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TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News @techcrunch.com.web.brid.gy · 4h

Battlefield alum DevAlly raises €2M to help companies with Europe’s feisty new accessibility law

Regulatory tailwinds and growing awareness around accessibility helped DevAlly secure €2 million in pre-seed funding.

TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News @techcrunch.com.web.brid.gy · 4h

OpenAI’s affordable ChatGPT Go plan expands to 16 new countries in Asia

OpenAI is expanding its $5 per month ChatGPT Go plan to 16 more countries.

TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News @techcrunch.com.web.brid.gy · 4h

Novoloop’s upcycled plastic takes a step closer to production

Novoloop has signed a deal with a contract manufacturer to produce its Lifecycled TPU material.

TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News @techcrunch.com.web.brid.gy · 4h

Even after Stargate, Oracle, Nvidia, and AMD, OpenAI has more big deals coming soon, Sam Altman says

By some estimates, OpenAI has this year inked $1 trillion worth of infrastructure deals. Altman says to expect even more.

TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News @techcrunch.com.web.brid.gy · 4h

Here’s what it’s really like to appear on billionaire VC Tim Draper’s ‘Meet the Drapers’ pitch show

The show is one of many on Draper's newly launched television channel, DraperTV, which offers programming around business and entrepreneurship, available via streaming services like Roku.

TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News @techcrunch.com.web.brid.gy · 4h

OpenAI’s Nick Turley on transforming ChatGPT into an operating system

In an interview, OpenAI's Head of ChatGPT discusses the company's push into developing an AI operating system full of third-party apps.

TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News @techcrunch.com.web.brid.gy · 4h

Sora’s downloads in its first week was nearly as big as ChatGPT’s launch

This level of consumer adoption is worth noting because Sora remains an invite-only app, while ChatGPT was more publicly available at launch. That makes Sora's performance more impressive.

TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News @techcrunch.com.web.brid.gy · 4h

Elon Musk will settle $128M lawsuit with former Twitter execs

The four executives never received severance payments, which they claim is because they tried to hold Musk to his $44 billion commitment when he tried to back out of buying the company.

TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News @techcrunch.com.web.brid.gy · 4h

Amazon Pharmacy is launching vending machines for prescription drugs

The kiosks have a range of commonly prescribed medications, including antibiotics, inhalers, and blood pressure medications.

TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News @techcrunch.com.web.brid.gy · 1d

Revolut aims to take on Indian banks and their ‘criminal’ forex fees

Revolut plans to onboard 20 million users in India by 2030 and process more than $7 billion in transactions.

TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News @techcrunch.com.web.brid.gy · 1d

You can’t libel the dead. But that doesn’t mean you should deepfake them.

"Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad," the late Robin Williams' daughter Zelda wrote on Instagram.

TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News @techcrunch.com.web.brid.gy · 1d

Trump’s DOE proposes cutting billions in grants for GM, Ford, and lots of startups

Trump's Department of Energy wants to cancel billions more in awards that were granted by the Biden administration, and startups are in the crosshairs.

TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News @techcrunch.com.web.brid.gy · 1d

Wall Street analysts explain how AMD’s own stock will pay for OpenAI’s billions in chip purchases

AMD's unusual deal to finance OpenAI's chip purchases could grant the AI model maker up to $100 billion, analyst estimates.

TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News @techcrunch.com.web.brid.gy · 1d

Google launches its AI vibe-coding app Opal in 15 more countries

The app, which lets you create mini web apps using text prompts, is now available in Canada, India, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Brazil, Singapore, Colombia, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panamá, Honduras, Argentina, and Pakistan.

TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News @techcrunch.com.web.brid.gy · 1d

How Otter.ai’s CEO is pushing the company to be more than just a meeting scribe

Otter is launching a suite of enterprise tools to help companies use its tech to create a central knowledge base.

TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News @techcrunch.com.web.brid.gy · 1d

Tesla reveals slightly cheaper ‘standard’ versions of the Model 3 and Model Y

The long-awaited cheaper Model 3 and Model Y are finally here, but they start at $36,990 and $39,990, respectively -- just a few thousand dollars less than Tesla's current offerings.

TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News @techcrunch.com.web.brid.gy · 1d

X splits Verified Organizations into ‘Premium Business’ and ‘Premium Organizations’

The social network says Premium Business will help companies drive growth on the platform by boosting credibility with a gold checkmark and increasing visibility through affiliate badges.

TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News @techcrunch.com.web.brid.gy · 1d

Facebook updates its algorithm to give users more control over which videos they see

Facebook updated its algorithm so users can have greater control over which Reels videos they see.

TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News @techcrunch.com.web.brid.gy · 1d

ICE bought vehicles equipped with fake cell towers to spy on phones

The federal contract shows ICE spent $825,000 on vans equipped with “cell-site simulators” which allow the real-world location tracking of nearby phones and their owners.

TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News @techcrunch.com.web.brid.gy · 1d

Mastodon is taking cues from Bluesky with plans for its own starter ‘Packs’

Mastodon is planning to make it easier for newcomers to discover curated collections of users to follow by launching a new starter packs feature.

TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News @techcrunch.com.web.brid.gy · 2d

Deloitte goes all in on AI — despite having to issue a hefty refund for use of AI

Deloitte is rolling out Claude to its nearly 500,000 employees after issuing a refund for a report that contained AI hallucinations.

TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News @techcrunch.com.web.brid.gy · 2d

Lucid Motors sets record as Gravity sales pick up and tax credit expires

The company has seen EV deliveries increase for seven straight quarters, even though it's still way off the ambitious goals it promoted when it went public in 2021.

TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News @techcrunch.com.web.brid.gy · 2d

Taylor Swift fans accuse singer of using AI in her Google scavenger hunt videos

Swifties love a puzzle, but some were rubbed the wrong way by a promotional scavenger hunt which appeared to use AI-generated videos.

TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News @techcrunch.com.web.brid.gy · 2d

Microsoft buys another 100 MW of solar, this time in Japan

The new deal covers output from four different solar projects. Microsoft has said it will spend $2.9 billion to expand its infrastructure in Japan.

TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News @techcrunch.com.web.brid.gy · 2d

OpenAI ramps up developer push with more powerful models in its API

The updates were part of a series of announcements geared towards wooing developers to OpenAI’s ecosystem, including the launch of an agent-building tool and the ability to build apps in ChatGPT.