Tootfinder

Obvio, which uses AI-powered stop sign cameras to detect infractions, raised a $22M Series A led by Bain to expand beyond its first five cities in Maryland (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/04/obvios-stop-sign…

Obvio’s stop sign cameras use AI to root out unsafe drivers | TechCrunch
American streets are incredibly dangerous for pedestrians. A San Carlos, California-based startup called Obvio thinks it can change that by installing cameras at stop signs -- a solution the founders also say won’t create a panopticon. 

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/05/doge-reportedly-planning-a-hackathon-to-build-mega-api-for-irs-data/

Enterprise vibe coding startup Superblocks raised a $23M Series A, bringing its total funding to $60M, and launched an enterprise coding AI agent called Clark (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/07/supe…

Superblocks CEO: How to find a unicorn idea by studying AI system prompts | TechCrunch
Brad Menezes, CEO of enterprise vibe coding startup Superblocks, is convinced that the next crop of billion-dollar startup ideas are hiding in almost plain sight: system prompts.

Filing: the cyberattack Lee Enterprises suffered in February resulted in the theft of the personal data of 39,779 people, mostly current and former employees (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/04/data-b…

Data breach at newspaper giant Lee Enterprises affects 40,000 people | TechCrunch
The ransomware attack paralyzed newspaper printing and disrupted operations at media outlets across the country for weeks.

AWS = Amazon = Jeff Bezos, auf dem Schoß von Trump.
Corporate Presence.
European sovereign cloud.
Merkste selbst.
Souverän? Wer ist da souverän? Was bedeutet dieses sinnentleerte Wort? Nichts.
AWS establishes new German corporate presence to advance European sovereign cloud | TechCrunch

Two US representatives launch the bipartisan Congressional Creators Caucus to "bring the perspectives of online content creators into the public policy arena" (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/06/crea

Creator Caucus launches in Congress with support from Patreon, YouTube | TechCrunch
The Congressional Creator Caucus will work to support the creator economy, which is estimated to be worth half-a-trillion dollars by 2027.

The overall goal at "A New Social"
is to shift the power of social networks back to the people,
not the platform makers,
by giving them tools that let them
move their account and their followings,
and leave if a platform ever fails them in some way.

Introducing Bounce, a tool to move your following between Bluesky and Mastodon | TechCrunch
The overall goal at A New Social is to shift the power of social networks back to the people, not the platform makers, by giving them tools that let them move their account, their followings, and leave if a platform ever fails them in some way.

X names Polymarket as its official prediction market partner, with plans to combine Polymarket predictions with X data to deliver live insights (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/06/x-names-polymarket-as-its-offi…

X names Polymarket as its official prediction market partner | TechCrunch
X announced on Friday that it has partnered with Polymarket, naming it the platform’s official prediction market partner.

🌳 InventWood is about to mass produce wood that’s stronger than steel
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/12/inventwood-is-about-to-mass-produce-wood-thats-stronger-than-steel/

Exclusive: InventWood is about to mass-produce wood that’s stronger than steel | TechCrunch
The material has 50% more tensile strength than steel with a strength-to-weight ratio that’s ten-times better.

AI research nonprofit EleutherAI releases the Common Pile v0.1, an 8TB dataset of licensed and open-domain text for AI models that it says is one of the largest (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/06/eleu

EleutherAI releases massive AI training dataset of licensed and open domain text | TechCrunch
EleutherAI, an AI research organization, has released what it's claiming is one of the largest collections of licensed and open-domain text for training AI models.

I'd gladly stick him to a spaceship.
Particularly one of those explodey ones of his.
https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/114610626716767190

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Attached: 1 image Elon Musk tries to stick to spaceships https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/01/elon-musk-tries-to-stick-to-spaceships/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

"alleged security"
Elon Musk says XChat is rolling out to all, but questions remain about its alleged security
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/02/elon-musk-says-xchat-is-rolling-out-to-all-but-questio…

Elon Musk says XChat is rolling out to all, but questions remain about its alleged security | TechCrunch
Elon Musk on Sunday announced that a new version of X's Direct Messaging (DM) feature, XChat, was rolling out with support for features like vanishing

X changes its developer agreement to prevent third parties from using "the X API or X Content to fine-tune or train a foundation or frontier model" (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/x-changes-i…

X changes its terms to bar training of AI models using its content | TechCrunch
Social network X has changed its developer agreement to prevent third parties from using the platform's content to train large language models.

Anthropic unveils a new set of Claude Gov models tailored for US national security customers and designed to be applied to planning, analysis, and more (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/anthropic-u…

Anthropic unveils custom AI models for U.S. national security customers | TechCrunch
Anthropic says that it has released a new set of AI models tailored for U.S. national security customers.

TikTok launches TikTok for Artists, which lets artists access data about their music and posts, and Pre-Release, a tool to promote upcoming album releases (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/03/tiktok-launches…

TikTok launches 'TikTok for Artists,' a new music insights platform | TechCrunch
TikTok is officially launching TikTok for Artists, a new music insights platform that is designed to help artists build their careers.

