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New York State passes a bill mandating safety and transparency requirements for frontier AI models; it awaits Governor Hochul's decision (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/13/new-york-passes-a-bill-to-prevent-ai-fu…

New York passes a bill to prevent AI-fueled disasters | TechCrunch
New York has a new AI safety bill that tries to regulate frontier AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.

The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster
It sounds like the start of a 21st-century horror film: Your browser history has been public all along, and you had no idea. That’s basically what it feels like right now on the new stand-alone Meta AI app, where swathes of people are publishing their ostensibly private conversations with the chatbot. […]
😬

The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster | TechCrunch
Meta does not indicate to users what their privacy settings are as they post, or where they are even posting to. So, if you log into Meta AI with Instagram, and your Instagram account is public, then so too are your searches.

Bedrock Ocean, which has developed an autonomous underwater vehicle to map the ocean floor using sonar and magnetic sensors, raised a $25M Series A-2 (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/10/bedrock-ocean-dredges-u…

Exclusive: Bedrock Ocean dredges up $25M to map the seafloor with robots | TechCrunch
Bedrock Ocean wants to use autonomous underwater vehicles to make mapping the seafloor faster and cheaper.

“Two European journalists were hacked using government spyware made by Israeli surveillance tech provider Paragon.”
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/researchers-confirm-two-journalists-were-hacked-with-paragon-spyware/

Researchers confirm two journalists were hacked with Paragon spyware | TechCrunch
The confirmation of two hacked victims further deepens an ongoing spyware scandal that, for now, appears largely focused on the Italian government.

‼️ Neues #Risiko für unbewusste #Datenlecks bei Meta AI:
Natürlich eher relevant, wenn Ihr eine #Katze seid und nach einer Methode fragt, die

The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster | TechCrunch
Meta does not indicate to users what their privacy settings are as they post, or where they are even posting to. So, if you log into Meta AI with Instagram, and your Instagram account is public, then so too are your searches.

Canary, which offers hotel guest management tools, raised an $80M Series D led by Brighton Park Capital, valuing the company at about $600M (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/hotel-mana…

Hotel management platform Canary nabs $80M Series D from BPC, YC, Insight Partners | TechCrunch
Canary offers a product suite that encompasses every part of the guest journey, from booking to departure. The company offers services that let hotel guests check in on mobile devices or text the front desk for help. And it's leaning into AI in serving its customers’ guests through voice, web, and text with an LLM, sometimes offering instant responses.

Meta AI is a disaster.
#meta

The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster | TechCrunch
Meta does not indicate to users what their privacy settings are as they post, or where they are even posting to. So, if you log into Meta AI with Instagram, and your Instagram account is public, then so too are your searches.

Every single time this happen, they are making sure creatives, artists, academics, etc are never setting foot to the US again.
Just a slow burn that is making sure US dominance in many fields will disappear. https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/114666117530646022

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

The public feed of the Meta AI app is filled with private and sensitive information, suggesting users might not be aware they are sharing their chats publicly (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/the-meta-ai-app-is-a-privacy-dis…

The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster | TechCrunch
Meta does not indicate to users what their privacy settings are as they post, or where they are even posting to. So, if you log into Meta AI with Instagram, and your Instagram account is public, then so too are your searches.

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

Instagram plans to let users rearrange their grid, a first, and is testing a way for users to quietly post to their profile without it appearing in users' feeds (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/instagram-will-fina…

Instagram will finally let you rearrange your grid | TechCrunch
Instagram is finally going to let users rearrange their grid and is testing a way for users to quietly post to their profile without having the content appear in users' feeds.

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

TechCrunch (@TechCrunch@mstdn.social)
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

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.

Spain-based Multiverse Computing, which makes tools to compress LLMs by up to 95% using "quantum-inspired" networks, raised a €189M Series B and has 100 clients (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/mult

Multiverse Computing raises $215M for tech that could radically slim AI costs | TechCrunch
Spanish startup Multiverse Computing announced that it raised an enormous Series B round on the strength of a technology it calls “CompactifAI.”

"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

🌳 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.

Apple fixes an iPhone zero-day used in Paragon spyware hacks after a Citizen Lab report found two European journalists had their iPhones hacked with the spyware (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/appl

Apple fixes new iPhone zero-day bug used in Paragon spyware hacks | TechCrunch
The iPhone maker quietly updated a February security advisory to publicize a flaw that was used to hack at least two journalists in Europe.

