Elon Musk reportedly chats often with Putin

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Russian president Vladimir Putin since late 2022. That’s according to The Wall Street Journal, which reports that the conversations have raised national security concerns among some intelligence officials. At one point, Putin reportedly…Read More

Airdog’s founders are back with a precision-strike drone meant for modern warfare

The war in Ukraine has shown that warfare changes by the day. It’s also clear that the tech used to make war today is costly: While larger countries can afford legions of tanks, helicopters, and precision-strike systems, smaller nations find themselves scrambling fo…Read More

YouTube brings its affilate program to India, partners with Flipkart

YouTube is bringing its affiliate program to India, letting uploaders tag products in their videos and earn referrals. The company is partnering with Walmart-owned e-commerce service Flipkart and fashion retailer Myntra to open up their product catalogs to uploaders. To be…Read More

OpenAI reportedly plans to release its Orion AI model by December

OpenAI is reportedly planning to release its next frontier AI model, codenamed Orion inside the company, by December of this year, The Verge reported on Thursday. Unlike previous releases, the company reportedly plans to release the model gradually to trusted partners before a…Read More

TikTok accounts are becoming divorce fodder

When Kat and Mike Stickler divorced, their biggest challenge was dividing a shared TikTok account with millions of followers that generated significant income, and they aren’t alone, reports the WSJ. A growing number of couples — and divorce attorneys — are grappling with how to assess the value of…Read More

Scout reveals its EV vision and it includes a model with a gas-powered generator

Scout Motors, the Volkswagen Group spinoff, unveiled Thursday two EVs it hopes will hook American customers with modern-meets-rugged styling that downplays digital and embraces the mechanical. The catch? The company will also offer variants to its all-electric Scout…Read More

Google adds new disclosures for AI photos, but it’s still not obvious at first glance

Starting next week, the Google Photos app will add a new disclosure for when a photo has been edited with one of its AI features, such as Magic Editor, Magic Eraser, and Zoom Enhance. When you click into a photo in Google Photos, there will now be a disclosure w…Read More

WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg is joining TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

We’re excited to announce that Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of the popular blogging platform WordPress, will be taking the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. When Mullenweg first started working on WordPress, he was a 19-year-old jazz enthusiast and photographer in T…Read More

Supply chain startup Interos lands new customers, cash

Each year, supply chain disruptions cost the global economy trillions of dollars. In a recent McKinsey poll, nine in ten businesses said they had encountered logistics challenges over the past 12 months. Headwinds have only grown stronger as chaos reigns in key shipping corridors. Attacks on…Read More

LinkedIn fined $356 million in EU for tracking ads privacy breaches

Bad news for LinkedIn in Europe where the Microsoft-owned social network has been reprimanded and fined €310 million for privacy violations related to its tracking ads business. The administrative penalties, which are worth around $356 million at current exchange rates, have b…Read More

Raspberry Pi releases more AI-focused add-ons

The Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ comes in 13 and 26 tera-operations per second (TOPS) variants, retailing at $70 and $110 respectively.
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X’s India revenue falls 90%, filing shows

X revenue in India plummeted 89.8% to $2.51 million in the financial year ending March, according to regulatory filings from the Elon Musk-owned social network. The company, which had posted revenue of $24.7 million in the previous fiscal year, also significantly reduced its expenses in India to $2.2 m…Read More

Tesla is testing a robotaxi service that Elon Musk claims will launch next year

Elon Musk said he hopes to launch a service that will let people hail self-driving Tesla vehicles in California and Texas sometime in 2025 — and claims his company has already been testing the service in the Bay Area with employees. The comments, made Wednesday on…Read More

The Space Development Agency taps 19 companies for future defense demo missions

The Space Development Agency has selected 19 companies to compete for future contracts under a new program designed to rapidly onboard new contractors for defense demonstration missions.  These companies have essentially been preapproved to bid on future prototype…Read More

Philly’s Portal is like social media come to life

For once, the biggest tourist attraction in Philadelphia’s Love Park isn’t the iconic artwork that gives the plaza its name. While a couple of tourists trickle through to take pictures with the love sculpture, the main attraction this week is the Portal, which was encircled by a crowd of about…Read More