Last Week: Amplify your brand by hosting a Side Event at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
TechCrunch Events 17 hours agoExtend the buzz of TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 beyond the main event by hosting an exclusive Side Event. Expose your brand to 10,000 Disrupt attendees and the surrounding Bay Area tech…
Media & Entertainment
YouTube Shorts to integrate Veo, Google’s AI video model
Lauren Forristal 17 hours agoThe main attraction of YouTube’s Made On YouTube event on Wednesday morning was, you guessed it, artificial intelligence. The company announced that it is integrating Google DeepMind’s AI video generation…
Apps
YouTube Studio now lets creators brainstorm video ideas with the help of AI
Aisha Malik 17 hours agoAt its Made On YouTube event on Wednesday, the company announced that creators can now brainstorm ideas for videos with the help of AI right within YouTube Studio. YouTube will…
Fundraising
Era Ventures raises $88M first fund for transforming the ‘built’ environment
Marina Temkin 18 hours agoThe real estate market and many real estate-focused startups were hit hard when mortgage rates skyrocketed in 2022, but that didn’t stop industry veteran Clelia Warburg Peters from leaving her…
AI
Generative AI startup Runway inks deal with a major Hollywood studio
Kyle Wiggers 18 hours agoRunway, a startup developing AI video tools, including video-generating models, has partnered with Lionsgate — the studio behind the “John Wick” and “Twilight” franchises — to train a custom video…
Fundraising
The 22-year-old building Roblox developer tools to make gaming more efficient
Dominic-Madori Davis 18 hours agoGamebeast is a live operations tooling platform that lets developers modify games without needing to release a new version or interrupt an ongoing game.
Hardware
Apple Intelligence will support German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, and Vietnamese in 2025
Brian Heater 20 hours agoApple announced Wednesday that its generative AI offering will be available in even more languages in 2025. Additions to Apple Intelligence include English (India), English (Singapore), German, Italian, Korean, Portuguese,…
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iPhone 16 Pro Max review: A $1,200 glimpse at a more intelligent future
The iPhone 16’s headliner features are Apple Intelligence, which will be rolled out next month, and its camera system.
Brian Heater 20 hours ago
Hardware
Here’s how Apple is making iPhone 16 more repairable
Brian Heater 20 hours agoThe most interesting of the bunch is a new adhesive design that can be loosened by applying low voltage from a 9-volt battery.
Startups
Nurture teaches kids important life skills through interactive gameplay and entertainment
Lauren Forristal 22 hours agoParents understand the challenge of keeping young kids engaged in online learning. Nurture is a new app designed for children aged 4 to 7 that features interactive content and games…
Government & Policy
Google nets court win against EU’s $1.7B AdSense antitrust decision
Natasha Lomas 22 hours agoGoogle has succeeded in overturning a $1.7 billion antitrust penalty handed down by the European Union back in March 2019.
Biotech & Health
23andMe sees independent board directors quit en masse
Connie Loizos 1 day ago23andMe, the personal genomics company, went public in early 2021 via a merger with a blank check company that valued it at $3.5 billion. Then its fortunes began to sink.…
Manish Singh 36 mins ago Connie Loizos 3 hours ago Kirsten Korosec 5 hours ago Connie Loizos 6 hours ago Sarah Perez 11 hours ago Kyle Wiggers 11 hours ago Rebecca Bellan 11 hours ago Brian Heater 13 hours ago Sean O’Kane 13 hours ago Sarah Perez 14 hours ago Kyle Wiggers 14 hours ago Kyle WiggersDevin Coldewey 14 hours ago Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 15 hours ago Devin Coldewey 15 hours ago Aisha Malik 16 hours ago Kyle Wiggers 16 hours ago Frederic Lardinois 16 hours ago Sarah Perez 16 hours ago TechCrunch Events 17 hours ago Lauren Forristal 17 hours ago Aisha Malik 17 hours ago Marina Temkin 18 hours ago Kyle Wiggers 18 hours ago Dominic-Madori Davis 18 hours ago Brian Heater 20 hours ago The iPhone 16’s headliner features are Apple Intelligence, which will be rolled out next month, and its camera system.
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