Anthropic co-founder Jared Kaplan says Anthropic cut Windsurf's direct access to Claude models because of reports that OpenAI is acquiring Windsurf (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/anth

Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf: 'It would be odd for us to sell Claude to OpenAI' | TechCrunch
Anthropic's Jared Kaplan said the company largely cut Windsurf's direct access to Anthropic's Claude AI models because of rumors OpenAI is acquiring the startup.

Now OpenAI wants to buy Chrome, and Perplexity's CEO admits his new AI-powered browser will track your history to sell you ads. As with DOGE's migration of the government to the cloud, AI is a smokescreen for a wholesale data grab https://

An Apple-funded study says the global App Store drove $1.3T in developer billings and sales in 2024, with developers paying no commission on 90% of sales (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/appl

Apple says its App Store helped generate $1.3T in billings and sales, most without a commission | TechCrunch
Apple said developers generated $1.3 trillion in sales in 2024 through its App Store, of which 90% did not involve paying the company a commission.

"Don't do that, Dave"
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/anthropics-new-ai-model-turns-to-blackmail-when-engineers-try-to-take-it-offline/?utm_source=semafor

Yeah. That's PRECISELY what we need. A nuclear industry with hallucinations.
https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/114585600591143214

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Attached: 1 image Atomic Canyon wants to be ChatGPT for the nuclear industry https://tcrn.ch/4kD4ut0

Mistral releases Mistral Code, a "vibe coding" client forked from open source project Continue, in private beta on JetBrains platforms and VS Code (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/04/mistral-releases-a-vibe-co…

Mistral releases a vibe coding client, Mistral Code | TechCrunch
French AI startup Mistral is releasing its own 'vibe coding' client, Mistral Code, to compete with incumbents like Windsurf, Anysphere's Cursor, and GitHub Copilot.

I honestly don’t get how this is possible in 2025.
There’s no excuse for not having protected backups of everything critical. That was true 30 years ago, it is true today. Back then a bigger piece of the risk was hardware, less malware. Today it is unlikely for a disk failure to take your data because we all learned that RAID was worthwhile. But RAID is not a backup and backups today need to be resistant to intentional malicious deletion.

Hard pass.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/perplexity-ceo-says-its-browser-will-track-everything-users-do-online-to-sell-hyper-personalized-ads/

OpenAI rolls out connectors for services like Dropbox and OneDrive for ChatGPT Team, Enterprise, and Edu users; MCP support is coming to Pro, Team, Enterprise (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/04/chat

ChatGPT introduces meeting recording and connectors for Google Drive, Box, and more | TechCrunch
OpenAI's ChatGPT is adding new features for business users, including integrations with different cloud services, meeting recording, and MCP connection

TechCrunch has shut down its operations in Europe; one former staffer says new owner Regent thought international startup coverage wasn't essential (Sifted)
https://sifted.eu/articles/techcrunch-leaves-europe-shut-down-startups

Reddit now lets users hide posting and commenting history on their profile via a Content and Activity setting, as part of a new "Curate your profile" section (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/03/redd

Reddit now lets you hide content, like posts and comments, from your user profile | TechCrunch
Reddit has announced a new feature that will offer its users more privacy when it comes to what's shared on their user profiles.

I’m late to the party but congratulations @…!
Christian Selig, developer of Apollo, joins Digg https://techcrunch.c…

Apollo for Reddit dev Christian Selig to join Digg as an advisor | TechCrunch
Christian Selig, the iOS developer who ran the beloved third-party Reddit client Apollo, is joining the new iteration of Digg as an advisor. Earlier this

The chief executive of the
United States Institute of Peace (USIP) says
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency
left the nonprofit’s Washington, D.C., headquarters in disarray,
full of water damage, rats, and roaches, according to a new sworn statement first reported by Court Watch.
The statement from the executive, George Moose, comes just a few days after a federal judge ruled that DOGE’s takeover of the nonprofit was illegal.
And this week, Mu…

DOGE left United States Institute of Peace office with water damage, rats, and roaches | TechCrunch
The chief executive of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) says Elon Musk's DOGE left the nonprofit's Washington, D.C., headquarters in disarray.

Some researchers say it looks like DeepSeek may have used Google Gemini to help train its R1-0528 reasoning model (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/03/deepseek-may-have-used-googles-gemini-to-train-its-lates…

DeepSeek may have used Google's Gemini to train its latest model | TechCrunch
Chinese AI lab DeepSeek released an updated version of its R1 reasoning model that performs well on a number of math and coding benchmarks. Some AI researchers speculate that at least a portion came from Google's Gemini family of AI.

YouTube plans to roll out Google Lens integration to Shorts in the coming weeks, allowing users to search for elements within Shorts (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/29/youtube-wi…

YouTube will soon let viewers use Google Lens to search what they see while watching Shorts | TechCrunch
YouTube announced on Thursday that it's bringing Google Lens to YouTube Shorts in the coming weeks.