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.

Landbase, whose GPT-4o-based AI tool automates outreach marketing, raised a $30M Series A co-led by Ashton Kutcher's Sound Ventures and Picus Capital (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/how-

How AI sales startup Landbase nabbed Ashton Kutcher’s Sound Ventures to lead its $30M Series A | TechCrunch
A concept Landbase's CEO calls "digital trust" led nearly 130 VCs to pursue the "vibe GTM" 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://

Amsterdam-based Tebi, which offers a payments platform for hospitality companies, raised €30M led by CapitalG, after a €20M Series A in October 2024 (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/10/tebi

Tebi, the new startup by Adyen's departed cofounder, raises a fresh $30M from Alphabet's CapitalG | TechCrunch
Co-founded by Adyen's former CTO, Tebi helps restaurants, bars and other hospitality businesses manage their operations with an all-in-one subscription-based platform that can handle payments, reservations, inventory, and more.

"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

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.

Mistral launches its first reasoning models: Magistral Small, on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license, and Magistral Medium, in preview on Mistral's Le Chat (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/10/mistral-releases-a-pai…

Mistral releases a pair of AI reasoning models | TechCrunch
Like other reasoning models, Magistral works through problems step-by-step for improved consistency and reliability across topics such as math and physics.

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

TechCrunch (@TechCrunch@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image Atomic Canyon wants to be ChatGPT for the nuclear industry https://tcrn.ch/4kD4ut0

Snap aims to ship lightweight, consumer AR glasses called Specs in 2026, lighter than its Spectacles 5 glasses for devs, but with many of the same capabilities (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/10/snap-plans-to-s…

Snap plans to sell lightweight, consumer AR glasses in 2026 | TechCrunch
Snap is back with a pair of lightweight, AR smart glasses. For the first time in years, the company wants to sell them to consumers.

OpenAI debuts o3-pro for ChatGPT Pro and Team users and in the API, costing $20/1M input and $80/1M output tokens; Enterprise and Edu will get access next week (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/10/open

OpenAI releases o3-pro, a souped-up version of its o3 AI reasoning model | TechCrunch
OpenAI has launched o3-pro, an AI model that the company claims is its most capable yet.

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

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

Google rolls out Android 16 to Pixel phones, adding group chat to RCS, AI-powered edit suggestions to Google Photos, live notifications on lock screen, and more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/10/goo…

Google rolls out Android 16 to Pixel phones, unveils AI-powered edit suggestion for Google Photos | TechCrunch
Google is releasing Android 16 to Pixel phones and rolling out additional updates to other Pixel devices.

Apple is bringing polls to iMessage group chats and says Apple Intelligence will suggest polls based on a conversation's context (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/09/apple-is-bringing-polls-to-imessage/

Apple is bringing polls to iMessage | TechCrunch
Apple announced at WWDC on Monday that it's bringing polls to iMessage. The feature has been highly requested by users, and is one that has been long adopted by services like WhatsApp and Telegram.

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.

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.

Apple unveils Xcode 26, which will integrate ChatGPT for coding, doc generation, and more, and says devs can use API keys to add AI models from other providers (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/09/apple-brings-chatgpt-and-o…

Apple brings ChatGPT and other AI models to Xcode | TechCrunch
At WWDC 2025, Apple released a new version of Xcode, its app development suite, that integrates OpenAI's ChatGPT for coding, doc generation, and more. The company also announced that developers can use API keys to bring AI models from other providers to Xcode for AI-powered programming suggestions.

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.

United Natural Foods, a grocery distributor to 30K stores in the US and Canada and Whole Foods' main distributor, hit by a cyberattack, halting some operations (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/09/majo

Major US grocery distributor warns of disruption after cyberattack | TechCrunch
UNFI, a grocery distributor for Whole Foods and others, warned of disruptions to customer orders after a cyberattack.

Apple announces a new live translation feature across Messages, FaceTime, and Phone apps, but has not yet said how many languages will be supported (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/09/appl…

Apple introduces live translation across Messages, FaceTime, and Phone at WWDC 25 | TechCrunch
Apple is introducing Live Translation, powered by Apple Intelligence, for Messages, FaceTime and Phone calls. 

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. 

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

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.

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.

Ich hab so ne Idee …

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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