Adobe launches a Photoshop app for Android in beta for devices running Android 11 or later with 6GB of RAM, including core desktop features like layering (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/03/adobe-launches-beta-…

Adobe launches beta version of its Photoshop app on Android | TechCrunch
The app offers a similar set of editing tools as the desktop version, including layering and masking, but is optimized for mobile screens.

Windsurf says Anthropic is limiting its direct access to its AI models, including the newest Claude 4 family and the highly popular Claude 3 models (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/03/windsurf-say…

Windsurf says Anthropic is limiting its direct access to Claude AI models | TechCrunch
The CEO of Windsurf, a popular AI-assisted coding tool, said Anthropic is limiting its direct access to certain AI models.

Tel Aviv-based Speedata, which is designing analytics processing units for big data workloads, raised a $44M Series B, aims to showcase its first APU this month (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/03/speedata…

Speedata, a chip startup competing with Nvidia, raises a $44M Series B | TechCrunch
Speedata, a Tel Aviv-based startup developing an analytics processing unit (APU) designed to accelerate big data analytic and AI workloads, has raised a Founded by six researcher, Speedata wants to build the first-ever purpose-build chip designed specifically for big data workloads.

Qualcomm releases patches to fix a series of vulnerabilities in dozens of chips, including three zero-days that "may be under limited, targeted exploitation" (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/03/phon

Phone chipmaker Qualcomm fixes three zero-days exploited by hackers | TechCrunch
Google's Threat Analysis Group, which investigates government-backed hacks, was credited with the discovery of the zero-days.

Neuralink raised a $650M Series E from ARK Invest, Founders Fund, G42, Human Capital, Sequoia, Thrive, and others; it was reportedly valued at ~$9B pre-money (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/02/elon-musks-neuralink-closes-a-65…

Elon Musk's Neuralink closes a $650M Series E | TechCrunch
Elon Musk's brain chip implant startup Neuralink raised a $650 million Series E funding round, the company announced.

Character.AI rolls out features like AvatarFX for video generation, plus Streams and Scenes for creating and sharing videos with characters on a new social feed (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/02/chat

Chatbot platform Character.AI unveils video generation, social feeds | TechCrunch
Character.AI is rolling out its AvatarFX tool, which allow users to create animated, customizable videos featuring their AI chat bots.

X aims to roll out an "XChat" messaging feature "with encryption, vanishing messages and the ability to send any kind of file" to all users this week (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/02/elon

Elon Musk says XChat is rolling out to all, but questions remain about its alleged security | TechCrunch
Elon Musk on Sunday announced that a new version of X's Direct Messaging (DM) feature, XChat, was rolling out with support for features like vanishing

Dublin-based cross-border payment startup NomuPay raised a $40M Series C at a $290M valuation, following a $37M Series B at a $200M valuation in January 2025 (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025…

Irish fintech NomuPay lands $40M at a $290M valuation from SoftBank | TechCrunch
As global trade evolves, there's an increasing demand for diverse cross-border payment options. That's why an Irish-based fintech startup called NomuPay

Ich hab so ne Idee …

Elad Gil, backer of Perplexity, Character.AI, Airbnb, Coinbase, and Stripe, invested in Enam Co., which aims to transform businesses with AI via PE roll-ups (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/01/early-a…

Early AI investor Elad Gil finds his next big bet: AI-powered rollups | TechCrunch
Elad Gil started betting on AI before most of the world took notice. By the time investors began grasping the implications of ChatGPT, Gil had already

Google quietly released an Android app called Google AI Edge Gallery on GitHub, letting users run some AI models from Hugging Face locally on their phones (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/31/goog

Google quietly released an app that lets you download and run AI models locally | TechCrunch
Last week, Google quietly released an app, Google AI Edge Gallery, that lets users run a range of openly available AI models from the AI dev platform Hugging Face on their phones.

TechCrunch has shut down its operations in Europe; one former staffer says new owner Regent thought "international startup coverage wasn't essential" (Sifted)
https://sifted.eu/articles/techcrunch-leaves-europe-shut-down-startups

"Meta adds another 650 MW of solar power to its AI push"
#Meta #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Meta adds another 650 MW of solar power to its AI push | TechCrunch
The company already has more than 12 gigawatts of capacity in its renewable power portfolio.

Automattic says it will resume contributing to the WordPress project, after announcing a pause in April (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/30/automattic-says-it-will-start-contributing-to-wordpress-a…

Automattic says it will start contributing to WordPress again after pause | TechCrunch
WordPress.com parent company Automattic is changing direction... again.

Hugging Face unveils two open-source humanoid robots, the $3,000 full-sized HopeJR and a $250-$300 Reachy Mini desktop unit, expected to ship by the end of 2025 (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/29/hugging-face-unveils-two-…

Hugging Face unveils two new humanoid robots | TechCrunch
Hugging Face hopes to start shipping two new open-source humanoid robots by the end of 2025.

The US Treasury sanctions Philippines-based Funnull Technology for allegedly facilitating "pig butchering" crypto scams that stole over $200M from US victims (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/29/us-g

US government sanctions tech company involved in cyber scams | TechCrunch
The Treasury said FUNNULL was involved in providing infrastructure for pig butchering crypto scams.